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Ok, I was gonna write down some guild rules, you know, something like listen to the Raid Leader, bring your own consumables, be nice, etc; but we’re grown-ups enough and we played together so much already, that the guild rules can wait. Rules are never out of fashion and we’re still gonna use ‘em, but they’re the usual shit that you can find in every raiding guild, so there’s not really hurry.
But there’s so much to say about us that I don’t know where to start from. We can start from our past, maybe. We can’t nor we want to hide that we’re the ex Salvation members that reformed a new guild under the name of Play Out. I don’t know the feeling of each one of you, but I can speak for many of us, when i say that – if we reformed a new guild with the same old Salvation members – it’s because we had a good time together and we want to keep it. We all know what happened with Orzolek and other officers; whatever, it belongs to our past and we better forget it and carry on. We’re NOT here to complain, we’re here for the same reasons that kept Salvation together: we have fun playing together and we want to experience the endgame content.
On the other hand, we don’t want to forget our past. We’re still the same persons that collected dozen first horde kills and three first server kills on Darkspear. Mount Hyjal is cleared and we are only four bosses away from Illidan. It won’t count for the progression thread on the Darkspear forum, but who cares? Give us few days to arrange any issue and we’re back on business. It’s not to brag, we’re totally aware that we’re many months late on Illidan, but we also know how hard is to get anything right on Darkspear and we can be… well, proud of our achievements.
Then, we have to start again with raiding and with a schedule. It’s what this guild has born for. We like to play together, we like to have fun, but we also want to raid (and I’m not referring to Zul’Aman), to kill Illidan and – why not – to get epics. Call it our way to have fun together.
In order to achieve these results, many things have to work right: forget the bad of Salvation, but we want to keep the good of it. You will be still required to perform at your top: if you won’t, you will be reprimand. The new members will need to match our standards or they will fail the trial and will be asked to leave. If we’re still here, together, I assume we still want an hardcore approach to raiding, and we know how to achieve it. Correct me if I’m wrong. We still want to be the best.
Being the best doesn’t mean that we must hate the other guilds. The facts of the last few days are clearly slowing our progress. Deal with it. You can have any personal aversion to any player of our realm, but I don’t really want to hear that someone of us is feeding bad relations among the raiding guilds. You will see that we can also cooperate with the other guilds, and it will be much more fun and much better. Stay tuned.
What else. Oh, well, the reason we all raid for, the epics. I’ve been asked from many of you what kind of rule are we gonna use for the loot distribution. I don’t like the DKP system; there are many DKP system and our old one maybe wasn’t the best. We can look for a better one, but at moment, after talking with many of us, we want to try something else. Call it Loot Council, if you think that it’s funny to say, but we’re gonna use a sytem that, during our last Salvation raid, worked pretty well. Class Leaders (not sure they will be called like that, they might just be Officers) will decide TOGETHER who gets the drop, according with attendance and with the level of the upgrade (members still keeping priority over trialists). We’ll also try to spread the happiness among the most members, by being sure that everyone can get something within a short time. You won’t be forgotten for months; if you passed on a lot of upgrades in Salvation, the turn doesn’t reset only because we’re now in Play Out. On the other hand, if you already got what you needed, now it’s your turn to be patient.
Also, you won’t be charged for recipes (excepting those good for BoP items) nor off-gears (we can run Karazhan if we really need Void Crystals).
We’re not so arrogant to think that everyone will be happy. We can’t save the world so we can’t remove the discontent from a raid. Bosses drop a fixed number of items: someone is gonna get ‘em, some other one will get ‘em at the next kill. To quote Jagger, you can’t always get what you want. I can only guarantee that we’ll be absolutely FAIR. I ask you to trust me. If this system won’t work, we’ll try to find another better.
I’m talking about officers, class leaders, etc. In these days, I’m working with few persons to get anything working so they’re currently officers of Play Out. As soon as we fix the guild, we’ll organize a stable hierarchy because we need it. We need someone to take care of the tactic, someone to take care of the buffs, someone to tell us when we mistake. But please, don’t think that there is cake to share out. There’s not a fucking cake. Again, take me as a guarantee that every decision is made for the best.
Whatever, in Play Out, we don’t decide anything in a secret room. I don’t ask you to wait for the Officers’ Epiphany that will miraculously solve every issue: if you think that I’m wrong with anything I said, let me know; if you just want to make a suggestion, if you can contribute in any way, let me know.
I want this form of communication also during our raids. Officers will do their best to be sure that our tactics are right, functional and that they fit our playstyle and our raid composition. But we won’t come to the boss with a built-in knowledge. We’ll try, we’ll discuss, we’ll fix a better tactic. And if a member can see something that escape officers’ notice, we REALLY want to know that. It might be the key to kill the boss. That doesn’t mean that raids will be an open forum. Can’t really listen to twenty five voices after each wipe and take care that no one feel sorry if we don’t follow his own tactic. You can use your class channels to communicate with your direct officer or who’s in charge. But EVERYONE’s opinion will be listened. Suggestions on raid chat or on ventrilo won’t be censured anyway. Just don’t abuse it. Officers aren’t Napoleons, but maybe you aren’t either!
If any major issue doesn’t show up, we’ll keep the Salvation’s raid schedule. We’ll raid from Sunday to Thursday (Friday and Saturday reserved to unscheduled raids or just days off), from 19.30 to midnight. We’ll be using Group Loot as loot system and such minor issues will work as in Salvation. And remember: we still want to play at our top, be prepared.
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