These past few weeks have seen my guild leadership work increase twofold. Nearly every waking hour between half-marathon training, sleep, work and school has been focused on leading the guild. The work has obviously come to the point where my blog and time for leisure has suffered. Recruitment particularly has required more attention than previously. [...]

I normally wouldn’t talk about guilds breaking apart, but I have some points to make regarding this particular guild “death.” Death and Taxes officially announced their demise this morning. We all saw it coming, considering they hadn’t posted about progression in months. But what grates my nerves is the reason Xi gives for their breakup. [...]

“We are a casual raiding guild recruiting for Sunwell.” “You can’t be casual if you’re planning to raid Sunwell.” “We only raid two days a week. That makes us casual.” “But you’re raiding Sunwell, that makes you hardcore.” Some people believe there is a paradoxal relationship between the concepts of hardcore and casual. People argue [...]