It's been 33 days since you looked at me...

It's been 33 days since you looked at me

Threw your arms in the air and said you're crazy

Ok so maybe the song wasn't really appropriate, but I was looking at our home page and noticed the Sindragossa fight was posted 33 days ago. Thirty three days. A full month we have been working on the Lich King. It's enough to make you sick to your stomach. Although to be honest, we haven't exactly been working on him all this time. It's more like 3 actual days we worked on him and 30 days of pissing around trying to find a new healer or tank or dps or whatever it is that we needed that moment.

One of the things I really like about EL is that we run on a tight raid roster. We have maybe 30 raiders max. So at most only 5 raiders ever sit the bench at a time, which usually works out really well since they have work schedules and other RL committments that they need to be out for anyway. A tight roster is great because it means we don't have a lot of raiders sitting on their hands just waiting to get in. And we don't have to do a lot of rotation to make sure everyone gets some face time in a raid. But the problem with running a tight roster is that we have no room for error. If people have to work late or take the night off to spend time with family, the raid is left scrambling. And when people leave, well that *really* hurts.

We have lost 5 of our core raiders over the last month. They all left separately and for different reasons, and at different times. But the facts remain the same. We are scrambling to make things work, to recruit new people that will not only fill the roles we need but so many other things as well: Can they perform to the same or better level of the person they are replacing? Will they fit in with the rest of the guild? Will they be consistent in their schedule so we can count on them to be there every raid night?

Right now I actually think we are in a great position. We have gotten two new amazing healers, a new tank and a few new DPS. Racci has done an excellent job with recruiting and I believe our raid group is in as good a position as we have ever been to get things done. This setback wasn't even really that much of a setback.

Eternal Legacy has weathered MUCH worse times than this over the years. We had half our raiders gquit in the middle of a run and we didn't quit then. We have had Nerd Rage fueled attempted coups, we have had summer slumps at all times of the year, and we have had internal guild 'we can't do progression so we should just farm easy stuff' rifts. None of those things caused us to call it quits and this current situation of a few ppl leaving isn't going to do it either.

But now we have those 33 days looming over our heads. We dropped over 100 spots in our progression. And people are feeling down. What we need is a pick me up. Some way of giving everyone their confidence back. Outside of limericks and silly jokes, I am still working on that. But for now let me say this:

We are a kick ass guild. There is no question in my mind or any of the officers minds that we can do this. We have overcome so much over the years to get where we are now, and Eternal Legacy excels at coming from behind for the win. Server first titles are still up for grabs. I fully intend for us to get them.

Boooyah