Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Master of Arms, and down to business

I was recently appointed to the Master of Arms position; and to everyone in the guild I wanted to say I appreciate your trust in me, and it is an honor to receive this promotion. I hope that I meet your expectations.

Down to business; our Karazhan runs are becoming steadily more successful, as are the Gruul's efforts. Our membership took a recent climb in the past two weeks, so more are joining the ranks; and as a result, more are asking to enter end game instances. Each captain is traditionally responsible for choosing the membership of their teams, but it could be simplified somewhat by guild rankings. I was asked to propose a system of ranking raiders as either Raiders or Veteran Raiders; and I am forming my ideas about how such a system would work. I am asking, however, that anyone with ideas about this issue please comment.

Second, we now have what may be three full kara teams; Blue, Gold, and 'Dom'. Additionally, I was running a weekend Kara run of pickup members from both Massacre and The Elite; as well as other qualified members of other guilds who had not yet run Kara. I will probably continue to do this, and call that team Kara PUG; but our newer members may wonder why we have four different teams with differing names, no real convention, and no way to contact team captains without more information. I am asking the captains, or any interested Kara team member, to comment on this development. We most likely need a single naming convention that is uniform and easily explained; colors, captains names, veteran down to rookie, any of these might do.

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