About Paragon - Read this before you apply

-updated 2010-09-18

Currently Recruiting: Everyone!
Very Much Needed right now: Tanks (Druid, Paladin, Death Knight) DPS (Mage, Death Knight, Priest) Healers (Druids, Holy Priests)

Welcome - let me introduce you to who we are. We were founded in the end of October 2007, and were formed as a guild for a group of mature wow-friends. We went through all the phases - non-raiding guild, kara-guild, 25-man content and went through it with a quite casual but still decent speed of progress. Along the way we got more experienced and solid as raiders, while trying to maintain our mostly casual, friendly and chilled atmosphere. And we are still a hybrid - combining community and being casual with maturity and being serious when we raid into one paragon - and we manage to do that, even if it's always a challenge to maintain the balance

The goal with modern day Paragon, is to be a stable community combining the amazing social play that World of Warcraft provides, with serious yet relaxed raiding. In Paragon, we strive to make everyone's gaming a pleasant experience.

Paragon's Reputation
Our Reputation is something we take very serious. A lot of old players from this server recognizes us as one of those old, respectable guilds. We want to keep that reputation. We want to be known server-wide as a guild you can trust. Therefore, we take every complaint about any guild-member's behavior outside the guild-only events very seriously. Remember that as a wearer of the tag, you represent us, what we stand for. What You stand for.


Raids

One of Paragon's main goals is to provide raids for our members. When we raid, we take it seriously, but not dead seriously. There are a certainty of thing we require for everyone who wants to raid with us.

Signing and Drafting

Our raid times, and how you sign up for raids are always posted on the main forums, but in general we raid Sunday-Thursday 20:00 - 23:00 game time (CET). To join a raid you need to sign up for it, usually, we are using the web service Raidar to do this, however that is subject to change. Drafting is done at the very least several hours before the raid. The class leaders and raid organizers will draft people to create a synergic group. If you have any concern about drafting, you should contact the raid organizers

During the raid

If you signed up for a raid, we expect you to be there on time, even if you weren't originally drafted (in case we might need you anyway). We also expect you to:
• Have basic knowledge about the raid-encounters. This means having checked out videos on tactics from e.g. tankspot.com
• Have appropriate flasks with you, as well as food in case we can't provide a fish feast
• Always have all your main spec and off spec (where applicable) gear enchanted and gemmed appropriately
• Always listen to the raid leader. If you have suggestions, you may explain them when the raid leader is finished talking.
• Never complain, or accuse any fellow raider of anything. That's the class and raid leaders' job
• Never go AFK or in some other way inactive during the raid unless it's an exclaimed break. Emergency situations are of course accepted.
• If you cannot be present the entire raid period, you need to let the raid organizers know this before they do the drafting.
• No matter how angry you get while raiding, let it stay on your side of the computer. Raging at the raid won't do anything good.

As a basis, we do not require you to use any addons while raiding, however we may enforce an addon policy on certain individuals should we consider they need it to perform properly. In addition to this, we strongly encourage using a boss mod (e.g. Deadly Boss Mods) and a threat meter (e.g. Omen).

Loot is distributed using a DKP system, more information regarding our loot system can be found in the main forums

The Guild Bank

The Guild Bank contains all sorts of goodies. As a member of Paragon, you are within certain limits entitled to those goodies. In general, unless the item is a very special one, you can have it free of charge, if you can motivate a use for it. Some items (such as BoE items from our raids) can be purchased from the Guild Bank for a heavily reduced price. More exact rules about the guild bank can be found on the main forum

In-Guild Trading

As a member of Paragon, you are expected to offer any of your tradeskills free of charge to any other guild member. This does however not include offering your own materials, nor offering to purchase a certain recipie.
Any item trade within the guild shall be traded in good faith.

Guild Chat

Definition: In this context, the guild chat refers to the in-game Guild Channel, any custom created guild-only channels, as well as the entire forum
The guild chat is the most powerful communication tool we as a community have. Therefore we expect all of our members to behave when using it. Any type of complaints or remarks regarding the guild, should be send to the appropriate officer using a private chat (e.g. whisper or forum mail)