Comments on: A Prescription for Raid Morale

By: Kazgrel

Kazgrel — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:41:01 +0000

We had a lull during one of our ToC 25 reg farm runs for a few AFKs, so one of our officers plopped down a foam sword rack and the folks that weren’t AFK all grabbed one and proceeded to bash the tar out of one another.

The best part? One of our casters forgot to equip his real weapon for the following fight.

Anything that results in good humor is bound to be a good reprieve from a stressful raid, at least from my experience. I consider myself a fairly solid player that doesn’t fail at the small stuff…but when I do fail, it’s on legendary levels (enough to where we now laugh it off because we find it hilarious, although at the time for me, it wasn’t ). Put it this way: I was “that guy” that foiled Immortal on KT. That’s just one example.
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By: @valkyrierisen

@valkyrierisen — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:26:45 +0000

Great read! I laughed out loud and immediately sent the link to my RL/GM. And, Lodur, fabulous vid!
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By: Lodur

Lodur — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:09:57 +0000

oh hey… thats my video! =P

By: Thespius

Thespius — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:03:20 +0000

@Kayllnn Thank you very much for the compliment. You’re more than welcome to cut and paste any piece of my post you like, as well as a link back to the blog itself. Credit appropriately to the awesome dwarf priest that wrote it, too =)

Peace, love, and big heals.

By: Kayllnn

Kayllnn — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:34:38 +0000

This is a great post! I would love to copy and link to your site for my guild if it is ok! Sometimes we have these moments and usually we just try to chat ourselves out of it, but I think it is great to reward our raiders with some games. Let me know if you don’t mind if I copy and paste, with a link to your blog of course!

By: Napaeae

Napaeae — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:43:21 +0000

We always hold one scheduled fun night a week where we do all the easy content like VoA preceeded with WG PvP to actually get access to the instance as a guild. The onto Ony to just relax and down her. Afterwards its up to the guild what they would like to do whether everyone is up to working on hardmodes or do something else fun as a guild.
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By: Mort

Mort — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:28:33 +0000

Fantastic post! For our guild, we also play the blame game. We usually blame the least likely person. For example, our Raid Leader, or one of our uber-awesome tanks. Then, it’s up to the person that was “blamed” to either talk their way out of it, or blame someone else.

We have a great time with Retro-Raid nights as well. We’ll pick an off-raid night, and get a bunch of mains/alts/lower level guildies that need the achievement, and go into UBRS, LBRS, BWL, MT, etc…and just lay waste to everything. It’s fun to remember “how hard this was at 60″, and learn some of the old raid mechanics that some players might have missed.

Lastly, we play the “Dead Mage on the Floor” game. We have a certain mage in our midst who likes to pull aggro from the tanks….and dies quickly and mercilessly. Before the pull, we’ll guess where he’s going to end up dying, face up or face down, etc…. Very similar to the “Whipping Boy” above.

By: drug

drug — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:49:58 +0000

I think the biggest responsibility to keep up raid morale lays in the hand of every player himself.

This means: logging out if you’re bored. Reading a book. Doing RL stuff. Not shifting too much interest into an alt or 10 man runs. Not signing up for raids when you didn’t plan to, just because one healer is missing. Playing other games.

Nothing charges up the WoW battery as nicely as NOT spending time in game.
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By: joe

joe — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:11:38 +0000

While waiting for the raid to start, our guild had a couple of naked races around The Obsidium Sanctum. It was fun.

I believe the record was 1.5 laps.

http://imgur.com/3o75d.jpg

By: jeffo

jeffo — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:05:13 +0000

Love the ‘Benny Hill’ music on the vid — went really well with the pack of guardians chasing people around!

One of the things we’ll do sometimes is the ‘roll for blame’ (I think I saw this on Plus Heal, can’t remember exactly) after a wipe. Definitely an amusing way to defuse the tension that can build up over the course of a night, and I think it’s also helped people be more free about admitting when it really is their fault.
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