All,

By now you will have noticed some changes on the guild calendar that are the result of trying out the waters of raiding with another group blended into ours, a future shift on the specific weekday that we perform the weekday raid, and the focus instance.

Roll with it and lets see what sticks and works.

In an effort to reduce the amount of time we search for specific missing roles on any given night, we are expanding the pool of raiders by blending in another guild. We have several raiders that know them relatively well and feel that they could be a decent mix. There will be an adjustment period, of course. Time will tell if it works and in the meantime, lets all give it the best chance to succeed. Please make them feel as welcome as we can while maintaining a reasonable pace forward.

We have experienced that Tuesday is hard on timely raid starts due to patch days, addon updates, auth server bottle-necks, and all other things related to races to server and world firsts that often complicate Tuesdays. Additionally, we have experienced that better skilled players on their alts are more available later in the week than they are on the first couple of days of the week when they are trying to capitalize on Tuesdays to achieve those server and world firsts. All of which lends positive reinforcement to switch off of Tuesdays as the weekday raid day. We are presently considering Thursdays in lieu of Tuesdays - it appears to be a good fit (mostly) with (most of) the people we have confirmed with. This is not in cement, however is worth a try.

We have completely dropped HM off the raid calendar and will only schedule H Imp for those that are seeking the achieve. In it's place, you will find that all the progression raids on the calendar are for N BRF and H BRF.

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Do stop by the logs from time to time to check in on your own performance or to offer one of your raid colleagues some assistance.

Cheers,

-the officers.

Shifting Focus to BRF

It's time to shift focus from H HM to BRF. This will be the last week that the guild 'officially' schedules N HM or H HM. H Imp will continue on the weekly schedule (see calendar in game fyi) by weekly raid lockout extension - until he is down.

Over the course of the next 4 weeks, N BRF is the mainstay focus followed by H BRF becoming the main focus thereafter. Logically, H Imp will be replaced by N Blackhand, and eventually H Blackhand as the 'filler'.

If we are going to give Mythic a shot in 2015, it will occur during the Summer. Concurrent to that, Summer will also be when we go back and clean up all the raid achvs from MoP, Cata, etc.

Thanks!
- Officers

Improvements have Happened

Cool. Looking at the data, it is clear that improvements have happened. The new slipstream capability is definitely a plus. We are clearing more, and more quickly.

The downsides include waiting time while we find healers available that night, and several 'mainstay' raiders who are first and foremost great friends of ours not in the group.

Please check in with those great friends and see if they have gathered some more gear, worked on their rotation, etc -- let's get them back into the raid scene with us as soon as we can.

We need healers: start recruiting! Like yesterday.

It isn't that we cannot find some amazing healers in the slipstream, it is that we do not want to continue having such a large amount of downtime looking for one in mid-raid.