Heroic LK is a whopper of a fight that I think all of us need to do (on 25 man especially). Even though our level and gear make it easier, still lots of things can deep fry a player or flame broil the whole raid. No story for the picture, sorry, I am losing my creative juices.
All those nights of wiping on Omnitron panned out. After a few attempts, we got into a good rhythm, like porno rhythm, and made significant progress. Even with Sevron DCing, we managed to get the golems to low 10%. Finally those stupid golems went down like Doctoran’s prom date, bent over and anti climatic. It was good to get them down even though they dropped shitty gear (no main specs). A couple of attempts later, BAM!, dead just like the Disney movie.
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Magmaw Down. What else is there to say….
Halfus Dead! We were scared at first, thinking it was a hard combo. Turned out to be the easiest combination yet. On a sad note, this is the first time Rudolpho had not been in raid for Steel Legion First Kill. Although if you look closely in the screen shot, he was there in spirit. 
Very fun fight. Grats to Murlocks and Jarreth for getting the first official raid boss loots of Cata.
So I am questing in Twilight Highlands and this guy asks if I want to kill a rare spawn. I say sure why not. First pull tanks turns the guy to us and wipes us in an instant. Ok the leader said we need more people, so we pug a few and get up to a 10 man. I managed to get 4 Steel Legion members in. So we try again. Death after death, we keep pounding this guy down (30 M health, outdoor boss, so we can run back). Apparently we kited him to far and he begins to evade, and reset. Right then and there everyone leaves, except the 4 Steel Legion members. They gave up with out saying good bye or anything. That is just not the Steel Legion way. With the group disbanded, I thought he was fair game, so we rallied the troops and got all the Steel Legion members online to go kill that bastard. Grats on the new dagger Rudy.
P.S. He reset on us too, but we didn’t give up.
We managed to make some good progress on Omnitron for a few hours, but then went over to Tol Barad and Pwned Aragloth. 2 PVP epics dropped but that is alright, very fun night. Rellan and Jarreth where there as well healing (sorry Recount doesn’t show your names). I need to get better at taking screenshots.
Cataclysm is here, so it time for a change or two.
First let me Congratulate Adaline as the first toon in Steel Legion to hit 85!! Grats, let me know if you would like me to send you the card via snail mail, or just send you the code through in game mail.
The world has changed, so as a guild we need to change as well. First off, a new way to do loot. We are using the Effort Points/Gear Points (EPGP) loot system. For more information look here. http://www.epgpweb.com/help/system
For the next 2 weeks, we will be handing out Effort Points on raid nights. Also we will not start the decay until January 1st of next year. As another bonus I have decided to convert unused DKP from WOTLK to the effort point system. Basically your unused DKP was divided by 100 to get your effort points, with some decay applied to those who have been MIA for a while.
Our expect first raid date will be the first week of January. I figure 2 weeks to run heroics to get people geared for a 10 man. Effort Points will be awards about 3 times a raid night, from On Time, Mid Way, and End of Raid for 10 points an event. Gear Points will be 40 points per item for Legionaire,s Centaurions will only be charged 20 points. So you can see we have gone done on the grand scale of thing. Other requirements will be a minimum of 200 accrued Effort Points, this prevent new people from getting gear from veteran players.
I will be putting all current raiders to Legionaire status, Officers and myself included. As for Centaurion status, besides what your officer requires, you will need to maintain 2/3 raid attendence. Our new raids willbe Monday, Wednesday, and Thursdays from 7.30 to 10.30 pm. So 9 hours a week, a Cent is expected to raid 6 of those hours. Notice raids are a little shorter. I want to focus more on raiding and less breaks, taking only 1 midway break. Besides attendence, players are expected to have the proper rep levels for the necessary enchants. For example Therazene for your shoulder enchant if you are not an inscriptionist.
Hope you are all level 85 soon so we can start raiding away.
Our very own quiet hunter, Dridoc nabbed a Darkspear top honor by pushing through in a marathon 24 hour stint, going from level zero up through 525 of the new secondary class Archaeology.
Grats Dridoc!
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.