Perhaps I am cursed. Be wary! Lately my guild has once again run into attendance problems among other things. Those of you who have been reading for a while will know that this is definitely not the first post I have written regarding my current guild running into problems.
The interesting thing about it this time was that we were still progressing quite decently. Just last week we knocked out 3 Lights in the Darkness, we continue to farm most of our hard modes that we have accomplished, among other things.
A couple days ago our current raid leader left, taking his 28 Legendary shards with him. That night we still went in, took out 4 Tower FL and XT hard mode with 24 people. Cleared up through Auriaya in preparation for hard mode Keepers the next night and called the raid because a whole lot of folks were going to see Harry Potter.
Raid time came around and we were short 10 people, quite unexpectedly. While we have been recruiting quite a bit, even our apps didn’t show up, which isn’t saying much for the quality of some of our applicants.
It was just surprising to myself and the other remaining officers. We have groups that had put in 10-man Algalon attempts, we fully clear every week with about half the the hard modes down and continuing to progress and we run into attendance problems.
It’s been frustrating to me on a single guild basis and as a whole, as every guild I have been a part of since the start of Burning Crusade has whithered and died.
So I assume I must be carrying around one nasty guild killing karma.
On another note, I have a brother-in-law who plays WoW and is slowly convincing their other brother (“their” I mean him and my wife) to pick up the game to play super casually with us when he has the time. That situation is about the only I can see where I would start a new character from scratch again. :)
So at that, the bumpy ride starts again. Sorry I’ve so quiet as of late. Nothing has been really inspiring me to write. I’ve been playing free online Poker just for kicks and giggles. My wife and I got hooked on watching WSOP reruns while on vacation. I’ve been dinking around in Guild Wars when I feel like it. And I’ve also taken this lull in playtime to freshen up on my CSS, PHP, 3D modelling, etc. I used to be quite fluent in that area. Heh. :)
The last post, regarding Power Auras, came as a request from an email I received so if you want anything specific covered, post it here, in emails, forums, etc. I do my best to respond to everything I can.
Thanks again for the help on this one Drotara! Got to test out the Singed tracker last night and it worked great. We didn’t get the hard mode but we did shave about 20s off our fastest kill. That on top of our first Yogg kill on Monday has made for a good week =D
I wish I could get it to show the number of stacks of Singed too but the only thing I can seem to get it to do is turn on or off when it reaches 25 and that’s not really what I want. I suppose I could set up another one to show a second icon only until it’s at a full 25. Hmm possibilities…
Anyways I appreciate the pointers. Power Auras has all of a sudden become so much more useful!
And good luck with the attendance issues. It plagues us as well but we seem to keep on truckin.
Dro,
I feel your pain just before Uldar release we lost our RL and some other members followed. Uldar release we struggled (understatement) we had some new recruits thru a merger and boom started blowing thru the content. Started working on Hard modes and boom could fill raids. GM decided to change guild focus to 2 10 man teams. Trying to get that commardary back, granted we are a casual guild, I have a family and can’t go Hard Core anymore. I am amazed that we went from 5 extra peeps to not filling a raid in 1 week. I really enjoy the people in my guild, fun group we let loose. I have not decided if I can accept just doing 10 mans I am giving it a try as I do enjoy my guildies company.
Ok my rant is done summer always is a tough time as people take vacations, adding the recession (schedule changes), and just plain play more outside of wow. Every guild I have been in has this slow down. Question for you, Do you think that Vanilla to BC changed this? I remember that in Vanilla we had very little turn over, it seams that 25 mans and Kara changed it to more of a free agency with loot being taken over forging something great as a guild. Maybe it’s the current easy content compared to Vanilla. That the old content pretty much was unpuggable, where now all instances seem to be puggable.
I wish you the best when times like this happen it tends to effect our playing as well, meaning I get discouraged to log onto my main. I have a RL friend who just started playing so I am lvling a shaman to fill my time as we just started raiding again this week after 2 weeks off. I dont really want to maintain 2 toons, but my main if fine on gold and if I don’t raid then I get bored on him. GL with your guild problems, and no you don’t have the un-Midas touch, where things turn to shit rather than gold. I think the game relationships have changed.
