Hey kids... there is much news this week. Let's start with some house-keeping, boys and girls lets remember to be respectful of our fellow guild members, and WoW players in general. It is uncool to drop group after one wipe, by just going offline, or just dropping out. If you have to go or the house is on fire, or your wife caught you playing when you shouldn't have been. All you need to do is type. "I gotta go." But to just drop group and go offline leaves your fellow guild members in a bind, because we aren't sure if you DC'ed or dropped. And we have to find someone to replace you. It is Poor Form and will not be tolerated. It is basic respect.
New Officers
In recent months we have lost some officers to real world issues that have caused them to stop playing or alter their play. But there is no need to fear, because like GE of the 1990's under the legendary Jack Welch, we have a deep bench of fine folks ready to take over in executive positions. Please welcome Maxxmage and Wolfsknight to the Officer rank. Both have been with The Crew for many moons and have shown themselves to be exemplary players and people. Bravo! and keep up the good work. FYI: I like my coffee light and sweet, and pick up my dry cleaning on your way back from having my car washed.
New Faces
We have some new folks joining our little troupe of wandering murderers. Welcome to Shadyjay, an 80 human warlock; Amonor, an 80 human priest; Defibrilator, an 80 Draenei priest; Rualann, an 80 Dwarf hunter. Also Marashon has brought, Darkwanderer, an 80 Death Knight alt into The Crew. Please make our new recruits feel at home in The Crew.
New Raid Group Forming
It is time to start forming a secondary raid group for those players who just don't have the gear for Ulduar and/or want to see some of the other 80 content that they might not have had the chance to yet. This is for those folks that need to run Naxx 10-man, or any other instance but haven't been able. We shall call this group Crew2.
This group, Crew2, would run on Tuesdays, and maybe Thursdays. (Our main raiding night is Wednesdays, and sometimes Sundays) Yes I am talking to you... Xtrahealth, Iceflare, Delininja, and anyone with an alt that isn't a regular part of the main raiding group, such as my huntard Tieghernan.
The raid times would probably be the same starting at 9pm server time (12 midnight on the East Coast.) But the time isn't set in stone. I'd rather have that be determined by the majority of folks in the group. (in other words, that time works for me, but I don't have to be part of the group.) We are gonna need two tanks and at least 2 healers. If you want an alt to be part of this group please let me know. I will be sending out special invites ASAP. Since today is Tuesday we probably won't start tonight but I'd like to get traction on this by Thursday and get a basic 10 man group to run OS Thursday night as a test run. I'd rather not have Lightsaver, Waddajoke, Kevoogre, Mehofjack, Ravenstorm, Maxxmage, Wolfsknight, or the other Ulduar regulars in the group. I just want to open it up to new toons and new faces, obviously if one of those toons doesn't mind getting saved to Naxx on a weekly basis and there is space... come on in, but I think you get the picture.
Crew2 may have some issues getting on its feet at first and may have work on running heroics to get some folks better geared, but after a week or two of that it should be up and running as a fully functioning raiding crew.
The Ulduar Group
We had a good week last week, which was chronicled here with the downing of the Iron Council and a couple attempts at Freya. We will start fresh with Flame Lev again on Wednesday. Getting more experience on the other bosses and better gear for the raid members, so we might have better luck with Freya and her co-horts later in the week.
We raid ULD on Wednesday at 9p.m. server time. I have posted all of Tankspot's guides for all the Uld bosses below.
Schedule
All times are server time
Tuesday: OS/VOA 9 p.m.
Wednesday: ULD
Thursday: OS/VOA (Crew2)
Friday: Heroics
Saturday:Free
Sunday: ULD
Monday: Naxx (Crew2)
