The Boss Has Spoken
Direct from the punster of all punsters, the master of our raiding schedule, the man we call… well, we can’t pronounce his name so we just call him Fio, here is a message from the GM. Pay attention, he’s only going to say this once:
Quiet Down! The man needs some silence! So loud we can’t hear ourselves pat ourselves on the back. Sheesh. Anyway, here’s Fio.
Aetherial Circle (Drenden Alliance) is looking for ten more people to flesh out our 25-man raiding team. We will be taking applications for through the end of 2007 and contacting people in January for interviews.
AC has started Serpentshrine Cavern – Lurker down, starting Hydross – and is no longer dedicated to raiding Karazhan. Applicants must be in Tier 4 and Gruul-level gear and able to perform at that level. AC will not gear-up anyone to start raiding SSC; they must be ready on the day they join.
AC’s 25-man raiding schedule is Monday and Wednesday at 8pm EST, but availability on Sundays is also a large bonus; we could potentially add that as a raiding day if we have enough people able to attend. We don’t expect people to make every single run, but missing a raid should be the exception rather than the rule.
Specifically, we are looking at the following classes/specs:
1-2 Healing Priests (Full Holy or Disc/Holy hybrid)
1-2 Shadow Priests
1-2 Resto Druids
1-2 Mages
1-2 Warlocks
1 Retribution Paladin
1 Enhancement ShamanIf you are interested, please send us an email at: recruitment@aetherialcircle.com
All applications must include:
A. Your Armory link; please don’t make us hunt for you on the Armory.
B. Your gear list – you might be a holy priest logged out in farming-gear when we see your Armory profile.
C. A paragraph about yourself, your raiding experience, and why you’re looking to join AC.
Applications that do not have all three elements will not be considered.
We will review applications and contact people in January for interviews. We will offer a trial membership to those we think best fit our guild and our needs.
Please be aware that AC is an 18+ guild. We are not a “hardcore” raiding guild, we like to have fun, but we expect people to be courteous and prompt.
We use a zero-sum DKP system called SWAPS. For more details on how this system works, check:
http://www.boomchucka.com:8080/Uplink/aboutswaps.jsp
If you are considering a server-transfer, be aware that a trial membership is not a guarantee of full membership. We will do our best to make sure that we only offer trial memberships to people in whom we have confidence will perform well and fit in with the guild, but the final decision will be made based on how well you perform during actual raiding.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us. We look forward to hearing from you.
Well that’s the Big News and we hope it’s not a big disappointment for all you who thought the Big News was moar Mrs BRK pics.
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Too bad you don’t have a Tankadin on your list of needs.
We actually have Tankadins. Shocking, but true.
/shuffles through the guild roster
Tankadins, healadins, elemental and resto shaman, just the right number of hunters and rogues, an arms warrior to go along with our regular assembly of prot warrios, druids everywhere…
Seriously. Druids are in every nook and cranny in AC. We’ve run a Kara raid with six of ten being druids. We should be the Aetherial Druid Circle. Or maybe Druids R Us. Sometimes they all have the same staff and we’ll have three identical boomkins clogging up our screen.
BRK is personally really looking forward to having his own personal shadow priest / mana battery. Cay hogs the DCoE, totally. We’re like, “Cay! Share” and she’s all, “No way, hoser! Healz get priority!” And then we whine and don’t get heals.
Moar assumes a sufficiency of Mrs. BRK pics. I thought ‘moar’ was a typo, until I said it out loud, I then realized that when talking about Mrs. BRK pics more is pronounced moar, so the spelling is correct.
So what you’re trying to say is that there are no spots for the only class worth playing.
Best picture ever…
But do you have tankadins that are as leetsauce as Honors, that’s the question.
Wow, you don’t have any enhances? A) I’m so so sorry you poor deprived people. B) How the heck did you manage that? I swear two out of every three shaman apps we get are enhance that haven’t gotten the message that the whole “I r Shamanz an WFWTFBBQ people in PVPZ!” thing doesn’t happen anymore.
On a more serious note I suspect you probably won’t be able to stick to your Gruul/T4+ gear requirement, lord knows we still occaisionally gear out someone from a Kara Level and we’re starting in on Hyjal/BT. (Someone is actually nicknamed Bargain Bin now for all the dkp cheap uncontested gear that he’s picked up).
Anyway, gl on recruiting.
BRK. I already sent my application for the retribution pally spot =)
Surprising that you don’t have an Enhancement Shaman. Also surprising that you don’t have a Ret Pally. And you need Warlocks? Is your server in the Twilight Zone or something?
never any hunter love =(
o well with my gear it would take them a wile to quit laughing to tell me not no but HELL NO……
Yous need priests? Dang. I’d consider throwing an app your way, but my priest lives Horde side. Not that this is a bad thing per se, but it would limit my utility as a main healer in an Alliance raid group.
