SRS News Week 34

Duelling Winners - 1st Shalseth, 2nd Bely, joint third, Vinny and Matt

Trader

Amazingly we managed to get the trader for 2,123,456 Gold. This is a massive 4M a week saving on what we used to pay. This week I am going for 1.5M to see if we can nudge it down further. There's a good chance we will lose our trader this week for the first time in 18 months, but if we do then the following week we will be back. It's all about finding out the minimum we have to pay to secure a trading spot. Potential Shop I have set up a shop on the website and so far it looks like this:

Right now the shop is hidden. All the items you see could be available if enough interest is shown. I did do this for our STO group a few years ago, but I made a big loss because I ordered lots of stock and only a few people bought items. The quality is great I still have T-Shirts and Polo Shirts, Fleeces etc that I wear daily from many years ago and they still look and feel great. But, I need to see there is a demand for this before I place orders. If you are interested in anything above then please comment below. Trial Signup for Veteran Events

There have been some changes to the Trial Signup. If the event is a veteran, then a minimum of 50K parse is required on the Iron Atronach dummy. You can find this in our guild village. Run your best parse and when the dummy is destroyed you will see a DPS figure in the chat box. I highly recommend running the addon Combat Metrics does give a better readout and complete analysis of your results so you can see what works and what doesn't. You don't need to send screenshots, we trust what you tell us, anyway, if you claim 100K and get 2K in the trial we will certainly know something is not right lol. The reason for this is that on some trials we just don't have enough DPS and get overwhelmed by adds forcing a wipe. This just wastes everyone's time. Some have suggested the figure should be much higher, 80-100K but I don't agree, especially after the nerfs of Update 47. 50K is more than enough to get us through a trial especially when we consider that it is the bottom end and many DDs will be parsing far higher anyway. Also, please make sure you have at least one self-heal and preferably a shield if you can slot it. The healers do a fantastic job but can't be everywhere all the time.

If you don't enter a DPS or enter a figure too low, you will not be invited.

NOTE: This does NOT apply to normal trials on Wednesdays.

Catch The Clown

That naughty Dribbles has been at it again, the latest Catch the Clown event from Teach is up on the Discord #competitions channel. Go check it out and you could win a big prize.

Raffle

The winner was Below, his number was 31 winning 335K The new raffle is up, please have a go, it really helps to support the guild.

Have an absolutely fantastic week, see you in game. Matt