What does it take to really arrive as a prominent member of the guild? Number 1 is commitment!
Commitment can mean many things, it can mean spending time devoted to activities with guild mates. It could mean putting that bind on equip item into the guild bank instead of selling it for profit. It could mean sacrificing personal raid progression to help the greater good of your own guild raid team.
There are plenty of examples but as we can see, it’s all about balancing your own personal gameplay while considering the needs of the guild you love. It’s easy for me to sit and ramble on about committing to the guild when that’s pretty much all I have done for the last 4 years but I’m not silly enough to assume everyone else around has the same thought process as myself.
What I would say tho, is that when someone comes along (and its more often than you might think) that shares this determined, selfless mentality to push for the good of the guild, it shines brighter than that focused lightning someone dropped in the pool that wiped your group on Jin’rokh.
I can see these types of people a mile off since they display a certain calmness about their desire to help. They don’t pester the guild leader with all the amazing things they’ve done or will do because they have no agenda to push. People who are true leaders will see the work we have done with the guild and trust that their own efforts will be noticed and encouraged in time if they remain patient but crucially, they don’t do it for reward or recognition…they just do it. Good leaders are happy to follow until their time comes to lead, all the while displaying their qualities by setting examples.
A clever player knows that when dealing with my style of guild leading, it’s all about actions rather than talk. I’ve spoken to my fair share of talkers but its the walkers who I pay attention to. Sure i encourage people with great plans and ideas about what they’re gonna do, but really I am hoping the words will become actions. Walk the walk and I will see you 🙂
Think of what it is that you do to sacrifice your own gameplay for the good of others, even if its something as simple as setting up a battleground run in the guild or spamming /gchat before pugging a heroic scenario. Think of these types of things and do them more.
You can grow the mentality to be a Dambuster, it’s easily learned but you have to want it. If this post speaks to you then you bet your ass its aimed squarely at you!
/Salute
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