The world is in turmoil today with the news of juggernauts killing the Deathbringer. The world now goes without fear of dying, opening the gate for ensidia to kill the lich king. Ensidia is in a debt of gratitide to juggernauts. Thats my story and I'm sticking to it!

However, it was a great success last night with the death of saurfang and the new raid boss Toravon in voa both going down. We finally made the adjustments needed to kill the adds properly and take down Saurfang with great execution. We struggled with festergut the couple of attempts we tried and decided to
take a break and kill the new boss Toravon. With juggernauts style we one shotted the mofo. With a break  from the strain of raiding Thursday night Festgut will die! Congratulations to everyone that participated  and congrats to everyone that got some nice loot.
 

The guild's 25-man progress is continuing along as well, amongst the 10-man victories. Though the posting a bit a late, we managed victories over Lady Deathwhisper on Wednesday, followed by a quick and simple first-attempt victory over the Gunship Battle. This of course brings us to Saurfang, who is now on notice, before we add him to our list of kills.

This boss proved to be very troublesome for the raid. Even though the mechanics of the fight were simple enough, it requires very good execution from the entire raid. It proved difficult to kept everyone alive for the fight but after several attempts we finally managed to drop kick him in the face!

 

Please visit Boombash's post: Raiding Reminder.

Hello again everyone!!  It’s time for my monthly visit to our website to bring you all of the new and improved guild news!

I am sad to announce that January 4^th was Jughead’s last day as an officer and our site administrator.  He has chosen to step down and become a part of the stress-free general guild membership.  I personally think he can’t wait to rag on the remaining officers.  Fortunately for us, Gavvin, aka Snivel, has decided to come back to WoW and more specifically Juggernauts.  He was willing to take up Jughead’s mantle as officer and site administrator.  The officer’s corp is delighted to have him back.  8)

Also returning to us as a general guild member is Morggan, aka Marzapan.  When you see Morggan and Gavvin do not hesitate to whisper them every other minute to welcome their return.

Some changes you need to be aware of:

Raids have been starting late and it is annoying those that make the effort to be on time.  I tried moving the invite time back to 7:30, hoping that would fix the problem.  It hasn’t, and it has annoyed even those that are on time because of the wasted 15 minutes between 7:30 and 7:45 for the on-time bonus.  So to reduce the angst and raise the on-time counts, we have decided to send out invites at 7:45.  At 7:47 when the invites expire, we will post 150 EPs (OMG that’s an hour and a half of raiding EP for being on time!) to those that are in the raid.  We will not wait for anyone.  Either you’re ready and you get it, or you’re not and you don’t.

During this last month we have done well in ICC 10 man.  We are consistently making it to the last boss and on Jan 5^th we had an excellent attempt that came the very close to taking him down.  In 25 man we need more work and specifically more of our main healers showing up (yes, yes, yes, that includes me…) so that we can start making progress.

Because of the holiday seasons playing havoc with people schedules, there will be no adjustments down in rank this month.  However, in February your participation will need to be up to keep your rankings.  As for those waiting for your rank to go up this month, I will try to have them done on the 6^th before you raid.  I will reimburse you for guild repairs incurred on the 5^th.  NEW AND OLD MEMBERS, PLEASE NOTE: GUILD REPAIR FUNDS ARE FOR GUILD RAID NIGHTS ONLY.  PUGGING AND OFF-NIGHT RAIDING IS YOUR OWN RESPONSIBILITY.  Do not make us police it.  I like not caring about it.

Please welcome our new guildies:   Muddle, Gninja (pronounced gdog-ninja), Dezhunter and  Kumartheffar. 

Finally, I want to mention that Gavvin is starting a 10 man raiding team for our off nights.  It has VERY strict rules and very few openings.  He is planning on doing hard mode and achievement type runs.  If you are interested, please check out his post at: Hardcore 10 man raiding.

Thank you everyone for your continued support.  Lets keep the fun going!

Dao

Congratulations to Juggernauts! In just two short weeks of raiding after a long break from 25 man raiding we successfully completed ToC. Anub went down on just our 4th attempt. We had some fun in the failed attempts though, one imp learned he wasnt a tank, and note to all who attempt Anub in the future, he is immune to cyclone. Grats to everyone involved and bring on Icecrown Citadel!

During the officers meeting we discussed several policy changes that everyone needs to be aware of.

Participation Points
After some discussion we have decided that this system is really not serving the intended purpose of encouraging guild membership to raid.  It also appears that not many people use the points because so many guild members are willing to step forward to help guildies aquire what they need without using their points.  (To me, this is pretty cool and says volumes about our guild!)  Most of the withdrawls have been enchants, enchanting mats and orbs.  So, we have decided to eliminate the participation points and give all Seargent Majors free enchants for soulbound gear obtained during raids.  We are still working out how we are going to award orbs, so stay tuned.

Everyone's ranking was adjusted December 1st to reflect their raiding participation for October and November.  If you feel an error has been made, please contact Daodanmai.

Pugging Raids
For the most part we were in agreement that it was ok to pug screened players for our 25 man raids when  we are short.  The reasoning was that running a 25 man raid is preferable to running 10 mans and forcing people to sit out.  We decided that it would be up to the raid lead to determine how many pugged positions is too many.  During pugged raids, we will reward those who attend with ep and not charge gp for wins.  We also decided that we will use our standard offnight looting rules of 1 need roll win and then you must greed roll anything else you want.

Recruiting
Currently we beleive with the recent round of recruits we have enough dps in the guild to make the raids but we are short healers.  We would like everyone to keep on the lookout for shamen and druid healers.  We would also like to take this time to welcome our new relatively recent recruits: Stokayoka, Fliguy, Flippyfloppy, Ladrey, Smidgit, Sprotach, Vidiel, Ladinara and Faelart!

Raiding
In our raiding over the last couple of months we have been consistently beating 10 man ToC and making it to the general in Ulduar 10.  In ToC 25 we have beaten the Val'kyr and Ulduar 25 we consistently make it to Thorium.  Our goals for the next month are to beat ToC 25 man and to start making our runs on Yog in both 10 and 25 man Ulduar.

GM's Message
The last thing I would like to address is courtesy during the raids.  It really hasn't been a big problem lately but I do see the inklings of trouble coming.  Please be respectful of people's feelings and beliefs during the raids.  There is no reason for you to say "So-and-so is blowing chunks."  It is unproductive and totally kills morale making it that much more difficult for us to accomplish our goals.  Constructive statements like "Did you try using this-that-and-the-other?" are less offensive and can lead to constructive discussions on what needs to be done.  My father always told me that religion, politics and sex are always bad subjects.  I don't care if these subjects are discussed, but as soon as it becomes clear that someone is taking offense or getting argumentative, it is time to stop and change the subject.  I know that I have violated these courtesies myself, so this message is not directed at anyone, it is just a reminder for everyone.  We want our raiding time to be a happy time for everyone.

Thanks everyone and I'll see you at the raid!
Dao