RG1 Queue - Who We Use

[TeaLeaf]

I have said this many times before, but for those who follow the Marhsall's section here is a response of mine to one of their current problems.

A recent RG1 raid ended up taking all of the RG2 queue.  So when the RG2 queue officer went to pull in replacements (he thought he had loads in the queue) they were all gone.

I firmly believe that we should not take Soldiers or RG2 members into RG1 and you know I have held this position for a long time.

I can think of one Soldier in particular (Hikz) who has whispered me at *every* RG1 raid that I can remember over the past 3 months yet over the same 3 month period has only been available to RG2 3 times. :blink:

We need to support RG2 by not taking members into our raid from their pool of players.  Soldiers see it as easy epix and deliberately queue with our raid and not with RG2.  

It is our responsibility to solve RG1's attendance problems ourselves, we should not dump them onto RG2 unless we have exceptional circumstances to deal with.  If we habitually use Soldiers it is and will be a problem for the whole Guild.

Where we feel the exceptional need to use a Soldier for RG1 then we should seek and gain the agreement of the Marshalls *before* we take that member into the raid as the Soldier would and should be in the RG2 queue.

TL.

I have already had a chat with other FMs about this.  

I do not believe that RG1 should take *any* Soldiers into RG1.  There are a number of obvious reasons for this.  However, it is also one of the things that kicked off the recent departures.  I will post in FM section to confirm that we should not do it.  If you've ever been in one of the raids I lead you will know I do not want Soldiers or RG2 members in the raid - it leads to loot problems, jealousy and at the end of the day weakens RG2's standing.  

You have my full support in this matter and I will do what I can to ensure that RG1 does not take Soldiers full stop and does not take members from your queue.  RG1's attendance problems are their own and should not be transferred to RG2.

TL.

[Padding]

Unless we suddenly pick up pace after vacations etc, we are gonna be short in the future on RG1 also. Only thing i can think of that might work, is follow the RG2 example and bump the players pr. class to a higher number.
 
One more thing we could do is cut the players that doesnt meet the requirements for RG1 and recruit new
 
Frankly i dont think any of the two options is very good, so im interested to hear if others have better ideas?

[Ragnarh]

RG2 wil no be taking in soliders for raids. Soliders are non raiders.
Let them have the same problems as RG1.