Loot List MaintenanceIn the interests of keeping the loot list clean of inactive names, we will be instituting a new policy starting with the next raid (Tuesday, Apr. 27 2010). The details of this policy are as follows:
- If you provide no notice to officers of an absence from raiding, be it due to computer problems, work/school issues, or just plain burnout, and you do not
sign up for any raids for
5 weeks straight, you will be removed from the loot rotation list.
- If you do provide notice of an absence from raiding, regardless of the reason, and do not
sign up for any raids for
10 weeks straight, you will be removed from the loot rotation list.
There are a few different ideas behind these policies. One, they are meant to act as a kind of (very, very loose) attendance policy - if you disappear for 5 weeks, you aren't showing us the dedication that we want to see for someone who we're giving an active raiding spot to. If you have to be gone for 10 weeks, that's a very long time to be unable to raid and, regardless of why you may be gone, it seems in the best interests of keeping our raiders active that we need to take you off the loot rotation list. Two, these policies will also allow us to keep the list cleaner by getting inactive names off of it. Three, these policies should make it much clearer the process behind why people are taken off the loot rotation, and subsequently make that process much cleaner in the future. If these limits seem tight to you, please keep in mind that, with 3-4 raids a week, 10 weeks is a very large number of raids to miss. It's over 2 months of no raids, in fact.
Regarding the providing of notice that differentiates between the 5-week and 10-week limit: the providing of notice is, essentially, the same we're asking with regard to providing notice if you can't make a raid and can't cancel. Leave a message on the forums, pass it along through a guildie - it doesn't need to be very long, just let us know you'll be gone for awhile, and give us some kind of reasoning - burnout, work, school, just something short so we know why you're gone. As long as we have that, you'll have 10 weeks to get back to raiding and still be able to retain your spot on the loot rotation.
As with the rotation docks for being late to raids without notice, there will be no appeals when it comes to lost spots in the loot rotation. As long as you raid, recovering your spot should not be terribly difficult - the list moves faster than it may look =)
Raider Rank MaintenanceAlso involved with this policy will be another new rule regarding the Raider rank. We'd like to keep people ranked as Raiders active, so we can have a better idea of our active raiding roster, and make sure that active raiders are being properly rewarded for their activity with Raider-level signup priority. To that end, we will have similar rules about the Raider rank:
- If you are ranked Raider, and provide no notice of your absence from raiding, regardless of the reason, and you do not
sign up for any raids for
5 weeks straight, you will be demoted to Guild Friend.
- If you are ranked Raider, and do provide notice of your absence from raiding, regardless of the reason, and you do not
sign up for any raids for
10 weeks straight, you will be demoted to Guild Friend.
These are, as is apparent, the same limits as those put on the loot rotation spots. Again, these limits can be seen as carrying a small sense of an attendance policy to them, albeit a very loose one. We don't want to end up having to cancel raids due to low numbers, and in order to put a stop to that we need to make sure we keep our numbers active - or, if our numbers are unwilling to be active, demote them and find others who are. These demotions, however, will not be irreversible.
What To Do If You're DemotedIf you return from an absence to find yourself demoted, here are the steps you should take to get re-promoted to Raider, if you're interested in returning to active raiding:
1)
Talk to your class captain and make sure your class/spec has room. In most cases this will probably be true, but it's up to the discretion of that class captain. A list of the class captains can be found
here.2)
Sign up for a raid. We want to know that you are serious about returning as an active raider, so consider this a gesture in that spirit. If you don't get in, that's alright - just be present when invites are going out, in case we need a replacement.
3)
At the end of the raid, providing there are no apparent problems that would impede your return to being an active raider, you will be re-promoted to Raider. This will still happen even if you did not get into the raid in question - if you can't be around at the end of the raid for whatever reason, please make sure you let your class captain or an officer know so that they can take care of your re-promotion the next time you're able to be online.
That's all there is to the process. If for some reason you are unable to be re-promoted - perhaps your class is full, perhaps your gear is just too behind our current raiding level, maybe you're just rusty - there are still options available to you. If your class is full, you can still get into raids as a Guild Friend, working as a reserve, or look into a main change to a sufficiently-geared alt; if your gear is behind, you can do some instances/lower-tier raids to get it where it needs to be, then repeat the process; if you're rusty, get a little practice and try again =) Though possible, most of these situations will be unlikely if you are serious about being an active raider, so don't worry overmuch.
