As briefly outlined in my last post, my guild has been down in the dumps lately. Last week was terrible, as we struggled to fill our raids. Come the end of our 2nd night of raiding we still had 2 keepers up. It was very demoralizing to take such a huge step backwards. We had a bunch of emo convulsions from some less patient people and had a couple of people lay down an ultimatim to the leadership. Fix it, or we are gone.
To be fair, these people had a point. I think we had gotten far too lax about dealing with the problem as it was developing. When people started not showing, we kind of shrugged our shoulders and figured they would be back soon. This was a mistake. We should have aggressively recruited replacements. Well, after the disaster that was last week we did just that. We managed to pull 5 new recruits in to fill the gaps in our roster. We got some of them in for the final night of raiding last week and cleared the rest of the instance up to Yogg. Things were starting to look up a bit. But even that did not prepare me for last night.
Walking into a fresh raid week we immediatly filled up and had 2 people on standby. Already that is a great sign. For the last month we were usually starting FL with 20 people or so, and scrambling to find some friends or trusted PUG people to plug in. I also did not have to heal and was finally able to spend an entire raid night as elemental. Not that I mind healing, I just get tired of gearing one spec as my main, but constantly having to do another job. As we begin clearing the instance, you can just feel the difference a reinvigorated raid and leadership can make. Suddenly, we are one shotting every boss without issues, and chain pulling trash to the next boss while loot is being handled.
When we got to Kologarn and had 6 people doing over 6k DPS and the entire rest of the DPS around 5K or above, everyone started noticing that tonight was finally different. We cleared out all 4 keepers easily, and it was about 20 minutes until our normal stop time. So our initial discussion was if we should just call it there, or head back and clean out an optional like Razorscale since we had a bit of leftover time. We had never gotten all 4 keepers down on night 1, so we were already ahead of our normal pace. Our MT threw down the gauntlet and insisted we go for general. Some people were a bit nervous, as his trash sucks, and by the time we were going to be pulling him we would need to get him down in the first 2 or 3 attempts. Finally we decided if we were ever going to push Yogg seriously, this was the week to make it happen. General went down easily.
The point of this story is that if you have a solid core of people dedicated to the guild, you can turn it around very quickly as long as leadership makes an effort to fix the issues. I was seriously afraid this week might break our guild, but instead now we are looking at a full 2 nights to finally get Yogg down, rather than our regular hour or so. This guild has done great things on a short raid schedule in the past, such as downed Archimonde and went deep into BT before the nerfs. Last night I felt like we were back and having a great time again.
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