Ahey, 
Right, so, we seem to have stalled a bit, lately, but, this is just me telling everyone that I haven't given up on Wrath.
Bosses still ahead of me, in order of personal importance, are:
- The Lich King
- Algalon, via Mimiron hard mode
- Halion
- Anub'arak heroic in ToGC
Fortunately for me, I have saved raid lockouts for all these bosses.
However, that's not what I want to talk about today. I want to wax poetic for just a tad about who we are as a raid crew.
The Haven is not and, if I can help it, will never become a hard core raiding guild. That much is true. What that means is, we don't use crap like DKP, we don't kick people out if they miss a raid or two, and we're happy to find room for... well... "under"skilled people, as long as they understand that they might not make every raid.
What that does not mean, however, is that we don't take our raiding seriously. If someone were to say we're "not a raiding guild", that would be flat out wrong.
Now, I realise that things have been shaky, lately, but, you know what, if people latch on to that, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. The more people slough off because "things are shaky", the more things get shaky.
Lately, a sizeable number of people have been happy to attend a couple of, shall we say, "side events". Normally, this would be ok, but as it turns out, it's screwing the Haven raid crew completely.
Take today, for instance. Today's raid was cancelled outright, due to a lack of people online and a lack of signups. This was a large disappointment for me. I was very much looking forward to a jolly raid, after such an epic guild meet weekend. I've meet some awesome people and I know they can and want to take the game seriously, so I'm left wondering where the hell everyone is... People, if you're a part of a team, please respect the team. I promise it will respect you back!
Now, me, I've never not signed up for a raid event, even those events that everyone already knows I can't make, such as, say, the Tuesday gearing run, which overlaps with LX night. Another thing I've never done is schedule things for the main raid nights, which currently are Thursday and Friday.
I flat out refuse to leave the Haven to go join any of those hard core crews. I seriously doubt I would feel at home there. I also flat out refuse to give up on progress just because "things are shaky".
The four bosses I put up at the top of the post, they're my goal for the remainder of this expansion. I want to do every single one of them before 4.0 hits.
Here's my question: who's with me?
Cheers,
J.
Right, so, we seem to have stalled a bit, lately, but, this is just me telling everyone that I haven't given up on Wrath.
Bosses still ahead of me, in order of personal importance, are:
- The Lich King
- Algalon, via Mimiron hard mode
- Halion
- Anub'arak heroic in ToGC
Fortunately for me, I have saved raid lockouts for all these bosses.
However, that's not what I want to talk about today. I want to wax poetic for just a tad about who we are as a raid crew.
The Haven is not and, if I can help it, will never become a hard core raiding guild. That much is true. What that means is, we don't use crap like DKP, we don't kick people out if they miss a raid or two, and we're happy to find room for... well... "under"skilled people, as long as they understand that they might not make every raid.
What that does not mean, however, is that we don't take our raiding seriously. If someone were to say we're "not a raiding guild", that would be flat out wrong.
Now, I realise that things have been shaky, lately, but, you know what, if people latch on to that, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. The more people slough off because "things are shaky", the more things get shaky.
Lately, a sizeable number of people have been happy to attend a couple of, shall we say, "side events". Normally, this would be ok, but as it turns out, it's screwing the Haven raid crew completely.
Take today, for instance. Today's raid was cancelled outright, due to a lack of people online and a lack of signups. This was a large disappointment for me. I was very much looking forward to a jolly raid, after such an epic guild meet weekend. I've meet some awesome people and I know they can and want to take the game seriously, so I'm left wondering where the hell everyone is... People, if you're a part of a team, please respect the team. I promise it will respect you back!
Now, me, I've never not signed up for a raid event, even those events that everyone already knows I can't make, such as, say, the Tuesday gearing run, which overlaps with LX night. Another thing I've never done is schedule things for the main raid nights, which currently are Thursday and Friday.
I flat out refuse to leave the Haven to go join any of those hard core crews. I seriously doubt I would feel at home there. I also flat out refuse to give up on progress just because "things are shaky".
The four bosses I put up at the top of the post, they're my goal for the remainder of this expansion. I want to do every single one of them before 4.0 hits.
Here's my question: who's with me?
Cheers,
J.
