Flatline

Welcome to your new guild site! This post is meant to introduce you to some of the features and customization options you have on this site. You can add new posts using the "Add a Post" button at the top of the page. If you are a guild administrator, you can delete this post from your Control Panel.

Site Features

To help you get started, here are just some of the features that you should make sure to try out. You can enable each of these features from your Control Panel.

Guild Recruitment

• Guild Recruitment is an extremely useful tool for advertising to visitors that you are looking for new members. In addition, if you enable recruitment, your guild will appear in the WowStead Guild Recruitment Tool, where users can easily find information about your recruiting needs.
• To enable recruitment, first make sure the the 'Guild Recruitment' module is enabled from the General Settings page of the Control Panel. After enabling the module, go to the Recruitment page of the Control Panel. You'll find this link in the 'Site Features' section. From this page simply check the 'Currently Recruiting' checkbox and click the 'Save' button.

Calendar

• To enable the calendar, first make sure the module is enabled from the General Settings page of the Control Panel. Then go to the Calendar page of the Control Panel.
• On this page, you can create new calendar events by selecting the 'New Events' button at the top of the page. You can also sync your guild calendar with a character's in-game calendar by using the WowArmory's calendar feed tool. To do so, simply follow the instructions below the calendar.

Addons

• Wowstead allows you to easily download commonly used addons directly from your guild site! To enable this, make sure the module from the General Settings page of the Control Panel. Then go to the Addons page of the Control Panel.

Guild Progression

• WowStead's progression tool allows site visitors to see your guild's progress in an easily summarized fashion.

Customizing Your Site

Even though Wowstead requires very little initial setup, you are still given a number of powerful tools to personalize and customize your guild site.

Wowstead Content Management System (CMS)

The Wowstead CMS is an incredibly powerful tool that lets you create pages, posts, FAQs, galleries and other content for your site.

You can access the CMS by going to the control panel and accessing the control pages under "News & Media".

Layout, Theme & Widget Placement

• You can easily change your site's layout, theme and widget placement by going to the Customize Site page of the Control Page in the 'Site Configuration' section.

Guild Ranks

To rename your guild ranks, simply go to the Ranks & Permissions page of the control panel, inh the 'Guild Management' section.

• Wowstead can detect the number of active ranks in your guild. The ranks are defaulted to Guild Master (Rank 0) and Rank 1 through Rank 9 - where Rank 1 is the highest and Rank 9 is the lowest. You can determine what site permissions a rank has using the Manage Permissions button to the right of a given rank. Users will be automatically granted site permissions based on the in-game rank of their character.
• You can create custom ranks using the "Create New Role" button in the upper right of the Ranks & Permissions control page. Custom ranks can be used to assign privilege to guild members in addition to their default guild rank permissions.

Site Navigation

• You can edit your site's navigation menu by going to the Navigation page of the Control Panel, in the 'Site Configuration' section. Here, you can create and edit navigation links, or restrict them to certain guild ranks and create new links.

The officers, in an effort to redouble the effort and rewards of raiding, have decided to put a hold on 'Progression' efforts of the 25m raid for the next several weeks. In the interim, and additional 10m raid will be set up. Please see Kraigen to be added to the 10m raid list.

Moving forward from this point, Flatline will use Tuesdays to farm 25m ICC. Bosses to be killed will be: Marrowgar, Lady Deathwhisper, Gunship, Saurfang, Festergut, Rotface, Blood Prince Council and, time permitting, the Hallway Gauntlet. This will enable folks to get badges for gear, as well as gain some gear rapidly.

Additionally, with the creation of the new (or possibly 2 new) 10m raid, it will be REQUIRED that all raiders for a 25m Progression raid have accomplished a kill in 10m raid.  So, while we don't have a specific date for the 25m raid to resume 2 night a week status, the baseline we are stating at this time is 'When we have 25-30 raiders that can show they have beaten all of the ICC content through Sindragosa'.

Recently guild ranks were modified at the request of the raid officers in order to better make use of some tools that make invites a bit easier. As a result of these changes, I thinned up the officer related ranks a bit and introduced a new rank, Deputy.  While the general rule is that a Deputy is an officer or 'retired' officer, this is not the entire scope of the title.  Deputy rank will be given to players who go above and beyond to support the guild, have demonstrated a natural ability to lead, have the ability to deal with and adapt to situations, and are generally aware of enough of the mechanics of the game to be able to assist others.  To that end, I would like to introduce the latest Deputy: Giddy

Flatline is recruiting raiders for ICC25 runs. We currently have 2 scheduled raids per week:  Raid 1- Tues-Wednesday, 6:40pm - 10pm  and  Raid2 on Thursdays, 7:40pm invites.  At the moment, Raid1 has 6/9 bosses in ICC down, and Raid2 is 4/9.

All classes and specs are encouraged to apply, but our primary focus is on finding the following:  
Healers: Shaman and Druid
Casters: Warlocks and Shadow Priest
DPS:  Feral Druid, Hunter, or Warrior

We also host some 4-5 10m raids weekly, with the desire to add a couple more to the schedule to accomidate everything interested in raiding and gearing up.

Feel free to submit an application, or seek out Voden, Skandelous or Cornelius in game to discuss possible openings!

Raid1 uses a 'loot council' system that strives to spread the loot in a balanced and advantageous way for the raid.  Raid2 is using open rolls, but will be moving to a DKP system of some sort soon so as to be able to reward the dedicated raiders who tirelessly show up and do their job.

Skandelous has graciously accepted the position as 10m Liaison Officer, placing him squarely in the middle of all the 10m raids running.  His primary duties will be to assist new 10m runs forming, sort of keeping a mental list of who is running in each of the established runs, and providing support to any of the 10m runs to the best of his ability. 

In an effort to meet the desires and goals of our members, I humbly ask that if you have a concern or care, or something that you just want to ask or suggest, please feel free to do so.  With recent discussions on how to handle loot, loot priority and much more, it is clear that we have some folks that have strong ideas, suggestions and opinion, and I would like to try to incorporate as many of the great ideas I can. So, starting with the issue of loot, and please see the newest poll in regards to that, I'd like to invite everyone to express their opinions and suggestions. 

With Kerianseray taking a break from the game to focus on studies and schooling, we were left with a BIG void to fill.  Dimm has graciously accepted the position of DKP and Banking officer, and will be collecting the DKP donations, tracking DKP in raid and helping to manage the guild bank for success. 

Grats to the weekly 25 man raid for downing Anub, and as a follow up, the 10m weekend raid for following suit! Some excellent progress by everyone this week!