The guild I’m in, Axis, killed Blood Princes 10 last night. Last week, we got Putricide (I missed that one, had real-life stuff intercept me). We only raid once a [ more...]
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March 5th, 2010 | 7 comments |
 From: Raid leadership in general |  Tags: blood princes, leadership, raid, strategy When you are briefing a raid team on a fight they have not seen before, or one which they’re not very familiar, you shouldn’t be too wordy. Before the first pull I [ more...] This endeavour is to make a film about raiding. Below is an HD promotional video made, featuring Darksend from Tankspot, and others. You can pledge a few dollars to help get [ more...] Blood Legion, on their Lich King kill announcement, said: We’d like to mention that this kill wouldn’t have been possible without the near-zero latency voice chat of a newly-discovered Ventrillo alternative [ more...] February 7th, 2010 | 8 comments |
From: Observe, orient, decide, act | Tags: leadership, raid, teamspeak, ventrilo, voice The Dunning-Kruger effect. This is a remarkable theoretical and proven phenomena. I didn’t know they’d proven it: is a cognitive bias in which people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices but their incompetence [ more...] February 7th, 2010 | 3 comments |
From: Raid leadership in general | Tags: intelligence, leadership, personality, theory Instead of writing my own guide, I’ll compile references to those already written. I have an index of the guides from those sites most people use, plus have tried to include [ more...] January 20th, 2010 | 4 comments |
From: Boss strategies, Raid and 5-man guides | Tags: blood princes, deathwhisper, festergut, gunship, icc, icecrown citadel, lana'thel, lich king, marrowgar, putricide, rotface, saurfang, sindragosa, valithria I read a number of blogs. You can download a file containing them all from my sidebar, which can import to Google Reader. I sometimes read on the train, or [ more...] January 5th, 2010 | 3 comments |
From: Boss strategies, Gear and stats, General chat | Tags: boss, gear list, Guild management, other bloggers, pick order, strategies, tank I’m in a discussion about world of logs at the moment. Forum writer ‘opdk’ started some analysis between frost and blood tanks, using WoL, with some side-by-side data he had. [ more...] January 4th, 2010 | 16 comments |
From: Addons, Analysis | Tags: absorbs, acclimation, Analysis, wol, world of logs Yesterdays post asking ‘whether DKs are being benched’ appears to have two root causes: tank class mechanics which make a given tank the preference on certain categories of encounter November 19th, 2009 | 13 comments |
From: Cataclysm, Raid leadership in general | Tags: Cataclysm, mmorpg design, raid, tank A little while ago, wow.com published a touching story about a couple who found each other in-game and fell in love. Since yesterday I posted on motivations, this story came [ more...] Nick Yee developed a four-page assessment. It doesn’t take long to complete. It rates you against 3200 other players, so it’s statistically valid, and measures you on three dimensions of why [ more...] October 4th, 2009 | 2 comments |
From: Guild management | Tags: addiction, motivation, nick yee, player, wow love I really paused for thought after reading Tobold’s classification of raid encounters. Looking at the title of his post, ‘raid encounter classification’, you might well think his answers would describe the mechanics [ more...] September 25th, 2009 | 2 comments |
From: Raid leadership in general | Tags: hard mode, heroics, leadership, performance, raid, raid leader, strategy This deserves more discussion. One of the difficult balances a leader has to manage is the number of tanks required in a raid, or the guild, as a proportion of [ more...] September 18th, 2009 | 4 comments |
From: Guild management, Tanking in general | Tags: dps, guild, healers, raid leader, roster, tank Quick funny post. The random guild I joined on my new realm. I log on one day to see the most ridiculous GMOTD, from the now former GM Panzer. You [ more...] The reactions to Gevlon’s feat of clearing Ulduar-10 in blues show that many players have fallen into the trap of thinking gear is the only solution to clearing raids. Gevlon [ more...] August 28th, 2009 | 10 comments |
From: Analysis, Raid leadership in general | Tags: blues, casual, gear, progression, raid The income and expenses of a guild are sometimes not a focus of leadership, but they do represent an organisational factor that should be managed. Cataclysm will help income significantly by [ more...] August 27th, 2009 | One comment |
From: Guild management | Tags: bank, Cataclysm, expenses, income, raid Wow. Thanks to RJK for highlighting this post on a site I rarely visit, Greedy Goblin. Great for money-making tips, but… raiding? In short: the goblin’s guild cleared 10-man Ulduar, wearing only blues [ more...] August 26th, 2009 | 9 comments |
From: Playing better, Raid leadership in general | Tags: blues, casual, gear, progression, raid, ulduar I just came across this speed-raiding guide on StratFu, written in February but I’d not seen it before. It’s very comprehensive, and covers in details the points I have just [ more...] August 26th, 2009 | 2 comments |
From: Playing better, Raid leadership in general | Tags: guide, loot, raid, speed The raid leadership interview series I’m pleased to present the next in my series of interviews with guild leaders on the management of progression guilds, which will be jointly published on wowraid [ more...] August 12th, 2009 | 7 comments |
From: Interviews | Tags: guild, hard mode, hardcore, heroics, interview, leadership, performance, progression, raid, recruitment, situational awareness This is really big news for top 250 raiding guilds, but it will help everyone. I was interviewing the leaders of 120-world ranked guild Semper Fildelis last night. We got to [ more...] July 21st, 2009 | 3 comments |
From: Guild management, News discussion | Tags: player, raid, recruitment, roster WoL has a very good feature which lets you see when important buffs are up on. I was checking a log for a mate on dk.info who was dying repeatedly [ more...] I’m very pleased to say that Satorri, a well-known Death Knight poster on TankSpot has agreed to have his essay on leadership published here at pwnwear.com. His bio concludes this [ more...] Note: I’ve updated my 10 and 25-man guide post too, nearly finished now. Last night I got to see, and kill on the 12th attempt, Mimiron 10-man. It gave me some [ more...] July 6th, 2009 | 2 comments |
From: Observe, orient, decide, act, Playing better | Tags: ooda, ulduar The raid leadership interviews I’m pleased to present the next in my series of detailed interviews with guild leaders on the management of progression guilds, which will be jointly published on [ more...] June 27th, 2009 | 6 comments |
From: Interviews | Tags: hardcore, interview, leadership, learning, progression, recruitment, roster, situational awareness, ulduar, voice |
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I was watching the interview series celebrating 5 years of Wow and 15 of Warcraft. (I’d never played Warcraft, saw it a few times over shoulders, but RTS never grabbed [ more...]