As the run up to the
launch of Mists continues, and given the importance of communication (see last
blog post for more on that) I thought it
would be a good idea to get my officers together and get some actions happening.
In my guild I don't
like to make people officers just for anything.
There is a lot of effort that goes into leading a guild and I figure if
you want some authority in the guild you may as well contribute to running it
in a meaningful way and take some of the load off me. I implemented this when I first set up the
guild, however I could probably have done a better job. The aim this time is to make a much more
collaborative leadership team that won't mean that the guild dies if I decide
to take another break from the game for whatever reason. To that end I have assigned the following
jobs to the current officers. In case I
haven't mentioned this before we are aiming to make 2 10 Man raid teams for MoP
content.
Raid Leader - I will lead 1 of the raid teams which means we need someone else
to lead the other. This person will be
responsible for building recruitment, scheduling, Calling tactics, picking the
rosta and all manner of other things that come with raid leading. Including
making some posts about tactics for new bosses. I imagine that will be shared
between myself and the other RL.
Raid Assistants X2 –
for each team the raid leader will have an assistant, a Sargent major if you
like, someone to keep the troops in line during the raid, also to deal with
EPGP be master looter as well as ensuring to post World of Logs for each raid. World of Logs is an out of game raid analysis
tool that allows for post raid reflection and is handy in troubleshooting. I may speak more about this in future posts.
Chief Financial
Officer (CFO )– Responsible for the Guild Bank – deciding when we need a new tab
deciding what to keep in it and what to get rid off, what permissions to give
each rank of person in the guild, including how much guild repairs to give
everyone and also for selling stuff from raids and keeping the balance nice and
healthy. Annoyingly the functionality
for assigning permissions to the GB and the respective guild ranks can only be
done by the GM. Would be nice if I could
just assign him the power but hey-ho.
Social Media Officer
– Responsible for setting up Facebook and Twitter pages and also running them
and getting guild members to follow them. Ensuring that there are guild tweets
and FB messages to keep our troops informed, working with the Raid Leaders and
Community officer on what messages need to go up there, and also ensuring our
forums are kept tidy with irrelevant post deleted or archived. Also ensuring
that we are following some good and interesting people that talk about the WOW
in order to keep everyone up to date on what's going on with things like the
weeks news and latest patches and all manner of information about the
game. My girlfriend was kind enough to
take on this job and has set up our twitter feed. @VirtueHellfire if your interested I'll be
using it to post messages and communication to my guild hopefully pointing them
to the forum, which I'm sure they'll be unable to click on the link since
navigation to a forum is beyond most wow players it seems (again see last post
for more on that).
I'm also looking to
find officers to do the below jobs also:
Community and Social
Events Officer – Ideally a non raider so they can focus on things to do out
side of the raid. Achievement runs, Mount Runs, As well as just keeping the
guild friendly and a nice buzz.
Recruitment Officer
– I would expect this person to work closely with the raid leaders about there
requirements and also with the community officer about what sort of social
people we want in the guild and the social media officer about what messages we
need to get out there for recruitment. So they will be responsible for barking
in trade, keeping post on our forum up to date about our recruitment, and also
making posts on the WOW realm forums to try and get people in that way. Also
for setting the expectations of new guild members and to be a point of contact
for them if they any questions about the guild answered.
With the lack of the
Community and Recruitment officers the other officers need to pick up these
jobs in the mean time. The essence of
this weeks meeting fit in to categories below.
Recruitment
Some of the officers
already have recruitment macro's but I asked the rest to get them. I like a variety of macro's to get peoples
attention therefore I asked everyone to write their own and to pay attention to
if any one is whispering them following posting it, if not Change it.
Building Community
Pulling a group of
people together out of trade chat and any other means is always challenging
trying to build a community spirit.
Especially at the moment when we are not raiding regularly. One way to get to know your fellow guildies
is to do shared activities. So I've
asked me officers to be champions of co-op play - always ask people to join
them in whatever your doing, scenario's, dungeons, anything!
Also I can't be
expected to come up with all the ideas myself and again I'm trying to build a
collaboration here to I've asked them to be creative - have a think about ways
to get people interested in doing things and get them scheduled and promoted.
Communication is Key
and all the information people could want to know about our guild is on the
website so I asked them to know where things are themselves, post informative
and valuable post and direct people there when they have questions.
Another idea I had
was to designate a little corner of the world as Virtues, who's know if Blizz
will ever do player housing but in the mean time there should ba a nice quiet
place that we can all hang out in and maybe all try to get back to at the end of
the day. For me at the moment I like the
Shady Lady in Stormwind, and I have
designated this our unofficial Guild Pub for the moment until we get in to
Pandaria where upon I'm hoping we can find a convenient corner there. If your on Hellfire come on down there you
may see me or one of my plethora of alts at the bar.
Raids
Gave the chaps just
a bit of an update here, we currently have enough raiders for one full team, we
therefore need to recruit all roles and classes for the other. Ideally I'd like to do this before we start
raiding as I'm keen to avoid a A team and B Team Mentality and have taken great
pains to never refer to the 2 teams in such a way. My plan is to go for the first raid a month
after launch thereby allowing everyone to enjoy the content and also get a few
more people in the guild who have returned for the new Expansion.
Raid Leader
I requested the
other Raid Leader started looking for good vids of the raids - I suggested
Yoggs Cast and Learn to Raid as a starter.
Also Icy Veins is an excellent resource.
Myself and the other RL will probably divvy up the tactics posts
therefore I requested he look at the type of post I have done previously and
try to replicate that style. That style
being - a link to a Video, a link to the tactics on Ivy Veins and then a super
boiled down version for quick reference.
Raid Assistants
In order to assist
the RL's the RA's need to get a few things done. Firstly Get addons, Raid Buff Status a handy
in game head up to if people have all the buffs they should, have eaten and are
generally ready to pull the boss. EPGP
(Dkp reloaded), for use in distributing the loots about and making it
fair. There are other systems out there
but this has always struck me as the fairest as the amount of effort you put in
to the guild has a direct effect on the amount of loot you get.
Also I requested the
get set up on World of Logs - a simple task but it needs doing.
Chief Financial
Officer
Again to try and get
some community together and to keep the GB full of cash for repairs I asked our CFO to undertake
a guild lottery.
The premise would
work like this, we charge some cash for tickets, which is mailed to the CFO in
game. The CFO makes a post with a list
of numbers and assign names to those numbers based on the amount of tickets someone
has purchased. At a designated time and
place we all meet, (down the guild pub perhaps) form a raid group and the CFO
does a /roll. Who ever has that number
assigned on the forum post gets 50% of the ticket taking and 50% goes in to the
GB. There other officers suggested that
we could offer other prizes from the GB also, for maybe 2nd or 3rd place, which
sounded sensible to me so I have left it with our CFO to do something about it.
So with a couple of
outstanding points all the guild infrastructure is back and should be working
correctly soon. The only thing we need
now is recruitment which is still being a challenge. Hopefully after Tuesday this will be
easier. If your on Hellfire EU and want
to join us then let us know. Also if you
are anywhere in the EU and just want to raid with us then with the new
Battletag system that maybe possible also.
As an aside the
Theramore Scenario launched this week. I
have to say I was rather disappointed.
I'm hoping that the other scenarios and 'different ways to play the
game' pet battles, Farming, challenge modes and the rest are not such a let
down.