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