Dragons of Abyss

The Big Questions, Guild Breakdown, and How to Prevent It

We are at the point of the game cycle where many guilds are seeing a downturn in membership, focus, and success.  I wanted to make a quick article here, to explain just a couple of things that could lead to the break down of a guild at this point in time with the expansion at it's end and a new one soon coming out.

There is a total of 3.5 raiding weeks left in this expansion!  With farmed content, that's enough to get people too bored to want to continue trying.  This causes lack of focus and effort.  As well, with farmed content, people start to think everything is trivial and easy.  When people think they are good enough to faceroll anything, they tend to get too big of heads and can start messing easy things up.  Again, losing focus and a sense of effort.  Both of these lead to the break down of a guild.  People need to realize that some are putting in their full focus and effort and it's rude in their eyes that others are not.  Everyone should always focus for the other people's sake!  Because the new expansion is so close, people cannot just forget how to try.  If there wasn't a new expansion coming out so soon, would you have quit trying?

I bring this up, and only briefly, because I have personally seen it happen to many guilds and to our guild in the past expansion and content patches.  There is a long list of guilds, that were sought after by so many want-to-be hardcore raiders, that now there are not very many serious progression raiders left on our realm.  Just to name a few, Vindication, Aftermath, Relentless, Greatly Exaggerated, BlackFlag, House of Pain, Paradigm Shift, etc.  I could literally list half of the guilds there were in TBC that are no more, and some who broke down in the middle of ICC in WotLK!

So what can we do to prevent this?  Simple!  All we need to do is remember our roots.  Remember where we each came from.  Every single one of us had to learn to be a good raider and had to learn to work as a team to defeat all we've come to and have owned.  Every one of us has been criticized by other people and every one of us has looked up to another player who is so much better than us.  Every single person can improve in one way or another!  There is ALWAYS room for improvement!  We just need to remember that we are never perfect and that we are not the best this game has to offer.  But we all enjoy working together, and want to continue working together for many raids and content patches to come!  So for the sake of the guild, the team, your friends in the guild, and the sanity of many, do not forget where we have all come from and how we got here!  Hard work, sweat, and tears!

Good job everyone, I am so incredibly proud of everyone in the guild and what we have accomplished and what we will accomplish!  Here is to many more Tiers of raiding and faces of rolling!  CHEERS!