I'm typically a man of few words, but I've proven to be quite the contrary in my blog. I guess my fingers excel at where my lips fail to speak.
So I killed my guild...
Posted 02-14-2008 at 11:50 AM by Radhja
I’m back from my little hiatus… IRL and guild drama damn near broke my spirit in two, but I have recovered.
Well, I gave up the old guild, at long last. Repetitive attacks of the same nature as I’d previously mentioned pushed me beyond my point of tolerance, so I hauled ass with a few of the better-gear’d folks from U&C and formed my own guild, the Doja Dojo (was the name of my irl friend’s guild from Silkroad Online… if ya don’t know, don’t ask).
Sad truth is… I killed a 500-man guild. Granted, only about 50 players were 70s, the guild no longer exists simply because I left.
So, we’re starting all over, and I feel like it’s either the most ingenious things I’ve done since I turned 70, or the worst mistake I could have made. I keep going back and forth on that one, but one this is certain – I’m now responsible for an entire guild’s progression.
/deepbreath
So, we haven’t started raiding yet, since almost all of the members were the same folks from the old guild (plus a few new faces, thankfully). We may not be decked out in full T4 yet, but at least we’re able to handle some Heroics action enough to snag the badges we need in the meantime.
So, now I’m all sorts of confused…
In guild “downtime” (which occurs frequently cause no one is gear’d enough to raid except for me and maybe 4 others), I’ve been pugging whatever raid action I can find. Naturally, I come across others players in larger guilds looking to recruit me (or do a guild merger), but so far I’ve held fast and defended my puny little guild at every opportunity.
I guess the question is… should I maintain my ground with my guild, or follow through with a merger into a higher-end guild? I want my guild to see progression, and I feel we just don’t have the sheer manpower to turn things around before the “new” content (BC) becomes OLD content when WLK comes out.
Oh, dilemma… you have followed me far. Will you ever give up your relentless pursuit?
On an entirely unrelated – but contrastingly optimistic note – I finally got the badges I needed for [item]Bracers of the Ancient Phalanx[/item], so the pugging is going well (despite the headaches).
Well, I gave up the old guild, at long last. Repetitive attacks of the same nature as I’d previously mentioned pushed me beyond my point of tolerance, so I hauled ass with a few of the better-gear’d folks from U&C and formed my own guild, the Doja Dojo (was the name of my irl friend’s guild from Silkroad Online… if ya don’t know, don’t ask).
Sad truth is… I killed a 500-man guild. Granted, only about 50 players were 70s, the guild no longer exists simply because I left.
So, we’re starting all over, and I feel like it’s either the most ingenious things I’ve done since I turned 70, or the worst mistake I could have made. I keep going back and forth on that one, but one this is certain – I’m now responsible for an entire guild’s progression.
/deepbreath
So, we haven’t started raiding yet, since almost all of the members were the same folks from the old guild (plus a few new faces, thankfully). We may not be decked out in full T4 yet, but at least we’re able to handle some Heroics action enough to snag the badges we need in the meantime.
So, now I’m all sorts of confused…
In guild “downtime” (which occurs frequently cause no one is gear’d enough to raid except for me and maybe 4 others), I’ve been pugging whatever raid action I can find. Naturally, I come across others players in larger guilds looking to recruit me (or do a guild merger), but so far I’ve held fast and defended my puny little guild at every opportunity.
I guess the question is… should I maintain my ground with my guild, or follow through with a merger into a higher-end guild? I want my guild to see progression, and I feel we just don’t have the sheer manpower to turn things around before the “new” content (BC) becomes OLD content when WLK comes out.
Oh, dilemma… you have followed me far. Will you ever give up your relentless pursuit?
On an entirely unrelated – but contrastingly optimistic note – I finally got the badges I needed for [item]Bracers of the Ancient Phalanx[/item], so the pugging is going well (despite the headaches).
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If drama follows you like you say, I would stick with your own guild and build on people that you don't have drama with.
Run PuG kara's fill in the holes with unguilded folks and invite them to join if they prove to know their head from a hole in the ground.Posted 02-14-2008 at 01:48 PM by Nuberino 
- I read all your other posts, and I feel your pain, but I think you may be better off building your own guild unless you can step directly into a major leadership position because you don't sound like you would make a good peon/follower.
Posted 02-15-2008 at 01:07 PM by Thist
