Spam is friggin delicious

The forums were used extensively during the prize DKP contest, and I generally post anything new or interesting on the forums. I tell newponies to check out the forums during all my welcome speeches.

I think folks know the forums are here, they just only use them when they have a particular need to do so. This happens to most guild forums and I don't know if there's anything more we can do to help it.

You can use the guild finder, but we still can't invite you unless we're both on at the same time.

All of our raids are logged at Worldoflogs

http://www.worldoflogs.com/guilds/158383/

Take some time to poke around in there. The log parses are extremely helpful for figuring out where our raids are going wrong, and even diagnosing issues with your own personal performance.

We recruit ponies of every level!

Send a tell to Bastiat, Friedman, Hayek, Parasprite, or Rainbowcräsh for an invite.

I can't find any character named Timefire and the mail system says you don't exist.

Are you sure you rolled on Arathor-US-Alliance?

You don't have to find anyone, just send a tell and we'll come to you

We are kinder and more helpful than even the loftiest fable can tell.

Hit up me (Bastiat) or Parasprite or Vinylscratch for an invite!

Final DKP counts for this contest. In order to roll you will need to briefly drop group and join so I can see your /roll

Alagara   40
Alicag   12
Alipes   60
Altru   70
Ambria   20
Ananstra   5
Andricton   0
Applebloom   1
Appletini   8
Ariathiel   45
Asheras   200
Bastiat   80
Beroe   40
Bigmacintosh   0
Blacklune   5
Braeburn   0
Carmody   0
Celestia   0
Cleonar   1
Constelle   4
Daician   30
Derpyh   91
Derpywhooves   45
Djponthree   0
Drwhoof   0
Duskxdk   10
Derith   20
Eaadora   99
Edtehgnome   0
Eloria   0
Elunae   0
Ember   65
Falseblade   15
Featherwin   165
Flutterguyy   65
Fluttersha   0
Fluttershy   0
Fluttertree   87
Fodenfex   15
Friedman   60
Gamiel   30
Garaden   0
Grizzledtank   0
Hairity   0
Halomann   0
Holysorta   0
Icewarden   0
Ihatemuffins   50
Illumineko   20
Illuminia   70
Inkypie   45
Joihra   14
Kenoravermer   3
Kevara   5
Laethu   5
Littlepip   0
Lookos   0
Lunar   1
Lupony   0
Lyrafan   0
Lyrasparkle   0
Lyra   0
Mintel   1
Mintelle   30
Mintellia   3
Mintspike   0
Mirilym   0
Miscah   105
Mlpcue   150
Molestia   0
Mylissian   60
Nitemaremoon   0
Oighear   0
Opalescence   0
Osreld   10
Parasprite   50
Philomena   0
Photofinish   0
Pinkamena   0
Pinkelicious   0
Pwrfultrixie   3
Pînkamena   0
Rainbowcrash   20
Rangella   0
Raritypie   0
Raritypony   7
Ratholos   30
Rarity   0
Satu   0
Smoothgreen   10
Spectralskye   0
Sphaerae   10
Steamy   0
Stormspark   0
Sugarcube   0
Sweetiebear   10
Sweetieheals   0
Tanq   0
Testosticor   3
Trixibelle   0
Paraspriteestia   0
Twisparkle   5
Twlitesprkle   113
Twocond   0
Twilight   0
Uhunh   75
Usirus   30
Varrek   0
Velvetremedy   0
Vinylscratch   50
Vlastmir   0
Whiterose   0
Wingboner   0
Yahria   25
Zekora   0
Zoomer   2
Zuzela   0
Applejack   13

I'm not taking issue with anything, your idea is not bad it's just not different from what we're already doing. If I instituted an ilevel requirement for thursday it would turn out exactly the same as our thursdays already turn out, except instead of poorly geared people here and there we would be short people here and there.

What you're describing is not different from the plan for our current raid night.

Thursday has no ilevel requirement because if it had one, we would never have enough people eligible to attend. If we had people of the appropriate roles and with sufficient ilevel to meet your criteria, they would already be given priority over less prepared characters on thursday. Unless they whine or show up late, anyway.

Thursday is already as "serious" as our guild is able to be.

[edit: About 18 of our 85's who show activity this week already meet your ilevel requirement. I can't find many who don't. I can only assume that our raids are already comprised of people over 346 and if they are not, people in queue should be swapped in who are. If nobody in queue is better geared for that role, then simply requiring that they be so will not make it so.

I understand that it's frustrating if you naturally progress much, much faster than the bell curve and are left waiting around bored while other people gear up. Keep in mind that we are a Brony guild first and a raiding guild second. Other guilds simply evict people who do not gear fast enough, and they are right to do so. As a fan guild we do not have this luxury, and so we must accommodate all play styles. If you're a pony, you're in.

