Comments on: How Did this Happen to Me? (Again?)

By: Tam

Tam — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:53:59 +0000

My God … err … good luck. Well, at least it sounds like you’ve gone into it with your eyes wide open and lots of good ideas. I’ll, err, cheer you on from the sidelines. I wish people didn’t seem to see officers as some kind of punching bag for their bad moods … and I hope it doesn’t happen to you (too often). The idea of that kind of responsibility actually makes me die a little bit inside but I have complete respect for the people who accept it.
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By: Lathere

Lathere — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:54:33 +0000

@Drakhyn Congratulations, oh goody I’m not going to be the only one suffering over the next few weeks then I really like Getting Things Healed to do healing assignments: http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info10457-GettingThingsHealed.html

I just find it easy once you have set up a template for a boss you can drag and drop tanks/healers into place depending on whos in the raid that night.

I also thought about doing meetings with each but our guild is so casual about that sort of thing I’ve decided to instead pick their brains under the radar instead!

By: Drakhyn

Drakhyn — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:42:55 +0000

How ironic. I too just took on the role of being an officer and raid heal leader this week. I’ve been thinking about having a meeting with all of my healers to find out what healing roles they prefer in raids. As always, great post Lath. I am really enjoying the posts here.

Question: What healing assignment mod do you use?

By: cubby

cubby — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:29:02 +0000

lath, you will do great! 3 of us all agreed that you are perfect for this!! (random was too busy playing aion )

the reason pattens are officers > raider is because we cant single out new raider vs old raider and when a stable active player have the pattern it will benefit the guild more.

as an officer you cant just rock upto raids and press 3 keys for few hours, there are alot more work involved and strong guilds need to have good leaders.

p.s its also nice to have a girl in /o chat ^_^

By: @valkyrierisen

@valkyrierisen — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 11:52:24 +0000

Great read. Tell that dude complaining so vocally that his attitude is EXACTLY why he’s not going to be on the list of people to give patterns to. It’s also exactly why guilds have the officer-pattern collection first rule.
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By: Vok

Vok — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 09:49:52 +0000

I tend to think anyone taking on a leadership position is a little crazy (this comes from a guy about to be GM for the 3rd time o.O – keep an eye on my blog over the next day or two) but brave and dedicated fit the bill too.

What would I want from an Officer keeping an eye on the Healers? Know what I’m best at and let me do it. I’ve been in the position, as a Shaman, where I’ve been force over and over to MT heal. This is something I can do, but I enjoy raid healing more and, therefore, enjoy it more.

And keep it fun. Now standing on the outside and looking in at the raiding scene I was part of for so long, keep it fun. Don’t make it a chore, make sure people enjoy what they are doing. And don’t take to much on or you’ll go crazy, quit raiding proper and just do ten-mans or something!

Good luck and grats!
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By: divinebubbles

divinebubbles — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 06:12:25 +0000

Errr… that was supposed to be “the lack of things like the pattern issue (officer priority) being written down…”

1 AM = Sleeping Time.
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By: divinebubbles

divinebubbles — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 06:09:33 +0000

Good luck Lath~!
I don’t think you’re crazy, especially if the other healers are happy about it. The last healing officer I had… mainly? I wish he would’ve listened to my suggestions. (Firm healing assignments done by him instead of “uh, pallies on tanks, everyone else on raid” we got from our MT, healer channel, trying different healing strats when we wiped all night on the same boss, etc.)

I’m sure you’ll do great! Maybe you can slooowly do something about the issues you’ve already noticed (the lack of things like the pattern issue would drive me absolutely insane). ♥
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