Comments on: Changing and Growing as a Team

By: Rioriel (@Rioriel)

Rioriel (@Rioriel) — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 08:22:47 +0000

Just as I start to drag my heels and feel a bit of a wane in the love for my guild / progress, this is a lovely nudge back to positivity. Dusted off a couple of un(der)used 85s and been healing my little tauren bum off in lots of retro content to get the love back.

Thanks for the motivation!

By: The Renaissance Man

The Renaissance Man — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 10:33:38 +0000

Getting a group that logs on on time, and doesn’t dawdle between wipes is half the work towards reforming wayward raiders.

By: Ophelie

Ophelie — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 05:52:05 +0000

It happened surprisingly fast. I probably would have gotten discouraged early, but our raid leader is good cheerleader. I also didn’t have to do too much. I whined a lot and made some suggestions, and the rest of the team took it from there.

Thank you! I hope it keeps up as well!

I have been considering applying for membership (after all, it’s weird to be committed to a guild I’m not really a member of), so the guild is going to meet and decide what to do with the membership process given our current situation.

By: Ophelie

Ophelie — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 05:47:49 +0000

Thanks!

I love reading about guild relations too. The posts in my RSS feed that catch my attention are always the ones about guilds and raid teams. I call it internet-anthropology (perhaps cyberanthropology would be a more appropriate term, but it doesn’t sound right) .

By: Ophelie

Ophelie — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 05:45:44 +0000

Hmm, by being held back by confidence, do you mean that your guildies think they don’t have the skill to play better?

If the confidence is the main issue, you’ve got stuff you can work with! As long as your guildies are motivated, you can do a lot.

Our confidence booster was going back to BWL and BoT over two nights and ROCKING the place. The fights have been tuned so that they’re fairly easy to beat but that you still need to focus on what you’re doing. It’s fantastic for morale.

It helps when you point out what the team is doing right (example: everyone showing up on time, getting faster at trash, etc.) and celebrate your victories.

Another trick is, when things go bad, to point out the WHY they went bad. If your guildies attribute every screw up with “we just don’t have what it takes”, they’ll get discouraged fast. If you’re able to point out that “we couldn’t get boss X down because we weren’t communicating enough. Let’s have person Y say z….”, they’ll see that the problem *is* fixable.

Anyway, best of your luck to you and your raid team!

By: Ophelie

Ophelie — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 05:29:56 +0000

Aww, I think you give me too much credit.

I *was* lucky to find myself among friends who liked working together and who are good at working together. I don’t think I played an overly large part in it. I complained a lot and made a few suggestions of concrete actions we could do, but the actual implementation, that’s all our raid leader and the raiders who wanted more out of their raids.

…I’m really glad my raid leader doesn’t read my blog. I think he’d be creeped out by how much I talk about him.

By: dragonray

dragonray — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 05:05:30 +0000

You have inspired me to attempt a similar thing in my current guild – I can’t guarantee the wonderful success you are having now!!! But I wanted you to know that you have once again inspired someone into action with your excellent posts!!

Here’s to you guys killing more bosses every week!

By: The Ready Check » Blog Archive » Sniping and Overhealing

The Ready Check » Blog Archive » Sniping and Overhealing — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 03:33:19 +0000

[...] blog, much less reads it regularly, save two or three dear souls. Ophelie of The Bossy Pally put up a great post this week that touched lightly on some guild relations of her own, and was very open about her [...]

By: Ophelie

Ophelie — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 21:57:40 +0000

Hehehe, I don’t deserve credit for that. It was a group effort. Nothing could have changed had the majority of our team not been so motivated.

I love the image you used there! It fits soo well.

By: Ophelie

Ophelie — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 21:55:52 +0000

The cyclic thing is what I’m worried about. I know that we’ll have roster and recruitment problems in the future and I’m ok with that, but I’m afraid that we’ll lose the momentum we’ve been starting to build.

I’ve got my fingers crossed that we won’t.