Lemmings of the Light

Tonight the Lemmings (and friends) went for a little fun run into old territory some have never had a chance to see.

The first in a new series of fun runs was to the Ruins of Ahn'Qiraj, which only took about 20 minutes, followed by a run through the Temple of Ahn'Qiraj.

(Almost) Everybody in the raid ended up with a bug mount from the trash. I'll leave it up to you to figure out who didn't from the screenshots

The next run will be to Gruul and Magtheridon's Lairs. I'm trying to work out suitable dates that don't collide with other plans, so watch this space!

About a month ago we decided to focus our main raid on Naxxramas, because quite a lot of our newer guildies still needed the experience and upgrades from that instance. We're now at a stage that we can re-focus on Ulduar again.

So starting on Wednesday 8 July our main raid will be Ulduar again. For starters we will visit Ulduar twice a week, on Wednesday and on Monday. There will be a 3rd raid on Tuesday, with destination filled in as needed.

Because some guildies didn't have the chance to see all of Naxxramas yet, and would like to do so before we re-focus on Ulduar again, we've decided to extend the Naxxramas raid of this week with an extra 3rd run tomorrow evening. That way we're virtually guaranteed to unlock the final Naxx wing, and have a try at Sapphiron and Kel'thuzad either tomorrow or on Tuesday.

For a lot of guilds, the summer holidays mean a break period in raiding, caused by a lull in signups. Just to refresh everyone's memory, in "tough" periods like these we have been helped in the past by our Guild Friendship programme! So ask your friends

Everyone that is interested in raiding with Lemmings - and that subscribes to a few rules (gear level, attitude) can fill in a Guild Friend application on our website. Being a guild friend means that an individual can sign up for our raids, helping us to make runs go ahead, and them to perhaps get some raiding action in the holiday season. whose guilds are issuing a holiday season and might want to have the option for signing up with another established group. It's not meant to poach people (making other guilds' raids harder, that's not what we're about), but it has helped introduce some people to the Lemming way. Plus you know the Wilgje is all about PR

As member of Lemmings you will be able to see guild friendship applications. We're much pickier with our guild applications (as being a guild friend is more of a 'deal' made between individuals and Lemmings for mutual benefit), which is why we leave the guild application reviewing to guildies ranked High Lemmings and up, but for guild friends we just want to run the names by you so you can say, "omg I was in a pug with this dude he's horrible!!!" or "wow this person is awesome". If someone doesn't get any bad comments, we make them an account on our website and we try things out.

Hey all

Just a quick post to let you all know my laptop has somewhat died. I finished Uni for the year on Friday (yayyy) but as soon as I got home my laptop started playing up. It's now working for about half hour at a time before I have to do system restores, so installing WoW is not exactly an option as I can't even install iTunes

Just thought you should all know that I'm in the process of trying to get it back up and running and am having someone out to look at it hopefully on Thursday, and I'll be online as and when I can!

For now it might just be a matter of stealing Red's PC during the day But shhh don't tell him!!

-Dórá

Hey Lemmings,

I've had the honour of being in Lemmings for the better part of 4 years that i've been in this game. We've had ups and downs, but always kept ourselves going. This is OUR strength that not many guilds have, we survive. As I said, i've been here for most of my time in this game and there's no other guild I'd rather be in, however, as of late, if its due to recent happenings in my life that has made me take upon a different view or something else, I've decided to leave World of Warcraft. I've had so many good times here with you guys, so many raids, events, instances, quests, cliff jumps that it would be impossible to count them all. But the game has lost its charm, while Lemmings still keep the fun alive, I feel that i've done everything, seen everything, that this game has to offer. This sadly ruins my mood and I just sit around, checking AH, being grumpy, which is not what a game should do, it should be fun and make you happy.

Oops, we did it again! We fielded an expedition party up Ironforge mountain to inunciate our new guildies with a Lemming jump! Keirin made a little video-clip here. We also had a little race (great organising by Lunalights ) - grats Matzy, Kishia and Deminion with winning first prize! Second prize went to team Lunalights, Spitbeard and Pyrzillac.

Holy moly!

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After a rough start of our evening with an uncooperative Anub'Rekhan we ended it *awesomely* with an amazing fight that will stay with me for some while to come... me and Kishia were tanking Gluth, and I was checking my debuffs, when I saw something beside me hug the floor. Uh oh- only one tank, and the 10% less healing debuffs were stacking! *THREE* times I had 11 of these debuffs ("Wilgje receives 110% less healing") and our healing team of the night - Garalia, Spitbeard and Lunalights got me through it! O_O

Liek whoa! Another high point of our evening was of course the promotion of Matzy to high lemming - congratulations! The next high lemming round will be held in august.

HA HA!

But seriously. Hello Exo fans *smattering of applause* and welcome to my blog. Empty as it is i feel this is a needed addition and it is that fact that with great honour and a little shock, i have been gifted the coveted position of High Lemming!

