Nearing the end of The Burning Crusade, I feel that I've failed in my primary duty of organizing guild "stuff". I'm unsure how to sort out this chicken-and-egg syndrome of not enjoying PvE due to no guild runs and masochistically running non-stop PvP to get the gear.

To combat this, I will be taking a much more proactive interest in the PvE progress of one of Shadowmoon's oldest guilds: Monkey Shines.

I've been avoiding "running a guild" as I burnt myself out on doing it in previous guilds. I feel that I have come up with a casual way to run a casual guild. My plan includes 2 days out of the week to run an instance; be it a regular, heroic, or raid. As we all know (or should, by now), a properly formed group will have a Tank, Healer, Crowd control, Ranged DPS, and Melee DPS. Most of us have more than one character at, or near, 70.

I would ask all of you to choose a main character and primary alt. This is not to restrict anyone. My biggest issue I had to deal with in any of the guilds I ran was the 'issue' of alts. If we establish a set of characters up-front, there will be no communication problems on expectations of our guild mates.

The next major issue to deal with is to determine who will play the selfless roles of tank/healer. As I look over the roster nearly everyone that is playing a class that can do either of those roles is currently spec'd out for solo-play. Again, no fault of anyone but leadership's. If you'd be willing to try out tank/healer; let me know. I will be more than willing to pick up the slack in the other department.

Initially we will need at least one more tank OR healer to begin current 5 man content, I'll pick up the other role. Eventually, I would like to see 2 tanks and 2 healers, with some hybrids that can switch mid-fight.

All of this will prepare our guild to get in the mindset of group questing/instancing/raiding for the incoming new content. I want to avoid 100% solo game play, and be able to provide a foot in the door of instances in the upcoming months.

Step 1: Tell me if you care about this, and give me feedback.
Step 2: Pick a Main and a role you are interested in.

Ok, so the night started out with me wanting to push to 44 on my warrior, Tueur. I had a ton of quests to do in Gadgetzan, 1/2 a level to go and some fresh gear from my previous run in Zul Farak with Cristia, Testudo and Zorlocky.

As Egaenil and I ran around doing some of the world quests, I leveled and unlocked a few more quests in ZF, so he kindly offered to take me through again. After the first run, I managed to get Sang'thraze the Deflector, and once we saw that, we reset the instance and went after Jang'thraze the Protector, which miraculously dropped on our first try! I can't use them both until I hit 45, which should be some time Thursday, but I think I'll re-spec to Fury to try out some dual wielding fun. :D

I don't really know how to best describe whats going on there... thousand words... thousand numbers....

this was the first attempt.

this was fun too, i just wish i could remember where we were......... any takers

we sure did have fun ! ohh look kelset was there too

Well.... If anybody needs the 2 of the main ingredients for a quest or instance group, I'm a one-stop shop!

Paladin is 70 Protection spec (Tank)
Druid is 70 Restoration spec (Healer)

Stats are in my siggy!

TBC Instances!

Hey all, now that I've got all my characters back in Monkey Shines, I'd like to offer up either of my 2 60+ t00ns for help and support in some of The Burning Crusade instances.

After talking with Doodie, it sounds like there is some clamoring about getting our hands dirty with some new instance content. I've done just about all of the instances at least once, and the earlier ones quite a few times. I'd be happy to help out in healing or tanking, which ever we need more.

The best times for me currently will be Tuesday and Thursday nights, and shortly I'll be able to do Saturday and Sunday runs. (My basement is fast nearing completion!)

Let me know if anyone else is interested! It looks like the players we have 58+ will make up some interesting groups!

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