Raid Research - Player personality types

[zYN]

In co-operation with Raiding Research, we're trying to do a personality type study on players playing in raiding guilds. The tool used is the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, which in our experience is able to produce good data with very little variation from test to test for the same person.

We'd like the MMO-Champion readers to help us out in this one!

Greetings! My name is Ladan and I'm a PhD research student based in the UK (at Durham University) and I'm researching World of Warcraft and WoW raiders in particular. My research site is http://www.raidingresearch.co.uk. Some of you may already be aware of the research I've been doing on the raiding culture and what distinguishes us from other gamers.

What should you do:

1. First off, please complete the test: http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp.

Note: There are slightly different tests and I'm sure some may be better than this one, but to make this as accurate as possible, we want everyone to take the same test--also it only takes about 5 minutes at the most, so that's not too painful.

2. Respond to this post with your resulting personality type. You can PM Xenophics or myself (at Ladan here) if you prefer privacy. The personality test result should look something like this:


Your Type is: INFJ

Introverted Intuitive Feeling Judging

Strength of the preferences %

11 62 50 33

(FYI, that's my personality type... scary, I know.)

3. Then include the following info:

** Gender (M/F, pretty sure I didn’t need to explain this… :P)
** Type of server (eg: PVP/PVE/RP, etc)
** Horde or alliance and race (e.g. Horde/Blood Elf)
** Main class and spec played during raids (e.g. Priest: Shadow)
** Language and location of server (eg: EU-English, EU-Russian, etc.)
** A brief description of your type of raiding guild (e.g.: hard core, social/casual, elite, etc.)

NOTE on this: I've given some examples below of types of raiding guilds but feel free to come up with a different description or a hybrid of what I've suggested below--these definitions are troublesome, as I know you'd agree.

NOTE: What do I mean by hard core, elite and social/casual guilds?

HARD CORE: A guild that is primarily focused on raiding, is competitive and generally reaches high rankings on its server or their region (top 100, for example). This guild expects full or majority attendance (majority is something like 80% of the time) on its progress raiding nights. Hard core guilds are often extremely sociable in nature and do other things beyond raiding but raiding is its primary reason for existence.

ELITE: This is a guild that has achieved world or regional firsts in major raiding achievements (such as world first in the LK kill or US first on the Algalon kill). They are basically hard core in nature but they’ve reached an even higher level of achievement.

SOCIAL/CASUAL: A guild that is focused on raiding but also has social elements (social members, other activities beyond raiding) and generally a more forgiving schedule for guild members' personal lives (families, work, school, etc.). It aims to achieve success in raiding but may not be as focused on high rankings or a strict attendance requirement. Like its hard core counterpart, social/casual guilds are often very competitive in nature and have skilled raiders but may have to accept a slightly lower success rate to accommodate its members and schedule.


Thanks! Now go test your personality. J And BE HONEST! There is no wrong personality type.

The original thread is here if you're interested. You can post the results either on this thread on MMO-Champ or on our forums at http://paragon.fi


It's fairly interesting and surprisingly accurate stuff. You can do the test within your own guilds to see if you have certain patterns emerging with players, then post the results here.

For a list and description of the different personality types, you can check the sites here or here.

[taekvideo]

Your Type is
INTJ
Introverted Intuitive Thinking Judging
Strength of the preferences %
67 50 12 1

M
pvp
horde/bloodelf
paladin... done ret/holy and starting tank in cata
US-English
I wouldn't really call it a casual guild, but the way you defined social/casual fits it well.

[Funkymonk]

Your Type is
ESFJ
Extraverted Sensing Feeling Judging
Strength of the preferences %
67 12 19 33

M
pvp
horde/undead
priest, Disc main, dont raid, pvp only
US-English
Social/Pvp guild, started out as a group of RL friends, guild has since grown to include other people we have enjoyed pvping with.

[MusikDisaster]

Your Type is
INFP
Introverted Intuitive Feeling Perceiving
Strength of the preferences %
11 12 50 33

M
PVE
Horde/Blood Elf
Mage, Arcane DPS
US-English
Social Guild, our motto has always been "We accept everyone!". Once the largest guild on the server with at least ten people online at any point in time, now nearly dead. I wish it could go back to the way it used to be, but I refuse to give up on it. I love raiding but Raiding Guild attitudes are too elitist, even when they're not hardcore.

[Khoulle]

Do a test solely on Jubei'thos Horde. You'll find that 97% of the players there are jerks.

