<Wraith> is primarily a French-speaking guild on the EU realm Ysondre.  Included in their recent progression is a top-10 kill of the 25-player version of Yogg-Saron, coming in at #8 and cementing their spot in our Yogg-Saron Hall of Fame, as well as one of the first reported guilds to begin working on the Algalon the Observer encounter.

As of this guild spotlight, <Wraith> is ranked #1 on their realm, #5 in Europe, and #8 worldwide on WoWProgress.  Currently the guild is recruiting a Restoration Druid, Holy Paladin, Elemental Shaman, Shadow Priest, and Healing Priest.  If you'd like to apply to <Wraith>, you can find out more by visiting their forums.

After their defeat of Yogg-Saron and news of the guild beginning work on Algalon the Observer, I had a chance to chat with Gray -- the guild and raid leader -- about their thoughts on Ulduar so far.

Links: Website - Armory - EU-Ysondre Forums - WoWProgress

Please keep in mind that Gray's native language is French; this interview is unedited to keep it as factual as possible.  Forgive anything that may be construed as a grammatical error in the English language.

What do you think of the difficuly of Ulduar overall?  Did Blizzard do a good job tuning the encounters?

Ulduar 10 is clearly much easier than the 25's version in both normal and hard mode.  In 25, a few boss seemed a little too easy in normal, others seem to be rather well thuned and HM will be slightly increased this week. So there should be what we need regarding the challenge. In 10 however, except for Mimiron and Yogg without his guardians, I think the HM are too easy and would have deserved to be a little more difficult

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• The Yogg-Saron encounter has received the following changes: Guardians of Yogg-Saron in phase 1 and Immortal Guardians in phase 3 have had their health reduced by 15% in heroic mode, the Destabilization Matrix cast by Mimiron will now correctly hinder the casting speed of Crusher Tentacles in both normal and heroic modes.
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However, if you can get over all that, it actually works quite well for keeping your addons up-to-date. It scans my directory of about 100 addons pretty quickly and fetches information on any release-quality upgrades (or whatever level of upgrading you set as your preference) that are available, downloads and installs them efficiently, and lets me get on with my playing.

Another feature I find convenient is the ability to handle "install via Curse Client" web links. Being able to install a mod with one click from a web site is nice, especially for an addon junkie like me. This feature does not appear to work if you click a link while Curse Client is not open. It does launch the client, but the addon never downloads and installs (despite the presence of a progress bar).

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• Import/export to/from Wowhead, MMO-Champion, and official Blizzard talent calculators.
• In-game talent calculator, from which you can build and save your own templates.
• Apply a talent build (imported or built yourself) with just one click.
• Set a build as your "goal" talent build, to remind yourself where you meant to fill in points while leveling.
• Full support for dual specs and pet talents; the SpecTabs plugin also makes it a little easier to swap specs.
• Shows all three talent trees at once, no scrolling required (this would be enough to make me use the mod right there).

Honestly, I can't see any compelling reason to play without Talented. Although the idea of a mod setting your talents for you might be slightly worrying, I've been using it since Burning Crusade and never had it do anything wrong.

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She arrives early, maybe after a quick workout or a cup of coffee, but always with enough time to get a feel for the markets before they open. She skims the financial papers and the news wires and listens to internal reports from her firm on expected market movements for the day. By the time the trading bell rings, indicating markets are now open for trading, she’s already got a feel for the markets and a plan of action as to how to achieve profit. Some of her peers will be trading for the long term; others will be looking for a quick turnaround. She has a plan in mind herself, and will work towards that purpose all day. She quits the day early, soon after the markets have closed, but her mind is constantly racing as to how to improve her game. For trading is a mindset, not just a form of employment, and goes well beyond the boundaries of nine to five.

Wall Street is obviously a very different game than WoW. But it is, indeed, a game nonetheless, and it is in this overlap that we can learn a few things that might apply to building riches in World of Warcraft.

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