Tonight we get our 5/11 kill in HK with defeating Sicaron.  It was just in time too because I am pretty sure one more wipe and Xaruck was going to verbally assault someone for not having raid killer installed.

What we learned from tonights fight and win:

- Xaruck hates all of us

- Bobbidylan hates our Ventrillo Server

- Hongbit hates being ready on ready checks

- Toron hates not talking in vent

- Hamur hates being blamed for taking aggro

- Kromulok hates cleansing and not having someone call out when to do it

- Sardo hates trapping himself within red circles

- Windasani hates logging in late on Thursdays and missing the kill

- Kazue hates glug for trying to take all the blame for anything that goes wrong

LOL Grats ES on this kill - we are having a great return from the holiday downtime!

With Naked Dancers as witnesses... this is the new ES POLICY for weddings btw!

So it is safe to lay to rest the worrys of attrition or whether we would have enough to continue advancing. This week alone we have obtained 3 new kills in HK. Adding to the list from the last update on Zilas, we have also killed Vlad and Matron now too. That makes us 4/11 in HK.

Thanks to all that have put in the time and effort to keep what he have here going strong! It is appreciated by everyone!

Recruitment is still open. We would like to find 3 to 5 more people to add to the guild. Check out the forums and the recruitment thread in applying to ES section.

Vlad Dead:   (shen too)

Matron Dead:

Welcome to 2012! We took a 2 week hiatus from raiding (or for most cases even playing) over the holidays. As most guilds in RIFT we too are feeling a little pain on our attendance and raid numbers which seemed to start in December. As most are discussing on various forums there are many reasons for this across all guilds; SW:tor release, Holidays and overall lack of meaningful content at this time within RIFT. There just isnt anything 'exciting' to do outside of raiding. They have added the ability for daily greater marks in the T2s now so that is actually a good thing but Trion really needs to push out some content other than the 'keep you busy grind for faction' type stuff. Overall I feel the Planar attunement feature lacks anything exciting that motivates people to grind that out. Sure it will benefit you but it doesn't bring anything new to your abilities or talents. EQ really implemented their AA feature right. It offered new abilities that you could only get from the AA. I wish Trion would rethink their model for Planar Attunement and make it more attractive for people to feel a reason to log in and play more.

Anyhow, with all of the above, we were a bit concerned about our attendence and if we could get 20 people on for our raid nights. We have spent a LOT more time than we wish to on the T2 raid rifts. They definitely provide some great gear and upgrades but our intent is to pursue progression within HK. While we are not 'out of the woods' on our numbers for filling a raid, we are still progressing.

Last night we pushed and pushed and eventually got our first Zilas kill !!! This was such a good feeling to get this kill and progression and the excitement in vent proved that. We really needed this kill to get our guilds motivation back up! I hope this helps increase our participation.  In the meantime, we have re-opened recruitment in hopes of finding a handful more quality people that will help ensure we have our 20 members for raid nights. We will accept or consider all but unfortunately we really do not need any more clerics. My "Cleric Army" (tm) has been solid since day one and is the one class we are never short of having on.

Below are some pictures of the Zilas kill. The important thing to note in these pictures is the constant HAMUR spam in cleric chat... omg dude we are trying to focus on the raid, stop spamming us! LOL.  The 2nd pic accidentilly shows RHYS' bid on loot but oh well, everyone knows he is cheap and doesnt spend his points so I didn't bother blurring it out. Also I didn't blur out the officer chat because I wanted you all to see how HONGBIT is a quitter, right before the kill.... and also how WINDASANI is terribly difficult to work with as he simply refuses to follow the raid strat and always wants to do 'his own thing'... ha!  Enjoy and Grats all on keeping the guild progressing!

Recruitment:

As briefly stated above, we are looking for roughly 5 more solid active players that will be available to raid with us. If interested please go to our forums and fill out an application.

All applicants should be level 50 and ACTIVE in game. We prefer you have geared up via GSB or ROS as a minimum but will consider any good mature person that is active.


Warrior - open
Cleric - lower priority but would consider
Rogue - open
Mage - open

RAID SCHEDULE: Wednesday 8pm EST (for about 3 hours), Thursday 8pm EST (for about 3 hours) and Saturday 8pm est (until people log off)

So after a few different shots on this guy over the last few raids getting him consistently under 10%, we finally got him down. Unlike Plutonis, the effort put into killing Murdantix is well worth it. Some nice loot dropped! 

We are really pretty pleased with how the guild has evolved and turned out in Rift. Our numbers are good each raid night and we are progressing well, albeit at a more casual rate than some other guilds on the server... but we wouldn't have it any other way. We have a lot of work to put in for our next target so until then it will be farm farm farm and gear up.  Nice thing to mention is we finally have GSB down to about a 2 hour sometimes 3 hour clearing and ROS is about the same. The relics are starting to pour in steady for us and I would say we can add Murdantix to the farm list as well.

Thanks go out to all of our guild members that put the time in each day to continually better yourselves and for your dedication to keep logging in and progressing the guild!

The last thing that will be mentioned in this update, per the request of Kazue, is the glorious return of Carb to our guild. First many thanks to all of our veterans (active and non-active), but with Carbs return also comes the enjoyment from Castiron (currently stationed in Korea)... screenshot is below to explain their true feelings for each other.