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• Raid start time is 19:30 server time. You should be online before this time and be ready for an invite. If you are grouped and/or AFK when the raid leaders try to invite you then you may well lose your spot.
• Be on time when you have signed up for a raid or renounce yourself if you can’t make it. If you are continually late or don’t even show up you may be demoted to a back-up or social rank. If you are more than 15 minutes late you are likely to be hit with a DKP penalty.
• Be prepared. Make sure you always have flasks, food, and any other consumables that are required for your class.
• Stay until official raid end (23:00 server time). If you know you have to leave before this, inform the raid leader BEFORE the raid. Failure to do so may result in a DKP penalty.
• Get best possible gear from 5 man instances (heroics included). Unfortunately 10-25 man raiding has no place for bad/average geared people with weak raid DPS/HPS output.
• Choose a PvE build. Same as above, PvP talents mostly mean less damage/healing on raids, and this has much greater effect in today’s raiding than before since individual performance plays a bigger part.
• We use Ventrilo to varying degrees for comms. You should always be in the raid vent channel when in the raid. Server details are available in-game. A microphone is not a requirement.
• Pay attention to what you are told to do. If you don’t understand what you’re supposed to do, ask when raid leader isn’t explaining tactics. It’s less humiliating to ask the same question twice to get understanding than to wipe the whole raid twice because you didn’t understand what to do.
• Make sure you keep everyone buffed at all times and with correct buffs. If everyone has to constantly ask for buffs it slows the run down plus eventually gets people annoyed, so make sure you have a raid-mod or anything that shows when people are missing buffs.
• Replacements: When a person is late and his situation is unknown, he will be replaced immediately whenever it is possible.
• There is only ONE leader. When that leader asks people to listen, you will stop all talking in raid chat. The leader is the only person who will tell the raid when to act, like “dmg on”, “move on”, “banish” or whatever. Raid members are to ignore direct or indirect commands from anyone else.
• If you’re not a raid leader or officer, do not ask people to join the raid. Only the leader and officers are allowed to do this and decide who gets to go, regardless of the amount of empty spots at that moment.
• If you’re not an officer of the guild, do not start raids to instances where people get saved without getting a permission from the GL or an officer first.
• Wipes happen. If every run was perfect, there would be no challenge and people would not play this game. So when it happens, be angry for 5 seconds and then get over it. Calling people names or attacking them because of this in any chat or in private will not be tolerated. Save the hate for yourself when it’s your time to screw up.
• Don’t whine and be generally negative. This is a game after all and we are here to have fun. Endless whining and negativity only erode morale and any sense of fun in the game. Excessive whiners will find themselves demoted to a social rank if not kicked from the guild.
• Don’t beg/whine for invite! Anyone with 1st grade math skills should understand that we can’t fit 40 people on a 25 player raid.

Everyone is expected to know these rules whether he was active enough to come here and read them or not. Constant failure to follow them can and will lead into removal from current and/or future raids.