Announcement To All Players

Following long discussions, the guild and raid leaders have decided that it is time to establish a raiding guild. The primary motivation for this is that we have recently started to lose a lot of members, and there are a significant number we could expect to lose soon, whose primary interest is raiding the end-game in a mature, more disciplined environment.

We have therefore asked Asbach if he would be prepared to setup and lead such a guild, which he has agreed to do; The guild will be created this coming weekend, and will be called "Dark Venom". The purpose of this guild will be to make progression through end-game raiding, specifically to attract and maintain sufficient interest and regular attendance to be able to tackle the 25-man instances. In order to do this, the guild will not offer the previous all-inclusive access to tribes guild members that has been available previously; there will instead be a limited number of places available within the raid guild, but people will be expected to keep their raid attendance up to maintain their place, since it will provide priority for raid invites.

On creation, guild invites will initially be made to those who have raided longest and most regularly within tribes and who are interested in continuing raiding on a regular basis. It will of course be up to individuals as to whether they accept and wish to move to the raiding guild, or stay within their existing tribes guilds; note that priority to getting a place in the raids will however go to the raid guild members. Further invites will be made when appropriate once the initial take-up rate is known, and will eventually move to an application-based approach.

The intention initially is to maintain our current raid schedule across the creation of the new guild, and then expand to include regular runs to the 25-man instances. Dependent upon takeup, recent departures, and upcoming holidays, there may be a period of reduction from 2 to 1 (more frequent) Kara run for a period. Subject to required class-balancing, invites to raids will be made first to raiding guild members; remaining spaces will then be made available to all tribes members via the tribeschatter channel. Hopefully this will mean that we will continue unaltered for Kara, but be able to build interest and commitment for the larger instances.

For more details on the operation of the guild, please see the new guild website (under construction) wich will be uploaded very soon ,the adress will be stickied in this forum.

Koren,Buxton,Windhoof and Asbach