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This week we are focusing on Guilds. What challenges have you had as a Guild/Raid Leader? Problems with motivation, keeping up morale when progression grinds to a stop, fighting amongst guildies? Let us know what is troubling you as a Guild Leader. Also, if you have solutions to common guild management problems, we’d love to read those too.
I’d say as a raid leader of a casual 10 man guild, just getting everyone together to actually raid. And then maintaining morale when people say “this is haaard.”
Getting irritated with people who refuse to do what’s required, like watching kill vids, reading strat, learning their class. Arguing w/ the RL about not speccing one way, for one fight, (even if the GUILD PAYS FOR IT) to make the encounter easier for the rest of us.
If it were me, I’d just cut. But now here’s the catch 22. You just defined your guild as a casual 10 man guild. Are you referring to casual in terms of time spent or casual in approach? That’s something that’s confused the heck out of me because different guilds which referred to themselves as casual had different definitions. Some were okay with not reading strategy or watching videos, others enforced it. That’s one of the reasons I’ve stayed away from that term simply because it had so much attahched to it.
As a guild leader, the hardest job I have is maintaining the dynamics and atmosphere that we’ve built in our guild – we are a *casual* guild due to the fact that we are almost all adults with real jobs, spouses, etc. so we don’t have the time that more serious guilds have to devote to WoW. However we try to bring the professionalism we have in real life to our in game endeavors.
When I first started Legio Thirteen I thought being a successful GM meant that I was running a guild with good Raid Progression. I had to step back and reassess what makes a successful guild – I found that it wasn’t necessarily being the best raiding guild around, but it was instead being able to provide the people in my guild with a place to grow their toons as they want with people that were fun to be with.
Lately, its been about guildies “faking” out the dungeon finder and our raids for that matter by wearing higher ilvl gear even though it isn’t gear for their spec/role. We have repeatedly asked our guildies not to engage in this but they will not cooperate. Any ideas on what we can do to curb this mentality?
Think the most difficult problem I had as a GL/RL was the pretty girl that flirted with some of my core people (officers) and then proceeded to manipulate them. Whenever I would have to correct something she did, she would complain to them that I “hated” her and thought she was a terrible player. Truth was she was a great player, but the cattiness annoyed me. As a female player, women that use these tactics really grate on me. It eventually destroyed the guild, which was the second 10-man on the server at the time. Ironically, she was in a lesbian relationship with another guildie while all this was going down so it wasn’t as if she was going to become involved with any of the men she was flirting with. Mindelssly frustrating to have this kind of distraction and drama going on.
Good ol’ officer manipulation.
@Vysions Kick them! If you have a set standard about how your guildies are to behave to streangthen your guild image and they cant care enough to follow that then give em a big hug and a gkick in the balls.
My biggest hardship is having a GM who gets on stage and takes 20 minutes to chug a 12 oz beer.
Actually, how about ways to recruit so that you always have someone new to replace that problem player?
Matti, biggest issue I am facing right now are players picking a role and then gearing for it and backing out. Warrior tank not wanting to tank anymore is a pain.