about us
who we are
<ominous latin noun> is a late-night 10-man Alliance raiding guild on Uldaman-US.
credo
We aren't the kind of guild to have a manifesto because, frankly, we make most of it up as we go along. We like killing bosses, we like learning new fights as well as perfecting the old, we squee when purple pixels drop and we hate lag boss — just like everyone else. We take raiding seriously enough to read strats, do theorycrafting, min-max specs, maintain different gearsets even for the same role, and put all our concentration into a kill; but we understand that real life takes absolute priority, that fun is more important than gear, and that, broadly speaking, Shit Happens.
are you a serious guild?
Balls no.
schedule
We raid Tuesday and Thursday (and sometimes Monday) nights, starting with invites going out at midnight server time (Eastern), and first pull happening no later than 12:30 (though in practice we're usually underway by that point — with a good chance of having killed a boss already). We usually call it a night by 3am unless we are on an exceptional roll and everyone wants to keep going.
recruiting
We're currently looking for healers and DPS. You don't need to be a highly experienced raider — a number of us raided little or not at all pre-Wrath — but you should be, before all else, willing to learn and take initiative to improve yourself as a player.
Another important factor is maturity. While it would be a lie to say our vent chatter upholds the highest standard of sophisticated conversation, we expect a certain behaviour which one might call "being an adult", if "adult" includes laughing at fart jokes. Being comfortable with people of different races, genders, religions, orientations, and political persuasion is also pretty much a given.
For more information, always feel free to whisper Puya, Ultimohombre, Silinix or Fyrbard.
current progress
This section is likely to be not quite up-to-the-minute, so check the sidebar on the right for our actual progress. As of mid-May, we had just gotten rolling on the Cataclysm raids because several of us were dealing with consuming real life issues. (See the above credo.) We took down Magmaw the first night the server cooperated (and got damn close to 9-manning him the next week). We're not worried about our progress; we got a late start on Wrath raids but we caught up by the time ToC rolled out.