11-30-2010, 03:57 PM
I wish I didn't just wake up so I could have got to this thread sooner. In the past few weeks alot of ideas have been brainstormed to fix the problems that we currently have had in guild. One of the first is how we handle new recruits. I'm going to disagree with Alyse on a certain point, when he said that rotation is not impotant and we should always bring the best players. This should be true during difficult progression content that we haven't killed yet, but our raid should be much more flexible than it is right now.
I've taken it upon myself to talk to each person in this guild, past and present, and see what their status is for Catacylsm. Our intent was to use the first month or so to build our raid roster, back-ups included. With the availability of 10 mans, people that get sat can still get almost the same gear and experiance as those in the raid. In addition, the friday run will still be going strong, so there are plenty opportunities to run the content if you were sat that week.
In terms of rotations, trust needs to be put in the people that make those decisions. They should want to keep strong players, even if that means sitting themself when needed. Back when I was in Liquid (I know terrible example but bear with me) I had 7 mages that were "capable" of raiding. Keep in mind that's at a time where a second 25 man and 10 mans were unavailable. It's hard, but possible to keep everyone happy especially in this raiding enviornment.
The rotation obviously brings up the question of dkp. Because if people sitting aren't awarded dkp, they get penalized for doing something to help the guild. Some guilds solve this by prioritizing raid spots to people with highest dkp and awardng full dkp to the waitlist but I don't think that's for us. I honestly belive that a loot council would work wondors for us. If it is as Jack said and the council was comprised of Abe, Jack, Alyse, Mark, and myself, then I'm confident each person would have the understanding to fairly and equally distribute gear. All it means is that they have to take more responsibility upon themselves to udnerstand classes other than there own, and to know more about the performance and attendance of each of their raiders, and being able to handle that responsibility is what should have put them in that position in the first place.
In terms of recruitment, I've already talked to a large number of people be they friends of current raiders etc, people on Nath. I've hesitated doing the trade chat thing and making posts because as you said we don't have a legit recruitment officer.
I've taken it upon myself to talk to each person in this guild, past and present, and see what their status is for Catacylsm. Our intent was to use the first month or so to build our raid roster, back-ups included. With the availability of 10 mans, people that get sat can still get almost the same gear and experiance as those in the raid. In addition, the friday run will still be going strong, so there are plenty opportunities to run the content if you were sat that week.
In terms of rotations, trust needs to be put in the people that make those decisions. They should want to keep strong players, even if that means sitting themself when needed. Back when I was in Liquid (I know terrible example but bear with me) I had 7 mages that were "capable" of raiding. Keep in mind that's at a time where a second 25 man and 10 mans were unavailable. It's hard, but possible to keep everyone happy especially in this raiding enviornment.
The rotation obviously brings up the question of dkp. Because if people sitting aren't awarded dkp, they get penalized for doing something to help the guild. Some guilds solve this by prioritizing raid spots to people with highest dkp and awardng full dkp to the waitlist but I don't think that's for us. I honestly belive that a loot council would work wondors for us. If it is as Jack said and the council was comprised of Abe, Jack, Alyse, Mark, and myself, then I'm confident each person would have the understanding to fairly and equally distribute gear. All it means is that they have to take more responsibility upon themselves to udnerstand classes other than there own, and to know more about the performance and attendance of each of their raiders, and being able to handle that responsibility is what should have put them in that position in the first place.
In terms of recruitment, I've already talked to a large number of people be they friends of current raiders etc, people on Nath. I've hesitated doing the trade chat thing and making posts because as you said we don't have a legit recruitment officer.