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Guild Progress Updates – November 2024

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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:

A successful top-tier Mythic Raiding Team for Season 2 that can immediately chase the Cutting Edge (CE) achievement.

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

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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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We Return for The War Within

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So, we have been playing WoW again. Because it’s WoW and we’re all in our feelings about it. I mean most of TLP is made up of former WoW players, most of them from old versions of TLP-WoW, which was made up of a bunch of former UO and DAoC TLP’ers too. For me, though… my late husband Luke (aka Beelzebubba) and I started this guild together and after he was killed in a auto accident, this guild was HOME to me — a piece of him I could always have with me. It just runs that deep for me.

But what hasn’t run that deep is the lack of enjoyment every expansion since the release of Battle for Azeroth has brought our TLP’ers. With every new adventure, the luster of WoW got dimmer and dimmer. Most of us skipped Cataclysm and Mists of Pandaria, but made a big return with Legion — which was rather good to be fair, and saw them usher in BFA. But by the end of BFA, not even the promise of Shadowlands — which featured one of my most beloved characters, Sylvannas Windrunner, go absolutely bat shit CRAZY was enough for all of us to stay. So, another break ensued.

My now husband, Jake (Cips), and I — who I met within TLP-WoW btw — played Dragonflight together, all but the raiding and Mythic content. And while I am more of a “story nerd” than he is (by far actually lol) we did both enjoy it, for a while. We quit after Season 1. The story of the dragonflights was compelling but the content was again lack luster. And with that we said we wouldn’t put any effort into rebuilding TLP with Dragonflight.

Then came the announcement of the Worldsoul Saga — and with it the return of Chris Metzen, who we absolutely love. This was something Jake and I definitely wanted to play. But we knew we couldn’t mount on a remake of TLP if we didn’t enjoy the content ourselves. So……. we decided to play Season 1 without much thought to pulling TLP back together just to see if this is worth that effort. Because its a big effort. And today I can say, its worth the effort.

We’re going to be adding to TLP-WoW new members, therefore adding new friends to the big conglomerate that is TLP the community of gamers. And we’re going to take all of Season 1 to do it. By Season 2’s release, my goal will be to have established Mythic teams, PvP Squads, and at minimum 1 moderate raiding team. Yeah, no longer we will be pushing for server firsts or anything like that, but we will be happy to be among the top 10 guilds on just Bleeding Hollow. Hell… I even considered returning back to our home of Mannoroth, but most of us here are in some way or another and even more of us are scattered around in other places, so that made no sense. And thus Bleeding Hollow it is.

I don’t expect all of those settled folks to return, but I do think some of you might love to just hang out with us. And having said that, I know I’ll see some of you drop into our TLP-WoW Discord server and chat it up with us, like we have done for the better part of over 27 years, dating back to Ultima Online.

See ya guys in the game!
<3 Dani

Raid Teams, Yes Plural… Teams

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wow-legion-logoFor Legion, we have decided to not only continue onward and push through content with our main weekday raid team, Team Olympians… we are also going to be creating a new raid team that raids on weekends for those of us that either a) have busy work weeks or b) have alts they want to level up.  Dubbed Team Demi Gods, this raid team will run Saturdays and Sundays from 9 PM to 12 AM EST.

Rounding out our new raid team’s leadership will be Charsbarkley as Raiding Officer and Klavin as Raid Leader.  The two of them will work closely together to lead us through successful content progression. Charsbarkley will work on the roster composition, recording attendance, and working with recruitment officers to fill necessary raiding spots. Klavin will focus entirely on strategic boss progression and getting our raiders through content.  If any folks would like to join our new raid team on the weekends, please see Charsbarkley or Klavin to get on the roster’s list of try outs.

For Team Olympians, we are shifting focus from moderate raiding to semi-hardcore raiding. In doing so, there are some spots that have become or will through the course of selection become free for other raiders to apply to as some of our raiders would move to be bench players rather than roster players due to personal time constraints.  This includes myself.  The requirements to join either raid group have gone up to be 840 ilvl and an unlocked 3rd artifact relic slot. This does require members to continuously be working on their main raiding characters, even on off days.  For many of us, that’s an impossibility.  But this will allow us to push for top ranks on our server.  You’ll want to message Vitalizer or Tankymcbones to compete for a spot.

A roster spreadsheet can be found here for all to review.

 

Full Clear Wednesday!

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We’d like to congratulate our Team Olympian raiders for a great job in clearing ALL of Heroic HFC in 2.75 hours — from start to finish.  They earned themselves a day off on Thursday night and it was also our last night of raiding in WoD. Onward and upwards to Legion Raiding!  We will NOT be raiding until September 30th as we’re giving our members a month to level and be Raid Ready!  Here is a picture of all of us. 😉  Go #TeamTLP!

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Four Bosses Down in HFC, First Night In

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Congratulations TLP! You guys rock. 🙂

On our first night in, for some the first time raiding content in WoW ever and for others the first time in 8 years (me included!), we managed to one-shot two bosses, two-shot the last two.  In order we downed Hellfire Assault, Iron Reaver, Kormrok, and the Hellfire Council.  The sixth boss is rather complex but I think we’ll make progress with it tonight. We did spent a good hour on it last night so I think we’ll get through it tonight.

