Glory of the Omega Raider

And once again we held our seasonal guild event where we aim to do the current season’s “Glory” for a shot at that mount! The #CollectorsBrigade went in hard, killing all the things… and then…

No shit…. that was HARD. Not really… but when half your raid is drunk, its fucking HARD!

But thank god we had Ghad there, because we also had our add on got BORKED, and he had to help us manually count the walls. Never seen anything this hard… I honestly don’t think ever. But we love to catch up with guildies whenever we can and see all our friends rejoin us for this event every season from all three of our raid teams, those that love to grind dungeons, throw down some hands in duels/PvP, or just those that love to build their ever expanding collections! And with housing that will have great use in our deco contests.

Look at our Bonsai! She’s been in Legion working on getting all the goodies for her upcoming house in Legion Remix and obviously picking up quite a few transmogs too. Looking sharp, girly! <3

None-the-less…. WE GOT OUR CROWS!

Congrats to all our guildies that came along for the ride and had fun with us! We love hosting these every season and most of us look forward to it. And thanks for putting up with the drunks in the guild! 😛


Love you all!!!

<3 Dani

Loom’ithar Falls for the Olympians

Loom’ithar finally takes her last breath!

Congratulations to the Olympians team on getting their 3rd kill of the Mythic tier for Manaforge Omega. We are working towards our seasonal goal of 5/8 and we will be happy with that end. Like we’ve been saying we want to add 1 more kill every season, which gives us time to really build a stable team of people that like each other, respect the guild, can stay friendly, and repeat “Cutting Edge” every season.

We know how much of an “unicorn” that is in this world, but we’ve done it before and we can do it again, or die trying.

With Coffdrop away on his beautiful European vacation, Fell took lead to help us down this boss. We look forward to killing it yet again with our fearless and beloved leader upon his return. Here is the roster!

Enjoy the kill shot captured by our wonderful Saelyria, on her Resto Druid! She was furiously pushing her buttons (something Coff would be proud of) with an added gasp and a wee to go with it!

<3 Dani

Goals for Season 3: Patch 11.2

And we’re still here…

So last season’s goals were mostly met, with the exception of CE and PvP Teams. Mind you they were pretty lofty goals, given that the first boss we had to defeat is the Roster Boss. What we realized was that today’s raiders aren’t as dedicated as the gamers of Legion, so we had to pivot. People want to raid Mythic, but not necessarily want to clear CE. What we had last season was a Heroic raiding team that could dabble in Mythic Bosses and now we need dedicated gamers to really push forward. And that’s going to take quite a few seasons. But that’s okay! We learned a lot and we’re focused on pushing forward in Season 3.

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We Celebrate Our LGBTQIA+ Friends & Family

We love the diversity of the world here at TLP as an organization and as chapters within the games we play. On Friday June 27th, we will show our support during our annual PRIDE PARADE through the heart of The War Within main zones, starting in Dornogal proper at 8 PM Pacific (9 PM Mountain, 10 PM Central, 11 PM Eastern).

With our best, most colorful outfits and GROUND mounts, we will make our way on foot (with the exception of of the drop from Dornogal into Ringing Deeps) through to the main city in Ringing Deeps, Gundargaz. From there we take the train tracks over into Hallowfall — where we will visit the great city of Mereldar before taking flight to the Priory of the Sacred Flame to clear out all the heretics & hoping on to the Dawnbreaker for a quick 15 minute trivia. From Hallowfall, we head on to the depths of Azj-Kahet, home of the Nerubians — where we will either stop at the Weaver’s Lair city or if we have a much bigger audience head towards the great arena in the City of Threads (near Zekvir’s old lair) for group photos!

There, we will hold a BEST TRANSMOG/MOUNT CONTEST where our judges will decide who wins the top prize (1), runner up (2), and second runner up (3). We are looking for originality, creativity, a blend of the rainbow’s best colors, matching weapons/shields, andddddddd a matching MOUNT to go with it! First prize will be 600,000 gold in game, second prize will be 300,000 gold in game, and third prize will be 100,000 gold in game.

This year we have partnered up with the NOH8 CAMPAIGN to raise a bit of money to help those in this community find peace, equality, and acceptance. If you can donate anything you can spare, you can do so through Tiltify (directly goes to NOH8) by clicking below.


