Phoenix Guild Rules*Please read if you considering to apply*

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Phoenix Guild Rules

This section contains our rules and principles. There is a lot to read, but please take your time and read through them if you are seriously considering applying.

Respect
The first and most important rule is to treat everyone in the guild with respect. This extends to all parts of guild life, from looting that item that everyone wants all the way to forming parties, and even your conduct on VT or guild chat.

Ranks
Friends: A rank for real life friends/family of current members who wish to play in our community or guild veterans who are no longer able to raid and have earned it.
Members: Raiding members of the guild that sign up to the mandatory raiding nights and work in rotation on the role queue system to fill the raids.
Council: Players with the same obligations as members with regards to raiding but with the added responsibility of the day to day running of the guild including making guild policy and dealing with class/personal issues.
Alts: As the name says, alternative characters from players. Only alts you spend a considerable amount of time playing should really be added. To further avoid clutter all alts that have been unplayed for 1 month or more will be removed, if a member wants to renew playing that alt they are welcome to get it re invited.

Raiding
There are 3 mandatory raiding days. These days are Sunday, Monday and Thursday, these occur between 20:00 and 23:30 server time (invites start going in at 19:30, and any replacements happen at 19:45). All members are expected to be available on these days, however there is an opportunity to sign AWOL (meaning unable to attend) for an event on the forum. AWOLs should only be made for engagements that are really important.

We only raid 3 days and for those 3 days, every raid member must be 100% dedicated. For the raids to be successful, we need every little edge we can get. So all gear must be enchanted and players must bring along enough of the appropriate consumables (reagents, pots, flasks, food etc) to last the entire raid night.
We use Ventrilo for raid communication and as such all members of the guild are expected to be able to use ventrilo to follow raid orders.

Forums
Forum access is extremely important, a lot of discussions and decisions will be made on our forums, as well as important announcements. You will be required to check for and read the announcements. If there is a discussion or poll running, after it is closed your opinion will not be counted.

DKP
DKP will be earned by a normal boss kill (3 DKP) and a hard mode boss kill (5 DKP).
Trialists will not receive DKP nor are they able to spend DKP during their trial. In the event an item will be disenchanted it will be given to the trialist if he/she desires it.

Spending DKP
The minimum bid will be 5 DKP per item, increments can be as many as you'd like as long as it's a whole number (ie increments of 1 ) unless ofc you are maxing out and you need to use your half point.

Bidding on offspec items
You are allowed to gain items for your offspec, if you are interested in attaining items for your offspec you can /roll on it when it's placed up for bids. If no one else spends DKP on the item, it will be assigned to you. In the event someone else also rolls on it for offspec, the player with the highest rolls wins.

Standby DKP
To be eligible for standby dkp, you must whisper the RL/designated person the keyword at 20:00 and every hour after until end of raid, if you miss one, you won't get the DKP. the keyword is #standby (yes including the hash # sign). If you are on standby, and we ask for your help, and you aren't about. then all Standby DKP will be nullified and you won't get any. After all, if you aren't contactable, then you aren't on standby.

DKP Penalties
Penalties will be given to people who signed the calendar but don't show up, which will result in minus 50 DKP.

AWOL
If you need to miss a raid, declining on the in game calendar, and a note in the AWOL thread with dates and as to why is mandatory. If you don't do either without good reason, then don't expect a successful trial.

AWOLS will be tracked and if you drop below a 60% attendance (sensible awols such like scheduled, health issues or other obvious reasons don't count) you will be placed on a probation rank. If this happens 2 times, you will be removed from the guild, no exceptions.

Probation
Not the most fun thing to talk about, but still needs to be said. In the event a players messes up big time during a raid (continue to fail after being addressed about it 3 times) you can be placed on a probation. Of course we do look at the situation before hand until we decide on such an action.
When you're on a probation, you won't gain any DKP nor are you allowed to bid on items during a raid, also during your probation you will be monitored closely to see if you improve. Also as stated before, if your raid attendance drops below 60% due to unreasonable awols / no shows, you will be also be placed under probation.
If this happens 2 times, you will be removed from the guild, no exceptions.