Thursday, February 9, 2012

Finally, some drama!

No growing guild is complete without some drama, outrage, in-fighting and other soap opera excitement. Tuesday a tank and recently promoted to officer to lead raids, Trogdar, did a fantastic job leading raiders on Tuesday to 1 shot every boss in EV and 2 shot Soa. I believed the raid was ready to try hard mode and so tonight I had scheduled 2 raids to go at 6:15 with our allied guild included, since Sin only had 1 "A TEAM" raid and many more people were interested in getting involved. Trogdar logged on at 6:50 and refused to work with our allied guildmaster and lead his own raid with the A-Team, excluding other Sin raiders. I was very proud of them for successfully defeating the first 2 bosses in hard mode EV before being struck by the bug on the third boss of being unable to reset the instance after locking the pylons and wiping. After this Trogdar really let me have it and ranted at me in guild chat telling me what a terrible leader I am and how I have failed everyone and let them down by flaking out on raids. This puzzled me as I had let everyone know I would be spending time with my wife and son sometimes and that is why we had other raid leaders. The raids were very successful so I'm not sure if everyone was angry and resentful like Trogdar said or just his own feelings from a lack of communication. I was also disappointed to see Trogdar try to random off items when that is forbidden in our guild policy. Also in the recruitment policy is the philosophy that we are not here to be a super elite PvE raid guild at the expense of real life job, family, or school. And we are also based on being inclusive and helping others not making one super-elite raid team and telling the rest of the 50's too bad. But by all means don't take my word for it, the following conversation is long but I tried to be as diplomatic as possible, unfortunately I did not find much understanding. Caution: explicit language follows.




2 comments:

  1. *sigh* I should have expected nothing less. Yes I used harsh language, yes I was pissed. I've kept my mouth shut for a long time and tried to work within the system and repeatedly failed.

    Vamp and I are told that Zode has all this great raid experience and we should stop questioning him. Then he builds a raid group that has no chance of succeeding and refuses to listen to reason causing everyone to wipe. To top it all off he then accuses us of throwing the fight just to make him look bad instead of acknowledging that 4 tanks in an 8 man raid is a recipe for failure on Zoa.

    Last night we spent quite a bit of time working out new strategies for the first boss that would allow our undergeared team to actually finish the fight and then worked through the second boss like we'd been doing it for years. Zode logs in and starts repeatedly asking for a spot in an already full group. Rather than accept "As soon as I get a spot you're in" he takes it to guild chat until someone gives him there spot. He then makes everyone wait while he drives to work and gets situated.

    I, like many others that have tried to raid, were stuck in a "Love my guildmates, hate my guild leader" situation. Had Zode not kicked me I'd have left anyway. I would have left last night had Vamp not asked me to give it a week before going.

    I look forward to my continued adventures with the great bunch of friends I've made in Sin, just not with Zode in charge.

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