Artifact is a small, friendly endgame guild. We pride ourselves on our polite, articulate, and respectful players. We raid only a few times a week, but take it seriously. You can see our current raid times on the guild calendar; typically we raid Tuesday and Thursday evenings (4-5 pm server time start), with 10s or guild events on Saturday at 10:30 am server.

Some of our raiding accomplishments include "The Hand of A'dal", "Twilight Vanquisher", "Starcaller", and heroic 25 Twin Valkyries.

We looking for exceptional players with a great attitude; we particularly need strong ranged dps. All members must read and sign the Artifact constitution.

The cost of success

by Palatinus-Artifact, 16 hours ago

We've raided hard and it shows. I spent some time organizing and cleaning up the bank and it was obvious our success has taken its toll.

Progression, gearing up and hard work has costs associated with it -- as a result, we are asking all members (raider or not) to help contribute with a donation of 500g, a crusader orb, a pile of raw gems or 12 raid worthy flasks.

Let me know when your contribution is in so I can mark you down. We work hard, so we can raid hard. Let's make it happen.

Heroic 25 Twin Valkyries down!

by BrontesGM, 2 days ago

Everyone played at the top of their game all night, and MADE IT HAPPEN. Credit goes particularly to those who put in the 5.5 hour raid, but also to those who were in for attempts, or helped us gear and train up to now. Working together, playing smart, playing hard -- this is why we play the game.

Catching up: regular 10s yesterday with palatinus

by BrontesGM, 2 days ago

I know that the regular 10s that palatinus kindly led yesterday had a very rough go. From talking to him, it sounds like both tanks were confused about mechanics of the fights, dps was universally low, and healing was off too. People stood in the wrong place and ate fire and acid in phase 2. Jaraxxas went well, however. Inability to kill the druid on faction champions sounds like priests weren't purging heals and interrupts weren't getting done, together with low dps. If there were people playing at the heroic level (which is the guild raiding level) it wasn't apparent.

The good thing for the evening is that people stuck with it, figured a few things out, and did kill a few bosses in the end.

There are two roads to go with this -- feel bad and pretend it didn't happen, or treat it as a wake-up call, get geared, watch the vids on tank spot, and ASK FOR HELP. Find a skilled veteran or a raid leader and have them explain the tricks for your class for each fight.

It happens to everyone. The first heroic 5 I tanked in BC (slave pens) I was dead in 4 seconds, then again on the second pull. By the fifth the group collapsed. It's ok to fail if you figure out how to correct it and get better each week. Don't blame someone else (or even yourself) -- just figure out what you can do to be a heroic-level player.

I'd like to see this EXACT SAME GROUP go again next week, at the same time, and you WILL clear the instance. By then I want people to know the fights, have macros set up for dispel and spell-steal, mods set up that show timers on debuffs (for tanks), and people need to be talking to more-experienced players. Get off your alts if you've been on them -- I know at least one player on that team is far far behind on enchants. We definitely put Vache in there with insufficient tanking gear, and that was my mistake. We will put guild gold into correcting any gearing issues we can. Let's put a bit of pride into this and get where we want to be.