...and anyone who tells you it is hasn't done it long enough.

It really has absolutely nothing to do with progression or strats for fights even. It rarely has to do with situational awareness or being able to make the best group composition.

Nope... none of that stuff really is even close to as important as Empathy.

Being able to understand what each individual in your raid goes through and communicate with them effectively. Empathy doesn't mean that...

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You all have that guy in your guild that's a massive pain in the ass. He eats up all your time, constantly. Well mine finally left... so I thought.

We progress reasonably well as a guild, but ultimately we will never be the most progressive guild. So, when one of our more elitist minded players left for a more progressive guild I was far from surprised and thinking about all the time I was about to save, I happily wished him good luck and farewell.

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The Edge is that tone in your voice that when you are really cranky... I mean super annoyed right from the get go that people just know and they know not to mess with you.

I fell asleep before the raid yesterday and a buddy of mine had to phone me to wake me up so that I didn't sleep through the raid. Suffice to say I'm not the most happy person after a nap. In fact, I may be the least happy person on earth. I definitely had the Edge. I never realized I had it, but ya... I do. Now...

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I've just finished writing a piece on my guild forums and I still don't know how it'll play out, but it's hard not to immediately take something pretty huge away from this.

I gave another officer crap for going to a movie instead of coming to the raid. It was a joke. It wasn't taken that way.

This is how delicate the friendships of this game are to balance. How easy it is to hurt someone and just how important it is to be responsible as a leader in this game. You have...

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Many guilds are doing this. Our guild considered doing this, but it's the wrong choice. While yes Hyjal and BT offer a number of early bosses that are much, much easier to learn, they do not offer superior loot to that of Kael's first boss kill.

Don't forgot the rings. The first time you kill Kael you'll probably have 22 members of your raid minimum suddenly completing the quest for a ridiculously powerful ring. Couple that with epics off Kael and you are looking at over 25 high quality...

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