Comments on: One is the Loneliest Number – Raiding without a Guild

By: Jezrael

Jezrael — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:26:36 +0000

Great post Anna I never realised there was so much ‘incorporated raiding’ going on on Feathermoon. This could be something to do with being an Aussie on a US server I guess and the time zone differences.

My guild is operating on pretty much similiar principles – in that we have quite a few ‘out of guild’ regulars in our 25 man – being a member of the guild is definitely not a requirement to raid with us. We are pretty casual with only one 25 man raid per week and several Kara/ZA runs.

As an aside – great to see another Feathermoon blogger out there, hope to bump into you in game some time

By: Gryphonheart

Gryphonheart — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:28:05 +0000

“And, to be honest, there are some times that I miss being in a guild, but for the most part, I’m enjoying guild-chat free life, as well as working with the fantastic group of people that are TRI.”

Quoted for truthery. I’ve been unguilded for longer than I care to remember now, and I’m still enjoying it. =)

By: Pummra

Pummra — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:23:00 +0000

Nice post, Anna. I’m in a guild that has a similar set-up, an alliance on the Whisperwind server called Slack. Through this alliance, we ran MC back in the pre-BC days, and now use it to run the present day 25 man content. Without it, I don’t know if I would have ever seen places like SSC!

By: Grizz

Grizz — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:26:43 +0000

We have something very similar to this Horde-side with the Thundering Hammer Clan. Even though the raid uses the THC name, forums, and chat channel ingame, there’s perhaps five people from that tiny guild who actually go to the raid.

My own guild has two in the raid, tops. The largest group we draw from is perhaps Noxilite.

I definitely think you hit on a point in your post; there’s something nice in being able to completely disassociate from the raid on nights you’re not raiding, or on nights you choose not to raid. Our raiding alliance is fairly laid back – RL and personal issues come first, and if you can’t come, then it’s no biggie. I can’t imagine doing that in a raiding guild, where even if you’re not in the raid you’re still exposed to the same people every time you’re on that character.

By: Anna

Anna — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:22:27 +0000

Thanks for the MCA update – for some reason I just couldn’t track down anything about them that wasn’t 2 years old!

And yeah – TRI is awesome, on a stick.