Tuesday, June 20, 2017
Casual vs Hard Core vs Free for All
Casual vs Hard Core vs Free for All
Recruiting, as I said in my last post, is an ongoing endeavor. Once I started getting people to join the guild, I had to look forward to building a raid team. Once again, I had some pretty idealistic goals for what I wanted in my raid team. I wanted:
- Players who were new to raiding and anxious to learn.
- Players who were familiar with raiding, possessing of loads of patience, and willing to teach.
- Players who recognized that boss encounters require some preparation like gearing up and watching videos to learn mechanics.
- Players who wanted to progress through bosses but were willing to be patient through the learning and preparation process.
- Players who didnt live and breathe numbers and statistics.
- Players who took responsibility for their mistakes and learned from them.
- Players who didnt point fingers and get bitchy when we wiped.
I was, and still am, asking for a lot. For the most part, I found just the people I was looking for too. Theres been some bumps in the road and progression is slower than I had anticipated, but were moving along, bouncing around in High Maul and BRF as we like. When we cant get a boss down and get frustrated, we stop and try a different one. Im sure there has been talk that has occurred outside of my hearing, so to speak, but I think most of my team are happy with the way things are going. Ive actually had some tell me that theyve been in hard core raiding guilds before and much prefer it the way we do things. They like the fun and friendly atmosphere versus raiding in a high stress environment.
Im painting a pretty picture here, right? Well, there have been some bumps, like I said. As the weeks have progressed and weve been learning how to work as a raid team, Ive had to reassess and make some adjustments. Ill tell you all about that in my next post.
