Its been a bit of an up and down week in case you haven’t noticed.  On the bonus side things are going well today.  I’ve gotten to vent a bit.  I’ve got a new way of writing stuff occassionally.  Its a great medium for me to kind of express myself without having to drag specific people to the forefront.  I’m extremely happy with that.

Then.. of course there was Tuesday.  Tuesday was one of those days where we were testing something new… and…. it fell on its face when three people had to cancel on the raid in the last moment.  Which threw my plans kind of out in the weeds.  You see this was the first week we were attempting a raid lockout extension. Read the rest of this entry »

Now honestly I have no idea what percentage of my readers are even on Whisperwind.  I don’t know what percentage of people even care, but as with all people in my position occassionally you just have to suck it up and throw things out there.  I’m an introvert… so be gentle

My new guild isn’t terribly big, but honestly the heart is there and the desire to build something truly great is there.  Read the rest of this entry »

Well if you’re going to build a raid program at some point you have to deal with the biggest drama llama of them all.  Loot.  Why?  Well in theory you’re going to go beat down the bad man and take all his stuff right???  Besides if you’re going to raid, you’re going to get loot.  Which means you need a consistent method of dealing with Loot. Read the rest of this entry »

I’m going to make an open statement here to be clear.  I am not… nor will I ever actively be recruiting from my old guild.  I almost feel like a  carbon copy of Matticus in the wake of him breaking off to form his new guild.  Given the activities of the last week I just wanted to throw that out there, but to be fair to those who are asking me a million questions I’ll go on record here as trying to highlight the new guild.  Given the horde of questions I got pelted with last night I hijacked what this post was supposed to be about for today.

There are both advantages and disadvantages to forming up with a new guild.  The advantage is that in many respects you approach it with a new mind set.  You lose a lot of baggage, and new ideals are formed.  Yes… over time those transform.  They’ll get diluted or grow as the guild grows, but when something is born anew, we face it with some ideals which shape the core of a guild.  The disadvantage is of course that you’re throwing yourself out there kind of in the wind.  You’re taking a leap of faith that might very well bite you in the ass. Read the rest of this entry »