Archive for category Guild Management

Unwanted Attention

Stumped for a topic, I was browsing the US guild relations forum when I came across this post. Here’s the synopsis: female gamer joins a guild with a friend.  She doesn’t like to talk on voice chat, preferring that other players assume she is male.  The friend transfers servers, leaving her as the only female [...]

Tags: , ,

We Haz Tabard

I am probably one of a few people who can remember having to save up to purchase a tabard pattern for their guild.  Unless you ran a leveling guild in the days of Vanilla, the idea of not having a spare 10 gold among your members may seem preposterous, but it did happen.  We were [...]

Tags: , ,

That One Thing They Do

I can’t seem to peg reader response to my articles.  The ones I’m most proud of get no comments, and the rushed ones get a conversation rolling within hours of going up. A friend tells me that those rushed articles expose my human side.  When I explain (in my best Lich King / Dr. Claw [...]

Reforged Loot Distribution

The recent developer chat on Twitter didn’t give us much information specifically related to guilds, but it did raise further questions about the changes originally announced at Blizzcon related to reforging. My concern when the changes were first announced was related to the cost and/or priority of reforged items. For all but completely random or [...]

The B Team

What do you do when you become aware (or find yourself a part) of “The B Team”? The B Team in a guild is a separate raid team (usually for 10 man raids) that just doesn’t seem to progress as quickly or as cleanly as the first or primary raid team. Having two raid teams [...]

When Do You Throw in the Towel with Guildies?

A reader posed this question to me recently: How long do you keep trying an encounter with guild members (in a non-raid environment) before you throw in the towel?  I recently spent two hours and eight wipes with an all-guild group trying to complete Heroic Halls of Reflection.  The group should have been able to [...]

The Trouble With the World…

… is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt – Bertrand Russel I normally don’t do “go look at this other blog post” articles, but I couldn’t resist with this: The Dunning Kruger Effect (Critical QQ via Pwnwear) This does explain a great deal of what we see in dungeon [...]