*sigh* I think guild drama is inevitable.  Since Shattered Moon’s guild leader, Krylle took a leave of absence the guild has been runing under a leadership council, of which I am a member of. We have been raiding five nights a week for almost 6 weeks now and it’s starting to take its total on the more casual members of the guild.

One of the concil decided he couldn’t do it anymore and  felt we should elect one member of the council as a full time leader. That caused the council to erupt when Avic wanted to turn the guild into a raid guild. That in turn caused half the council to quit.

I being unaware of all  drama, log in to find that Avic left to form his own raiding guild. A few of the more hardcore raiders lefts with him as well as a few people who didn’t want to  deal with any drama.

What a mess.  Everything is pretty much back in place, except we have lost our raid tank, and about 10% of our more active members.

I should have seen this coming, because it happens enough.

A small group gets together and forms a guild.
They recruit like mad.
As a wave of people level up, they want to try more and more challenging content.
Some of the people don’t have the time to commit to nightly raids/groups.
Now there are not enough people to raid, so the raid folks split off.

It’s almost like a sun forming. When the guild reaches that critical mass, it either morphs into a red dwarf (raid guild) or goes supernova (splinters). Sometimes the remaining people are to few and it just becomes a dead guild like my former guild.

I’m just glad we have a large enough base to weather out the storm.  Now it will be a matter of recruiting a few more poeple including a few raid worthy tanks for our once a week raids.