Blizz could probably make a fair amount of money offering cross-faction transfers. *ponders*
Anyways, good luck on the recruiting.
And therein lies the fundamental flaw with raiding in WoW. Numerous guilds built around a core of raiders rampaging through Kara, and then what? You’ve run Kara so many times just to gear up 10 or 15 people, the thought of gearing up another 10 or 15 is distasteful. But you need 25 or 30 geared people for the larger instances. What are your options? Recruit. And who do you get when you recruit? Mostly, you get people at the gear level you require that have yet to find a place where they fit in. Sure, you might get some that feel their current guild progression is too slow, or some whose schedules have changed and prevent them from raiding with their current guild, but mostly you will be getting transient individuals, hardly the picks of the litters. The other option is to merge with a similar sized/level guild, but this will undoubtedly lead to power struggles and drama that could cause members from both sides to leave.
Good luck with your recruiting, but I wouldn’t abandon back-flagging altogether.
What?! No hunter spots?:(
I’ll have to quickly no-life a priest or a mage!
I think Freejack has pointed out your problem succinctly.
In addition, thinking of it as a job posting, there is no mention of salary. Why would someone who is a mature competent raider, fully geared for gruul, pick your guild of all the guilds on all the servers. And they have to pay $25RM for the privilege of being considered.
As I see it you are only offering one thing in addition to what every other guild in your position _has_ to offer, and that is the chance to work with BRK. If this posting was for some other guild, I wouldn’t even consider it from the ‘here’s what you can do for us’ tone alone.
Hope it works out for you, but unless that 1.1% ‘just might apply’ is enough (doubt it) I think you either need something to entice the 7.6% ‘not interested’s or help the 13% ‘not geared enoughs’.
Remember the hunter you said was the kind you wanted; the one who went out and met your requested spec through heroic effort? You aren’t going to get them. No one can heroically run Karazhan multiple times to get geared up for you.
Thank You Kindly,
Corwyn
for Kafsha and Shaelee
AC certainly has a lot more to offer than just “working with BRK.”
Posted before I was done, ugh.
I don’t think looking at this as a job posting is the right way to see it. I mean, you mentioned a salary – none of the current members of AC are earning a “salary” so why should we offer one to new members? This offer is not only open to readers of BRK’s blog and server transfers, but a lot of people in AC DO write blogs, and using them as a platform for our recruitment post reaches a lot more people, mature, geared raiders who are interested in playing with other mature, geared raiders. We’re not offering anything other than a really great guild to be in. I transferred servers to be in AC, and I don’t feel they owe me anything in exchange for my $25. It’s a great guild, with a lot to offer, and I don’t think that the requirements are out of line. We want some new, fun, mature, experienced players who are ready to play with us. Frankly, it’s a disservice to recruit players who are not up to the gear level of the majority of the guild – both to the new members and to the longstanding members who had already long passed that content.
As far as the requirements, anyone who has run a decent number of heroics can be easily geared to our requirements.
Basically… I think AC is a fantastic place to be, and I think it’s a huge benefit that our blogs allow us to reach a lot more people than would just see the post on the realm forums. You never know, there could be plenty of people out there looking for a change.
Just a quick note:
Since so many people seem to have taken issue with the gear requirement, let me clarify.
We don’t expect you in full T4. We don’t expect you to have gotten every possible upgrade from Kara. Hell, someone in a smattering of buyable purples, a piece or two of Kara loot, and a couple pieces of Badge of Justice gear would probably make the requirements fine.
What we need is people who can sustain a Gruul/SSC level of performance without dragging down the raid. If you’re DPS, that means hitting the 500-600 dps mark regularly and with the endurance to keep it up in a boss fight. Same idea for healers.
Are we expecting that 100% perfect raiders, completely decked out from Kara and heroics, will just fall into our lap? No. But there are people out there who were in a guild that fell apart for various reasons – drama, loss of members, whatever. There are people out there who took a break for a couple months and are geared for Kara, but whose guild is now in BT and way beyond them. There are those who might have been in a more “hardcore” guild that can’t make the schedule anymore. We’re not trying to ninja people from other guilds, etc, etc. We’re simply letting people know “hey, if you’re interested, so are we.”
What we’re offering isn’t necessarily the “chance to work with BRK.” It’s a chance to work with US. This guild, the core especially, are some of the best, most pleasant, most skilled people I’ve ever had the privilege of working with. That’s the prize, for me, teaming up with friends and seeing us accomplish things.
