He often has to develop a lot of raid commands macros such as “Switch target” or “Move here” in raid text that everybody in our raid group can see. How do you approach this?Īmisorcery is an officer in our guild and our raid leader. Raiding tends to require a lot of on-the-fly communication and coordination, particularly for encounters designed around it. Both inside and out, we provide an environment where players can thrive, maintain YouTube guides and other resources for deaf players, whether they are in our guild or elsewhere, and our Discord server is always open for visitors. Our raid team, our guild and the community we have built is our family and together for the long haul. We spend immense amounts of energy into improving our fellow deaf players, energy that the officer core of most other guilds would normally not expend. The majority of our raid team are players that both officers and the player themselves spent blood, sweat, and tears on developing into a mythic-ready raider. While hearing guilds have the luxury of a much, much wider recruitment pool, we have a duty to bring in, bring up and foster the talent we can find. Many trials come into Undaunted with minimal skills and knowledge that would comfortably allow them to conquer normal raids and those hitting the ground running in heroic raids are far and few. You can see some of these weakauras, UI choices and even Amisorcery using ASL to communicate to Daed IRL at the 2:00 mark (they're in the same room): We also use Angry Assignments which is like a post-it note on your screen which we use for assignments like “Player A interrupt 1st add and player B interrupt 2nd add”. We have WeakAurass that give us customizable on-screen notification or warnings whenever a specified event occurs.
In-game, we have DBM or BigWigs that give us on-screen warnings or timers of raid mechanics. With how close knit servers were back then, people would know of one or two deaf/hoh players and refer them to Drakwlya in trade channel.Īre there any tools or approaches you'd recommend for players with hearing difficulties within an organized raiding context?ĭuring the raids themselves, we have a multiple amount of tools that we utilize extensively. Our GM at the time, Drakwlya, tediously headhunted for deaf/hoh players by making a level 1 on various servers then posting looking for deaf/hoh players in trade channel and recruiting them over to the home server at the time, scouring forums, using personal IRL connections to recruit folks to the game or to transfer to their server. The guild was founded during the Firelands raid tier (back then, we were called Durus Veritas). We also have hearing players in our guild who happily enjoy not being required to have voice comms to play the games they love!
In a world of online gaming with voice comms such as Discord, Teamspeak, Vent, etc, we wanted to carve out a part of that world by showing that we Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing players can achieve the same challenges without using voice comms. Undaunted is a Deaf guild composed of Deaf and hard of hearing players.
I’m Sabot and I’m the guildmaster of a World of Warcraft guild called Undaunted. What is Undaunted? What drew you to create this community and raiding guild? Tell us a bit more about yourself and your guild.
We're here with Sabot, their GM, Amisorcery, their raid leader, and Sarialinde, one of their officers. Other members of the guild are also streaming, providing multiple PoVs: They're on the final stretch of Ny'alotha right now, progressing N'zoth: You can catch some of their raiders on the following streams. They have been hard at work providing an environment where deaf and hard-of-hearing players can flourish and experience some of the most cutting-edge content present in the game! Today, as part of a serie of spotlight articles centered on players and guilds managing to overcome barriers placed in front of them, and excel at what they do, we have had the privilege of spending some time with Undaunted, from Area 52 (formerly Ner'zhul).
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