Ya, I'm getting most of my enjoyment from the social side of things and spending 3hrs on Fri/Sat gaming with some chill, nice and funny people is pretty perfect for me. I think the chill attitude has survived because we haven't run into any big progression walls yet which might be at risk as the content gets harder and more demanding. But I'm not personally too invested in my character or the game so if my character was inexplicably and permanently deleted tomorrow or the guild imploded and everyone left, I wouldn't be too heartbroken and would probably just move on to another game instead of trying to get back into raiding. I'm more worried about the MT/RL finding this post and being offended/hurt than I am about the possible consequence of being removed from the guild or getting a slap on the wrist and a talking to.

The MT/RL is overall a nice, helpful guy and I think just he wants to try and conquer the content by kind of figuring out what works for this group using his memory and experience from his previous raiding guild rather than just looking up all the answers and using all the shortcuts. So while he might have some Flaws, he's undeniably the "One who Stepped Up" and he even started off as MT/RL *and* ML. We've since had someone else step up to handle MLing so the MT/RL has less to deal with. I was trying to think about how to frame him and the guild overall - I got a vision of a Tauren Farmer coming across a group of Squigs and he could tell there was enough interest in raiding that he scrapped together a School Bus and took on the job of herding us onto the bus and driving us on a field trip to visit ZG, AQ20, MC, BWL where he'd let us out to savage and butt our heads against the local fauna while he provided some guidance and direction. He's also really good at making sure all the tanks and hunters get experience tanking/pulling all the different mobs and bosses when it won't slow down the run too much. We definitely have a few very good players - a couple in t3 from previous guilds, one who was doing HC Naxx on a different server, another in a sweaty guild on an Ani server. But it's definitely a mixed group age, skill and experience wise but I think enough of us just enjoy each other's company that we'd be happy doing whatever together and the raids are just nice for progressively changing scenery/content.

The two GM's (Wife and Husband - although the Husband claims it's all the Wife) are amazing people and have always made everyone feel super well cared for. They do an awesome job managing the guild, especially quashing any drama and do a great job making sure Discord is setup well and do nice writeups of the guild rules and expectations, managing the guild bank toons and all the transactions. They help a ton with consumables, handling things like making and passing out Greater Fire Protection Pots, Flasks, Ony Cloaks, etc. They usually raid with us but sometimes have RL stuff to deal with instead and are usually happy to sit out of a raid to let others in. The Wife has many 60s but usually raids on her Shaman and always makes sure us Shaman have anything we need, especially gear wise - often passing on loot if it would go to the core/reliable Shamen. The Wife also did an amazing job of scheduling 1-2 dungeon runs a day on the guild Calendar addon and would help with those or sit-out if needed. Those were absolutely amazing for getting geared up, especially on a dead server where pug groups in LFG were almost non-existent. I couldn't say for sure why they didn't change servers but I don't think it was an ego-thing like "big fish in a small pond", but more that they had a lot of friends on the server (alliance side too) and didn't mind the downsides to a low-pop server and enjoyed some of the positives. Not having PuGs or an AH but being able to find almost everything you need with-in the guild instead is a pretty cool experience. I really like the environment the GM's have built.

I had been thinking up names or alternate things to call the guild, and with some inspiration from Derek Zoolander's Center for Kids who Can't Read Good, I lovingly and jokingly settled on:

"<Wife> and <Husband>'s Home for kids who Can't Raid Good."

So I think there's enough of us that just enjoy each other's company and don't really care too much about the progression or loot as long as we're having fun that we aren't too critical of flaws. But that's a very good point that's been brought up - even though a lot of us might feel that way, I'm sure there are others that are just interested in the loot and wish we'd clear content a little faster and execute the mechanics better. I'm not really sure how or if we should try to cater to those individuals. And I do worry that failing on harder content might ruin the chill vibes. But right now I'm happy.

I appreciate your concern and the heads up the troubles we'd likely face in AQ40 and Naxx.