Comments on: Scattershot thoughts

By: Halleigh

Halleigh — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:51:50 +0000

Couldn’t help but leave a message. You might miss trash, but take it from someone who had to MT a trash-filled instance for the first time this week- It’s not fun when it’s your first time. I just put up a totally stressed out post on my own blog (tankadinerrant.wordpress.com) and couldn’t help but think of the “I miss trash” comment in this recent post of yours…. :)
Sure, Coliseum gets boring after a while… and then when you find yourself in the hot seat in Ulduar, it suddenly becomes a much scarier place!

By: Demogar

Demogar — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:54:48 +0000

Also we have only had a core raider drop and be replaced by someone once (Tuesday) in the last 3 or more months… It just hasn’t happened in a long time.

By: Demogar

Demogar — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:54:10 +0000

Our raid roster is basically closed, we aren’t inviting new people. The people we aren’t getting invites are mostly people who have had a chance in the raids but are consistently not performing to the benchmarks the others who are getting invites do… I am not sure that we have any people left who haven’t been given a chance.

The problem is those people who have proven they aren’t nearly as good as others complain they aren’t getting the invites they want… If we want to build a strong group we can’t cripple the raid with crummy players because its fair when that would hamper our ability to clear the content.

I would rather have 30-35 incredibly well geared players than 45 with marginally decent gear because we switched the groups up so much that the gear got spread so thin.

Basically recruitment is closed at the moment and the raid pool of about 32 people is locked. Now people who aren’t very good and those that disappeared for 3 and a half months are coming back expecting a raid spot that we just don’t have.

By: Falowin

Falowin — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:58:40 +0000

Core raiders still have jobs, children, spouses…etc..You have to count on the fact that people will be missing some days. I think ES is doing a good job of pulling in alternate raiders for TOC normal, even TOC heroic 10 now. Testing them out and gauging what they need to be ready for progression. Some people are fine with it, others complain. I have a feeling that the people who are fine with it will soon be core raiders themselves, and the people who complain will soon be gone. The more we have a particular instance on farm, the more we use it as a farm team. I think the system works, and for your own sense of sanity you will have to just ignore the QQ’ers.
That being said, we really need to get everyone to show up for 25 Grand….

By: adgamorix

adgamorix — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:08:38 +0000

If folks drop, or disappear – can you really count on them as being core raiders?

Yet another reason I’m glad we’re now a 10 man guild.

By: Rhidach

Rhidach — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:12:10 +0000

That is the difficult part that needs to be balanced by the raid leadership: how to reward those that put the hard work in to learning and executing encounters, while simultaneously bringing fresh blood into the raid group. I’m not sure how to do it. We’ve been working on a better standby system to promote people sticking around after invites go out so we have a pool to draw on if someone drops out, but that’s not even a band-aid.

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:56:01 +0000

My only comment is: how can they prove themselves as being raid worthy if they can’t get get a spot in raid?

It is simultaneously a great place to be (a solid core of skilled raiders) and a crap place (possibly losing guild members because they feel that they could be a valued part of the team…but can’t get into the raid to prove it).

By: Rhidach

Rhidach — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:50:05 +0000

Oh BS like you don’t have a shelf of about five different figures prints of your rogue in different tier sets? WE ALL KNOW THE TRUTH.

By: Falowin

Falowin — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:42:02 +0000

•Get full t10 and all the necessary accoutrements so I can finally get a FigurePrint of Rhidach

Why do you make it so easy? Must I say it?

NERD!!!!!!!!!!!!