Guild:Lazy Peon Tavern (Silvermoon EU)

Lazy Peon Tavern is an Alliance guild on Silvermoon EU with a primary aim to raid and progess in 10 player content. The guild was formed in 2007 and is comprised of players from more than 10 different European countries. Lazy Peon Tavern is currently awaiting the 4th World of Warcraft expansion, "Cataclysm", leaving all Wrath of the Lich King content cleared (while being current content) with the only exception being two end game heroic mode encounters.

History
Lazy Peon Tavern was formed in December of 2007. The founding members met while being members of a family guild named Wyrd Angles. During the late fall of 2007 some dramatic turns in that guild related to Karazhan-raiding made our peons decide to leave, and as a joke they created their own guild: Lazy Peon Tavern. The name was made up by Zinya, who helped sign the charter but who ended up staying in Wyrd Angles. The GM became Kittenface, a Luria alt, who was really lowlevel at the time and only got the job because she was considered a joke-character. The initial thought of the guild was not to become a proper guild, but after a short period there had been enough players joining from the old guild to be able to raid Karazhan. Around Chistmas-time of 2007 Lazy Peon Tavern had it's first raid ever as a guild. That raid went to Karazhan, where all bosses but Prince Malchezaar was killed. At that time that was a huge feat for the members, having not been close to the upper floors of the raidinstance before, and created a taste for more raiding.

The guild kept raiding Karazhan throughout the spring of 2008, and in late spring also started raiding Zul'Aman. Through this period the guild's members remained the initial friends from Wyrd Angles, with the addition of a few real life friends. In the summer of 2008 the decision was made to start recruiting for 25-man raiding, since TBC-raiding consisted mostly of 25-man content. Guildrules were drawn up, ranks formed, and discussions about lootrules started, six months after actually forming the guild.

Throughout the last months of TBC the guild got some new members, many from a swedish guild called Tre Kronor, and were close to having a 25 man team. However at the start of WotLK we had lost most of those members and were back to having about the same players as before recruiting. The reason for this was largely due to the new recruits never really becoming part of the guild. Old members were one group and new members were another group, within one guild. The lesson learned was to not mass-recruit, especially not from the same guild, and to know what fits the guild and what doesn't when recruiting. During WotLK Lazy Peon Tavern has been a slowly growing guild and new members have been mainly friends, either from real life or from the game. The primary goal when adding new members have been to make them fit into the group. It's a policy that will exclude anyone with a percieved attitude problem, regardless of skill and number of epic items. The enjoyment of playing together is for the guild superior to the speed of content cleared.

The goals for raiding in WotLK was initially to be able to clear the current content before a new instance appeared. Over time the goals have changed. We now aim to be a 10-man guild that clears raids at the same speed as top 25-man guilds on the server, which the guild also has already somewhat succeeded in.

Current Raiding
Lazy Peon Tavern currently raids ICC10 two to three nights a week, with raidtimes between 20.30 and 23.30. In addition it also has successfully hosted 25-man pugs into ICC on Saturdays at 20:00->, and continues to do so as of June 2010.


 * Ruby Sanctum (10 player) Heroic: 0/1
 * Ruby Sanctum (10 player): 1/1
 * Icecrown Citadel (10 man) Heroic: 11/12
 * Icecrown Citadel (10 man): 12/12
 * Previous 10-man content: All cleared but not raided at this time.

Loot system
We currently use the Suicide Kings lootsystem.