Comments on: Monday Musings: There Are Squirrels in the Walls Edition

By: Blixa

Blixa — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 15:55:23 +0000

It’s weird being on somewhat of a ‘out of the woodwork’ posting rampage at the moment, but I’ll add another comment!
I must say I really like your posts where you deal with guild matters and give little snippets of insight as to how you do things within your guild. Sure, I came for the resto stuff (but let’s face it, there are SO many resto blogs out there, MANY of them brilliant) but what sets you and keeva apart (for me) are the posts where you do shed some light on guild leading and the way you do things.
I’d love to see some more posts with that focus if you’re up for it! I only suggest this because it seems many bloggers like some reader suggestions and that’s mine (not like you asked haha!) but yeah, you mentioning the nef trinket sort of reminded me about how much I love guild focused posts as we implemented the same rule for Nef awhile ago and were met with the exact same reaction… so nice to know that we’re not the only big-bad-nasty guild making people do those dailies!

Also, “awww” at the squirrels of course, but yeah, I can see how they would get annoying fast! We have a possum that frequents our front yard… early morning clicking and cute sounds get boring fast…

By: Poneria

Poneria — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 13:19:35 +0000

“As an aside, did you know that if you get two of them out together that they play Rock, Paper, Scissors?”

… MUST FIND SOMEONE ELSE ON US-ELUNE WITH THE HAND PET. (yes, I has one)

Personally, I’d like the bug mount, please & thank you. & then another rare for my title (currently? I’m 18/20).

By: Meliika

Meliika — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 22:09:07 +0000

Heroic Halfus! Any info on that would be awesome as we only just started into heroics and that’s our first target.

Also, real estates suck, that’s why I’m building my own house

By: Beruthiel

Beruthiel — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 21:10:53 +0000

The pun was TOTALLY intended! I’m so glad that someone picked up on it

By: Beruthiel

Beruthiel — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 21:10:23 +0000

This was actually something that we derived after one extremely horrible night of Heroic Conclave. The theory of it started based on a suggestion made by @perculia on twitter on her guild handles repeat kills (they assign an amount of time).

Basically what we did was set a rule that for any content that we have killed at least one time, the raid has 10 pulls in any subsequent visits to the encounter to kill it on heroic. If we do not kill it in those 10 pulls, we switch it back to normal, kill it on normal, and then move on to our next target.

I feel this does a few things. The most important of which is it takes a lot of the pressure of the raids success off of me as a leader, and empowers the raid to drive their own success. The raid knows that there is a limited amount of time that we will spend on a boss, and if they want to kill it it must be achieved in that amount of time. The decision on if it gets killed in normal mode or heroic mode rests solely in their hands.

Since we’ve implemented the rule, we’ve yet to fail getting a boss down, and we’ve yet to have another night like the conclave night from hell that spawned the rule. It’s also made me a lot more relaxed in raids – so I’d say that it’s been pretty successful so far!

By: Rholm

Rholm — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 21:02:59 +0000

Squirrels… that are driving you nuts.

By: Rohan

Rohan — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 20:38:10 +0000

Could you explain the 10 wipe rule? Do you drop down to normal mode if you hit 10 wipes?