I really do appreciate anyone who had a hand in this. I love this guild with such passion and would go out of my way to make everyones stay with us as pleasant as possible (to the point i have actually shut up for a minute!!). I have been with the lemmings around 2 years and i'm pretty sure i'm the longest standing regular lemming with no form of promotion (woop woop) but that has unfortunately changed.

What has not changed is the way i feel about the guild and the members present. I respect every officers decision, and i respect every lemmings opinion and i hope to bring to the guild a new mature Exo

A while ago we announced that we would stop organising 'official' (officer-organised) Naxxramas runs for the guild, and that we'd leave them for guildies to organise. However, it turns out that there are so many guildies that need the experience and upgrades, that we have decided to reclaim the organisation of Naxx-10 runs.

This means that if you want to attend Naxx-25 man pick up groups, that's fine. Thondar is organising a Naxx-25 man raid for next thursday (the 18th of june), so you might want to save yourself for that one that week

It also means we will be using and updating our NIL/Naxxramas Invite List again. Because we have a lot of new guildies, just this once Neti and I will look at the gear of the new guildies to see if they can be added to the list, or not (we usually ask people to get in touch with a counsellor or officer themselves, so we won't have to keep tabs on 20 armory pages and can add names one at a time). If you are not added to the invite list tonight/early thursday, no worries, you're *not* left behind. Just get in touch with a counsellor or one of the officers to get the ball rolling.
More about the basic working of the invite list system can be found here.

If you have any questions about the invite system, or wether we have taken a look at your gear yet, please don't hesitate to whisper me or Neti. We will also make sure that the other officers/counsellors know about everyone's gear, so you can ask them for info when Neti and I are in Naxxramas tonight.

After Ulduar was introduced our guild quickly progressed to the end of the second wing of Ulduar, with the third wing within close reach. We then lost a lot of our raiders, resulting in a situation where we couldn't reliably field a 10-man raid at the Ulduar level anymore.

In the past few weeks we've gained quite a few new players, and combined with the return of players who were on hiatus, this means that we're now able to reliably field a 10-man raid again. However a lot of these players have just leveled up to 80, or have no or little experience in raiding at the Ulduar level. This means that although we once again can sustain a regular raid group, we won't be able to consistently go to Ulduar for the next few weeks. It is also expected that with the summer months around the corner, a lot of our players will be less available for quite some time.

With the above in mind, we've decided that our raiding schedule for the next few weeks will be as follows:

(Click 'Read more' for the schedule)

We had a High Lemming round and we have decided to promote four people. Three of these have already been given their new rank ingame.. number four will be a surprise I'm going to quote what Neti wrote in our officerthread about the reasons for promoting Daz, Starion, and Spitbeard.

Needless to say, we were all in agreement with Neti Congratulations guys!

Tonight, some questing for those that wish to explore City of Heroes with Joesnow. Just to explore another online world!

Friday, we'll go back to Ulduar, or to Eye of Eternity, depending on the sign-ups, and what everyone wants to do. We can still use some signups to make this run go ahead.

As always, the weekend will be a bit quieter, so we haven't put anything into the calendar. And finally on monday we'll go to Naxxramas to get some more upgrades for old and newer guildies! Please sign up if you want to come with

If you have ideas for fun events, or old raid content, don't hesitate but get in touch with me, an officer, ingame or through the site, or in the comments here. We're a bit short-staffed as new guildies are levelling and the officers are a bit busy but we will do our best to make things happen!

Yes we did it. The Lemmings have downed the Big Blue Bad!

Click 'Read more' for the full report.

To allow for some breathing space for our new joiners and those players who've decided to boost their alt spec to help us balance our raiding roster, the raiding schedule for the upcoming week will be Ulduar-light.

We've planned the following program:
- Thur 28 May: For the Alliance - a good chance to get to know our new guildies a little better and perhaps get them the black bear mount
- Fri 29 May: Ulduar (single run)
- Mon 1 Jun: Obsidian Sanctum / Eye of Eternity / Naxxramas (TBD)

Last time, we decided to push the next high lemming nomination round to July.. but I've gotten some positive feedback about quite a few guildies, and in this last week we have seen a new side from some.

So, it's time to send in your nominees! Pm me, whisper me. I write down all mentions and will discuss them with the officers for the final cut. Please send in nominees before friday, the 29th of may. You can get inspiration of who is not a high lemming yet on this page.

Psst.. I haven't been in Lemmings that long yet, what are High Lemmings?

High Lemmings are people in the guild that have shown they embody Lemming attitude (helpfulness, improvisation in the face of a challenge, friendlyness, being considerate of other people's feelings), people that are an inspiration and example to everyone in the guild, who help make our community what it is. It is not a popularity contest, but a way for you to open our eyes on who we might be underestimating