There's been some changes in Arcanapocolypse over the past month.

First of all, a big shout out to all our new members. Everyone seems pretty cool, and we're looking forward to hanging out, runnin' raids and grinding quests with all of you.

Congratulations to everyone who managed the entire Halloween achievement this year! Vorust got his meta achievement with the completion of Halloween, and won himself a shiny 310% speed proto-drake!

The last news item was talking about NAXX 10, and suffice to say we had a good time running that instance. We'll be re-visiting NAXX from time to time, as other guild members and alts look to equip level 200 epic gear. Those of us who have been 80 for awhile have moved to Ulduar 10, and are enjoying expected success. Many of us are scoring well over 2300 (gear score http://www.wow-heroes.com/) and are looking at 25 man Trial of the Crusader with solid expectations.

We're also playing with the guild tabard a little bit. Many level 80's don't wear non reputation tabards for obvious reasons. If you like to wear the
guild tabard, please tell us what you think!

We are using the website calander extensivly now. Many of us feel that it is a superior method of scheduling raids, and we encourage people to sign up for events on the website, as well as on the in game calander. If you didn't know already, the website confirmations will be used if there is any conflict between the two calanders. So if you really want to go on a particular raid, you would be wise to use the website calander! I believe anyone can schedule an event on both calanders. Even if it's for low level stuff, please feel free to schedule your own event! Many of us, even those of us who have been playing a long time, have skipped lower level instances and raids, and we would like the opportunity for the achievment points!

We have subscribed to a professional VENT server now, at a minimal cost. It's only a 25 slot server at the moment, but if we feel that there is cause, and it's heavily used, I'm sure we can upgrade the subscription. Blizzard does not make forty man raids anymore, so we don't know that there is cause for more than twenty five slots. This is something we will be monitoring closely over the next year. The VENT server is not charged per use, so don't feel that you shouldn't use it. Please use it as much as possible! Please do not give out our VENT server to other players. We absolutly do not mind hosting guests / PUG's on our server, but it is intended primarily for our guilds use.

As always, send Kaline your votes for Guild member of the month!

Ok guys, its time we start our Guild Naxx runs. So here's what we need to do to prepare for the run.

1. We need your commitment to actually run the instance.

2. We need you all to listen to instructions on how to proceed with bosses/trash mobs. Even the mobs are quite a challenge in Naxx.

3. We will be running vent to communicate. If you have not installed it please do so. Here is the direct link to install: http://www.ventrilo.com/download.php

4. It will take us quite a long time, so if you do not have several hours to learn/progress, please do not sign up to come.

5. Here is what we will need: 3 healers, 2 tanks(MT and OT), 5 DPS

6. Please send NBK (Vorust) your confirmation, either via in game mail or sign up on the forums page.

7. You are all encouraged to read up on Naxx ahead of time. You can get hints on your role for bosses and for other kills. It's good to go in knowing everything. http://www.wowwiki.com/Naxxramas.

We will take things nice and slow. Expect wipes(many times) as we are all learning how we all work together and the difficulty of the instance.

LOOT RULES

If you require an item or its an upgrade you will get priority. If no one needs the item for your Main spec, off spec will have a chance on rolling. If no one need the item at all, the item will be DE'd and total DE'd materials will be evenly distributed among the raid group. In the event that there is not an even loot distribution regarding DE'd materials, we will all roll, top rolls wins the DE'd mats. For example, 6 Void Crystals; top 6 rolls will win a crystal each.

You can also check out the gear ahead of time at http://www.wowhead.com/?zone=3456 so you are prepared for the gear you are wanting.

I hope you guys are just as excited as I as, because I have been waiting to do this for a long time with you all.

We will do our 1st run on Saturday May 23rd, 2009 at 1:00PM Server Time. Please allot approximately 4 hours.

We will attempt 1 or 2 quarters depending on how we progress 3 or full clear. By this date, we should have 16 or so level 80 guildmates (some of which are our alts) so we should have enough to run it.

I will be asking Joynal to join us on our run as she will be main heals, as well as an experienced and knoledgable friend who can help us run smoothly.

That's about it!! See you in Naxx!!

NBK

Ok so we now have a vent server up and running. It's running on Kaline's computer at home and should be available all the time. If at any time you need help setting it up then contact me in game. If it goes down let me know. Thanks.

1. you will need to download the ventrillo program from this page. http://www.ventrilo.com

2. The basic setup is on the setup page. http://www.ventrilo.com

3. The important information is

Server Name: Arcanapocolypse
IP: 96.51.35.118
password: legendary (case sensitive)
Default Channel: Guild (optional)

4. You will be logged into the lobby. Go to setup and set your push to talk buttons and the other information that you want to in that screen. When you want to join a channel just double click on the + beside the party name.

I have set up Guild, Party one and Party two so far. If we need more party chats we can add them just let me know. Also if you have more channel names that you want added you will have to let me know so I can add them.

Cheers all!
Kaline