02 May 2009 @ 07:19 pm
For those of you who don't pay attention to such things, I'm the raid leader of my WoW guild. This means, among other things, that it's my job to set times and get together groups for raiding endgame dungeons. In our guild's case, these are 10-man raids, so ten people.

As a previous post I made noted, I've been having some trouble with this. Aside from our co-GM refusing to do anything this week, our other major raids are cancelled owing to one of our DPS being out for one, and just not being able to get enough people for another. So I trashed all of our normal raids for this week and put up a Naxx, a 10-man raid our main group of people has already mostly cleared, for alts and people who still need things.

Five minutes before it was supposed to start it turned into a miserable "I'm not coming if he's coming" petty politicking, featuring me getting reamed out for following official guild policy to make the raid happen (inviting people from within the guild).

Nothing goes right. Nothing ever, ever goes right.
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[identity profile] dragosteel.livejournal.com on May 3rd, 2009 12:35 am (UTC)
I know your pain all to well my friend. I also like the people who then later to decide to leave the guild and their reasoning is that the raids or activities don't happen, or fail to go a certain way and they're to blame.
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[identity profile] readnofurther.livejournal.com on May 4th, 2009 03:55 pm (UTC)
::Hugs::
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[identity profile] isis.livejournal.com on May 5th, 2009 02:29 pm (UTC)
I wish we had room for you guys to come over to our server (since you guys are Horde too!)...I'm not really happy with my guild, generally, but I have a guaranteed 25 man raiding spot and my group of friends and I have been running a weekly 10 man Ulduar (that people are calling cliquey, but we're sticking to the same group, generally, for progress sake...)

If you guys ever do get fed up, there's room on a friends/family level, since I've known you guys *forever*, but I know you guys are pretty set on staying. I just hate the politics of raiding sometime, and I think the small guilds get the shit stick.
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[identity profile] isis.livejournal.com on May 5th, 2009 02:30 pm (UTC)
Blah, I meant that as a reply to dragon...clicked the wrong link (it's too early still...)
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