I think after a second go (next week) in Normal, we can bump it up to Heroic depending on how much gear we farm up out of these instances.  I do know a lot of us are busier in real life than some and are not able to get into the LFRs as much or get into PvP to grind out some PvP gear to put us in the DPS checks for Heroic.  We’ll need folks closer to 700 to try Heroic, but what we could do is farm the first few bosses in Heroic, while still trying to learn the fights from Normal.  We’ll explore that possibility!

I want to specially thank Mortalsins, Danmachi, and Odie for helping to explain the fights for most of these as I was really too green to do the job all alone (Gawd I hate Raid Leading!). Everyone really did so well and I was so happy to have us go in there and synergize the way we did.  Everyone got along great and nothing major stood in our way.  What an amazing night for us as a guild! 🙂

I’ll be getting more screenshots of our guild in action tonight, and see if there are any more screenshots to add but these two are my personal best shots.  Enjoy!

 

<3 Dani

 

 

Hellfire Assault
Killrog Deadeye

First Guild Meeting on 6/21 @ 9 PM EST

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Hello folks, please try to make our very first guild meeting on Tuesday 6/21 @ 9 PM EST here on Discord. We will be talking about the following topics:

💥 Raiding — What is needed from us and how many folks will be able to go to HFC normal, what our makeup will be, and who’s going to be leading it.
💥 The Apprentice Program — Want to help but don’t necessary want to be an officer? Be an apprentice. As an apprentice you get one small area of responsibility and focus on just that one.
💥 Legion — What is good, what is bad? Who’s switching mains, etc. Open discussion about goals for Legion.
💥 Suggestion Box — A means to submit anonymous feedback to our entire leadership team (across all chapters!)
💥 Streaming for TLP — A run down of our streaming program and how that works for all that may want to turn gaming into a career (must be 18+ in age!).
💥 Guild Rules —- A review of our guild rules and what is expected of you.
💥 Open Forum —- A few minutes for anyone to give feedback, suggestions, or air concerns.

 

Please do try to be there! ❤ Dani

Legion Pre-Expansion Patch PTR Notes

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wow-legion-logoThe Legion Pre-Expansion Patch is now ready for testing on the Public Test Realms (PTR). Participating on the Public Test Realms lets you test a patch before it has been released on live realms. If you’d like to help test and provide feedback, you can start by copying your character and downloading the PTR client. Once you’ve had a chance to try things out, visit the PTR Discussion forum to discuss the patch. To report issues or errors, use the in-game Submit Bug feature (found under Game Menu -> Help -> Submit Bug) or by visiting the PTR Bug Report forum.

If you’d like to participate in the testing process for the upcoming World of Warcraft expansion: Legion, opt-in to future beta tests from our Beta Profile page; check the box next to the games you’re interested in testing.

PTR Reminder: Content in the Public Test Realms are still in-development and details may be subject to change before release of the live game. Not all of the content listed may be available for testing or may only be available during a limited testing window. Keep an eye on the PTR forums for more information when specific tests may be taking place.

Text in red means it has been added or updated recently. Text that has been struck through means a change has been reverted.

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Relaunch of the US Chapter on Bleeding Hollow

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Welcome to the new and the old members of TLP-WoW!  We’re so glad to have you here.

We want to create something special again with WoW so we have left our home server of Mannoroth and moved over to Bleeding Hollow permanently.  The guild was officially moved with all its bank tabs and items along with my main character, Danitsia.  She was level 95 prior to the move, but I did use the level boost to 100 that comes with the upgrade to Legion since we have months to relearn our classes for those of us like me that are returning fresh to WoW.   I do recommend the boost if you can get the expansion upgrade.

This guild will comprise of many returning players that are fresh to the game and its upgrades, so it will at first have a heavy focus on re-adjustment… that includes quests, dungeons, and 10 man raids. Also many of our old players that had merged into either Predestined or had a special vye from Blizzard to move to Twisted Nether on the European servers to join up with Method.  These folks are hardcore raiders and many of them have vast experience in PvP as well.  Those folks might be getting into hardcore raiding within a short period of time.  So we will cater to both the casual to moderate and work to put together a competitive hardcore raiding team.

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Legion Launches on August 30th

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Defenders of the Alliance and the Horde—a great and ancient enemy has set its sights on Azeroth once more, and soon the land will be consumed in a storm of fel fire. Starting on August 30, kingdoms will burn, heroes will fall, and the world will stand on the precipice of destruction with the launch of World of Warcraft: Legion!

All hellfire is about to break loose, so steel yourself for the return of the Burning Legion by pre-purchasing World of Warcraft: Legion digitally at www.wowlegion.com. Players who pre-purchase will receive an instant level-100 character boost, as well as unlock early access to the new Demon Hunter hero class prior to the expansion’s release.

Learn more about the sixth World of Warcraft expansion on our Legion site, and read the full press release.