Ruleset

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Here's a summary of the rules:

• We raid 3 evenings per week, on Wednesday, Thursday and Monday. Sometimes there are slight adjustments to this schedule.
• We go for the hardest challenge (that is still realistically beatable) available to our raid if we don't have time to kill everything.
• Raid invites are based on attendance. Our loot system also rewards participation, keeps track of items you already received, and encourages our members to take loot often rather then hold out of that one special item.
• Trial periods last around three weeks. Low attendance or average (or below) performance means a failed trial.
• Attendance is recorded automatically, and you may take vacations as long as you let us know in advance.
• The guild banks pays for most repairs and item enhancements (gems, enchants). for active members. The guild bank also supplies potions and feasts on a regular basis, and flasks on special occasions.
• We expect proper raiding conduct.
• Recruitment is done by officer voting.

Below you can find the rules that all Windwalkers members must follow, separated into titles:

1. Title I - Raiding
2. Title II - Loot Distribution
3. Title III - Rank Structure
4. Title IV - Attendance
5. Title V -The Guild Bank
6. Title VI - Conduct
7. Title VII - Miscellaneous

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Article 1 - Raid Scheduling:

1. All raids will be set up through the in-game calendar. You can also view and accept your invites through the armory page.
2. All players of rank higher then "Friend" will be invited to every raid.
3. You are encouraged to accept or decline the invite as soon as possible (see 14.6.a and 14.6.b).

Article 2 - Raid Occurrence:

1. There will be 3 usual weekly raids:
2. Wednesday, 19:00 to 23:30. On-time bonus is awarded at 19:00. One 10 minute break around 21:00.
3. Thursday, 19:00 to 23:30. On-time bonus is awarded at 19:00. One 10 minute break around 21:00.
4. Monday, 19:00 to 23:30. On-time bonus is awarded at 19:00. One 10 minute break around 21:00.

Article 3 - Raid Types:

1. Progression raids are aimed at defeating encounters that we have not defeated before, or completing achievements that we have not completed before.
2. Normal raids are raids that are not progression raids.

Article 4 - Extra Raids:

1. On some special occasions we may raid more then 3 times in one week.
2. Extra raids have to be progression raids.
3. There can be no more than 6 extra raids in one year.

Article 5 - Raid Rescheduling

1. When conditions like red days or server playability make it impossible for us to hold a raid on our normal raiding times, we will reschedule that raid to another day of the week.

Article 6 - Raid Conduct:

1. You are expected to be focused, be alert, and follow orders for the entire raid.
2. You are expected to bring consumables to buff every available buff slot
3. You are expected to enchant and gem all your gear, and correctly spec and glyph.

Article 7 - Raid Invites

1. Officers may reserve spots in the raid that are not handled by paragraphs 2 and 3 of this article.
2. Active members (see Article 21, paragraph 1) have priority for raid invites over inactive members, unless the encounter forces a different raid setup.
3. Among active members, priority is equal.
4. Officers will decide raid invites if there are not enough raid spots for all active members that wish to join a raid.

Article 8 - Objective Selection

• We go for the hardest challenge (that is still realistically beatable) available to our raid if we don't have time to kill everything.

Article 9 - Raid Loot

• Loot that can be gained during a raid will be handled as described in Title II - Reward Distribution rules.

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Article 10 - Rewards by scope:

• Rewards are separated into two categories:
  
  1. Rewards of epic quality or better, that are acquired via 25man raids or 10man heroic raids, during our raid times, are called "Raid Loot".
  2. Rewards that are acquired in any other way, and rewards acquired via 25man raids that are not of less then epic quality are called "Normal Loot".

Article 11 - Distributing rewards by scope

1. Raid Loot will be distributed according to the loot decision steps, as explained in Article 12.
2. Normal Loot will be distributed as decided by the raid leader of the raid that acquired it.

Article 12 - Loot decision steps
When Raid Loot is be distributed, the following steps are followed:

1. Raid group members are asked to claim the Raid Loot (by rolling for the item).
2. When Raid Loot that is claimed by more then one claimer, the raid loot priority tiers listed in Article 13 are checked. The claimers that are part of the highest tier that contains claimers are considered.
3. If there is more then one considered claimer, and they are part of the Windwalkers Ep/Gp System, this system will be used to award the loot, as specified in Article 14.
4. If there is more then one considered claimer, and they are not part of the Windwalkers Ep/Gp System, the loot is awarded to the highest roller between them.
5. If there is only one considered claimer, he will receive the loot.
6. If there is no claimer, the loot will be disenchanted.

Article 13 - Raid Loot Priority Tiers

1. Claimers that are Windwalkers members, with the "Member", "Active Member" , "Officer", or "Guild Master" Rank, for their main specialization.
2. Claimers that are Windwalkers members, with the "Trial" Rank, for their main specialization.
3. Claimers that are Windwalkers members, with the "Member", "Active Member" , "Officer", or "Guild Master" Rank, for their second specialization.
4. Claimers that are Windwalkers members, with the "Trial" Rank, for their second specialization.
5. Claimers that are Windwalkers members, with the "Alt", "Officer Alt" or "Trial" Rank, for their off specializations, and Windwalkers members, with the "Friend" Rank for their main specialization.
6. Claimers that are Windwalkers members, with the "Friend" Rank, for their second and off specializations.
7. Non-Windwalkers claimers, for their main specialization.
8. Non-Windwalkers claimers, for their second and off specialization.
9. Non-Windwalkers claimers may be considered as part of another tier, on special occasions.

