Wednesday 15 August 2007

The Trouble With Rotations

Tuesday 31st July - Karazhan

OK, so I had a meeting tonight so I couldn't go raiding.

However, StupidDork got rotated out of this loot-run which really annoyed him. We had gone to Gruul last Thursday, which in essence was a wipe fest, so anyone that went on that should really have had the opportunity to get some gear from Karazhan tonight.

StupidDork /gquit over this and caused quite a stir. In my mind rotations are a necessary evil but should be done on an instance basis not a raiding calendar wide basis.

If you guild has 30 active raiders and does 2 Karazhan teams and also makes up a 25 man team from the same pool then you should expect to be rotated every 3rd Karazhan run and this should be totally separate from being rotated out of every 6th Gruul attempt.

The way our guild was doing it was haphazard and in a linear fashion. StupidDork was rotated out of "a" raid because it was his turn and it was bad luck that he was in a wipe fest(Gruul) and then rotated out of a loot run (Karazhan).

To make matters worse everyone that signed up for a raid was expected to be at the instance entrance 15 minutes before raid and in that 15 minutes you are assigned to the raid or rotated. So all the grinding for stuff and preparation for the raid was in vane, and he had to cancel/postpone activities in real life.

Now it is better, raid teams are decided in advance, so your not sat there 5 minutes before raid time only to be rotated out at the last minute.

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