Bump.
Since the last time I posted, I inherited a guild from the previous guild master, who was standing in for the original guild master, who in all honesty seems to have given up on the game. (Technically I'm the interim guild master, supposedly holding on to the guild for the original one. As she's logged on once in 2012 and was away for nine of twelve months in 2010, I'm pretty sure her interest has waned.) And let me tell you something, running a guild is a DAMN sight harder than I thought it was from the outside looking in.
My chief problem is I'm having a bit of a power struggle with my raid leader. My raid leader thinks that because he's in charge of the raid during the raid, he's in charge of all aspects of the guild relating to raiding. Who goes to the raid, who doesn't, recruitment, even the guild raid direction is not something that in his mind is discussed with the other officers, let alone the GM. We're a 10 man guild, and have pretty much always been, and I am constantly struggling against him trying to start 25 man raids that we simply can't sustain.
Things came to a head last week when we were working on Warmaster Blackhorn. Two healed the fight, so the raid leader's shaman was DPS. And since a lot of his gear was 353s, his DPS was lacking. My main tank pointed out after a wipe that the RL's shaman had won a LOT of OS 378s in Firelands, why wasn't he wearing them? The RL's answer was he didn't want to pay for gems and enchants.
Across two toons, my RL is worth something on the order of 300K gold.
Now, we expect when you come to the raid, you be prepared for everything. Enchant your gear, gem it-I don't expect your off-spec to be in top of the line enchants, but by god, if we need it, be ready. Annoyed, I told him to go enchant and gem his 378s and stop fooling around. He spent 2000g on this, grumbling all the way, and then finally said this:
"I can't believe I have to do this to be in MY raid."
"Excuse me?" I said. "This is the GUILD'S raid. You just lead it."
This guy sat on a 397 belt for three weeks waiting for someone to cut him a gem, AFTER I gave him a belt buckle. Last night he benched a DPS who had been out of town for one weekend for being away from the game, and invited instead a DPS that had missed three of the previous four weeks, and left ME to explain it to them. (The fact that it was my ex-girlfriend made it only slightly more perilous.) When I told him I was recruiting back up tanks, because we have one that is fourteen fucking years old and is easily distracted, he told me that having more than two meant one wouldn't be able to go every week.
Is it me, or do I need a new raid leader?
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