Making a decision as a raid leader

[wayextreme]

Guys I love leading the raids it is enjoyable and I have the time for it. However sometimes I am forced to do things I don't enjoy at all, last night I was put in that situation and it was hard. I had to have someone leave due to the success of the raid. I also had to tell people that we where full and I couldn't get them into the raid. I think we need to go to2 nights on ZG but I can't lead both I can lead one. Since there is a 3 day reset we can time it so people will have a chance to get the same bosses. I would love to take everyone but when you have almost 32 people sign up and no warriors and you need three I am forced to make difficult decision which is not fun at all. Also the person that left last night is a life long friend and in the same position of leadership as myself in TOJ. I also had someone get mad because there where 2 hunters in the raid from TOJ and none from HC, I have never and will never favor one guild over the other in any raids that we do together so when you accused me of that you where off base and completely wrong in doing so. When faced with a decision off the top of my brain I thought the best way and fairest way to handle that was to have a roll off. The person who lost is a great players has been working hard to be successful and our raids and is very loyal to the group. Thats the type of players raid leaders want in their raids. I honestly wanted him to not even roll but what message does that send to the other players there. Also because we only do ZG once a week its hard to keep track of rotations and other players that have not yet had a chance to go to ZG when they also have a right to want to be involved with the raids at that level. Because of all the slack I got and being forced to make people roll and feeling bad when someone had to leave I was not a very good raid leader last night and it showed, we did not do very well in ZG last night and I let a lot of people down on that run.
In the future it doesn't matter where you sign up I have to make the finale decision on who goes its my call and I have to do what's right for the players and the raid group as a whole. If however you don't sign up you will not go at all. There where 2 players in the raid last night that didn't show up on any sign up sheets however that was my fault I was talking to them on vent when i said I was going to make the post and to sign them up I wrote their name down on my raid notes paper and didn't even think of posting their names they however where signed up. I will not make that mistake again.
Players I will be looking at taking, ones with Vent, Ct-Raid, Decursive, 300 first aid, ones that have been working on getting good gear from the instances outside of ZG and MC, ones that follow instructions and listen to whats being said in vent, and last but not least ones that bring plenty of things to help them be successful in raids like health and mana potions.
Also if someone wants to step up and help lead a second ZG night please get in touch with me and we can go over it.
Once again sorry to all that didn't make the raid last night and Very Sorry to the person that had to leave due to losing a roll.

If you have any questions please contact me or get on vent and we can talk about it.
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[flamebeard]

It wasnt the fact that you took 2 hunters from ToJ, it's that one didnt even sign up, and we had 3 sign up from HC

[jezzybelle]

multiple runs would be awesome.. only 3 day reset thats cool. arlokk was a pain but i dont think it was your fault though. i watched some arlokk vids and it has some good stuff k ttyl