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Every Monday Scott Andrews contributes Officers' Quarters (http://www.wow.com/category/officers-quarters/), a column about the ins and outs of guild leadership.
"Normal" mode sounds so dull, doesn't it? Who would want to be "Normal" when you can be "Heroic" -- particularly when being Heroic garners better loot and, for healers specifically, a chance at the ultimate healing mace, Val'anyr (http://www.wow.com/2009/05/11/officers-quarters-fragmentation/). Most guilds on my server prefer the larger raids, and who can blame them? Normal mode is often seen as a fun distraction. Something for raiders to pass the time with, or gear up their alts in, when their guild isn't tackling the "real" version of the instance.
Sometimes Normal mode is easier. There's no question that fights like Vezax are much less complicated when you're only dealing with 10 players. It's certainly nice not having to worry about switching tanks on Kologarn or interrupting Auriaya's Sentinel Blast. But sometimes Normal is not easier. The margin of error is a lot thinner when one death means you've lost half your tanks, a half or a third of your healers, or 15-20% of your DPS. And it could be that your raid doesn't have a single battle rez, let alone three or four. Maybe that's why players prefer Heroic raids: Unless you're going after the more difficult hard-mode encounters, it's not the end of the world when you screw up and die.
This week, one guild leader asks, when most serious raiders only want to run Heroic raids, how can someone recruit for a Normal raiding guild?
Hi Scott,
I'm the GM of a reasonably-successful 10-man raiding guild (we're ranked in the top 90 US guilds according to GuildOx's "Strict 10-man (http://www.guildox.com/go/g.asp?w=US&a=4)" filter). Like many other guilds, we're seeing a decline in attendance lately (as per your most recent column, "Surviving summer (http://www.wow.com/2009/06/08/officers-quarters-surviving-summer/)"), and it's become obvious that we need to recruit 4-5 more people of various classes/specs so we can reliably run our scheduled raids without depending on 100% perfect attendance from anyone.Continue reading Officers' Quarters: Normal raiders are people, too (http://www.wow.com/2009/06/15/officers-quarters-normal-raiders-are-people-too/)
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Every Monday Scott Andrews contributes Officers' Quarters (http://www.wow.com/category/officers-quarters/), a column about the ins and outs of guild leadership.
"Normal" mode sounds so dull, doesn't it? Who would want to be "Normal" when you can be "Heroic" -- particularly when being Heroic garners better loot and, for healers specifically, a chance at the ultimate healing mace, Val'anyr (http://www.wow.com/2009/05/11/officers-quarters-fragmentation/). Most guilds on my server prefer the larger raids, and who can blame them? Normal mode is often seen as a fun distraction. Something for raiders to pass the time with, or gear up their alts in, when their guild isn't tackling the "real" version of the instance.
Sometimes Normal mode is easier. There's no question that fights like Vezax are much less complicated when you're only dealing with 10 players. It's certainly nice not having to worry about switching tanks on Kologarn or interrupting Auriaya's Sentinel Blast. But sometimes Normal is not easier. The margin of error is a lot thinner when one death means you've lost half your tanks, a half or a third of your healers, or 15-20% of your DPS. And it could be that your raid doesn't have a single battle rez, let alone three or four. Maybe that's why players prefer Heroic raids: Unless you're going after the more difficult hard-mode encounters, it's not the end of the world when you screw up and die.
This week, one guild leader asks, when most serious raiders only want to run Heroic raids, how can someone recruit for a Normal raiding guild?
Hi Scott,
I'm the GM of a reasonably-successful 10-man raiding guild (we're ranked in the top 90 US guilds according to GuildOx's "Strict 10-man (http://www.guildox.com/go/g.asp?w=US&a=4)" filter). Like many other guilds, we're seeing a decline in attendance lately (as per your most recent column, "Surviving summer (http://www.wow.com/2009/06/08/officers-quarters-surviving-summer/)"), and it's become obvious that we need to recruit 4-5 more people of various classes/specs so we can reliably run our scheduled raids without depending on 100% perfect attendance from anyone.Continue reading Officers' Quarters: Normal raiders are people, too (http://www.wow.com/2009/06/15/officers-quarters-normal-raiders-are-people-too/)
Filed under: (Guild Leadership) Officers' Quarters (http://www.wow.com/category/officers-quarters/)
Officers' Quarters: Normal raiders are people, too (http://www.wow.com/2009/06/15/officers-quarters-normal-raiders-are-people-too/) originally appeared on WoW.com (http://www.wow.com) on Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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