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This is technically my first post, I've only recently joined this community though I've been playing WoW for a while now. Of course, since introductory posts are usually boring for me, I'm moving on from that to another topic that's been on my mind for a while.

A few months ago my guild went through some massive changes in its hierarchy. It used to be that all of the guild's leadership was consolidated into one person who was also GM/RL/MT and he was awesome at it. He led us through Vanilla WoW all the way through Wrath's Naxx and under his leadership it felt like our guild was one big family.

Unfortunately this time of bliss did not last, our former GM lost his job and had to find another that cut into our raiding times. Since he had no set days off we couldn't schedule our raids around those, so he pretty much stepped down as guild leader and passed the reigns over to the officers. Raid leading duties went over to those who stepped up to be raid leaders, I happen to be one of them.

Now the thing that's been bugging me lately is that since our GM stepped down, I've been noticing a slip in performance. Our GM brought us all together and while it definitely felt like we were a family, he could also slap us in line if we ever do anything stupid. In fact on days when our GM could log on and raid with us, raid performance actually is a lot better than what it usually is. I remember distinctly a moment when we were doing Hodir and people were doing so badly that our GM got so enraged that he began snapping at people and lo and behold next attempt it was absolutely flawless.

Of course I'm not saying that my guild is doing absolutely horrible, we just recently managed to down Yogg, but I really do feel that it could be better. I'm pretty certain the majority of the guild is just waiting for when our GM can get a stable job so he can lead us again. But until then, I'm wondering if anyone who's been through a major transition like this could offer any advice in keeping people in line, in keeping morale up, in enforcing people to stop playing like tards?

Hahaha my new icons are pretty gay. I'm pretty gay.


In other news this is genius.

I am starting to work on the Argent Tournament (yea!) and I have come to a stumbling block.  I am really bugged by it because i just started this.  I have completed the first main Quest that you must turn in 15 Aspirant Seals.  Done.  The next quest is to talk to Squire Danny and actually fight an NPC opponent.  I talk to Squire Danny, and all he says is something like "are you sure you are ready for mounted combat", and does not summon anyone.
Yes, i am mounted on the horse (Ally), yes, I have the lance equipt, yes, I have collected and turned in the 15 seals.  I do not know what to do.  I have asked my Guild, I have posted to Wowhead.com - nothing.

I sat here and watched other people talk to Squire Danny and gotten an opponent, so I know its him and he is not bugged.

Any help from you ladies would be great!!!  ;-)

The only thing that I can think of is that while I was "collecting" the seals, I once placed them in the Bank.  But them pilled them out and collected the rest and completed that Quest.  i dunno.   /hands



http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=13679#comments:id=774817

Knights of Entropy (KoE) is a new guild with a foundation of experienced raiders and players dedicated to progression seeking like minded, mature players. Our goal is to run 25-man content but we are currently focused on running 10-man Ulduar and other content until our numbers grow. We are a fun, sociable, early/late evening guild that talks on vent, jokes around and has fun helping each other lvl and gear up our alts.

( Specifics found here. )Above all else we just like to have fun. We don't appreciate lootwhores, those that think they are entitled to loot drive us nuts. Please don't come to a raid and when we invite another of your class/spec go crazy in vent complaining that they will take your gear. It's not your gear until you win the roll/bid fair and square. We don't put up with BS and we will call you on it. We know when to have fun and when to be serious and expect the same level of maturity that we bring to the guild.

Currently I am the ONLY female in this guild.. so come on ladies.. someone help a girl out lol! If you have any questions you can reply to this or send an email to RoundTable [at] knightsofentropy [dot] net. And of course you can just jump on Khadgar and /who knights of entropy and message of the toons that start with Dom :)

Dear healing raiding priests.

Do you need crit as a priority?

Simply there is a few priests I know that roll on it above haste etc.  Yet when the OH quizzed a priest priest (working on uld25 compared to our naxx25) he said he'd never look for that first.