Article 14 - The Windwalkers Ep/Gp System

1. To gain access to this system, you must install the Ep/Gp addon available for download here.
2. You can also review the entire documentation of the Ep/Gp.
3. Ep are effort points. They are awarded as specified in Article 15
4. Gp are gear points. They are added when you receive Raid Loot, as specified in Article 16
5. When this system is used to award Raid Loot to claimers, the Raid Loot will be awarded to the claimer with the highest Ep/Gp rating (Ep divided by Gp).
6. To obtain the Ep/Gp rating, the following elements are used:
   
   1. Ep and Gp decay by 17% after every raid, and Gp can not decay under 100.
   2. New members start with receive 100 Gp and 0 Ep.

Article 15 - Awarding of Ep

1. 300 Ep will be awarded to all members that have accepted the calendar invite for the current event, if they are online and ready to raid at 19:00.
2. -300 Ep will be awarded to all members that have accepted the calendar invite for the current event, if they are not online and ready to raid, 15 minutes after the beginning of raid time, and no officer has been notified of their absence.
3. The Ep awards from the previous 2 paragraphs are doubled for Progression Raids.
4. 100 Ep will be awarded to all members online and ready to raid, for every 15 minutes, after the beginning of raid time, and until the end of raid time.
5. On certain occasions, Ep will be can be deducted from a member as punishment.

Article 16 - Adding of Gp

1. Whenever a Windwalkers member receives loot, Gp equal to the value of the item is added to their Gp total.
2. The value of the item will be visible in the item tooltip, and is computed by a formula that takes the item level, the item quality and the slot weight into account. If you are interested in the formula you can read about it here.

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Article 17 - Ranks in Windwalkers

1. Guild Leader, with the following attributes:
   
   1. [Change this ruleset]
   2. [Lead 25man raids]
   3. [Vote on recruitment]
   4. [Administer Ep/Gp]
   5. [Full member in Ep/Gp]
   6. [May have alts]
   7. [Raiding costs largly supported by guild bank]
2. Officer, with the following attributes:
   
   1. [Lead 25man raids]
   2. [Vote on recruitment]
   3. [Administer Ep/Gp]
   4. [Full member in Ep/Gp]
   5. [May have alts]
   6. [Raiding costs largly supported by guild bank]
3. Active Member, with the following attributes:
   
   1. [Full member in Ep/Gp]
   2. [May have alts]
   3. [Raiding costs largly supported by guild bank]
4. Member, with the following attributes:
   
   1. [Full member in Ep/Gp]
   2. [May have alts]
5. Trial, with the following attributes:
   
   1. [Trial member in Ep/Gp]
6. Friend, with the following attributes:
   
   1. [Friend member in Ep/Gp]

Article 18 - The Trial Rank

1. New recruits receieve the trial rank in the guild.
2. The trial period will lasts 3 weeks.
3. A trial can only be promoted if he fulfils the conditions to become an active member.
4. At the end of the trial period the trialist will either be removed from the guild, or promoted to the member rank.

Article 19 - The Friend Rank

1. The friend rank is ment for members who no longer raid but wish to remain in the guild for social reasons.
2. The Friend rank may not be requested by trials and outsiders.

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Article 20 - Attendance Recording

1. The attendance of our members will be recorded in a three week span.
2. Attendance is logged every hour during raids and can be viewed at attendance.
3. To receive attendance while not in the raid whisper the attendance officer "wl add".

Article 21 - Activity Levels

1. An active member is a member with more than 80% raid attendance.
2. A member that falls under 50% attendance will automatically be demoted to a friend spot.
3. Once a member falls under 75% attendance, recruitment will be open for his/her spot.

Article 22 - Vacations

1. There are 15 vacation days / year.
2. Each vacation day can be used to grant a member attendance for that day, regardless of his presence in the raid.
3. Vacations must be requested in the appropriate forum at least one day before the vacation starts.

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Article 23 - Guild Bank Repairs

• Active members (see Article 21, Paragraph 1) are entitled to repair with guild bank money during progression raids (see Article 3, Paragraph 1).

Article 24 - Guild Bank Item Enchancements

1. Active members (see Article 21, Paragraph 1) are entitled to use up to 4 stacks/day of materials found in tab 4 of the guild bank, for enchanting PvE upgrades of their main spec.
2. Before taking materials from the guild bank, the active member must post a request in the "Guild Material Requests" forum.
3. Availability of materials to the active members that have posted as indicated in the previous paragraph is on a first come first served basis.
4. Violation of the policy in paragraph 2 of this article will lead to a warning on the first offence and guild kick on the second offence.

Article 25 - Guild Bank Consumables

• All members and trials are allowed to take potions and resistance flasks from the guild bank, and active members, officers and the guild master are sometimes allowed to take flasks from the guild bank.

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Article 26 - No bad conduct

1. Conduct that is seriously hostile towards a member of the guild will not be permitted and will result in removal from the guild.
2. Conduct that results in reduction of raiding efficiency will result in removal from the raid or the guild.

Article 27 - Focus on teamwork

• Frequent display of teamwork incompatible behaviours will result in removal from the guild.

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Article 28 - Alts

1. Playing alts is not discouraged. You may even bring them to non-progression raids if their gear is adequate.
2. Ep/Gp belongs to the member, not the character, and it can be used on any character of that member.
3. Alts are below members and trials on loot priority, even for 10 mans.
4. The inclusion of alts in raids is done at the officers discretion. We decide how many, and who, are allowed on a raid-per-raid basis.

Article 29 - Recruitment

1. Applications who have followed the proper application procedure need a majority of positive officer votes to be accepted into the guild.
2. Officer voting on applicants is private.