Arcanapocolypse of Blackwater Raiders

News for May and June 2010

Kaline — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 22:07:02 -0000

Posted 06/11/10 03:07 PM by Kaline.

News for May- June
Another couple of months have passed and as the time goes by Arcana remains a great guild we call home. The past couple of months has seen many achievements, new members, new 80s and more progression through ICC.

Members of Arcana have been blasting through achievements.
We’ve had a couple members finish the year long world feat quest “What a strange trip it’s been” This achievement requires the player to successfully complete all of the world event quests such as the Lunar festival, Children’s week, and Noblegarden. The prize for completing the year long events is a purple proto drake at 310% speed. It’s a wonderful mount for an achievement that takes a lot of dedication to work through. Congrats to those who have accomplished this feat. Also, thanks mainly to the weekly raid quests, several guildies picked up their “champion of the frozen wastes” titles” as well as “of the Nightfall” “LoreMaster” and Twilight Vanquisher. Congrats to those who have attached these titles above their names.

Like most guilds in the lands Arcanapocolypse has seen some new members arrive and have had some members depart for other adventures. We would like to welcome those new to Arcana and would like to give our best wishes to those who have departed in the last couple months. We hope to continue to grow, not only as a guild but as a group of friends that come to WOW to get together and take a break from the stress of the “real world”.

On a more personal note, some of our members have had the great pleasure to meet each other in the “real world” at various get-togethers’ A group of 5-7 members met at a local watering hole, 2-3 got to meet Kayoni on her way back through town, and Kaline and Amyran were able to meet up with NBK for some fun during a conference. These kinds of events are one reason that I think Arcana is different than most guilds. Not only do we play a game with each other, most of our members take time out of their real lives to meet other and honestly show a concern for each other.

The Alt fever has infected Arcanapocolypse!!!
We have had a couple players get some alts to level 80 and many more are on the way. This will go a long way to help us get back into some of the lower level content to help the new 80s out. Congrats to all those who have put the time in to bring multiple characters to 80.

Marching forward through Ice Crown Citadel.
As our members continue to get better gear we have seen more and more members make their way through ICC. Many members have found some good PUGs to run both 10 man and 25 man ICC instances with. More and more bosses have seen their doom at the hands of our members. As a guild we recently cleared the entire first wing in ICC 10 in less than 2 hours with zero wipes. Arcana is not a serious raiding guild but it goes to show that given a little time we can advance through any instance as a guild when time permits us to be together. I look forward to the day when I can congratulate one of our own when they receive the title of “The Kingslayer”.

New Advisors named for Arcana.
Just last week we named two players as new advisors to our queen Kaline and the guild. Two openings were posted to the guild about a month ago and volunteers were evaluated and accepted. The advisor roles were filled by Isavelyn and Adania. Isavelyn has accepted the role of Raid Leader and is already full steam ahead on planning and organizing fun and challenging raids for the guild to participate in. Isa has a natural ability to organize successful raids and we all look forward to what she has planned for us. Adania accepted the role of Guild Social Convener. She is very excited about the opportunity that she has been given and I’m sure has many wonderful and fun things for the guild to be involved in. She is currently making plans and taking suggestions for social events that will start in the fall. If you have any raid suggestions or social activity suggestions please feel free to contact these two fine ladies and let them know what you had in mind.

Thank you Kayoni and NBK.

Recently Kayoni and NBK stepped down as guild advisors. I would like to send my personal thanks out to them both for the hard work, time, and effort they put in for the betterment of the guild. Kayoni has done most of the work on our website that we all love. She constantly gave solid advice on guild matters as well as kept up one of the nicest guild websites in the lands. Thank you Kayoni.
NBK was our guild social coordinator and a dedicated advisor. NBK spent countless hours planning guild events and raids for us to complete as a guild. His events went a long way in establishing many of the personal bonds we have with each other as we play WOW. His unlimited knowledge and sound advice went along way making Arcana the great guild it is. Thank you NBK.

