Warlords of Draenor Planning

It’s early yet with the upcoming expansion not even in public beta but this hasn’t prevented some members of the guild from thinking ahead to what we hope to achieve in Warlords of Draenor. This guild will be as strong as ever when the new expansion hits and there’s no harm in putting our heads together to come up with a few plans in an attempt to keep people motivated to play right up until the day Pandaria takes a back seat on Azeroth.

I personally have no intention of taking any breaks from the game anytime so it’s in my own interest to make my own plans to satisfy my own character needs. You Dambusters will also no doubt have unfinished business about the game. Now is a good time to be running for achievements you haven’t attained yet, finishing off quest lines if you want to complete Pandaria’s lore achievements etc.

For me -and notable others- a recent upsurge in PvP activity has really revitalised my love for my hunter and PvP in general. Now is the perfect time to get into season 15 because since it’s so early in the season, nobody is fully geared with the Prideful ilvl 550 set, a very select minority have the conquest weapon thus far although many more will by cease play on Wednesday night, including myself and some other hardworking Dambusters. So, we are all still easily within arm’s reach of anyone starting out for the PvP season so if it’s something you’ve been wanting to get involved with, now is a great time to start.

Having just free-boosted 3 new lvl 90 characters and geared them via Timeless Isle, my rekindled love for smashing faces on Bigticket has come at a busy time. I now find myself loving random battlegrounds, arenas and kicking butts outside the horde PvP vendor on my own, ofcourse Timeless Isle is a total playground for a well-geared beastmaster too.

Anyway, regarding the future of raiding…
It’s apparent to me that both raid teams are lacking in attendance so as far as I can tell at this moment, we will continue down the route we are heading with the 2 current teams and then see how we get on before thinking much more about Mythics. The other thing is that I will need a raid leader partnership with suitable motivation and dedication to pull any forthcoming Mythic team together from the 2 heroic(currently normals) teams. Right now, there is nobody in the guild with the amount of time and raiding brainpower needed to set up such a determined 20 man team with the social Dambusters excellence I need of such a leader.

The person I’m looking for could well be right in our ranks or they could be someone we have yet to meet. I have my eye on a few potential mythic raid leaders but I am looking for people to come to me at this stage with plans for the future. It really needs a partnership who get on very well and have plenty of time to put into planning and orchestrating such a team. As I said recently in a pre-meeting discussion on mumble: raiders will need to be clearing WoD heroics in the first tier of the new expansion before the guild can consider mythic level raiding.

At the time, I suggested that raiders would have to be able to do both heroics and Mythics in each lockout week and although that might still be the case during heroic farming times when the mythic team might be in it’s infancy, but of course the heroic team will need to be back-filled with new members as the more determined mythic team members push more away from the heroics and onto full time mythic progression.

This is all just a theory when we still need a leading partnership for such a venture but it’s no way beyond our capability to set that up. Time will tell, the commitment of the raiders will shine through and the guild will continue rewarding hard working and friendly people as much as we can. What is for sure is that there is a definite appetite for Mythics within the guild so it’s my job to do my best and pull it together if possible.

I’m looking forward to our upcoming guild meeting at the beginning of April because we have a lot to talk about regarding our future and how we plan to maintain the excellent standards set by our officers.

/Salute