Team Objectives

This week progression in the raid has been wonderful again.  There's big news on the horizon for WoW with the expansion coming. It's really going to be a bit of a drag until we get to the new content. However, we are making our way through the raid content nicely and we could get into Mythic HFC in the time left in the expansion. The new gear upgrades will help us achieve this end. So get in there doing mythic dungeons and get your valour tokens.   It's taken some time to get main toons geared and some people have been pugging Heroics to further progress our raid team and their own toons.  That's great. The danger in doing this is that you progress ahead of the team and become bored with the team's progression.  Many people have had offers from Mythic Raiding Guilds from this server and from cross realm servers. This is also wonderful.  If you have had an opportunity like this please take it, you can always leave your alts in the guild and socialise with the Rifties.

The main idea of Rift Warriors was to provide a guild where people who love raiding can get together and raid.  It was designed for people who have busy lives or are just wanting to raid two days a week.  The aim of the raids is to see most of the content and to see how far we can progress in those two days.  A low level of commitment is required just two days a week and to know the fights. As the GM my main goal is to provide a great environment for people to play the game they love and hopefully form a supportive network of friendships which can extend outside of the game.

The thing I love the most about raiding is the "team work".  Every member is an integral part of  the team and each member is responsible for how well we do in the raid and in the guild.  If people are frustrated and unhappy in the guild or the raid team, it's probably better to move on to bigger and better things.  If you are frustrated and unhappy you bring this with you and it becomes toxic to the environment around you. As the GM maintaining a great environment is one of my higher priorities. The fact that the friendly environment has extended into real life means that no matter who you raid with you will still always be part of the Rifties family. We have plenty of people in our raid team who raid with their mains on other servers, in PuGs or with mates, they come with us because they enjoy the environment of our guild and our raid.  I do expect players to; stop playing or move onto other guilds. All I ask is that you do what makes you happy and give me a bit of notice, a week or two should be fine, so I can fill your spot.

As we are heading toward the last few bosses in Heroic with the aim of Mythic in our progression. I will ask that you stay playing your mains until we complete Heroic HFC.  If you are unwilling or unable to do this you can join Pangit's alt raids on Thursday and Friday. This doesn't apply to our social raiders who have multiple toons all around the 700 ilvl who fill a variety of spots when they are able to attend.  If you are a core raider it's better for the team if you stay in your main spec and on your most geared toon. Its acceptable to change if the raid team require tanks or heals or dps to get the balance right. In emergency situations such as Maddy not having net or people have to drop out due to RL issues. If it is crucial to the functioning of the raid  that's fine. It's really unfair to expect the whole team to change to suit your needs or wishes, particularly at this point in our progression. Changing mains slows our progression substantially. In the next expac I would like ppl to stay on their chosen main for the entirety of the expansion and have an alt raid for gearing and playing alts.

Raiding is a team sport and the team objective should be the main priority. Some people may feel that we as a raid team could not progress without them however, everyone is expendable that's the sign of a good team, one or two members can drop out and the rest will fill the gap. This is my other main priority as a GM to build a team that is not reliant on one person.  I feel sure that if I dropped off the face of the earth that the guild would continue without me.

Zem (Seebo) is going in for an operation on Tuesday to get rid of the last of the cancer pressing on the inside of his spine. We will all be thinking positive things for Zem and Jess on Tuesday. Congratulations to Jess and all the other guildies who got their spot in the University courses they applied for.  Good Luck  you guys well done. Keep trying if you didn't get your spot I had to apply twice to get into my course. A BIG Congratulations to Sven on the purchase of his new home well done it's a big step, a great step I'm sure it's going to be one of the best things you do in life.