Based on documentary “Race to World First”
As a semi-hardcore raider, and previously Raid and Guild
leader, I want to share how my experience in the World of Warcraft (WoW) made
me grow up in my life. Everything started when I was 12 years old and
one friend introduce me the World of Warcraft. 4 years later having the
experience of playing the game, my Counter-Strike team decided to starting
playing WoW and create a core. For who doesn’t know core is a group of people,
10 or 25, that have a schedule to raid every week killing bosses. The goal for
us in this core was to be the realm first, but for that we would need to find
more 5 good players to complete our core 10 man.
Searching for players, we decided to start a guild, because
we didn’t want to depend of nobody just of ourselves. It can sound silly, but
the game start teaching me that if you want be good in something you to start
be by yourself, and depend the less you can of the group. In this guild we
started working like we had a marketing group to find good players, having a
website, forum and announcing in the game chat. We learned how to make people
be interested in our guild, and why they should join our guild and not another
one.
Now come the important part, our first core was done and we
start raiding. Our first problem came, people start being late for the raids
and we needed to make this stop. Our solution for this problems was that we had
replacements, people that weren’t in the official core but in the guild. The
learning is that we learned how to make decisions, to don’t prejudice the majority.
Another lesson was that we learn that sometimes we need to make tough decisions
as kick out someone from the guild or core.
We start having success in some raids and being in the top
guild of the server. Following that more people start coming to our guild and
then the second core 10 man was born. There is where really started the problems,
we just had about 2 month of guild, not really good experience of leading and
it was growing up too fast. The guild start splitting in 2 groups not just in
the cores, but in ideas. Some of the guys in my core start having problems with
guys in the other core and it was very hard to deal, because I was in the
middle of the fight. I didn’t want that the other core would leave the guild,
but I didn’t want that my friends be mad at me. With that I learned how to be a
intermediate and try to find a way to please the 2 sides.
The new patch came and we didn’t get our goal, the realm
first, we kind of discouraged and 1 by 1 stop playing, until I stopped and give
the Guild Leader for the other core leader. We back to play a little before the
next patch, with new players, because at this time we had a fight with the
other core with total opposite ideas, how the Guild Leader wasn’t with me
anymore we just left the guild, and joined another one. We almost got the realm
first this time. We back to play 2 weeks ago, rushing to level 90 and gearing,
with main goal realm first in the next patch.
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