12/13/2014 and 1/17/2015 Guild meeting review

Results of Jan. 18th guild meeting

Notes from Guild Meeting

Guild LFR run at 7 server on Jan 22nd.

First Guild Raid Run at 7 server on Jan 29.

Continue only having guild repairs for guild dungeon and raid runs.

Thank you all for participation.

ANY CONCERNS ABOUT THE GUILD REPAIRS IS TO BE BROUGHT UP TO MCPAT OR DINKA. 



Results of Dec. 13th guild meeting
1. Dungeon runs will be on the calendar at 7 PM server Thurs. and Sun. Please sign up and guildies are welcome on runs even if not signed up. All guildies are encouraged that whenever they do dungeon runs to put it on chat to see if other guildies are interested. The dungeon runs will help those interested in raiding get prepared.
2. Guild repair will be only used for dungeon and raid runs. Repair requires a rank of Templar or higher. If you run a guild dungeon run and are not that rank, please let McPat know and she will reimburse your guild dungeon run.
3. Any items from Pandarian expansion and below are being put into an alternate guild. Feel free to make an alt on Kael'thas and join the guild, "Surrounded by Stupidity" to take items out you need for leveling. Speak or send in game mail to Darksun for a guild invite. If you are not able to make an alt to do that, send her an in game mail as to what you might need.
4. A meeting will be scheduled in Jan. to follow up and see what direction the guild needs to go in.

How Raiding works in Platinum Sanctum

Hello, I have been seeing a trend as of late and I wanted to address it before it becomes too out of hand.

As far as raiding goes,  I, Wayne, Pakku, or hey-you-guy-that-doesn't-show-up-much-lately, Run the friday night flex raid Only.

The Saturday 10 man normal raid is ran by Amber (Monshineaim or Mallorean) and Velvan. 

If you have any questions or concerns about the Friday Night Flex Raid, you can contact me via whisper or in-game mail.

If you have questions or concerns about the 10 man raid on Saturday, you contact Amber or Velvan, they can tell you how best to reach them.

Amber and Velvan organize the saturday raid, if you have an issue or cannot make it, or have to leave for whatever reason, you let them know.  I am NOT the Go-To Person for the Saturday Night Raid.  I am just a Raider like the rest of you.

My job as a GM is to make sure there is a place for organizing raids. I run one raid on Fridays.  Amber and Velvan run the Saturday raid, and they make all decisions pertaining to that.  any decision they make, you act as if it came directly from me, because they have the authority to run that raid as they see fit.

I hope this clears up any misconceptions going forward.

Thanks for Reading.

-Wayne

Updated Night Elf Models

Blizzard showed off the new Night Elf Model update today.

Stacking and you, a guide!

Sometimes during a raid, you are expected to stack in one place so that the healers can heal you, and because the mechanic requires it.  Today we're going to look at how a stack should and should not work!

This is a stack:

This is Not a stack :

This is a stack: 

This is NOT a Stack:

This is a Stag Stack:

This is a Bear and trees NOT stacking:

Please remember, when people ask you to stack, it means you occupy the same square footage as everyone else, not standing in the general area of where you should be.  It can be hard to see sometimes, but a good rule of thumb is this, if you can make out your personal characters outline, you are not stacked correctly.  please remember this for the future :)

-Wayne

PAKKU HAS THE LEGENDARY CLOAK!!!

 

I Can see only one way to celebrate this moment...

-Wayne

For Health, For Sanity, How Things Are Changing.

So full disclosure,  I few weeks ago I had a long post wrote out.  It would probably be one part venting, one part planning, and mostly just being salty.  Well, some things happened, and it made me scrap the entire thing and pretty much go on a week long sabbatical to rethink things.  So what you will get here is brutal honesty.  Everything coming is not said with any malice or anger, as I am now past that stuff, nothing but shooting from the hip.

First and foremost,  my enjoyment of this GAME I enjoy has become nearly non-existant. It seemed like any time I logged in, there was some new drama or continuing old drama to deal with.  I took a week off from the game with some sporadic logging on to check mail and such.  The reason I took a week off was because not only were things starting to cause me headaches, but chest pains as well.  I did go to a doctor to make sure I wasn't having a cardiac episode, and was confirmed that I was fine and the issues came from one thing: Stress.   Stress, from a video game.  That's all in the past now, as I have resolved not to let this stuff get to me any longer.  I like this game and the people I play with.  From this point on, I will run the guild how I feel it should be run.  Things like drama, in-fighting, etc, I can't and will not deal with any longer,  people have to work out their own problems.  I always have an ear to listen, and have no problem giving advice, but I cannot be a peace keeper any longer, it has literally deteriorated my health, and for the good of myself and the guild, I advise everyone to adhere to rule #3, Communicate!   But when you communicate, remember also Rule #1, Be Respectful!  Please communicate calmly and rationally without lashing out in anger,  we're a guild, we're family, and we can overcome obsticles if we allow ourselves to!

From this point on, I will be putting together a Flex raid on Friday nights starting this Friday for anyone who wants to attend. Time will be on the Calender each week.  I will be organizing and leading these raids from now on,  to assure that we get a group together.  If we cannot get a group together for flex, we will do scenarios, dungeons, SOMETHING as a guild.  The time for the raid will be posted on the calender, I ask that people please sign up weekly so I will know who is showing up.  If I cannot make it for some reason, I will have someone in place to get the group together in my absence.  

Saturdays there is a new 10 man group that has formed,  while the spots are already filled for the 10 man, if you are interested in being an alternative for that group if someone can't make it contact Velven or Mallorean in game and they will give you the information.  !0 man will go for 2-3 hours starting at 8:30 server time.

Raiding for Platinum Sanctum is meant to be fun, another activity for our guildies to get together and build our community.  The more interest we have, the more activities we can do.  If you have any suggestions for activities or events, send me an in-game mail to any of my characters, or if you want to be more detailed, you can e-mail our new email address platinumcomment@gmail.com.  I am always looking for new, postive, community building ideas that will help us grow and become more community oriented.

One last note, starting next week I will begin purging the members of the guild that have not logged in for a year or more.  If you have a toon you have not played in a looooong time, please log into it so it will not get purged.  I am doing this so our member page will be easier to search, more managable, and so we have plenty of room to grow.   I will start doing a weekly blog post to talk about the past weeks events and upcoming events,  also with information about future changes coming to the game and to the guild.  I want this to begin a new, positive era for Platinum Sanctum,  A place where we come to put our stresses behind us, not add to them.  I believe we can succeed in this, and we will only grow from here!

Thank you for your time and thank you all for your continued support!

-Wayne

Ever wonder what they are saying in those "vision in time" cinematics ?

We get to watch, and therefore we can see that they are talking, but we can't hear it!!!

This link will take you to an excerpt from the upcoming novel War Crimes by Christie Golden:

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/13353208/war-crimes-novel-sneak-peek-3-17-2014

It is supposed to be what is discussed between Garrosh and Anduin during step 8 (Courting Destiny) of the timeless quest chain.

This one segment alone makes me want to read the book!

Hope you enjoyed it too!

Zxandria