Gitr Knows WoW

I think a guild started by a guy would always be referred to in the masculine form, but I could be wrong. Anyway, Casual Raiders will be a “he.” Going around and finging 10 un-guilded 60s in IF around 11pm was not very difficult. Some of them are even going to stay and see how things pan out.

My forums are up already, but until the layout is finalized, I’m just making the URL available to the guild. I like my host a lot. It offered a self-installing PHPBB forum for free and I was up and running in literally 2 minutes. I got a Warcraft theme and started making some graphic customizations.

That was certainly the high point of my evening. Well, along with getting my custom tabard made.

The low point was the end of my second unsuccessful PuG. The first one was for UBRS and my second one was for a Baron run. Neither PuG saw the first boss of either instance. They totally sucked. I can count 6 good players out of 14 unique participants.

Some of you may remember the Raid Leader of my first PuG, Hooahdooah from my original blog, so it must have been in October. We met in Feralas in our 40s. I’ve had him on my list for all this time, with him logging on and off dozens of times per night. I just figured he had a bunch of alts or messes with add-ons. I think I’m waaay wrong there.

There is something downright fishy about him.

1. no one should masterloot an entire UBRS run
2. a good warrior does not trip Retaliation on the second pull of UBRS
3. a good warrior does not fall off the balcony into the dragon rookery
4. when a masterlooter d/c’s twice with a 53g rare drop, they give it back to the winner instead of waiting for a confrontation

Now he has applied for membership in FoA in an idiotic post on their forums with smiley faces and almost no information about himself. He is either a farmer, ninja, or the dumbest kid I’ve encountered in-game yet.

My second run, with the same priest, who was pretty good, ended before the spider boss, after 3 wipes. It was just a terrible night for PuGs. Unless a good one pops up with people I know, I’m just farming tonight.

I’m about to leave an “exit interview” post about my departure on our forums this afternoon. It basically boils down to 3 things: the list isn’t being used and is giving false impressions of having a spot, the attitude of the guild is no longer to have fun, but to take down bosses at any cost, and that the raid leader is ego-tripping with his dictator-like control over raiding for a three-guild alliance.

I contacted 2 guilds today about getting in with the interest to be able to pull together a 10-man or 20-man on a raid night for another instance. I am looking for the ability to totally not care what night(s) I get to play because of the constant opportunity being there.

If that doesn’t work, I’m going to start a new guild and recruit only those who are 60, regardless of gear and want to do UBRS, LBRS, DM, Strat, Scholo, ZG, and AQ 20 to their hearts’ content until we have 40 people who can just randomly be online and just decide to go to MC. No schedules. Shoot, I’ve got 10g I’ll put toward that.

Who on Kargath is with me?

Gitr, you’re out! Grimr, you’re out! Lockr, you’re out! Priestr, you’re out!

All of my toons were /gkicked from FoA last night. Actually, Lockr /gquit the guild, got the attention that was due, but the result was everyone being pulled. Do I care? Not really. It’s just a game. I still like the people, but the frustration and aggravation associated with guild/alliance raids is more trouble than it’s worth.

What I have a problem with is: as a person with a life (i.e., girlfriend [going on fiance shortly], full-time job, social life at least 4 evenings per week, and other things I like to do away from my computer), I want to actually get to do what is planned when I sit down to play World of Warcraft. What has now happened three (3 for those of you in Rio Linda) times in the last month is that I have signed up for a special time to play in a raid and either not been allowed in or really delayed getting in as they try to find someone *other than me* to get there.

The excuses have ranged from signing up too late (I was the 1st warrior and 3rd rogue/dps this time), don’t have good enough gear (got 2 upgrades this week and got the shaft on that OEB 2 weeks ago that went to a PALLY), and that I’m the wrong spec (I was being considered a warrior as a tank instead of dps, so again -gear-). I signed up on Thursday, called my girlfriend and let her know I planned on being back from the beach with her in time to play. We even had to leave the beach early so she could finish her papers for her management course. I kept Alt-Tabbing in her way to make sure I stayed signed in and got the invite. So what happened?

