Standard disclaimer: Leave your loathing of meta, World of Warcraft, or community diaries outside. If you think we should be playing your MMO instead, start a guild and write a recruitment diary. Don't leave a comment here and then get all hurtful when it isn't received with flowers and candy. Link to your recruitment diary is OK though.
Standard advertisement: Wreck List is the Daily Kos World of Warcraft guild. We are Horde-side on the Garrosh server. To join, roll up a character on Garrosh and when you log in type
/who wreck list
and any officer can get you in the guild. Yes, you have to be Horde. No, you don't have to be hardcore - casuals, PvPers, and people that just want to hang out on guild chat are all welcome.
Yeah. All me this week - more updatery below the flip. And I promise not to theorycraft at you. Much.
So, yeah, guess what I did last week? Morning after the last update, in fact?
Moodyloner at 80!
I started this character as the guild leader for the Wreck List. In the two months (and total of seven days and change /played) that this casual has taken to reach the endgame, the Wreck List has gone from barely more than an idea in a diary to a guild 124 members strong (more actually, I think Armory only counts characters above level 10) with a strong raiding team that is nearly Naxx-ready, if not Naxx-geared now.
We have a full set of guild bank tabs, and a bunch of us have bankalts with their own guilds with bank tabs. We have people who maxxed Cooking while I was leveling. We have people who maxxed Fishing while I was leveling.
We still have plenty of room. We could use some ranged DPS and heals. We have tanks and can always use more tanks. What we really want, however, are people that ae willing to come and have fun with us, whether fun is raiding, leveling, crafting, PvP battlegroups, exploring, or just chatting and asking lore questions on guild chat.
If you're a guildie and on in the mornings, I'm skilling up and running my Hodir dailies, but I'll be willing to help you out if you need a friendly 80 for a group quest or an instance run. I'll try to get some more evenings to help out and gear up, Netroots Nation in Second Life willing.
And if you play WoW, and aren't in a guild, and want to learn from (or teach!) like-minded people, look us up. We'll be happy to have you.
Oh, and my "experimental" Blood/Unholy hybrid build seems to be working well in regular five-man instances so far. We'll see how the raids go.