Comments on: Casual Raiding: The Guild is Not the Raid

By: bryan

bryan — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 07:02:21 +0000

whats wrong with steady shot QQ

By: Feytal

Feytal — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:02:57 +0000

Thank you for the post. A friend linked it to my old guild website. My guild me went through this and forgot that the guild is not the raid group and stomped his way through some of us who worked hard to start it going as far as to say “this wasn’t a guild, it wasn’t a guild until I made it one” I am glad to see someone who understands that there are peeps behind the keys who may not ever be “raiding member status” but can still be fun to hang with in game.

By: Iwaswrong

Iwaswrong — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:29:10 +0000

My guild is a social/casual guild that raids. We have enough in out raider rank to clear all 25 man content ad often run 2 x 10 man’s three times a week. We have a raiding rotation for when we cant fill all the 25 man spots. i agree totally with what is said in the op there is a great distinction between the guild and raiding team – they are not the same. The rules in place for raiders are the standard rules re gem/pots/buff food.

There was a lot of time spent by officers to establish a fair system for raider rank – this isn’t to say that non raiders cant raid they do, but raiders get priority to new content – when raids are on farm they switch to free for all – therefore any one can set up a raid for that instance which we do on a regular basis to gear up guildies and alts – raiders are not expected to get locked to a raid that is on offical raiding rotation.

It has worked well – and casual guiilds can semi hard core raid and still we are all guildies .

By: Gravity

Gravity — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:18:08 +0000

By coincidence another blog I read posted on similar topic, which your readers might enjoy.
http://nonelitistraiding.blogspot.com/2009/11/how-to-make-raiding-alliance-work.html

By: K

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:41:07 +0000

Very good post. I can see how this would help those that want to raid but still be in a casual guild. Are there any issues with qq about cliques or favorites?

By: Gravity

Gravity — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:06:03 +0000

Just wanted to say, this is a great point to make. I tweeted it too.

By: Jgulr

Jgulr — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:35:50 +0000

As far as guild problems go we are having almost the same problem as the person that sent in- in fact i almost wonder if that is the other hunter from our guild… lol. go go frost get on with your bad self

By: Jgulr

Jgulr — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:32:46 +0000

Colmillos! you need to get ahold of me and tell me more bout this whole thing based out of phoenix AZ- because thats where i live! go go find a way..

By: Fradin

Fradin — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:30:01 +0000

I total agree Frost i have even rolled a Druid so i can heal on occassions as my guild is lacking range and heals the only problem is if i heal i am one of the few range we have and I also top the damage done meters most of the time too.

By: Frostheim

Frostheim — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:20:55 +0000

Judicar – feel free to link or copy whatever you’d like.

Zak/El – Well, except my point is that the focus of the guild is not on the team. Because the team is separate from the guild. The guild values and focus should not change, regardless of what the team is doing.

IMO the good of the individual is only more important when it impacts the good of the team (ie: I hate this so much I won’t raid anymore, and then we don’t have enough raiders) — which is another way of saying the good of the team comes first.