Bring out your dead!

Our strategy for downing the Stone Guard includes a very important preliminary activity of covering the ground in bones! - Beartooth

Survey: Raider Availability

All of our raiders and raiders in the iRaid group, please take the very brief moment to complete and submit the survey so that we can take your preferred raiding times into account as we consider changes (if any are required) to the raiding schedule! Last time we checked was back in August and we have new raiders and we also understand some of you have noted other nights you are also available.

Thank you! - Beartooth

Survey is located here.

Stone Guard down!

nicely done everyone!

-Beartooth

MoP - with a BANG!

Always fun times when you see so many KOU people ranked in the top ten for their class and spec - some in the top one or top two for their class! ALSO exceptionally fun when the guild is ranking 5th on the server!

This week we did not have a guild group working through MSV as some of our team is still gearing or leveling. However, our KOU-lead pug has made better progress than most guilds on the server, and world! Last night we dropped Gara'Jal to 19% before we ran out of time on the raid clock for the evening.

It was brilliant fun and solid to raid with some like-minded raiders who typically are saved to their own guilds' raids.

More fun to follow!

- Beartooth

Cata Raid Success!

We accomplished all of the raiding goals that we set as a raid group for the Cataclysm expansion.

That is worth repeating: we accomplished everything we set out to do, and we accomplished it as a group. Of course there are always circumstances that lead to some raiders needing to leave and some new raiders joining the raid group; however, for the most part, the raid group that is closing out Cataclysm is largely the same raid group that started out our raiding during this expac. That is a huge accomplishment in of itself.

Why were we successful - despite a late start - in our raiding and in accomplishing them as a stable raid group? Simply, because of each and every one of our raiders! Everyone embraced and took to heart our raiding culture of keep it respectful and fun, be reliable, perform - or as I often remark, "do what you say you will do, and do it well."

Our raiding goals included:

• establish and preserve a respectful and fun environment - CHECK!
• provide a reliable and stable weekly raid and foster reliability in our raiders' attendance and performance - CHECK!
• do what you say you will do, and do it well! - CHECK!
• structure the raid group (iRaid) so that it crosses guild boundaries and provides fair and common sense-driven raid leading and loot distribution - CHECK!
• reward reliability - CHECK! (two raid mounts have already been distributed)
• clear all content for the expansion - CHECK!
• obtain at least one current tier legendary - CHECK!
• successfully begin Heroic raiding - CHECK!
• down Ragnaros - CHECK!
• down "xpac final boss" - CHECK!
• cover raiding 'costs' as a raid group (repairs, flasks, feasts, etc) - CHECK!

We succeeded in landing in the top 50 of several hundred raiding guilds on our server. Our peers in server standings raid the current tier multiple times per week whereas we raid it only one night a week.

We succeeded multiple times in having guildies rank as #1 on the server or in the top ten - without having to become a 'hard core' 6-nights a week raid group.

We repeatedly encountered something new and overcame it shortly thereafter - be it a new boss, a new achievement, a heroic version.

We successfully morphed around players' interests to try out new raid roles and new characters while preserving our overall raid performance and raid roster.

We did what we said we would do, and we did it well!


(On a personal note, "thank you" from your raid leader for such an awesome year and such an amazing group of people to raid with!)

Mists Strategy

Below is the link to the document containing details discussed last night and expanding on the high-level strategy going into Mists xpac (release date 9/25).

Mists Strategy

Don't forget to complete the survey linked in the previous post.

Survey to Assist in Scheduling Raids

As we tend to do at least each year, we have posted a survey to assist us in ensuring that we schedule raids at times that are best suited to the personal schedules of the raiders. With the coming expansion in less than two months, and a new Fall season schedule for many, we would like to confirm when are the best times to schedule raids.

Please complete the survey.

Thanks!