I had another post started for today but I decided to change it because yesterday an event happened which I wanted to write about - both in form and in concept.  We had a guild meeting.  Now, Lightwalkers has had guild meetings in the past as have many guilds but I’ve ever been part of one, never gotten to see what such an event would be like and I walked away today with the feeling that I had learned a very profound lesson.

We had decided to have the guild meeting to outline our plans for Wrath and to talk through how we, as a guild lead, wanted to steer the guild over the course of the next expansion.   We have some changes happening to dkp, signups and guild philosophy to discuss as well as to put into action the new ranks system we’d started.

I must admit - I did not expect such a large turn out.  The number of people at this event apparently trumped the number at the last.  We met up in Winterspring and had to change venues from the Hot Spring near Donova Snowden to one ‘across the road’ as there wasn’t enough space. I think we ended up with around 47 or 48 people - an old-school raid with a few to spare!

Putting it at the hot springs was a good idea too - whilst people waited they got naked (or as naked as WoW allows) and had fun splashing around, or fished, or generally joked around.

When the meeting ’started’ officially we all sat around Stalwart who was leading the proceedings.  There’s something so different about sitting ‘physically’ in front of someone which focuses people and really brings a sense of community.

The other big bonus is that we could sit and talk about issues which were bugging people in a less contentious situation.  We were all chilled and relaxed and the admin team could explain our reasoning a lot better over voice-chat than if we had just made forum posts and we could also answer individual worries and queries.

All-in-all I think the whole thing was a rather positive experience and I’d reccomend it to any guild who is perhaps having trouble getting people together or just feel that they want some activity to bring the guild together.

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