This is the first post of what will hopefully be 3-5 posts a week (maybe more) aimed at helping both new and experienced raid leaders improve the quality of their raids as well as helping them improve their leadership skills.
A quick disclaimer, this site will be exclusively focused on World of Warcraft. Many of the posts may be applicable to other MMO environments, but I make no promises.
A bit about me: I’ve been either leading raids or helping lead raids for over 2 years in a moderately successful 9 hour a week raiding guild. We are currently ranked in the top 15-20% of raiding guilds world wide in ICC 25 (according to wowprogress.com) I spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about how to make my raid more successful, and I’m a big fan of blogs. Having found that there are great class and role specific blogs out there, I thought I would fill a niche in the raid leading department, as I’ve not found many good blogs on the subject (though to be honest, my search has not been exhaustive).
I’m planning on doing a Raid Leader 101 series once a week to cover some of the basic ideas to help newer raid leaders hit the ground running, and I’m going to be digging into the debate between 10 and 25 man raids in Cataclysm. I’ve got some other things in mind, but I don’t want to spoil everything.
That’s probably long enough for an intro. Please don’t mind the site’s appearance for the next couple weeks as I get the layout, design, etc the way I want it, and happy Raiding!
