Warm welcome to Steelstorm

...and other changes

Within next few days a majority of people from Steelstorm guild will be joining us. This is not a hastily made decision, as some of you know. It has been discussed in our and their guild chats, and personally me and their GM Loviatar have been talking about this in detail for a week now, and not to conflict against False Hopes policy for recruiting members, I have personally played with 4 of the people joining us, and since they all are RL friends there is no reason to keep them apart. If I had any doubt about them fitting our atmosphere and skill requirements, this "merge" would not happen.

Practically this means that we are getting close to our desired member count, and after this we won't be actively recruiting new members anymore. We will end up having more than desired number of people in certain classes, while still lacking in others, but this should not have major effect since as you know different classes can perform different roles (ie. shaman can fill a spot of melee dps and healer very well).

The existing False Hopes rules and policies remain the same except for one change; I have been noticing people disappearing for a good number of days again without notification, so disappearing without reason may result to guild kick if one is away for more than one week. It is still ok to take a break, just tell us about it in your public note (since everyone can set their public note).

This is mostly for those joining from Steelstorm, but also partially for others who have joined us recently; here's couple posts you should read to get to know False Hopes a little better and how things work here:
Rules and guidelines
About raid specs

Also, please add your useful craft recipes with Thottbot links to the False Hopes crafts post.

Next week I will start looking for guild officers (a different post about that later). However this will be a bit different from the officers that you might have gotten used to seeing in previous guilds and is meant for those who don't mind doing some extra work to benefit the whole guild ;)

I can't say I'm not excited about this. Soon most of the guild will be running in Outlands and we can do a mass of guild runs. Can't wait for that to happen!

- Cheers!