Conscious Gaming

After care­ful con­sid­er­a­tion and after con­sult­ing with a num­ber of peo­ple, I have decided to ter­mi­nate Con­scious Gam­ing as a World of War­craft Guild after over two and a half years. The main rea­sons are the fol­low­ing: Most of the longterm mem­bers of the guild have lost inter­est in WoW as a game and there is no point in con­tin­u­ing a project in a game with­out an active player­base. We stopped raid­ing after we started hard­mode progress in the Fire­lands and we have been drain­ing play­ers ever since. The attempt to form a new raid­ing team failed due to con­flicts within the guild. My per­sonal rea­son to ter­mi­nate CG is that WoW has lost its appeal to me as a game and that in order to sup­port an active raid­ing team, more time would have to be invested than I am will­ing to, as well as con­ces­sions would need to be made that would harm the polit­i­cal dimen­sion of the guild in order to increase the pool of play­ers to the needed range.

The forum will not be taken offline how­ever and a num­ber of peo­ple sug­gested the wish to meet again in some game in the future. Dia­blo 3 might be just that game – we shall see. The items in the guild­bank have been con­verted into gold and the gold will be handed out accord­ing to guild con­tri­bu­tion as gath­ered from the armory.

We here at Con­scious Gam­ing hope every­one is hav­ing a nice quiet days off right now. For those who cel­e­brate Christ­mas: Enjoy your gifts

For a long time you haven’t heard any­thing from us, but the good news is:

We Are Back!

When the play­ers had to face the Rage of the Fire­lands, Con­scious Gam­ing decided to step back from progress raid­ing, and for the entire dura­tion of the patch 4.2 we raided casu­ally just once a week. We did pretty well con­sid­er­ing our sched­ule, and have so far killed 2/7 HC bosses.

Four weeks ago we also formed a sec­ond raid group for social play­ers and alts, who — with 2 raids per week — already killed 7/7 nor­mal bosses.

We are happy to announce that now, with the com­ing of the patch 4.3, Con­scious Gam­ing will start again with progress raid­ing. We will raid 3 times a week, on Wednes­day, Sun­day and Monday.

So, with these news we open the recruit­ment again for play­ers who are will­ing to progress with us through the chal­lenges to face Deathwing!

Although we didn’t have any heroic kills to report in the past month, CG hasn’t been idle. We pri­mar­ily have been focus­ing on social events, most promi­nently on ICC 25. Not only were we able to defeat the still pretty chal­leng­ing LK encounter on heroic mode in the 25 player ver­sion of ICC, which we weren’t able to raid in WotLK being a strict 10 player guild, and got our­selves a nice title there, we were able to forge Shad­ow­mourne too. Thanks to the looking-for-guild-tool that was imple­mented in the last patch our player­base has been ever-growing which is great too. We have started to set up casual raids ones per week for our social mem­bers and hope for some easy farm­ing there till the firelands-patch his life.

Sadly, our raid­ing team has to take a break right now. Ever since Cat­a­clysm came out, sev­eral old mem­bers have been step­ping down from the raid­ing team for var­i­ous rea­sons, includ­ing the for­mer rai­d­lead. That lead to a sub­op­ti­mal pro­gress­rate which now resulted in a break­down in moti­va­tion and in the leave of sev­eral raid mem­bers. For now we will raid on a casual way, recruit­ing social mem­bers and reestab­lish­ing reg­u­lar raid­ing should we see suf­fi­cient poten­tial in the guild. For now, the focus of the guild will shift more towards being a social project than a raid­ing one and we are look­ing for­ward to plenty of new mem­bers to enjoy the sum­mer with us.

To keep the news chronologic:

On fri­day 27 may CG reached level 25. Con­scious Gam­ing has now reached the cur­rent max­i­mum level a guild can achieve. As a lit­tle treat for all our mem­bers with an exalted rep­u­ta­tion with CG, we have the scor­pid mount in the list of rewards from our guild ven­dor. Enjoy the ride on the Kor’kron Anni­hi­la­tor and don’t get your­self stinged.
Our lat­est guild perk is the mass res­ur­rec­tion. May it save us time in future progress raids so that we can focus on the impor­tant things such as killing bosses.

On the sat­ur­day raid (28 may) the Raid­ing team man­aged to kill Valiona and Ther­alion on heroic mode. I will not pro­vide you with a screen­shot this time but feel free to have a look on our pro­file on Guil­dOx here. You may like to hear that no mass res­ur­rec­tions were used in the progress of killing the heroic twin drakes.

Hello every­one,
It’s been a while that our Raid­ing team downed first the Omni­tron defense sys­tem and then the lava worm Mag­maw on heroic mode. It’s been sun­day the 8th of May and our vic­to­ri­ous raiders are: Aza­toth, Garamor and Aamutähti, Lacryma, Liebknecht and Sangîus, Lyra­sia, Nanni, Sazsa, Sen­aty, Thyrael and Toof­paste. Good job you lot!
(Garamor being the alt of Aamutähti and Sangîus + Liebknecht being alts of Sangius)

Also, we have now reached level 23 as a guild. That means, we are no longer capped with our daily Guild XP.
We’re cur­rently recruit­ing new mem­bers for our raid­ing team. Check out the recruit­ing tab on the right to see whether your class/spec is on the list and con­tact us on our forums or ingame.

So long — enjoy the pic­tures of the firstkills.

Hello Folks,
As of today, Con­scious Gam­ing is a level 20 guild, mean­ing that we have quite some active play­ers col­lect­ing those guild expe­ri­ence points so that we now have a new guild-perk: The Happy hour
Have you ever asked your­self why the alchemists get a longer flask buff? — It’s because they clean their bot­tles and flasks before they mix their stuff. Since today, we no longer need to choke down those dusty week-old flasks from our inven­tory (where no one really knows what the alchemist has used them for before putting in the mix­tures for us) — now we get the freshly brewed stuff directly from the caul­dron with a 1.5-3h buff dura­tion and it’s enough for all of us.
Another advan­tage of being a level 20 guild are the seven neat heir­loom hel­mets for lvl 1 – 85 for all of our guild mem­bers at the guild ven­dor. Enjoy.

Also, we have a some­what new design on this web­site. You no longer need to screen my post­ings for our raid progress — it’s all in the table on the right side; together with an overview about which classes we are cur­rently recruit­ing new raid­ing team mem­bers from.

Social mem­bers are always wel­come, regard­less of their class.
You should play horde, though.
Or switch faction.

Best,
Sklodowska

This new title was awarded to nine glo­ri­ous raiders who man­aged to sur­vive the firstkill on the drag­onkin Mal­o­riak. We exper­i­mented quite a bit on this encounter and finally got the right bal­ance between dam­age on the boss and the adds and inter­rupt­ing or not inter­rupt­ing the boss’s casts. After an early promis­ing try where we brought him to 5.2% we became deter­mined to fin­ish him off tonight. Although it seemed that we had raid­days with bet­ter over­all con­cen­tra­tion here is, again, proof of our victory:

With 4/13 hard modes down, we are now realm #5 in 10-player progress.

Tonight, the blind dragon bit the dust on heroic on our behalf. We proudly present our firstkill screen­shot with the new achieve­ment:

The next heroic encounter we’re set­ting on our kill-list is Mal­o­riak and we’re con­fi­dent to see a screen­shot of him very soon on these pages.

We’re now #8 in 10 player progress on Draenor and #11 on Achieve­ments on Draenor
Next heroic tries on Atramedes and Maloriak