Guild Update

I know, I know. I haven't posted in awhile. I've been busy...ish. There's just been a lot going on. Balz brought home two kittens...and they're a full time job right now. Plus caring for my daughter, my dog, my guild, work...friends...I've been a busy girl.

I'm starting to feel a little like Felicia Day after she was given the "honor" of guild leader by Vork. This is a reference to The Guild. If you've never checked it out, you should. I love the show, personally. At any rate, things with the guild are going both awesome and terrible at the same time. We're definitely raiding more, but we just don't have the participation we need in order to even fill up a 10 man run. That puts 25 man runs in a really hard to reach place for us. We tend to pick up people to fill in the slots that we need filled for all of our runs. I've been trying to recruit, but it's going very slowly. There are only three of us in the guild that have been actively recruiting. I'm not saying that the rest of the guild members are less valuable because they're not recruiting. I'm saying we'd be hammering out 25 man content a LOT more easily if everyone was on board and recruiting and participating.

Recruiting is going slowly. Too slowly, really, but there's a lot to consider. Currently, our guild seems to lack a solid identity. We're sort of a raiding guild, but more of a casual guild. I think if we had more "raid" people, we'd eventually become a raiding guild and slide slightly farther from the more casual thing. *groan* I guess I really need to figure out what exactly this guild is before we start really recruiting heavily.

Also, we need to find a way to calm some of the current storms in the guild before we bring new people in. Lately, things have been very tense between our "raiding core" people, the super casual raid participants, and the non-participants. We've had a few explosions recently. I totally understand why. Our raiding "core", aka the people who participate in EVERY raid the guild does are getting a little worn out. We don't have a participation requirement. Our "Core" is the group of people who've realized that they are the foundation of our guild's ability to raid. They participate willingly, for the most part, but they also feel like it's their duty to show up and help carry the group

But, like I said...things are going awesome, too. My Paper Towel Priest's hunter is already level 79, which is very exciting! We have some other members that are very close to level 80. Hopefully, we can get them geared and interested in raiding. Also, we've managed to clear some bosses in Ulduar. We're getting ready to maybe try some Trial of the Crusader soon. I hope...I don't really know...who knows?

So, all in all things are going alright I guess. We've lost a few people, but they weren't really active participants in the whole scope of things anyway. I mean, I don't like losing people. Especially Ragno. I really liked having him with us. But I understand that people need to find a guild that's the right fit for them and aligns with their goals and needs as far as the game goes. Hopefully we get things moving in a more positive and relaxing direction soon.