5 Year Old

The Dambusters will be fully 5 years old on the 26th of July!

What an amazing amount has happened over the years since I founded the guild back during Wrath of the Lich King. There’s been a steep learning curve throughout and although it’s been a bumpy ride, there are times when leading the guild has been immensely satisfying. The journey we have been on has been really exciting and the people who have come and gone have taught me a lot about how to manage people in this type of environment while trying to improve upon my game knowledge as much as possible.

There are stalwart members of this community who have stood by us through thick and thin and it really shows these days as our members tend to really feel they are part of the family and trust that the decisions being made at the top of the guild are for the benefit of the guild overall.

I enjoy reminiscing of the days when Crimsonious, Icebabe, Bås, Annelie, Boffelballe, Twingol, Manacle, Tealaria, Airyfairy, Era and countless other great friends were plying their prospective trades around Xavius. This guild were on Xavius when the great Method arrived, we were also there when certain other not so great raiding guilds arrived and The Dambusters always carried a strong and respected name around the server even among our horde rivals.

We still have people like Dreadzone(Maryhinge) and ofcourse Pocahunter(with her many alts) from those days. Diputs has been here a long long time as well as Dambusters legends such as Friday, Spyrot, Illia, Devilslotus, Horcore, Crystiel, Grim, Drsup and the brother Tinh/Thanh although these lads don’t get much game time these days.

There are countless who have come and gone or stayed with us and moved server to be here. Each one of you has affected the guild in some way and having had the opportunity to talk to every single one of you at some stage or other, I have learned well how to manage the guild.

The Dambusters will celebrate our anniversary by devoting a day on Saturday the 26th of July to pure guild fun! I will be talking more about this at the next Mumble meeting on the 5th of July and we will try to lock in some events for the day. Please try and clear your schedules for that full day if you can. Sleep well before it and be prepared to get very drunk in game at the wake of our annual march in memory of fallen Dambusters. We will tear up Stormwind with booze, destroy all horde on Timeless Isle and no doubt you will all get to have a pop at Spyrot, myself and the other officers in a free-for-all Battle Royale in the Gurubashi Arena for a big prize!

I am preparing for around 100,000 gold in prizes and at least 1 rare mount and possibly other TCG prizes. I hope to have a ‘Flag of Ownership‘ to give away on the day, which is possibly the most OP item you can get in the game!

I am hoping to carry out a gnome event where all Dambusters are to create a level 1 gnome and go for a run around. I fully expect that to get rowdy and no doubt we will come up with yet another reason to dish out some prize money. In addition, and as is the tradition at these events – the guild TOTAL activity list will be looked at and prizes will lean heavily on the top players in the guild. I also hope to get some sort of MVP style vote for the guild overall player of the year and possibly a vote for your favourite officer!

There is much to discuss and plenty of fun to be had. I know we are currently in the middle of a lull period with WoW as we await the new expansion but for me, there is nothing different. It’s an excuse for me to work on my alt characters and have a wide choice available to me regards which to level first as my ‘planned main’ for raiding in WoD. I understand not everyone shared my out and out devotion to the game but I hope that you will all consider boosting your WoW time for the next few weeks and maybe get those legendary cloaks on your alts (or mains if you are still hunting for it) meanwhile boosting your own weekly and total activity ratings. If you feel you are far down the list, try not to think you’ve already lost. We have had numerous dark horse Dambusters appear out of nowhere on our anniversary days and walk away with mounts and massive prizes so get involved, don’t be shy!

Can’t wait to really start putting stuff into place for this big day, any thoughts or ideas then please bring them forward for consideration but try to keep it simple 🙂

/Salute