The Pony Way to achieving what you want would be to spend some time sheparding our current 85's into shape by making suggestions on gear to obtain, offering ideas for optimizing their token farming time, and motivating them to gear up instead of waste time. Or run a prize contest like I am already doing!

Creating a new raid night with an ilevel requirement won't create more ponies that meet that requirement. Mentoring people who do not meet that requirement will.

Weekly Prize DKP standings!

Ahaa          1
Alagara      20
Alicag      12
Alipes      30
Altru         60
Ananstra      2
Andricton      0
Applebloom   1
Appletini      8
Ariathiel      25
Asheras      160
Bastiat      30
Beroe      20
Bigmacintosh   0
Blacklune      4
Braeburn   0
Carmody      0
Celestia   0
Cleonar      0
Constelle   0
Daician      5
Derpyh      66
Derpywhooves   20
Djponthree   0
Drwhoof      0
Eaadora      99
Edtehgnome   0
Eloria      0
Elunae      0
Ember      65
Falseblade   15
Featherwin   105
Flutterguyy   55
Fluttersha   0
Fluttershy   0
Fluttertree   57
Fodenfex   15
Friedman   60
Gamiel      10
Grizzledtank   0
Hairity      0
Halomann   0
Ihatemuffins   50
Illumineko   10
Illuminia   40
Inkypie      40
Joihra      14
Kenoravermer   0
Kevara      5
Laethu      5
Littlepip   0
Lookos      0
Lunar   0
Lupony   0
Lyrabonbon   40
Lyra   0
Mintel   1
Mintelle   30
Mintellia   3
Mintspike   0
Mirilym   0
Miscah   40
Mlpcue   130
Molestia   0
Mylissian   20
Nitemaremoon   0
Oighear   0
Opalescence   0
Parasprite   30
Philomena   0
Photofinish   0
Pinkamena   0
Pwrfultrixie   3
Pînkamena   0
Rainbowcrash   0
Rangella   0
Raritypie   0
Raritypony   7
Ratholos   20
Rarity   0
Satu   0
Smoothgreen   10
Spectralskye   0
Sphaerae   10
Steamy   0
Sugarcube   0
Sweetiebear   0
Sweetieheals   0
Tanq   0
Testosticor   3
Trixibelle   0
Paraspriteestia   0
Twisparkle   5
Twlitesprkle   83
Twilight   0
Uhunh   50
Usirus   0
Varrek   0
Velvetremedy   0
Vinylscratch   20
Vlastmir   0
Whiterose   0
Wingboner   0
Yahria   5
Zoomer   2
Zuzela   0
Applejack   9

I am personally very strongly anti-reddit because I think their format is the visual equivalent of pouring undiluted lye into your eye sockets.

Don't let me stop you from volunteering your time to set something like that up, though.

That's a really fine pony banner, I especially like the gradient

Just add in some warcraft and you're set

To celebrate the upcoming two part season opener, it's time to give out more prizes!

The rules for earning prize DKP are the same as last season. For rules and the list of DKP totals you can read the old thread HERE. --FILL OUT THE RAID SPREADSHEET INSTEAD OF THE CENSUS POST FOR YOUR 5 BONUS DKP-- Drawing will be in exactly two weeks, September 6th 2011.

Unless you are Vinylscratch - and odds are you aren't - your prize DKP totals will remain the same for the beginning of this contest.

Before I announce the prize, I'd like to clear up some common misconceptions about the prize DKP system.

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Q&A

Q: Will my prize DKP earn me raid drops!? PLEEEEEEEEEASE
A: No. The prize DKP system is an entirely separate, for-fun contest that will only win you prizes. You will only accrue raid DKP by attending raid nights on time.

Q: Why is my prize DKP still the same as last time?
A: Prize DKP is only earned during the two-week prize contests. I may make special exceptions for enormous contributions made near the start of a contest, in which case your finish date may be moved back by a day or two. Five point bonuses listed as "one time bonuses" are also valid if completed in between contests.

Q: Is it ok if I live on the west coast / Bratislava / the moon?
A: I would really prefer you didn't.

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THIS WEEK'S PRIZE IS
My Filthy Coffee Table!

No, Wait, I mean a brand new 16Gb flash drive pre-loaded with pony power!
Contains:
1 x Awesome Blue Accented 16Gb Flash Drive, Sealed Safely Away From the Filth On My Coffee Table

Which Contains:
1 x Full Season of Friendship is Magic, specially transcoded by me personally to play in flawless HD on a handheld device or streamed to your video game console!
1 x Handpicked selection of Pony fan art that I shamelessly stole off 4chan!
1 x Selection of pony sounds, from full songs to specially cropped ringtone friendly sound bites!

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GET CRACKIN PONIES