I’m not entirely sure how I got stuck with being a Co-GM, but um, I am. And as such, the natural planner in me is getting quite the workout. Take the last few weeks…
One of my main tanks (and one of my raid leaders) is leaving the game because the game isn’t doing it for him. OK, we’ll miss him, but we’re ok, we have 2 full-time tanks left and a part-time tank/dps, and 1 raid leader. Even so, I start thinking that’s not enough roster depth – or enough raid leaders.
Hey, Monkey (one of our raid leaders), how would you feel about being a tank? Leveling one? Ya know, just in case… Anyone else want to lead raids? Oh OK, we got that covered… and then…
Then my Co-GM and her husband (a TANK!) decide to play with cuddly WoW Pandas.
Now I’m in freakout mode. I have just gone from Co-GM to potentially the GM – at least until I find a replacement. It also occurs to me that my Co-GM currently does raid rostering and recruiting, which now need to be done by someone (hint: not me).
Also, now we’re clearly short a tank! Oh wait, that’s right, Monkey is leveling a tank for just such a predicament! And because I was neurotic when our first tank quit, Monkey is already within spitting distance of 50! Whew, crisis averted on that one.
So now we just have to see what we have and what we need to recruit. I have heard rumblings about people maybe changing roles, so I want to nail that down before deciding what we need to add to the roster. In the meantime I’ll remove the “we are not accepting applications at all!” notices from the guild website, but not make an announcement soliciting applications until we know exactly what roles we need.
But wait! F2P comes along. Is everyone going to be still subscribing? Um, dunno. Let’s give them a few days to sort that out before figuring out recruiting needs. And of course there’s still a chance that the pandas will kidnap a few more guildies.
About a day later it dawns on me that my Co-GM also has the mumble server. Oh right, mumble. We need that.
At this point, I have a few gdocs going for planning purposes. One is aptly named “GM Shit” and I take perverse pleasure in doing a strikethrough of the shit I’ve already completed. And all sorts of other checklists. I may be losing my mind.
How did I get stuck with Co-GM-ship?
Well, my status doesn’t look to be changing much. At least you have that, fwiw, lol.
Ugh, GMing. I did that back in WoW, and never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never
never
will I do that again.
I just came back to the game after a few months of absence (no pandas are to blame, just LARP season), and became reinvigorated to play again. My Scoundrel is a half-bubble from 50 right now. Unfortunately, in the meantime server transfers mean my guild is in disarray >.<
What server are you on these days? Did you get moved in the consolidation?
Snark Side ended up on Canderous Ordo. After the initial hiccups of having a HUGE population, we are adjusting well. It’s nice to have a vital GTN, though sometimes I think I’m the only one who cares about that. However, when there are 45 people in the same zone doing dailies, I get very crabby.
Ahh. I went from Giradda the Hutt to The Shadowlands. It was a good change. At the end, my husband and I were often the only Republic players on Hoth.
Unfortunately our guild still has not reassembled on Shadowlands, and it seemed to be losing members about as steadily as the game itself is >.< So I dunno what I'm going to do. I love raiding, but the three times I quit WoW, it was because of people being douches in raiding situations. I can't deal with being in a raiding guild full of people who are secretly misogynist a-holes just waiting to vent their spleen on my healing lekku.
Snark Side is accepting apps again (we have a few members, as mentioned, running off with the pandas). Downside is, of course, re-leveling on CO since they haven’t put in elective (paid) server transfers. However, we’re definitely not A-holes – now that I think about it, we have close to 50% female members, so misogynist bullshit doesn’t fly.
http://snarkside.com/
Also, I customized the website and forums. True story.
Something to consider! But yeah, I am somewhat adverse to re-leveling, so I’ll be looking for options on Shadowlands first, if F2P doesn’t bring a whole bunch of people back.
The advantage of my guild now is that it is, literally, entirely people I know IRL or friends of people I know IRL. The basic rule is that you can invite anyone you want so long as they’re someone whose doorstep you can show up on if they act like jerks. Unfortunately, that rule kiiiind of limits the guild size >.<
Nice work on the Snark Side site, btw.
Sounds like you’re better off without that JERK who is leaving you.