I've just made a small change to the guild raiding rules to clarify one of the points following an enquiry by a prospective new member.
The section in question related to attending pug raids during the same week as guild raids, but it wasn't particularly clear:
Members of the guild may pug, or semi-pug ANY raid, however, if they wish to join an organised guild run they must ensure the character they intend to sign up with is reserved for that purpose. Please try to be aware of what classes/specs are likely to be doing the same as you! (You may still run a "Looking for Raid" during a week where you wish to attend a guild raid as this does not "lock you out" of a guild raid).
I have therefore added the following clarification:
As a quick explanation of the above: The current raid "lockout" system means that any character can only gain standard loot (ie, not including bonus roll loot) once per boss, per difficulty level, per raid week. A raid week is Wednesday to Wednesday, ie, raids reset early on a Wednesday morning. This means that, if you kill a specific boss at a specific difficulty level in a pug group, and then want to join a guild raid to kill the same boss, at the same difficulty level, in the same raid week, you will be unable to gain any additional standard loot. Most people would not want to attend a raid to kill a boss with no chance of standard loot, therefore we ask that people do not put themselves in that situation. If you are happy being in this situation, then that is fine.
To be clear - we have no rules against anyone pugging anything. I'm just trying to ensure that, if people want to attend guild raids, they know how the loot lockout works.
We do seem to have had a few people recently who were a bit fuzzy about the guild rules and guidelines, which is understandable as they're long and quite boring! However, the main reason they're there is so that I don't have to spend long periods of time explaining the same things over and over again to different people, because in theory everyone knows what the rules and guidelines are or, at least, know where to find them if they're not sure of anything.
Can I ask that, if you have a question about how the guild, or the raids, work, you please check out the guild and raid rules/guidelines first. If you can't find the answer to the question, feel free to let me know, as either it may be something that has been overlooked, or simply not very well explained.
