Ok...so you want to participate in the Crew costume contest but don't know how? If you are registered with guildomatic.com, i.e. you logged in to the website, you can upload your pictures here at WoW Photos, use the Add Files to upload your photo and then use the link to that photo in your reply to Despina's post.

OR... if you have uploaded the photo to another website, such as Shtterfly, Snapfish, or the like, you can post a link to the photo at the website.

Good Luck. and thanks to Despy for thinking of this.

"Ladies and Gentlemen...I have called this meeting to let you know that corporate has decided to make some changes, and there has been a reshuffling," said the VP of Horseshit, at my last job.

The Crew, just like any good organization must evolve to keep up with the times, and as such, I have made some changes and reorganized The Crew ranks to better reflect our status as a guild of 80s, rather than a guild which is waiting for most of its members to reach 80, which is what we were when I initially set up the ranks. Not much has actually changed.

Probies are still members that are brand new to the guild and any member under level 20.
The new rank of Leveling Crew is for any member between 20 and 80.
Once a toon reaches level 80 it will be promoted to Crew Member. Crew Members can remove 5 stacks per day, from each tab (except The Safe).
Crew Members, level 80 toons that get geared and prove themselves in raids and instances, will be promoted to Raiding Crew. Raiding Crew can remove up to 7 stacks per day, per tab (except The Safe).
Those members who are really lucky or unlucky depending on how you look at it, and prove themselves to be loyal, to a fault, and show good leadership will be promoted to Officer and their alts will be Officer Alts.
Any member crazy, er...um... committed enough to learn every fight in every instance and willing to die over and over again trying, and then willing to come and impart that knowledge to us will be promoted to the very difficult rank of Raid Leader.
Those members that, without which this guild would not be possible are promoted (forced to be) Captains.

All of this Guild minutia probably means very little to most of you, but it is the kind of thoughts like "our guild ranks don't accurately reflect the type of guild we are" that keeps UberGeeks like me up at night. Ultimately, nothing really changed -- Just like when my company did a Corporate Reorganization. The only person who cared was the CEO, and nothing really changed. Except this time, nobody has to do extra work to make up for production shortfall that the restructuring created.

Secondary Raid Group or Crew2
I am excited for this group to take shape. We kinda sorta started last night with an OS run that was toons new to OS and half vets. Grats to Iceflare, McGuiness, Tieghernan, and Darkwanderer of the OS achievement. We have two healers that are willing to join us. Our own priest Defibulator and a Wolfsknight has been in contact with a Resto Druid named Sumthing, that will commit to joining us once a week.

We have Delininja who is more than willing (chomping at the bit, really) to tank but we need a second.

What we really need to do it pick one night a week to raid with this group. Wednesday is our 10 man ULD group. I want to really nail down a time when everyone can make it. (Officers Note: please help me by telling folks, not in our regular raiding group such as Viz, Sturmtiger, Alissa, Abbigale, Greyatra, that we are forming this group and asking which night is best.) And if anyone knows anybody in game that you run with and enjoy playing with that wants to raid but can't in their guild or they are unguilded, (tanks especially) let them know we are forming this group. We can PUG holes. Thanks.

Please welcome Thedrew, an 80 Pally, and Onii, a 77 lvl Deathknight, to The Crew.

Schedule

Tues: VOA
Wed: ULD
Thurs: NAXX (Crew2) hopefully
Fri: Free
Sat: Free
Sun: Heroics
Mon: EOE

Hey did you hear me cursing this morning? Could hear my pained screams.. I forgot to extend the weekly ULD raid. So we start from scratch with Flame Lev again. Bad Guild Master, Bad boy.

Any requests? Comments? Complaints? Compliments? Shout Outs? Suggestions? Let me know.

And hey if you want one of these cool signature boxes you can get it at Wow Ranked.

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)

Here are link's to Tankspot's guides to all the Ulduar bosses. Many we may know, but there are many who have not seen them yet and here is a good way to get your feet wet in the ULD.

The Siege of Ulduar
Flame Leviathan on Hard Mode
XT-002 Deconstructor (easy mode)
Razorscale (easy mode)
Ingis The Furnace Master

The Antechamber of Ulduar
Kologarn
Auriaya (Crazy Cat Lady)
The Iron Council

We have downed all of the above bosses, and we are working on Freya and the rest. I am posting these here for future reference.

The Keepers of Ulduar
Freya
Mimiron
Thorim
Hodir

The Descent into Madness
General Vezax
Yogg-Saron

To our ULD group..and anyone who may get into that group on Sunday or Wednesday night: Please watch the videos in the link below it is most informative and helpful.

Tankspot's guide to Freya