Goals

A lot of the blogs I've been reading lately, the gm's and raid leaders set goals for their group and strive the group to work toward them. So I've been thinking about doing that with our group. Question is, what do I want from them? Obviously I want everyone to learn their toon. I want people to not just coming into a raid and press 1 repeatedly til the boss dies; I want them to understand their rotations, their gear, how the boss encounters work, how to make the most out of their toon and their class. I want them to understand what exactly they bring to the raid. I'm pushing for that right now. And believe you me, I know every single person in our guild is capable of that. Yea, there are some who aren't catching on like I'd like them to, but I know everyone can be that amazing character that other guilds are envious of. Now don't get me wrong, I don't want to push people for this so I can show them off. Heaven knows I could care less about having the best of the best in my guild. I want them to reach their full potential because in the end, THEY are the ones who are proud of themselves. I've seen it happen before. You pull someone up out of a spot, maybe they've never raided before, maybe they've never known x about their class, or what have you. You go over a few things with them, you take them raiding, explaining as you go, and bam! totally new person at the end of the day. Seeing the excitement, yea, it's awesome. There's no better feeling than that.

Anyway, kind of got off on a tangent there. So below I've set some realistic goals for my group. Goals that I know we can obtain and goals I'm giving us about a month and a half to reach.

1. I want all dps pushing 3k. Now I know some of this comes from gear or lack there of in some cases, but I really believe some is partly due to spec choices and gear choices. Having these classes classes is helping in this goal, but I'm really going to push my guys to do this. I want everyone carrying their weight in raids and right now some of my higher ups are definitely carrying the lower dps. And right now, that's not too bad, but it's not going to cut it in Ulduar and later dungeons.

2. I want to cut my healers overhealing down to less than 30%. First I want to concentrate on dps so we can beat enrage timers, but overhealing has been bad lately. The last combat log we did, overhealing was 50% across the board. That's awful. I know a lot of it has to do with the paladins and their lack of dots. I'm no expert on healing, but I'd think there must be something we can do for that. Hopefully when we have the paly class, our teacher has some ideas for us.

3. I want to be in Ulduar 25 by the beginning of September. As I said before, I really want to push my guys. I want them in Ulduar 25 by the beginning of September. That gives us a little over a month to push our way to farm on Naxx 25 and start learning the fights in Ulduar 10. We're already behind in Ulduar (not to other guilds but to beating the next patch). I want to get us in there and going so we're better prepared when the next dungeon comes out.

4. I want everyone to learn what 'on time and prepared' means. Right now I have a few people who are sitting at the stone half an hour ahead of raid ready to go. Then I have some guys who are consistently late or never show. Punishments aren't too heavy right now. Sometimes they get left out, sometimes they get lucky and there's a spot open. But I really want my guys to learn dedication. I know real life happens, and we've always been full supporters that real life comes first, but I know people can learn to respect the 24 others that are waiting on them by being on time and ready to go.

I really think giving my guys those four goals to shoot for, we'll see the raids significatly improve. I've already seen them improve since we first started out. A lot of it has to do with me getting my act together and being a better raid leader. I strive very hard to be a positive, influencial leader and I'm getting there. I've still got some work to do though. :-)