This Friday and Saturday night, we will have running alliance warbands for the tier 3 and tier 4 RvR areas.  Look at your in game calendar for the times.  I will post the warband leaders here by Friday morning.

Update:  It’s been a slow week around the halls of Wraithguard.

Chaele and Gaereth will be logged in and forming groups for the OpenRvR.  Due to my crazy Pacific Standard Time, I will be in a little later.

As we all start to level there are a couple tools that should be used to help improve the overall experience of grouped content.

The first one is TeamSpeak.  This is absolutely key for RvR scenarios.  If you don’t have a mic or just don’t feel like talking, you are welcome to listen in.  Given the fast pace of most scenarios, we don’t have a lot of time to type out communications.  The teamspeak client is free and can be downloaded here.

Another tool that should be used is ISAssistTracker.  This will create a small window (that can be moved just like any other UI element) that lists the Main and Off tanks for a party.  All you have to do is click on the appropriate name in the window and you will select that target.  One thing I have noticed about good Destruction teams is that they are very good at concentrating their attacks.  We definitely need that level of co-ordination in our scenarios.  This addon can be found here.

As the game matures, we’ll see more and more mods released.  Everyone should really install the Curse client.  This will not only collect game data to feed into WarDB, it will also provide an interface to update current mods as well as let you check out new mods.

Currently I’m running Little Black Book to keep track of opponents in RvR and QuickSwap to swap from 2 hander to sword and board.  Erasureh just pointed out a new mod called “Scenario Join All Button”.  Care to guess what that one does?  All of these mods can be installed and updated through the Curse client.

I’d like for folks to post their favorite mods in the comments section of this post.

Update: Just found a mod for adding an assist window.  This should be key for folks in a party.  Want to kill that pesky healer in RvR?  Just click on the MT button and assist away! (Get it here)

The idea of having an open RvR night was kicked around and I think it’s a great idea!  Check your guild calendar in game for the specifics.  Everyone should be able to sign up for the event in game.  Once we know who’s coming we can figure out where we’re going.

–Aer

We’re getting closer to leveling up enough to claim our heraldry.  I found a page with all the available emblems for the heraldry here: http://interpim.com/emblems/

Take a look and post your favorite in the comments section.

Remember our friend Thottbot?  There’s an even better site for Warhammer called WARDB (http://wardb.com).  It has a lot of neat features.  My favorite is the character and guild profile stuff.  Check out our listing: http://www.wardb.com/guild.aspx?id=2124.

I would highly recommend downloading the curse client.  Aside from helping to build the WAR DB, it also lets you browse existing WAR mods from the client itself.  If you see one you like, just click on it and the client downloads it and installs.  It will also check for mod updates.  Its pretty slick.

You can grab it here: http://www.wardb.com/client.aspx

All of us who were in the CE headstart are excited to see all our friends arriving with the next wave of head starts!  We should have enough folks online tonight to form the guild.  In the mean time, just add myself and Israel to your friend’s list so we can keep everyone in touch.

I plan on getting the guild officially launched in game tonight at 8:00 PM, Pacific time.  My apologies to the folks on the east coast.  We all need to be in Altdorf together to form the guild, so if you can start making your way there around 8, that would be great.

See you soon in game,

Aer

After some last minute shuffling, the Wraithguard have landed on Ostermark.  We’ll be working on getting the guild formed ASAP.  Hopefully the server will be open for new players during the headstart launch on Tuesday.  As much as I’d hate to shuffle the guild over to another server, I’d also hate for folks to not be able to play.  Server queues are the lose!