WOW.... our guild is moving servers. the leaders just posted. I'm going to copy and paste the post. I wanted to know what you guys thought. I'll reserve my opinion, but I would of liked to see a vote..... here it is:
"As you guys know, we have been struggling to get raids off lately. This isn?t the first time, and it won?t be the last if we continue going as we are. Every time this happens, we try to pull together and rebuild, take a huge step backwards in progression and try to start fresh. The problem is that because of the one thing that makes us stand out on this server (late night raiding) we have severely limited our recruiting pool. We have been considering all of our options over the last several months, and feel that it is in the best interest of the guild to move to a west coast server. It will open up our recruiting options since we?ll have a lot more people in the right time zone for our raids. Raids will still be at midnight Dalaran server (Eastern) but will be at 9:00 on the new server, Moonrunner.
This will also be beneficial after the expansion. As most of us know and have experienced, expansions turn the game upside down. Guilds breakup, people have new priorities, etc. Being on a west coast server will give us the opportunity to roll with the changes more easily due to the more reasonable raid time and allow us to rebuild more efficiently.
Moonrunner is very similar to Dalaran in progression and economy. They have fewer guilds and only one other late night guild at our level of progression or higher, that starts invites an hour and a half before we do.
With the transfer, we want to push to see more content by becoming a more hardcore raiding guild. We will have stricter policies on attendance and an eventual increase in the number of raiding days (4-5). We will put into place a new system of Full Time vs. Part Time raiders that will allow us to more fully reward the most consistent raiders and hold individuals more accountable for their contributions to the guild and raids. Everyone that transfers will start off as Part Time raiders and will keep that position for three weeks once we begin raiding 25-mans again, giving us time to determine who our Full Time raiding core will be, with a 75% raiding requirement (up from our current 50%). Ranks will not be changed weekly, but will be a set number of open positions (likely 20) with benefits such as loot priority, certain raid items from the bank, and possibly a weekly allowance of repair gold from the bank. There will also be more stringent requirements about knowing fights, showing up to raids prepared and on time with the proper consumables and knowing their expectations, with diminishing DKP if expectations are not met.
Because we are essentially starting a new guild on Moonrunner, we will be resetting DKP. We want to be fair to those we recruit on the new server, and feel that we will quickly regain our DKP and our standings, based on attendance and raiding status. We also will be renaming the guild, and would love suggestions that will later be voted on, from those of you who will be transferring with us.
We know all of this is coming as a shock to you guys, and we want you to know this decision was not made lightly. Everyone is getting noticeably frustrated with our lack of raiding and our inability to effectively progress. We?ve been hitting our heads against walls trying to figure out how to pull together and prevail. With that said, we would like to open up the option to transfer to our veteran members and to our new guild members who have similar goals and are willing to commit to doing what it takes to become a top guild. We know that not everyone will be willing or able to transfer, and as a group of officers, we respect that. We also hope that those of you willing and able will also respect the decisions of those unwilling or able, and vice versa. Nightwalkers guild will still remain on the Dalaran server so will still be a home to those that wish to stay and for the alts of those only wanting to transfer their mains.
We will be starting our pre-recruiting on August 1st to fill the open positions, and hope that most of you will be able to have made your decisions by that point in time. We have very high hopes for the future of Nightwalkers and so far, have gotten a very good feeling about our ability to be back up and running with minimal down time. We ask that all of those that will be transferring servers with us do so by August 14th.
We?re sure you guys have a lot of questions surrounding this move and we?ll answer them the best that we?re able to. "
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Sorry for the long post.
. Was going to join a different guild after getting tired of the overall group leader being a self-serving little twat and collected all the nature resistance gear necessary for Huhuran only to never hear anything (and later hear from a friend that one of their rogues didn't like me so they wouldn't let me join... but they never told me ~_~). Those fuckers, I still hold a grudge for that and now that I play Horde and they came back from Earthen Ring, I will keel them :evil:.
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