Google made a GPS: WOW map?

Google WOW maps? omg this is cool! ok not that useful.. as you'd have to alt tab or click tab outside of the game but .. if you really wanted to know what FPs connect to which ones and where to go herbing /mining i guess its good. lol as you can see i neither mine or herb.

http://mapwow.com/

Class Leads: Whuz tat?

Title: Class Lead
Definition: one person selected to represent their class.

Job Description
Interview potential applicants of that class, Advise others of the class as needed, make raid drafting recommendations, set raid requirements for the class, diplomat between class and raidleaders as needed. During raids one of of the healing class leads (priest, pally, druid, shaman) will take on the role of a healing lead directing, assigning healers to various groups and making sure coverage is good. Raid leaders know that in every raid there is 1 healing leader typing out orders in the background so they don't bother to assign healings.

Class leads are very important for big guilds as these people are selected from thier guild as the point person for all questions relating to thier class. Being the best priest won't win you the class lead slot. This position is usually given to someone who is well liked, good with people, a respected member, and knowledgeable about thier class, not afraid to stand up to raid leaders, gm. They're a buffer of sorts.

How did I get my class lead slot? (Me as the last priest class lead)
1.) needs to be a main .. no one will stand for an alt being class lead while the main goes raiding on his mage.

There were 3 competitors! zomg "G" was an up and coming raid leader, "S" was a strong advocate of S. Priests and lastly myself "E" a quiet person who knew her stuff. The others were too polar for the spot. "G" has a habit of offending some while getting his point accross, "S" well we all know his view .. it's shadowform or nothing. Lastly myself as "E" my easy going nature meant I got along with most of the officers, other leads, raid leaders, GM, and the guild. knowledgeable about my class .. i dunno there are at least 3-5 more knowledgable than me in all areas lol.

Anyways I had the stamp of approval from the previous class lead. HEh i guess I had the personality for the spot and learned the rest asap.

The piont of a class lead is that sometimes the class has an issue and instead of going to the GM or officer they go to thier lead..this is to free up the officers for bigger matters.

Otherwise I've organized our class forum's postings into 2 main stickies.
1.) Raid List who is cleared to raid what instance and armory link to thier gear - this way raid leaders can draft w/o waiting for feedback from me. I work so can't be online to answer stuff.

2.) Raid requirements (it's long but I did some research and came up with numbers that our priestly members need to meet before they start raiding. Basically i took a hardcore raiding guild's numbers and down ranked it a bit. This was so sucessful that our hunter lead copied it lol and i'm sure Raid leaders appreciate having all the info at thier finger tips so there were no more drafting mistakes of under geared people

3.) Library - links to reading material on specs, theory crafting, raids, you name it. This reading info would cover everything you can think of to ask your class lead .. so when i'm offline which is plenty people know where to go to get the info.

Guild hiarchy is sometimes like a goverment or company:
GM> Officers >Raid Leaders/Class Leaders>Members
CEO>Vice Presidents>Board of Directors>Department Heads>Employee
President>Cabinet Members>Senators>Govenors>Mayor>Citizens


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update: 8/26/08

I am now a retired class lead and have been since the guild rerolled a few months ago.. as the lowest leveled main and nonraider I stay away from suggestions comments and anything along the lines of advice. There is no way in hell any guild can have a class lead who does not raid there is only so much you can do from theory and it seeds resentment among the raider priests how they can have a lead who won't raid yet tells them how to raid. As non raider and lowbie .. i get to do whatever I want and not get drawn into the drama.

Anyways .. i point people in reading directions if they ask otherwise I just do my own thing. you know that is what it means to be retired. lol i guess i'm really in a special group .. i'll never be the average player even if i am the lowest level main. So I get asked for advice every now and then and now i'm an retired advisor since people are getting comfortable in thier class slots.

If needed they can even look up my old posts as class lead .. which i wrote up so all questions can be answer w/o me being online. Okies updated .. they took the old site oflfine. Ah well I'll recreate it here later

Guild Shopping !! A How to Guide:

Ok guild shopping i mean this in a good way. Before you join a guild any guild there are a few thigns to do.

