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

Warlords of Draenor Alpha Patch Notes!!

Hello!

Here is the link to the alpha patch notes for Warlords of Draenor!!

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/13423478/warlords-of-draenor%E2%84%A2-alpha-patch-notes-4-3-2014

Something for everyone here!

Zxandria

Warlords of Draenor Discussion links

Hello Everyone!

I thought that I would supply some links to information on the new expansion "Warlords of Draenor".

Oni directed me to these discussions by Mike Preach - Thanks Oni!!

Here is a link to game changes currently being discussed by Blizz:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdpuKpdNF0c&list=UUXJL3ST-O0J3nqzQyPJtpNg&feature=c4-overview

I found it refreshing that some of the obsolete spells and abilities will be removed.  Clean out that spell book. Shackle undead hasn't been used in years!!

Here is a link to a discussion concerning attunement to 5 man heroics:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3V0qjHz9Zs&list=UUXJL3ST-O0J3nqzQyPJtpNg

Here we have the reassurance that the proving grounds have been recalibrated so that you can actually accomplish your attunement!  You also won't have to carry people that don't try to learn their characters or upgrade their gear!

Should make for interesting discussion and game play!  I can't wait it to hit the PTR!

See you in game!!

Zxandria

Challenge Mode End of Season Early Warning

For those of you are achievement hounds, these will be going away!!

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/12930280/challenge-mode-end-of-season-early-warning-2-13-2014

There will be new challenges, but - get these while you can!

Patch 5.4.7 has hit the PTR!!!

Here is the link to Blizzard's post:

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/12592415

This isn't the Warlords patch, it is a pre-patch.....but it's progress!

Be Careful with your emails!!

So today I was checking my email and as normal I run through my spam folder to make sure that none of my regular emails got knocked  in there.   I came across an email from "Blizzard"  saying they gave me the "Enchanted Fey Drago"  Here is the email contents so you know what to look out for.

World of Warcraft Mount: New Enchanted Fey Drago

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Game-Key:

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When attacking from the air, it's best to advance from the angle of the sun so as to blind your foes... Or just ride a luminous dragon that glows like a thousand suns. Either way, you're good it can even travel at 350% speed if you have at least one other 310% speed mount.

Once activated, this in-game pet key applies to all present and future World of Warcraft characters on a single Battle.net account.

we will be complimentary seat to the 50,000 players. You can log Web site application, we will be lucky players randomly.Please click this link on:

https://us.battle.net/login/zh/?ref=https://us.battle.net/account/management/&app=bam&cr=true

If your account passes the check successfully, we will send a code for the Winged Guardian flying mount to you in the form of e-mail: http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/

Game Master Dunarthra
Customer Services
Blizzard Entertainment 2014

Be careful of these scams,  look for misspellings and really bad english, and its a good idea not to click on links you don't know, even if the link seems legit, hover over it, because in most browsers you can get a preview of the link and it will not match the link given.  I changed the link above so no one accidentally goes to the wrong place.  So just for your own account security always be careful. I put in bold the clear signs of a fake despite the funky web address.

Christmas Morning in Iron Forge!!

For those of you who are busy with your families on this holiday morning, here is what you missed in Iron Forge!!!

 

 

What a crowd waiting for presents!!
 
Merry Christmas from Zxandria and Sanshea!!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS 2013!!!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM YOUR FRIENDS AT PLATINUM SANCTUM!

Wonder if we will ever know!

The secret service might be in your guild!!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2520799/American-British-spies-posed-orcs-elves-World-Warcraft-infiltrate-terror-cells-according-new-NSA-revelations.html

I must share this with my guildies!

My very favorite Christmas show from the 80's.  Opus and Bill the Cat.  There is incredible meaning to this piece!!

Go here for "A Wish for Wings that Work":  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLccxrDgi5U

(I know it isn't WOW related but it is character building!!!!)

There is a patch on Tuesday!  5.4.2  read the patch notes here:  http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/11874104/542_PTR_Patch_Notes_-_December_5-12_5_2013

Cross Realm BOA mail, YEAH!!

An important video message from your guild master!

Very Important message from the guild master!

Platinum Sanctum's 2 Year Anniversary!

 (And Sisters)

Its been 2 years already?!  I will keep it short,  Thanks to all you great people for making this guild one of the best communities I've ever been apart of!  Here's to many more years!



-Wayne

Special Thanksgiving Proclamation!

Greatings Guildies and anyone who runs across this posting!

I would like to take this time to wish everyone a happy and healthy Thanksgiving day!  And to our Canadian Brethren, Happy belated Thanksgiving day! 

It has been a nice couple of months, we've seen growth in our little guild that has been exceeding my expectations!  I want our guild to be a home to anyone that wants to do things differently, and not be afraid to walk on eggshells for any reason.  We pride ourselves on communication and I feel that the welcoming hand that we have been exhibiting has made all the difference in the world. 

Our goal should always be to teach, help up, and provide a community to those that wish to seek out their niche in the game we enjoy.  Sure, we will not always agree on everything, but at the end of the day we will not leave our friends hanging.  As you know my door is always open and any suggestions that you have will be met with consideration and enthusiasm!  There are some plans in the works that I hope will be taking shape soon, and I can't wait to announce them, but until then, enjoy your holiday, and each others company, because that's what being in a guild is all about!!

-Wayne, Guild Master to the best group of people on WoW, Platinum Sanctum!