Legacy of Oblivion

After more than two years, the expansion has finally arrived. Let us rejoice.

Over the last couple of days the officers and veterans have been putting their heads together to discuss where we currently are as a group, and how we’re going to tackle the expansion. Back at home on the Horde, we find ourselves basically in the same boat we were in when Patch 1.10 was released. At this point in time, we do not even have the manpower (or womanpower) to split into two groups, and with most of the new instances that we need to dominate restricted to 5-man, this calls for a solution. Never fear, fellow LoOnies; impending doom has never stopped us before. Around here, we look Doom square in the eye - and then steal his lunch money and shove him into a locker. We put our heads together and did unspeakable things to come up with the best plan going forward.

Air Supply. That’s what you get for letting me play your priest.

Because the expansion is new, we’re still having issues with server crashes and long queue waits.

As Arcadi posted in the member forum, this week we will let people explore, make noobs, do quests, have fun. A formal guild raid will not be scheduled until the following weekend so we can get acclimated and maybe figure out where some of these instances are.

LoO is going to be changing our raid schedule. Because, as I said earlier, the instances we can get to now are all 5-man and we will not have 10 people to split down the middle into two neat groups, we will now have two raid nights every week when we raid Horde. Zug will take a group on Sunday nights, and Thundrax will take a group on a different night (that night is currently TBD). This will give people a chance to raid at least once a week, and those who would like to raid more than that can fill in the vacancies in the opposing group. We will not be assigning people to groups because that has a tendancy to evolve into cliques - and that’s a slippery slope. We will sign up for raids on the forums, just like we did before. Please only sign up for one group and when there are vacancies in groups, we’ll open it up for anyone else who would like an extra raid night. We also plan to try and use the LFG tool with some of our vacancies to find new recruits. As an aside, the Alliance raid will still take place every third week. If you have questions about the new raid night format, please post it in the members forum under Arcadi’s post and someone will answer your question.

But wait, there’s more! Because there are new races, we will be putting together a regular horde noob group for anyone who would like a group to level up a new character with. More information to come on the boards. We also will be reinstituting an old custom - LoO Quest Night. For those of you who are not familiar with this, it’s for anyone who has elite quests and needs help. Please keep in mind that these are for the one-off quest, and not for quests that require instances. If you have instance-related quests, we will handle that in the same way we did in the past by posting a group on the forums.

I’m looking forward to another successful year in LoO!