Clear this up for me.

Love a confused mage x

I've geared my boomer a little haphazardly, and I'm hanging on to a LOT of stuff cos I'm not sure exactly what is best.

In my closet:
Cover of the Keepers: http://www.wowhead.com/?item=45864
Faerlina's Madness: http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39732

Hero's Dreamwalker Mantle/Spaulders, in both Resto and Boom form
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39542
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39548

Valorous Dreamwalker Vestments: http://www.wowhead.com/?item=40469
Fungi-stained Coverings: http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39259

Bindings of Yearning: http://www.wowhead.com/?item=40338
Resurgent Phantom Bindings: http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39390

Heroes' Dreamwalker Gloves: http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39544
Valorous Nightsong Gloves: http://www.wowhead.com/?item=45351
Contagion Gloves: http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39275

Valorous Nightsong Trousers: http://www.wowhead.com/?item=45353
Legguards of the Boneyard: http://www.wowhead.com/?item=40379
Heroes' Dreamwalker Leggings: http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39539
Leggings of the Winged Serpent: http://www.wowhead.com/?item=37791

Everything else I have only one option for the slot at the moment. What should I wear as Boomkin? What should I keep around for Resto? What should I ditch entirely?

This was inspired when I realized that -- making Outfitter start an outfit optimized for pure Spell Power (for healing) I found I was over 400 haste, something I need an elixir to get to in my boomkin gear >.>; I feel so lost with all the stat options.

Thank you very much, ladies. (and if anyone could tell me how to make those item links mouse-overs, I would be much obliged!)

So last night while having some good ol' fun on my main rogue on Crest who hit 68 two nights ago, (yay!) I decided to try my luck on the sprite darter after having read several happy squee cute happy stories.

I made only about eight kills, and was distracted by my friends in whisper about various things,
But here's the cap of me finding the Sprite Darter egg.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/chaosmaiden/WoWFamilyRP/WoWScrnShot_071109_014911.jpg

Quality sucks. Now the amusing thing, was that I was chatting as I mentioned before, so when I found it I pretty much hit R and typed "I FOUND IT!" In my glee, and was responded with. "LIER! I do not believe you!"

Of course a quick hearth to silver moon, and having my cute little Sprite Darter follow me around. My friend had to then say. "I HATE YOU SO MUCH!" Course it was all in good fun.

Here's a screenie of my darter with me taken this morning.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/chaosmaiden/WoWFamilyRP/WoWScrnShot_071109_105851.jpg

Let me explain. D:

Well then.

Long story short. My guy and his best friend create an Ulduar run for this past Thursday and instead of embracing it our GL has a moment of blah and asks that we reschedule it for Friday. No problem. Friday rolls around and everyone had been under the impression that we cancelled the Friday Naxx for Ulduar. Except the GL's wife. She decides to put together a Naxx25 half guild/half pug and do that till Ulduar. o_O I flat out tell her in advance that I would be leaving once the times comes to start this group. No problem. :D

9pm server hits and the boys begin making their group and we finish 4H and I bow out. It took us five hours...to do Arachnid, up to Thaddius in Construct, and finish out Military. =/ So at this point I bow out and they invite a couple guildies, only to dissolve the raid and stuff because they'd rather do Ulduar. At this point, my boy's best friend has already started filling up our Ulduar10. People in the guild get upset, but the thing is this. One guy pipes up saying that if we can't even clear Naxx25, then how are we going to do Ulduar10? He doesn't want to waste his repair bill. I say fine, that's cool, you can sit this one out then. I understand where he's coming from, but the thing is, is that we have enough in guild to do Ulduar10, not Naxx25. A pug is a pug, and with people coming and going it's too tough to keep a steady speed. Besides, with the amount of people we have that have not done this, we expect to wipe. XD

So I ask...how do you deal with the naysayers? We have plenty of people wanting to try Ulduar that are geared well enough for it, but at the last sec someone always gets upset. Whether they'd rather do Naxx, don't get invited because they aren't geared, or what. Do we just invite the ones who we know can do this casually, or do we have to pull teeth and start drama each time we want to progress? =[

I don't know about the kid in my guild, but my bar on be imba says I should be working on H Ulduar, as well as the majority of the guild. =/ We wanna do more!


