Tumblraid completed our first legendary tonight! Gratz, Doloros, on your Shadowmourne.
Completely forgot to post a picture from our ICC run on Saturday night. We once again one-shot LK and got a lot of people their Light of Dawn titles again.
Our raid was cursed with bad RNG and we only got 3 shards to drop the entire night. The Lich King didn’t even drop one! So unfortunately, we did not complete our first Shadowmourne. :(
A new raid event will be posted soon. Check the forums for a link!
Finally got my Meta! A bone dragon is just what every DK needs ;)
Source: gelaecter
Last night we tried using openraid.us as our method for signing up instead of having people comment on our forums to RSVP to the raid. The raid was private for four days and then was opened to the public to fill holes in our roster. We successfully filled the raid and were pulling trash on time thanks to people from openraid. Last night’s Light of Dawn kill was the smoothest one I’ve ever done in a pug.
After the raid I asked everyone to hang out for a few minutes to get some feedback on the new signup system and the consensus seemed to be pretty positive. It looks like everyone likes the idea of signing up via openraid and the added perk of having extra people to fill holes really made it better. I thought it was pretty cool that some of the openraid people even wanted to participate in our kill shot. :D
Please continue checking the forums for info on upcoming raids and other posts. The way this group remains successful is through continued participation from its members!
Gratz to the people who completed their metas last night despite it being a heroic run rather than an achievement run!
Next week we will be completing our first Tumblraid Shadowmourne! So exciting!
Week 11: We’re back!
Sorry for the lull in raiding the past couple weeks. There was a family emergency and then I got suuuuper sick for about a week and was barely able to be online at all, much less raid on my main, much less raid with you guys! But everything is better now, crisis is over, illness is gone and I’m ready to get back to raiding with you guys!
First, some business:
I have had several people suggest we move signups over to openraid.us to make it easier to track raids and sign up for them. l can make the raid events private so only Tumblraiders can access them, OR I can make the events public and allow other people to come in to fill holes in our comps (I’m sure many of you remember a few raids where we’ve had to sit around and wait for another tank or enough healers to get the raid started).
If the events are public, I will give priority slotting to Tumblraiders first, of course. I’ve posted a poll in the General Discussion section of the forums for feedback to be given.
As for this week’s raid:
I’ve had about ten people whisper me in the past three days asking if we can do ICC again. You guys REALLY like ICC. So it looks like we’ll be doing ICC! Let’s stick with our usual raid time of 7pm Saturday (April 28). We will be experimenting with openraid for raid sign ups this week. If things go well and the poll shows people prefer using openraid, we will stick with this method from now on. Link is posted on the forums!
Week 10: Old School Raid Night
Lots to talk about this week! Policy changes, friends list maintenance, and something really different for our raid event! This week we are changing it up a lot and going super old school… We will be raiding the Ruins and Temple of Ahn’Qiraj!
We will be raiding AQ 20 and AQ 40 on Friday, April 6 at 7pm PST.
Come get your classic rep and your red scarab Feat of Strength as well as the chance to kill the “unkillable” ooze boss, Viscidus! Visit the forums to sign up for this week’s raid event.
An official thank you for the unofficial help!
We have been having a lot of success with the unofficial Ulduar runs throughout the weeks and I want to thank everyone who has made it out to these runs. We’ve gotten a lot of achievements and farmed a TON of transmog gear while getting some people geared up for their Herald of the Titans run. Thank you guys so much for helping out with that! We will continue these unofficial runs until the 80s have all their gear (which should be VERY soon!) and then hopefully Ulduar can go back to being part of the regular raid rotation and not a weekly grind!
Friends list cleanout #2
I posted on the forums about my friends list being full again and I have gone through the attendance and will be removing anyone who has not raided with us in the last month. I need to keep my friends list restricted to those raiders who are actively raiding with the group, if you know you will not be able to attend raids for an extended period of time, please PM me and let me know rather than hanging around on my friends list and taking the spot of someone who might need the spot for a raid.
WE ALSO HAVE TWO POLICY CHANGES IN EFFECT!
The Legendary List is officially “locked in” now and mains will no longer be prioritized above alts. This change is being made to prevent people from perpetually sitting at the bottom of the list while helping farm legendaries for any new person who joins the raid group and declares a main and then gets jumps ahead on the list. If you have not signed up for the legendary list before today, you are still welcome to do so, but your name will now start at the bottom of the list, regardless of the main/alt status of your character. Keep in mind having a lower spot on the list does not mean you will never get loot, it means if there are multiple people on the list in the run, the person at the top of the list gets priority. If you are 15th on the list and no one else on the list is in the run you show up for, guess who gets loot priority? YOU!
Our OS3D drake rolls will be restricted to members who have attended at least ONE raid with the group prior to that night’s run. This is to reward members who raid consistently with us and to prevent people from showing up to one raid, getting their drake, then never raiding with us again. I am sure everyone can agree it sucks to go to a raid 20 times and see 20 different people roll on a mount, win, then never come back.
Attendance is recorded per-player, not per-toon, meaning if you have attended four raids on four different characters, you are counted as having attended four raids. I index the list by Real ID name and your declared main, which is why I ask everyone to PM me with this information to officially declare their main.
We still do not have a mandatory attendance policy. Attendance is being kept merely as an objective way for me to determine who is not active in the group so I can delete them to make room for other people.
These policy changes have also been posted in their own thread in the news and announcements section of the forum.
Thanks to everyone in the Tumblraid project for another great run of Icecrown Citadel and Obsidian Sanctum tonight!
Since I faction-transferred Kronia to stay with my guild, I raided with my only remaining Alliance toon, my mage Ashers, tonight. It was awesome to get a lot of the meta achievements on another toon, and as always, I had a lot of fun!
Also, I got a few new titles and some sweet new gear for my transmog outfit! I love it c: Thanks again, everyone!
Source: iamjacksrevenge
New Twilight Drake mount from OS3D! Thanks Tumblraid & Zanbon!
Source: baltharus
Great raid last night! We full cleared ICC again and got lots of people their metas. Another hilarious normal Lich King kill where the winter never ended. Good times. Thanks to everyone who was able to make it tonight on a non-regular raid night. Thank you, also, for your understanding this week with the scheduling issues… I had a very hectic week both in game and IRL, so things were a little “fly by the seat of your pants”.
Next week we’re really gonna change it up with our raid event so get ready for something new!
My friends list is full again, so I’m going to be deleting people who have not raided with us in the last month. If you are still interested in raids but haven’t been able to make any of the scheduled events we’ve had, I encourage you to continue following Tumblraid news and ask me to add you back if you’re able to attend a future event. Remember, I schedule raids based on what people are asking to raid, so if you have something you’re wanting to do… send me a PM on the forums and let me know! Remember, you do not have to be on my Real ID all week to attend raid events on the weekend. The only advantage being on my friends list all the time has is being able to see the random crap I post to my IRL friends and the random pug dungeons/LFR/etc I do on the spur of the moment. If you’re not on my friends list, you’re REALLY not missing out on anything.