RESEARCH: PREP WORK for Pre-Application

1.) what do you want to do in wow? raid, pvp, pve, small groups?
2.) watch trade chat .. see how members of the guilds you're interested behave .. if someone is acting like a jerk in trade no doubt he will be the same in gchat and annoy the hell out of you.
3.) invite people from guilds you are interested in for instances, pvp, or ask if they are intersted in going to xyz instance. This is to test player skill, personality, see how they react to a wipe and show off your stuff.
4.) repeat this 2x that should be enough time for you to get to know them and show off your stuff.
5.) by now hopefully you've made a friend or are on friendly terms with a few of your target guild .. ask about application

APPLICATION:
Things to look for, questions to ask, and what to share.

1.) Ask to see thier website and read everything, listen in on thier vent during a raid or instance,
2.) What's thier loot policy ? read the fine print see if it's something you can live with
3.) How do they pick slots for raiding? Do they have mandatory raid or wow time requirements?
4.) Do they have a class lead? Ask to talk to him or her via chat. Does the class lead sound like he knows his stuff? Open to suggestions or what not because that's your immediate supervisor.

While all this is going on you should be watching for is how people present themselves, is it l33t chat, loot linking, cussing, sexually derogatory wording racist etc. Would you be friends would these people in RL? Do you like hanging out with em?

POST Application: wait 1 week if no reply whisper an officer asking for an update, if it's in progress then wait a bit. no you dont' say invite me now! when ? now?. lol you may get the kick before you've been accepted.

Seriously a guild application is like a job application. What can you do for us? Why us? Who are you? Show us your personality. Read your app over! Spell check? Grammar? proof it? If you're like WTF why should i do all that this is just a game. Well then if that's your attitude then you wont fit in here cuz we take our game seriously and if you can't be bothered to make an effort why should we? Anyways a guild is a group of like minded people and if you dont agree with a guild starting from it's application ..then you dont' belong here.

Me? lawl I am an expert because i've been on the interviewing end as class lead and RL tons of job interviews. As class lead my job was to make sure that everyone I screen fits in our guild in both personality, policy, and goals. I only dealt with priests and alot of times it was listening and reading between the lines. I also reread our guild charter to remind myself who we are and what are our guild goals and ideals. This is to avoid the warp that is me. So yah. fun stuff.

Anyways with all this said this is how you find a good guild.

Life as an Unguilded Lone Wolf

Hi hi,
Life as an unguilded or a member of an inactive guild is a bit different than guilded. I enjoy the quite and peace but when it comes to instances its a pain cuz now i have to find the people, armory them then if spec and gear pass hopefully the player skill is there and they're aren't too weird.

So far in my groups I've met 1 super whiner, rude people, incompetent people and good players. So it helps to be group leader here so you have absolute control ofthe group. One thing that I will do is group kick people who are rude and or ninjas. Oh and pugs cannot be trusted so Master Loot stays on in case an epic drops or something cuz after someone ninjas kicking em does no good so keep this on.

Lawl while i dont' care about bop blues others do but epics that I don't want to see ninja looting and a little ML saves alot of drama. My rule of thumb is 3 deaths or 3 wipes and i'm done. I don't really care if it's a wipe, accident or whatever because if its early on that's just a sign that this group cannot handle the bosses so i'm better off with a new group.

Oh and lack of maturity .. if I join a group where it looks like a frat house well .. ok I can deal with it so long as I'm being run though or something BUT if it's a regular group i give you 1 warning and will kick on the 2nd offense. A few things that will earn you a kick from me : ninja afks, extended afks, bad connection, wipes caused by you, cybering, sexual harrasment, ninjaing, racist etc.. basically the same rules that any mature /decent guild will apply will hold in my runs.

Anyways that's the ramblings of a lone wolf ..the way i see it blizzard is forcing the loners to socialize with the rest of wow's population with these quests inside instances which are worth a ton of exp.

Meh I'm sure I can get into any guild I want... even the creme of the crop raiding guilds. Except I have no intention of handing over that much time to a guild. Dunno .. my first and only guild was that elite, mature, organized that I dont think there are many if any that will measure up so I dont' join any. lol you know originally when I first came to wow I decided that I want to be a member of one of the server's elite guilds if only for the guid tag so bro did some research and picked this one.

