Guild Progression

Hi Everyone!
I wanted to take this opportunity to discuss Honor and Glory's progression--We've come a long way, and I wanted to recognize the people that are contributing daily to the Guild's success.
Raiding is no joke. Gear takes a while to accumulate, and lots of luck are needed on the rolls. Thankfully, we have a fairly devoted group of raiders on-board now, becoming more and more geared, and putting forth the effort needed to progress, as a guild. Here is the list of raiders that have made an impact:

• Kallion--Epic Tank/Sham-wow/ GM 
• Stonehoofx-- Epic Tank/Mage/ GM
• Darthnishiki-- Epic Tank/DK Theorycrafter/Sham-Wow
• Diona-- Epic Heals/Hunter Extraordinaire
• Erilis-- Epic Heals/Tank in the making
• Maeda-- Epic Drood Heals/Feral Tank in the making
• Whoapaw-- Epic Heals/3k Boomkin in Blues
• Hazl-- Epic Heals--will keep you alive no matter what
• Firesong-- Epic DPS/Tank in the making
• Nagu-- aka Youwillfall Epic DPS/OT/Sham-Wow
• Amorgan-- Epic DPS/Connosieur of Rogue Weapons
• Noris-- Epic Lock/Comedian
• Ronordith (of Deathgrip)-- Epic Mage/Pally/Arena PvP'er
• Me aka Shyste --Likes to pretend he's Epic DPS/OT on good days =)

If anyone has any questions regarding specs, talents, raid bosses, stat itemization, etc., don't hesitate to ask any one of the above: they're raid tested/approved.

STATE OF AFFAIRS

As of late, most of you know that RL work has hindered Stone's raid availability. For the sake of the Guild's progression, I (with the help of Hazl) have found a Standby Warrior Tank to raid in Stone's absence. He will be joining us this coming Thurs, so that we can better familiarize ourselves with him, and make sure that he will be an acceptable replacement when Stone is unable.

Raid make-up hasn't had too many set-backs at the moment, other than the displacement of Stone as our tank. Once this role is fulfilled, however, we will have more than 10 potential raiders for our group. I understand that time will affect who is on and able to raid, but when the time comes and everyone is on and wanting to go, we will have to leave some behind. If it were up to me, you all would go, but as it is not, Darth and I will have to choose a make-up that is most viable to current conditions. My goal to resolving this, is to soon have enough geared raiders to begin 25 Ulduar.

Raid times have been played-by-ear lately, but this next week I'd like to have a more solid foundation. Ulduar raids will begin at approx 10 server, and will run for about an hour or so...we'll do this so that we're raiding consistently during the week, even if its just to down a boss or two. I'd also like to see Saturday raids formed for things like OS and VoA consistently, so those will be calendar'd for next week as well. We have the strongest 10 that we've ever had, so Malygos is on notice as well. I'll have a more definitive time for raiding EoE, very soon.

I am very pleased with the current state of affairs with Honor and Glory, and I'm looking forward to Kyle's return, and the beginning of Heroic end game content. We're already better than most--let's strive to be the best.

For Honor and Glory,

-Shyste