If you read down a couple posts, you see I returned to WoW back in July – Joined a guild as an officer and grew it into a raiding guild. That guild broke apart back in September. I floated around kinda guildless for a bit with a few friends from that guild and put all my toons into Silent Lucidity – Star’s Bank Guild. Star is my bestest buddy in WoW and has become so much more in RL.
Star and Tish (me) would get on each night and try to find an instance run, but usually couldn’t find one because I was DPS and she was a healer….never any tanks available. Sooo, my casual DPS warrior came out of the mothballs and hit 70, and I started to learn to TANK. Narcissa wasnt the best tank but I had some tank instincts when I played Tish (my rogue) saving the healer at the cost of my life if things got nasty. The plan started to work.
But….WoW got a little boring again and we tried WarHammer. That lasted about 4 weeks and got boring and we returned to WoW for the new expansion. We tossed around ideas about whether we would start a new guild or find one to join. We had a few people that would follow us to whatever guild we would join but as we investigated different guilds, we knew they werent right for us. Silent Lucidity was a bank guild no more!
Cal was a great guy that was always fun and ran with us whenever we did something. Him, Star and I always got along and always seemed to share the same opinion on things so the 3 of us became the officers for our new guild. A few others from the past guild hopped on board, a few friends of Star’s joined up, and some friends of friends came. We had the startings of a solid 10 man raid guild.
Wrath of the Lich King hit the stores and we all played sick, stayed home from work, and stayed up till all hours of the night. Tish got mothballed and Narcissa became my main. Narc leveled as Protection and Chaton (use to be Star but everyone still calls her Star) leveled Holy and together we hit 80. We ran instances and I learned to tank. Did I ever see myself as a tank…..NEVER! It did help to go from DPS to tank as I saw how much of a pain in the butt I was as a rogue and pulling agro!
So now we helped a few others hit 80 and we now had 10 people able to enter Naxxramus. And now the next thing to happen that I never thought myself ever doing… Introducing, Narcissa the Raid Leader! I was always kinda amazed how someone could lead a raid. They always seemed to know everything. All I ever really did was show up to a raid with my supplies and listen to what I had to do and do it. One Job. But the raid leader had to know everyones job for every fight and deal with questions and yell at people – 50 DKP MINUS!
I do not think raid leading is in everyones blood and it can be stressful, but I really enjoy it. It isn’t as hard as it sounds, and if you use your other officers, it can run quite smooth. Star keeps me focused and whispers things to me to remind people if I forget. While I may be a good raid leader, she makes me a great one. We keep each other calm, feed info to each other, and keep an eye on the raid as we plow through the content. It’s not a one person job and I’d be lost without her.
Silent Lucidity is moving along quite well. Very little drama if any. I think it helps that the officers have been in a few guilds that have failed, getting first hand experience of what can and does go wrong and what things cause the drama. If you happen to be guildless and on the Baelgun Server….and Alliance, check us out and visit our forums. You can check out our Raid Progression here.
