One of my primary concerns in our 25 player raids is performance, because of this I am known as the Officer with the annoying tattle tale mods. I run Big Brother, RaidBuffStatus, and Recount.
I love them!
All of these mods make it easy for me to see who in the raid is slacking with consumables, who doesn’t have the buffs they need and what a person is doing in a fight.
Monday night we were battling Professor Putricide. We had about 30 minutes left before we normally call a raid and leave the zone when I noticed that one of our Paladin healers (The class leader by the way) wasn’t flasked. I immediately called him out on it.
Now before I continue, I just want to inform anyone reading this that all flasks that are pulled out of the guild bank are sold to raiders for 12 gold a pop. Regardless of what the price on the auction house it. On my server a single flask sells for around 50 gold. Just let that deal sink in for a sec.
So this class leader hasn’t been flasked and I called him out on it, just as an Officer should. I wait a few seconds and run my Big Brother report again, now the same player shows up as having only ONE elixir on him. Curious to see what he is using, I click on his raid frame and find find that he has drank an expertise elixir.
The next day I log onto our guild forums and head straight for the Class Leader section. I create a new topic in the forums:
@Paladins Name
I then type out a little message:
I am a firm believer in leading by example. That’s the way I was taught and that’s how I try to lead. To make a long story short, stop being a douchecock. When we are doing 25 man raids, flask u and eat up.
I then made a few comments about doing dailies instead of sexual favors with his boyfriend and how flasks are so cheap.
I topped it off with a simple reminder…
We can’t ask evals and raid members to have consumables when a class leader thinks it’s funny to pop an expertise elixir during a raid.
The Marine Corps teachs 11 leadership principles, one of them being “Set the Example”. An article on leadership principles and how they work with leading a guild is on my list of things to write about, it’s not something that I want to do RIGHT now. Instead I will just throw down a few words:
Setting the example is often overlooked when leading. A leader cannot have a “Do as I say, not as I do” attitude. Set an example that the general population can follow.