Peachy Keen

If you have thought about applying to Peachy Keen, I'm sure this question went through your mind. If you look over our Recruitment forum, you'll find that more people have been declined than accepted. This isn't because we're extremely picky. However, there are specific criteria that must be met in order for our raids to be successful. Here, we will go over what that criteria is.

Class Knowledge
First and foremost, you need to understand how your class works. If we find that you're using the wrong talents, the wrong glyphs, the wrong enchants, or the wrong gems, we're going to assume that you don't know what you're doing. We don't care if you're the absolute best player in your previous guild. You need to prove to us that you know what you're doing.

There are several resources that are available to help you out. I'm sure everyone has at least heard of Elitist Jerks. That's a great starting point, but it isn't the end-all-be-all knowledge center. Sure, a lot of people theorycraft there, but there are other places that are class-specific. Try searching for guides specific to your class and spec and see what you can learn. Also, my personal favorite, look up the best guilds on the Armory and see what those of your class and spec do. For example, since I play a boomkin, I regularly look up what the boomkins from Paragon, Method, Ensidia, Premonition, and Midwinter do. Each of them does something a little different, so I'm given some options with what I believe is the best approach or what works best for my raids.

Raid Experience
We need players who know what they're doing in raids. We get a lot of applications with players who have done 4/12 normal or 9/12 normal, and so forth. However, this isn't going to cut it. We're a 7/13 heroic guild at the time of this post. While we don't expect all of our applicants to have 7/13 cleared, we expect them to have at least done 12/12 normal. The normal mode encounters are quite simple and pugable at this point (unless you're on The Underbog). If your raid is struggling to get 12/12, then you want to look at other options.

Now, why are we strict with 12/12? The answer is simple. We need all of our player to have at least seen first-hand how to down the normal mode fights. While reading up strategies and watching videos can definitely help you prepare for these fights, you really don't know how the fights work until you've actually done them. Suppose you've never done normal mode Nefarian, and we bring you into our guild and work on heroic Nefarian. If you don't know how the fight works, you can make the simple mistakes that are usually made when learning the normal mode, such as DPSing the wrong target at the wrong time or taking too long to get on the pillar during Phase 2. It's not fair to everyone else if you keep dying from the same thing because you're trying to learn the basic mechanics of the fight.

If you're still expecting an invite even with very little raid experience, that tells us one thing: you want to get carried through the content. That is something we will not do under any circumstances.

Attitude
We're looking for people who have the same mentality as us, in that we want to clear content. We know that there are several types of players out there with different agendas. For example, we know there exist several players who simply want to get geared out. These are the kind of people who ask the officers why they didn't get each item that dropped. If we find out that you're one of these people, then you will be removed quickly. None of our raiders care about gear; they want to down all the heroic bosses. The beauty of loot council is that we decide when you get gear. However, we should note that we make it as fair as possible. Just yesterday, we gave heroic loot to players who never raided with us before yesterday. So, it is possible to get gear early on, but don't expect everything that drops will go to you.

We also look for players who have a positive raiding attitude. The thing about progression raiding is that we will wipe...A LOT. It's even possible to have a bad night on farm content. If you're one of those who has very little patience and gets very upset after two wipes, then you shouldn't be raiding at all. Think of a raid boss like a puzzle. There are certain elements that need to be handled at specific times. If you can coordinate this puzzle correctly with 25 people, then you'll solve the puzzle. If something goes wrong and you find that one of the pieces isn't correct, then you need to make adjustments so that the piece fits correctly. In other words, you should find ways to improve yourself. If you made a mistake in the last attempt, you should learn from it to make sure it doesn't happen again. If someone else made a mistake, learn from that to. Otherwise, we'll be wiping to a boss forever if everyone needed to replicate the mistake to make sure it doesn't happen again. As we all know, solving puzzles takes time, dedication, and patience (with a side of competence). We need these characteristics from our raiders in order to succeed.



We hope you find this information useful as you're working on your application. If you have any questions, feel free to speak to an officer.

*) a good person that doesn't use the internet as an excuse to be an asshole
*) always let us know when they're going to miss a raid night
*) is always trying to improve
*) is experienced, dedicated, creative and intelligent.
*) able to take sometimes extremely harsh criticism and improve from it
*) Have a competitive nature both on a guild vs. guild level and an internal level.
*) is able to play his/her class to perfection
*) able to adapt to new situations and goes beyond just reading theorycrafting and knowing what the right gems are
*) plays for the guild and its progress above all else.

"The ultimate player is mostly a state of mind; the single most important thing imo is attitude. Essentially you need to want to improve and take an active role in it." paragon.fi

This should be your checklist! Use this as a rubric for yourself to know how you are doing. I will be using this when I get to evaluate your performance or when I have to provide feedback.

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HARD CORE: A guild that is primarily focused on raiding, is competitive and generally reaches high rankings on its server or their region. This guild expects full or majority attendance (majority is something like 80% of the time) on its progress raiding nights. Hard core guilds are often extremely sociable in nature and do other things beyond raiding but raiding is its primary reason for existence.