Comments on: Class balance, and recruitment. http://www.guildmasterpiece.com/class-balance-and-recruitment.html friendly guildmasters here to help you run a fabulous guild Sat, 27 Feb 2010 01:13:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Eryn http://www.guildmasterpiece.com/class-balance-and-recruitment.html/comment-page-1#comment-136 Eryn Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:02:50 +0000 http://www.guildmasterpiece.com/class-balance-and-recruitment.html#comment-136 I've heard of two possibilities to this. I say "heard" because I've never run a guild with a fixed amount of raiding slots before. First, they rely on alts. An alt that gets gear when the main isn't raiding can often times get almost as geared as someone else's main. This is hard to fill a slot like Tank, but can easily work in a pinch for a healer or a specific type of DPS (need a lock for banishing + dps). The second way I've heard people deal with this: mains tend to get more than one set of gear. For example, I've got nearly full S3 on my warrior and nearly full T4 tanking set. Obviously I favor DPS, but can tank anything our guild is progressing through at the moment. Many classes can do this too, it's just a matter of helping them prepare ahead of time. Especially since the tier sets are not unique, you can have multiple sets of T4 or T5. This becomes harder to do as you move through T5 and T6. Then when your main tank goes on vacation, you don't have to stop raiding. This means taking one DPS and turning them into a tank for a week or two, but filling a DPS slot is usually easier than filling a tank slot. The final option that I have always used is to keep a larger guild roster... with the raiders having higher ranks in the guild. This way the raiders have priority while the casual players can help fill the empty spots during absences. I’ve heard of two possibilities to this. I say “heard” because I’ve never run a guild with a fixed amount of raiding slots before.

First, they rely on alts. An alt that gets gear when the main isn’t raiding can often times get almost as geared as someone else’s main. This is hard to fill a slot like Tank, but can easily work in a pinch for a healer or a specific type of DPS (need a lock for banishing + dps).

The second way I’ve heard people deal with this: mains tend to get more than one set of gear. For example, I’ve got nearly full S3 on my warrior and nearly full T4 tanking set. Obviously I favor DPS, but can tank anything our guild is progressing through at the moment. Many classes can do this too, it’s just a matter of helping them prepare ahead of time. Especially since the tier sets are not unique, you can have multiple sets of T4 or T5. This becomes harder to do as you move through T5 and T6. Then when your main tank goes on vacation, you don’t have to stop raiding. This means taking one DPS and turning them into a tank for a week or two, but filling a DPS slot is usually easier than filling a tank slot.

The final option that I have always used is to keep a larger guild roster… with the raiders having higher ranks in the guild. This way the raiders have priority while the casual players can help fill the empty spots during absences.

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