Concur

Woohoo! Here is proof that taking a little extra time to research your class and delve into World of Logs can have results. Well done on downing Horridon.

Last Friday also saw polls close in our latest Transmog Competiton. Congratulations to Riptyde, who won the People's Choice award and will be receiving a new mount! Winning the prize for most original ensemble was Raginghoof, with Faulen taking home the Best Screenshot Award. A massive thank you to everyone who took the time to put together an entry and then vote for their favourites. Kaida will be in touch to organise your prizes. 

Last week we thought we'd give ol' Horridon a bit of a rest and go do some extermination in Heart of Fear instead. Congratulations on downing Garalon and Wind Lord Mel'jarak! 

I think it's safe to say that the move from Wednesday to Thursday has really paid off! Fantastic work on scoring our guild first kill in Throne of Thunder last night! You all make me like, proud 'n' stuff. Next stop, Horridon!

Even with the patch day drama, we managed to beat the lag and kill a boss. Let's power on through the rest of tier 14 and get into Throne of Thunder ASAP! Good job, everyone :)

After many hiccups along the way, it looks like things are finally looking up for our Wednesday raid team! We still have a spot available for for a plate DPS so if you have an ilevel of 480+ with all the right enhancements, please whisper Nerisanda or Lylutaya in game for a chat.

Now it's full steam ahead into Heart of Fear! See you all on Sunday :)

Well done, everyone!

Sorry for taking over a fortnight to get these up. I'm having way too much fun catching up with you all IRL! It would be nice to see an Elegon kill shot in my inbox before the raid goes on Christmas Break ;)

It started as a rough night, with Divinya's team down a tank and Disconcur down practically down his entire roster(!) but some quick thinking by our amazing raid leaders and the generosity of those who willingly benched themselves, we were able to put together a strong team that killed not only the Stone Guard on our second attempt, but also scored our guild first Feng kill! Congratulations to Sneakymcstab, Divinya, Nerisanda and Novaliam on your new loot!

If you are on Disconcur's team, I want you not to fret too much. Your regular dpsers are due back next week, and we have found replacements for our wayward healers. The fierce (But friendly!) competition between the Wednesday and Sunday teams can resume shortly :P

Congratulations everyone on our first boss kill for Mists of Pandaria! Unfortunately we lost the logs from last night, but Neri has put together a brief report based off her Skada results from our successful kill, which you can check it out over in the Raid Discussion forums.

See you all tonight for Feng the Accursed!

Feeling overwhelmed when you load the Concur World of Logs Page? Never fear! Like Yoggika here, YOU ARE NOT ALONE! Casa is here! (and apparently super cheesy today)

A step-by-step guide to using CompareBots is now ready to help you understand your logs and class a little better!  Please take the time to read through and follow the guide, help improve your contribution to each raid night! And please ask away on the forums, whispers, whatever if you need help or have any questions!

http://concur.wowstead.com/forums/forum-24-7-guild-chat/raid-discussion/1778937-comparebots-review-your-own-raid-performance

Have you returned for Mists of Pandaria only to discover that you're now guildless? Never fear, Concur is here to save the day! If you're looking for a relaxed guild with no pressure, no elitism and an appreciation of what "Don't be a dick" means, then your search is over. We're now looking for more social and casual members to come hang out with us while we slash, kick and smash our way through Pandaria and beyond. If Concur sounds like just the kind of place you would feel at home in, then head on over to our recruitment page and drop us a line!

Intrigued?

With the combination of raid burnout and the recent raid attendance having taken a dive (how dare you all have actual lives outside of Azeroth! :p) we have made the call to no longer schedule guild Dragon Soul raids for the remainder of Cataclysm. But fear not! Your wise GMs have already been making plans for our Mists of Pandaria raid teams. Having taken on board your responses to our thread on the forums, we have drawn up some tentative teams and will post them up soon once we finalise a few more details. What I can share with you now...