ABOUT NOH8 CAMPAIGN

MISSION STATEMENT: The NOH8 Campaign is a charitable organization whose mission is to promote marriage, gender and human equality through education, advocacy, social media, and visual protest.

On November 4, 2008 Proposition 8 passed in California, amending the state Constitution to ban same-sex marriage. The defeat provoked a groundswell of initiative within the GLBT community at a grassroots level, with many new political and protest organizations being formed in response.

The NOH8 Campaign is a photographic silent protest created by celebrity photographer Adam Bouska and partner Jeff Parshley in direct response to the passage of Proposition 8. Photos feature subjects with duct tape over their mouths, symbolizing their voices being silenced by Prop 8 and similar legislation around the world, with “NOH8” painted on one cheek in protest.

Nine years since its inception, the NOH8 Campaign has grown to over 56,000 faces and continues to grow at an exponential rate. The campaign began with portraits of everyday Californians from all walks of life and soon rose to include politicians, military personnel, newlyweds, law enforcement, artists, celebrities, and many more from across the globe.

While inspired by the passage of Prop 8 and the fight for marriage equality, the scope of the NOH8 Campaign has grown to stand against discrimination and bullying of all kinds. The message of ‘No Hate’ can be interpreted and applied broadly, and everyone can relate to the message of NOH8 in their own way.

The NOH8 Campaign has received overwhelming support from around the world, and has appeared in various local and national news programs and publications. The images are widely used on various social networking sites such as FacebookTwitter and Instagram to proudly show support for equal rights.

To date, NOH8 Campaign has hosted official photo shoots in 48 of the 50 United States (plus D.C.) and 20 countries around the world. While our work continues here in the US, we must not forget that there are still places around the world where simply being who you are means living in fear for your life every single day. Our mission to promote love, acceptance and respect for all human beings will continue in pursuit of #NOH8Worldwide.

Four Weeks In, Our First Mythic Kill

TWW Season 2 kicked off on March 4th and exactly 1 month in TLP’s Olympians kill Mythic Vexie & Geargrinders. And now the real work starts. The key is the consistency of downing these bosses and getting them on “farm status”. Farm status for us is killing a boss under 3 attempts, hoping for 1-shot kills more than likely.

We will tackle Cauldron of Carnage and hope to have the dueling duo down by the end of the month, moving on to Rik Reverb, which has challenged many other midcore guilds. Even those that we consider to be mid-to-hardcore have seen Rik break the guilds apart, so we’re hoping to continue to improve on Vexie & Cauldron to farm up the gear they drop. But it seems like raid gear isn’t the requirement anymore to kill bosses in a raid environment. It definitely does require us to farm Myth gear from Mythic+ Dungeons to really be able to compete with the needed DPS, mechanics, and throughput that is needed for Rik Reverb and beyond.

We will need our team to start really committing to grinding those M+ dungeons at 10 or above, which forms a real challenge for a soft-to-midcore guild that has adults with families and limited time. So we need to organize much more astutely to meet that challenge head on. The path to “Cutting Edge” is not easy at all for a guild like ours, but we are committing to trying to achieve it every season of The War Within, Midnight, and The Last Titan — the Worldsoul Saga.

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” 

~ Winston Churchill 

TLP Clears Liberation of Undermine on Normal, Eyes Heroic Clear Next

First week… our Mythic team has fully cleared normal! Yay for us. 🙂

We set out to try to fully clear normal Liberation of Undermine within the first three weeks and it turns out the Mythic team we put together was able to not only clear normal, but downed 2 heroic bosses too! We even did a pick up day last Sunday to give Heroic a whirl, adding folks from our Heroic team if others couldn’t make it, and we did really well. At some point, however we decided to pair our team down, sitting out most of the heroic folks to be able to kill Cauldron of Carnage with a smaller team.

Now, we eye the rest of heroic for our Olympians and continue to progress with our Prophets through normal; we did manage to get 6/8 for the heroic team though. Overall, we’re really happy with the latest progress of both our teams.

Goals for Season 2: Patch 11.1

ZzzZzZZZzzzZZZzz!

