I have been contemplating this for a while, and I really only have 1 person in the guild who I would consider a friend. Taking into account that he hopped servers with me a while back and got into this guild because I pushed his recruitment. I digress though...
Last night was our first run into lost vale in about a week. We lost our off tank that we spent a lot of time gearing up which is what happens. So our main tank, an iron breaker, has 5 greater wards so we thought we would go in with one tank and do 2 healers, 2 straight dps, and then a warrior priest who was dps speced so that he could dps heal if need be. The time was set for 9 pm CST and everyone said that they could make it. Well 930pm rolls in and people are either not there or not ready, so I handed group leader off after inviting another healer to go with them and went off to play my alt.
Like many of you I take time out of my evening to do PVE stuff, it is not like RVR where I can come and go as I please. Additionally, this told me that people where not ready for the discipline required to clear this zone. Having a buddy and I clearing the zone on our destruction toons where people showed up on time and where prepared to people who seem too careless, but just want the gear.
Ultimately I feel that if they where dedicated to the goal they would have come prepared. They knew their rolls and knew the start time so by not meeting those items I don’t feel like wasting my time teaching them the boss fights. I know that may sound emo'ish, or even elitist, but it is my time that is being wasted and I value my time.
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You put in the time, dedication, and work how can you expect any less from your "guildies"
I do agree with that, although I don't think that they see it that way. I think they see it as I am there to server them which is far from the case. Although I should have expected this after that fiasco I spoke about the other day, where the guild leader said healing was un-important and only dps mattered. Such as life, there are plenty of guilds hurting for healers.
I have a real hard line on this type of thing. I understand that this is a hobby and a past-time kind of situation for all of us, so other things are more important. That being said, if you commit to a scheduled event, and it is something as sensitive as an instance, limited-size group event, you need to show up. Otherwise you're putting 5 other people out on their ass.
It's just rude, saying you will be able to do something means you are going to be there 100%. Unless you are CERTAIN that you can run, don't say you will. The fact that YOU were running THEM through this, and teaching the strat, just even strengthens your position of moral justness here. You were going out of your way to provide them with assistance, and they snubbed their noses at it.
Eff that.
Well what made the situation worse was the fact that they were all on. I can understand if you say hey, my wife asked me to do this or hey I need to go to the bathroom, but holding people up for an hour because you want to go check the auction house or finally decided to get yourself some talismans.
You are right though shadowwar, it is rude, more so it is disrespect that you waste the time of others to not be prepared. I think it was my last attempt to PVE with this group, and I am considering going out of the box and trying to get one for LV outside of guilds. It has worked well for me in the past because usually you get people who want to do it.
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