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I know someone wrote a post about this earlier, and now I am in a similar predicament…

We have a player that raided with us for a while, went a little loopy, /gquit and then came back as a casual, non-raider… he promptly /gquit again hours later, and we were like oh well… because he brought a lot of drama with him.  and, frankly we were glad to get rid of it.

Well, fast forward three months, and he wants back in.  He just wants to hang out and not actually raid.  (We have both casual and raiding players in our guild.)  Well, when the officers saw his app it was a unanimous no.  A couple of his real life friends are in the guild and they are pretty upset that he wasn’t let back in to the guild, but we just don’t want to deal with the “bad apple” that he used to be.

Apparently he has gotten his life back together and his friends assure me the drama is over, but I just don’t know if it is a risk I am willing to take with my awesomesauce guild!  On one hand, I feel like everyone deserves a second chance, but on the other… I kinda feel like he already got his… alas.

I am sorry to inform anyone who reads this that I will me taking a heitas from WOW for reasons that I will not specify here. Unfortunately that means that I will be giving my giving up my guild into more capable hands. Thankfully I have an officer willing to lead and he will be great at it too. So this is my resignation on as a writer here on GuildMasterpiece Theater.

It may have been short, but I am glad that I had the chance to write here and I will continue reading and commenting on the site. Good luck to yall and keep having fun!

Your GM,
GanonIS

Okay, so I was giving my RL a bunch of funk for his crazy macro, and he swears to me that it makes WAY more sense if you don’t change up your UI to be as girly as mine, but I did get a cute little screen shot out of it, and I thought I should share! Here is my little guild working away in SSC!

Okay, a little history about my guild…

I became friends with most of the start up players in my guild when I was in a casual guild that couldn’t get past curator.  There was nothing wrong with my old casual guild, I was just bored of never getting to see any new content, and I had made friends with this other guild that was a little more hard core, but was looking to fill out a second kara group and some 25 mans… well, the day before I decided to finally quit my casual guild and join the raiding guild they had decided that they were going to merge with a hard core guild, and my husband and I ended up being a part of the package deal.  This had the potential to be really cool, but they promised us a part of the raiding team although they pretty much already had their top raiding spots filled out.  Our main tank became a ‘catcher,’ the hunters all ended up on wait list behind their hutners, etc.  So, we kind of just stuck by what we were doing, kept running our little kara group, and basically felt like very little fish in a big pond.

Well, they instituted a MT need list.  In doing so, they said that our Kara MT friend basically wasn’t getting any gear from the 25 mans… well, this sucked for our friend, but we were willing to just deal with it… until the day we showed up to a raid only to be informed it wouldn’t be happening because they MT had decided to retire his MAIN warrior and instead he would be playing his ALT dps warrior… yeah, that REALLY happened.  We weren’t able to raid that night because we didn’t have a MT.  Apparently he had cleared all this with the officers of the guild, but they didn’t bother to bring it up to the guild… well… needless to say, after he took gear over the other tanks that planned to remain tanks, then switched over to his other character…. that was the day we /gquit to start our own.

And we have been hot on the heels of that other guild ever since… They had a big advantage over us because they had enough guilldies ready to start 25 mans and we barely had enough to fill out a kara (although it was awesome to clear kara on our first night as a guild, that really brought us toghether as a team.)  But, we quickly got our numbers and are now plowing through the 25 mans…

Now, that being said.  Vashj is kicking our butt, as a guild, and as a raiding team.  Three hours of wiping only to get her to 1 percent was one of the biggest blows in my entire guild’s history.  So, I am wanting to take a step back, get a few boss kills in the Tempest Keep.  We need those kills!  Ours is a guild that loves the progression, and I know that the wiping will get us there eventually… but it just isn’t happening right now!  I mean we have only downed one boss in The Eye, so I think this is the right move… right?

Ahhh we are so happy to finally have an off night!  We have been pushing so hard for progression, and we keep playing through our scheduled guild off nights, but we decided this weekend to just screw around on alts, farm up all that stuff we need, and just have a great guild time.  It really was nice, and I got to hang out with people in guild that I don’t really get to spend time with.  Off nights are really important to guilds because they rejuvinate.  So, even if you are SO close to that big boss kill… take a break!  Mara is pretty this time of year. 

Wow, I see there’s been a lot of activity on here. I’m sort of on a hiatus from WoW which explains my absence here recently (and probably into the future). But I had to share this little story with you.

Background:

My guild was formed by a merger between two sort of mediocre guilds, one of which I was the GM (this was around 4 months ago). Being a pretty democratic kind of guy myself, my leadership style is pretty fluid – I like to delegate a lot and rely on my officers. Anyway, going into the merger I didn’t want the other guild to feel

So was up late last night discussing the latest patch notes for 2.4, which as always can be found here. One of the big things is the attunement for Hyjal/BT taken out, along with being able to go straight to Vashj/Kael and skip the other bosses. This is a hot topic as seen on the wow forums, along with my guild forums and quite a few more. For us, the higher end guilds, it feels like all the hard work done, was for nothing, ok well a title “Hand of A’dol” but come on..

On the other end, this gives medium to lower end raiding guilds, a chance to finally see Hyjal/BT or go straight to Vashj/Kael for items instead of having to do the entire instance each week, which may take 2-3 days, and then loose out on time they could be doing Hyjal/BT. And recruitment will be much easier now for all since the first thing on every app is “Are you keyed to Hjyal/BT”.

There are a ton of +’s and -’s of this new patch, and I think it all will work out in the end, but its just going to take getting used to.

So how does your guild feel about the removal of attunement to BT/Hyjal? Will going straight to Vashj/Kael affect your guild yet?

Woot! we had our first meeting today a a guild and the turnout was great. We rolled around a bunch of ideas for a hour around the shaman fire totem area. we now have a banking system and regular instances shedualed. This is a huge step in organization and actualy using the guild for its purposes. Its a great way to get everyone on at once to listen to each other and working together.

So we had one of those days today where absolutely nothing good would drop. We went into ZF prepared for some great new gear, but very little came up. We started out without any leather wearers and the pieces dropped like crazy. After a couple people left we got a druid and rouge, but mail started dropping every where right after the shaman quit. Then the drops people were hoping for didn’t drop. No shiny swords, no pretty cloth headbands. It was a crappy day for loot, but at least we got some stuff for the guild bank and we had a good time.

…grr I want that headband.

So, I had my first experience on the waiting list the other day, and I have to say it sucks lol. As GL I feel I need to be in the raids at all times, be it for support, criticism, encouragement, or just to be there because. The other night we were doing our first night of BT for the week, and we have 5 mages in guild, all 5 show up and want to go, and since it was the first 3 bosses in BT we were doing, which I do not need anything from, I decided to sit out. I sit outside the instance for 2 hours. Just sitting there, on my mount so I don’t get ganked, and just listening in vent. Watching Raid Warnings popping up on screen, sending whispers to people in between pulls, asking for updates, man, it sucks! But you know its part of the game, and the waiting list is extremely important… Without people standing outside, your guilds progression would suffer, and raid times would last longer. With 2.4 around the corner, and the summoning changes coming:

* Ritual of Summoning can now be used to summon players into instances. Provided the player meets all entry requirements, they can be summoned in from anywhere in the game world.

It is going to make it a lot easier for guilds, to get those needed people to the instances, without waiting 10 mins for them to fly down, or having to run all the way outside to summon them. Just remember to respect your locks, because shards aren’t free