Happy New Year! What a wonderful thing that a new year is - it's always exciting to start a new year and you don't really know what lies beyond until it is already past. Very much like wrapped presents under the tree or landscape on the other side of a mountain range.
We go into 2013 with a fun group of people that enjoy knocking the content around together - most of them guildies.
We find ourselves with a new year and a soon arriving Patch 5.2 with new content and, of course, a whole new tier of gear and raiding challenges!
Now, late in Patch 5.1, we can look back and see that we started out strong and then waned. One of the nice things about keeping the iRaid data around is that we can literally see where we surged and where we started trailing off. We can see that where raid attendance started to get spotty at the individual level, raid performance at the raid level declined. We can see that where raid attendance at the individual level was reliable, that raid performance at the raid level improved constantly.
Knowing that we tried to find further information on when were better raiding times for the raiders, and knowing that we either received affirmation that the best raid nights were on the days already being used - despite the attendance issues - and knowing that most raiders did not provide further availability information, we are unlikely to find that changing days will affect attendance reliability. So for now, the raids stay scheduled for Fri and Sat.
If we are to complete tier 14 content before the inevitable content nerf that will come with Patch 5.2, we have some work to do - starting with attendance!
Everyone likes having a raid group that is there when you want it and everyone enjoys a level of commitment of "I'll raid if I want to and not if I don't feel like it"; however, that casual approach is not translating well into progression beyond Spirit Kings normal mode - for either of the groups.
We don't know what lies ahead, however we do know that we enjoy raiding with each other and we know that the casual attendance approach is not accomplishing progression.
The obvious question at hand for each and every single one of our raiders is 'do I prefer casual attendance commitments or do I prefer accomplishing progression?'
It's a question that we will be answering this Friday - please come with your personal answer in hand so that we can discuss as a raid group how to proceed. We always try to make big decisions like these together and the only way that happens is if 'we' contribute to the discussion/decision.
The raiding must go on! (See you Friday!)
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