Mok'ra, Tribe!

We are finishing up the last week of Cataclysm! And we are finishing with a bang!

Vilemoon organized the the guild to assault Mount Hyjal, the Ruins of Ahn'quiraj, and the Temple of Ahn'Quiraj last Tuesday with great success! Thank you Vilemoon!

On Thursday the 10-man Dragon Soul raid attacked and defeated Heroic Spine of Deathwing wing, exploding the plates off his back and knocking him from the sky. We returned on Friday to finish him off in an epic battle that lasted late into the night. We sent Deathwing to the very depths of the Maelstrom. He will trouble Azeroth no more!

On Tuesday, September 25, everything changes with the the release of Mists of Pandaria! Our world will light up with new characters, new quests, and new things to do together. I encourage all of you to grab your guildmates and level up together, jump into 5-mans, do scenarios, and engage in very cute battles to the death - of your pets.

New Pandaren can join the guild as soon as they declare their allegiance to the Horde. Whisper an officer for a guild invite!

There are great days ahead, Ironsong!

Zlinka

Mists Schedule FAQ
Mists normal-mode raiding FAQ
Mists normal-mode raiding sign up sheet

Mok'ra, Tribe!

Next Tuesday, September 18, at 7:30 server time, Vilemoon is leading the guild on an assault of Mount Hyjal. Please join us!

This week we vanquished Heroic Blackhorn in 10-man Dragon Soul, and put in several solid attempts against Heroic Spine of Deathwing. Next week -- our last week of the 10-man Dragon Soul raid -- we will attack Heroic Spine again, and if we can, Heroic Deathwing.

Less than two weeks until Mists of Pandaria comes out. I can feel the excitement building!

There are great days ahead!

-Zlinka

Mists Schedule FAQ
Mists normal-mode raiding FAQ
Mists normal-mode raiding sign up sheet

Mok'ra, Tribe!

We are coming down the home stretch, now -- only two weeks until Mists comes out!

We've seen a lot of activity as old players return and new players join us!

Oryx and I have been on most evenings doing "bear runs" in Zul'Aman to get a bunch of people their bear mounts. It's a nice fast run: a speed clear of Zul'Aman gives an 85% chance of dropping one bear. We've gotten six bears so far. We tend to be online between about 7:30 to 9:30 or 10 almost every evening -- please join us!

The 10-man Dragon Soul run met with great success last week as we defeated Heroic Hagara and Heroic Ultraxion for the first time! This week we extended the raid timer and plan to attack the Heroic Gunship fight right away.

We've gotten a lot of interest the normal-mode Dragon Soul raid in the past few weeks. This is a switch from the previous 10 months when filling the raid took a fair amount of behind-the-scenes work .

To accomodate the increased interest I would like to run a 25 man raid in Mists if we can. It's a big jump from 10 to 25, however, so I have set up a sign up sheet to see if we have the numbers to pull it off.

If you are interested in raiding normal-mode content with us in Mists, please read the Mists Raiding FAQ to understand what we expect of our raid members and how we run the raid. This raid is designed to satisfy the desire for challenge, progression and team play for those members who want to attempt the harder content and can commit to the regular attendance necessary for the group to succeed.

We run it as a rostered raid, with a set number of regulars who get invited first every week, and a small number of alternates who are invited to fill vacancies if a regular cannot come. We expect about 80% attendance of our regulars; as well as a high level of skill at the game, ability to follow orders, try new things, and learn from mistakes; and patience with wiping as we attempt new content.

The raid will run from 7:30 to 9:30 server time (occasionally as late as 10:30) on Thursday evenings, with an occasional second night on Tuesdays from 7:30 to 9:30 as needed. We will probably start running normal mode content after several weeks of LFR raiding, with the LFR raids functioning as an accelerating onramp heading toward the normal-mode content. We will use the LFR raid to bring our team together and start gearing up. A ballpark start date for the normal mode raid would be some time in November, but we will play this by ear.

If this sounds like the kind of thing you'd like to do, then please add your name to our Mists raiding sign up sheet!

If you are not interested in this level of commitment, that is totally fine -- there is no obligation to join this raid! There will be many opportunities to play with guildmates that do not require a regular commitment like this. We will be running an LFR raid on Tuesdays for as long as there is significant interest, and that's a raid you can jump into with no commitment and get to see all the content. There will also be fun challenge modes -- I'm really looking forward to those -- and scenarios, not to mention leveling up our new pandas and seeing all the new content together!

There are great days ahead!

-Zlinka

Mok'ra, Tribe!

Happy patch 5.0.4, everyone!

Welcome to the guild, Lyvia, Toiran, Sohzin, and Oogarim! May you bring much honor to Ironsong.

We've had a busy week with all the new changes to the game, our classes, and game mechanics, and lots of people -- new and old -- logging on to enjoy them. There are lots of discussions going on about the new talent trees (fewer talents, but so many interesting and viable choices!), new glyphs, new rotations, and new abilities.

Our 10 man met with great success this week as we successfully killed Heroic Zon'ozz and Heroic Yor'saj, then we finally got the ship's "Deck Defender" achievement down, something we have been trying to do for months. Next week we will attempt Heroic Haraga.

We are looking forward to the new Pandaren, new zones, new quests, scenarios, challenge modes, new dungeons, and new LFR raid dungeons, all coming in just a few weeks!

There are exciting days ahead!

Zlinka

Mists Schedule FAQ
Mists normal-mode raiding FAQ

Mok'ra, Tribe!

The new patch is going live this week! Here's what we've got coming up:

* New talent system -- total revamp. Be prepared to redo all your talents! New Mists Talent Calculator
* Changes to each class
* XP nerf to get to 85 -- from -33% to -50% XP to get from 82 to 85!
* AoE looting
* Scarlet Monastery and Scholomance lower level revamp while we wait for the new 90 heroic version.
* Valor reward changes and currency conversion. On August 28 Valor points will be converted to Justice points (even above 4000). We can no longer earn Valor points, or Justice above 4000. Former Valor items can be purchased for Justice. In two weeks, all Justice points over 4000 will be converted to gold (1 point = 35 silver).
* Account-wide achievements, mounts, and pets. Also, new searchable mount and pet interfaces!
* Simplified buff and debuff system
* Stat changes: expertise, spell resist, resilience, and item stats
* New druid forms
* Cross-realm zones
* New maps, including a map of Caverns of Time & other caves that don't show up well, ha!

Here's a good summary of the changes.

There are exciting times ahead!

-Zlinka