What is Important about Team Members

This week I've been thinking about team members and what makes a good team member.  Is it getting success for the whole team.  Do some members need to be dropped from the team because they aren't doing the required dps, heals or knowing the fights?  I'm not perfect and I fail in a number of these areas. Therefore I feel if anyone needs to be dropped from the team it ought to start with me.  I want to include all the guild members who want to raid into our raid team.  I'm constantly trying to come up with ways to do this. That's really a big part of my job as a the Guild Manager.  It's becoming more important as the old WoW is getting so boring lately.

It came to me like a bolt out of the blue with this sentence "I don't know why we all enjoy raiding with you, it just is fun".  Then I thought about it...That's why I enjoy raiding it's about the wonderful people in our raid team, the fun and the warmth felt between us.  The jokes about our failures the encouragement and pride when we are successful.  It occurred to me that we aren't in the race for server first although we've come tantalisingly close a few times over the last few years.  Our raids really are about the people we raid with.  We are all genuinely caring of each other and to drop people from our team I feel would be the most shitful thing for us to do to ourselves. Having said that please don't drop the ball as far as doing your jobs.  Don't stand there in the rubbish try not to get hit with stuff unnecessarily be aware of the damage taken as well as the damage done.  I'd really like to say something about bandages here I know you've all heard it before.

We got up to the last boss this week.  Prepare yourselves for Heroics.  If you are doing pugs try to get a few guildies in their with you if you can. I'm very proud of you and I think we are doing a great job. Try to keep focused on the positive things we can do as a team and improve on the negative things. Overall we are smashing it for a casual guild. I'd like to ask everyone to do your best and self evaluation is key here focus first on yourself and then on others.

A big old group Hug for the new and returning members welcome/welcome back to Riftwarriors. Congratulations are in order for one of our old guildies that some of you may remember some may not, Nightshade, a warlock who joined a long time ago.  Congratulations on your pregnancy and hopeful birth of not our first guild baby but probably one of our most well fought for babies. This answers the question, what is important about our team members, it's members are the most important thing including the babies.