For Victory or Valhalla
This post is only directed at my VoV people.
As you all may or may not know, the guild has gone through some massive changes in the last 2 weeks. Some people have gone on breaks. Some have left the guild. A huge amount have joined the guild. This post is to explain it all.
I was given the guild two weeks ago. For the first two days, I was in shock. The next two, I dropped into despair. Because I took a good long look at the guild. And I saw the problem.
The guild was dying. And I would be either selling off the guild name or just using it as a personal bank within 2 months. And I couldn't see any way of stopping it.
Then, the Gift from the Game Gods dropped into my lap.
Moseisley came to me, and presented an idea. He had a HUGE list of raiders, ready to go. He knew what he was doing, and he had a plan. He was actually thinking of making his own guild and doing a little recruiting from us, but that wasn't fair. He knew I was a little frazzled, and he saw we had potential if we could get out of our funk. After several very long conversations, I made my decision. I made Mose Raid Leader, and promoted several other members. I also changed a rank. I got rid of the Officer Alt rank, making all Alt belonging to Officer actually Officer rank (I never liked Officer Alt anyways. The person is the officer, not the character) and I created the High Council rank. This rank is for people who have been with the guild for a long time, and were already officers. People like Funeral, Rytes, Am, Kara.
There are a few new policies as well. Like the inactive demotion. If you're inactive for 7 days without saying anything to us, you lose a rank. And so on, until its finally a gkick. Now, ALL of those can be restored after a return and an explanation. Alts are NOT subject to this, unless its a gkick. If you're going to be away for any length of time, just tell us. We'll put a no gkick note on your officer notes, and you'll be good.
With all of these changes, some good has already spawned. We now have 3, and maybe even 4, 10 man teams. And a 25 man team. We expect Kingslayer titles on 10 and 25 man by the end of June. And we're getting ready for Cataclysm. We have some really good guild synergy, with everyone excited for the future.
So, there you have it. Hate it or Love it. But that's the way it is now.
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