Beggy raiders inc?

1. Most of the tier 5 raids will still be the traditional first come, first serve, open to the public funness
However.
I'm considering having a SET raiding crew for the tier 6 raids. A group of people who will be able to log on at (x) times when (x) tier 6 raids are chedualed, and be able to become a consistant raid crew.
2. I'm considering implimenting a DKP system for the Tier 6 raids. This will NOT be a system that will keep the same people on top and I'm dedicated to keeping it so that everyone within our raid-group will get loot, as well as give anyone who we pick up just as much as a shot as the biggest tank.


What do you guys think in regards to this?

Well Beegy. Juggy thinks many things. I posted a small responce on your thread, but here I will post the raw uncensored flame the hell outa juggy thoughts:

First: I told you so =P
Seriously... I always suspected it would come down to this. Raiding is an addiction and you will always want more, and stronger stuff. t5 is pot, and perscriptions, soon you will want the hardstuff. What to do to get the hardstuff? You need other addicts to help you.

How can this be acomplished in a Beegy way? Well I would suggest a very similar policy to Juggy's open raiding policy for Defiance while we were recruiting. Be forwarned that this is 99% likely to end up forming its own guild.
Hand pick your friends and make a core group. This should be all those that are essential to the raid. Your MT group: Tank, healers and 2 or 3 buffers / debuffers. This should be 7-8 people who share your vision. In my expierences being part of the core group would make me want some sort of preferential treatment simply because I'd be busting my ass out there every night, and watching the super rare server discovery go to someone who showed up once and won't come back would hurt. As such you will need people in the core who will at least start out as wanting to just raid for the fun of raiding.
Next I suggest a very similar open raiding policy to what I did with Defiance. Allow anyone to come fill the spots you need, make a channel for interested parties from any guild to join that you can shout "I need 2 of X type of Z level" in.

THE LOOT: Here is where you are opening yourself up to trouble. DKP allows for rewarding those who are dedicated and help out every night over those who come once a week or less. And I believe rightly so.
Random rewards those who come every now and then and has the potential to piss off the guy who raided every day for 3 weeks looking for a particular item that just got won by someone who raided once and never will again.

WHY THIS WILL BECOME A GUILD: Addiction. Your core group will eventualy become addicted and you/they will want/need to be geared up as best as possible for the harder and harder mobs. This is not a perfect world and we are dealing with humans so this will lead to some kind of favoritism / pride rightly so for the core group. As you raid more and more you will get regulars who will share this pride. Eventualy it is doomed to become a guild for reliability and friendship reasons.

Face it Beegy, you are going to have to make Beegy raiders inc.


OTHER INTERSTING SIDE EFFECTS

Some interesting things to note about this Beeglin. You are in a very interesting situation. You are proving infront of the entire server the evolution of raiding. I find it facinating the circle that is coming complete.

• You started with Defiance as a guest raider on an open raiding policy designed to recruit.
  
• You opted not to recruit with the idea that you wanted to raid while staying in your own guild.
  
• Things worked better than you had ever hoped! (congrats by the way)
• You have become so addicted that you want to try harder stuff.
• To try harder stuff you need consistancy, a core group and schedualed raids.
• You are proposing a policy VERY similar to the open raiding policy that was used to start you down your path.
• Soon that group of core raiders will band togather into a guild and you will be recruiting (however unintentionaly) through your open raiding policy the same as Defiance did.

Thus a raiding guild is borne :)

(I wonder who will leave beegy raiders inc to make their own group of pickup raids and start the cycle again? bleu?)