It’s a great guild, with a lot to offer,
That’s what I mean by ‘Salary’! Nowhere on the original post does it mention anything like this. Go look at it. A long list of specifications, requirements, and caveats, not one word about why anyone would _want_ to join.
I don’t think looking at this as a job posting is the right way to see it.
It reads _exactly_ like a job posting. If you wanted it to sound like a party invitation (or whatever), I must say, I think it fails.
I transferred servers to be in AC, and I don’t feel they owe me anything in exchange for my $25.
Did you transfer servers to be in AC or _for a chance_ to be in AC?
Corwyn
for Kafsha and Shaelee
p.s. Yes, I know working with TJ is a (bigger) benefit, but this is BRK’s place so I thought it best…
That’s more like it.
If you’re working with TJ, you really do deserve a salary.
I think the accomplishments of AC (which you will be able to partake in, should you be admitted) speak for themselves as in regards to a “salary”. Plus, they seem a nice bunch of fun people, and reasonable, skilled, curteous to top it off. Fio especially seems to be a very capable, level-headed GM who I’d be happy to join ranks with any day. Without taking too much credit from BRK, it is teamplay what counts, and what you should strife for is becoming an integral part of it, respectful of all the others and their contributions to the common cause. AC is a prime example.
But as much as I would love to join a guild like AC and be able to play alongside Fio, Doomilias, Brigin, Cay, TJ, and all the others, there are obstacles which make it a wee bit impossible:
1) My game client only enables access to European realms. U.S./Oceanic ones are off-limits.
2) The time difference. 8 PM Eastern (the start of AC raids) is 2 AM here.
3) I’m a Tauren hunter.
Oh well. *smile*
Rotseh
Berlin / Germany
What’s a “duffus”, besides a village in Scotland?
@ Freejack
I think you make a really relevant point. I like to think that in my guild we have achieved a pretty good balance. We run 2 Gruuls (with a slew of out of guild regulars and some pick ups), 3 Karas and 1 ZA run per week. The 3 Karas all started at different times and are great for newer 70s who are gearing up for the 25 man raids. Although there is some disparity in gear across the 70s in the guild it is not so great that hopefully before long we will have a large pool of people all able to run 25 man raids, especially with the ability to gather heroic and PVP gear.
That probably sounds pretty lame to the more hardcore guilds out there but for me it works because I don’t have crazy raiding commitments I can’t keep yet I’m still getting to see end of game content. We are pretty close to getting Gruul’s on farm now and progressing in ZA. I hope that in the new year we will begin to take on Mag and SSC.
I’ve been in the guild for 8 months now and it’s grown from about 5 toons to currently 100, I like to think it’s because we raid but aren’t draconian and have a friendly attitude.
Just wanted to put my belated 2s in ^_^
You’re lacking an ‘I play in Europe, fool!’ option on your poll.
You need another option on your poll – Raid Schedule doesn’t suit.
Not that it matters, being (yet another) druid
Mainly tank, but a tree right now, because I was a bit clueless about how to evaluate my resto druids’ performances. So I spent a week in their shoes/roots.
Jezrael said:
“I’ve been in the guild for 8 months now and it’s grown from about 5 toons to currently 100, I like to think it’s because we raid but aren’t draconian and have a friendly attitude.”
WOW! 8 months you grew from 5 to 100 members? And I’ll assume these are all active players and not alts because you run two 25mans and 4 10mans each week. Whatever you’re doing must be golden because that is quite an achievement. What guild and server are you on?
I wasn’t around when endgame was level 60, but from what I saw and heard it was a drudge. However, I sometimes wonder how different Outland would be if the first big gearing instance was a 40 or 25man instance. It wouldn’t have to be terribly difficult but it would require that Raiding guilds acquire the numbers and practice leading large numbers and multiple group configurations before moving on to more difficult bosses. Then these guilds would have enough people to split up and take on a couple of different 10man instances with higher difficulty and better upgrades.
It looks like Blizz cowtowed to the QQ’ers and reversed the progression process thus splintering the population of most realms into tiny clans eager to conquer Karazhan with no forethought of what they will need afterward.
A few days late and a few dollars short, as usual. I applied to AC a week or two ago. Wrote an e-mail to Fio’s address (seriously, how the hell do you say that name!). And I even fit the bill (for the most part) as a warlock with mostly epics, though only one piece of my T4.
My problem is that I can’t commit to raiding. With a baby in the house, I have to tank baby aggro all the time, so saying, “Sorry guys, gotta log due to a hungry baby” before I let loose with another Shadowbolt probably wouldn’t be looked on too kindly.
All the same, best of luck with your recruiting and game progression. It’s good to see some folks still having fun with the game and not going through the hell of having to PUG every single Shattered Hall run for some HH rep.