I posted this message on the Steamwheedle realm forums. Check it out (and maybe bump it once or twice a day)!
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=7475727319&postId=76670694373
The Ugly Future is looking for a few good players!
We have a smallish, happy guild. We get along, everyone knows each other by their first name, and we have very little drama. Most of the guild is a network of friends, friends-of-friends, and co-workers and it is a key part of our mature and easygoing atmosphere.
The reason we are looking to recruit is that we come up short every so often of 10 raiding-ready characters, which leaves 8-9 people in the lurch and bummed. We can clear Karazhan. We can make progress in Zul'Aman. But we can't do that if we don't have 10 folks. It is summertime and somewhere around 4-6 months before the expansion so we do know that a lot of folks are casual or doing other things besides WoW. However we still have a pretty active and interested core.
We raid on Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 9:30 PM Server Time (Eastern). Throughout the rest of the week, typically on a Friday or Monday night, we could have an optional raid if people are online and interested but Tuesday and Wednesday are our only scheduled raids, and all that should be guaranteed/expected.
If someone wants to raid but those days and times do not work, this honestly is probably not the guild for them.
We did Wed & Fri for a while and it was spotty at best. We would change if a large majority was in favor of it, but we think that Tuesday and Wednesday are the right days for the majority of our current raiding crew.
We require only the following:
Ventrilo -- we have a server and you need to listen, speaking is optional.
Omen
BigWigs
Decursive
Ora2
Some form of raid frame addon is suggested but not required-- Many members use Grid.
We follow loot priority based on the lists at
http://www.wow-loot.com because it is objective and (relatively) static. No DKP, we just /roll. (Caveat: we may use DKP in the expansion.)
We have a nice forum at
http://www.koboldcompany.com -- World of Warcraft forum. The gaming group does more than WoW, so the forums aren't just about WoW.
We have a few alts that are raid quality so we have some flexibility in roles, but since you probably expect me to write something here about what we are recruiting, I will take a stab at that:
- Need to be age 18+ and mature. You will see some swearing in guild chat and hear it sometimes on Vent, but you will not see anyone being cussed out or yelled at. We don't do the yelling thing but of course the Raid Leader sometimes needs a firm hand to keep things moving.
- Our goal is clearing Zul'Aman. If we do that way before the expansion we may find cooperative partner guilds to do 25 man. We're not opposed to growing membership up to 25 man content but we aren't exactly trying to do that, either.
- We'll also keep working Karazhan. New recruits, alts, and easy badges.
- You should be level 70.
- Ideally you are wearing at least level 70 instance blues. Really,
http://be.imba.hu should be showing you to be at least halfway through Karazhan.
- We could use a tankadin, but any kind of paladin wouldn't be bad. If you are looking on armory, only one of our level 70 paladins is an active main (a healadin).
- There's room for 1 active tank, but you may off-tank at times. DPS gear is very helpful.
- We could use a shadow priest.
- We could use another rogue.
- We are not nearly as mage-heavy as the armory might imply. Only one of our 70 mages is a main.
- There's room for up to 2 active healers. Our newest 70 priest is currently holy but wouldn't mind being shadow.
What else do we do besides raid?
We have some players who like to PVP. To be honest, historically this is kind of a on-your-own kind of thing but lately we've had some interest in 3-5+ people queuing up at once and it is fun, even though most of us aren't all that geared for pvp. We have some casual arena teams.
We still do 5 man, of course. We don't profess to be a hardcore raiding guild. We have some newer 70s whether mains or alts and they need normal dungeons. We do heroics pretty often for badges and sometimes a player actually needs loot. (No way!)
Oh, and we are pretty excited about all raid areas having a 10 man option in WotLK.
Please contact me in-game or register on our forums (www.koboldcompany.com) if you are interested.
Thanks for the read!
Kobold Portal
