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08-17-2009, 10:12 AM
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.wow.com/media/2009/08/bored-gorilla-treated.jpgEvery Monday Scott Andrews contributes Officers' Quarters (http:// www.wow.com/category/officers-quarters/), a column about the ins and outs of guild leadership.
"You're on standby tonight." No one wants to hear these words when a raid is forming. It's aggravating, frustrating, and downright depressing (http://www.wow.com/2007/12/10/officers-quarters-a-case-of-the-blahs/) sometimes. This week's e-mail comes from a player who's had it with being on standby. I will talk about what she can do to help herself, why raid leaders do this to you, and how the standby system can work better for everyone involved.
Hey Scott!
I've been reading your column for a few months now and I particularly enjoy it. However, I thought I'd never find myself writing to it.
I'm in a bit of a conundrum.
You see, my guild of which I was a member of for quite a few months and enjoyed hanging out with and raiding with broke up. Those of us who were still around joined a good raiding guild on the server. I've seen the leaders and the officers in action and I'm impressed. The guild is fairly large and compared to my last guild, foreign. My previous guild was very friendly and explained things to me. I'm fairly new to this game and especially raiding (I raided Karazhan only a few times as compared to some people's many, many, many times.), but I pick up on things quickly and try to be as useful and helpful as I can. At the moment, there are more than 25 people signed up to raid and the leaders pick who gets to go and who sits on standby. They also use a DKP system, which I am fine with.
My problem is with the standby system.
Continue reading Officers' Quarters: The standby experience (http://www.wow.com/2009/08/17/officers-quarters-the-standby-experience/)
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"You're on standby tonight." No one wants to hear these words when a raid is forming. It's aggravating, frustrating, and downright depressing (http://www.wow.com/2007/12/10/officers-quarters-a-case-of-the-blahs/) sometimes. This week's e-mail comes from a player who's had it with being on standby. I will talk about what she can do to help herself, why raid leaders do this to you, and how the standby system can work better for everyone involved.
Hey Scott!
I've been reading your column for a few months now and I particularly enjoy it. However, I thought I'd never find myself writing to it.
I'm in a bit of a conundrum.
You see, my guild of which I was a member of for quite a few months and enjoyed hanging out with and raiding with broke up. Those of us who were still around joined a good raiding guild on the server. I've seen the leaders and the officers in action and I'm impressed. The guild is fairly large and compared to my last guild, foreign. My previous guild was very friendly and explained things to me. I'm fairly new to this game and especially raiding (I raided Karazhan only a few times as compared to some people's many, many, many times.), but I pick up on things quickly and try to be as useful and helpful as I can. At the moment, there are more than 25 people signed up to raid and the leaders pick who gets to go and who sits on standby. They also use a DKP system, which I am fine with.
My problem is with the standby system.
Continue reading Officers' Quarters: The standby experience (http://www.wow.com/2009/08/17/officers-quarters-the-standby-experience/)
Filed under: (Guild Leadership) Officers' Quarters (http://www.wow.com/category/officers-quarters/)
Officers' Quarters: The standby experience (http://www.wow.com/2009/08/17/officers-quarters-the-standby-experience/) originally appeared on WoW.com (http://www.wow.com) on Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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