Introduction

This blog is about the making of (what I think) a quite special World of Warcraft endgame raiding guild, Aphorism. I am not the best writer, heck I think I am not even a decent one, but this is not an amusing blog :-). This blog is an attempt to give the few people out there with the guts to make a guild from scratch, a pragmatic view of what it involves to make a guild like Aphorism.

The first question that should popped in your head is what is Aphorism? Aphorism is an endgame progression guild, that raids only 3 times a week, 4 hours per night. It enjoys reasonable progress (around top 500 in the world) and is an almost drama free environment (less than 1 incident per year). Raiding happens in the allotted times; extensions are rare and happen only in special circumstances and only after the consensus of everyone in the raid. All in all I strongly believe, Aphorism is the ideal guild for the WoW raider with a significant other, a dog and a job.

The second question, is "Who the h*ll is this guy?" It is Disht or Dishto in game, one of the founding members of Aphorism and GM ever since. At least now you know you are getting your information straight from the source.

And finally the third question that you would ask (and should ask) is "Why on earth would I want to give this winning recipe to others?" It is quite simple, really. I know Aphorism is a unique guild. I know Aphorism is the perfect guild for the WoW raider with other hobbies as well. And I want all of those people to experience this. Alas, we can't recruit all these people. Neither do we want to. Neither do they want to transfer realms. Or in some cases they just can't. As a software engineer I learnt to shard problems and parallelize them in order to solve them in a large scale. And this is exactly what I want to do with Aphorism. Copy it all over the world and give everyone the core ideas and direction to make this possible. This is the only way to make hundreds if not thousands of people experience what we experience in every raiding day.

In the weeks to come I will be blogging about the steps, decisions and crossroads I have gone through the making of Aphorism. Until then, stay tuned for the next installment.