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 [...]
Archive for category Best Practices
The B Team
Feb 22
This is part 3 of an article series: Jump to Part 1 or Part 2 Ok, so now we have some idea of how to transfer leadership and have gone into depth on the things that guild leaders do. Now let’s talk about ways to make leadership transitions easier. Even if you’re not going through [...]
This is part 2 of an article series: Jump to Part 1 or Part 3 This article might be a bit dry compared to part 1. It’s meant to be an expansion of the things that a GM does, and will (I hope) be useful for a GM planning their retirement or a new GM [...]
Turning Over the Reins
Feb 1
This article was suggested by Veliaf of Imperial Guardsmen. I currently run a small guild in WoW, and have done for several years, but in the near future I’m going to be leaving WoW for a few months (probably until Cataclysm is released). Obviously this means I’ll be stepping down as GM, and this leads [...]
The Service of Officers
Jan 25
In scrounging the US and EU guild relations forums for inspiration, I came across this post on abuse within the officer ranks. I haven’t quite got enough to say on that particular subject at the moment, but one thing the OP said jumped out at me: All I got in response was him arguing with [...]
Bridging the 10 to 25 Gap
Jan 18
In the post on guild mergers, I talked a little about what to do when you’re trying to expand from a 10 person to 25 person guild. Today, I’d like to expand on that a bit outside of the context of mergers or alliances (the latter of which will be covered in a future post). [...]
Guild Mergers
Jan 11
Hopefully you’ve given some thought to your WoW Identity (both personal and guild), and considered how important it is to you. Now, let’s talk about Guild Mergers. My Experience I’ve only been directly involved in one guild merger. It was my first guild, one in which I inherited the guild master title from the founder, [...]
