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clockworkjames:
--- Quote from: Alex C on 02 Dec 2009, 20:52 ---TotGC 25 Anub'arak is a douche bag.
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^^^^^^^^^^
I need to farm ulduar and naxx 25 for my unhittable set, how shit is that?
[Dragonslayer's Brace] or [Waistguard of the Tutor] [Inexorable Sabatons] [Wyrmguard Legplates] [Unbreakable Chestguard] [Handguards of the Enclave] [Bindings of the Hapless Prey]
jmrz:
--- Quote from: Alex C on 02 Dec 2009, 13:32 ---
--- Quote from: jmrz on 01 Dec 2009, 15:49 ---The raid calendar.
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I'm glad you see the problem with it and I strongly encourage you not to back down on changing it, particularly if she's just expecting people to show up every week and work from there. That setup your old guild leader was doing will never work for a guild that's even remotely casual or ever wants to come up with a consistent raiding roster. There's just too many good reasons not to do it that way. If you run 5 or 6 times a week, that's 5 or 6 times a week you'll need to get the raid setup. Even if by some miracle it only takes you 5 minutes to get set up per run that's a half hour per week you're blowing on preliminary organization alone. And that's assuming the attendance will actually manage to remain high enough to support such a schedule, something I don't see happening that many days a week. Just imagine the fallout that'd happen if someone shows up all 6 nights and ends up having to sit out 3 or 4 of the raids because the attendance just doesn't support it; I guarantee you someone would get pissed off, and justifiably so.
Man, I ran at the mouth there and probably didn't say anything you didn't already know. Still, I thought it'd help to let you know that at least one person out there definitely doesn't think you're crazy for wanting to change this.
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It seriously helps knowing I'm not batshit insane for wanting to change it.
Burn out isn't necessarily an issue, I mean, we have one group which is basically a guy and his real life friends and whichever other guildies he picks doing "progression" (i.e. TOC10) and our Ulduar night is our only other serious night. It's ridiculous. We spend ours just fucking about doing piss easy raids "because naxx25 ranks high in guild progression" and to be honest, I don't give a flying fuck about the progression charts. Sure, maybe if we were up there with the best guilds on the server, but we aren't and I don't think we will be. We are a bunch of people who play the game FOR FUN. We aren't hardcore raiders and never will be. I want my members in Ulduar two nights a week and having a dragon night seems like a good idea. Everything else can jump in the lake and they can pug it. It's seriously driving me up the wall. So much so that last night naxx25 was on the calendar and instead of staying home and logging on to raid lead like I was supposed to, I just went shopping for Christmas presents and plain didn't show up.
My officer, who fully agrees with me, has been playing the game since the vanilla WoW beta came out six years ago and is basically a crazy WoW kid - told everyone last night that I didn't want to run naxx25 anymore and that he wasn't ever going to tank it again because it's just ridiculous to even be there right now. Some people agreed with him (from what I heard) and then the ex-gleader logged on and had a whinge about the fact that no one had got the raid together and no one organised anything. I mean, really. It's naxx25, I could do it in my sleep and so could most of my members. If they want badges they'd be far more productive in endless heroics.
But yes, when it rolls around to Sunday and it comes time to post the raid cal for the week, I'm doing it. I will just do it before the ex-guild leader gets a chance to. And I will set it up so we have two nights for ulduar10, one night for toc10, one night for OS, EoE, Ony and then people can do whatever they hell they like on the other nights. I may even just throw in a oldschool raid night just for fun. When I logged in last night a group of them had decided to do Kara and ZA just for fun, so I jumped in with them, got a heap of gold, saw some old raids I'd never seen before and we had a blast.
I want it to be fun, I don't want people to be bored running raids that aren't helping them and I want them to be ready in at least some way so we can see some of this new content. Otherwise, they can go get stuffed, I'll dump guildleader back onto the ex-gleader and I'll find somewhere else (which is not the ideal plan, because I really like the guild as a whole and I like the people in it, but seriously, I'm gleader now, I should be making the decisions).
Speaking of making decisions as guild leader - one of my other officers was all "You should ask the members WHAT THEY WANT, because I know you are overgeared for naxx, but they may still want to do it and you have to do what is best for the guild members, not what you think is best". Oh really?! Ask the guild members?! Seriously?! I think as guild leader I would have a fair judgement on what people should be raiding, and it ain't naxx.
ARGH.
(sorry this is probably way longer than it needs to be and I've just kept blabbing, but ARGH).
Beren:
--- Quote ---Speaking of making decisions as guild leader - one of my other officers was all "You should ask the members WHAT THEY WANT, because I know you are overgeared for naxx, but they may still want to do it and you have to do what is best for the guild members, not what you think is best". Oh really?! Ask the guild members?! Seriously?! I think as guild leader I would have a fair judgement on what people should be raiding, and it ain't naxx.
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No, not really. But I have a feeling the majority of the guild members would agree with you. But it's not your decision without input from the other 24 people doing it.
jmrz:
To be honest, I asked. I asked guild chat what they thought. I got one response "I'm only there because I haven't done KT". The response from my officer was "I agree with you, I'm never tanking naxx again, get us into ulduar more".
No one else said anything. Which means they were all afk, didn't care or just plain didn't have an opinion.
clockworkjames:
Grand crusader 10 man anub down with 39 tries left. 1 wipe on FC, 10 on Anub.
/wrists
No wipes were directly my fault as boss tank, and the add tank (my pally mate who solo'd Wyrn) was a beast as always. Sucks.
So now I am up to speed with the guild, grand crusader 10 5/5 and 25 4/5.
FUCKING BLOCK SET (I got bracers tonite in a naxx 25 pug though, and the leggings from badges so it is slowly coming together...)
Oh and 25 man normal shield dropped which was sweet, and my legs are now BiS.
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