 - Myrmidons will continue to raid Wed & Thurs, with a tentative raid commencement date of Oct 10. 

 - Whoas will continue to raid Sun & Mon, with a tentative raid commencement date of Nov 7. 

The big one...

THERE WILL BE NO ALTS IN THESE TEAMS. 

Once we are full swing into Pandaria, we will look at starting a third alt team that will run once a week. 

Your GMs, Officers and Raid Leaders thank you deeply for all of your efforts throughout this expansion, and look forward to smashing some new Pandaria Progression with you soon!!

It's been a tough few weeks on the raiding front, with various technical issues plaguing key members. On Wednesday, we had to cancel our Heroic Dragon Soul altogether and organise something else. I want to extend an extra large THANK YOU to the guild members who turned up to our Heroic Throne of the Four Winds attempts! It was disappointing that a few people decided that since it wasn't progression, they had better things to do, but it was their loss! Casadella and I decided that those who put in the effort deserved a chance to win something epic in return. At the end of the night we did a /roll and the winner received a Vial of the Sands. Congratulations, Reginageorge! I hear you had a lot of fun trying to find new and innovative ways to kill Nova!

With that, I wanted to let you all know that we will be making a decision on whether or not to wind up raiding for the Cataclysm expansion this Wednesday. If you have any feedback you'd like share, please let your raid leader, Casadella or myself know!

When the original Marshviper passed away in 2010, friends and family started participating in the fundraising campaign, Dry July. This year, Concur has thrown itself behind the cause. Our epic Charity Stream is almost here, and it's shaping up to be a fantastic day for guildies and friends alike! This Sunday, 22 July starting at 9.30am WST/11.30am AEST/6.30pm PDT*(server) we will go live on our channel, http://twitch.tv/concurofblackrock and stream various guild events for 12 hours straight in an effort to raise funds for our Dry July campaign. We have five members who have committed to foresaking booze for one month, and this stream is being organised to compliment their efforts and give those guild members who weren't able to kick the habit a chance to get involved and help make a difference for adult cancer patients in hospitals across Australia. 

Dry July is a non-profit organisation determined to improve the lives of adults living with cancer through an online social community giving up booze for the month of July.

Whether joining as a part of a team or as an individual, DJ's (Dry.July.er [dee-jay] noun: a person or team actively sponsored to participate in Dry July) take on the 31 days of July to raise funds and directly help adults living with cancer and their families to improve their quality of life.

- From the dryjuly.com About section

PRIZES GALORE FOR DONORS AND PARTICIPANTS!

Throughout the stream we will be giving away various World of Warcraft Blizzard Store products such as pets and mounts, as well as a set of 4 Limited Edition Collectors Cups featuring all your favourite bad guys such as Arthas, Deathwing, Illidan and Kael'thas. For your chance to win, you've just got to donate on the day! Pretty easy, huh? :)

Guild members, check out the DJ Events thread in the forums for a list of prize criterea. The guild bank is feeling very generous, so there are a lot of awesome ways to win. 

STREAM SCHEDULE

9.30am/11.30am/6.30pm

- Opening Ceremony with Casadella and Nerisanda

9.45am/11.45am/6.45pm

- LFR with Nerisanda and Geronan -- Nice and relaxing foray into the wonderful experience that is weekend LFR *cough*. Anyone is welcome! If you're not a guildie, just ask one of us for our Real ID and come join the fun!

11.00am/1.00pm/8.00pm

- Hardcore Diablo 3 with Disconcur, Xsak, Kaida and Honorguideme -- Watch as this unlikely band of allies flounder their way through hardcore D3. Who will be the first to die?

1.00pm/3.00pm/10.00pm

- Moo Marathon with Casadella and Divinya -- Race to the gates of Stormwind with a freshly created level one Tauren! No mounts, no gy jumping, lots of laughs! Who will be the winner?

