Comments on: Beru’s Survival Guide For Preparing Your Guild For An Expansion http://fallingleavesandwings.wordpress.com/2010/10/28/berus-survival-guide-for-preparing-your-guild-for-an-expansion/ My Thoughts on Healing, Raiding, and being a Resto Druid Fri, 10 May 2013 16:04:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: New Horizons « An Absolutely Ordinary Priest http://fallingleavesandwings.wordpress.com/2010/10/28/berus-survival-guide-for-preparing-your-guild-for-an-expansion/#comment-2548 Sun, 31 Oct 2010 23:54:06 +0000 http://fallingleavesandwings.wordpress.com/2010/10/28/berus-survival-guide-for-preparing-your-guild-for-an-expansion/#comment-2548 [...] it’s time to start thinking about what I want to do in Cata. Unlike Beru’s more serious guild planning for Cata, this guild won’t be asking anyone to declare a main this year (or ever). So I guess [...]

]]> By: 25 Kingslayers « The Mediocre Priest http://fallingleavesandwings.wordpress.com/2010/10/28/berus-survival-guide-for-preparing-your-guild-for-an-expansion/#comment-2545 Sat, 30 Oct 2010 15:19:19 +0000 http://fallingleavesandwings.wordpress.com/2010/10/28/berus-survival-guide-for-preparing-your-guild-for-an-expansion/#comment-2545 [...] go back to being effectively a group of smaller communities, and this will make us lose something. Beru posted a great collection of ideas about preparing your guild for Cataclysm, and while we are certainly nowhere close to [...]

]]> By: Beruthiel: How To Prepare Your Guild For Cataclysm | MMO Melting Pot http://fallingleavesandwings.wordpress.com/2010/10/28/berus-survival-guide-for-preparing-your-guild-for-an-expansion/#comment-2541 Fri, 29 Oct 2010 21:02:09 +0000 http://fallingleavesandwings.wordpress.com/2010/10/28/berus-survival-guide-for-preparing-your-guild-for-an-expansion/#comment-2541 [...] arrives, and Cataclysm’s changes are going to shake things up for guilds more than before. So Beruthiel’s survival guide on preparing your guild for Cataclysm couldn’t have come at a better [...]

]]> By: Rebecca http://fallingleavesandwings.wordpress.com/2010/10/28/berus-survival-guide-for-preparing-your-guild-for-an-expansion/#comment-2537 Fri, 29 Oct 2010 13:47:54 +0000 http://fallingleavesandwings.wordpress.com/2010/10/28/berus-survival-guide-for-preparing-your-guild-for-an-expansion/#comment-2537 Excellent post, Beru – and great timing too. I think the only thing I’d add is that, if your guild is small enough, talking to each person individually and getting an eye for their preferences/plans (while being clear that nothing’s set in stone yet for the guild) is a good idea before stating goals/timelines. It ensures that when the guild leadership is laying the sorts of plans you’re talking about, you’ve already got a feel for how the guild is at the moment.

This is particularly useful for guilds who’ve taken a pre-Cata break. And, seperately, for guilds who might have raid members currently not within the guild, as come Cata it’s going to be useful to have as many people guilded as possible and this may impact plans for both the guild and some of those hitherto external/non-guilded players.

]]> By: Saga http://fallingleavesandwings.wordpress.com/2010/10/28/berus-survival-guide-for-preparing-your-guild-for-an-expansion/#comment-2528 Thu, 28 Oct 2010 22:45:10 +0000 http://fallingleavesandwings.wordpress.com/2010/10/28/berus-survival-guide-for-preparing-your-guild-for-an-expansion/#comment-2528 Really nice guide.

In my guild I find most people way too silent, while I’d like to sit down and discuss and plan. I’m a planner by nature and this silence is killing me, but every time I bring it up the only answer I get it “let’s wait and see”.. it’s driving me nuts. I don’t want to wait and see, I want to plan and try to have things sorted beforehand.

]]> By: Oestrus http://fallingleavesandwings.wordpress.com/2010/10/28/berus-survival-guide-for-preparing-your-guild-for-an-expansion/#comment-2527 Thu, 28 Oct 2010 19:49:37 +0000 http://fallingleavesandwings.wordpress.com/2010/10/28/berus-survival-guide-for-preparing-your-guild-for-an-expansion/#comment-2527 I think it’s really important to have a lot of these things fleshed out, well in advance.

I’m seeing a good number of guilds (my previous one, included) that still have yet to identify these things. There is no timeframe for hitting 85, there is no clear idea of what they’re recruiting for, nobody is discussing re-rolling or main changes – everyone is being really eerily silent. It’s like they’re hoping if nobody talks about it, it will go away or sort of itself out.

Now, maybe I’m way too type A, but I would wanna know what’s happening. I wouldn’t be content with last minute preparations and having to make my decisions on the fly, to be in lieu with my guild’s. I was really pleased that Kurn had this stuff thought out well in advance and the organization was really there.

Great guide, by the way, Beru.
:)

]]> By: Jen http://fallingleavesandwings.wordpress.com/2010/10/28/berus-survival-guide-for-preparing-your-guild-for-an-expansion/#comment-2526 Thu, 28 Oct 2010 18:51:04 +0000 http://fallingleavesandwings.wordpress.com/2010/10/28/berus-survival-guide-for-preparing-your-guild-for-an-expansion/#comment-2526 Interesting plans, I’ll have to write a few of the points down to discuss with the other officers.

My guild is smaller (probably 30 players in total, 10 man raiding) so we won’t do very much official Cataclysm planning. We’ll probably just post our goals (pretty similar to yours, but no deadlines) and ask people what they think.

The one thing we’re unlikely to do is make them choose mains before Cataclysm. I understand why a 25-man guild might need to do that, but to me it doesn’t make much sense, since the classes are balanced for lvl 85, so no one actually knows what the class will feel at level cap. What we plan to do is get an idea about what role they want to play – tank or healer etc. I have a feeling we’ll end up with 5 healers and 1 tank… but we don’t want to tell anyone what to play, so I just hope things will naturally settle :)

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