Pre-WotLK depression – is it only our realm?
It’s just a few more weeks until the expac hits us with all the new fun, and I’m really looking forward to the new stuff coming. However, as of now, there’s nothing going on. It’s dead. Our small guild I’d love to expand some more, but right now everyone’s just twinking or getting some rep, or farming honor. Seriously so, we have members that are in the battlegrounds all day and aren’t gonna help out for a normal instance run to farm that rep for others.
One guy doesn’t even log in anymore. Because “there’s no valid reason, he only wants to go to Karazhan or farm his rep”. Well, how great is that?
We don’t have a real guild master, we’re a bunch of equally leading guys, but I kind of took the role, just because I wanted to get raiding going. I wanted to recruit. To expand. To improve. But how am I supposed to pull this off all on my own?
Recruiting new members now is harder than ever. And they aren’t gonna stay when they see the current situation, are they? We were that close, already had done 2 Karazhan raids, the randoms liked it and we even got two of them recruited. But now – all gone. I wonder if it’d be better to just accept that, random-run Kara & ZA as often as possible and then do all the guild-expanding thingy with WotLK, and the very help of my fellow guildies? I’m new to guild managment and it’s hard work – all help is appreciated!
It’s depressing, really. And I resigned to just leveling a shaman, too.
I hope 3.0 brings new energy and will bring some enough motivation to really boost the last couple weeks before we’ll all get into the leveling game again.
I’m in kinda the same situation. Leading a died out guild, with only a few members online. Some dedicated to pvp, some leveling alts etc.
The guild was thrown in my lap during summer when the old gm quit wow.
The problem with our guild during kara was too much casuality. As in people not showing up for raids (on wich they had agreed to come) amongst others. Pugging became rule in stead of exception, even to the point of lf1m daily heroic.
The progression and regular raids stopped long before the old gm left.
For WotLK i’m more excited, and plan on raiding a bit more regular, and a bit less casual.
Recruiting will come when we hit 80 and we are (getting) geared for Naxx.
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Just found your site and have been reading a couple of posts. Good stuff here. My guild and my server are all but dead. Late night pugs seem to be happening. you can bet that about the time I have to log out and get some sleep there will be a trade chat post for a tank. Last week atleast I could tank the beer boss for an hour or so. Once we got a group and did everyones alt we did about 10 to 15 attempts. We got 8 in a group for Kara Sunday night but could not get another healer or ranged DPS. I even went as far to get Warhammer but tha seems to be just like levelign a WoW toon so far. /bored
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Talldar Reply:
October 7th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
What I heard from fellow WoWers who also tried it is that Warhammer pretty much is only a change for the better from a PvP point of view (it seems to be far superior to WoW there), therefore: Nothing I’ll get into. Also, it doesn’t come for Mac :)
Lucky you with a realm that active :)
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I was the GM of my guild for the good half of 2008 from about February to about June/July. We were a guild just breaking into T5 content, I got sick of how casual my members were so I just threw in the towel because I was getting sick of trying to get my members to show up for things! However, I left the guild in the hands of a good friend and went on a two week hiatus. I rejoined there after and we completely cleansed the guild. We took back some of the diamonds in the rough and now we’re just waiting it out until WotLK and looking for those last couple of spots for ten man content.
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It’s rough recruiting these days. I’m in a 7/9 BT guild atm, and we haven’t had an app in over a month (normally get 5-6). Just sit tight until LK. But, then DON’T advertise in trade channel if you want to raid. Only do that if you want a casual guild. I’ve done that before too. All my RL buddies from our old casual guild went our separate ways to raid until ending back up in our current raiding guild that’s going strong. Advert in the official wow forums, be specific what you are and what you’re looking for. Say, “If you are willing to bring consumables, be on time, and show for every raid, please app” You’ll still get slackers, but much less than trade channel recruiting. GL!
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