It’s Summer time!
I want to wrap up the news for May-June with some final thoughts. As the windows go up and an in some cases the A/C gets turned on. We can look outside and see flowers blooming, green leaves forming on the trees, kids on bikes, lawn mowers buzzing, and BBQ grills getting fired up. We are all starting to shake off the winter cold and are trading our heavy coats and hats in for light jackets and shorts. This means that playing WOW often takes a backseat to getting outside and enjoying our world while we can. I’m sure that players will start noticing that people aren’t playing as much as normal. This is expected and encouraged. Summer time is a time to get together with friends and families, taking vacations, and for spending late evenings eating ice cream outside on the patio with a warm breeze blowing. I hope everyone has a wonderful and safe summer. If you can’t be around as much as normal we all understand and wish everyone a joyous time out and about.

PS. If anyone has something they feel should be put in the news section of the forums please let myself or Kaline know and we’ll make sure that it gets put in the next available month.

Your Humble King,
Celare

News for March and April 2010

Kaline — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:02:53 -0000

Posted 04/19/10 05:02 AM by Kaline.

News for March and April 2010

Your king has been traveling the lands and has not had much time to sit and contemplate his thoughts in regards to the news. For this I apologize and will try to post my thoughts soon.

Much has happened for Arcanapocolypse in the last couple months. It has been a fun and very active time for this wonderful guild. We celebrated our two year anniversary as a guild, added more members to our rolls, had more alts work their way up, grabbed many new achievements and made our way through the first 3 bosses in ICC 10.

Let me start with the grand celebration that was Arcanapocolypse’s 2nd anniversary. It was a great full week celebration. We had fishing contests, completed some classic raids and OL dungeons, set off tons of fireworks and was noticed by the entire realm. I personally would like to thank NBK for putting together such a grand week. I know that it took lots of time, thought, and gold (out of his own pocket). I also would like to thank all those who participated in the events. We had several show up for the fishing contest, trivia games, and classic raids and lit up several different towns with an amazing display of fireworks and magic. At the end of the week, NBK held a drawing to give away the keys to a chopper. Adania was the lucky guildie who drove off into the Dalaran sunset on her new bike.

Arcana advances into ICC.
Over the last weekend here, arcane has progressed quite nicely through the halls of ICC. Lord Marrowgar, the first boss went down on the first try. The guild quickly cleared trash and reloaded for Lady Deathwhisper. After 2-3 tries she too fell at the feet of the heros of Arcanapocolypse. Even though it was getting late, the guild worked it’s way to the Skybreaker gunship and got familiar with the workings of the fight. After a good nights sleep, Arcana gave it another try and beat down the hordes ship. Not wanting to stop there the guild took an afternoon break and went on to face Deathbringer Saurfang. This powerful Orc posed some problems for the guild but like the others before him, with some practice, he too will meet his demise. I’d like to thank those who participate in the raids. I know we don’t always have the right number of classes for the fight or can’t always have the same people in the raids but I think we do a good job working with what we have and keep at it until we succeed. I know some of you all still aren’t using the raid sign up on the site much, but as we keep progressing through ICC I think that will start filling up even faster so if you think you can make it of even if you’d like to but aren’t sure, just throw a note up on the sign up sheet so we all know. Also if a raid time never seems to work for the hours you play , please post on the website or talk to Gekers, Kaline, or myself and we’ll do our best to accommodate you.
I think we’ll get deeper and deeper into ICC and I can’t wait for the day when the Lich King himself meets his doom.

It was a busy but fun two months for our guild. As always, I look forward to playing more WOW and more importantly I always look forward spending time with each other as a guild. That is all I have for now. If you have something you’d like to have posted in the news please just send me an in game mail or a PM on the forums.

Your Humble King,
Celare

Arcanapocolypse 2nd Anniversary Celebrations Start March 20th!

Kayoni — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:43:22 -0000

Posted 03/12/10 03:43 AM by Kayoni.

The fall of Ignis, Alts getting to 80, and more. Ignis meets his doom

Kaline — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:42:32 -0000

Posted 02/15/10 11:42 AM by Kaline.

Down, down, down goes the evil fire monster known as Ignis the furnace master.

