So since a healer and a dps suddenly had to step out, we’ve found another healer and dps that seem completely capable of replacing them. Both performed very well in raid today. 

However, that doesn’t seem to be enough. One of our other healers had posted out today, so we were already low. Another healer was previously involved in drama and apparently decided to just stop showing up. And one more healer had a sudden power outage and couldn’t even tell us what happened. We went from 5 healers to 2 today, and we couldn’t do many bosses as a result. Two people stepped up to healing, from normally dps roles, and they did very well. It was thanks to them that we were able to do the bosses we did today. But it wasn’t enough for us to do the later bosses that we should totally have been able to do. 

Some things worry me: 1) are people getting burned out? Today’s atmosphere was a bit better, but I could also tell there were people who were annoyed we weren’t progressing. 2) will the new recruits not want to stay since they may feel upset about our roster issues? 3) I obviously need more people, am I going to get them in time? And then 4) there’s the latent issue of certain guildies who have been upset at me because I didn’t punish people involved in drama, and I know I haven’t made them feel like I felt their advice recently was great and I wanted to take it.

Some things that I think are good. 1) I was able to chat a bit today, taking a page from what I did during the achievement run yesterday, and just asking people crossword puzzle questions, which I think amused some people. 2) there are some people I’ve been worried about who seem more likely to think well enough of themselves they’re more apt to wonder if we are good enough for them, but many of them seemed positive and to get along very well with others in guild, so unless things are terrible I don’t think they’d leave. 3) some people seem very motivated to help me, and are encouraging, and talking to them is lovely.

Sigh. Feels a bit like slogging forward, but at least I’m a tiny bit less in a rut today than I was yesterday!