Thanks to everyone that came:

  Balamar
  Bubbleoseven
  Casba
  Cyklik
  Destivus
  Johnato
  Kolatd
  Oussal
  Ryusharak
  Shazril
(Sunday’s run included   Gordita up through Sindragosa)

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On a positive note, we are able to pretty much one shot all of ICC up to Lich King (even with a pug or two).  Sindragosa was a 3 shot last night, cause I was tanking it for the first time and it is a scary fight to tank for the first time…not gonna lie.  We 2 shotted blood queen, but that doesn’t count, cause she was on heroic mode.

I think our biggest pitfall of every attempt at Lich King so far has been inconsistency.  We have yet to have the same people on Sunday as we do on Monday.  So we have to sub in, switch, or pick up pugs, which is a complete breakdown in the rhythm and flow we just built up during the previous night of bosses.  You definitely pick up a rhythm and set of expectations as you go through, but then those get tossed out cause we add someone to the raid who does a different level of DPS or takes different fluxes in damage.  It throws off your expectations (i.e., I know that i can go x amount more time before throwing the big heal).

So, I think until we get a consistent group, we will continue to struggle and get butt stomped by Arthas.

…sigh

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Feel free to post about SC2 and let us know what server you’re on (I think with that RealID, we’ll be able to find each other, but just in case).

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Before heading in, make sure to pick up the quests for the instance so you don’t miss out on 5 frost emblems! [Assault On The Sanctum] started by Krasus on top of the Temple, which leads to [The Twilight Destroyer].

Strategies and video guides when you click “Read More”.

Taken from Wowhead,

Overview

Having defeated his three lieutenants, the path to Halion will become available to you. He is a three-phase fight that requires 2 tanks and whatever number of healers you feel most comfortable with. Begin the encounter by having one of your tanks drag Halion close to one of the sides of the circle of fire that the dragon will spawn. You want to leave your raid as much room to maneuver as possible. It’s a good idea to have your melee DPS attack the boss from next to the hind leg, with the casters a little further back, but away from the center of the body, closer to the edge of the fire circle.

Only two abilities might cause problems during the first phase of this fight. Fiery Combustion is a debuff applied to a random (ranged?) raider and it ticks for some healable Fire damage and applies a stackable Mark of Combustion every time it ticks. When it’s removed – by either magic remove, curse remove, or after 30 seconds – it will cause the raider to explode, doing Fire damage and knockback to everyone around them. The problem comes from the fire “void zone” the player spawns when they explode – it increases in size and possibly damage with every stack Mark. You should have people with this debuff run away from the raid, where their debuff can be safely removed. Make sure those people don’t run to a location you plan on moving to, as the Combustions are quite big.

The second ability in this phase is Meteor Strike. It targets the ground underneath a random raider and drops a meteor on that location after about 5-6 seconds. The meteor does quite a bit of damage and shoots out lines of fire that resemble an ‘X’. Those should be easy to avoid – whenever one of them comes up, simply have the entire raid shift. Melee DPS can just switch to the front leg, and the tank can take a few steps back. If the tank has to move, make sure you all adjust. Halion will also cast a Flame Breath on the tank, like every self-respecting dragon should.

Phase 2 will begin at 75%. Halion will open a portal to the Twilight Realm, where the entire raid except for the main tank and their healer should join him. The dragon’s physical form will be immune to damage for the duration of this phase – from 75% to 50%. Inside the portal, Halion should be positioned in the middle, nobody but the tank in front of him. The Twilight phase is very similar to the normal one – Halion will Dark Breath instead of its Flame counterpart; he will do Mark of Consumption, which sucks people in as opposed to knocking them back; he also has a Shadow raid-wide damaging aura, Dark Shroud. He won’t do Meteor Strike – in its place he will summon two Shadow Pulsars. Those two orbs will spawn diametrically opposite of one another and will slowly circle the outskirts of the fighting area, always staying at the opposite ends of the circle. Soon after they spawn, they will shoot a beam that will connect them. As they continue to circle around the ring, the entire raid will have to shift with them so they don’t get hit by the beam. This phase will follow a pattern of 10 seconds beam, 20 seconds no-beam, 10 seconds beam again, and so on.

