World of Warcraft: Guild Promotions

February 13th, 2008 | Posted in blog posts, gaming |

Last night our guild held a small event to honor people who have shown they have what it takes to be promoted. We had a lot of people ready to be promoted from our lowest rank, Recruit, to a full-fledged Member. We also had two people promoted to the coveted Veteran status (grats, Yoshimie and Banemalor!). Additionally, we created new ranks for Class Leaders and added a few profession Artisans (points of contact for various crafting professions) to the ranks.

The officers (of which I am one of three) work hard to come up with fun activities and events the guild can participate in to commemorate such events. I feel it is important for team building, and helps make the promotion something special.

So last night we had a lot of fun. I came up with the idea to do a scavenger hunt. Each of the officers hid at a location around the map. We disabled mapping addons such as Cartographer so our exact location couldn’t be easily pinpointed, and gave out clues. We encouraged people to travel in groups and figure out the clues together. The prize would be 10g for each member of the group to get to our Guild Master, Hariel, the fastest. To prove they had reached the officer we told them to retrieve a particular item to give to the next officer.

The first clue was this: “Your search begins where the Titan’s sword had sundered the Old One’s skull.”

For lore nuts, this is an easy question to answer. The location is the Master’s Glaive, in Darkshore. It is the site of a gigantic sword sticking out of the skeleton of (presumably) one of the “old gods”.

I hid behind the mound, and as groups came to find me, I gave them this clue:

“In the feral lands twins stand tall and proud; inspiring awe of their majesty. Seek the Wishrunner and journey down.”

This clue led our groups to The Twin Colossals on the western side of Feralas. When I was questing through Feralas I was always impressed by the scenery in the area, and thought it would be a great place to send people.

The final clue was given by Seastorm, giving the location of Hariel: “Your journey ends where druids slumber, an emerald sleep in an emerald dream. In the sacred den in the glade of dreams your prize awaits you there.”

The clue is a reference to the Stormrage Barrow Dens, located in the druid haven of Moonglade.

Ending at this location is of significance because right now World of Warcraft is celebrating the Lunar Festival. During this time of year, an evil, large puppy named Omen can be summoned, and he destroys everything in his path. As our group assembled in Moonglade, we formed a raid and took on the beast. Last year at this time we tried and failed. But this year, we had a sweeping success and killed Omen!!

Congratulations to everyone, and thanks for making this such a fun event.

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