Guild events are a good way for social guilds to build community, encourage members to be more active, and generally increase excitement within a guild, and an add-on that helps facilitate that in a new way is pretty cool. So I’m going to do something a little different this week. I’m going to talk about an add-on that I’ve fallen in love with: Total Roleplay2 (TRP2). I’m sure that most... 

Cheers to anyone out there testing new dungeons on the PTR. The new content is looking great. Unfortunately it’ll be a while before we get around to covering that here. Yet we still have plenty to examine, so let’s just pick up where we left off last week: right in the middle of our raiding vacation, cruising through heroic dungeons for fun and profit. And achievements. Mostly achievements. Two... 

I have been having a problem for the past month with an attitude in one of my raid groups. It has not been drama, mind you, but it has been somewhat challenging and fairly persistent. It’s also been subtle and not particularly easy to put a finger on, at least through the traditional methods: I’ve vented about it a little bit in private, tried to deal with it obliquely during the raids, and finally... 

Well, here we are. By most standards this tier’s raid content has been cleared. Sure, there are still heroic modes, but it’s still simply a variation on existing content. On top of that, the string of “nerfs” to the Firelands content in the past couple weeks has drastically reduced the difficulty all around. For any of you raiders who had been stuck on a particular boss, this is your prime... 

I was ecstatic when they added guild levels, achievements, achievement rewards, and perks in the Cataclysm expansion. It gave guilds something to work towards together, sometimes doing something they’re already busy at (like leveling/questing or dungeons or pvp) and sometimes requiring a more concerted, collaborative effort (such as crafting or fishing). In return they offered tangible, significant... 

It occurred to me that the new boss of Baradin Hold, Occu’thar, managed to fly completely under my radar. Granted this probably has something to do with the fact that I very rarely managed to attend a Baradin Hold raid (hey, I’m busy, what can I say), but that’s no excuse! Now, the fact that this raid boss just received an associated achievement a couple weeks ago… that’s an excuse. Let’s... 

It’s been a hectic week for me, including a lengthy trip to the ER with my Ex (he’s fine now), too much real life work, writing an exciting new guild quest using a roleplay addon called Total Roleplay 2 (highly recommend it if you’re a RPer), and FINALLY downing Ragnaros – yes, on normal. We’re slacking in this content. I didn’t have time to sit down and write a... 

People worry excessively over labels. I don’t know if this is because as a species we’re determined to name things as an extension of simply identifying them, or if, by classifying things, we’re responding to some instinctive or primal need to protect ourselves and our resources. People seem to feel more comfortable if a thing has a label, as if they can then determine their place... 

Last week we started the grueling battle with Ragnaros; this week we aim to finish it. Hopefully the first phase and transition are firmly under your raid team’s belt at this point, as the fundamentals of the early stages of the encounter will remain constant throughout the fight. So let’s move forward, picking up with the second phase. Phase two begins much like phase one – tanks, DPS, and healers... 

Things have been pretty quiet in the guild over the summer. This could be due to summer activities outside of WoW, a bit of laissez faire towards the game in general, or the line I drew in the sand back in July, but whatever it is, I’ll take it. There are other things going on, of course – we recently transitioned our website to a new site for technical reasons and are now transitioning...