Comments on: A GM’s Perspective: Where Do You Find the Time? http://www.lumethemad.com/2008/09/02/a-gms-perspective-where-do-you-find-the-time/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-gms-perspective-where-do-you-find-the-time Mon, 19 Sep 2011 08:43:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jezrael http://www.lumethemad.com/2008/09/02/a-gms-perspective-where-do-you-find-the-time/comment-page-1/#comment-305 Jezrael Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:54:40 +0000 http://www.lumethemad.com/?p=116#comment-305 Very interesting read Lume. I think a key consideration is: what you are trying to achieve as a raid. For instance in our raid one of our core maxims is keeping it simple. To the point where I'm pretty confident in saying I think we would (and do) sacrifice faster progression for the sake of simplicity. That said I think our progression is impressive given the constraints we raid within. I think I'm quite lucky to be a member of a guild that has a strong core group that has been active right from when we started out in Kara in our dungeon blues. We have one person who looks after recruiting, one person who looks after loot and one raid leader who works on strategy and one person who acts as a 'performance authority' monitoring individual performance and addressing any issues that may arise - which may mean referring that person to someone else in the raid more knowledgeable about the class to talk to them about how to improve. We also have a group of people who all trust each other and mostly are all interested in helping each other out with the different roles and just making the raid work. I think one of the things that makes our guild and raid work so well is that we get rid of ass-hats quickly. We value attitude much more highly than skill or gear. I think this is one area where I would recommend any leader to act swiftly and decisively - don't let idiots linger, their bad-appleness can impact negatively on the group as a whole. Very interesting read Lume. I think a key consideration is: what you are trying to achieve as a raid. For instance in our raid one of our core maxims is keeping it simple. To the point where I’m pretty confident in saying I think we would (and do) sacrifice faster progression for the sake of simplicity. That said I think our progression is impressive given the constraints we raid within.

I think I’m quite lucky to be a member of a guild that has a strong core group that has been active right from when we started out in Kara in our dungeon blues. We have one person who looks after recruiting, one person who looks after loot and one raid leader who works on strategy and one person who acts as a ‘performance authority’ monitoring individual performance and addressing any issues that may arise – which may mean referring that person to someone else in the raid more knowledgeable about the class to talk to them about how to improve. We also have a group of people who all trust each other and mostly are all interested in helping each other out with the different roles and just making the raid work.

I think one of the things that makes our guild and raid work so well is that we get rid of ass-hats quickly. We value attitude much more highly than skill or gear. I think this is one area where I would recommend any leader to act swiftly and decisively – don’t let idiots linger, their bad-appleness can impact negatively on the group as a whole.

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