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Gold DKP runs come to the Dream

Tethane — Tue, 18 May 2010 13:45:02 +0000

This Sunday Everlightly will be running the first of many Gold DKP runs on Emerald Dream, below is his post from the Official forums explaining how it all works and how you can be involved.

What is gold DKP

Gold DKP raids are raids where instead of rolling on items people bid for them with gold, there is no main spec or off spec you bid for an item you want.

For example: a tanking shield drops and you’re a Retri pally you can bid freely for the item. This goes on with all the items until the raid is completed or called.

What happens to the gold?

The gold is split evenly between all 25 raid members once the raid has finished, I as raid leader do not receive any extra gold item for running the raid, I’m just there to make it happen and to have a chance on picking up the odd item.

What keeps track of the bids?

The raid leader has an add on called gold raid manager, once an item is dropped the raid leader takes the items and then adds them to the addons menu.

The addon then starts a countdown from 5 in raid warnings and players bid for the item, stating their bids in raid chat. Once a new bid is registered the countdown will start at 5 again giving people more time to bid on the item. Once the count down has finished and there is a winner of the item, the player trades the Master looter the gold in exchange for the item.

The raid leader can state a maximum raise amount, (for example you can only raise the bid 50 gold at a time) so peeps aren’t wasting time raising the bids by a copper each bid.

Example below

Death Verdict drops from ToC 25

Player 1 bids 500 gold

Current bid 500 gold 5 sec count down starts

Player 2 bids 700 gold

New 5 sec countdown starts

Player 3 bids 1000 gold

New 5 sec countdown

Player 1 bids 1010 gold (since raise is under minimum amount bid is ignored)

New 5 sec count down

No new bids player 3 wins for 1000 gold and trades ML.

This is a pure example, on one run I saw DV go for 8k gold which was very nice for all raiders, and that’s were the fun is, the more items go for the more money you get at the end.

The add on will also keep track of all money from all items and show to the raid in raid chat what the current pot is and the players share.

Another Example

Current raid ToC 25

Northrend beast pot 2000

Lord Jarzusasaa (can’t spell his name) 3000

Faction champs 3000

Total gold 8000

25 players = share of 320 gold per player

Rules for the Raid

There are some rules that do apply for these raids and some which players may think are a great way of making sure they don’t fail.

1. All raid members must stay to the end of the raid, this is when the master looter states the raid is over, if you choose to leave the raid beforehand you forfeit your share of the gold and a new raid member will be drafted in to replace you, the replacement will receive the share of the pot that the player that left would have received.

2. If a player should bid on an item and win but not have the gold to pay for it, they will be removed from the raid and replacement drafted in, there is no IOUs or I’ll give you the gold tomorrow, you pay when you win, full stop. The item is then re auctioned off, it does not go to the 2nd highest bidder as the items price would have been inflated by the non paying bidder and would then be unfair on that 2nd place bidder.

3. As stated before, there is no main/ offspec all items are free for all, you can bid on any item that drops, even BoE, what you do with the items is up to you.

What stops the raid leader being a Ninja?

Well, first my reputation will be at risk, I don’t want my name blasted in trade for being a ninja, I also value the guild I’m currently a member of and would be on a swift end of a kick if I was to. I am a genuine player that wants to bring a new thing to ED, and see how it goes.

When am I going to start this?

I’m going to start with a ToC 25 normal on Sunday 23rd of May with invites going out at around 15:00 game time and start hopefully at 15:30. I want to start with a short raid and see how it goes. If the raid is a success then I may move to ICC 25 and see how those go.

Obviously I will not be taking my main character to ICC 25 runs though as main runs with guild, this would most likely be done by one of my better geared alts.

Gear Requirements

Obviously if people go to ToC 25 with 25 newly turned 80 with terrible gear then it will be a wipe fest, I will be setting a fresh hold of poor geared players per raid and there will be 5 spots, and these will be a first come first serve basis.

The main rule I will be using though is achievements and not gear score, I do not want to 23 peeps in raid waiting for me to explain tactics on vent to one person, the Toon you come with must have the achievement or you tell me your main (if your main has it) to check up.

Drama

Once bidding for an item has finished and the add on announces the winner no more bids can be made, no matter how much people moan about it.

If anyone kicks off they will be removed, any moaning about failing you’ll be removed, and moaning about peoples gear score you’ll be removed. The lower geared people are most likely to pay some decent gold for items as they’ll need most upgrades.

This is meant to be a fun raid watching bids go up, getting your hand on that item you’ve been after for months and when dropped you rolled one. And a nice pot of gold to share at the end.

One last thing is I would ask people taking part to be patient during the raid while the add on and loot is set up.

I like the sound of this where do I sign up

If you want to take part /w me in game, if I’m not free an in game mail will do and I’ll add you onto calendar invite list. Just let me know the name of your character, class and spec you want to join the raid with and I’ll get back to you, and what sort of gear you are in (just state 232 and above or under 232)

My toons you can catch me on are:

Everlightly (my main)

Raiine

Tackleberry

Darkcobra

Ok, well that’s all. hope to here from loads of peeps soon!

The crate is not a lie

Tethane — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:27:28 +0000

Now we all like to discover something new and fun in the wonder World of Warcraft but recently an engineering discovery caused a couple of hours of mayhem on Emerald Dream and led to a number of people hit by the 3 hour ban hammer.