We’re all bored. Not shade, just facts! After nearly 6 months of Season 1, most of our members are past the endless grind of doing FOUR LEVELS of the same freaking raid, over and over and over and over again. But we still persevered on. We pulled in PUGs to get our 1/8, almost got 2/8 with enough of our TLP members to get actual “guild credit” (you need 11 or more to do so). But after having to suffer long waits to replace PUGs that would drop after a few wipes and the absolute dread that is all that business, many of our raiders and one of our raid leaders decided to take break; full burn out mode.

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Queen Ansurek Goes Down

Queen Ansurek falls in Heroic! We did it but we were missing our main tank, one of our main healers, and a few of our core members too. They’re all out on vacation for the holidays.

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Guild Progress Updates – November 2024

Team, I’ve discussed our focus shifting to Mythic with our raid leaders and this is where we are at with the progress for our raiding teams.

CURRENT RAID PROGRESS
As of today, we have killed all bosses in heroic with the exception of Queen as a full guild group. For a guild that’s NOT full of hardcore raiders, that’s pretty darn good. Especially since we started with 4/8 at the beginning of the month and managed to up our kill count by 3 to 7/8. But Queen Ansurek is such a complicated fight. Its mechanically intensive and as someone with physical limitations, I can tell you that it will take a while for some of us to be able to execute those mechanics with a certain level of consistency. But we’ve wanted to be raiding Mythic by December and we are going to do just that, even if we haven’t found our permanent raid members just yet. How? Well… I am glad you asked.

OPENING OUR RAIDS
Starting in December, we will be opening our Heroic Raids to PUGs because as it stands right now recruitment is very difficult due to two big factors: (a) we’re a Pacific Time based guild and there just aren’t many players available, and (b) players want to raid the Mythic content and there aren’t folks available to recruit that will join a guild that isn’t currently raiding Mythic. The logic is that as we still work to build up our permanent teams, we can better recruit folks from PUGS that are clearing the content we’re intending to clear ourselves. As such, a few of our normal loot rules will have to change up to accommodate for PUGs and we will once again go back to OPEN ROLLS, however there will be some ways that we can increase our guildies’ chances at that loot.

EMPHASIZING M+ DUNGEONS
In order to really work on that muscle memory and get comfortable with mechanics of today’s WoW, we really need to get more intentional and pro-active about getting guild groups together to clear Mythic+ dungeons. It will help us get better at our classes. As such we’re moving the Normal Raid to Tuesdays at 7 PM Pacific — it doesn’t take us more than 1 hour to clear it — and making SUNDAYS our M+ grind days. Teams that are currently running are my team, Team Freyja, which is our entrance team. We’re running M+0 to M+4 to help guildies learn the routes and the mechanics of each of these instances. Team Loki, which is led by Cips, is focused on getting folks from M+5 to M+10, and you can stay in that team if all you want to do is farm Myth gear and get Gilded crests. Team Thor and Team Odin are reserved for those guildies that want to chase that 1% title and are capable of doing +11 keys and up — they’ll be our key pushers. Sundays will start our M+ grinds at 2 PM Pacific and run all day/night long until the team calls it for the night.

The goal for this push into M+ is to acquire the MYTH level gear we need to make our way into Mythic raiding much more do-able by upping our iLvls collectively as a guild. But we’re not deluding ourselves into thinking that we will kill Mythic Queen, that’s for much more hardcore raiders than we currently have, however — its still the vision for TLP to build.

We are still all working towards ONE GOAL:

Season 2 has always been the vision as we’re a RETURNING guild that did not have many members in it at the start of The War Within.

If anyone has any questions in regard to any of these updates, please do reach out to Danitsia | Maria, Cips | Jake, Wolfboy (Azure | Woofboy), or Meztlitotol (Mez | Necessities) on Discord.

<3 Dani

Guild Progress Updates – October 2024

Team, I’ve talked it over with our raid leaders, and here are the updates we’ve agreed on for our raiding teams.

CURRENT RAID PROGRESS
We have done a lot of good things together for a guild that is casual. We have cleared Normal Nerub-ar Palace, 8/8, and have started the journey into Heroic Nerub-ar Palace, killing 4/8 bosses in our first week in there. But we have 4 very difficult bosses to down in this instance and we’re not cutting it with our DPS and HPS, save for some that stand out above the rest. As such, we’re going to have to tighten up the requirements needed to join the HEROIC Raiding Team: Prophets. Some folks may be benched if they are not working on getting better with every raid.

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