What is Unity?

Unity (commUnity) is a collection both IR members and friends of IR who enjoy chatting, questing, pvp'ing, dungeoning, raiding and dying together.

Unity is designed to be a home for players associated with IR and somewhere we can all be together without having to be Guilded.

Those in Unity are our friends, our families and the people we are proud to play with. Those who join Unity are asked to honour IR's beliefs, its rules, its raid ethos and its obvious protection of those it cares about.

Unity Concept

Unity was designed in 2005 as a collection of guilds who at that time shared a common theme familiar to many WoW guilds.

The purpose in establishing the GEM channel was to connect 5 guilds together into an alliance that would allow the raid focused members of each guild to get together and Raid. Sadly only a few months after this alliance was formed a meeting was held in which most of the associated guilds voted to disband their guilds and form a larger collective, this collective went on to become the highly successful Raid Alliance.

IR was the minority guild that voted not to disband and thus the Unity channel was left with just us in it, shortly after this we shut the channel down and focused on other things.

Since then the community of IR has been based in its own guild chat, formerly in the WGC alliance and for a time Honourbound.

During the last few months in which IR was a contributing member of the Honourbound alliance Tasanala (Guild Leader) decided that Unity should be reborn. This decision was based on the fact that several players with whom we had been associated with through both our alliances had become lost to us as friends when they had moved guilds.. In particular the administrators of Honourbound would not allow players who had left HB guilds to remain in channel and some of these players were ones that IR respected and enjoyed playing with. Unity granted us an opportunity to get back in touch with these players and to ensure that they knew that despite issues we still wanted to play with them.

When IR left the Honourbound alliance the worst part from our perspective was leaving behind the players in HB that we had enjoyed playing with and having a laugh with. At this point we did our best to approach as many of them as possible to get them onto Unity so we could still talk, this proved very successful and the majority of people we would honestly have missed are once again honouring us with their presence.

Unity now belongs to IR, and we intend to support and treat it as much like a family as we do our own guild. We will try where possible to ensure that only the right kind of people join the channel and when there is fallouts we will do our best to be supportive with those involved.

Unity Raiding

Possibly the most common misconception about IR is that we don't enjoy raiding, this is simply not true.

IR's community tries to participate in as many of the games activities as possible. This is done pretty much as and when we want to under the freedom of maturity, sense and respect to others.

Unity raiding is simply an opportunity to get our friends together and have fun, we have no specific goal of progress in the game as we feel that ultimately the only thing worth striving to achieve is enjoying wherever you go and whatever you choose to do.

Despite this all players know that without systems to protect raiders then opportunity sadly leads to issues. Because of the nature of Unity we want where possible to eliminate all these issues so we have put in place a Raid Ethos which is in essence a set of rules & reminders to all who Raid/Party under a banner of Unity.

If this Raid Ethos was to be published I imagine it would look much like the Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy and have DON'T PANIC written across its cover. The Raid Ethos is honestly just a list of common sense things that are fairly natural for most players to do, however now and then we all need reminded about what those are.

More information on the Raid Ethos is available by clicking on 'Raid Ethos' anywhere in the website, the menu's or by clicking here.

Joining Unity

We like to have as many friends as possible providing that they approach the game with the same attitude we do. Should you wish to join unity please approach a member of IR to discuss this (making them aware of who you know in IR).

Unity is not an alliance of guilds so invites are on a person by person basis, please ensure that when you have the details you keep them to yourselves and should you wish to ask for someone to join Unity you ask a member of IR first.