Comments on: Getting our guild to WORK.

By: RtR for 1/10/09 : Rick’s Place

RtR for 1/10/09 : Rick’s Place — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:46:41 +0000

[...] Getting our guild to WORK. | Less QQ, More PewPew [...]

By: Axel

Axel — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:24:29 +0000

Sucks when guild’s lack players :/
My guild “Cupcake” does really good progress now. We have cleared all 10 man content, and almost cleared all the 25man content. Starting to get some gear now finally ;p

-Skv�n Aggramar

By: Freecloud

Freecloud — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:29:22 +0000

Hi Dro, although I only said hi outside of Nax once once to you I am an officer in a guild called Torment on Illidan. I really hope that nothing happens to your guild but if it does send me a tell ingame and I’ll try to help you out. Also as much as I hated to say that we have a number of guildies that may or may not have to sit from our raids. We have everything cleared up to 2 drakes Sath an are working on the 3rd so these people know how to play. If for some reason that week we cannot use a player that week, and you need one send me a tell we want and NEED to keep these people in guild and you may need a player or 2, lets get something started maybe?

By: Kargos

Kargos — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 08:44:36 +0000

I’m in the same position mate.

Took a gamble and joined a brand new guild of hard core raiders and grumpy pvper’s thinking I was only going to be doing dps. Now I’m in charge of recruitment, pouring over parses to see where we can improve individually and as a whole, getting mobbed by whispers whenever I log on, etc. etc.

We also keep thin ranks so we generally pug potential guildees and our friend networks, take what we can amidst the dross, weed our own ranks (what’s great is that they uproot themselves sometimes) and trying to suppress any drama before it gets out of hand.

By: Drotara

Drotara — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 04:51:30 +0000

I think Blizzard, obviously, was too eager to nerf us early in LK. As you have seen personally and many others are seeing other classes are quickly catching up and surpassing us.

I haven’t spent much time on the PTR so I am hoping they didn’t go overboard. The problem is that people were exclaiming that Explosive Shot was now the end-all ability and Blizzard changed it accordingly. I guess we shall see what the actual coefficients are once it goes live.

By: Maudib

Maudib — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 04:22:35 +0000

Drot, what are your thoughts on the latest ES nerf, and the slight pet buffs? I know personally I’m not the best geared Hunter, but i’m far from the worst, same goes for me as a player. However in my guild 25 naxx runs I go anywhere from 1 to 4 deeps depending on the boss. I am 50/21 atm. I just can’t see the justification for the current nerfs with a look into the distant future for parity. Obtw a ret pally(super good gear), a fury warrior, and mage are the other three competitors..ie when our DK isn’t off tanking then he is in the mix as well. We all have 200 and 213 gear save maybe one or two pieces ie sphere of the red dragon blood trinket, and i still use the crafted bracers for the hit.

By: Shmii

Shmii — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:31:30 +0000

We’re actually suffering from the same exact issues over in Shmii land, from the unbearable lag and DCs to the MIA people. Getting DPS isn’t so hard as getting DPS who know’s what they’re doing. Which, is a little lacking on our server (Let alone a couple in guild who’s DPS has barely increased since level 70, L2New Rotation?). >.>

Of course, a couple less priests and another resto shaman or holy paladin would be nice too.

By: Lunchmoneyy

Lunchmoneyy — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:20:30 +0000

Unfortunately, RL is coming down hard on me Drot, so I’ll accept responsibility for a lot of that BS. But I hope to get on some time this week, maybe monday, to get our games in.

By: Parallelism

Parallelism — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:04:04 +0000

Hello Drotara, fellow guildie :)

I think the main problem is the queue and lag. The main problem is people logging in, I fell victum to this last night as the queue was 855! That’s about 1h 30m give or take… Not to mention, even IF people can get on before the queue boss (I stole that from a friend I’ll admit), they log in to face 2 ~ 4 second delay on every boss encounter. I could go on but I’de rather listen to my Metallica and talk on AIM :)

Nice post and props to you sir. We’ll be back no time killing Kel’T
Also, agree with the skill vs gear thing. Nice posts, read ‘em everyday

By: Krankheit

Krankheit — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:13:21 +0000

Really sorry that your guild is going through tough times with attendance. My guild had the same issues with sunwell but we managed to make it through the tough times. Hopefully the truly dedicated and more hardcore players in your guild stick through the tough times so you can continue to be a guild.

Good luck with the raiding scene in the future.

P.S. Although I no longer play my hunter I still really enjoy reading this and it’s by far one of my favourite blogs :D Keep up the good work.