“Flat Earth Society” WoW Guild

Recruitment disclaimer
Recruitment is currently closed. That means, we have no desire to replace anyone in our team no matter how amazing an applicant you might happen to be.
We do, however, also have a second raid group at the moment, with a more relaxed/casual approach to the game, currently at 5/13 HC. If you are interested in joining it, contact Thenedril on Sunstrider.


Our History
We started off as two guys spamming trade, looking for 8 other people to start a raiding team, back in early 2011, at the same time patch 4.1 was released. The guild started off as a casual project, initially not managing to down more than 5/13 on T11. Our breathrough came at the very end of T12, where we realised that in order to kill heroic Ragnaros, we had to up the standards in both quality and quantity of raiding. After a fortuitous event that lead the best players of an at the time disbanding guild to join forces with us, we managed to down Ragnaros and move on to achieve our first respectable world ranking of 103 on 10-man during the Dragon Soul tier, achieving a Spine heroic pre-nerf kill in the process.

Tier 14, although the team started off showing great promise to achieve higher ranks and after actually getting multiple top 100 kills, ended up plagued by huge roster instabilities with about half of our team having to suddenly and without notice stop raiding due to real life reasons, plus a couple of members who left after those problems started occuring. We almost took the decision to disband, however we decided to keep trying, got some new blood in the team and finished the tier at a slightly improved ranking of 79 on 10-man.

As for the current tier, the rankings speak for themselves. On all of the bosses that are considered to be harder and are not skipped on mass by most guilds, we have managed to achieve a top 30 10-man kill, with our best kills being those of Horridon heroic (world 16) and Durumu heroic (world 20). The misfortunes of T14 seem to be far behind us and we hope to be able to continue at this fast pace and maintain and improve our ranking.


Our Core Values
We are not playing WoW just to get the best-in-slot gear. We find excitement in working with other people as a team, with organization and efficiency, in striving to be the best. We like to play at the highest level possible, and we will not tolerate bad play by our raiders and, of course, from ourselves as guild leaders, but we will do so while still retaining a friendly and respectful atmosphere for our raiding partners.


Our Aims and Goals
Our aim is very simple: Keep improving our ranking as much as possible, without having to raid 7 days a week while keeping a humane, friendly, but also professional atmosphere.


Raiding Schedule [on progress]
Monday: 18.00 to 23.00
Tuesday: 18.00 to 23.00
Wednesday: 18.00 to 23.00
Thursday: 18.00 to 23.00
Friday: Free Day
Saturday: Free Day
Sunday: 18.00 to 23.00

We expect a certain amount of flexibility in that schedule, as we might start earlier on some days (example: we many times start the raid at 17:00) and might occasionally prolong the raids slightly after 23.00.

Once content is cleared, we're back to our usual 2-3 days schedule.


What we can offer you
(1) Stability in the guild. The leading team has known each other for a long time now and has already been through pretty much the worst situations possible. So suddenly going nuts and disbanding will never happen.
(2) Leadership that will always be engaged in guild matters and at all times will invest all of their talent into solving all guild-related issues.
(3) Able raid-leading. We are experienced and mature, do a lot of research and our first and most important goal is to seek perfection. We are also open to suggestions from our teammates, both in raids and outside them and prefer to keep a more democratic way when discussing ways to approach the boss fights.
(4) Fairness and impartiality in loot. Our loot distribution system is a Loot Council.
(5) A comfortable and friendly raiding atmosphere. Some of the above may sound dangerously like us taking things too serious. We are not. Get to know us and you will soon realize that we very often joke around about all sorts of stuff (much of which is not WoW-related). We will take everything as serious as necessary but as light as possible.
(6) We will always accept that real-life issues are more important than WoW. No one will be punished for occasionally having other obligations that interfere with their participation. It goes without saying that we still require our members to be consequent and join the majority of the raids.