I think one thing about raiding in vanilla was that you lacked server transfers. People were very hesitant to burn bridges because a server may have only had a couple raiding guilds.
I know how you feel except i have been in 10 or more guilds over the last few months. 3 of them the Guild Master ninja ed the guild bank and then xferd servers i had another one where i joined and i went to sleep when i woke up they broke up. I got left one in 2 hours of joining because they were completely horrible and others broke up because of low attendance and i just joined a new guild that is good on my server and when Raid time came around yesterday we only had 15 people and we lost some good players in the last few weeks according to my friend. so i also have bad luck when it comes to guilds…
Man, oh man, does that sound familiar. The summer guild lull syndrome. It’s happening all over the place man, and it’s not a curse you are carrying, it’s a symptom of the season, the current playerbase, and the state and future of the game in general. I don’t know if you may have noticed, but when the announcement came of the next so-called “raid” content barely a month and a half into Ulduar, nevermind hardmodes, and the relentless nerfs to Ulduar followed by amazing gear upgrades which will soon be dropped by not one, but TWO jormungars… many veterans became disenfranchised. Many went casual, others quit, others are playing a new upcoming MMO, so on and so forth. I know, personally as a hunter, I feel like I’ve been playing a maimed class for several months. Can’t show my face in BG’s even since both my specs must be tailored to PvE raidcontent just to be able to carry my weight with the DK’s and ferals. Had hopes for 3.1 and we all know how it turned out. 3.2 … meh. After years on the cutting edge of this class I don’t care to log much anymore. But those are MY reasons. As for what you are seeing, you are not alone, and what is happening in your guild is happening everywhere and is multifaceted. I expect after school starts things will “sorta” normalize. and people will try the new “raid” etc. But for a coliseum arena “raid” with more vehicle gimmicks and yet another rehashed “Azol-Nerub was merely a setback” cliche. Many familiar faces won’t be back.
Your issues are everyone’s issues. Granted my guild is a bit behind your progression, we recently decided to cease raiding because of attendance. We had gotten to Yogg months ago and had made some good attempts into phase 2 prenerf, but Summer hit and we just fell apart.
The reality is that Summer plus the current lackluster state of the game is effecting everyone. The ease of Naxxramas created an environment where a HUGE number of guilds thrived (or thought they did). Our server went from 5-6 top end guilds to 15-20 that had completed all or almost all of tier 7 content. Now we have guilds falling apart that have been here since MC because you just can not recruit quality players. Naxxramas’ so called “Raid 101″ did not teach the average player anything and the quickly nerfed Ulduar did not help at all.
We are left in a world where Summer vacations cause attendance issues and we are stuck with subpar raiders because Blizzard saw fit to make everyone “believe” they were decent with content easier than normal Mana Tombs back in the day.
Do not even get me going on the current content and proposed content level and its implications on guilds and general playability.
Wow, I didn’t know you did 3d modeling. Do you use MAYA? Could you post some of your work?
I was always a fan of 3DS Max, mostly because that is the software I learned first. I am sure I can dig up some of the stuff I did and/or tried to do.
The summer is pretty much the best time to work on alts, I’m finishing up a new Hunter main on Frostmane myself. If I were to get my feet wet in Illidan (I’m looking at either that, Proudmoore or Lightning’s Blade), what would you say horde side needs most? Resto shaman? Warlocks?
Hmmmm, actually both of those would be strong choices. Obviously healers are always in demand but there does seem to be a shortage of good Warlocks it seems.
As usual, if you need a resource for encounter specifics or a warm body for a raid let me know. I have an exceptionally geared feral druid and warlock I could come jam on if the times are right. We’re prolly gonna have our Iron Bounds tonight so our raid time should dimish heavily and I am sure I could get some more warm bodies to help at that point. Just let me know what it do and im down like funky town.
Tell me about struggling. summer is here and my guild is sitting here picking their nose. going back to old content 10 mans. ugh I’m sick of Naxx… for the 2nd time… i just hope they don’t plan on making MC over again.
Anyhow, Good luck with what’s happening. /search guild recruitment
Sucks man, I’ve had various problems like this in the past. Luckily you’re on a server where you have plenty of options to raid if that’s still your thing.
Yeah, Illidan is definitely populated enough to find a new home if needed.
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