Against my better judgement, I’ve started working on gearing up another of my characters that I abandoned after hitting 80 in the month after the WotLK launch. I’d finished with all of my EoT gear on my Paladin and Shaman, and told myself that I was just going to get exalted with two factions for [...]
Archive for category Raiding
Reasonable Expectations
Jan 21
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). [...]
Tools for Mentoring
Jan 4
A few months ago, I wrote an article on ways to turn bad players into good players. Today I’m going to expand on the mentoring advice that I laid out in the hopes of showing some practical ways you can help even a completely new player improve their game very quickly. Advice vs Mentoring First, [...]
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 [...]
While browsing the US guild relations forum, I was struck by this post: PerLoot – a new Loot System Not struck by the brilliance of the system, mind, but the process by which a reasonable goal (rewarding people who perform better) fell apart in the implementation. What’s worse is that the original poster didn’t seem [...]
Principles vs Pragmatism
Dec 7
Another article inspired by a comment on the last article, this time from Veliaf of der Hexenmeister. Veliaf asked how to deal with the situation where your policies require you to treat everyone fairly, yet some people are more important to the success of the raid. I think it was implied was that the people [...]
A comment by Malevica on a recent article inspired me to write about excuses. Excuses for leaving groups, for missing raids, for poor performance, for lack of knowledge, for not heading to the dungeon when your group fills up and generally just not giving your all when playing with others. WoW is a game, first [...]