At 50% Halion will enter his third and last phase, the split phase. He will open two portals to the physical realm, which half of the raid should use to return to the MT and his or her healer. From this point on, your goal is to equalize the DPS in the two realms – the portals will remain open in case you need to make adjustments. Halion’s corporeality will go up and down based on how much damage you do to him. If the DPS in the physical realm is higher, the boss’ corporeality will decrease as he seeks sanctuary in the Twilight realm, and vice versa. In other words:

• Corporeality < 50% – Halion does and takes more damage in the Twilight Realm. He does and takes less damage in the physical one.
• Corporeality = 50% – Halion does and takes normal damage in both realms.
• Corporeality > 50% – Halion does and take more damage in the Physical Realm. He does and takes less damage in the twilight one.

You should try to keep Halion’s corporeality between 40% and 60%.

Phase 1: Physical Realm

• Twilight Precision – Increases Halion’s chance to hit by 5% and decreases all players’ chance to dodge by 20%.
• Flame Breath – Inflicts 17,500 to 22,500 Fire damage to players in front of Halion.
• Meteor Strike – Inflicts 18,750 to 21,250 Fire damage to enemies within 12 yards of the targeted area. Takes about 5 seconds to land. Shoots X-shaped lines of fire after it hits the ground.

• Fiery Combustion – Inflicts 4,000 Fire damage every 2 seconds for 30 seconds to a random raider. Every time Fiery Combustion does damage, it applies a stackable Mark of Combustion.

  • Mark of Combustion – Has no immediate effect on the target. When removed (by either magic-remover or curse-remover, or after 30 seconds) it causes a Combustion of size proportional the the number of Marks.
  • Combustion – Inflicts 2,625 to 3,375 Fire damage every second to targets that remain within the explosion area. Combustion has 6 yards radius. Also knocks nearby players back with Fiery Combustion.

Phase 2: Twilight Realm

• Twilight Precision – Increases Halion’s chance to hit by 5% and decreases all players’ chance to dodge by 20%.
• Dark Breath – Inflicts 17,500 to 22,500 Shadow damage to players in front of Halion.
• Dusk Shroud – Inflicts 3,000 Shadow damage every 2 seconds to everyone in the Twilight Realm.

• Shadow Pulsars – Summons two Shadow Pulsars at the two ends of one the fighting area’s diameters. The Pulsars slowly circle the area, beaming a Twilight Cutter for 10 seconds, then resting for 20 seconds, then beaming another Cutter.

  • Twilight Cutter – Inflicts 13,875 to 16,125 Shadow damage every second to players touched by the shadow beam.

• Soul Consumption – Inflicts 4,000 Shadow damage every 2 seconds for 30 seconds to a random raider. Every time Soul Consumption does damage, it applies a stackable Mark of Consumption.

  • Mark of Consumption – Has no immediate effect on the target. When removed (by either magic-remover or curse-remover, or after 30 seconds) it causes a Consumption of size proportional the the number of Marks.
  • Consumption – Inflicts 2,625 to 3,375 Shadow damage every second to targets that remain within the explosion area. Combustion has 6 yards radius. Also pulls nearby players to its center with Soul Consumption.

Phase 3: Split

• Twilight Precision – Increases Halion’s chance to hit by 5% and decreases all players’ chance to dodge by 20%.
• Corporeality – Halion takes and and does more damage in the realm he takes less damage in. At 0% and 100% Corporeality, Halion does and takes 400% extra damage in one of the realms, and no damage in the other.
• Physical Realm – Halion continues using his abilities from phase 1 when fighting players in the physical realm.
• Twilight Realm – Halion continues using his abilities from phase 2 when fighting players in the twilight realm.

Tankspot’s Video Guide can be found here:

The written guide is here: http://www.tankspot.com/showthread.php?67195-Halion-Encounter-Guide-Pre-Release.

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So, the theory is pretty simple…a guild has a pyramid type structure, with a CEO (GM), C-Suite (Officers), Management (Raiders), Staff (Members), Interns (Recruits).  Most guilds have a variety of skills, including raiding for gear/badges/rep/patterns, farming mats for sale/use/craft-to-consume/craft-to-sell/hoarding, and general progression through the game.  The guilds that progress further enable their members to do their trades better and faster.  For instance, a level 80 mage with a high gear score can pretty much go anywhere in the game and AOE farm mobs.  If that mage has just T9 badge gear, that farming is slower and more dangerous.  If that mage had T10 gear best-in-slot stuff, that farming is almost a sure thing.  Tedious, but guaranteed to go well (aka, overpowered).  On the other hand, a high gear score healer may not be so good at farming mobs, but is going to get queue pops and be invited to raids more.  So, you basically have departments/business units/entities/whatever-you-want-to-call-it that specialize in certain aspects of the company.  Those tasks, when used to contribute to the better good of the guild, turn into transactions for the guild.  If you take your trade and use to sell, and put those sales into the guild, the guild makes a profit.  If you start to organize, plan, and coordinate tasks, watch the market, and sell effectively, that profit gets much bigger.  The better the gear of the players, the faster that profit can be made. 

