Screamer Type
These raid leaders are easily characterized by their quick, and often harsh, criticism of raid fails, and even sometimes criticizing their victories. These people have the will to push their group to the absolute limit of their abilities. They will push until their Core members either become unstoppable or collapse under the pressure. Burn out can occur more quickly with someone like this at the helm, so they tend to work best with groups that run a lighter schedule. This style of leadership will squeeze the absolute maximum out of every minute of those raiding nights. The best of this type know every fight inside and out and have very methodical strategies prepared for each fight.
Ideal Raiders for this style
Screamers will want to handpick their raiders carefully. You need people who are there to push their skills to the limit; people who are aiming to show off, raid casually, or loot whore won't last under your guidance.
Pitfalls
While you can push your people to the limit and beyond, make sure you don't forget that there are actually living people controlling the other characters in raid. Give them a break sometimes, and make sure that they are having fun. You're going to face a high turnover rate of Core members and anything you can do to slow this down will greatly help your progression. Also be certain that you acknowledge your own mistakes, and always be well researched on the fights. People will put up with the whip-cracking as long as they believe that it will get results.
Cocky Type
These raid leaders are characterized by their tendency to assume everyone already knows what they are doing so lets just do it. These people provide the most relaxed raiding atmosphere typically, until things begin to fail, and puts the most faith in the competence of their raiders. Unlike the Screamer, the Cocky Type won't typically try to hand-hold or overly coordinate a boss strategy. "Everyone knows what to do, so lets just do it." is a very common phrase from someone of this leadership style.
Ideal Raiders for this style
When looking to run through everything as if everyone knows the fights already, you're going to need people who are willing to put in the time to research. You'll need adaptable raiders who are ready to flow with flexible approaches to an encounter. Unlike the screamer, you don't need people who are determined to push it to the limit, in fact they are likely to bail with a Raid Leader of this style. You need people who are okay with some encounters being a bit more chaotic than they could be, and not looking to for direction to the most optimal approach.
Pitfalls
The downfall of any Raid Leader of this category is almost always in willpower. When fights start going poorly, they are often very quick to call it a night and come back another time. To be successful as this type of raid leader you need to know when its time to lay down the law and fall back on a different style.
Tactician Type
These raid leaders are characterized by an extremely analytical approach to raiding. They will take any fight and break down each of its components to understand the precise implications. They will coordinate healing strategies straight down to the arsenal of spells they expect each healer in their raid to be using. When a wipe occurs there will often be a long discussion about each problem that lead to that wipe, and adjustments will be made. They will swap people out, ask people to switch roles, and sometimes completely alter the approach from the 'Standard' methodology.
Ideal Raiders for this style
As a Tactician Type leader you need people who are very motivated to achieving goals as a Guild. You also need people who are highly critical of their own performance during raid. You function on this information and it is the only way you'll be able to figure out why you've been struggling on a given boss fight. Your raiders will need to be thick-skinned and ready to put their pride aside when you have to tell them they aren't fitting in the big picture.
Pitfalls
Similar to the Screamer, you'll often objectify your raiders and forget that they are still human behind that screen. You'll almost certainly want to have a second officer assisting on Raid nights, particularly to act as a buffer between you and the other raiders. While the solution may seem very clear to you, not everyone is going to like you telling them that they aren't performing. Try to remember tact as much as possible, because raiders are likely to head for greener pastures if you continuously dehumanize them.
Anybody able to think of additional Raid Leader Archetypes? Put them in the comments, flesh them out if you want, otherwise I will try my best to put up a similar analysis for each.
