Friday, May 05, 2006
Coming and going
... is grasss really greener on the other side
We had a high level leaving our guild this week. While I don't see that as a problem, and while fluctuation among guild ranks is a normal occurence - people come and people go, leaving for the big guilds that offer "sweet stuff" is a serious setback for small and medium guilds out there, because they endup serving as a training grounds for big guilds future members. I know they want our members. You know why they want 'em? Because by the time they level up to 60, and spend some time going through encounters we are able to manage, they grow to become highly skilled, team oriented, responcible players that are able to maximise on their skill in order to compensate the lack of equipment. Tigers, when you get up to 60, and spend some time polishing your trade, you will be better than most people out there. Yes, someone that has been to a certain place a hundred times, will be able to do a better job than you at the time you start, but you will think, and adapt, and make the moust out of very limited amount of supply. You will be elite.
Tiger is by no means a small guild, as it has over 80 members, and what is most important, most of them are active, so if you look at our guild roster, there is only a small percentage of members that have not been logged in for a longer amount of time. With time, most of our members will become high level, and most of them won't leave, unless something really devastating happens. Our capability of endgame will increase. Approximately two months ago, when we first time went into Zul'Gurub, we had less than 10 players there from our guild. Last week on the failed attempt to get a raid going, we had 12 Tigers that logged in for the raid, and that is a big increase. In a month or two, I think we can safely predict that Tiger will be able to do Zul'Gurub, from the number perspective, and slowly start aiming at bigger the bigger things. There is always some kind of setback you have to overcome as you go through it. First you don't have the numbers, then when you finally manage the numbers, you realise that your gear isn't enough to withsand the pounding you are getting, so you work to improve that and move to the next challenge, where you again figure out you are gimped, so you try improving and so on and so on. That is the life in high end WoW instances - unfortunately Blizzard has no initiative to add anything really inovative into the game, except tougher mobs, tougher scripted events that require more and more coordination and better gear. But that is how it is, you can either stop playing at level 60, and miss half of the game, or work your way up slowly. maybe they introduce something new with the expansion, but all I smell is more instances and more levels. They will just extend the treadmill. I don't say by no means that wow is not a good, fun game, or most of us wouldn't be playing it, but with the resources Blizzard has, it could be so much more. What differs us from the big guilds is that we really try to have fun. We do not take things too seriously. We don't take them light either if they are hard, but whatever you do there is space for some fooling arround if its done at the right moment.
If you want a fast way to get epics, Tiger is not the right guild for you. We are working towards the goal to be able to get our players decked out in epic gear, but that is something that will take time. We are doing other things also. Ameyja from our sister guild Dance Macabre is organising pre made battleground teams once or twice a week, some of our members are always there and its great fun. We currently suck against really organised oponnents, but we are getting better, and that is important. We are doing alot of things, but as I said many times before, don't wait for anything to be served to you. If you want to go to Stratholme, take it up on you and get some guild mates together. Post it on the Group Calendar a few days before you want to go, a big chance is that you are going to have a full team by the time it happens. Sometimes it will fail, but most of the times it won't. If you want something to happen, take it up and make it happen.
Fact of the matter is that not me, or anybody else can tell you what to do in order to have fun. If you think that being a part of some other guild will make you happy, go for it. I'm sad when any of our members decide to leave, but I won't make them stay if they want to do other things. It is also a step back for the guild, but not a disaster. Only thing i know is Perun will see the inside of many big places, and will get whacked by all different strange creatures out there. Wether you want to be there when that happens, or you rather be somewhere else is entirely up to you.
Big cheers for Bullus, Grimey, Jefimija and the crew for constantly doing things at level 30ish-40ish. I would like to see more of you take initiative like that.
We had a high level leaving our guild this week. While I don't see that as a problem, and while fluctuation among guild ranks is a normal occurence - people come and people go, leaving for the big guilds that offer "sweet stuff" is a serious setback for small and medium guilds out there, because they endup serving as a training grounds for big guilds future members. I know they want our members. You know why they want 'em? Because by the time they level up to 60, and spend some time going through encounters we are able to manage, they grow to become highly skilled, team oriented, responcible players that are able to maximise on their skill in order to compensate the lack of equipment. Tigers, when you get up to 60, and spend some time polishing your trade, you will be better than most people out there. Yes, someone that has been to a certain place a hundred times, will be able to do a better job than you at the time you start, but you will think, and adapt, and make the moust out of very limited amount of supply. You will be elite.
Tiger is by no means a small guild, as it has over 80 members, and what is most important, most of them are active, so if you look at our guild roster, there is only a small percentage of members that have not been logged in for a longer amount of time. With time, most of our members will become high level, and most of them won't leave, unless something really devastating happens. Our capability of endgame will increase. Approximately two months ago, when we first time went into Zul'Gurub, we had less than 10 players there from our guild. Last week on the failed attempt to get a raid going, we had 12 Tigers that logged in for the raid, and that is a big increase. In a month or two, I think we can safely predict that Tiger will be able to do Zul'Gurub, from the number perspective, and slowly start aiming at bigger the bigger things. There is always some kind of setback you have to overcome as you go through it. First you don't have the numbers, then when you finally manage the numbers, you realise that your gear isn't enough to withsand the pounding you are getting, so you work to improve that and move to the next challenge, where you again figure out you are gimped, so you try improving and so on and so on. That is the life in high end WoW instances - unfortunately Blizzard has no initiative to add anything really inovative into the game, except tougher mobs, tougher scripted events that require more and more coordination and better gear. But that is how it is, you can either stop playing at level 60, and miss half of the game, or work your way up slowly. maybe they introduce something new with the expansion, but all I smell is more instances and more levels. They will just extend the treadmill. I don't say by no means that wow is not a good, fun game, or most of us wouldn't be playing it, but with the resources Blizzard has, it could be so much more. What differs us from the big guilds is that we really try to have fun. We do not take things too seriously. We don't take them light either if they are hard, but whatever you do there is space for some fooling arround if its done at the right moment.
If you want a fast way to get epics, Tiger is not the right guild for you. We are working towards the goal to be able to get our players decked out in epic gear, but that is something that will take time. We are doing other things also. Ameyja from our sister guild Dance Macabre is organising pre made battleground teams once or twice a week, some of our members are always there and its great fun. We currently suck against really organised oponnents, but we are getting better, and that is important. We are doing alot of things, but as I said many times before, don't wait for anything to be served to you. If you want to go to Stratholme, take it up on you and get some guild mates together. Post it on the Group Calendar a few days before you want to go, a big chance is that you are going to have a full team by the time it happens. Sometimes it will fail, but most of the times it won't. If you want something to happen, take it up and make it happen.
Fact of the matter is that not me, or anybody else can tell you what to do in order to have fun. If you think that being a part of some other guild will make you happy, go for it. I'm sad when any of our members decide to leave, but I won't make them stay if they want to do other things. It is also a step back for the guild, but not a disaster. Only thing i know is Perun will see the inside of many big places, and will get whacked by all different strange creatures out there. Wether you want to be there when that happens, or you rather be somewhere else is entirely up to you.
Big cheers for Bullus, Grimey, Jefimija and the crew for constantly doing things at level 30ish-40ish. I would like to see more of you take initiative like that.
# posted by Officer @ 8:27 AM 