While some of our esteemed guildies have had the pleasure of seeing the furnace master fall, Arcanapocolypse has not been able to drop the smelting pot wearing as a collective guild after several tries…until… a few nights ago..
A group of 7 members of Arcanapocolypse and 3 folks from other noble guilds walked into Ulduar with high hopes and cautious expectations.

There he was, Ignis, working diligently at his forge of destruction. Little did he know he had just tempered his last piece. Armed with powerful melee, extraordinary healing abilities, and vicious ranged attacks the 10 person group picked a fight with the monster that is Ignis.

So the fight began. The Tank warrior kept him occupied while a well-armored Paly lured Ignis’s fiends into his own fire only be destroyed quickly by the devastating ranged arcane attacks. Ignis constantly scooped up members of the group and threw them into the soldering pot that hangs from his belt. Thinking those that were cast into the pot was not coming out, Ignis continued to rain down fire upon the small group of adventurer’s. Imagine the surprise when Ignis looked down in his pot and noticed those he had thrown inside where no longer there and those that he kept throwing in, continued to have their life force given back to them quicker then he could take it.

Bit by bit the onslaught on Ignis continued. No matter how hard Ignus hit the puny warrior in front of him or how many fiends he summoned to life, the life of the hero’s continued to replenish and Ignis’s own life slowly dwindled away.
Finally the last bit of life was replenished, and the final spells were cast. The last slash of a dagger and sword, and the blows of a mace hit their deadly marks, the giant of fire and metal stooped to one knee, then another, and soon after dropped lifeless to the floor. Ignus had met his match. VICTORY at LAST !!!

Congratulations to those who had previously conquered Ignis as well as the group of 7 who bravely took on the challenge that is Ignis and walked out of Ulduar victorious.

The long road to 80 complete!

The members of Arcanapocolypse would like to send out congratulations to those of the guild who committed themselves to start a character from scratch and get them to level 80. The following are those who recently worked either a main or alt up to level 80. (If I missed anyone who recently hit 80 I apologize).

NBK worked up his Human Priest “ FatherNBK”.
Enjela brought up a Dranei shaman by the name Lucilalenore. Most call her “Lucy”
Gerkers, wants to try his hand at tanking and brought up a Human Warrior to level 80.

Celare went out of his comfort zone and traded in his plate for some cloth and worked up a human Warlock named “Harkell”.
A job well done to you all.

Meetings, events and other news.

The leadership of Arcanapocolypse held an advisors meeting last month and many issues were discussed. One of the topics discussed were giving assigned tasks to the advisors. The advisors volunteered to handle a variety of things including, handling raids, meeting and greeting new members, writing news articles, etc.

Also discussed were plans to hold a one-week celebration in honor of arcanapocolypse’s 2-year anniversary as a guild. NBK is spearheading the effort and more information will follow, so stay tuned to the boards.

That about wraps up the news for now. Stay tuned for more news as it happens.

Celare

October's Officer's meeting

Amyran — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:17:35 -0000

Posted 11/27/09 05:17 PM by Amyran.

Well it's a little late, but I'm finally getting around to posting the minutes from October's officer's meeting.

Because the actual minutes are lengthy, i will post a summary of decisions only.

As of now, the nine notes below should be considered as guild policy. Ideally, this information would be posted on a new members page. Since we don't have such a page, this will serve as a notice for the time being.

1. Officer meetings will be held every month from October forward. They will occur near the end of the month.

2. We will schedule a raid at least every other week.

3. The process for adding yourself to a raid will be via the website calander. Those signed up on the website will be given priority over those who only sign up on the in-game calander.

4. The process for joining guild heroic runs, if there are more than five online who wish to participate, will be to roll for available spots. Only in the circumstance of having a single player online who can fill a required spot in the party shall there be an exception (example : healer, tank). There should be no favoritism shown in this process.

5. If you sign up for a raid, you are expected to be there. Do not sign up for a raid if you are unsure you can commit at least three hours. On the same note, do not /roll for heroics if you are unsure you can commit to them. Do not sign up for a raid if you are not eligible for the raid as per your gearscore. We recognize that gearscore may not be the best way to rate a player, but because to does offer a standard for comparison, we shall use it until a better system is in place. Feel free to sign up for any raid, even if you do not need the gear. We ask that players please show additional consideration towards those who need the gear or emblems, but the website raid signup will represent the final roster for a raid or event.

