Attendance & Burnout

[kandrathe]

A comment possibly for Tal, or you, or Darian or anyone willing to pull this together.

However the problem with Stormrage and doing this is that we are too big for it. If we say that Wednesdays will be 5 man and small raid nights we'll get groups together but I'll hate that initial time of "who goes where and how do we set up the groups". The organization of a group this large starts to take a fair bit of time. You can structure it more to make that eaiser but then it becomes "Well I need to get on to play this toon for this group" not "I'm gonna play some WoW and have some fun!" Too much scheduling of a game just gets to me. It also has a tendency to make core groups of people that have lots of times with "outsiders" of the people that don't have as much time. Not really something I want to see.

I've been responsible for some very large organizations, bigger than even our combined guilds. My opinion on this off raiding coordination is that you need to have everyone who wants to cooperatively work on alts or off-nite groups throw into the hat what toon, class, level, and objectives (<-- the Fun). Then, the leadership of this endeavor parses people up into reasonable 5-mans, 10-mans, 15-mans, etc and let's the individuals work out when they can coordinate together. If circumstances change they toss their toon back into the hat. The leadership doesn't have to be concerned about whether everyone/anyone shows up, and what the group does, it just gets the ball rolling. Once the group firms up when the "event" will happen, then it can be published (even with vacancies if for instance you have 12-13 for LBRS run). We can then even tap on the guild regulars to pitch in to say "help Gnolack get the Draconian deflector", or "Sayuri finish her UBRS key", or "Garrin get his epic mount".

Just a thought.