New Guild, New Issues
Posted 06-20-2009 at 06:19 PM by Aaesop
My friend's guild ended up not panning out, in fact their GM disbanded the guild altogether.
So I ended up joining another guild at the request of a person I had tanked with in the past. This was also the start for me as just a regular member of a guild, no position of leadership, not an officer etc etc. In fact the way they speak on vent tells you right away, they love to make ruckus all the time, during random non-fighting moments, pulls, boss fights, always loud, always chattering and laughs.
These 2 things to begin with are foreign to me. I've always had a huge voice in the dealings and leadership of guilds I've been in.
I've always been in guilds that stressed a quiet and disciplined vent channel. Nobody tripped on anyone's words, only chatter I ever heard was calling out of certain events "aoe adds down....ok back on boss" by one person. No confirmation from anyone, they just did it. Then after the fight vent would fill up with voices.
So to have a quite active vent through me off, enough that I had to turn it down and had a hard time picking out voices that I NEEDED to hear.
Also I had to learn very weird strategies while we were doing attempts, no briefing's etc. There raidleader/gm, also a protection paladin, had some weird slang that also threw me off. "half damage! half damage!" instead of "Divine Protection!" or "Shield Wall!" Led me to brainfart and go "wtf?!" He later explained to me "I'm used to Divine Protection being useless for so long"
To which I had to reply.. "It's use for a shield wall has been out for quite some time man.."
I after that comment had some sort of ego/epeen flex put in my face "I've raided for 4 years." I got irritated and mentioned I had been tanking on my paladin for as long as he had raided in his entirety (that's right tanking for 4 years on a paladin).
I don't know if it's just his personality or way of speaking to be like that. But for the most part, I felt like the whole raid, that he was subtlety trying to push me in directions he wanted, or that I wasn't what I should be. If that makes sense.
Even got some criticism on my spec indirectly. Him telling everyone in vent that how he was specced is "how ever protection paladin should be speccing, but some don't and he doesn't think that's right."
Looking at his spec I thought to myself "He wants people speccing like that? wow.."
My power ended up going out at my house, and thankfully so, as I was pretty irritated at that point. The next day via the officer that wasnted me in guild, I found out that they ended up using the strategy I suggested that my original raiding guild had used. Which of course in irony, caused them to down Mimiron.
Right now I'm not exactly sure what I'm going to do next week. I'm hoping this crap washes away and that I feel better about raiding with them Tuesday on a fresh run. ATM though, it's put a hurt on my wanting to raid altogether.
So I ended up joining another guild at the request of a person I had tanked with in the past. This was also the start for me as just a regular member of a guild, no position of leadership, not an officer etc etc. In fact the way they speak on vent tells you right away, they love to make ruckus all the time, during random non-fighting moments, pulls, boss fights, always loud, always chattering and laughs.
These 2 things to begin with are foreign to me. I've always had a huge voice in the dealings and leadership of guilds I've been in.
I've always been in guilds that stressed a quiet and disciplined vent channel. Nobody tripped on anyone's words, only chatter I ever heard was calling out of certain events "aoe adds down....ok back on boss" by one person. No confirmation from anyone, they just did it. Then after the fight vent would fill up with voices.
So to have a quite active vent through me off, enough that I had to turn it down and had a hard time picking out voices that I NEEDED to hear.
Also I had to learn very weird strategies while we were doing attempts, no briefing's etc. There raidleader/gm, also a protection paladin, had some weird slang that also threw me off. "half damage! half damage!" instead of "Divine Protection!" or "Shield Wall!" Led me to brainfart and go "wtf?!" He later explained to me "I'm used to Divine Protection being useless for so long"
To which I had to reply.. "It's use for a shield wall has been out for quite some time man.."
I after that comment had some sort of ego/epeen flex put in my face "I've raided for 4 years." I got irritated and mentioned I had been tanking on my paladin for as long as he had raided in his entirety (that's right tanking for 4 years on a paladin).
I don't know if it's just his personality or way of speaking to be like that. But for the most part, I felt like the whole raid, that he was subtlety trying to push me in directions he wanted, or that I wasn't what I should be. If that makes sense.
Even got some criticism on my spec indirectly. Him telling everyone in vent that how he was specced is "how ever protection paladin should be speccing, but some don't and he doesn't think that's right."
Looking at his spec I thought to myself "He wants people speccing like that? wow.."
My power ended up going out at my house, and thankfully so, as I was pretty irritated at that point. The next day via the officer that wasnted me in guild, I found out that they ended up using the strategy I suggested that my original raiding guild had used. Which of course in irony, caused them to down Mimiron.
Right now I'm not exactly sure what I'm going to do next week. I'm hoping this crap washes away and that I feel better about raiding with them Tuesday on a fresh run. ATM though, it's put a hurt on my wanting to raid altogether.
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