Having a guild is much like sitting on top of an active volcano; it's going to erupt, and you're just going to have to sweep up all the ash when it does.
What I'd like to be doing is manifold. I have a mountain of work to do, and I'm dipping my toes into Fiverr. A friend of a friend has commissioned a painting, and I'm still working on some art for myself. Likewise, there's another 16gb of RAM just waiting to go into my computer, but I haven't had a spare moment to turn it off! So of course there's a ton of guild stuff that I've had to do instead, or in addition to all that. Someone left one of our swtor teams so there's been some tracking work trying to find a replacement. We're still in WoW startup mode, so we're dealing with the repercussions of having fewer people, less stuff, and more need to delegate. Running a guild that spans MMOs is not as easy as taking the old SWTOR workload and dividing it in three sections, unfortunately. A lot of the 'reward' of being an established, large guild in SWTOR came from its solidarity. So we've plunged our SWTOR guild back a few tiers while trying to invest in other games. I'm trying to delegate as much as I can, and intelligently to boot, but I just feel like I'm doomed to fail at some level because there's so much work to be done. All the while, I'd much rather be debating the important matters: should my GW2 heavy armor be dyed silvery white or gold?
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We're an old guild, but new to GW2 and WoW, at least as a collective.
What does that mean for us? Basically, it means that our resources are zero, but our hearts are full, and our eyes are greedy. We'd like to have a developed guild yesterday to reflect that guild we were in SWTOR, but, at the same time, we aren't that guild anywhere else. In WoW last night, a group of somewhat-scrubs took my total scrub Death Knight through a raid last night. I'm such a noob that I don't even know what raid it was, which I'm telling you honestly here because it epitomizes our state as a guild. Sure, we're still in SWTOR, but most of our loyal membership has one foot, maybe both feet, out the door. Others walked out a long time ago but have come back or further into the guild now that we're not defining ourselves based on a game. From a GM standpoint, there's been a ton of little executive decisions that make a huge impact, such as:
Of course, I'm still also responsible for supporting the people who want to continue playing SWTOR. So I have a lot of work to do as we make the jump, but at least I have enough knowledge and resources built up in SWTOR that I can do enough in that regard. So, unlike other people, I have an entire agenda of things to do in videogames that are hard deadlines, because, without them, we can't continue building up Aisthesis. However, I'm not alone in this; I have a dedicated group of friends who want to help, whether it's shouldering some of the burden of knowledge and resource-building in one game, continuing to play and support in another, or just providing moral support as we figure out how to move forward. I'm grateful for those people all the time, because without them, there's no way I would be trying this in the first place. This is a great interview about Team DK, the Korean hots team that made it to BlizzCon after an upset of their rivals--and a team that many felt outclassed them--MVP Black.
If you follow hots, it's a good and interesting read with a lot of hints about how the scene might develop in the new year. However, I'd like to zero in on this question: "Q. What is each player's favorite hero to play? And a hero that you like having your teammate play? CrazyMoving: Jaina | Arthas Noblesse: Illidan | Muradin Jaehyun: Kharazim | Arthas sCsC: Arthas | Muradin Sniper: Abathur | Tyrael" Good old Korea. Someone has to play Arthas, right? Though it sounds like a meta focused on CC and ganking isn't necessarily the worst for him, I wonder why Diablo isn't more of a fixation. C'mon Korea, he's a damage/bruiser warrior who can take a lot more hits than Arthas! Meanwhile, it wouldn't surprise me to see NA and EU completely abandoning him because of the scaling changes that wrecked his health pool and the resurgence of Diablo. Also note that there's barely a complete team in here, because the Arthas/Muradin/Tyraels of the world should unite! It'll be interesting to watch current streams and tournaments on OGN, and also to see how an international rematch goes. In case that was too boring, I annotated the first page of my hots hero collection: |
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