Quote Originally Posted by Crystal_Raven View Post
Don't treat the static as your family, or as your FC, or as your friends or anything. You are all there to do a job, if you as part of that static cannot perform your task, then you need to leave.

As another note, running with an FC static is the worst thing you can do. I don't even consider my FC as viable simply because I've seen how some of them behave and decided it is not worth my time and effort to organize vegetables who think being incompetent is ok.
I don't see how having a close relationship with the static members is automatically a bad thing. Maybe it wasn't a good experience for you but that doesn't mean it's going to be just as bad for everyone else. Raiding with friends or fc mates isn't always a direct ticket to failure and raiding with strictly business sort of people isn't always a direct ticket to success. Raiding is far too complex to have such a black and white view on it. There is a lot to be said about the sort of rules you have, the environment you nurture and the attitude towards it all. Statics and fcs can greatly differ from one another even if they share the same end goals because there are several routes to those destinations.

What I personally found to be a good route to success is to ensure everyone in the team has a similar vision in how they want to achieve that. Whether you're treating your team mates as if they're co-workers or if they're close friends, having the whole team agree on what they want and how to get it is one of the most important things in raiding. Without that the road is going to be very bumpy.