Legion of Boom New Casual Casual Raiding group

[Moorea]

Wed 8pm came and went and nobody really showed up ;-) Thanks a lot Syrr for trying to setup something but with only 3 guildies it didn't go far...

We need to do stuff ! Let's start ez with naxx, os, ... maybe ?

Let's try again this weekend ?

[Svpernova09]

Wed 8pm came and went and nobody really showed up ;-) Thanks a lot Syrr for trying to setup something but with only 3 guildies it didn't go far...

We need to do stuff ! Let's start ez with naxx, os, ... maybe ?

Let's try again this weekend ?

/speaking 100% from experience of starting / maintaining DiT

Getting a group started is hard as fuck. What worked for us in the past is talk to everyone we know and talk up the group. Madoran was such a shitty server DiT was Toraneko and Myself, + 6-8 transfers when we first started. So post about the group here, talk about it in game. A lot. nearly to the point people tell you to stfu. If someone just can't make the raid times, not a lot you can do about that so no need to harp on people.

Other things that DiT learned

• Leadership. You *must* have a solid leader (or in DiT's case, a scapebear) to make the tough / PITA decisions. You don't have to be a superhero, you just have to be able to herd cats. Don't be afraid to depend on other people. If it wasn't for my ability to go talk to Toraneko, Fenril, or Vecter about the raid group, I would have nerdrage quit a long time ago.
• Recruit if you have to. Guild tags are meaningless. We *never* required anyone that raided with us to be in guild.
• Don't be scared to pug, LOTS of people have alts and they all want gear. We found Kawasa by pugging.
• If you build it, they will come: get into a routine. No matter WHO or how many show up, go do SOMETHING!
• A fair loot system and a team of friends makes loot not matter. DiT on Madoran used a loot council, which was primarily who Toraneko and I thought the loot should go to. Here on Kil'Jaeden we use /roll MS>OS and we still don't have loot issues because Toraneko / Kaulan / Myself all know what we're after and everyone else is very quick to pass an item to the next person.
• Roll with the punches, shit happens, don't let it get ya down.
• Do stuff outside of the group, with the group members, this is purely relationship building. The more you interact with your team outside the raid environment, the better you'll perform together IN the raid environment.

If only 3 people showed up, it's disheartening, but it happens. That's when you should hit the trade channel. Most of LoB has a very bad habit of not wanting to do anything until whatever raid group is 10 seconds before the first pull and then people are like "Do you have room for 1 more?!" Just work around it. If you need me to bump you to a recruiter position so you can update the gmotd, I can do that. But you shouldn't think you are limited to just the guild. I'm the absolute worst at pugging, but I'll do it. Just make sure you advertise your loot rules up front.

If you need any help or any suggestions please talk to me or anyone else in DiT. We've been through the pains and you shouldn't have to go through them too :_D

[Fiddlesticks]

Let's try again this weekend ?

Not to be harsh, but calling it "the not good enough to join DiT raid group" probably isn't going to win over any volunteers.