Meeting 16 - January 20th

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General
With the initial expansion release over, we'll be returning to normal operations. Our regularly scheduled events will resume. We ask that people chime in some thoughts on the Revamping Events Thread as we're always looking to see what we can be doing better and we would like your help. The Craft Drive contest is now over and the guild bank has returned to normal - the secondary ranks have been removed and deposit access has been restored.

Raiding

• Blackrock Foundry opens in 2 weeks and we'll be moving fully into progression there.
• Once we have cleared Normal progression there and have 3-4 bosses downed in Heroic, we will resume original plans to split the raid nights between the 2 difficulties and sort out what we'll be doing with stratified teams.

PvP

• Guild efforts here are the closest they've ever been, so if you're interested, now is the time to speak up.
• The goal is to run 2 events a week, one centered on reaching Conquest Cap, while the other eventually building towards a Rated Battleground team. We have a little over half of a team put together for this, but in the meantime we'll be looking to build up via arenas.

Pet Battles

• Roughhouse is running our Safaris now and those're taking place on Saturday mornings. We'll look to expand this event series more as things pan out.

Guild Challenges

• Since these are currently bugged and we've lost a lot of other means of funding the guild, the guild bank is slowly being depleted though we have plenty of time before this becomes a real issue. When the dungeon challenges get fixed, we'll begin events to complete these challenges again to raise funds.

Lore Run

• As Mira gets settled back into game, she'll be running more of these. She intends to move on to the Sanctum raids next and will revisit Naxx at a later date.

Fashion Show

• Stealthstar has returned from their school/holiday break. The next show will be on January 30th and will take place in Thunderbluff. Time TBA.
• The theme for this show is Axelhavok's idea: Superheroes. You can use existing characters or original ones. Villains are also fair game.
• This initial show is meant to be people new to transmogging, with a later show for experienced moggers.

Events to look for in the future

• Pandaria World Boss Farming - As I settle on a schedule and find time, I will get this going more regularly and run it on a night there's another event going on. This event only takes an hour, not the sort of thing we want to devote a whole night to.
• Challenge Mode Dungeons - For the achievements and transmog. For hardcore pve players. If you're interested, let me know, and start putting together a BiS gear set to run it with. Warforged, Socket and Tertiary bonuses are removed, so don't bother farming for them.
• Roleplay - Mira would very much like to get this event series up and running again.

Contest

• No new contest for this month. We think everyone needs and deserves a break after this massive one. We'll have one for next month.
• The final results along with winners have been posted to the Craft Drive Contest thread along with a copy of the spreadsheet tracking all of the data. 
• Congratulations to all winners and thank you to everyone who participated in making this such a massively successful venture.

Promotions

• Initiate to Member - Anren, Mathalor, Baylord, Tyranie, Creedn, Ablivien and Roughhouse
• Member to Veteran - Loala and Trioxide
• We hope to add some new officers next month. We don't want to make premature promotions only to have to take them back later.