Guild Drama
For those of you in MMORPG guilds...
I'm an officer in a guild of 500 people, where I'm ranked #3 in gear and #4 in accomplishments (both general and quest/raid). I took all my alts out of the guild today, and I'm pondering quitting altogether, because while I was on an alt, some guild noob started complaining that he couldn't view the bank tabs. I said it was because some people whine for gear from the tabs, and it wasn't worth putting up with, and he started attacking me, saying how I must be ignorant because that's what a guild bank is for. (By the way, there are lots of things a guild bank is for, and that's not really the important one, which is collecting materials needed to raid-gear members. Nobody needs to request raid gear. If you get invited to the raid and don't have it, someone will give it to you. From. The. Bank.)
So one of my fellow officers, meanwhile, starts sending me (polite) messages suggesting I should let it go and let him win on this one. And I realized that, y'know, any time there's a dispute between me and another player, I get told to swallow it. This is about the fourth time it's happened. So for all of the nice lovely hand-holding song-singing love-ins we do at raid time, I take more shit from guildies than I do from PUGs.
I've been in the guild for over a year now, and they've been instrumental in getting me geared and making me the best-geared (for now) tank in the guild (for now). But I can't shake that other thought. Why am I in a guild where I have to have so many members on /ignore? Especially since, at this point, the guild needs me more than I need the guild. I can jump to a more skilled raid guild. Preferably one that occasionally backs up their friends over random jackholes who joined that day.
Am I missing something? Is this the way all guilds work? My impression of normal guild drama is personality conflicts between specific people; this is something else--a general feeling that the guild wants me (and most of its officers, really) to take abuse from noobs because they want the guild to be big. But y'know, the raids only hold 25 people. We don't need member #501.
And #3 doesn't need them.
I'm an officer in a guild of 500 people, where I'm ranked #3 in gear and #4 in accomplishments (both general and quest/raid). I took all my alts out of the guild today, and I'm pondering quitting altogether, because while I was on an alt, some guild noob started complaining that he couldn't view the bank tabs. I said it was because some people whine for gear from the tabs, and it wasn't worth putting up with, and he started attacking me, saying how I must be ignorant because that's what a guild bank is for. (By the way, there are lots of things a guild bank is for, and that's not really the important one, which is collecting materials needed to raid-gear members. Nobody needs to request raid gear. If you get invited to the raid and don't have it, someone will give it to you. From. The. Bank.)
So one of my fellow officers, meanwhile, starts sending me (polite) messages suggesting I should let it go and let him win on this one. And I realized that, y'know, any time there's a dispute between me and another player, I get told to swallow it. This is about the fourth time it's happened. So for all of the nice lovely hand-holding song-singing love-ins we do at raid time, I take more shit from guildies than I do from PUGs.
I've been in the guild for over a year now, and they've been instrumental in getting me geared and making me the best-geared (for now) tank in the guild (for now). But I can't shake that other thought. Why am I in a guild where I have to have so many members on /ignore? Especially since, at this point, the guild needs me more than I need the guild. I can jump to a more skilled raid guild. Preferably one that occasionally backs up their friends over random jackholes who joined that day.
Am I missing something? Is this the way all guilds work? My impression of normal guild drama is personality conflicts between specific people; this is something else--a general feeling that the guild wants me (and most of its officers, really) to take abuse from noobs because they want the guild to be big. But y'know, the raids only hold 25 people. We don't need member #501.
And #3 doesn't need them.