It's good to see people discussing the development of this guild. We have tried different things over the last year and a half to help promote growth in both the guild ranks and progression. The bottom line has always come down to being able to keep the dedicated people around while weeding out those that are in the guild to gear up and leave. We have learned a lot from this process (when I say we, I am speaking about the officers that have had these discussions)
There are a few things we still need to work on. Dedication being the top one on my list.
How do we get our people to become more dedicated? First off, we need to understand our current progression and what it took to get here. We are a T4 guild which can muster enough people to run 3 kara groups each week, down Gruul, and Mag. From what I hear from people in the guild they would love to be doing more! Which brings us to the reason we added Class Leaders and an EPGP system. (both of which were not required nor desired prior)
EPGP and Class leaders were brought into the guild to assist us in progressing into more 25 man content. We realized we have a core group of around 15 to 19 solid players, but those players are not available to raid every time we put one together. In reality we require around 35 to 45 solid players to allow for people to do things in real life, or find 25 HARDCORE players and raid all we want. Getting 25 hardcore players will never be a reality so we started pushing to develop those players we have and recruit some more talent . We raised our gear/level requirements to 70 and geared for kara and have been steadily increasing our ranks to support the new goals. I believe we are growing at an acceptable rate. I still have not really stated why we went with EPGP and class leaders though so I will now: Class Leaders are responsible for their class. To ensure everyone meets the gear/spec/skill/dedication requirements prior to and after achieveng raid status. Yes, you can lose raider status even after you have achieved it. EPGP is a fair system which rewards those that attend raids and in turn gears up the people that show up and suppport the guild progression. It could never have been used if we had no quality control of raiders because we would have people showing up and not being allowed in a raid due to gear. So once again, falling back to the need for class leaders.
There have been a lot of changes in the last few weeks. I know from experience that it takes time for change to settle in and most people are naturally opposed to any change at all. That is why I try to implement things slowly and get people involved. We tested EPGP for around 3 weeks and spoke to people about it in vent and limited in /g chat. (I hate typing things more than once)
We still need to get the download location on the forums, but you can view your status on the guild tab with or without the actual Mod.
As we approach the expansion there has been a slight slow down in guild activity in regards to progression. I have seen the guild schedule change from day-to-day and have requested the Guild officers to lock it back down so people can rely on it. (That is in fact one thing I am putting a lot of effort into atm) So expect to see Gruul once a week, kara and ZA a few times a week. And the possibility of some sort of T5 stuff in the next week or so.
I hope I have shed a little light on some of the areas of concern from the Past - Present - and Future for all of us to think about. Hellbound has come a long way and will do well in the future. We just have to keep our goals in front of us and be prepared to work as a group to reach them!
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