{"id":216,"date":"2022-08-02T12:19:56","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T17:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empirical-guild.com\/?p=216"},"modified":"2026-02-03T22:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T03:11:08","slug":"august-2022-newsletter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empirical-guild.com\/?p=216","title":{"rendered":"August 2022 Newsletter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">Welcome to Season 4!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">Shadowlands Season 4 begins on Tuesday, August 2nd!<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/empirical-guild.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/QABQ8EMOU9UY1658953654239.jpg.6879b2e67c074eea94167282c5c036ea-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/empirical-guild.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/QABQ8EMOU9UY1658953654239.jpg.6879b2e67c074eea94167282c5c036ea-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/empirical-guild.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/QABQ8EMOU9UY1658953654239.jpg.6879b2e67c074eea94167282c5c036ea-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/empirical-guild.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/QABQ8EMOU9UY1658953654239.jpg.6879b2e67c074eea94167282c5c036ea-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/empirical-guild.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/QABQ8EMOU9UY1658953654239.jpg.6879b2e67c074eea94167282c5c036ea.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Season 4 Raiding Plan:<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>As we head into Season 4 and the introduction of Fated Raids, we will be focusing our prog nights, Thursday and Monday, on heroic progression.&nbsp; Normal raids will take place during our community night time and are fully optional.&nbsp; Requirements for raiding during Fated Raids:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>An ilvl that is equivalent or higher than one tier below what is being run (265 for normal, 278 for heroic, 291 should we do mythic).<\/li><li>A general knowledge of the fights and how to play your class well.<\/li><li>Be prepared with gems, consumables, enchants, etc.<\/li><li>Raid etiquette &#8211; be kind, be patient, listen to the raid leaders, honor everyone\u2019s time by not taking unexpected breaks, hearthing out between fights, missing ready checks, etc.).<\/li><li>The ability to speak during specific boss fights will be a requirement.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Please take a moment to fill out this survey in regards to mains for this tier!  <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/NDMfFGy3ovrTeqaq9\">https:\/\/forms.gle\/NDMfFGy3ovrTeqaq9<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>July Bank Report and Requests:<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>A huge thank you to everyone who has been donating materials and items to the bank as well as to those who are utilizing the bank resources. Here are a few highlights for the month:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The top contributor this month was <strong>Bekabeka<\/strong>.<\/li><li>The most donations were made in the <strong>Eat the Food<\/strong> tab.<\/li><li>We\u2019re closing the month out with <strong>1,633,300 gold<\/strong> in the bank.<\/li><li>We have successfully rehomed <strong>19 pets<\/strong>.<\/li><li>The enchants in highest demand are <strong>Chest &#8211; Eternal Stats<\/strong>, <strong>Ring &#8211; Tenet of Haste, Ring &#8211; Tenet of Critical Strike, <\/strong>and <strong>Ring &#8211; Tenet of Critical Strike<\/strong><\/li><li>Gems in highest demand are <strong>Quick Jewel Cluster<\/strong> and <strong>Masterful Jewel Cluster<\/strong>.<\/li><li><strong>Potions &amp; Herbs<\/strong> is currently the least used tab.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are a few requests to help keep the bank clean and tidy:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Pets <\/strong>&#8211; If there are already 5 of one type of pet already in the bank, please do not add any more of that type into the bank.<\/li><li><strong>Crafting Patterns<\/strong> &#8211; Please do not deposit any more crafting patterns for non-current-content items into the bank.<\/li><li><strong>Legendaries <\/strong>&#8211; Please do not put 190 legendary items into the bank <em>unless<\/em> there are no higher ilvl versions of that item already in the legendary tab.<\/li><li><strong>Cooking Materials <\/strong>&#8211; Please use these! Our bank is stuffed full of them! Please let me know if it would be more beneficial for folks to have pre-cooked food available, as I will happily cook up whatever people would like, however, the pre-made food has not been touched in a month, so I am hesitant to do so unless there\u2019s demand.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks again to everyone who utilizes the bank! Your donations are always appreciated. Please remember that the bank is there as a resource for everyone, so don\u2019t be shy if you need to source it for materials. If you have any special requests for items to stock, please let Korinth know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Season 4! Shadowlands Season 4 begins on Tuesday, August 2nd! Season 4 Raiding Plan: As we head into<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/empirical-guild.com\/?p=216\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">August 2022 Newsletter<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":183,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsletter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empirical-guild.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empirical-guild.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empirical-guild.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empirical-guild.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empirical-guild.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/empirical-guild.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219,"href":"https:\/\/empirical-guild.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions\/219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empirical-guild.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empirical-guild.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empirical-guild.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empirical-guild.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}