"I'd far rather be happy than right any day." Slartibartfast from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Whose strategies you use to kill a boss isn't important. The kill is important because it's what's going to make the raid happy. My adaption of this regarding being a raid leader and a leader in general for that matter is the following.

"A true leader would rather be victorious than glorious."

It's so funny though how I find in WoW...

We'd been working on an encounter for a couple weeks and seen significant progress with a number of close kills in last night of attempts. Everyone knew that we by all rights should kill the boss tonight and turns out we did.

Unfortunately... we 1 shotted it.

Come again?

Yup. Unfortunately.

As a result, we got derailed and annihilated by everyone being entirely too overconfident. After all we'd just downed a tough boss for us, how could...

I've often said that I play this game for the people. It always comes up though when we are talking about progression and loot though.

And I've come to realize that's because that's all their is to the game.

1. People
- who you play with

2. Progression
- the content you get to see

3. Loot
- how you get to develop your character

Every individual has values as to how much each of those 3 things matters...

As a raid leader, officer, GM, etc basically anyone in a position of power it's inevitable that you'll have to deliver bad news. This is something that I touched on before in one of my previous posts on the old blogging platform, but it's not the whole story and the point here.

The rule:
Speak Bad News. Type Good News.

The written word is permanent. It makes a lasting impression. It can be revisited again and again and continue to have impact weeks, months and...