Quote Originally Posted by Lunaxia View Post
I mean... there's good advice here and elsewhere in the thread, but OP specified most of the players are new to raiding and I can't help but think this would suck a lot of the fun out of the whole experience for them as sprouts starting on the raid scene, not to mention potentially intimidate or overwhelm them. He also said they are friends, so I doubt advising him to treat the whole deal like a business transaction and view members as disposable commodities is what he's looking for.

We all have our own preferences for playing, of course, and what we're hoping to get out of it, but some of it seems kind of cold, and even as a more experienced player it sounds like a good way to make Savage a bit of a miserable experience. Not everyone is out purely for the drops; some people actually want to have a good time with friends as well.
It may come off as cold but I did ask for advice and any bit of info I can get helps, to some people raiding is just a transaction, they put in time they expect gear in the end and that's all they care about. Whike atm I don't think anybody in our group cares about the gear most of us just want to do it for the experience and do it together because we know even if we fail we can pick on each other laugh at our mistakes and work on improving. I'm more asking for advice that stuff I don't know that would help us and prevent failing like making sure everybody understands our goals which I talked about to them but I had like made it official about the training dummy DPS check which I had no idea existed in this game and a few other things that I've learned on the way (like how FF player is weary of FC raid teams) but again I'm just as green as everybody else going I'm just the ex-military guy that used to lead people in raids in WoW and the one who stepped up so I ended up leading this lol. I'm not taking anybody's information on how I should run people because I know how to manage people I've done it many times in game and in real life scenarios from dealing with drama to dealing with how people handle stuff like criticism, however anything that can help me teach them more about what they need to be prepared for in raids getting a different person's perspective on what I should do could also help me be a better leader to my group, because most people talking are probably talking from what they've experienced in past or what they wish they would have known or done in their group before. Knowledge is the key to victory in everything so I post this to gather the community's knowledge because it is far greater than mine in this aspect and having so many diverse people chime in from hardcore raiding and ultimates like Dixie to more average I can better equip my people for success. Take everything in a positive light