Utsusemi Wrote:you absolutely right fleety. only problem I see with that raid is that its usually the officers that attend that raid, and everyone else gets left out more often than not. I would definantly rather have a tribe only event.
I don't see how this is a reply to Fleet's remarks. Many, many people fail to understand/remember the mechanics of raid resets and Blizzard made it even harder by having ZG be per 3 days arbitrarily rather than 3 days from the time you kill a boss. I don't think anyone is down on your raid or your idea by reminding people of this. In fact I guarantee that at some point someone would have or will ask on a Monday after this run if they can go on Monday. I wouldn't be surprised if someone joined the raid Monday and then couldn't zone in because of Sunday. It's easy to forget to /raidinfo beforehand since some weeks there will be no conflict.
Do not mistake our Officer job of making sure people have the information they need with us discouraging people from attending your event. That would make no sense at all. I encourage anyone interested to attend this Sunday ZG run as they will have a better chance at getting into it than on Monday as we typically have 10-12 spots for Ironsong (10 unless the Rottens don't have enough people for their half of the raid) and a couple of them are reserved for raid leaders (generally Kosath and another officer or two).
Many people profess to want Tribe-only raids and I say this: We have always had Tribe-only raids. We had all-Ironsong UBRS last summer until ZG came out. We had all-Ironsong ZG through the fall and Winter plus an all-Ironsong Onyxia. Now we have an all-Ironsong Molten Core. Friday and to a lesser extent Wednesday are the all-Ironsong (I prefer the more inclusive phrasing "all-Ironsong" to the more exclusionary and negative "Ironsong only") raid nights.
If the Rottens had not approached us in friendship and laid the groundwork for the Monday night raid we would not run one. It is not the best night for some of we who lead raids but at the time they approached us we already had the Friday night all-Ironsong ZG and based on the way resets worked at that time, as well as other scheduling issues on both sides, Monday was only feasible choice. So we worked it out and it has been fun and rewarding.
We're not a raiding guild, so we focus our attention on 1-2 things at a time, take our time, and as a result have absolutely phenomenal performance in the raids we run.
That said, I very much applaud your efforts to run another all-Ironsong event on Sunday and I hope many Tribemates benefit from it and take advantage of the new opportunities in ZG. Since we started running ZG close to a year ago now (about 10 months) the rate of reputation gain has increased, drops have improved on bijous (which are now purely used for reputation gain), the quest rewards have been upgraded, and all the Priest bosses now drop more loot.
The bottom line is that the leaders of the Tribe are always happy to see Tribe members realizing what events they would like to see and taking the initiative. You want an all-Ironsong ZG run again so you are starting one! Make it happen!
Tae
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