This article is part of the series “How To Win /friends and Influence /guildies”. See the introduction for more. If you’re reading the original book alongside, this corresponds to Part 1, Chapter 3: “He Who Can Do This Has the Whole World with Him. He Who Cannot Walks a Lonely Way” If there is any [...]
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This article is part of the series “How To Win /friends and Influence /guildies”. See the introduction for more. If you’re reading the original book alongside, this corresponds to Part 1, Chapter 2: “The Big Secret of Dealing with People” A feeling of importance. My article on what motivates your raiders could have just been [...]
Reasonable Expectations
Jan 21
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Sullying Our Good Name
Nov 16
On my main’s server, I’ve been running PUGs pretty much daily for the last few weeks. The time just isn’t right to form Cold Comfort the guild it seems, so I’ve resolved to try again closer to the release of Cataclysm, when there is bound to be a fair amount of shakeup and re-rolling. Standards [...]
Last night I joined an Ulduar 10 semi-pug (half of the attendees were from one guild). Only about half of the members had any experience with the fights, but most of the inexperienced people were receptive to explanations we gave. Except one. Our group included one member who had no experience in the instance, hadn’t [...]
