When I complain about the performance of the raiders in my guild it’s inevitable that someone responds with a post like:
This is all your fault. If you were a competent raid/guild leader you would kick out all of the people who are not perfect raiders and replace them.
When I see these posts, I don’t get [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Raiding'
The shallow end of the recruiting pool.
October 31st, 2008 · 32 Comments
Failing at simple shit.
October 8th, 2008 · 9 Comments
As I’ve mentioned in a few recent posts, my guild is working on Illidan right now. If you aren’t familiar with the fight, there is a an ability he uses in Phases 1, 3, and 5 called Parasitic Shadowfiend. It not very dangerous. In fact it’s one of the easiest boss abilities to deal with [...]
Stop stressing over loot.
October 7th, 2008 · 22 Comments
You can’t win World of Warcraft. There is never a point where the other side admits defeat and you get a gold star. The game is set up that way so you keep forking over your cash every month. There are quite a lot of people that seem to be perfectly happy playing the game [...]
Dps doesn’t win fights part II.
September 29th, 2008 · 26 Comments
A comment to my last post reminded me of one thing I forgot to mention…
Listen up all you leet dpsers. What do you think your most important job is in any boss fight? Dps right? Sorry, wrong. It’s staying alive. I’m sure about half of the people reading this post, just stopped, which is unfortunate, [...]
Dps doesn’t win fights.
September 26th, 2008 · 9 Comments
I’ve gotten a lot of comments over the last week, and a large number of them have been…
You complain about how no one knows how to use ability X, Y, and Z, but you clearly don’t know anything because I put out amazing dps.
… and?
Let me rephrase that. So fucking what. I hate to burst [...]
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Even I make mistakes.
September 22nd, 2008 · 16 Comments
I know that if you’ve been reading my blog your probably thinking, “Wow! This guy is like the greatest Warcraft player ever!” And while that is mostly true, even someone full to bursting with finger lickin awesomeness such as myself makes the occasional mistake. Today I will share one of those with you.
Last summer we [...]
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10 + 10 = 25?
September 20th, 2008 · 12 Comments
One of the problems that my guild had in BC and I’m sure we weren’t alone, was making the transition from 10 man to 25 man raiding. From my observations there were two ways to get there:
1. Run one Karazhan group. Get through as fast as possible, then dive into Gruul’s Lair and [...]
Casual or hardcore?
September 18th, 2008 · 3 Comments
As I’ve mentioned before, I didn’t start my guild as a raid guild. Originally it was just a place to park a bunch of low level pvp twinks. Once we expanded we picked up a lot of people who were interested in doing five mans or Karazhan, but a lot of them didn’t [...]
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Leading a raid prepares you to teach kindergarden.
August 29th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Most of the time when my raid screws up I do the usual. Yell, scream, insult, threaten their families, etc. But sometimes I find it necessary to stop things, get everyones attention, and explain things as slowly and as simply as possible.
“Now, boys and girls, when I tell you that the tank is going [...]
Are you a burned out raider?
August 29th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Stop crying about it. Stop posting essays about how hard it is to keep raiding week to week. Don’t quit your raid guild and join another one. Don’t server transfer. Do this….
Put down the mouse. Step away from the game.
Now go read a fucking book, you ignorant bastard. When you are no longer burned [...]