Case Study: How Conquest’s Healers Were Recruited

On Saturday, I wrote a brief highlight on how not to recruit healers. The actual post was written by Ess. Reader Spinks posted a comment wondering how I recruited my healers. In truth, recruiting healers involved higher standards and scrutiny. This was only because I’m way more critical with healing. It’s difficult to explain. Maybe …

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5 Tips for Transferring Servers

This is a guest post from @katagirl, Matt’s fellow guildie and a WoW Twitterati I’ve been playing World of Warcraft for over two and a half years. In this time, I’ve transferred to different servers twice. Choosing to transfer to a different server is a big decision, because unlike a haircut or a mini-pet – …

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An Event Every Guild Leader Goes Through Once in Their Career

At present, my healing corps consists of the following: 2 Priests, 4 Druids, 2 Paladins, and 2 Shamans. Note that both 1 Druid and 1 Shaman are on a part time rotation. I figure that’s more than enough to handle any sort of outages or benches that need to occur. But a few nights ago, …

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The Delicate Art of Delegation

Last night, I wrote a heartfelt post detailing my trials and hardships in the captaining of Conquest. While I believe the crew is just as (if not more) important than the captain, all executive decisions regarding which way the ship is going rests on his shoulders. I’ve been in guilds where there were co-GMs are multiple …

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