Have You /hug'd your raid leader today?
by Chris Miller 
Jan 8th 2007 at 12:45AM
Good raid leaders need to have a lot of tools in their tool basket. People skills, the ability to manage people and understand people is critical. Tactical skills, being able to study an encounter, look through a combat log and understand what went wrong, and being able to make the adjustments to complete an encounter more efficiently and more easily next time is critical. It's a political job, keeping groups happy and managing everyone's expectations. It requires time, effort, and a lot of knowledge. So give your raid leader a /hug.
Filed under: Raiding
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
SwiftBlue Jan 9th 2007 6:09AM
I did that. Twice.
mkl Jan 8th 2007 3:05AM
Some guild leaders have more tools available to them than others. And not necessarily in their tool basket.
rec Jan 8th 2007 3:19AM
i'd hug the raid leader if they actually knew how to do a specific raids and dont forget to Master Loot on bosses and then kick you for "ninjaing" items once they've told you to need everything :P
Brim Jan 8th 2007 5:33AM
TBH our raiding has dropped to zero with the last honor patch. Everyone is grinding for GM gear.
Tetelestia Jan 8th 2007 6:07AM
My guild hasn't raided in nearly a month due to the holidays and pending expansion.
paul Jan 8th 2007 7:28AM
"4. My guild hasn't raided in nearly a month due to the holidays and pending expansion."
this stupid pvp patch basically turned us into a pvp guild even thought everyone is spending their points now instead of saving them.
okjj Jan 8th 2007 11:04AM
"Some guild leaders have more tools available to them than others. And not necessarily in their tool basket."
As a raid leader, I, too, have been wondering - how do some of these guilds make it so far, so fast, in brand-new content?
Some raid boss encounters require an enormous amount of trial and error, money for repair bills and consumables, and, most importantly - TIME.
I can only think that 1) the raid leaders/team going into the encounter are just game geniuses who, after a few pulls, can figure everything out, or 2) that they have some sort of insider information...either from a friend who works at Blizzard (or they work at Blizzard themselves)...or...perhaps a private (illegal) server where they can give themselves uber-powers and go into a raid encounter on their own server and check it out that way.
Melf Jan 8th 2007 4:54PM
After getting back into AQ40 last week after being gone for the holidays, we improved on C'Thun, going from over 50% to 4% (Phase 1). You bet I hugged him :)
/hug paige Jan 8th 2007 6:31PM
6. "Some guild leaders have more tools available to them than others. And not necessarily in their tool basket."
As a raid leader, I, too, have been wondering - how do some of these guilds make it so far, so fast, in brand-new content?
Some raid boss encounters require an enormous amount of trial and error, money for repair bills and consumables, and, most importantly - TIME.
I can only think that 1) the raid leaders/team going into the encounter are just game geniuses who, after a few pulls, can figure everything out, or 2) that they have some sort of insider information...either from a friend who works at Blizzard (or they work at Blizzard themselves)...or...perhaps a private (illegal) server where they can give themselves uber-powers and go into a raid encounter on their own server and check it out that way.
Called Chemistry + Prep!!
When you have a raid full of people who have gotten to know each other well enough to know what to expect out of them then your going to progress through new content quite well. WoW Wiki ftw (and its legal)!! Kudos to raid leaders who can identify problems quick and work to fix them.
paul Jan 8th 2007 10:46PM
no. i cant stand him.