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.
Danitsia
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:
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
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.
We Return for The World Within
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.
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 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