“Sausagefest” Guild

BACKGROUND
Sausagefest was founded by the core raiders of a former Top 50 US guild throughout AQ40, TBC, WoTLK, and Cata who maintained Top 25 Server kills in MoP and WoD. We are a group of mostly males 25 years or older, who enjoy succeeding on the highest levels of difficulty the game can offer. We currently are 7/7M on one night a week, and are expanding our roster to accommodate the move to two nights a week.


RECRUITING
We are expanding both our roster and schedule. Previously raiding on only Tuesday 9pm - 12am EST, we have added on a Thursday 9pm - 12am EST slot as well. All classes and specs are encouraged to apply as we are currently quite flexible in our needs and raid composition.

We are currently have immediate openings for the following classes:

Resto Druid
Resto Shaman
Holy Priest
Discipline Priest
Mage
Warlock
Shadow Priest

If you feel that you are undergeared but a great player you are encouraged to apply and talk with us. We realize that gear is much easier to acquire than skilled raiders. We will work with you to get you the appropriate gear so that you can start contributing as soon as possible.

We always have room for exceptional players. Always.

RAID TIMES
Tuesday 9pm - 12am EST
Thursday 9pm - 12am EST

Optional alt/farm/fuck around raid on Wednesdays

HOW TO APPLY
For more information or to apply, please contact Metazoa#1604 or anyone online in the guild and they can direct you to the appropriate person.

LOOT
Loot is awarded via a loot council that makes the best decision in the interest of the guild. Trials can and will be awarded loot. Although we do not operate on a GDKP system, attendance will be a contributing factor in the determination of the allocation of loot. For further information, please see LOOT COUNCIL.

RAID SPOTS
All members are expected to be able to contribute to progression content. Those who routinely have problems with staying alive, performing mechanics, and doing enough DPS or healing will have their raid spot in jeopardy. This also means we do not recruit for the bench - you WILL be raiding.

We like to start as close to 9:00 as possible and ask that everyone be online 10-15 minutes beforehand. We do not add additional raid days if we are close to a kill, we raid two days per week. Similarly, we try to end right around 12:00 - some nights we may end a few minutes early and some nights we may end a few minutes late.

We expect our raiders to make the full duration of all of our raids and to not be chronically late or absent. However, we do understand that real life happens and everyone will have to miss or be late to a raid from time to time. We just ask that this is a rare occurrence and does not develop into a regular habit.

LOOT COUNCIL

Loot is not a reward, it is a tool. It will be put where it can be best utilized for future kills. For a more in depth explanation read below.

Loot is awarded via a loot council. Each officer will solicit tells for a specific item he is not interested in, such as a priest taking tells on leather, to prevent as much conflict of interest as possible. Raiders interested in the item then indicate their interest to the officer in charge of the item that was linked by providing as much information as possible about the piece of loot. At a minimum, the item being replaced is to be linked. Additional information such as the loot being best-in-slot for your spec, it’s the only item needed from a particular boss, and should be provided as well. While we ask for as much information as possible, please be brief as we do not want a ten page essay on how some simulation says a ring is going to make your DPS skyrocket.

After interest has been expressed in an item, the officer will award the item to the raider who will provide the guild with the most benefit. This determination is made not only by the aforementioned information provided when the officer solicits interest in the item, but also factors such as the number of items looted in the recent past, amount of time spent raiding with the guild, and the level of performance displayed by the raider. When the item has been awarded it will be the responsibility of the winner to open a trade with the officer that holds all the loot in order to receive the item.

While some of these elements may sound similar to a DKP-esque system, Sausagefest's loot system is not in any way solely deterministic by some kind of DKP metric. The number of items looted in the recent past is to provide guidance to the officer making the decision as to roughly who has looted how many things to ensure a more even distribution of loot and no single individual is looting nearly everything. There are also no “points” to hoard; in fact, those who constantly pass on upgrades in hopes of being defaulted a highly sought after item will find their efforts to be very counterproductive. Additionally, those highly sought after items will not be awarded to those in their very first raid but will instead find their ways into the hands of people who have proven themselves to be reliable and skilled raiders.