I raid lead a guild in Arathor EU. I found this article very interesting since I am always in the look out to help motivate my guild members to perform even better.
Unfortunately I too am one of the people that will scream and shout colorful comments to failing raiders. Its never my intention to do so at start, but eventually the stress becomes too much and that stress comes in many elements of the position. In the end RLs are only human as well. The problem starts that the RL is accountable for everything in the raid. If a member keeps wiping the raid its the RLs fault he isnt replaced.
First is the stress and accountability to fit 30-33 people in 25 slots. Who to leave out, who slacks occasionally what is the best set up for the boss. Then comes the part to monitoring their performance while raiding, watch out for the afkers, the DCers etc. And lastly the stress of getting the boss down with the minimal wipes. Each wipe needs to indicate what went wrong and why.
And I find that is the most difficult decision a RL has to make, determining the cause of the wipe. Was the wipe caused of members of the raid because they under performed ? or is it because of the RLs choice of the set up and/or the members responsibility for that fight. For me that is the hardest part of raid leading and the most stressful. The danger of accusing raid members for your failure.
I trully believe I feel everyone in my guild as a close friend, especially after all those hours we spend together. I will hapilly help anyone of them them out of raid hours. But when the times comes to lead the raid, you need to be objective and sometimes cruel to get the job done.
Lastly I would like to say that I would step down of RL in a heartbeat if there was someone that would be willing to do it and do it better than me. Sometimes it just too much and it ruins your own fun.
I play a mage in a PVE alliance server. While i know this will have some implication on our raiding warlocks, the truth is that in the end for PVE all this will do is effectively lower their dps in boss fights.
Is this so bad ? Our warlocks (and from looking around other guilds, in general warlocks) produce insane amounts of damage to the raid. Losing 30-40 second for a 8-10 min fights bandaging because of life tap will effectively lower they overall dps by 5-8%. They will still be in the top 3 or top 5 dps charts, but more inline with the rest of the dps classes.
As far as arena goes, I have no personal experience. But I see nothing wrong with them facing the same challenge that the rest of the mana based dps will face with the new water changes in terms of mana preservation.
In my view this has nerfed warlocks, but certainly not to the point of quiting.
Player vs. Everything: Raid leaders are jerks
Apr 16th 2008 7:15AM (Massively)Unfortunately I too am one of the people that will scream and shout colorful comments to failing raiders. Its never my intention to do so at start, but eventually the stress becomes too much and that stress comes in many elements of the position. In the end RLs are only human as well. The problem starts that the RL is accountable for everything in the raid. If a member keeps wiping the raid its the RLs fault he isnt replaced.
First is the stress and accountability to fit 30-33 people in 25 slots. Who to leave out, who slacks occasionally what is the best set up for the boss. Then comes the part to monitoring their performance while raiding, watch out for the afkers, the DCers etc. And lastly the stress of getting the boss down with the minimal wipes. Each wipe needs to indicate what went wrong and why.
And I find that is the most difficult decision a RL has to make, determining the cause of the wipe. Was the wipe caused of members of the raid because they under performed ? or is it because of the RLs choice of the set up and/or the members responsibility for that fight. For me that is the hardest part of raid leading and the most stressful. The danger of accusing raid members for your failure.
I trully believe I feel everyone in my guild as a close friend, especially after all those hours we spend together. I will hapilly help anyone of them them out of raid hours.
But when the times comes to lead the raid, you need to be objective and sometimes cruel to get the job done.
Lastly I would like to say that I would step down of RL in a heartbeat if there was someone that would be willing to do it and do it better than me. Sometimes it just too much and it ruins your own fun.
My 2 cents,
Kesai
Blood Pact: Locks tapped out
Feb 26th 2008 3:17AM (WoW)Is this so bad ? Our warlocks (and from looking around other guilds, in general warlocks) produce insane amounts of damage to the raid. Losing 30-40 second for a 8-10 min fights bandaging because of life tap will effectively lower they overall dps by 5-8%. They will still be in the top 3 or top 5 dps charts, but more inline with the rest of the dps classes.
As far as arena goes, I have no personal experience. But I see nothing wrong with them facing the same challenge that the rest of the mana based dps will face with the new water changes in terms of mana preservation.
In my view this has nerfed warlocks, but certainly not to the point of quiting.
Kesai