Grounding Totem

Totems;

We have finally completed the guild achievement [Glory of the Cataclysm Raider]!

The time has come for us to move to Tier 12 content.  This means that as of tonight Wednesday, September 14, 2011 will be our last official raid of T-11 raid zones.

Wait, what? 

This means it’s all Firelands and above for raid nights.  

But Unkle, didn’t they just announce Firelands getting nerfed?   Yes, but that’s not why it is time to make this shift. In the time we’ve been doing T-11 raids, more than one of us has leveled up and geared up 2 (or more!) fully raid-ready characters.  This means it’s well past time for new challenges for those folks. It is long past time we began hitting content that will challenge us, provide more upgrades, and be more interesting than repeats of content we’ve been doing for most of a year.

We spent a lot of our summer re-building a raid team.  We’re usually running about 8 people and 1-2 pick-up raid members per raid.  We’ve got a couple of regular people who like to fill those spots.  We’re recruiting to fill spots full time and to relieve folks who are always stuck in crucial roles (i.e., Tank or Healer). 

Oh, we’ll still occasionally revisit T11 content for off-nights, or to help someone find a piece of special gear.  But it’ll be off-night activity, or nights where we just don’t have the numbers for progression content.  Perhaps we’ll try some stuff on Heroic Mode.

But for now, count on seeing a lot of Firelands in the future. 

Unkle