2.00pm/4.00pm/11.00pm

- Arena with Steelrage -- Watch the fun as Steel and friends flex their PvP muscles in ranked arena matches. 

4.00pm/6.00pm/1.00am

- DayZ with Disconcur, Steelrage, Novaliam and Maeroki -- This AMRA2 mod has been sweeping Concur by storm. Come check out how well guildies fare with nothing but a flashlight to protect them from the zombie apocalypse...

6.00pm/8.00pm/3.00am

- ICC stealth run with Nerisanda and Casadella -- Can our druid (and maybe a rogue or two) army storm the citadel pulling as little trash as possible?

7.30pm/9.30pm/4.30am

- Hobo Heroes Naxxramarus with Nerisanda and Xsak -- The raid team will zone in wearing nothing but common or lower items and attempt to clear out Naxx. Will our raw stats and the luck of random drops be enough to overcome Kel'thuzad and Co?

9.30pm/11.30pm/6.30am

- Closing Ceremony

SPREAD THE WORD!

There you have it, the plan for an absolutely massive day filled with plenty of events that everyone is welcome to participate in. I encourage you all to be online, help spread the word and get your friends and family to cough up some cash for a fantastic cause! 

*NB. If you are in the US, this event will start on Saturday evening. Yay for time travel!

There have been many times when Hyperpali has switched to his druid, Marshviper, and saved our Monday raid team from the mercy of pugging by tanking for us. The truth is, Marshviper wasn’t always a tank. In fact, Hyperpali isn’t even the original owner of the druid who always comes to our rescue on raid night.

Born on Jubei’thos, Marshviper had been playing World of Warcraft with Hyerpali, Disconcur, Raginghoof, Honorguideme and myself since we started playing the game back in Vanilla. He was with us every time we server hopped, and was instrumental in many of our first raiding experiences as a group. He wasn’t just an avatar. We would meet up on weekends for pizza and booze, and we’d all be left with sides hurting and tears in our eyes from laughing so hard at his epic sense of humour. He was the undisputed king of Halloween and boy could he cook a mean feed.

Ric Alford, the original Marshviper, passed away in May 2010 after a brutal battle against a brain tumour. He had spent the last six months of his life in and out of  Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital fighting tooth and nail for the chance to watch his two young children grow up, and to grow old with the love of his life.

He was 25 years old.

Hyper plays Marsh as a way to honour his best friend, and as a reminder of the many great memories associated with that character. We all take for granted our good health; our ability to play a game we enjoy with people we care about. He may not be with us today, but he has impacted all of our lives in one way or another, and he will never be forgotten.

That is why myself and a few other members of the guild have signed up for Dry July. We will go sober for one month not only to remember Ric and all those close to us who have been affected by cancer, but to also raise much needed funds for adult cancer wards across Australia and New Zealand. Our team, Concur of Blackrock, has chosen Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital as the benefactor of all money we raise — money that benefits the hospital that tried so hard to help Ric win his battle with this disease.

You may not know the man, but now you know his story. It’s only one of many stories like it. Cancer is not an “old person’s” ailment; it does not discriminate and the affect that it has on not only its victims, but their family and friends as well, can be devastating. For the cost of a pint of beer down at the pub, you can help those who are locked in battle with this behemoth of a raid boss known as cancer. Let’s blow away the traditional stereotypes of gamers, and show the world that we’re a community of people who care and can make a difference.

CONCUR MEMBERS! JOIN THE TEAM FOR A CHANCE TO WIN A MECHANO HOG! Please visit this thread on the forums to learn more.

Another week, another two progression kills! Exellent work team! Will Blackhorn be next to bite the dust?! :D:D

Well done, everyone! Last night was an incredibly smooth run, and we were justly rewarded with our guild first kill of Heroic Yor'sahj the Unsleeping. Congratulations to Casadella and Garaeth on winning some totally sexy heroic loot. Tonight we'll be back in there tackling some more heroic bosses, so whatever you did last night, be sure to do it again tonight!

