My son’s been playing for a couple of years. His account was stolen, so he lost all his characters. He’s got a new account now and he’s interested in the Dope guild too.
So just to be sure I got this right, we’re a guild of new characters, not transfers?
Could we have one or two designated contacts, that could be PM’d on the Dope so an ingame contact can be arranged to get set up with the guild - or trial account character names, to be friended, so /talk can be enabled?
Forgive my ignorance, but what’s the Burning Dog reference? Why the name?
Created ‘Laughingedge’ (‘laughingblade’ has too many characters), a belf pallie. I plan on going retrib just cos no one in my current guild will let me. So nyah!
I created a Tauren Warrior named Leoril. Lady of the Lake was just starting out in the Tauren area when I made level 5 so I offered to help with the questing. We finished up the starting area and had plenty of fun.
The guild seems pretty spiffy, we’ll see how many show up in the next few days I guess.
Once you’re on Cairne, type /join smdb to enter our chat channel. Introduce yourself with your SDMB name, so we know who you are. Someone will send you an invite.
I’ve started two characters, an Orc Shaman with skinning and leather-working, and Tauren Druid with skinning and herbalism. Once I get my leather supply together, I can make leather armor for anyone who’d like it. If we have any Alchemists, I’ll send my herbs to you. No charge for guildies, but in-kind trades are much appreciated.
Our class balance is looking good so far. Amazingly, no Hunters yet. I highly recommend the class to anyone new to the game.
Forgot to answer. Cairne is a new server, so transfers are disabled for something like six months.
Important Question: what’s our policy for guild invites? Should we restrict to Dopers? Allow family?
Personally, I’m fine with Doper family, but I’d rather not allow other non-Dopers in. Keep it in the Cecil family, since that’s the founding point of the guild.
Hmmm. Hamsters ate my post yesterday. That survey wasn’t up for long, so I didn’t get a response in before it closed, but I would have chosen a low- to medium- population server anyway, and if we’re all starting new toons I really don’t care whether we go Horde or Alliance. Anyone have a good feeling for what classes/professions we’ll need the most?
My main is a frost mage and my favorite alt is a shadow priest. I’m also leveling a shaman. I’d do another one of any of those classes, but since most guilds seem to lack tanks and healers, I’m leaning toward the priest.
I’m definitely still in on it, and I’ll be rolling a new toon shortly.
I rolled 2 chars last night. Someone had the brilliant idea of leveling one while the other gets rested xp up. So I rolled an Undead Mage and a BElf Priest. I figure the Priest will come in handy on dungeon runs. Oh and names are Rottingbird and Healingbird.
I went herb/alch on the mage (need health pots), but not sure which to go with on the priest, maybe tailor so we can get bags. (or should I go skinning for the money?)
It seems like if we all are collecting mats, we can have one character be the super crafter. Ie everyone sends wool to Frotty the Tailor (not sure if he is…) then he can just pump out a ton of bags for everyone to get some. (He won’t even need to go to AH for mats) we can do the same for Leatherworker and Blacksmith. I can volunteer for Guild-Alchemist, and make tons of healing potions.
We will really need that guild-bank to make this work best…
Is this beneficial to the guild, or am I just being stupid?
I don’t have a lot of free time, and when I do play WoW, I usually play by myself on a PVP server (I’m a bit of a masochist).
If you don’t mind a guild member with an erratic and limited time schedule, it would be nice to have someone to talk to once in while.
I’ve played DPS mostly (rogue, warlock) and wouldn’t mind trying something new. Any role under-represented at the moment? I assume a healer is always welcome? I could try my hand at priesthood.
It would be nice to know what we have - though I suppose many people are still in the ‘planning to make their character stage’ anyway. I know you can view guild members though somewhere…is it the armory? confused
But, yes I wish to make another character as well with the same xp saving goal in mind (I have a Tauren Druid - Stampy), and would pick a not over represented class. (…plus, I er…want to make a belf…)
I’ve enjoyed that we can talk and plan here on the sdmb - we’re here anyway so it’s awfully convenient.
Thanks again - Your lively banter helped drive the image of the naked dancing Tauren I’d encountered when I logged into the world quite away!
I say feel free to pick a class that can heal if you’re willing to do it–they all have much more DPS utility than ever (yes, even paladins) so you still have some play if you decide not to heal, but you can go that way if you choose. My guild has a ret pally, a prot pally, a feral druid (tank mainly), a balance druid, a shadow priest, at least a couple elemental shaman, and an enhancement shaman among our regular prime-time raiders. That’s pretty much every offspec there is.
First off, I think we should each take the professions that look fun. No one should pass on one just because someone else has already taken it. Note: don’t expect to make money on any crafting profession–take one for fun, not profit.
That said, professions will be much easier/cheaper/funner if we work together. Until we can get a guild bank, it’ll be tricky to coordinate. For now, in the guild roster, we’re having everyone list their Doper name and their professions. That way, you know who to ask for something. I’ll be happy to mail mats or goods to anyone who needs them.
Yeah, to make money crafting you need rare patterns, and nowadays I don’t think there is anything that’s that rare. I think I was the second 375 tailor on my server, and got the spellstrike pants pattern fairly quickly, so I made a decent amount of money off that, but transmutes and gathering is the way to make money with professions.
That works well for some things; my current guild has a semi-official enchanter and jewelcrafter. For things like tailoring and blacksmithing, though, a lot of the good items require a specialization and are BoP.
I think I might go Bloodelf Paladin - I guess that’s the only Horde race for Pally. I don’t want to go Holy, so probably Protection (forgive my awkwardness with new terms). I still need to install Burning Crusades this afternoon, and I’ll get in touch then.
He’s got a new account now and he’s interested in the Dope guild too.
