This is a little long time coming, but we downed Sarth + 3D last Thursday for the first time, and repeated that in less than an hour yesterday (although we did have about 4-5 “false start” wipes). With that, I am going to presume we have got it all down pat, and 3dSarth is officially on farm.
Firstly, I would just like to say that was one of the “smartest” healing I have ever done. not that nothing else requires strats and awareness (lady Vashj was a huge test of my patience, awareness and my guild’s love for me lol). It’s just between the first time I joined wow 2 years ago, till the day I left spirestone, I have been in constant company of more experienced and more loving/caring gamers that I have played with for the last… 6 years. What that means then, is that when I am doing stupid things, they are not as open with me than, say, perfect strangers. While i thought i did most things fine, I had say I was more than likely carried through half of the raids I was in – which gave me experience, definitely, but I was somewhat of a liability for the most part.
that’s not to say that my current guild is brutally harsh. For some odd reason last week, when we did down 3dSarth, I was making simple stupid mistakes: Lava waves, void zones, stuff that the week and weeks before I managed to avoid successfuly in failed attempts, I was doing it all. They realised I was possibly sick/tired/distracted, and just soul stoned me instead without a nasty word.
Last night was beautiful. except for the wipes, I did all the avoiding shit well. Not a single void zone or lava wave – and it felt good. I was on raid heals and it felt like everything snapped into place after my stupids last week.
- help MT heals when I am near MT
- help Add-tank heals when he runs next to me – or when he starts dropping like a rock (lots of DC on one of the healers)
- Help Drake Tank heals
- Keep all the mages up
- moving away from louds/mass mobs/mass avatars so I can see if there’s a void zone near me at all.
What I did learn while learning these fights was that progression, when it does happen, can kill guilds. In their frustrations at the wipes, the constant mistakes that sometimes happen, the learning progress itself, we have lost quite a few. Some dramatically, some in a quiet manner.
The original main tank disappeared suddenly, and so we had to run Naxx a few times to gear up the new tanks (not to mention a few heroics, a few normal raids). then suddenly no tanks, not even alts, wanted to turn up – and there goes that plan. we had to recruit new ones.
We lost a druid healer, who decided that all the new recruits must be scrubs since apparently some “scrub guilds” have already got it on farm (never mind the internal drama that caused the guild to have to recruit new people in the first place) – and proceeded to join a guild that had 3dSarth on farm – then spamming the titles at everyone in the guild.
I fear for Ulduar, but I will embrace it too – challenges are good, I just hope no one else goes crazy
Guild dramas are never good for the guild. some pull through unscath, some pull through with scars – and some just plain fall apart.
When I first joined Thaurissan, it was to play with friends. The unfortunate part of insisting on playing with friends is that we might just not have enough friends who wants to play wow, who are playing wow, who wants to transfer or who even cared to log on for anything. It seemed, with friends, people have a lower tendency to fulfill their responsibilities that normal people would fulfill because “it’s ok, we are friends, we shouldn’t be fighting over a computer game”.
Therefore, things like punctuality, caring to gear up, read up on strats so as not to waste time etc – completely flew out of the window. There were nights when 8p.m raid starts ended up starting at 10, and 10p.m starts almost at 12 midnight. Sometimes, clearing a single wing or less took 3 hours or more. As someone who goes to work at 8.30, i have to be getting up at 7a.m. and those timings soon began to hurt my real life.
Especially because I am no early bird.
Thereafter, raids soon stop happening altogether, because people did not feel like they owe anyone the responsibility to mention that they can not turn up. So, the remaining of the guild start panning out options we can all take, and started looking at a merger. The good part of the merger is more people to fill raids, and therefore possibly hitting a 25 man raid instead of just 10 man (and even then still flailing for more people). One of the guys’ brother and cousin is a part of the other guild too.
The bad part was the times they could raid, so we decided that could be kinked out and moved.
If first impressions could be a good starting point, there never was a better one than how one of the officers started off with me. In leading a discussion (albeit half jokingly), we started discussing how big boobs were a health hazard altogether. I was told to stop it as “it is outraging the modesty of women” and there were women/children in the guild. It reeked of pretentious heroism and sexism, so i pushed it and asked who are the women and children in the guild – but no one could answer to my queries.
Then we started discussing the kinks and flaws of their raid grouping, which left one of the two 10-man groups under-staffed. They were hard, and pushy, and just pure didn’t care as long as we fulfilled their needs. So I popped into ventrilo and asked a few questions – and suddenly it was, “are you a female?” “don’t worry we can fix it”. and someone swore, and it was “don’t swear please, we have ladies in the guild.”
remember i mentioned pretentious heroism and sexism – this began to reek further of fat stupids with one hand on the mouse and the other on their cock. Giving another day to see what they made of the “we will fix it”, I noticed it only went to further under-staff us or replace it with more undergeared people – so I left.
I maybe female, but I know how raid make-ups are meant to look, thank you very much. I adore my friends, but not enough to tolerate people telling me what I should say, read or hear. Women swear too, just walk out of your hole in the ground more often, and you will find them.
