Still a social levelling guild……..

…………but a social levelling guild with a proud raid team who have completed the end game!   A few of the team already had the Destroyer’s End title due to successful pugs but most of us had not completed the raid in normal mode until last night.  More importantly, we did it as a group of Dambusters and with great gusto!

Next Wednesday we begin our attempts on Heroic modes starting with Heroic Morchok and then going for another full clear on normal.  It’s taken us a long time to assemble a group of friends from the guild capable of achieving end-game boss kills together but we have been lucky to have had excellent raid leaders to amalgamate our teams this patch.

It’s been a crazy journey for the last few years as a member of the Dambusters guild. I’ve learned a lot about guild leadership and most of it has been learned the hard way, by experience of burned fingers.  From gold sellers robbing the guild bank to people joining on all kinds of characters and worming their way up the ranks on multiple characters before robing the guild bank on all characters and leaving us.  I’ve even had a ‘trusted’ friend who requested a temp promotion to remove a certain item from the guild bank who actually abused that 30 second promotion, proceeded to withdraw his full 1000g bank allowance for the temp rank and /gquit then log out!  I know right?  WANKER   ….and for 1000g??  pfft

Well all our work since the foundation of the guild had been worthwhile as we can now be considered to be a fore-runner of the levelling guilds on the server, even ahead in the progress parses than some ‘raiding guilds’ in the realm 😀   That is extremely satisfying.  I recall a certain group who left our ‘noob’ guild to create a raiding guild and poached some of our more skilled members only to fall miserably behind us in the raiding progress tables and are now effectively a disjointed mess with no leadership of note.  It’s sad to see that failure but equally makes a good point in our favour by underlining the solid status of the Dambusters at the moment.

Sure, we have our bickering from time to time like anyone else but we have learned how to deal with such things and we are going nowhere, that’s for sure!  You can be sure that I personally will never leave this guild and will never leave it in the hands of irresponsible people who have no idea about the incredible ethos we abide by here.

We may have a reasonably successful core raid team but we will always stick close to our roots as a social levelling family.  Never forget that our bracket in this realm is akin to the Trivium, the Levelling Agony and others who consider themselves non-raiding guilds.  Against them as friendly rivals, we fare very well so be proud of yourselves. People on the server know us well.

Remember we are all ambassadors for our Dambusters!