The following should be observed as our code of conduct

1. Respect other guild members, even if you don't personally like them. Do not cause drama in either guild chat, or general chat. Our members should not do anything that makes WOW less enjoyable for any other players. This applies to voice chat in Ventrilo as well as in game chat. Always be aware that The World of Warcraft is a game, and other players are here to have fun, just like you are.

2. If you have a problem with a guild member and you can’t deal with it cordially yourself, talk to the guild leader. The guild leader will speak to other members on your behalf. Please remember, we will likely kick anyone who is seen to be causing repeated unwarranted drama.

3. Please restrict the use of colorful language in guild chat. Swearing does not impress anyone, and is not considered mature behaviour. Please to not swear over voice-chat, some members may have children present. We recognize that sometimes this happens by accident, but we will call out those members who are seen as having trouble controling their language.

4. Members will get one warning before they are disciplined. Discipline will come in the form of demotion, or being kicked from the guild. Officers will discuss discipline before it is given. Officers will not discuss discipline until at least half of the officers are present during the discussion. The guild leaders are the only members who can kick a player from the guild without discussion. Guild leaders will consider officer decisions and discussions, or lack thereof, at all times.

5. Unless other arrangements are made, inactive members will be demoted to "inactive" after 90 days, and be kicked from the guild after one year. If ranked inactive for six months, members wishing to move out of the inactive rank will only receive a promotion to the lowest regular guild rank. This formula is subject to future changes.

Next meeting is on Nov 27th. Minutes will be posted in December.

News for November!

Amyran — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:23:32 -0000

Posted 11/26/09 01:23 AM by Amyran.

It's already nearly December! 
 
This has been an exciting month for Arcanapocolypse. I've learned that our guild name is spelled wrong! It should be Arcanapocalypse. Who knew? Not me... We held an emergency officer's meeting to discuss all our options, but decided in the end that it's all good just to leave the name alone. Emergency meetings, being the very serious events they are, always end in firm decisions and forward thinking resolutions. Hurray for us! 
 
Gratz to all the achievement runners in our guild who completed the Pilgrim's Bounty meta achievement, and are proud owners of a new title, and vanity pet! 
 
There have been some exciting changes to the guild website! We're also looking at the possibility of redesigning the website entirely, so stay tuned for that! New this month, is a Blog, where one day, you will find many interesting articles and musings. The Royal corner is where our leaders will add their thoughts about our time spent online. Last month, I failed to mention that NBK started up a facebook group for us. It's sort of neat to see a different side of each other's lives. 
 
We're still looking to add more geared level 80's to the guild, but we're at the point where we don't have to PUG 10 man raids anymore. This is a very exciting place for Arcanapocolypse. We have a few players graduating to level 80 very soon who will be welcome additions to the Heroic's, and hopefully soon, the raiding teams. If we all drink our milk, we'll all grow up strong! 
 
November also saw us revisit two classic raids, Aq20 and Molton Core. 
Achievements to be had for all! These original raids don't take very long, and the few of us who missed out, as well as guildies with alts at the appropriate level, should make a point of adding these raids to the calender, because they're a ton of fun! 
 
We're trying to focus on gearing up our offtanks during the month of December. 
Celare, who has been shouldering most of the main tank duties for us, won't be around for much of January. So lend a hand if you can, to our plate wearing brethren! 
 
 
Congratulations to Sicario (Ker) for reaching level 80! 
 
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Good times Shall be had by all

Amyran — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:57:37 -0000

Posted 11/02/09 02:57 AM by Amyran.

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! 
 
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Its time to take on Naxx!!

NBKpicard — Sun, 17 May 2009 04:29:21 -0000

Posted 05/16/09 09:29 PM by NBKpicard.

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

Ventrillo Server

Kaline — Tue, 12 May 2009 13:24:29 -0000

Posted 05/12/09 06:24 AM by Kaline.

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