(We did make it to Kologarn though last night. :3)

Me and my husband are needing a change in servers, sorry to say. There is just too many people that have ties to my main RP character and it is causing some un-needed drama in our lives. So we feel if we move servers all will be better.

We're looking into possibly going to Wyrmrest Accord, only transferring our high levels for the time being. But I want to know is there any other RP servers out there as equally good(from what I have heard about WRA), that we could look into? We're looking for RP servers. I myself am not much of a fan for the PVP or normal servers.. I like my RP!

And tell us what the RP and people are like Horde and Alliance side. x)


Thanks gals!

The combination of class, title and name made me giggle a little.

EDIT: Some more my boyfriend and I dug up from the armory:

General Motors
Talktothe, Hand of A'dal
Notthe, Champion of the Naaru

Okay so.  I run a little Horde guild on Wymrest Accord (Eclipse) and right now, it's sort of fallen into disrepair, which I know is mainly my fault.

I've been in a slump for a month or two not wanting to play and so has my Head Officer and his wife.  We actually lost a good number of members to former officers who decided to break away and form their own guild... which was certainly discouraging (before my "I'm bored with WoW slump" which is now gone).  We've tried hosting events, but it's rare our membership shows up.  I can count the actives on one hand right now, I think.  We had such a great group before that little split off and now it's sort of dwindling.... =\

It also probably has something to do with the Summer and people being online less and vacationing more and such... but I'd still like to fix things.

  I've got a few options I'm considering, but I'm not sure what to do, so, I'm asking for your advice, Ladies!

1.  Completely reform the guild from the ground up, disband Eclipse, new name, new guidelines, new RP story.
2.  Keep Eclipse as it is and just continue recruiting from that point of view.
3.  Try and work within the premise of Eclipse and just reform a few little things.
4.  Something else?

There isn't really a point to this, other than the fact that my mind is totally blown.

About half the rogues I've encountered on my new server are combat daggers. And I cannot for the life of me figure out why.

Like...
It's combat daggers.

I'll admit that when I was new, I thought daggers were awesome. I leveled as subtlety, then gradually realized that combat was the way to go for end-game... but when I tried to keep my daggers for combat, I quickly came to the conclusion that it's just bad. Not only is it bad, it's just so boring (opinion, I know.. but seriously.. gah).

But a lot of these guys are raiding as combat daggers. They're in full epics. I feel like they should know better, unless there's some new rogue news I am totally missing (which is possible 'cause I am bad at keeping up with things sometimes >>).

I know I can't pass judgement on anyone because they can play how they want to play, but.. just.. why D:

And to put icing on the cake, one of the two cdaggers rogues we picked up for a half-pug VoA was so arrogant about his "awesome dps," which was less than half the tanks' dps. The other rogue was even lower.

Face, meet desk.

How are the leaders in your guild about the guild bank and donations etc?

I just opened my inbox today to like 8 emails JUST outlining the new bank rules (which are more restrictive than v1)

The guild I'm in now is really controlling. I'm new to the guild but its not the first guild I've ever seen, yanno? My guild on my alliance server is twice as stocked and much less strict. And while organized, thats true it's starting to get on my nerves a bit just how controlled this guild's bank is. There are so many rules and regulations just for whats already in the bank that it sort of makes me roll my eyes...And not want to bother donating. Nevermind the rules for MAKING donations.

I mean I'm talking about an 8 bullet list of rules just for the POTIONS tab. Some of the rules make sense but when you look at it as a whole its just a bit much to me. Don't take items more than 2 levels above you. No gray. No white. No bags below 10 slots. Put it in the right spot. Don't use it unless you're leveling your own skill. If it doesn't meet the guidelines it will be sold and the money donated back into the bank. (that makes sense but.....REALLY?) All donations are final. Limited to 1 stack per day etcetc...

MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS. Its a bank. For the guild. I don't really understand why the GM has so little trust in their guild mates that they feel that making all these lists of rules (the aforementioned is just a few) is really necessary. Seriously? I can't stand micro-management...Its such a waste of time.

I've seen the proof in the pudding so to speak in my other guild where there are about 8 billion less rules and a few handfuls more to choose from IN the bank. All these requirements and regulations aren't necessary. Nobody takes what they don't need. There are plenty of blues and purples just collecting dust because *shock* people are honest and don't need it.

Honest enough that the GM can spare us a laundry list of regulations. All the time they spend doing this crap could be put to use doing something else in my opinion...Like maybe talking to guild members rather than using some lame bot to auto respond to EVERYTHING.

Does anyone else have to deal with wasteful micro-bank-management like this?

Here's a question for you to /facepalm over.  I've wondered this since I first leveled my paladin but by the time I wanted to ask it I felt embarassed to because I knew I would be mocked for not knowing and told I was fail. :P

Divine Protection.  When?  This is like my Shield Wall to be popped when I'm still tanking but really need to reduce damage?  (Pulling the adds on Emalon, for example?)

I ask this because back when I was leveling I was a complete noob paladin and mixed this up wit Divine Shield, popped it and everyone died because I dropped agro.  So ever since I've been afraid to cast it because I'm afraid I'll wipe groups. >_<

So if it IS like Shield Wall . . . it has a pretty small cooldown, should I pop it just whenever it's up to help my healers?

So my account was suspended yesterday for 72 hours by reason of "economic exploitation." First off, what the hell? Upon trying to find an exact definition of "economic exploitation" is seems that I have jumped to the top of Blizzard's "penalty volcano", just shy of having my account shut down. I have never used a third party for gold, PLing, items, etc. so how did I end up exploiting the economy of Whisperwind? Can someone explain this to me? A friend suggested that it happened as I decided to grind a rogue up EQ style without doing quests (I'm new to WoW by about three months from EQ/EQ2) thus it looked like farming which was in no way my intension; I was just curious what was faster in-game, questing or grinding. Also, according to their penalty volcano I should have received an in-game warning which I never did nor did I receive any of the other warnings.

So, I have sent off several emails to Blizzard (GM, account admin, etc.) as this happened yesterday after their customer service line had closed. My questions are this, any idea how I ended up being labeled as an economic exploiter and what are the chances of me getting this accusation reversed?

Augh I don't want to lose all my hard work. Any and all suggestions welcome!

Is there any truth to the fact that you're going to need to be exalted with all of the argent tournament factions to do the new instance/raid that's coming in the patch?

Someone in my guild told me this...it sounds really unreasonable to me so I'm not sure that it's true.

If everyone who can log into the US forums please report the Burning Blade Crafting Thread for a sticky, that would be awesome!

If you can also report the old thread (under Other/Misc) as old and abandoned, that would be awesome too.

<3<3 thanks a ton!

My Grandfather was trapped in his house during the Quebec ice storm.

And then he died.



Yeaaaah nothing like making Saturdays awkward for everyone. I kinda wish I had any memory of him at all, but alas.

So tonight after our raid, I mentioned to my boyfriend about an unfortunate miss adventure my roommate had in the back alleys of Stormwind on our RP server. Basically, a certain infamous ERP guild on our server used to run a brothel back there.

So we decided to go troll the area.

Now we didn't manage to find said ERP guild. However! Looking upstairs we managed to find two night elven ladies, and their....Pimp?

It's been a while since my boyfriend and I have gotten any good RP, so we've been reduced to trolling, of the most proper RP form...

( Pictures, conversations, few nasty words )
Hope you all enjoy our RP session as much as we did!