Nistagmus, Praetorian, Mindaika, Thesandman, Jasron, Steelz, Kjallakr, Xaevyer, Jumba
(1) Blue and Gold Team Shuffle
- For the last week I have heard more people suggest that we mix the 2 Kara teams somehow. Proponents say that we need to help gear people in order to progress to 25-man raids and farming Kara for badges (like Blue largely does) is counterproductive. Opponents say that mixing the 2 teams will dampen the progress that Blue team had made.
- Most of the people at the meeting agree that the 2 teams should be mixed, but there's mixed views on how they should be mixed. Some suggest a complete and organized shuffle of tanks, healers, and dps to create 2 equally capable teams. Some say that certain blue team members should be scheduled to run with gold team each week, and vice versa, thereby creating certain "rotating seats" on each team (United Nations style, lol). Others suggest that 3 out of 4 weeks should be mixed teams, and 1 week per month should be current teams.
- I created a poll on the guild website for everyone to take regarding this issue. Go to http://massacre-nazgrel.guildlaunch.com and click on "polls". The poll closes on June 5th.
- I will act on this issue within 2 weeks.
(2) Looting system
- It's been 6 weeks since we started the point-system for looting and we can look back and reflect a little on it's usefulness.
- Mindaika claimed that the new guild website has a very widely-used DKP tracker that might be tailored for our needs. It is apparently able to track other intangible aspects of Kara participation, such as making potions for people.
- Jasron helped point out that the current system benefits activity, but those who give up their spots for those less-geared may not get recognized by the system.
- There was a short discussion over a detail of the current system where main characters and their alts can share the same looting points (for example....points that Nistagmus earns can be applied toward Strabismus, my alt). Proponents of this feature say that those with 70 level alts are more active and help allow a Gold team to exist in the first place (40% of gold team is currently alts) and that people should be allowed to choose how and where they spend their points. Opponents say that this feature is unfair to those without alts and that potentially very active and needy characters could lose loot to very inactive alt toons. They also say that this feature is counterproductive to the goal of creating a 25-man raiding team since alts cannot be in a team at the same time as mains.
- Most people at the meeting seemed to not like this feature of the looting system. I will recalculate looting points and will have mains' and alts' points seperated in 3 days.
(3) Kara Pugging
- In the past couple of weeks we've seen an increase in Kara pugging, both accidental and intentional. Thesandman wanted to know what we should do to address and/or prevent this in the future.
- I claimed that while there are no current rules regarding pugging Kara, our guild leadership has recently acted after a Kara pug group was set up on our guild GEM channel. They effectively issued a "cease and desist", but they did not have to impose any penalties. We can expect our leadership to act similarly in the future.
- Jasron suggested that we impose a loot point penalty for those who are caught in an unapproved Kara pug group.
- I'm not at the point where I want to punish people for participating in Kara pug groups, but I would like to be notified if people are wanting to do so, for I might be able to help them get set up on a team. Kara is a team experience and pug's do nothing for teambuilding.
Please register at http://massacre-nazgrel.guildlaunch.com
I know you're thinking "not another attempt at a guild website" but we're going to try to make this one work. It has a lot of potential.
