November 20th, 2009
I wouldn’t go so far as to say our attendance problems are over, but the Red Devils have managed to successfully acquire several of the more hardcore casual (casual hardcore?) raid members from another guild, Upper Echelon! Like most guilds, UE was having difficulty putting together a full raid group. One of our officers (Hilfer) approached them with the idea of a merger/acquisition and instead of being rebuffed, the idea was received warmly. We put together a test run of Ulduar on Sunday, followed by a successful Ony/ToC/Vault clear on Tuesday. Everyone was impressed with the performance of the UE members and the guild invites were issued!
This made a busy night for me, putting together the raid report, issuing invites and updating the guild records for the new members. Some of the new members from UE have a LOT of alts (all alts are welcome!) and the Red Devils keeps the name of the main in the guild note for each member. Everyone joins as an “Alt” rank, and mains are promoted to “Friend”. Promotions are done roughly every two weeks and are based on raid attendance over the past 60 days. Given the scarcity of raids in our recent history, our new members should quickly climb in rank as we raid more frequently now!
I use the addon “Chatter” which displays the name of the main character for alts in the chat window. This really helps me keep track of who’s who! With all the new members, that’s even more important now than ever.
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