Hola Checkmates and Ravencrestians.
I am just posting a really quick update on recruitment needs.
WE REALLY WANT HEALERS.
OF ALL SPECS.
AND OF ALL KINDS.

If you are a healer and plan to have a 100% attendence please apply.
Don't worry about your gear too much as long as its raid viable and gemed,enchanted properly just go ahead and give it a go.

Peaceout.

Hola fellow Checkmates.
I am writting this to inform you that we are currently thinking of implementing a system which would allow us to have 2 hours to work on hard modes during thursday and 2hours to clear anything left unclear.
Friday for now will be spent on Lich king only.
After he dies(hopefully next week) the way we will work is as planned when we first started with Thursday being the progression day and Friday being the finish off day.
Of course with ICC being short(it is a short raid it's farmed 12/12 in normal in less than 2hours with an experienced group) we have to focus on other things o.0 .
Cataclysm is drawing near too so we need long time plans.
This is where monday comes in.
Monday will be a day that you REALLY enjoy.
What we will be doing includes:

-Ulduar 25!!Glory runs.
-Ulduar 25!! Alone in the darkness mount runs.
-Togc25 runs.
-Immortal Naxx runs.
-PvP events.

So far this isn't in plan but will be soon.
We hope you like this change so leave us any feedback you might think of.

-K

Good job everyone...

Cataclysm Friends & Family Alpha
The Cataclysm Friends & Family Alpha just started. The banner below was taken from the official site where people eligible for the alpha can already copy their character. Let's roll.

Important: The Friends & Family Alpha is restricted to employee's friends and family, the only way to enter this phase of the alpha is to have a Blizzard employee request a key for you personally. Any mail you receive about a potential Cataclysm beta is a scam.

Quote from: Zarhym (Source)
Yes, we can confirm that the Family & Friends phase of the testing process for World of Warcraft: Cataclysm has begun. The closed beta test phase has not yet started, but we will provide updated information when it does.

What does this mean?
This mean we better start leveling our alts.
I for one will transfer my DK as soon as possible to start leveling it.

What will you do?

This week is going to be for me our real first raiding week.
Last time we had to pug we had a less than average setup and so on.
Today we are 100% ready to start raiding seriously.
The plan is going to be to go muscle by muscle against Lord Marrowgar on Hard mode.
When I say muscle to muscle it's because Lord Marrowgar has no gimmicks no tricks nothing just pure movement dps and healing brute force.
I don't think we will spend that long on Marrowgar due to the fact that it is the simple encounter just tuned up pretty much.

After this we will relax on gunship have some fun get some loot and go on deathbringer right after.
I am not sure what the plan is for deathbringer so far it will depend on how good we are on marrowgar.
Rotface is next (totally unrelated to me wanting an HC DFO).This again should be an easy fight.Last week on normal it was VERY messy however we will be much more communicative this week.
Again Festergut is a big ??????? what will happen?What do we do? If we are on a lucky strike it should be an easy fight.
Blood princes and blood queen will go down on normal.(Last week's Blood queen trys where messy).
Oh of course we will also kill putricide on the way this proved to be no challenge last week.

If we still have some time Dreamwalker will go down on hard mode if not then oh well we tried at least.(It is not an easy encounter on hard mode).

Syndragosa and Lich king will be left for tomorow.

Cheers for reading.
Get ready for the road to war.

I would like you all to checkout hard mode videos.
I don't want any: I don't know what to do.