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SO I GUESS I’M RAID LEADING
NOW?
I just started raid leading and I don’t know what I’m doing...
By Andrew Spalding

I

f you look back a few months,

me controlling loot rules and

to explain a bit of what goes into

you can see my very first

start/stop times of raid. I never

being a raid leader so that if you

experience with raiding in

considered how much work

get the chance to lead, you know

WoW. Now, five months later, I

would go into it. I didn’t consider

more going into it than I did.

have started leading that very

any of the less known jobs of

same raid. Our guild master/

the raid leader. The former raid

raid leader has started to get a

leader and the other officers

understand is that the raid leader

bit burned out with the game, so

have been a huge help to me,

is the ultimate voice of the group.

to make it a little easier to get on

either by helping where needed

For the most part, what you say

and play with us he has passed

or simply forcing their hands

goes if people want to continue

on raid leading to me. We aren’t

when I don’t know what to do.

to raid with your group. If there is

particularly far progressed (we

At this point I am really only raid

a dispute, it is up to you to settle

just downed Normal Blackhand

leader in name because they are

it. If there is a question, it is up

this past Wednesday!) but we

doing so much to help me, but

to you to answer it. This was very

have a lot of fun, and we are doing

it is because of them that I am

unusual for me from the start

better than I would have expected

able to learn how to lead. It is

since the previous raid leader was

from us only a month ago.

because of them that I can gain

still in the group. When something

the confidence necessary to take

would come up, he would make

action when needed. Throughout

sure to whisper me, reminding

the rest of this article, I am going

me that it wasn’t his call anymore.

Raid leading is a lot different
than I expected. I simply saw
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