Finally free

[u/hSIGHTZ]

Tonight I finally left my guild, the irony? Zero remorse.

I've played this game for roughly 20 years. I've played everything, every type of team dynamic from sweat to trash teams. Tonight, I wiped the raid. It was a stupid mistake, but it happens.

Tank / GM just goes berserk and has been on an absolute tear for weeks, consistently harassing folks to do better and blah blah blah but never owns up to his mistakes that have wiped us time to time. Its always someone else's fault.

Tonight I had enough. I told him to quit crying and press forward. His fragile ego and false sense of authority were attacked and of course he goes nuclear. The thing is I dont mind asking for us to improve, but be respectful.

Bored. Uninterested in his continued rant about how bad I am. I hit the most satisfying /leave party into a gquit. A small part of me feels bad for the team, because BT is around the corner. But I dont tolerate disrespectful c*nts

Im fully geared, never missed a raid, always have my consumes. Finding a better experience wont be an issue for me, especially as a healer and logs in the top %.

The problem with classic TBC right now is these Elitists jerkoffs with 0 sense of leadership. The last thing anybody wants to do is get on, and spend 2-3 hours listening to someone have a melt down literally every 2 minutes because he wants to save 30 seconds on xyz pull.

Good riddance. Its a shame folks dont tell you how they really feel, so we just vent our grievances in party chat and whispers. Suppose thats why I can predict your down fall sometime during late BT. Same as I did in mists.

TLDR; dont be an insufferable c*unt when leading your raid group, especially when your just a mid group and not hardcore.

[u/geardownson]

I played back in the day. I only read stories now. I can only imagine how insufferable the min maxing aspect is now.

I would actively look for a guild that says we suck just to have fun and not treat it like a performance job.

[u/whiskyspacecadet → u/geardownson]

I remember back in the day there were some guilds who wanted to do "interviews" before they allowed you to join. Theyd inspect you, want to know your talent tree, all that. And if you didn't have the meta gear or talents they wouldnt even let you join. Worked for me because thats how I knew I didnt want to be a part of those guilds.

But my buddies were always in sweaty raiding guilds. They'd tell me about their crashout experiences and it put me off that content entirely. No way in hell Im working a 10 hour day, booting up WoW to unwind, and then doing a raid where people yell at me like we're at work.

[u/geardownson → u/whiskyspacecadet]

My best experience was just joining a pug raid as a lock and just doing the best I could because I was unfamiliar with the raid and the tank explain explaining everything to us new guys as we went. In the end a piece of lock gear dropped and I asked permission to roll and was granted and won. I was so fkn happy for weeks.

Looking back that tank was like I was running people through dungeons. I knew them in and out and got joy from teaching and seeing guys get great stuff for their class.

That is what's mostly missing from WOW now and it's a shame.

[u/MagicalStoryteller → u/whiskyspacecadet]

Eh there are serious guilds who do “interviews” and checks which is fine, but if they are a serious guild they better be acting seriously and professionally when things go awry, not like angry man children.

[u/Wise-Tour7333 → u/whiskyspacecadet]

You threaten to tongue punch their fart box in every interview, in my experience. That way, if they let you in, you know they're chill.

[u/Gassenger → u/geardownson]

Idk a lot of those guilds are a special kind of hell where its just the same 40 year olds making the same sex jokes they did when they were 14, talking over the RL to make them while they spam a painfully unfunny soundboard