Well, as you guys know, I have stepped back after the migration has been pulled through. And by stepping back, I mean gout out of the daily business of managing the guild. This has been almost half a year ago now . Since I'm still doing the backend (and paying for this site), I can still write up an article here if I wish to - I just might.

Like right now.

But just a short one.

Raven has proven to not be without its faults - 1HOUR QUEUE. AAAARRRGGGGHHHH. Then there is this gearscore craze. People "upgrading" with shit items because they have higher item level. I've seen stupid things. Really stupid things. Can't really say I'm immune to it . My mage is overcapped by 6%, because I cant seem to find gear without hit. Nonsense.

ICC10 is done btw. And we are a bit too small for 25 yet. Well not strictly speaking, if everybody that plays at least a few times a week would sign on at the same time, I'd reckon there would be about 40 people online. Taking the super casual guys into account, I'd say this number would go over 80... Not a small guild.

I have an idea or two I'd like to do here on the web in the next month or so. I'm thinking about adding some custom stuff. Try to add some way to widen the net of article writers - with some sort of editorial process. Let guildies add content. As it is all voulunteer work, it is not going to go fast or be super sleek, but I intend to have a bit of fun/work.

In other not news - I'd still vote to kill off the guild bank. I still don't see much use in it, it tends to cause more trouble than it solves. But then again - this decision isn't mine.

When I've begun thinking about migration as a way to fix the lack of active players, I never dared hope that guildies would follow in such numbers.
First issue is that this is not free, so it would cost money.  I know that 20€ is an expensive minimum fee (minimum, because we mostly have more than just 1 character).
Second issue is that it bothers me - it really bothers me - that we are paying to fix a problem, that is not ours to fix. So I am still in doubt on whether this was the right thing to do, even if people somehow managed to gather the Blizz ransom fee.
There are ways to fix the server population problems, but the way Blizz is going about it is just your proverbial fig leaf. With free migrations - I question the sanity of anyone going from Ravencrest to a dumphole like Mazrigos.

The way to do it is to make achivements, vanity items, useful items or gold rewards for people willing to go fix server population problems... but this is not going to happen - because, Blizz can make money from this. In other words - Blizz has no incentive to fix the problem, because it has proven to be a lucrative business. Transfers cost nothing - we are paying 20€ for an automated process, which costs nothing to execute. My view is that this is worse than gold sellers. The "legitimate" gold sellers have actual people work-play the game to gather resources - it costs actual money to produce. Blizz is profiting from pure nothing.
So with all this in mind, thank you all for putting down YOUR money to enable everybody a good start on the new realm.

From the looks of it - and I'm not saying this lightly - Ravencrest has good people playing - not just gear-wise... never been an issue, but personality-wise. Glad I moved.

And so it begins...

Comming from the seriously defunct server of Mazrigos, I must say it is not hard to get used to trade actually containing chatter. Right now I only really hurt because of the people left behind.

But times look good ahead. If not for else - we are bound to get to know new people. Let's see what happens.

Raid rank is closed! We are now once again the most casual raiding guild on Mazrigos!

First of all thx for everyone that showed up last Sunday… i like that.. means that people care!

We came up with one important change we will make, being the implementation of a new rank... the raider-rank.

Our goal with this will be to create a nice and mature raid enviroment with respect to all!
An eviroment without loot fixations... where peole help out one and other... gear up people in order to progress... help out even if you don’t gain anything from it exept respect form others. 

It goes without saying that you will have to earn this rank.

People looking for a more non-raid orientated game play will feel at home in our member rank... im thinking alts... new guys... levelers... people that don’t care about raids or having trouble comitting to others.... there is a place for you to.

Loots will be distributed as before... who needs need... with the litlle change... everyone can roll but raid rank gets priority! This is mainly to asure the raid rank will be given the best chance to progress!

(BOE epics will from now on go to the Gbank and can NOT be rolled for!)

Don’t panic (panic is for rogues who used all there CDs  ) if you are not in the raid rank from day one! Its a progress we will take our time for in order to not make mistakes.

Officers will be given the powers to give out the raid-rank to people who THEY think deserve it! Dont feel bad if you are not a raider... just be yourself and participate in raids as they come... and things will work out for you... no stress about this! Patience is a virtue!

So lets take it slow from here... afterall this is a new thing for us to.. even for the officers.. so give us some time to work it out!

We think this will salve most of the problems people experienced. 

These changes are here FOR you... not AGAINST you!

Other little changes will be made like Gbank and some other things.. but more about that later on.


If you have any questions feel free to ask!


....Cintricky