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pilsner:
--- Quote from: pilsner on 26 Nov 2009, 13:31 ---Getting handed a guild is a little like getting handed a job as a kindergarten teacher except no pay, more crying, and infinitely less socially acceptable. If someone really hates you they will try to give you two guilds.
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Aurjay:
--- Quote from: pilsner on 01 Dec 2009, 00:54 ---It was shocking to me at first how many soon-to-be-military and ex-military types play WoW obsessively. After a little bit of time in a progression guild it made perfect sense though.
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I'm in the army and agree with you to an extent. I play wow to avoid everything military. I live in the barracks and have to be a soldier damn near 24 hrs a day, so a little escapism is nice. Also I'm stationed in the middle of the desert next to Mexico so the only other activities are going out and getting drunk and/or fighting. Now the agreeing part is that i've played with military before and they do seem to be overly organized and controlling. I think this has a little to do with our lives being pretty much the same way.
Alex C:
I'm rocking two 258 daggers now.
Oh, god, I play this game way too much, when will it end?
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I somehow missed jmrz post.
--- Quote from: jmrz on 01 Dec 2009, 15:49 ---The raid calendar.
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I'm glad you see the problem with it and I strongly encourage you not to back down on changing it, particularly if she's just expecting people to show up every week and work from there. That setup your old guild leader was doing will never work for a guild that's even remotely casual or ever wants to come up with a consistent raiding roster. There's just too many good reasons not to do it that way. If you run 5 or 6 times a week, that's 5 or 6 times a week you'll need to get the raid setup. Even if by some miracle it only takes you 5 minutes to get set up per run that's a half hour per week you're blowing on preliminary organization alone. And that's assuming the attendance will actually manage to remain high enough to support such a schedule, something I don't see happening that many days a week. Just imagine the fallout that'd happen if someone shows up all 6 nights and ends up having to sit out 3 or 4 of the raids because the attendance just doesn't support it; I guarantee you someone would get pissed off, and justifiably so.
Plus, burnout can become an issue, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise. My guild has only 3 official raid nights in which we do 25 man progression content. Everything else is done "unofficially," but since many of us are hopeless wow addicts, that still comes out 3 quarters of the progression group raiding in some fashion 5-6 times a week. That's actually pretty sustainable since we don't really do 25mans other than the Coliseum anymore, but as it turns out, just barely. We temporarily added Monday to our raid schedule to try and down TOTGC 25 Anub and the wheels really came flying off on Tuesday. We wiped a few times to Jaraxxus last night due to silly mistakes, and he's a guy we one shot the first time we encountered him in TotGC.
Man, I ran at the mouth there and probably didn't say anything you didn't already know. Still, I thought it'd help to let you know that at least one person out there definitely doesn't think you're crazy for wanting to change this.
Beren:
--- Quote from: Aurjay on 01 Dec 2009, 16:34 ---
--- Quote from: pilsner on 01 Dec 2009, 00:54 ---It was shocking to me at first how many soon-to-be-military and ex-military types play WoW obsessively. After a little bit of time in a progression guild it made perfect sense though.
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I'm in the army and agree with you to an extent. I play wow to avoid everything military. I live in the barracks and have to be a soldier damn near 24 hrs a day, so a little escapism is nice. Also I'm stationed in the middle of the desert next to Mexico so the only other activities are going out and getting drunk and/or fighting. Now the agreeing part is that i've played with military before and they do seem to be overly organized and controlling. I think this has a little to do with our lives being pretty much the same way.
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The guys actually in the military don't tend to be that bad. It's the guys who are obsessed with the military without actually having joined that are the crazies. The ones who work in an office as a programmer 13-hours a day with navy seal posters in their cubicle. This is my GL/RL.
clockworkjames:
25 man anub hardmode without unhittable or block value gear is hard. I am working on it though...
First week in the guild and I tank 4/5 TotGC25 bosses.
Lol new pants too, I went from 25 man to 25 man HC leggings, now I have BiS legs woo. Still just a trialist though >.>
Also a nice new survival shield from Hodir 10 man hardmode (fucking finally).
And your guild drama, make a dragon night smooshing sarth,maly,ony into one night, and VoA if you have controll of WG. 4 raids you can do in under 1 hour before you move on to ToC which takes about 35-40 mins if you take your time and don't wipe.
2 nights of naxx sure, but not really advisable before you hit a brick wall in ulduar (then it becomes progression).
Oh, bottom line is - If you don't like how a guild is going and you cannot change it, find a guild that better suits you. Fuck feeling guilty for ditching people holding you back, is why I stayed in my old guild for so long then I went from strength to strength, landing in a progress guild with a bunch of RL mates.
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