Yes were are talking about the not so clever art of Rocket Cluster Launcher stacking. Basically an engineer can made many of these items and stack them carefully on top of each other producing a comical tower (no harm here) or more worryingly use them to block doors of auction houses and important locations (in which you will encounter the rage of a GM.)

Now I’m not sure that this has been hot fixed, please feel free to build pretty towers but blocking entrances is just nasty!

Patch notes for dummies

Tethane — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:02:50 +0000

Once again patch day comes around and people seem to find it so bloody difficult to read the patch notes whilst they wait for the download. Instead we get the trade spam of “where is this?” “what happened to that?” I’m positive I’m not the only one who at times such as these vacates the cities and hides in a corner of Azeroth rocking manically and wishing for it all to be over.

So please feel free to copy this macro:

/2 Visit www.emeralddreamers.co.uk as you are clearly to stupid to read the patch notes and read “Patch notes for dummies” but only if your not so stupid that you can’t read.

/2 Where’s the Frozen Orb dude?

Frozo the Renowned has moved into the Dalaran Magus Commerce Exchange and will be trading your Frozen Orbs for various other trade goods. He can be found flying on a magic carpet (why can he fly in Dalaran and I bloody can’t!)

/2 Why am I not getting Battleground marks?

Blizzard have done away with Battleground marks, but have no fear the ones you currently have can be exchanged for 185 honour per mark at any of the battleground quest givers. Be warned though, you can only exchange them in stacks of 10 so it may take you a bit of time to trade them all.

/2 Why am I getting more honour?

The amount of Honour awarded for an Honourable Kill has been increased by 100% for characters of all levels. This change will effectively double the amount of Honour received from Honourable Kills, or for completing Battleground and Wintergrasp objectives.

/2 I have done the Raid Weekly twice ner ner ner ner nerrrr

Well bully for you…. All weekly quests will now reset during each region’s scheduled maintenance, rather than at a single global time so it won’t happen again.

/2 My Mechanostriders sounds different?

Summoning any of these mounts is now perfectly mechanical-sounding! Thank god they fixed that, I maybe tempted to ride mine again.

/2 Some stuff isn’t on cooldown anymore?

Creating Titansteel Bar no longer results in a cooldown and the cooldown and location requirements have been removed from creating Moonshroud, Spellweave and Ebonweave.

If these abilities are on cooldown when the patch is applied, players must wait for the cooldown to expire naturally before it is permanently removed.

These are just a few of the changes, to read all the patch notes visit here!!

Icecrown Citadels first guests

Tethane — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:08:43 +0000

I want to take my hat of to the following guilds who have downed the first four bosses of Icecrown Citadel on the night of the patch release (I myself haven’t even logged in yet………. Naughty Jodie!)

Released 09/12/09: The Lower Spire bringing you Lord Marrowgar, Lady Deathwhisper, Icecrown Gunship Battle and Deathbringer Saurfang.

Bridgeburners
Renaissance
Lucrum Gaudium
Asylum

I’m sure Mr Lich King is shaking in his booties, good job guys and girls!

Chinese whispers: The Outrage!

Tethane — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:06:03 +0000

The Stonemansons have been having a rough time of late, Mezzy has now been reinstated as Guild Master after leaving the Guild in Outrage’s hands a while back, progression was good, securing them a spot in the top 10 raiding guilds on the server.

Recently Outrage (for reasons I can only speculate) cleared the guild bank of around 25k and /gquit, nice work Outrage, you raid by the side of the Stonemansons players, inevitably become friends with many of them and then steal their wallet when their backs are turned. Whatever the reason for this…. its still bloody low.

The raider base thinned and recruitment is now being upped a notch to strengthen there team in preparation for Icecrown Citadel……. I want to wish them good luck.

Outrage seems to still be on Emerald Dream but understandably unguilded, expect incoming name and server change. Hope that 25k was worth it.

The Stonemansons recruitment details can be found at www.stonemansons.tk

Erland….. quitting WoW since 2005!

Tethane — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:45:16 +0000

Once again that dastardly Erland is quitting WoW, not all of you have had the pleasure of meeting this cheeky chappy, if you have, well you know that Erland has been quitting WoW since 2005.

This time however it looks more permanent, he has hung up his bow for good and flogged his character to some poor unsuspecting noob who on login (if they dont have the intelligence to name/server change) will be inundated with whispers from people asking if they can pull his tail and by “people” I mean me.

Sadly from the armoury it does look as though he has said goodbye to his band of brothers in Nervous Energy and /gquit to make way for the new account owner….. As Bron clearly commented on the unofficial Emerald Dream forums “Just fill in a webform and get the account back + that guys money! anyway, I want yer stuff.” I think for once we are all in agreement with Bron, Erland…… give us your stuff!

In an in a Hi-NRG Communards ode to one of the servers best hunters….

Don’t leave us this way
I can’t survive, ED can’t stay alive
Without your /love, no Erland

Don’t leave us this way
We can’t exist and will surely miss your sloppy /kiss
So don’t leave us this way

Oh baby, my bank is full of gold and bribes for you
I’ll do anything to stop what you’re going to do
Before you go just let me drain your soul
A memento ‘cos this is just out of control
We won’t miss your overpowered killing spree
But Emerald Dream will never set you free!!