Wishes for the future
Posted 02-01-2009 at 06:54 PM by Nicki
1. People who read tactics and lead raids with knowledge rather than chinese whispers.
2. Players that want to improve and want to gear up.
3. A purpose
1. A fairly big argument broke out in a 10 man naxx raid about 'slime', 'melee' and patchwerk's hateful strike. I knew in the back of my mind that slime wasn't even an element to the patchwerk fight so i was against it entirely and adament that I was right. I checked after some people gave me grief about being wrong, I was right but i had forgotten the mechanics of the fight myself. However I had remembered from raiding experience that slime had no benefit for the raid.
My small little guild and I went to naxx 25 for the second week properly with another smaller guild. The previous week we had been trying to do patch with 2 tanks (and no replenishment), I had been healing. It went terribad the melee obviously died every pull. Because the tactics were based off of what another guild did rather than what was written in stone.
One shot yes after wiping the previous week one shot, I barked the orders down the vent and corrected the flaws that were previously in the old tactic.
But I got shot down, I was not meant to be raid leading, it was not my raid. Yet i was fully expected to come and help even respec from healer to tank at the very beginning. Im sorry but I won't be going back to that raid setup if thats the response I get for adding input into content.
2. Im tired of seeing people come to naxx 10 and expect me to gear them up while they remain in shitty specs and do bugger all, all raid. A DK we told to go DPS still has 27k health in DPS gear after 2 weeks, stamina gems in his DPS helm etc. going no where at all with a 7/0/64 spec.
Ill gladly gear up someone who has knowledge enough to read a few lines of an elitist jerks thread or any source of information but 7/0/64 is not a spec its a joke.
Which brings about the point I was an officer in this guild then i got pissed off about everyones ideas about melee standing in slime and well now im not but im afraid those leading the guild have no 'balls' to simply get rid of people we are carrying as a guild.
3. I long for this a solid role not this meander of respecs here and there but a solid role of being something.
To put it bluntly Ive spent over 2000 gold on respecs since 3.0 and alot more before 3.0 considering i would respec almost 3-4 times per week at times.
But a role, a home, a community and being needed and wanted for my input and gameplay are sorely missed values that I simply do not feel at the moment.
I also feel that there is this conformity that because we are not a 'hardcore' guild we can't have good players or we must have bad ones. I do not agree with this at all...
I don't want to carry a raid group, I want to feel that each of them is good and belongs. If i feel that anyone is being carried and i don't mean they shouldn't be helped...I also don't want to raid with unsociable idiots.
At the same time im not prepaired to raid 5-6 days a week to get close to this...eventhough I miss the accuracy and relentlessness of that raiding regime.
2. Players that want to improve and want to gear up.
3. A purpose
1. A fairly big argument broke out in a 10 man naxx raid about 'slime', 'melee' and patchwerk's hateful strike. I knew in the back of my mind that slime wasn't even an element to the patchwerk fight so i was against it entirely and adament that I was right. I checked after some people gave me grief about being wrong, I was right but i had forgotten the mechanics of the fight myself. However I had remembered from raiding experience that slime had no benefit for the raid.
My small little guild and I went to naxx 25 for the second week properly with another smaller guild. The previous week we had been trying to do patch with 2 tanks (and no replenishment), I had been healing. It went terribad the melee obviously died every pull. Because the tactics were based off of what another guild did rather than what was written in stone.
One shot yes after wiping the previous week one shot, I barked the orders down the vent and corrected the flaws that were previously in the old tactic.
But I got shot down, I was not meant to be raid leading, it was not my raid. Yet i was fully expected to come and help even respec from healer to tank at the very beginning. Im sorry but I won't be going back to that raid setup if thats the response I get for adding input into content.
2. Im tired of seeing people come to naxx 10 and expect me to gear them up while they remain in shitty specs and do bugger all, all raid. A DK we told to go DPS still has 27k health in DPS gear after 2 weeks, stamina gems in his DPS helm etc. going no where at all with a 7/0/64 spec.
Ill gladly gear up someone who has knowledge enough to read a few lines of an elitist jerks thread or any source of information but 7/0/64 is not a spec its a joke.
Which brings about the point I was an officer in this guild then i got pissed off about everyones ideas about melee standing in slime and well now im not but im afraid those leading the guild have no 'balls' to simply get rid of people we are carrying as a guild.
3. I long for this a solid role not this meander of respecs here and there but a solid role of being something.
To put it bluntly Ive spent over 2000 gold on respecs since 3.0 and alot more before 3.0 considering i would respec almost 3-4 times per week at times.
But a role, a home, a community and being needed and wanted for my input and gameplay are sorely missed values that I simply do not feel at the moment.
I also feel that there is this conformity that because we are not a 'hardcore' guild we can't have good players or we must have bad ones. I do not agree with this at all...
I don't want to carry a raid group, I want to feel that each of them is good and belongs. If i feel that anyone is being carried and i don't mean they shouldn't be helped...I also don't want to raid with unsociable idiots.
At the same time im not prepaired to raid 5-6 days a week to get close to this...eventhough I miss the accuracy and relentlessness of that raiding regime.
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I hear you, all 3 are my wishes as well. I'm a retired raider/raidleader myself. In fact, I play with no microphone hooked up to my computer. It's a 'hard cap' on the role I can play and prevents me from taking control (for good or for bad) and/or saying how it is.
Anyways in order:
1. On EJ and I quote: "Sinking your melee into the slime doesn't help anyone, it's just stupid and you should quit doing it."
2. Being in a casual guild, I know of one player in our guild who does this (and blogged about them too.) The sad thing is, some of our players give 110% with strange specs, try their hardest, and even though their dps...leaves something to be desired, they are also the ones providing the fish feasts. I hate being in the position I'm in, but I always take the ones who's mind is in the right place. I can help those that want to learn and will take advice (as many of them do show improvement.) however, I can't fix greed and I can't fix stupid. I refuse to group with the aformentioned player.
3. I know what you mean purpose, I bounce between tank and DPS alot - I am the strongest geared tank of our guild, and put out the most TPS. However, I burned out really quick when "Misdirect to Con" was being said when I wasn't even in that particular raid. So I went dps to make sure other tanks got a chance (after they marched over my MD'ed corpse.)
I enjoy both, as long as I'm raiding. That IS my purpose, if I'm not in something that has a raid- or even a group- attached to it, I rather play another game. I'm big on the teamwork. Though I will never go back to military-style raiding. Looking back hard on my game experience, it really is the teamwork large-scale things that really made me feel good. I guess, looking back, that's my purpose. To be a part of the team. Maybe yours is too.
Looking for purpose in the game is hard right now, as everyone's like "just wait till the new content patch" where in reality it's probably a few months off before it's actually done. (which means we might see many guild disbands on the horizon with no new content.) All I can say, is treasure what you have, and don't expect a purpose to magically appear in front of you - it will only appear in hindsight.Posted 02-01-2009 at 11:12 PM by Conreeaght 
