Our guild has totally hit a wall, and it’s a large reason as to why it has been something like 10 days since my last post. This wall is sucking my will to even log in anymore. Well, this combined with the fact that my social life has taken a sudden, unexpected positive swing, combined with online classes and working 2 jobs leave me less free time than I used to.
We can’t kill Deathwhisper in 10man. It’s driving me nuts because the reason is incredibly obvious to me and two of our other officers (who happen to be the other two “Raid leaders”) Our GM remains slightly oblivious. Our dps stink. Not all of them for sure. Our boomkin puts out a consistent 4000+ dps, our rogue even more and our GM when on his mage, puts out around the same. The problem is those 3 arn’t enough to carry the weaker dps in our guild. Of the 3 warlocks who periodically get raid spots, only one can pull more than 2k on a regular basis, and she only pulls about 2.5-3k on an average night. Due to various reasons we have jsut recently lost our only druid tank and her boyfriend who was our regular raid healer or DK dps. We hope tohave them back once our bear is no longer homeless….We also lost our main shaman healer to grad school. She doesn’t think she’ll ever be back (she also happens to be my sister). We’ve also lost our 2nd rogue and our other pali tank/healer. They’ve just gone AWOL and havn’t been seen in a week each.
So with the lose of many of our regular raiders, we’ve had to bring in less experienced people. This is proving to be a huge problem. As hard as they try, they just can’t seem to pull their weight. We pugged a few people the other night and got DW down to 50% of her health (when I say we, i mean the guild…I was on a date.) and our best try before that was about 30% left on her mana shield…
The adds chew us apart between tanks dieing, healers getting locked out thanks to Curse of Torpor (we attempted it once with no decurses by accident…oops.) and we just don’t have the dps to burn the adds fast enough before the tanks/healers get stressed. So, this leads me to the problem of raiding in a guild where raiding is not the object of the collective. The guild was, and still is billed as, a family oriented guild for people looking to have fun. It just simply evolved into a guild where a handful of members think raiding is more fun than pointless chatter while doing dailies. Now, alot of people will say “quit and make your own raid guild, or join a raid guild” but admittedly I have been close, but find myself not wanting to leave my friends.
So, when attendance is low we are forced to PuG people who may or may not be worth the effort (we did meet a wonderful tree/boomkin wife/husband team this week who helped us fill our ToCr10 group) or ask guildies who stack stamina gems but arn’t tanks or think the hunter rotation consits of autoshot, autoshot, autoshot. Some of them are willing to listen to and accept help in an attempt to get better, others are not. And some take the advice, go to respec, forget everything they were told, and throw their points around aimlessly because they are too embarrased to ask for a refresher…
The positives is that I have made alot of friends, and for the msot part I do enjoy the pointless chatter while doing dailies. Also since 2 of our former raiders recently switched to horde, we have had zero loot drama, which I always hear stories of how notorious the drama can get in some raiding guilds.
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