Firstly, a massive THANK YOU to those people who contributed during our Fishing Bonanza over the weekend. It was fantastic to see people take some time out from gaming to help restock food tab with the ingredients required to make our raid food. Anyone who raids with us owes these people their thanks, and I hope to see you all participate in our next big stock up. The people that helped this time around have been rewarded with a epic cut gem of their choice, courtesy of the guild bank. Selflessness pays, people! Keep an eye on the calendar for any future farm events. 

If you've been on the forums in the past month or so, you will have seen that a lot has changed. I quit as GM, I came back as co-GM with Casadella, we've overhauled the raiding teams (I highly recommend taking the time to read this post) and introduced some fresh faces onto the officer team. Community Manager Kaidà and T11 Raid Leader Divinya have hit the ground running in their new roles and have both been very busy. Divinya led his first event last Friday and it was a resounding success. We all had an absolute blast and I hope to see you all again for it tomorrow night at 4.30am server. Kaidà has put together her first competiton and it's a great one! You have until 6pm WST/7.30pm CST/8pm AEST May 25 to enter, so click the link below and get guessing!

COMPETITION TIME! - Mystery Tour

Finally, we'll be thowing open the doors and hitting the pavement for another recruitment drive in the near future - probably when the D3 craze dies down a little! If you know of anyone who would like to come chill with us, please get them to whisper Nerisanda/Nerisella/Lylutaya and have a chat with me. After hearing the Reverse Panther they'll be falling over themselves to join.....

...has closed!

That's right, folks, Concur is recruiting and we want YOU to come be part of the family! Our Thursday team is currently looking for a few DPS and a healer to join the fun. Need a little more incentive? We don't have a rogue yet. We're talking about wasted legendaries, people! 

Our Thursday team is lead by Satansjudas, a charming Holy Paladin who also happens to be Welsh. He is a long standing member of Concur who joined us back in Wrath and has been raiding with us ever since. He is constantly cracking jokes and inappropriate facts in Vent and contributes massively to the fun atmosphere that the Thursday group boasts. He is a dedicated raider, with his rogue being lucky enough to be working towards his legendary daggers with the Wednesday group. His no fuss attitude has him making sure his team members are accountable for their actions. His second in command is Garakith, a resto/feral druid whose flexibility and dedication to his team is truly admirable. He's also a very good armory stalker who expects only the best from his raiders and is always eager to work with people if they need help with anything. We meet up in Azeroth at 4.00am server every Thursday and Monday and slay bosses for 2.5 hours each night. This team currently has vacancies for a few DPS and a healer. They would especially love a rogue to come along and make use of those tasty legendary quest items that are currently going to waste...

So, if you're rocking out an average ilevel of 378 with all the right enhancements, have vent an want to raid with a group of people who like to have fun and kill internet dragons, then we want to hear from you! You can head over to our Recruitment Page to find out more, or you can drop Nerisanda a line in-game. Don't miss this opportunity to score yourself a core spot in a team of fantastic people!

It's finally here. The moment where Concur get to work on Madness of Deathwing. It's been a truly valiant effort to get this far. Our raid roster seems to be constantly chopping and changing, so I want to take this moment to thank those who have stuck with us through thick and thin, as well as those players in Concur who are always willing to jump in and help out whenever possible. We're close now, team! Now is not the time to slack off! I expect fantastic things from you all this week, and I implore you all the ensure that you're pulling your weight. World of Logs show that a few people could be getting a lot more bang for their buck, and I know you can do it! Fire up our World of Logs page and compare your performance to the average on RaidBots. The raid leaders have done it, and we know that there are a few of you who can do better than you are. Now is your chance to rectify it! You have all done brilliantly to get this far, so let's finish this tier of raiding with a bang!

Honestly, who lets me take these awful screencaps? How did I not notice that it looks like my new helm is a Lantern pet?! Good work to everyone involved in the kill!