Hi all,
After today’s showing of 66 level 60’s, it’s clear the “we will do a second raid soon” has become a “We MUST do a second raid ASAP”. We’ve had a few things in motion with other guilds that have taken longer than we’d like and apologize for that. It was our goal to immediately be able to hand off a second raid the moment this situation would occur.
Current objectives due to how Molten Core and Onyxia will only take a day to clear, it makes the most sense to offload our second raid to Thursday. The second raid will serve 3 major purposes:
– A recruiting pool to keep new blood rotating in
– Expand our overall roster for class specific advtanages on future encounters
– Further deepen potential pockets with rare items such as legendaries and Golemagg/Rag
With an excess of 26 level 60’s today, we should have no issues filling this raid with majority Cue the Credits and then backfilling it with pugs. Our goal is not ultimately to run a full CTC raid two. I imagine a scenario where we pull in 5+ pugs a week to more or less trial on the spot and attempt to pull into the guild for future endeavours.
Due to that, loot would need to be rolled with certain items on reserve. Key items will be:
Both Bindings and Rag orbs (obviouisly)
Potentially select key items such as Talisman and Golemagg weapons
After that, the baseline rule will be 1 item per person, within reason. Items are not going to be stupidly random’ed.
If you have any friends or contacts you’ve made during the leveling process that would be interested in a structured raid on Thursdays.
In terms of who will be transferring over to raid 2, we have setup a few players with some extra gear to head over and reduce the impact in a few areas. Tanking situation will be fine, in addition to some healing. We’re currently running 12 healers in raid 1, which is excessive.
We’ve cleared MC 3 times now and are currently looking to slot a healthy second raid. That’s an incredible statement from us. Next goal will be for us to down Ragnaros in two separate guild raids, in a single day.
As we move forward with this strategy I want everyone to keep in mind that our ultimate goal is server ranked success on BWL launch day. This is the best way to secure the most amount of gear while being able to continue to recruit without a massive bench. Classic is very much a marathon, so everything will come in time.
Message myself or any Officers if you have any questions. If you would like to shift from raid 1 to raid 2 on Thursday, please let me know. As it stands today, expect to have a second raid on Thursday of next week. Once I have an addon worth a damn for scheduling, I’ll update this page.
– Prestigal (Reed)