I never got an invite. The raid was still full from the first run of the afternoon and they were not able to take down Domo. So, instead of going by the list to make sure that those who signed up to play got to, I was denied play time on my one chance to go to MC this week. Why am I paying $15/mo to not play where I want to and where I should be entitled to per the sign-up list?

The raid leader keeps talking about “the best thing for the guild.” Should it be that, or the best thing for those playing? Do those that already play 80 hours per week be allowed to keep playing at the personal expense of those who have to sit out on “their night to play?”

I might add to this soon, so check back later, if you care to.

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Addendum:

Why even have a sign-up sheet if you’re just going to base the composition on who is there and who fits your ideals for a raid?

I was at the point where it was: if I’m going to be repeatedly denied access to MC rep and gear, then I might was well not sign up or be a part of the guild. I’ll get my Dungeon 1 and Dungeon 2 sets some day, some how, and play with the same people that I’ve enjoyed playing with all this time.

I just refuse to be yanked around all the time, expecting to get to play and be told no. I have to deal with that enough in my romantic relationship of expecting to go here or there and eat this or that only to concede to the wishes of the other person. WoW is MY time to play, and if I’m not going to enjoy it because my plans are repeated ruined, then I’ll find others to play with or find another way to play the game.

I think that about covers it as far as my feelings go. I’m out unless I can be assured that the DKP I have earned can be used to get the gear or weapon that they are saying I don’t have. I hope that the members of the guild realize that this is strictly a raid organization/leadership decision, not as a reflection of the members of the guild itself. I certainly didn’t burn any bridges with the people, and was getting my fair share of whispers from people after I was kicked.

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I logged in really quick to try to get 10 Winterspring Blood Samples tonight. As I was getting off the ship in Auberdine, I got a /w from a Serenity (one of our alliances) to get Incendius really fast. That’s it, just him. Sure. I had the quest still. I was curious to see how much gold you get for turning in quests now.

While approaching the instance, I got a nice train going because one of the mobs threw a net on me. We quickly dispatched him at the entrance when our hearts stopped. A Precisely Calibrated Boomstick dropped before us. It would mean losing some STR, and 0.3 dps, but it has 14 AGI!!! We rolled since it was BoE, and I rolled first with a 34, then there was a 32, 2, 3, and 21! I finally won something!!

That made my night. We quickly dispatched Incendius, and I got 4g 33s for the turn-in. I started to go after the Blackrock Medallions, but decided it was too late and too far to ride to kill enough to get 50 of them.

Our alliance group went to ZG last night. To start the evening off, Tox, Paumen, and I went ot UBRS so Tox could get his last quest piece for his darkmantle set. After taking down Rend, he dropped his Sacred Charge. From what I remember, Tox said he’s never even seen it drop in over 50 runs. This was my 5th.

AND I LOST THE ROLL!!!!!!!

That is why my gear sucks. I was rolling against one rogue. If there was ever time to “ooops. wrong button.” it was then. Dang it. I never catch a break. I rolled on a slight upgrade of legs and won, but that was no big deal, because my legs were not my weak point. It’s time to put my nose to axe stone and get the Winterspring blood and start doing 45 minute Baron runs. I still have a lot of pieces to go to complete my Valor set, but hopefully I’ll make some money off BoE drops.

On to ZG at 8:00. We were a bit short on healers. Our priests were d/c’d until after the first bridge, but we had 3 pallys and an awesome druid along. We went Venoxis, Jaklik, and Mandokir. It looked like we’d be able to push for Thekal, but the last section before Mandokir really slowed us down for some reason. It took a lot longer than it should have. It was 20 ’till 11, and 7 of us were going to bed, me included. We passed out loot and I got another coin. I’m 9 coins away from getting the bracers for Friendly rep.

That’s about it. I’m going to play Gitr more than my alts for a bit to get the bracer upgrade. I’m also considering going for the Chromatic Breastplate quest. We’ll see how that all plays out.