December 7th is the release date for the next Expansion. Get your gold ready and your leveling caps on. I will donate an in game item from the Trading Card Game to the first person who hits 85 on there main in the guild. No nothing fancy as I am poor and don’t even play the Trading Card game. It will be just a common Sandbox Tiger. This will give you 50 charges of a little tiger to play on. I know it isn’t much, but it is all for fun. Here is the WowHead link: http://www.wowhead.com/item=45047/sandbox-tiger#comments
As for the rest of November, I think we should plan on 1 or 2 things. First Lich King 25 would be nice, but really is gear that important at this stage in the game. I would think the only reasons to head back into 25 man ICC would be to get Shadowmourne and due that special quest for the Guild. 5 cool unique items. Probably not going to happen ad Dkaron needs a lot more shards.
Second I still believe working on Uldaar Drakes and Mimrion Mount would be cool. Also as a side benefit get Jazira her legendary as well. I really would like to see someone in the guild cruising around in this mount. Wowhead link: http://www.wowhead.com/item=45693 It is a guaranteed drop now, but after Cata will be as rare of a drop as Ashes of Alar, and we know how many people have that.
Anyway as always before expansion, we will see some people tone back there raiding and playing, because the mentality is “what is the point”. Mainly we want to keep doing things together so we can transition into the expansion better. I have been through all of these expansions as I am sure many of you have been as well. A lot of times they can really hurt a guild as a whole and in fact the first 2 expansions we kind of fell apart. However when WOTLK came out, a lot of us in the guild managed to stay together fairly well. I truly believe that the reason for that was keeping up with a raiding schedule that last month before the expansion and a raiding/playing schedule right after expansion.
So after Cata comes out we will take the first few days off of raiding (Wed and Thurs) to just explore and level. However come the following Monday we start doing our normal raid times. Obviously we will not all be 85, if any of us. But on raid nights, we will group together to run instances or quest together, etc. The purpose is to help your fellow guild members out. On those nights we will take DKP or what ever we call it in Cata for showing up and playing with your guildies. We will have like an on time and end of night DKP award (not to worry we won’t be all three hours, probably just from 7;45 to 10 or something like that). That way when we start raiding, you will have a little stockpile to spend on loot.