World of Warcraft Community Magazine Issue 10 | Page 6

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6 // World of Warcraft Community Magazine

OF DRAGONS AND MERGERS
F

By John M. Miller

or every heroic adventure

down your door just for a chance

just to have the numbers, let

there’s what can only be

to be inside, so finding people

alone the progression, for Mythic.

described as a stark difference

who want to join is easy, they let

It’ll take more time than you can

in perceivable difficulty. The tank

you know - all of the time. But

afford to spend and even then

is up front being punched by a

what if you’re the little guy? What

you may not have what you need.

dragon and the Hunter is in the

if you’re progressing through

When you’re in a situation like

back, aimlessly firing arrows

Heroic Mode making good time,

this, a situation my guild found

into the aforementioned dragon.

but you’re still a ways away from

ourselves in, then you might be

When framed in this light, it really

Mythic? What do people need

looking for something a bit more…

seems like one side is worse off

from you? Prior experience has

extreme than your average

than the other (even though being

told me that the usual answer is,

recruitment post on the forums.

a damage dealer is, clearly, the

“gear so that I can join another

true pinnacle of skill). Sometimes

guild higher rated than you”,

What do I mean? A

though, it’s not just roles in a

but to be more realistic, and

merger, of course!

game that can seem unfair; jobs,

escape the grasp of Kafka, I’ll

politics, and maybe… other game

say the answer is, very little.

What’s a guild merger? Well,
much like a business merger, it’s

related things too. This is a World
When a content patch is getting

when two guilds become one,

on in age, even only a month or

with either all of one guild joining

So while the unfairness of life is

two, people will want to jump into

the other, or creating a new guild

a fairly popular subject for Kafka

the deep end of the pool as soon

which everyone then joins.

fans, I’m planning on looking

as possible. I’m not saying you

While, on paper (or in Word, I

at a much smaller, much more

won’t find anyone, but it’ll be a

guess) this is easy to say, there’s

focused issue: Recruiting.

slow trickle of interested parties,

more to it than that. It’s hard to

at best and a terrible grind to a

make any large exodus like this

When you’re a top end guild,

full roster at worst. So what if you

organized, let alone painless.

either in the world or just on your

need more than one, maybe two,

So, rather than try to solve every

server, there are people breaking

roles filled? You need half a roster

perceivable problem let’s see if

of Warcraft magazine after all.

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