04-28-2006, 03:03 AM
Treesh,Apr 27 2006, 07:06 PM Wrote:Well, Lost Souls has splintered. Draconic Vendetta has now joined a raiding guild so it looks like we are back on our own. So, we need to discuss "what now?" again. Do we see if KotD wants to tackle Molten Core the same way they've done ZG? Do we just want to keep things as is, with those lurkers who are able to make the KotD raids just keep making the runs with KotD?
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I've had quite a bit of correspondence with Mordekhuul about us. They are slowly growing their guild carefully, taking on people who've raided with them for a while and shown they are good.
This is what he had to say:
Mordekhuul Wrote:We are potentially adding 2-5 to our guild soon from folks that have raided ZG with us. We only add to the guild if we have gotten to know someone, and the raids have been a great way to get to know some folks.
Once we are large enough to field the core portion of a 40-man, we will begin considering potential nights for MC. Either replacing a 20-man night for it or dropping a 20-man for a 40-man night (Fridays for instance).
He told me earlier they were strongly considering Friday nights since that is when most of us are most available.
As far as our plans, in some ways I am relieved. I liked a lot of the LS/DV folks but it was too hard to get them to organize in a manner sufficiently to work well. Plus, they were randomly inviting lots of people (some of whom are not ready) and causing us to lose spots.
I believe that if we want to lead 20 man raids, we could do it like the Keepers do. We run it and PUG out what we're missing. Then we gradually accumulate enough people to come regularly, filling in missing slots as we do so. Then we are fully in charge and won't be left feeling like we do all the work in a lopsided alliance. We'll be doing all the work, but at least it won't have this illusion of equals in it so we can make decisions how we want to do things.
Second option is to again look for an allied guild. This time pick one with their own active website to ensure we can communicate out of game.
For myself personally, I am still enjoying our own Lurkers UBRS/Strat/Scholo/BRD/DM runs. We have a lot of work to do for people getting Dungeon 2, and some up and comers still needing basic blue gear. The last couple times we've taken along a single person outside the guild. It has been a lot of fun to show them how it's done, give them some coaching, and watch their jaws drop as we mow through everything efficiently and then beg us to join the guild :P
Whatever people want to do I'm happy (hehe I'm getting a Benediction I'll be happy for a while). I'll start running with the Keepers as regularly as possible and hope for a MC opportunity with them, and I'll keep pumping up the Lurkers to give people more chances (in particular I'd like to see Jandrey get some opportunities to help tank for them on Saturdays as I know he misses out on a lot of stuff we do). I've still got plenty of alt interest, and between those two it will probably carry me to the expansion if we don't get something else going.