The Illusion of Success

Let me know if this situation sounds a little familiar.Your guild is working on a difficult boss that you have not downed before. You put a few attempts in, discover a few issues, and refine your strategy to correct for the issues. Your making good attempts and doing better then you expected. It feels like your very close to downing the boss.Then your progress stalls. You had an attempt where you got to the final phase of the fight very cleanly, but now you can't get there at all. Your raid ends ...

Articles tagged with: Raiding

What signals the end of an expansion?


Wrath of the Lich King ended on kind of a sour note for me, largely because I didn't get to participate in my guild's one and only 25-man heroic Lich King kill before Cataclysm launched. Part of the rankle was ...

Officers' Quarters: Dropping the drama totem


Every Monday, Scott Andrews contributes Officers' Quarters, a column about the ins and outs of guild leadership. He is the author of The Guild Leader's Handbook, available from No Starch Press.
Selecting players ...

Identify the Fail


In which I realize that WoW raiding and software development have a common element.
How does this relate to raiding? Well, it has to do with learning from one’s mistakes.
In the software development world, we have ...

More Like This: Vodka vs Method Speedrun


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_488Ir0itpU
Forget arenas.
Forget rated BGs.
Give me competitive PvE raiding!
Vodka and Method, 2 of the world’s best guilds, going heads up in the Dragon Soul challenge hosted ...

The Substitute Raid Leader

Remember the days in school where your favourite teacher was away?
Maybe she was sick or needed a personal day.
Then the sub would roll in with a giant, CRT television that was Velcro strapped to a cart and you thought to yourself, “YES! ...