Your Guild’s Dual Spec Policy: What Will it Be?

So what’s the question on everyone’s mind? Will you, as a player, need two sets of specs as enforced by your raid leader? For most players, one spec should suffice. You were brought into your current guild and asked to perform in a role. That has not changed. What has changed is the ease in …

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4 Points of Crisis Management

“If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.” Chinese Proverb As individuals, we’re exposed to conflict on a daily level. We get into arguments with loved ones. We curse at the guy who cuts us off on the highway. We become angry because of decisions made …

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6 Ways to Reject a Guild App Without Sounding Like an Angry Ex

In the spirit of the blogger’s challenge I laid out last Saturday, I felt it was only fair to come up with a post of a similar theme. I issued a question to the Twitterati asking them this: On what grounds have you had to turn away guild apps? Of the multiple responses I received, …

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8 Questions Your Guild Should Ask Itself

I have to share this. I saw an excellent post on Plusheal asking for advice about a fresh and new guild trying to find it’s legs (actually it was about how to democratically disagree, but that’s a topic for another time). One of the Plusheal acolytes, Caveat, replied with a great list of questions to …

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Case Study: How Conquest’s Healers Were Recruited

On Saturday, I wrote a brief highlight on how not to recruit healers. The actual post was written by Ess. Reader Spinks posted a comment wondering how I recruited my healers. In truth, recruiting healers involved higher standards and scrutiny. This was only because I’m way more critical with healing. It’s difficult to explain. Maybe …

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