Epic Puck

I have talked about the application known to BrotherHood members as PRC – Puck’s Ready Check. 

It simply consumes the XML data from the WowArmory. It presents itself in an XML file as well with a bit of XSL in order to make itself slightly more pretty than XML alone

How does it work?

Every twelve hours, an automated task requests the BrotherHood guild roster from the Armory. The scheduled task then trolls the list and requests from the Armory each member’s raid achievements, their armor and their spec. BrotherHood uses EPGP for its looting system. Based on the GP formula, the Ready Check application produces a GP value for the gear of each member. A Gear Score, if you will, is produced.

I personally don’t think gear scores tell you much about a player but that is all we have before we raid or group with any player.

Also based on the GP formula, each raid zone in the game has a maximum GP value because of the ilvl of the drops from that zone.

Puck’s Ready Check then sorts the roster and the zones to show players where their possible next drop could come from based on their gear alone.

Contact me directly if you are interested in this for your guild.

Patch 3.3.2 is released today. A few buffs for the Boomkin, Warlocks and Elemental Shaman are revealed. Further, the Lich King encounter is made available.

BrotherHood plowed two teams (10 and 25) past Saurfang and into the Crimson Halls to get a good look at the Princes.

The Blood Princes encounter is going to be fun

Ok Puck, so you may think i’m being picky as hell here, but i have been wanting to mention this to you since the 25 man last week where we had so much trouble on marrowgar and then again on ToGC Anub’arak Sun. night.

So here goes.

When you say to the raid ‘You all are starting to get it’, for example, it sounds to the rest of the raid as if you are just patiently waiting for the 9 or 24 dummies in the raid to catch up with you in skill, knowledge and understanding, but that you always doing everything exactly right.

So here is why I bring it up, even if you ARE always doing everything right, I think the perception that is conveyed is that you and the 9 or 24 other raiders are two different groups.

Instead of saying inclusive things such as ‘We’re starting to get this guys’ , ‘We can do this’ or ‘Lets figure out what we are doing wrong’, by not including yourself and using You or You guys instead of We, it sounds more accusatory and divisive than teamworky and inclusive.

So maybe not a huge deal in the grand scheme of things, but I know lately you’ve mentioned being concerned with how your words are coming across to the raid. And this, to me, always stands out everytime you put us in one group and yourself in another rather than all 10 or 25 being one team.

Semantics. But perception sometimes means more than one thinks.

I hope that this does not ruffle your feathers, as it is not intended to do so. My intention was solely to bring something to your attention that kinda ruffles mine, that you likely were unaware was being interpreted in a negative way.

Do with it what you will, thank you for taking a moment to hear my unsolicited opinon on this matter.

Sometimes, when we lead, we listen to ourselves but we don’t hear us like others do. I am thankful for the people who tell me how I can be a better leader.

as a developer, raid leader and task ridden gnome … I really like Remember the Milk.  It plugs into my Iphone.  The windows app side is not kludgy.

I really like this app!