The Angst, I has it.
Out guild had a big guild drama explosion a couple months ago. It was handled poorly IMO, but we were slowly recovering. I understand that this was frustrating and stressful on the veteran types who stayed. Gotta teach a new generation of younglings the raiding ropes. In spite of that, we'd started having some successes again.
Well...obviously we can't let well enough alone.
GL and his wife are off visiting his native country. Hubby and I have out of town guest this week, as does our hunter lead. So I was actually a bit suprised that they managed to cobble together a BT raid Sunday night, I wasn't suprised that they were not doing well with a good oh...20% of the core unable to come for our various reasons.
So what's the best thing to do with a struggling raiding guild...on a small server with a limited pool of raiders...with two other raiding guilds already doing better than us? Why, obviously your raid leader should gquit and take half the core raiders with him, cause he's going to make an elite raiding guild and see the rest of the content before he and HIS core quite WoW indefinately once Warhammer goes live. He's gonna pull the best from the other guilds he says. Um, they are doing fine, why would they want to go with you? Well, except for maybe a few of them who got frustrated with the slow progress and left weeks ago for those other guilds. But still...they are doing fine there. I also question the purpose of attempting this with the live beta for Warhammer opening in a couple of *weeks* (and preorders automatically get in, I understand). Those people that came with you...are all of them going to Warhammer? (I am pretty sure a lot of them aren't). Are you just going to ditch them in 2-6 weeks? I also might add that Mr. "I'm only gonna take the elite" has taken the hunter with the 61 pt marksman spec (who I can outdamage on my newbie hunter in spite of her full epics), the rogue whom he personally was talking about gkicking not more than a week ago, and at least one "just literally turned 70 3 days ago" shaman. Yeah...good luck with that. I admit it, I'm a petty person. I want them to fail, and fail hard. All he did IMO is make two crippled guilds.
So where does that leave me? I'm helping hubby quest through Netherstorm, he on his new rogue and me on the hunter, cause I never did any of the quests other than the ones I needed to get my Arc key. It gets him XPs and it gets me monies. It's nice playing with just him again, but the remainder of our clique is in jepoardy of becoming lost. Our hunter rarely logs in, and plays her alt mostly. Our resto druid raids with the guild she joined after getting frustrated. The prot paladin is currently specced ret so he won't have to tank, and working on getting his rogue alt geared for pvp. Our lock is doing the same...nice little gank squad in the making there. I specced my feral druid resto to help heal the raids in which we were consistenly lacked healers. And the prot pally is complaining that we never do anything together anymore, and that since the lock's fiance may or may not let him play after they get married in a couple months, he's losing the desire to log in.
Personally, I am not yet convinced that I am anything other than sucktastic at arena healing, cause the 4 games I played in the 5v5 were all losses. I managed to heal a 400 resilience hunter to 1/3 victories on 2v2, but the queue times were crappy and the server unstable that night. My resilience is just now approaching 300 (290 to be exact). I still seem to go squish pretty easily.
In spite of all that, the hunter did get her S3 stat stick and is now close to 1500 AP self buffed with Hawk. With RL about to hit hard again next week when my little boy starts Kindergarden (6:45 am bus stop or get him to school myself by 7:15 or so) and that's would have killed raiding times for me anyway. Maybe I need a new alt? I don't know where the future path of the Bri's lies with the upcoming time restrictions, I may be looking at Kara badge runs as the best I can do. Bleah.
Well...obviously we can't let well enough alone.
GL and his wife are off visiting his native country. Hubby and I have out of town guest this week, as does our hunter lead. So I was actually a bit suprised that they managed to cobble together a BT raid Sunday night, I wasn't suprised that they were not doing well with a good oh...20% of the core unable to come for our various reasons.
So what's the best thing to do with a struggling raiding guild...on a small server with a limited pool of raiders...with two other raiding guilds already doing better than us? Why, obviously your raid leader should gquit and take half the core raiders with him, cause he's going to make an elite raiding guild and see the rest of the content before he and HIS core quite WoW indefinately once Warhammer goes live. He's gonna pull the best from the other guilds he says. Um, they are doing fine, why would they want to go with you? Well, except for maybe a few of them who got frustrated with the slow progress and left weeks ago for those other guilds. But still...they are doing fine there. I also question the purpose of attempting this with the live beta for Warhammer opening in a couple of *weeks* (and preorders automatically get in, I understand). Those people that came with you...are all of them going to Warhammer? (I am pretty sure a lot of them aren't). Are you just going to ditch them in 2-6 weeks? I also might add that Mr. "I'm only gonna take the elite" has taken the hunter with the 61 pt marksman spec (who I can outdamage on my newbie hunter in spite of her full epics), the rogue whom he personally was talking about gkicking not more than a week ago, and at least one "just literally turned 70 3 days ago" shaman. Yeah...good luck with that. I admit it, I'm a petty person. I want them to fail, and fail hard. All he did IMO is make two crippled guilds.
So where does that leave me? I'm helping hubby quest through Netherstorm, he on his new rogue and me on the hunter, cause I never did any of the quests other than the ones I needed to get my Arc key. It gets him XPs and it gets me monies. It's nice playing with just him again, but the remainder of our clique is in jepoardy of becoming lost. Our hunter rarely logs in, and plays her alt mostly. Our resto druid raids with the guild she joined after getting frustrated. The prot paladin is currently specced ret so he won't have to tank, and working on getting his rogue alt geared for pvp. Our lock is doing the same...nice little gank squad in the making there. I specced my feral druid resto to help heal the raids in which we were consistenly lacked healers. And the prot pally is complaining that we never do anything together anymore, and that since the lock's fiance may or may not let him play after they get married in a couple months, he's losing the desire to log in.
Personally, I am not yet convinced that I am anything other than sucktastic at arena healing, cause the 4 games I played in the 5v5 were all losses. I managed to heal a 400 resilience hunter to 1/3 victories on 2v2, but the queue times were crappy and the server unstable that night. My resilience is just now approaching 300 (290 to be exact). I still seem to go squish pretty easily.
In spite of all that, the hunter did get her S3 stat stick and is now close to 1500 AP self buffed with Hawk. With RL about to hit hard again next week when my little boy starts Kindergarden (6:45 am bus stop or get him to school myself by 7:15 or so) and that's would have killed raiding times for me anyway. Maybe I need a new alt? I don't know where the future path of the Bri's lies with the upcoming time restrictions, I may be looking at Kara badge runs as the best I can do. Bleah.