angryraidleader.com

I started playing World of Warcraft a few years ago and since I’m a bossy know-it-all it was inevitable that I would end up as a raid leader. I didn’t plan on becoming a raid leader, it just sort of happened. When I first started playing WoW I didn’t even like the game that much. I got roped into it by a few friends and took forever to level my first character to 60. Once I got there I quickly grew bored of the same 10 and 15 man instances (back before they were changed to 5 and 10 mans) and wasn’t really into pvp. At the time I was in a very casual guild that didn’t have any standards when it came to recruiting new members. The guild officers where in charge simply because they’d started the thing up. So of course when we tried to start raiding we sucked at it. No one knew how to lead a raid, most of the people playing weren’t very good at the game, and most of the people that were skilled, quickly left to join raiding guilds. After a few months we gave up, the guild split and we went our separate ways.

I ended up in a hardcore raiding guild that burned through content at a nice pace. But I had a couple problems. I was living in Henderson, just outside of Vegas. I got off work half an hour before our raids started, and had a 30-45 minute commute. Vegas freeways are dangerous at the best of times, since they feature drunk drivers 24 hours a day, but at rush hour they’re downright lethal. So I’d tear through traffic after a stressful day at work and get home just in time to miss a raid spot. Then once I got inside, I couldn’t keep my mouth shut. I was the worst backseat driver raiding had ever seen. Eventually it pissed off enough people including myself that I left rather than get booted and promptly quit the game.

Six months passed, I moved away from Vegas, get a much more relaxing job and found myself with a lot of free time on my hands. Burning Crusade was a couple weeks from launch. Some of my friends and I decided to start Blood Elf characters and do some low level pvp, maybe eventually try out the high level content. So when BC launched I made a guild.

Right around this time, all of the guilds that had been raiding 40 man content are trying to figure out how to fit 40 raiders into a 25 man instance. This created a lot of guildless players and people who got tired of sitting outside of Karazhan waiting for their number to be called. People start joining my little guild. Eventually we got enough to start doing Karazhan, and next thing I know I’m a raid leader.

And that’s when I started getting angry…..