I suggest that people would invest in that type of activity (in-game with virtual currency…I’m not talking real-world gold farming here), in the hopes that their contribution to that guild would allow it to be more successful, and in-turn, provide money back to the investor in the forms of dividends or profit sharing. 

So, I started thinking, couldn’t you create a mod that was a quickbooks of sorts, that you could track financial activity in a guild?  This could then turn around and create financial statements on a periodic basis (I was thinking monthly).  Being a fairly liquid organization, the guild would have very few fixed assets (save it’s guild members), very little liabilities (unless they begin lending), but would have very tangible, real-world type transactions.  Start up costs include creating the guild (which requires some seed money to pay for the charter and potentially some signatures), full guild bank tabs (I think totalling 9350G), and some start-up cash in the GBank (need money to make money, right?). 

That requires some start-up cash – lets get some investors.  If you sold shares of your guild (say 1000 total shares at 500G each) you’d start with 50o,000G.  But really, who’s going to give away 50K?  No one, unless you’re an established guild with some armory data to support that you have the necessary tools to turn a profit.  So, it really requires an established guild, and some established financials.  Once you have that, you could have an IPO and sell some shares.  How to sell shares in game though?  I still haven’t quite figured that out…some ‘Made by MBTreasury’ items (that is, when you craft something like

Once you have capital, you use that money to make money – auction house.  I don’t know about your guild, but Mindbomb has some folks that like to play the auction house.  Some self-proclaimed farmers and crafters for profit.  Also, you continue to farm (raw materials either for goods sold or held for sale), run raids, sell raid runs, collect badges for

Once you start these transactions, you classify them, account for them, and track all activity.  You really need a CFO and accounting staff to keep track of all this.  Maybe a controller for each leg of the guild, responsible for reporting up to the general ledger.  Since you can track your auctions, your mail log, the auction market, your people’s acheivements and activity to an extent, all guild bank logs, etc. I think it would be reasonable to track the transactions for a guild.  Especially if you had an external collector/processor.  WoWhead/Curse/Thot and all those sites have written tracking data dumps – so, it’s possible to dump a log of activity upon logout that posts to a site that turns those activities into journal entries, which post to your ledger.  Again, with the right level of LUA coding (look at auctioneer/questhelper/etc.), you can do some real amazing things in-game.  Start parsing that data outside of game, and you really could import into quickbooks and have a real accounting system, that could post financial statments on a monthly basis.

Then, on a monthly (I think most wow players would throw a fit to have to wait quarterly…but something to consider…maybe every 45 days) basis, take your bottom line profits and redistribute back to your investors in dividends.  If you think about it, you buy 10 shares, the guild made a net profit of 100,000 gold in a month (very very possible if you have a guild concentrated on making money – we’ve made 0ver 10K in a week with only like 3 people workin hard), distributed back out at say a 50% dividend, to 500 shares, you’re looking at 100G per share for a month of doing nothing but putting up some money.  There are a TON of people that would put up a little bit of money to sit back and just get gold sent to them monthly.

I’d love some thoughts on this, and would be willing to kick it off if anyone wants to help code!

~Fatty

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Sindragosa 10-man:

Lich King 10-man:

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Piece/Emblems/Honor/Cost

• Hands / 50 / 43,300 / 766 honor per emblem
• Chest / 75 / 54,500 / 727 honor per emblem
• Head / 75 / 54,500 / 727 honor per emblem
• Shoulder / 50 / 34,700 / 694 honor per emblem
• Legs / 75 / 34,700 / 463 honor per emblem

So it makes sense to buy the Hands, Chest and Head with Emblems, the Shoulders with either or, and to get the Legs with honor (assuming you don’t have enough emblems for all 5.

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• Trial of the Crusader 10-man regular Tankspot guides
• Icecrown Citadael 10-man regular Tankspot guides

Just something to look at if you’re bored. This way we can roll through the entirety of ToC with ease, and most of the easy bosses in ICC as well.

-Bubble

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I think it would be nice for everyone to post their ‘wish list’ of 80 gear.  You can use the tooltip integration (check out this link for how to use).

Just testing out some of the tooltip integration, but also trying to put together a good list of things we need to gear up balamar with once he hits 80 so we can have a geared up tank:

Shazril:

Head:

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