Another new feature for the website this week, and one I’ve been wanting to get going for a while.
We now have an Events Calendar!
Announcements
Words of “wisdom” from Guild Master, Officers, or other leaders within the Ministry of Defense. ONLY posts including this category will show on the homepage!
And double thank you for organizing the successful heroic run through Tomb of Sargeras! The event got eligible players another artifact appearance, as well as guild credit for the heroic kills leading up to, and including, Kil’Jaeden. Be on the lookout – Sym has more events in mind!
Have you ever wanted to slap Anduin’s stupid little face? How about beat Tyrande’ with that stick that she’s had up her butt? And after Legion, I’m sure we all want to give Velen a piece of our mind.
Now you can!
Next week, 5PM server, we’re going to run through For the Horde. Even if PvP isn’t normally your thing, achievements are nice to have, and this is a good time to do it! We don’t know where certain NPCs will be in BfA, nor do we know how stat squish will affect the difficulty of this achievement. Plus, our Artifact Weapons are giving us a huge advantage right now. The more people we have, the easier this will be!
This is also a great way to dip your toes into PvP if you’ve never done any before. While the NPCs aren’t opposing players, chances are that opposing players will show up to defend their leaders!
Sign up on the in-game calendar and check out the PvP Discord channel for more information and news.
Last night was the first PvP night and it was a huge success! Though our win to loss ratio was pretty low, it was the fun that was had that made tonight truly awesome. Lvana spoke on Discord for the first time, Fistlok got his first honorable kill, and the awesome twist of several different personalities kept us so entertained that we lost track of time and kept at it for three and a half hours! Congrats to the ones that got achievements, and thank you to everyone that showed interest and joined us. Next week will (hopefully) run much smoother, and I will do my best to make sure everyone who wants to participates. Please check out the PvP channel in discord for a poll on preferred future events. If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, feel free to message me in game or on discord. All feedback helps!
Here is a link to the poll: https://www.strawpoll.me/16016348
There’s also an amazing number of PvP resources, including builds, addons, and other useful tips pinned in the PvP channel. Check it out!
Wednesday: Heroic Lower
We decided to kill more Heroic Lower bosses to start the week, in another attempt to get set pieces for Raiders before a hopeful Aggramar clear. We had the typical 3 wipes on Kin’Garoth and a few wipes on dogs…but, this was also the first time that Qwaylas was able to down Dogs with the guild on Heroic, and we’re all proud to have him in our ranks.
Saturday: Annihilating Aggramar, Aggravating Argus
We worked harder and figured out some more tweaks necessary on Aggramar. It may be beneficial for tanks to move Aggramar a bit away from certain little adds. Likewise, we may want to let the add in the back “drop” sooner, so that it doesn’t get as close to larger adds or to Aggramar and risk having a double explosion.
And we downed him! In only 4 pulls that night, too. Overall, it took us 14 pulls and under 2 hours to take him down. Not too shabby!
We forgot to take a kill pic, so please enjoy this recreation with Uro:
After that, we pounded on Argus for a while. Our first pull was pretty good on Phase 1. After that, subsequent Phase 1 pulls have been rough. Raid Leader Thoughts: People need to keep aware of the effects of Blight and Cone at the same time. Similarly, people with Blight need to stay spread out and not be adjacent to one-another.
Monday: Heroic Argus Only
On account of the upcoming holiday and excitement over a potential kill, we moved Alt Night to July 4, and Heroic to July 2nd.
More messy Phase 1 Blights were the problem for us, but we did manage to get in to Phase 3 on our own. We also pulled in a variety of returning Raid Team members in an attempt to get a kill, welcoming back both Khaanatra and Orektarg for the guild DPS. Eventually, our luck came through, and a pair of 970 tanks queued up. We quickly scrambled to move our tanks into DPS roles, and the tanks added an additional DPS and Healer. We got another pull and then a bad bomb explosion wiped us at 93%. To no-ones surprise, we then downed him for a kill!
Overall, it took us 9 pulls in 1 and a half hours to down Argus.
We have a new banner on the Raiding Team page to commemorate our Heroic Argus Guild Kill.
Congratulations to everybody who helped us achieve this goal. We’ll take a commemorative picture at some point for those who have AOTC with their Violet Spellwing mount at the Aerie Peak eagle statue. Stay tuned in Discord for more information on when that will be happening.
Yes, I’m a week late on this. I’ve been too busy in Pandaland. Whoops!
Wednesday: Lower Heroics
On Wednesday, we decided to go for a little “back to basics” and clear as many lower heroic bosses as we could for tier pieces. And you know what, we did pretty well! With 1 wipe on Felhounds and 3 on High Command, we downed 5 bosses in one 2 hour block. High Command had the usual bomb issues of people not moving, and Felhounds we swapped a tank out after the first wipe.
Saturday: Aggramar Aggression
Saturday we finished out the rest of the bosses and headed to Aggramar (skipping Coven, of course). Prior to that we wiped 3 times on Kin’Garoth (including one at 97%…sigh…), but we were otherwise in good shape and good spirits.
Aggramar was a surprisingly easy fight, as far as “second to last boss in the tier” fights go. We had 3 very good attempts on him, at 60% or so each time, plus a smattering of other fights. Better control over releasing of the adds, and better usage of defensive cooldowns, is required to make this a smooth experience in the future. He’s not RNG like Coven, and so is an easier fight to control and practice for perfection on.
Monday: Plowing Through Alt Night
Taking a leaf from Wednesday’s book, we decided to down as many bosses on Normal as possible. We did Coven for practice before going to Aggramar, but overall downed 8/11 bosses (no wipes!) all in one night, with both new folks and alts in the group.
The guild’s raid team had a successful kill on heroic Argus this evening (we’re looking at you Coven).
Several raiders were able to get their ‘Argus: Ahead of the Curve’ achievement this evening. 🙂
Thank you to Orektarg for reminding us that the Argus kill is dedicated to one of our guild tanks, Ashkicker, who died this past May from the complications of cancer.
Lunzzul is hosting a random battlegrounds PVP event tomorrow (Tuesday 7/3). You do not need experience with PVP to participate, just a desire to learn. Contact Lunzzul for more details!
So, the raid team successfully downed heroic Aggramar on our real first night of attempts at downing this boss. Congrats to all!
On Monday, there will be a change to the raiding schedule. We will be doing heroic Argus, instead of running Alt Night on Monday. Alt Night will still happen this week, but it will be on Wednesday instead!
As the title states, we are currently looking for someone to host/organize a weekly PVP event. The event can be casual; as in just members of MoD grouping up for random battleground queues or it can be a bit more formal with members grouping up for rated battlegrounds. It will be entirely up to you and the effort you want to put into the event. Scheduling is flexible, however we only have Tuesday and Thursday nights free on the calendar. Also, there is nothing stopping us from hosting it during the day… particularly on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon.
If you are interested, please get in contact with Urostek. The promotion to guild officer will be forthcoming, provided you continue to host then event each week.