This seems like a good time for a reminder about the EJ Recruitment Policy. That is all.

That post is hilarious. How did EJ get started? What's you guys' history?

EJ is the beta somethingawful.com goon squad. We were named differently because (they) wanted a tight-knit group of people who had run together for a while, not the bloating behemoth that GS promised to be. I'm not a beta member, though, so there might be more to it - Then again, neither is Gurgthock. A lot of us are people who joined the more mature and friendly guild after troubles with GS. The guild's history is filled with recruiting, but that is all it is : History. I think I can count the number of new members in the last six months on one hand.

Also all our recruiting was like, dude, get me in your weird WoW guild! Sweet! Nothing raid oriented ever.

Funny how things work out, eh?

I'm surprised you guys haven't encouraged Alliance to transfer given the server's notorious population imbalance.

Actually alliance did transfer and Mal'Ganis is now a pretty balanced server. We have solid queues and people in EJ are much happier than they were before.

But of course there was a queue to log in tonight, which uh, is not something we are accustomed too.

Actually, that's the most accurate description I've seen in a long time.

A lot of us played beta together, wanted to keep playing together, but got spooked when open beta happened and guildchat turned into an ever-increasing mess that required constant moderation. That and it was obvious that most of the "new blood" wanted to play casually and goof around more than knuckle up and get to the endgame. So, we split prior to release and renamed ourselves Hooligan Syndicate. Months later, when we found ourselves in MC et al and using /random, we announced to GS (who we were still raiding with) that we were going to implement a point system for looting. The shit hit the fan because they were still pretty casual and GOONY GOON GOONS SHOULDN'T CARE ABOUT TRIVIAL THINGS LIKE WHO GETS WHAT LOOT BECAUSE WE'RE ALL GOONS AND WE PLAY JUST TO HAVE FUN, we renamed ourselves Elitist Jerks to reflect the resulting sentiment, and we pretty much divorced from GS altogether.

Also, you can now stop switching to M'G, people. Go away. The lag and queue last night was crap and we're full and don't want more of you.

make sure hes a warrior

Yeah, sorry about that one. There might've been too much lag from me holy novaing the skitterers around Faerlina. I did hear some rumors that Blizzard had some network problems and lowered the queue bar such that we got an abnormal queue last night.

I can say that on Arthas usually we'll encounter horrendous lag for an hour(where we will stop raiding and go AFK for about 45 minutes), then a queue will be put on, and the lag will subside for the night. Last night there was never any substantial lag, so either MG puts a queue out before the server goes to hell, or the rumors are true.

That being said, if I reroll a troll rogue on MG can I get into EJ? I want to see if the totem buffing system for shamans is as fantastically better than blessings as our paladins say it is.

Yeah, I think it's no coincidence that the queues happened to come at the same time as gamewide server/network instability last night. I'd certainly hope that Blizzard would close transfers to a server long before it actually reached the point of login queues.

Hey guys I have a level 60 NE rogue, what are my chances if I xfer to Mal'ganis?!