Intro

My name is Choice and I am a member in a World of Warcraft guild that is consistently in the top 10 on my server. Not usually first, but, in a good enough position to have our accomplishments envied by the majority of players out there.

What this means in practical terms is that we kill all the bosses and even most of the hard modes in a respectable time frame (within a few weeks of server first or sooner). Raids are 4 nights a week and 4ish hours a raid. This doesn't include personal time used to get ready for raids, run the auction house, or do any "casual" things like holiday or daily quests. We are friends (mostly), but we constantly recruit new members and push out the members who do not perform.

In the original WoW and the Burning Crusade expansion this guild would have been called "Hardcore" In the Wrath of the Lich King expansion the term "Hardcore-Casual Guild" was coined and fits nicely. As things stand now, a hardcore guild is one who accepts no failure or inability to help the guild progress. A hardcore-casual guild has friends and family raiding with them, and while they have set raid times, they do not harshly punish members who aren't the best of the best. A casual guild is one whose focus is more on friends and the social aspect of the game than downing the pve content.

I plan on posting the things I learn from my time playing WoW. Hopefully it will be interesting to somebody out there. Expect posts on making gold, raiding and general attitude of the player-base on a server.