Guild Hex

After many adventures in World of Warcraft, I have become an accomplished player. I have often wondered if I have the skills to play on one of the top ranked guilds. Maybe you have thought about the same thing. So in this article I explore the requirements to play for the guild Risen.

Who They are Looking For

The guild Risen only recruits from certain classes at any given time. It is best to check their website to see what players they are looking for. If you are not in a class they need you can still apply if you are an exceptional player.

Skills you Need

You must have high end raiding experience in 25 player battles. You will also need enchanted gear. Another requirement is the ability to listen/speak on vent, take criticism, and follow through with multipart instructions.

Application Process

To apply there is a short questionnaire including but not limited questions about your raiding experience, why you left your guild, why you want to join Risen, your class role, and additional information. They stress that your answers be thoughtful.

Risen also requires a list of references and WWS parse if available. It can take up to 4 weeks to review applications and Risen do not look kindly an applicants who try to contact them in game about their applications especially during raids.

Time Requirement:

You must meet strict time requirements which include raids 6 nights and sometimes even 7 days depending on the content. The raids are from 7pm-12am CST. If you can not commit to these times it is best not to apply

If you meet all these requirements you may just be a right fit for one of the top ranked guilds in America.

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After playing World of Warcraft for two years, I have become a skilled character. I have often wondered if I have what it takes to play on one of the top ranked guilds. Maybe you have wondered the same thing. So in this article I researched the requirements to play for the guild Premonition.

Who They are Looking For

The guild Premonition only recruits from certain classes at any given time. It is best to check their website to see what characters they are looking for. If you are not in a class they need you can still apply; however, you will be placed in a lower priority.

Skills You Need

Since Premonition is a highly ranked guild they expect only the best with the appropriate gear to help them win the current tier of content. An applicant should also have experience from Crusaders’ Coliseum and several raiding achievements.

Computer Equipment Required

It is also important to have the right computer equipment to play in their raids including a vent and a working microphone.

Application Process

To Apply there is a short questionnaire and they stressed that your answers be specific. Premonition also requires any WoL/WWs reports, and a list of references.

Time Requirement

You must meet strict time requirements which include raids Sunday through Friday from 7:00 CST-12:00. Premontion will sometimes even raid seven times a week. It is important to play during these times especially during your trail period.

If you meet all these requirements you may just be a right fit for one of the top ranked guilds in America.

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Any well organized end-game raiding guild focused on PvE progression needs to have a method for distributing the loot. The reason such system is needed is because often the players wish to put a lot of effort, money and time into raiding only if they know that they have an equally fair chance of obtaining the items they want from the loot. It is only fair that the people who work hardest on learning the new encounters and eventually beating them deserve such items more than players who have showed for 1 kill only after the boss is already on loot status. However, sometimes less geared players do benefit more from items than the veterans who have pretty much everything. So how should the guild be able to make it fair for everyone?

The short answer is that there is no simple solution. The long answer is that it takes a lot of team work to make things as fair as possible, but there is no ideal solution for everything and the lead of the guild often has to make decisions on the go when it comes to loot. Here are the loot distribution systems which are used more often with their down and up sides:

DKP (Dragon Kill Points) – this loot distribution system has been known in MMO games ever since Everquest and is quite popular. How does it work? The players earn DKP for being in the raid and these points are stored in a database or addon, depending on the choice the guild made. When an item drops, all players who are interested in getting it express interest in some way (placing a bid in a bid channel, whispering to the raid leader and so on) and the player with highest DKP or willing to pay most DKP for the item wins.

Downside: the more active players will get large DKP pool and will be able to take an item any time they wish even if it is better suited on another player’s character.

Upside: makes it all clear and obvious and everyone knows how much DKP they have / can spend as well as the players from the guild who have better chances in getting the items before your turn comes.

Loot Council – some guilds use this loot distribution system which consists of group of players (raid leader and officers) who decide which member of the raid group will get the item depending on who they think will need it most. This loot distribution system is easy to maintain as it requires no record keeping, but it is difficult to ensure that it is fair to everyone. Normally, the goal of this system is not to be fair – it is to ensure the success of the raid by awarding the items to key players first such as Main Tanks gets all the tanking bits first.

Downside: it is very difficult to convince everyone in the guild that the loot is distributed in a fair way, especially if there are people who also wanted the item and think they need it most. In order for Loot Council system to succeed, the guild needs to be similar minded and the Loot Council members must have everyone’s trust and support on their decisions.

Upside: you can gear up your key players easier and ensure some quicker progress – gearing up your main tank that is there for every raid is much more beneficial to the raid group than gearing up someone who shows up now and then.

No matter which loot distribution system your guild chooses, there is no magic formula for success. There will always be players who are not completely happy with the loot distribution; however minimizing the number of unhappy people should be doable. You can’t make everyone happy, but team work requires some hard decision to be made for everyone’s good.

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