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 [...]
Posts Tagged dungeon finder
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). [...]
Selfishness
Jan 14
Warning: rant incoming. It’s been a while since the last, and the commentary on the time-to-emblems post pushed me over the line. I’m calling out everyone who’s become a selfish, self-centered “me first” jerk since patch 3.3 was introduced and the Dungeon Finder became the best and worst thing to happen to WoW in recent [...]
Time-to-Emblem Ratios
Dec 28
Why do people leave groups in the new LFG system the moment a dungeon is assigned? The instances I see this most often on are: The Culling of Stratholme Halls of Lightning Halls of Stone The Oculus If you jump out of the group, you can’t re-queue for 15 minutes. For a tank or healer, [...]
I read a post on a bluetracker last week (and forgot to bookmark it – again) in which the poster asked “do you need a guild now that we have the dungeon finder tool?”. Thinking about that leads me to consider the changing role of the guild in WoW. Since the initial release, guilds have [...]
What does it take to be a leader? As regular readers will know, my approach to leadership tends to be fairly structured, strong-handed stuff. I’m not a hardass, I just have little faith in people to self-govern themselves in an environment driven primarily by personal acquisition. But leadership can be subtle and sublime. Hopefully you’ve [...]
