Hey guys, I’m sure a few of you have heard of the new MMO coming out called Star Wars: The Old Republic. Just as a PSA letting you guys know that The Blessed will be having a guild in that game which will have my self, Palopit, as well as undoubtedly a few other folks who find them selves in TOR from WoW. Now before you worry, I’ll still be in WoW too doing all the same stuff. So if you know you are going to play or are interested perhaps feel free to check out our pre-launch guild page. You can make an account with the forums at SWTOR.com and then join our pre-launch guild to show your support .

Click here to see the pre-launch guild site

Episode 3

This week episode got messed up a little so I just had to do a quick 6 minute show with announcements. Enjoy!

-Last Bastion of Twlight trash farming went great! Twas two weeks ago, and we got the same item twice, forgot the name but was a casters staff type thingy. We had three people who could use it but the healer was kind of angry because i let everyone roll, so the second time it dropped i had master loot on and still i let other casters roll and the healer rolled a 99, but the other caster rolled a 100. so wah wah wahh
-we are going back into BOT again this saturday night, around the same time of 930 pm. Any level 85 is welcome to come with.
-that is with an average item level of 329 O.o we way make an exception if we have a quite a few higher geared players
-GRATS! To odinthor for his excellent technique to win the 2nd annual naked gnome scramble. It was an amazing race, the middle time taking about 1.5 hours. But odin did it in a astonishing 1 hour. Took a route through Wetlands and then north from onexias lair swamp area.

-double grats to odi who choose to split is prize with all the contestants. Gracias hombre!
-We are heading into AQ40 again, hopefully i john still has it saved We are almost on the last boss, just 1 away. May not get guild achev but personal achevs are in the bag!
4) achevs no bumper this weekn
-Grats to idontgetit with the achev of Professional Illustrious Grand Master for tailoring!
-Odinthor earned Earned the achievement Working Around the Clock for skinning and leatherworking
-Grats to NKX for Supreme Defender Kill 100 flag carriers in Warsong Gulch.

-Since we can’t see every ones amazing achievements if you get an achievement you are proud of, or if someone in the guild gets an achievement that you think should be recognized, please mail Palopit in game with the name of the person and achievement. You can also email the same information to blessedguildzuluhed@gmail.com

5) Mail Call! No bumper

Episode 2: Hope We Don’t Get Sued
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”This Week In The Blessed”
* Switching focus from raiding to down bosses to farming trash, specifically in Bastion of Twlight. Don’t have the gear yet to have a real chance to down bosses, so we are switching focus over to farming in hopes that we’ll get more purple drops.
o Any level 85 may come with an average item level of 329.
o This last run we met the guild leader of Bladerunners, a guild that branched off our guild originally from Orionsrage and Freakazoid (or something like that) so we may be going in there with a few of them every week. Hopefully the start of a friendship between our two guilds, which would be fitting seeing as they originnally branched off of us.
o We are starting the raid up at 9:30 server time, waiting until 9:45 until we advertise in trade chat, after which point its first come first serve.
o DON’T MISS THE OPPORTUNITY FOR GREAT GEAR!
* Naked Gnome Scramble
o This historic event that has lived in infamy from our guild’s past as our FIRST event has returned. In 1 week from the recording of this podcast.
o 500g grand prize
o Rules: 1) You must be on a level 1 gnome 2) Must be completely naked 3) the class does not matter. 4) You must start at the same time as everyone else, so no cheating!
+ To win you must be the first person to be killed by Hellscream.
+ Once the race starts you are in no way obligated to wait for anyone else, take the quickest route you think you can make to get to Ogrimar.
+ NO SUMMONING! Everyone will be in a group to avoid cheating like this.
o Don’t have any extra slots and don’t want to delete that useless toon you never play anymore? Well there are always trial accounts! 500g is on the line, its worth it if you need to make a trial account.
* This weeks Vanilla raid is AQ 40 man.
o Any Level 58+ can come
o Need 10 guildies to get the achievement and then we only need Blackwing lair for classic guild raider achieve
* Welcome to the Guild!
o Steveeo, Sulfuric, Belalith

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Sign ups for guild site should be working again, if you cant make an account please Email me at palopit@gmail.com and ill get you set up. Thanks!

This week was our break week, so we had a quick meeting followed up by some fun in Black Temple. Really didn’t discuss to much other then my concerns on level 85 raiding, and try to see what we could do to organize a little more in an attempt to get more guildies into heroics and raids.

The Blessed On The Web

So as you all know by now, since your reading this post, we have our website up and running. Some new requirements for promotion have been created in order to help organize the guild around the website, which will help us organize events better, be able to get members hooked up with each other for PvP, raiding, and all that other stuff that requires a little but to a lot of outside co-ordination. SO! What are the new rules? We’ll, since its not our intention to make the website forced on everyone we have decided that if you wish to rank up within the guild then you must make an account on the here on the site. You must check in on the site every so often, and how active of a community member you are in the game and on the site will now go towards us considering people for promotions. Promotions will still be given out in chunks at a time, usually every so many months. Current people ranked knight or higher will not loose their rank but will not be allowed to rank up any higher then they currently are until they make their website account. For the moment it is not a requirement for the general guild population if you wish to simply be in the guild and participate as a member only. Any changes to the policy will be told at the weekly guild meeting, and be written in a blog post here out lining the policy change further. So make an account, help us organize the guild a little bit more so we can have healthy growth in the right direction this year !

The Weekly Raider

From what I can tell, people seem to be gearing up a relatively similar rate, so it seems for the moment that we’ll be having good chunks of guildies joining us in raids every week as time goes on. I guess gearing a healer is a lot faster . I am in no rush, we got plenty of time to get people geared and raiding. With the new min item level for guild raiding being 340, we’ll have a severe cut back amount of guildies attending raids initially, but it should return to normal and then exceed previous number eventually. This min item level is there so that we can make sure the people who are geared have a fair shot of being able to down bosses and complete raids. Once you have the min item level of 340 we welcome to you to come every Saturday night!

Since this was our break week we didn’t do an official guild raid, but instead had a few members head into Black Temple for some fun. All in all we wiped a lot but did manage to down a few bosses with our rag-tag crew of 3 level 85s a 3 level 70-73s. The week’s meeting name comes from a humorous quote from the evening, which had us all laughing hysterically.  What the quote is I won’t say now. Perhaps we can get John to get us the screen shot, but you can ask anyone there, its just not something I’d write in a blog post .