[GuyWithFace]

Introverted Intuitive Thinking Judging

Strength of the preferences %

67 88 38 67

Male
PvE
Horde/Orc
DK - DPS/Tank even split
US - English
Casual hardcore; We only raid three nights a week, try to keep a family-friendly atmosphere, but do our absolute best at progression, and are always trying to better ourselves.

[johngalt314]

Your Type is
INTJ
Introverted Intuitive Thinking Judging
Strength of the preferences %
33 38 12 11

M
PVP
Alliance
Mage (arcane)
US-English
Hard Core

[Ciah]

Isn't this rather self-selecting, posting a survey on a forum where people typically very interested in WoW news frequent? I would figure this forum caters to a very specific subset of players.

[Rayvene]

ENTJ
56, 62, 38, 56

M
PVE
Alliance \ Human
Paladin, Retribution
US - English
By your definitions, Casual fits us best. We only raid 3 nights a week and have fairly lax attendance standards but we do fairly well in terms of progression.

[Marymary]

Introverted Sensing Thinking Judging
Strength of the preferences %
78 12 12 33


F
PVE
Alliance Night Elf
Druid: Balance
US: english
Hard Core

[BossManRoth]

Type:
ENTJ
Extraverted Intuitive Thinking Judging
Strength of the preferences%
56 12 25 56

M
PvE
Horde/Orc
Warrior - Tank
US-English
Semi-casual, solid raiding group, with alot of casuals and socials

[CarnatiaSpiritfield]

ESFJ
Extraverted Sensensing Feeling Judging
Strength of the preferences %
11 1 38 44

** Gender: M
** Type of server: RP
** Alliance, Night Elf
** Druid and Balance is played the most
** US-English
** Social/Casual, but as well very serious about raiding, very serious. But extremely understanding to family issues.

[GuyWithFace]

Isn't this rather self-selecting, posting a survey on a forum where people typically very interested in WoW news frequent? I would figure this forum caters to a very specific subset of players.

Just take a look at all of the replies so far: everyone seems to have very different results.

[Siraeyou]

Your Type is
INTJ
Introverted Intuitive Thinking Judging
Strength of the preferences %
56 50 25 89

M
PvP
Horde/ Undead
Rogue, Assassination
US- English
Hard Core

[Daetur]

Your Type is
ISTJ
Introverted Sensing Thinking Judging
Strength of the preferences %
78 25 50 56
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** Gender: F
** Type of server : PvP
** Horde or alliance and race: Alliance, Night Elf
** Main class and spec played during raids : Male 2h Frost Death Knight
** Language and location of server: English, US Chromaggus
** A brief description of your type of raiding guild: We are small and close-knit, push Heroic content when possible, but do not consider ourselves "Harcore." We are 10m only, and are currently 11/12 Hardmodes in 10m ICC. So, I suppose-- Hard Core + Social.

[Hadisabeast]

Type:
ISTP
Introverted Sensing Thinking Percieving
Strength of the preferences %
67 12 12 22

M
PVP
Ally/Draenei
DK - All specs about evenly, no real outstanding spec.
US-English
Casual

[Zinnin]

Your Type is
INTJ
Introverted Intuitive Thinking Judging
Strength of the preferences %
78 88 88 1

Male
Pve
Alliance Human
Affliction Warlock
US-English
Hardcore Raiding

[Khoulle]

ESFJ
Extraverted, Sensing, Feeling, Judging
56 - 12 - 38 - 11
M
PvP
Horde - Orc
Shaman - Elemental
Social/Casual - I like to raid, but not seriously. I log on and do raids with friends and/or guildies or just PuG them. We also do a little non-serious arenas and bgs. We tend to screw around a lot, doing things like raiding Westfall etc that do nothing for our characters etc. We find it fun, I guess...

[placeholdername]

INFP
Introverted Intuitive Feeling Perceiving

# slightly expressed introvert
# distinctively expressed intuitive personality
# moderately expressed feeling personality
# slightly expressed perceiving personality

Strength of the preferences %
11 75 38 11

Male
PVE
Horde/ Undead
Rogue, Combat dps
English-US

We're pretty hardcore, though friendly and relatively laid back. We consistently clear high-end content, but we're very welcoming to socials and applicants.

[Lethill]

INTP
Introverted Intuitive Thinking Perceiving
100 25 75 22

M.
RP-PvP.
Horde, Blood Elf.
Death Knight - Frost.
EU-English.
Social/Casual.