Here comes some rant without screenshots, hehehe.
Lets see how I should begin. My brother would say that I like to fight and argue for everything. That might be right: I’m the kind of person that likes to argue about things, most of the times my arguments are correct, and there are very few times that I just argue because I’m bored (heheh). In real life we could say I’m a bit bitter, I have to do my best not to keep arguing in fights because usually they end up pretty bad, and, well, I’m someone that can be fun sometimes, but then, the bad side of myself isn’t nice when it comes out, lol. Even like this, my brother knows how to handle me (my brother is older than me, by two years). Probably my problem is that sometimes I let situations control me. Yes, I’m not perfect, but probably that’s what makes me be what I am (none is perfect, right?) This isn’t something I like to share with everyone o_o
Why am I saying this? I’ve been in Self Titled since November of last year, so that would be around five months that I’ve been member of the guild. On my World of Warcraft history, I’ve been (in that order) in Arsenal (closed beta, retail), Needs Food Badly, Horizon and then Self Titled. I left Arsenal because I had issues with a couple of people in the guild, Arsenal also had problems because, even tho we were quality people, we were never quantity, so we couldn’t do end game by ourselves, and had to do it with other guilds. Needs Food Badly was awesome, but the problem with Needs Food Badly were the raid times, they were too early for my work schedule and I could never raid with them (or I would usually join late, and what’s the fun of that). NFB was more a social guild rather than raiding, and even tho a social guild is really fun, at this point, many players in WoW are wanting more and more to see end game. Then we see Horizon, that was a newly guild formed by people that left other guilds. The guild only lasted a couple of weeks before it broke up. Then Self Titled.
Self Titled was the coolest guild I’d ever join. Their raid times fitted perfectly, there were cool people, I got equipped by them (and no, it wasn’t free, I went to every single raid and was one with highest attendance) and I could raid almost anything (MC full clear, ZG full clear, Onyxia full clear, AQ20 working, AQ40 working, BWL working). Why would I leave? I had it all: respect from most of them, I was one of the leading druids (along with Eilianna), once I was an officer of the guild, etc. etc. etc.
This is when the argument begins. Last night I left Self Titled. Yesterday morning I found out that the night before (that would be sunday) my raiding team (Team Kerrigan) went to Blackwing Lair, and they took down Razorgore, by the first time, doing a “trick”. This trick consisted on a Paladin using Divine Intervention (gives the target a shield, the target cannot be attacked and cannot attack) on someone, and this would basically make that the next attempt would be free of mobs on the first phase. On Razorgore’s fight, the hardest part is having to kill the eggs and dealing with the mobs that were zerging the place, and then the second phase, killing the boss, is the easiest of all. We can say that they skipped the hardest and went to the easiest. They said that, officially, it’s not considered as an exploit, because horde cannot do it (horde doesn’t have Paladins), they asked a GM before trying it. My point of view about it is that you can feel it’s not correct: what would be the point of skipping the hardest part of the boss? The game is supposed to be challenging. From their point of view, there are many ways to show that it’s not an exploit, not at all.
I’ve made many errors. There’s also a “bug” that we used to use in Zul’Gurub with Bloodlord, and I never said anything. I am dirty, probably, but this is one of these times I have to step up and say “Hey, what was done doesn’t make me proud, it’s not correct”. The problem here is that, 98% of the guild agrees with what was done or doesn’t even care about it. Why? Easy epics, Razorgore drops all tier 2 bracers. Would I want to reach Nefarion knowing that we “skipped” a few bosses using “tricks”? Now, I’m not talking about strategies, I mean things that could “modify” the event so it doesn’t work as it should.
Another example would be Hakkar. Before the patch, Hakkar was very easy, at the point that he was dissapointing. Before the patch, everyone would stand in a place, a warrior would tank him and then it was just a matter of time to kill Hakkar. It was not an “exploit”, the problem was that Hakkar wasn’t working as intended (Blizzard said). I wrote in my blog (I think) that it was so dissapointing that there were bosses even harder than Hakkar, and it was so sad because Hakkar was the end boss, he should be the most challenging, and by being challenging, when he went down, it would make everyone proud of the fight. When the patch fixed Hakkar, I spoke with someone in my raid team, and I was saying that it was cool, finally a challenge (end boss). The guy said (and a few others) that he would prefer the old Hakkar, because it was free epics …
Going back to what happened last night, when I logged I was chatting with a few people. Two of them made the whole situation worst (one of them was even making fun of me in guild chat). I was invited by someone I know to an AQ20 run, and while I was there, I kept being whispered about me being there applying to a new guild, lol. They didn’t even know the facts and they were accusing me already. I wasn’t applying to any guild, I was just passing the time there. Then someone I really estimate comes up in a whisper and told me that “it was until that time that he believed I was a good player, but that me raiding with other guild changed his point of view”. After many whispers of this kind, I left the guild, and can you believe someone I estimate (of my raiding team), without even listening to my side, told me “yes, you are leaving us after getting all your epic set”. WTF. I asked him if he knew why I left, he said that he didn’t care. After I explained to him, he was like “Umm…” Why would you insult someone like that without even listening his side? Is people guilty until proven innocent, or innocent until proven guilty? Think about it, would it be so easy for me to leave considering I had everything? Perfect raid time, good raid team, etc. etc.?
This morning I log into the forums, and I found out that my account was “nuked”. We usually remove people from the guild group, but they went even farther and totally deleted my account. Geez, that was very easy to do.
Now, who would be a loot whore? (if that’s how you write it).
• Someone that stays, knowing that what he’s doing is not correct, but still remaining because the person knows it means free epics.
• Someone that leaves and defends his point of view.
When I left, I was still the highest druid with DKP (more than 255 points). And I’m the loot whore? The main thing that pissed me off is that almost none felt that doing what they did in BWL was not correct.
Yeah, blame me, flame me, whatever. Feel free to post your point of view, but be constructive.