Well it was fun. Thank for the fish! Sadly but true things change as do people. I can't say if i've changed or if it was the guild. logic says it was me ..I became a casual wower and lost interest in raiding.
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update 8/26/08
btw as an unguilded level 1-70 toon people are so rude as to send you a random guild invite or worst shove a guild charter for me to sign. I use an addon to block them then whisper them 3g per signature and pretty soon i'll up it to 5g. Not that I need the gold but if people can't be bothered to whisper first and offer gold for my annoyance then I can't be bothered to sign. Or you'll have these pug groups that will send you a guild invite w/o saying anything it's like hello? do you not see something under my name? there's a reason for that. good. kk bye

Divided Loyalties: Did your guild reroll?

Whenever someone says reroll the first thing that comes to mind is what? how am i going to pay for everything w/o my AH Alt sugar daddy?

Recently my guild went inactive and rerolled onto hordeside. I did not go with them .. to me it felt like a sense of trust was betrayed .. you do not just take 2 years' worth of friendship, raids and just reroll w no discussion and what not.

So where did i go? lol no where and everywhere. I made a 2nd account rolled a level 1 on hordeside a placekeeper alt, and retreated in to my AH alts. and said screw this I'm going to do what I like best and that is making gold scoring a good deal and level with some RL friends/family. I only raided out of loyalty to the GM .. raiding was done for me some time in the AQ40 twin emps part. When T2 went out the window I was sad but with no end in sight .. I can't just reroll onto a new server to relevel from 1-70 just to raid? WTF that is not fun

So this leaves me in a tight spot. Some of my friends are still there .. while another bunch went to the new pve server so I made a compromise and got a 2nd wow account and rolled my alt on that acct so I could keep in touch with friends on both servers in my limited time. It's just like AIM with it's chat screens. downside i don't level at all

lol the side benefits are fun! PVE=Cross faction AH ! PVP= something about a little alliance or horde spy.

I now manage 5 AH alts: 2 on each server and faction and 1 on my guild's new server.
leveling 2 alts 1 on main server, 1 hordeside, 2 mini alts RPing as twins on my guild's reroll.

Funny i think i'm the lowest level main there ... i'm sure the guild will make a name for itself and admission will be selective. lol a normal level 5 can't possibly get in. I'm grandfathered in from old guild so the minimum level, gear and application stuff dont apply to me. Though the new members will probalby go WTF? how did this lowbie get in?.

Anyone back to the subject on gold. I didn't have any on this new server so it was a bit different. BUt hey i have 20g and level 15 ! that was from a few hours work on 1 day. erm i over priced a few things and cleaned house.

Some of the problems people had when they rerolled was that not everyone felt they fit in me i wanted some time off for myself so I purposely stayed in our inactive guild and didn't really log on much. othertimes were spent in the AH, leveling very casually a mage, pally. all on different servers.

Funny but the guild who i would call home is on the low level RP twin's server. I log in and get hellos .. otherwise my toons on other servers are all business elfs making it in gold and the occasional pug.

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updated 8/26/08

the former people left on old server reformed until a new guild tag but soon that too got disbanded and off people went to hard core raiding guilds or another big casual raiding guild type or RP guild. I didn't join them because I felt that w/o our old GM and the bunch it's not the same and if that's the case I'd much rather solo and only chat with people on my friends list and not have to deal with the other jerks in guild chat. as a free agent :) I dont care about drama or who's who so long as I get my loots or in my case peace and quiet.

Anyways .. i get lonely in wow and went over to other reroll server and tagged along with the GM and the bunch it's fun.

What types of guilds are there? PVP, PVE, RP ..eh>?

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What kinda guilds do you want to apply to? First you need to know what do you want out of the game? then see what's out there on your server, go meet some of their people see if you get along with em. THEN lastly do you apply.

