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Hey just wanted to let you guys know my graphics card is fried on my comp. I dont know when i'll be back on hoping by friday the latest. Until then kick some ass in raiding and i'll be thinking about y'all.
-Phannom

The officers have had multiple meetings over the past several months, and we've agreed on some changes that we will be implementing once Cata goes live.

When Cata goes live, the EPGP system will be fully reset for everyone. In addition, everyone is free to change which toon and/or spec is their main. All we ask is that you please let us know what you're planning on doing with your toon(s). To be eligible to raid the new content in Cata, you have to be level 85, have a decent set of level 85 gear from heroics/vendors/crafted, and have read the basic strats for the fights.

The biggest frustration we have had as officers is maintaining turnout to be able to run 25mans. In fact, in the past we have kept our performance/recruitment standards lower than we'd like for no reason other than we desperately needed people to fill raid slots. In Cata: loot, achievements and level of difficulty will all be the same for both 10mans and 25mans, so we will not be running 25mans in Cata. We will be downsizing the guild slightly, and our goal is to have two flexible 10man teams.

http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/1971-Cataclysm-Currency-and-Honor-Ca...

For those who haven't heard yet, some of our existing currencies will converted to new currencies when Cata launches. Justice Points will become the equivalent of Emblems.

Your Justice Points total will be equal to (Emblems of Triumph + Emblems of Frost) * 2.75. The CAP for Justice Points is 4000. Ideally, we should all aim to have exactly 4000 Justice Points at launch, so that we can buy a nice item or two immediately.

Honor will work roughly the same way, also with a cap of 4000, just based on a different set of currencies and conversion rates.

The link above gives a nice breakdown of all the currencies affected, and a useful interface to plug in what you have now to calculate what you'll get in Cata.

Festergut:
http://www.tankspot.com/forums/f128/58754-festergut-encounter.html

DPS check, positioning check, and have to gather on certain random people periodically. The second video was the best I thought, but doesn't include tank swapping which may or may not make it to live servers.

Rotface:
http://www.tankspot.com/forums/f128/58649-rotface-encounter.html

Positioning check, and have to run away periodically. Sounds similar to Grobbulus.

Professor Putricide:
http://www.tankspot.com/forums/f128/60966-guide-professor-putricide.html

Info on him is still sketchy. We'll have to wait and see what makes it to live servers. Basically an add killing fight with kiting/positioning, along with 1+ people of our choice performing special tasks as Abomonations.

There's a good chance that patch 3.3 an Icecrown Citadel will come out tomorrow.

I would strongly suggest updating all your addons TODAY, as curse, wowace, wowinterface, etc will be slow and/or down on patch day. Also, fill a bag with raiding supplies.

We don't know exactly how the raid content will be released, but supposedly it will have to be unlocked, which means we will start raiding it as it becomes available. Raid schedule will be adjusted on the fly more than usual to account for this, and to give us as many shots at killing things as possible.

If you have been absent for the past few weeks/months, do not expect an automatic raid invite. The people who have been consistently raiding, maximizing their gear/skills, will have priority invites. Also, class balance when building raids will be more careful than usual. This is new, difficult content, and we'll need every advantage we can get to kill bosses.

Beginning Tuesday Sept 22nd, Tuesday's raids will award half EP, normal full GP. So that's 100EP for start of raid, 100EP per boss, 100EP for trying a new boss, 200EP for end of raid.

Tcrus10 and Uld25 will award 1.5 times EP, full normal GP. So that's 300EP for start of raid, 300EP per boss, 300EP for trying a new boss, 600EP for end of raid.

All other raids remain not on EPGP.

This is an attempt to encourage people to show up for events other than only Tuesday's raids. We may adjust this again, depending on how things work out.

I should point out, if you show up for only Tuesday's raids, your PR is going to quickly fall behind people who show up for other raids as well.

In addition, two weeks ago, we increased the weekly Decay of EPGP from 10% to 20%. This has the effect of helping gear turnover, and limiting PR hording. Points decay faster, so it's in your best interest to get medium upgrades that you may need, instead of holding out for the uber rare items that are in high demand.

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Welcome to our new members from Gquit. We're happy to have you with us, and we hope you'll enjoy it here in OoD.

We'll sort out raid roles and ranks over the next couple of weeks. Right now, 'gquit' is in your public note. We'd like to replace that with your main spec. Any officer can update it. We assume that some people will be changing around their main specs in the short term as we get things figured out (both us and former Gquit people), so don't stress about it initially.

I suggest you read the Rules section on this website at some point. I figured I'd put together a short summary here to help you get started.

No Drama.
Need (main gear set upgrades) before Greed (offsets).
Mains before Alts.
Come to raids on time and prepared.
Omen (or compatible threat meter) and Deadly Boss Mods are required for raids.
Raids begin at 11:55pm Sunday through Thursday. Invites start at 11:40pm.

We use EPGP, which is a type of DKP. The short version is: Raiding more increases your Priority for receiving loot, Taking loot lowers your Priority for receiving loot. You can read about and download it from: http://code.google.com/p/epgp/ You do not need it installed for the system to work, but it is helpful to have it installed to understand how it works and to see the costs of items.