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This weekend's raid brought us a couple more new raiders to the roster and one new heroic raider to our progression team. We've got normal EmN on clean farm, and can full clear it in about two hours with almost all one-shots. Our casual team was able to also accomplish a new feat: Heroic Nythendra

Our progression team was able to clear Ursoc very easily (got that one down to a science) and then took on Dragons of Nightmare again for another kill. We spent the remainder of our evening working on Il'gyanoth. While we didn't down that damnable tree, we did make significant and serious progress against it and were reliably getting into phase 2. With a little more gear, a little more DPS on the Ichors, some strategy tweaks, and some positioning adjustments, we'll get it.

Next week the raid is off due to Icrontic Oktoberfest. The officers will be meeting during IC Oktoberfest to discuss the future of the casual raid group: we've got EmN normal on farm, heroic Nythendra on farm, and Trials of Valor is now out so we may be making some changes to what we do on Sunday nights. We'll let everybody know after the meeting.

For those who won't be at Oktoberfest, use this coming weekend to work on getting your Karazhan attunement! It takes about two hours, includes four mythic dungeons and some questing in Deadwind Pass, and then you're done. Get your group together and open up the Kara dungeon! The gear will help

Normal raid schedule resumes November 6th at 8pm EST.

Hey gang! We had the chance to get all the officers together in Detroit this weekend. We had some fried chicken and talked about the state of the guild and the raid.

We've made great progress so far; currently 7/7N and 3/7H Emerald Nightmare. We're all on the same page: This is perfectly good progress for this guild.

Now that Trials of Valor is out, we've decided to change things up a bit. As of November 6th, the raid schedule will be as follows:

SUNDAY: Casual Raid Night (All are welcome!)
We'll be starting with Heroic Nythendra, then moving on to Normal Trials of Valor. We've got normal EmN on farm now so it's time to move on to some fresh, new content.

MONDAY: Progression team
We've hit a bit of a wall on some bosses and so we will have to set performance metrics. We'll soon be announcing some DPS requirements and taking other things into account (avoidable damage taken, in particular), and may have to bench a couple of people for certain fights. We will be rotating people in and out, so if you're asked to sit on a particular fight, it's not personal and you are not losing your spot on the team; we will need to be a bit more selective about team comp on certain fights and we're seeing the results of our current approach by not being able to down bosses that we technically out-gear.

Overall we're in a very happy place with the guild; as far as social raiding guilds go, we're in an awesome place. Everyone gets along, we're having fun, and we're making progress in the game with each other.

Thanks so much, Icrontic!