The Dark Knights

Well its been a few weeks since I posted last and figured I’d update.

Currently we are progressing through ICC 10 fairly quickly. We ended up downing the princes last week, and are now working on Blood Queen. Our first run at her we managed to get her to 30% so Im fairly confident we can get her down in the next week.

We are still recruiting, so if you have an interest hit up the forums, or contact Rickytick in game.

For those who are in the guild and are curious about the EPGP system we use, please check this post out. Also, we have it setup so that anyone can see their rank in game so simply download the EPGP addon from curse or where ever you get your addons and type /epgp in game. Finally, I do try and upload our log to the EPGP site once a week so feel free to click the EPGP link on the right tab to see where you are, however, understand that can be up to a week old if I’ve been lazy, so for best results get the addon or ask an officer.

We’re now recruiting for ICC 10 and 25 man. If you want to apply click the TDK Forums link on the right panel of the page, then register an account. After that, follow the directions in the Recruitment forum.

We’re currently looking for a MT healer, preferably a paladin and Two DPS to round out our 10 man core.

We are also recruiting most class and specs for our 25 man roster.

Well last night we gave our first go at ICC and we had mixed expectations. We figured progress would be slow, but we’d down a few bosses.

However by the end of the night we had downed 3 bosses and almost gotten Saurfang down. Sadly we didnt have enough ranged DPS to deal with the nasty beasts so we ended up calling it.

Not to bad for a guild that just hit 80 about 2 weeks ago.

Here is the loot we got.

1. Linebackher = Muradin’s Spyglass
2. Rickytick = Bracers of Dark Blessings

Sadly everything else was mail or guildbanked, hopefully we get some better drops tonight.

Well last night was our second week of raiding. We nocked out the weekly raid early in the day, and then managed to pound out VoA 10, Ony 10, and ToC 10.

The only fight that gave us any trouble was the Champions fight, but we think that was mainly due to one of our pug dps’ers dropping the ball on CC.

Over all it was a great night and looking forward to starting ICC 10 man this week. I added last nights EPGP stats to the site, so simply click the link to the right to find out where you stand.

After a rather rough start on our first night only getting ony down, we did manage to rally on Friday night and one shot ToC. We are going to be progressing into ToGC and then start ICC next week.

EPGP seems to be working perfectly for us. If you want to see where you stand then simply download the addon and you can check in game, or you can check it here. The only issue with the web page is the log doesnt always match the stats if there is a change. I.E. if you notice it shows that Aessedai got an item, and her GP is increased, however, if you check the stats, it shows shes at the base 100. The reason for that is she decided to give her item to Linebackher instead, and the GP was transfered. Other than that the numbers are fine.

I will try and remember to update that page as often as possible.

Here are the items that dropped this week. GB = Guild bank.

1. GB = Spaulders of the Snow Bandit
2. GB = Gloves of Looming Shadow
3. GB = Boots of Tortured Space
4. GB = Girdle of the Farseer
5. GB = Dragonstalker’s Helmet
6. GB = Valorous Darkruned Gauntlets
7. Phaine = Sabatons of the Lingering Vortex
8. Linebackher = Talisman of Volatile Power
9. Billybo = Shoulderplates of Frozen Blood
10. Billybo = Furious Gladiator’s Dreadplate Legguards

Nothing will scare the hell out of guild leaders and recruits more than tweaking a guilds loot system. Usually TDK goes by officer allocation for our games, but WoW is a bit different of a community and there are a lot of folks who have been burned before by bad guilds so we wanted to make sure that our loot system was fair, balanced, and 100% transparent.

After doing some research we have decided to go with EPGP. You can find out about the addon here. The system is kind of a combination of DKP with a ladder system. It keeps thing fair for the most part and is very customizable. There is no 100% fair system, and no mater what you pick you can always find away to work it even if its just a small benefit.

If you arent a rocket scientist or simply like me and your brain hurts when you think about charts, coefficients, and graphs check this article out. We will be using a very similar system.

Here is our modified version.

• Be on time and have signed up – 500 EP
• Every 15 minutes while on raid or sitting – 250 EP
• Boss kill – 1000 EP
• Progression Boss Kill – 2000 EP
• Full clear – 2500 EP
• 10% weekly EP decay
• 25% EP penalty if you No show on signup

One thing about the last line, we arent monsters here… if some kind of emergency happens, power outage, hospital, abducted by crazy liberal democrats… we will work with you. Its mainly to keep people from signing up and then deciding to go have a beer with friends instead of logging in.

I understand that RL is more important than the game, however, everyone also needs to realize that when you say you are going to be somewhere… you need to be there.

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns please let an officer know. This is a new system for all of us, and it might be slightly modified over the next few weeks as we all learn about it and as problems if any arise.

So after enjoying 1000 – 1500 pings regularly on Blackrock, we decided it was time for a change. Cant really raid effectively with 6 second delays. You can find us now on Garona Alliance side. Its a Central time zone server, so nice and central for everyone.

Hopefully Garona will be a better experience

Well its been a few weeks since we have come back to WoW and we’ve been grinding away. Festus, Waddy, and I all poped 80 in the last 24 hours and have started gearing up. Was a rather interesting transition from normal dungeons to heroics, but so far Im tanking em fairly well and with quick gear upgrades from badges like this we should be good to start raiding this week or next.

Nothing like getting a piece of raid gear after less than 10 heroics.

We are still looking for more players, so if you are 80+ and want to get in with a good coordinated group thats just starting out contact Wadzia in game.

Anyone who has played WoW for any period of time knows the horrors of the general and trade channel. Most of us here in TDK have joked for years that wow is the festering anus of the MMO community.

That being said its been rather slow in the MMO genre recently, and by slow I mean pretty much all of the recent releases are disappointments of epic proportions. WoW released the new dungeon finder and after reading about it, I fired up a scroll of resurrection to test it out… and here we are again playing wow. This feature is pure win.

However… here I am again having to deal with the drooling rejects of society. My brother always says if you expect the worst, you will be pleasantly surprised when something good happens. Well needless to say I was floored today.

I had just spent about 2 hours trying to form our guild getting random folks to sign the charter. In between being told to piss off or demands of extreme amounts of gold, I finally got the guild setup. Yay! So I head on over to my pally trainer to respec to tank spec and Im sporting my ghetto pally mount. So I get a tell from Kennedi.

Usually someone points out I dont have an epic, and I get about 20 minutes of “ROFL LOLERCOPTERS FAGGOT NEWB! hahaha!111!!11!” Kennedi tossed me 75g to make sure I got my mount and wished me a merry christmas. Holy crap batman… I just about had a stroke. So, for all of you who might stop by Blackrock server alliance side, please wish Kennedi a Merry Christmas for being a nice guy