Hi everyone we are trying for a mostly Vees Gruuls Lair run on Friday night in place of the normal Kara run.  Please sign up with the in game Calendar. Veebat is the event creator and will attempt to be on every night this week to take care of sign ups questions etc. If you signed up for Kara in the web Calendar I have moved your name over to the in game calendar.

Here are a couple resources that everyone should read so that we all understand what needs to be done by each role.

High King Mulgar (Pictures too!)

http://www.anikki.com/do/viewtopic.php?p=14174

http://www.bosskillers.com/cgi-bin/bbguild/index.cgi?action=view_guide&guide_id=22&sid=WFzPsjEyZ8

Gruul

http://www.bosskillers.com/cgi-bin/bbguild/index.cgi?action=view_guide&guide_id=7&sid=WFzPsjEyZ8

And this one from Slashignore and is one of the best descriptions of the Gruul fight and presents some very good ideas for avoiding the damage from ground slam and other AOE attacks he has.

http://www.consummatevees.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=141

Hi, Folks!  We’re trying to gather all the Vees from far and wide for a Guild meeting Saturday evening at 7:30 server time.  Hope to see you there!

I’ve made some changes to the Forum layout, consolidating some of the less used subforums and creating some new ones.

Please have a look and leave feedback/suggestions. Thanks!

Its seems that I have some problems to work out within our raiding system for the Vees. I apologize to those that have been skipped over or left out of the runs. With the recent additions of new members and new level 70s we have gone from not being able to fill a ten man Karazan run to having more people than slots for the weekend runs.

I want to take stock of who and what classes the Vees currently have at 70 or are making their way up. Please leave a comment on this post with the role you wish to fill, either tanking, dps or healing so I can take stock of what we have for class balance. My hope is to start putting together a second Kara run with in the next couple weeks.

While I would like to see everyone get a raid spot based on sign up order, this is proving to be very difficult and stressful for those trying to organize these events. I want to make sure that all of our players are getting as much out of the guild as possible. It is proving not possible for me to keep everyone happy all the time. I am asking that everyone have patience while I try to get things organized.

A certain gear level and class balance across the raid will ensure that we can progress though the content with as few wipes as possible. To do this our raid leaders will need to build the raids to make sure that we can succeed in each try with as few problems as possible. This will mean that you may not get selected to raid every week if we are heavy on a certain class. This is the reason I want to try to get a second run into Kara, to give as many people as possible a chance to go.

Above all else I need some feed back. I am completely new to this and am feeling a little daunted by the task in front of me right now.

With the new people joining the Ceevees lately I figured I should add some slots to our ventrilo server.  So the Server will now handle up to 25 people at a time.  I am hoping that this will hold us over until we start runing some 25 man content.

Nothing else has changed with the vent server and all your setting should remain the same.  If you have any questions or problems please ask Vicerunner, Veebat or Vitorio in game for help.

Here are the stats for the 2006-01-26 run

Kara

Ok I have been playing with Wow webstats here is my first attempt at a report.

Kara Report

Ok everyone I have the new raid calendar up and running at http://www.consumatevees.net/phpraid/

Once you get on the site, click the Register link and create an account.  If possbile use your main characters name so I can keep track of who is who.  If may take me a day or two to get your names authorized as it has to be done manual.  If you want it faster poke Vice in game and remind him.

Once you have your account you need to go into the Profile menu and create your characters so that you can create and sign up for raids and instance runs.

If you have questions please contact Vice and he will answer you.

I keep getting requests for information on Group Calendar and how to setup the add-on once its installed. So here it is if you have any problems you can message me in game or send email to Vicerunner@gmail.com

The Group Calendar add-on allows the Vees to plan instance and raid runs in advance and for people to sign up before the event starts. There are however a few things that need to be done on your copy of the game before this can happen.

As this post is getting rather long I will post a How to use group calendar in another post so not to bore too many people to death.

First you must download the addon from a trusted site. Here is a link to the site I use. Remember you must update this add-on after each patch, it can take a a week or two for the add-on to get updated after a patch.

Curse Gaming – Group Calendar -

Once you have downloaded the file you need to extract the file from the archive. With windows you can do this with a right click on the file and select “extract all” from the menu. This will unpack the archive so that you can install it.

To install the add-on you need to copy the directory and all its contents to the addon folder in your WoW installation. To do this find your World of Warcraft addons folder.

For Windows this folder is normaly under C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns

Once you have copied the file there you then need to start World of Warcraft. To access the calendar you need to click on the Clock icon on your mini map. (See the screen shoot below)

To be able to access the Ceevees event you will need to be able to check a few settings to make sure they are correct. This is not difficult and will only take a few seconds.

Click the setup tab on the bottom of the group calendar window. You will be present with the setup tab. Ensure that your settings match the picture below and you will be able to access and post new events in the calendar.

These setting are

Configuration: Automatic

The Box Use Guild data channel must be checked.

Just a few notes on the setup tab and its importance.

On this tab you can see the green text. This text will be green or red telling you the status of the data channel that is in use. When the add-on starts it will try and find the guild data channel and connect to it. This connection can take around 5 minutes to complete and you may not get all the events in system for this time. If at any time you think that you are not getting or sending data you should check this tab to see what the status of the channel is.

If the button labeled Disconnect says Connect this means that you, for some reason, have been disconnected from the data channel and you should click this button to reconnect to the system to send and receive events in the calendar.

So I was thinking.

I know I know its a bad thing sometimes.

Would anyone be interested in trying a few speed runs in the old world dungeons?

What I am thinking is how fast can 3,4,5 of us clear say BRD, Strat or any other instance for that matter.  Maybe see how fast we can do a baron run.

Anyone interested?