Role Playing (RP) Guilds:
priority RP>PVE>PVP but storytelling is #1. They bond through the stories of their characters. These guilds are fairly easy to get into if you can find them that is. Your admittance ticket is usually a someone who is in the guild knows you and will sponsor you in. You will not find these guilds on trade chat going xyz guild is recruiting and if you have to ask are there RP guilds on this server .. then you are not going to fit in already. If you RP then naturally you will run into other RPers and will get to know them and which house they belong to.

Roleplaying (RP), or Role Playing, in World of Warcraft means taking on the role of a character and acting it out in-game through emotes, /say, /yell, and sometimes other channels. Players may also participate in roleplay outside the game by posting on blogs, wikis, or forums (official or otherwise). Roleplaying has similarities to improvisational theater, with the participants acting out characters in unscripted situations. The character's personality, goals, morals, and quirks may resemble that of the player or be completely different. Regardless, roleplayers recognize a boundary between what is in character and what is out of character.

Family Guild: guilds that cater to families kids and have strict policies on Xrated stuff, violence, cussing, basically if you can't say it to your grandmother and little 5 year old nephew at dinner then you can't use it in this type of guild. The focus is on playing with your family and keeping em in a safe enviornment. My view .. WTF is a 4-10 year old doing on wow? Sorry but this stuff is potent you should be making an informed decision you dont' hook a 5 year old on drugs until he's able to make that decision as bad as it is himself.

PVP Guild: as it's name says they do pvp and they're serious about it.

Casual Guild: They mainly band to gether to elvel, exp, kill stuff and have no requirements to get into

Casual Raiding Guild: This is a combo of casual, family, rp and raiding. A good combination of this sort includes maturity .. and that last part is hard to come by. the main differences between this and a hard core raiding guild is that there are no required amount of raiding time per person a week. what is required is that if you sign up for a raid you are expected to stay, be geared for the intsance, prepped, and know your role in the scheme of things and follow orders.
Basically it's off duty = rp, casual, family oriented guid but come raid time this group morphs into a disciplined raid able to take on high level raid bosses and win. These types of guilds usually have a core raider team who's members function almost like a hardcore raiding guild but have thier nonraiding family and friends in it as well. I was in a guild that was like that :) I'm happy. OH and did i mention turn over is super low in here and it's super hard to get into because people inside want to make sure you share the same vaules and maturity level before they let you in.

Hard Core Raiding Guild: Basically your cream of the crop best guild on the server, they usually run a tight ship and resembles a military strike team when in action. Getting results is all that matters in these guild. Turn over is high as is stress.

wowwiki definition: a guild, guild alliance, or raiding organization that places focus on progressing and farming raid content.

Typically contain at least 50 to 100 members, most of whom are level 70 or the max level for the times, and ranging from moderate to high in skill level.

• Founders and core members tend to be hardcore players and casual players are rarely allowed, but some of the very large (200+) raiding guilds accommodate players of all types.
• They tend to be strict in their recruitment practices, having limited periods of time in which they search for more of certain classes (usually to replace members who have left).
• They also tend to have detailed systems for distributing loot acquired from raids, often some variant of DKP. Sometimes this leads to "loot drama".
• They often have insensitive attitudes towards members who don't participate in raids frequently enough.

First Raid in 6 months

Woot i just finished my first raid in 6 months ..

Sigh this is also my first raid outside of a guild *long story*

I logged in and said i'm gonna raid a bit and alt a bit and lets see what LFG channel has up.

Karazhan (PUG) pick up group I made it a point to ask if it was a new instance or what boss they were at because any group that is at maiden or curator and is asking for replacements it's a sign that thier members aren't geared for the instance and would be a waste of my time to join them and get locked out of a raid for the week. Lol this is all guess work of course but my $15 so it's be geared or be out. While i can't lead a raid I can damm well make sure it will go smoothly if you're epicced out.

Anyways it was Karazhan full clear in 3.5 hours with the following loots: T4 gloves, Healing chest, Healing belt + 2 void crystals + 30x Badges. Lol anyways my goal is to get a full boomkin gear set and roll need on any trinkets i see.

Result: POST raid: I am tired! okies this is why i don't raid and haven't raided in over 6 months the sheer repetitiveness is boring. and all these epics will be come purple garbage in a few months so i'll just level some alts and make gold.