When a new content patch is on the horizon, I like to go through my policies and see what needs to be updated – typically with regards to loot. I continue to do this for Cold Comfort even though the guild is in stasis at the moment. It’s a good exercise, and it helps build [...]
Archive for category Cold Comfort
Inexperience and Weakness
Oct 29
In my last article, a comment led me to another blog post which in turn led me to a recently released addon called Experience. The idea behind the addon is that when you target someone, it queries their character statistics to see how many times they have killed the bosses of each instance in the [...]
Turning Bads into Goods
Oct 1
When starting a new raiding guild, you’re eventually going to hit that chasm between the 10 and 25 person roster sizes. Staying above 13 and below 22 active raiding members for too long can be dangerous – you can’t offer everyone a spot every raid, you can’t run two 10 person teams, and you can’t [...]
Do All Guilds Suck?
Sep 28
When I first chose the name Cold Comfort (the idea for the guild predates this blog by more than a year), I had just left a guild I was an officer in after a falling out with the guild leader. Things had been rough in the guild for a while. Combined with the pain of [...]
I know I said I’d get away from the dry stuff, but organizational prep is where I’m at right now, and I get as much out of writing articles about what’s in my head as you (may) get out of reading them. This week, the balance may lean a bit more towards me. Here’s what [...]
Policy Transparency
Sep 17
I’ve always been a proponent of policy transparency. I figure that if you’re open and honest with people then they are more likely to trust you, and trust from the membership is required for a strong guild. For the sake of this article, let’s set aside a few things that I’ve written in the past [...]
Foresight
Jul 13
WoW is in a double-lull right now. Not only is it summertime, with all the attendance issues that this time of year brings, but we’re at the point where juicy information about the next content patch is being dangled in front of us. If your guild started running Ulduar right when patch 3.1 came out, [...]
