Below is how our guild manages all of our raid teams, for all tiers.
Raid Management
We start with defining the roles of leaders for each raid. We typically have certain officers act as raid managers, which they do not have to be in the teams to do, while raid leaders and raid assistants obviously have to be in the raid teams. Their responsibilities are as follows:
| Raid Managers: | Raid managers deal with the logistics of the raid such as recruitment, attendance, logs, stats, scheduling, and goal setting. |
| Raid Leaders: | Raid leaders theory craft raid plans, develop personalized strategies, handle all loot distribution, and guide players through encounters to boss kills. |
| Raid Assistants: | Raid assistants help their raid leaders with invites, group sorting, and technical jobs required within the encounters. |
Code of Conduct
All raid teams should operate with a set of common tenets as follows:
Commit
You commit to the days and times of your raid team.
- You committed to the raid days and times for your team as a primary roster member and plan ahead accordingly.
- Your attendance is EXPECTED and 19 other people are waiting for you.
- You get invited to the raid group anytime before raid start time.
- You list your vacation or any other needed time off on our Master Spreadsheet and let leaders know about them.
- You have Discord mobile and use it to communicate any issues.
Prepare
You prepare for all raids as best as you can.
- You watch and/or read boss strategies provided to you by raid leaders ahead of time.
- You bring all needed gear for any specs you use in raid, all fully repaired.
- You bring the necessary consumables with you for the entire raid, even if some are provided to you.
- You review your logs and other tools to help you get better for the next raid.
- You continuously work on your specs and rotations to improve your DPS/HPS output.
Communicate
You communicate with respect and consideration.
- You let leaders know at least 1 hour before raid time if you’re going to be late or absent.
- You can communicate in voice chat as needed in a respectful way.
- You know to keep yourself muted when appropriate.
- You ask (you do not tell) your raid leaders to suggest tweaks and pivots to a raid encounter.
- You review any questions or concerns with your Raid Leaders or Raid Assistants after or before the raid privately.
Raid Chats for Communication
To communicate any lateness, absence, or emergencies, please use the appropriate raid chat and make sure to TAG the LEADERS (@Leaders) in those chats so that all raid leads, officers, senior officers, co-GMs, and GM are equally notified with enough time to allow us to try to fill that spot ahead of time. Please use the correct chat for your approved raid teams below.
Bench Cleared Players
Bench cleared players do not have to let the leaders know in the same way as primary roster players, but they are on ‘STANDBY” by default. They can just set themselves as absent if they are not going to be online in the wowaudit raid signups respective to their raids.
The “3 Strikes” Rule
For the Mythic team especially, but this also can apply to all raid teams, maintaining a certain level of attendance is an absolute necessity. As such, we have developed a “3 Strikes” rule by which we measure attendance and general conduct.
If you fail to keep to the code listed above, your raid leader may issue a strike against you. That is documented in our Master Spreadsheet in the Members List tab (scrolling to the right) and is visible to all members. After some time, that strike can fall off at the Raid Leader’s discretion. The consequences are as follows:
STRIKE ONE
A discussion with a raid manager, raid leader, or raid assistant about the incident and the first strike is recorded.
STRIKE TWO
If the first strike hasn’t fallen off, you get benched from the team for one week period.
STRIKE THREE
If the first or second strike hasn’t fallen off, you get removed from the raid team.