About The Ascended!
The blade sank deep into the betrayers Torso, Kneeling down staring at the blindfold across the demons eyes he understood, he reached out, and took it, wrapping it around his face and turning to face his companions. His vision distorted slightly but then coming into perfect clarity, he saw them as he never had before, every strength and weakness outlined in perfect detail.
“We have done what we set out to do, we have defeated him, now our work is done, the wars here are some one elses responsibility now, the debt is paid in full”.
With that he turned and walked out of the ruins of Karabor, the Draenai and their Broken family would be responsible for what happened next.
“We will send expiditions to Northrend then, the path will be open again soon, and it will be time to face the one who calls him self king.”
It was decided, from the ashes of the old, a new order would be forged, a group intent on spearheading the reclamation of Northrend from Arthas and putting an end to his threat. They would make up the first and front line in this new war that would come. Each who is accepted must have proved him or her self in battle before, this would be a war like any other. They could not fail, or falter, a new frontier awaited… with whisperings of new and ancient evils and great good to be found.
“You will be known as those who go first into battle, you are each chosen for your skill and ingenuity, you are those who have already gone above and beyond the call of duty, you are the Ascended, and you are to be a beacon of light in this land of shadow and death”.
As he said the words, Quinn looked at the few friends who had come with him this far “We will need many more, we will need to show them our way and hope they accept it fast enough to make a difference”.
The Ascended
is a Roleplay friendly Raiding guild, our members seek three distinct goals all equally and at the same time.
First, we seek to fight, to test our skills in encounter after encounter and find the joy of overcoming them as a team and as a group of friends. Not for shinies, not for bragging rights but simply to prove we can do it. That said we wish to be at the cutting edge of the servers progress and as such will endeavour to provide high quality raids.
Second, We seek to be at the front end of raiding progress on this server, however such progress will come only in a way that is right, we will not abandon friends or cast off people who are not optimal for a particular set up. We will pride our selves on the friendships formed inside this world, and not cast them aside when they become inconvenient. Our Ethos will be to create a group of friends who enjoy each others company and THEN to provide this group with a solid base to showcase their skills.
Third we seek to integrate and become part of the lore of the realm always remembering this is a roleplay server and doing our best to encourage that aspect of play.
To Achieve these goals we require people who fit the following description.
Players who understand their class, understand its role and its purpose and who seek to constantly improve for the sheer fun of it, who wish to spend their evening in the company of others, laughing and joking. As such a sense of humour is as important as playing skills, Focus and discipline are good, but this is also a game, for fun, if raiding and often dieing is not your idea of fun, if building towards the goal of a first kill is not your idea of fun, then this may not be the place for you.
Reliability.
While real life must always come first, committing your time to the people in this guild is just that, a time commitment if you say “I am with you” then you need to mean it.
Fun,
if you want an autocratic raid that never stops just to laugh and mock each other, and question each others orientation then look away now. If on the other hand you want to see content, raid hard laugh hard and play as friends keep reading.
Adding to the atmosphere of the server,
Players must understand this is an RP server and endeavour to at the very least not disrupt this, there will be incentives to be involved in RP events on days off.
When will we raid
We will have 4 raids per week for 25 man content, these will be spread out over the week and weekend, attendance for 7 of these per 2 weeks is mandatory, falling below this mark may result in us seeking to recruit a new person and offering you a reserve/social member spot. It is our desire to keep our roster small so as to encourage good social interaction as well as prevent over-farming of cleared content. Real life comes first, we understand and encourage this, but as a guild while we will always keep you close, we cannot ask 24 other people to put their time on hold to accomadate this, that said if we can work around it we will endeavour to do so but we will.
Our Roster will be ideally be as small as possible with a few additional members beyond the 25 required to raid.
When we say additional we do not mean never raiding, our generic raid setup will vary and we will ensure that everyone on the roster gets his or her fair share of raid time. There will be no first or second choice group, everyone will be treat equally with regards to getting a chance to raid. Once you get the chance it will be up to you to make the most of it. Make your self indispensable.
Our Philosophy.
We will use a DKP system for loot distribution, loot council rules may be invoked by the management as a LAST resort and only if it is a clear and justifiable need. IE we are struggling on a boss due to the tank getting 2 shot, a token drops that the tank needs we MAY award this to the tank BUT there will be recompense for people who lose out. Loot council will ONLY be invoked as a last resort. DKP is a reward for raiding when you don’t get loot, it is to be used to gain loot in subsequent raids and improve the performance of you as an individual and part of a team, the emphasis being on team.
Wipe as friends or kill as foes?. We believe strongly that a raid is a social event, as such we will endeavour to make the raid successful as well as enjoyable, you will accept that at times things will not go perfectly and you will do your best to laugh off these occasions and keep morale high. In short I personally prefer to wipe laughing than die cursing everyone and I hope the 24 people around me would feel the same.
We will not over recruit. We will keep our team small to foster a sense of belonging and social structure as well as to enable faster progress. If needs be we will use consistently skilled and reliable members alts to cover short falls. This will be known as utility alts and the chance to have a utility alt will be offered to individuals by the management. Utility alts will be a second main, and will have special rules attached. In this sense we will seek to keep the guild manageable.
25 man first. We will do 10 man content for fun, and perhaps initially as out main focus but 25 man will be our main aim.
Be the best you can be. No matter how small an upgrade is an upgrade, take pride in making your character the best it can, if there is something outside of raids that will improve you, go for it.
Work as a team, this guild will not be about you, or your individual performance but how you fit in socially and skilfully with the team, as such both in and out of raid you will work with your self and your guild mates to improve each other.
Respect, no one will ever be publicly singled out for harsh critique, any commentary will be done discreetly via whispers. Praise however will be done publicly, in return you will do likewise, if your co-raider is underperforming you will encourage them rather than berate them, and we will do the same. This is a social hobby and just because it is on the internet does not mean you will not be required to still treat each other with respect.