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). [...]
Posts Tagged pug
Bridging the 10 to 25 Gap
Jan 18
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 [...]
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 [...]
Investing in Other Players
Nov 30
How much time and effort are you willing to invest in another player? If that person is in your guild, the answer is probably a fair bit more than you’re willing to invest in someone you meet in a PUG. For obvious reasons, we’re willing to invest in the long-term performance of people we expect [...]
