Running a Large Guild

[Sam DeathWalker]

I got what I want from the guild aready (bank is closed and only used by me, but I do give officers the guild repair thing) and the perks.

Still Im not going to sit and do nothing, a guild that raids by pugs? What is that. What do real guilds do for organizaed raids?

Im not going to get involved in all the problems myself but I want to appoint some raid leaders and let them handle that, but what addons or software do the real guilds use to set up raids? And dont guilds have a forum for discussions? We had one in Hate (EQ) when I was a member for a short time.

[Apps]

I got what I want from the guild aready (bank is closed and only used by me, but I do give officers the guild repair thing) and the perks.

Still Im not going to sit and do nothing, a guild that raids by pugs? What is that. What do real guilds do for organizaed raids?

Im not going to get involved in all the problems myself but I want to appoint some raid leaders and let them handle that, but what addons or software do the real guilds use to set up raids? And dont guilds have a forum for discussions? We had one in Hate (EQ) when I was a member for a short time.

Seriously, I think you are making a mistake.

Yet, Ill answer your question.

Hard Core Raiding guilds...Use

DBM Addon
Threat meter Addon (like OMEN)
DPS Meter Addon (like Recount)
Magic alert Addons (like Decursive)
Healing target to target Addon (like Voodoo)
Gear management Addon (like WebDKP) - You may or may not choose to use the actual point system, to reward loyalty to the guild and raid on time prepairedness, however, this is entirely up to you... only the top 5 guilds on servers actually employ this portion of the addon. Most use it to track gear, and whos getting what only.

Use the ingame guild calendar to schedule raids and raid invites.

Dont rely on a guild webiste for communication, people quit doing that 2 yrs ago. You are ingame, communicate there. Important stuff goes in guild calendar, or guild notes.

Schedule weekly or bi-weekly meetings with your officers to ensure there is steady progression.
Perhaps assign general glass leaders.. I.e. a Tank Leader, who is most knowledgable about druids, pallies, DKs, warriors, etc... and has tanked most every boss in the game, knows all strats from tanking perspective.

You will want to also assign someone to handle the Raid consumables. Usually the Raid leader will appoint this person.. (I.e. someone to ensure they have mats for flasks, enchants, gems, access to Epic BoE patterns or items from guild ban
k etc..)


Regressing... you really are fine with the PuG situation right now. Honestly, it IS better for your healers to LEARN their tanks, and vise versa... However, now a days, Blizzard has almost removed the full MMO interaction from the game, so you can just pick up a few PuGs and continue to roll over stuff.