Stupid Awards of the Week

The Ninja Logger of the Week Award goes to…

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The holy pally who let us know he was tired and logged out less than two minutes later in ICC 10. And we were doing well! At least give some notice so we can replace you…with a hunter.


The AFK Raider Award of the Week goes to…

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The priest who showed up for 1/3 of the25 man raids he was supposed to this week, 2 hours late for his ICC 10 and proceeded to pester me about when he could get in a raid for the next 30 minutes when he finally did log in. Seriously?


The “Did He Really Just Say That!?!” Award of the Week goes to…

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The pally tank who, when given his directions for Dreamwalker (again) after a wipe led to this conversation:

RL - “Kill order: Blazing skelies, mages, blight zombies, A-Bombs.”

Tank - “What’s an A-Bomb?”

Other Tank - “A-Bombs, Abominations…You know the things that look like Patchwerk and Meathook.”

Tank - “Huh?”

(Silence so whispers can fly)

Other Tank - “The stitched up, gross things…”

Tank - “What are they called?”

Other Tank - “A-Bombs! Abominations!”

Tank - “Oh. Is that what they are called?”

(Silence)

Tank - “So we kill those first?”


Please refer to the post regarding the Stupid Debuff now.

Fingers Crossed

Maybe, just maybe, one little whisper has (at least for the moment) solved my recruiting nightmare….

I saw a post on our server’s forum about a ret pally looking for a home. He was geared and spelled things correctly so I whispered him in game when I saw him on. Lo and behold, he comes with about 5-6 friends - all equally geared! The really odd part is that they are classes we need! A hunter to replace the one whose college grades were dropping, a holy priest to replace the one who is strangely absent for progression fights, and a few others to buff up our remaining Wed/Thurs holes.

Two of them have joined already and the rest say they will be over before reset on Tuesday. I fully expect some drama in the ranks when they are included in the 25 man run that night in place of those that have been flakey. Are there words to express how much I don’t care? I’ve been tracking attendance; I know who shows and who doesn’t. A little competition for raid spots isn’t a bad thing. We have a few who seem to have become a just a tad too comfortable and are showing up later and later or are always the last ones to arrive back after a wipe. We need to get back to having hungry raiders if we plan on moving forward with speedy progression!

So, fingers crossed it works out well…I’ll let you know!

Recruiting Sucks

Not much more to say than that. Don't want to, just might have to. Bleh.

Either Or...

It’s good or bad, high or low, boss dead or us dead - there seems to be little middle ground.

Tuesday, on 25, we blew through the first wing, Rotface, and Festerfuck and had time to put in one shot on Dreamwalker before the end of raid time. It was easy, it was fun and the Raid Bitch only came out in jest. Then the 10 man right after it was a complete cluster fuck - I could hear the circus music in my head. We wipe in trash, the drunk priest wiped us trying to be funny, the OT had trouble managing adds, and we barely crawled through Sarfang. And this was the “good” group.

Wednesday we got off to a very slow, rocky start in 25s due to late attendance, officer who refused to run due to his emo-ness, and a few folks who said they couldn’t make it. We gave Dreamwalker a few attempts but the heals weren’t there and the two OTs (different from the one the night before mind you) seemed to have left all threat outside the instance. We had a priest (not the drunk one) who broke his mouse (kind of funny in retrospect hearing him slamming the mouse on his desk and wondering why it wouldn’t work) and since we didn’t have a replacement for him it took forever for him to try to find a work around, multiple badly timed DCs, and attitude all the way around it was not going to happen. We moved to Blood Council instead, wiped on trash, and eventually got the BC down to about 26%. Not an awful attempt since we hadn’t spent any real time on them. Then we pulled together the 10 man again, one-shotted Dreamwalker, and got BC down for the first time after only (I think) three attempts. We called it early as two healers had to go but not a bad 10 man night at all.

So, feast or famine. Go figure.

Did You Say Something...?

Quit your whining.

I’ve told you all repeatedly that I’m bad at answering tells and don’t always read raid/guild/officer chat and to say something in vent if you want my attention. Unless you’ve been a GM and/or RL - or both at the same time like me - you have no freaking idea what my screen looks like most days. So let me help you out. Here are a few of the (MANY!!!) reasons I may not answer you thereby ensuring your feelings are hurt, you feel neglected, and you go all emo for the next four hours:

I’m tabbed out….

* Doing raid research

* Looking up potential recruits

* Checking to see if you enchanted/gemmed the gear you got since historically you’ve been a slacker when it comes to that

* Reading blogs so I can remember I’m not the only one being slowly driven mad by my guild

* Anything else that makes me happy and it’s none of your business


I have 13 other people whispering me at the time…

* “Can I buy _______ out of the gbank?”

* “Is your guild recruiting?”

* “Why didn’t I get X piece of loot when I’ve been here longer/show up more/am cuter and therefore more deserving?”

* “So-and-so is being mean/offensive/ignoring me.”

* “Why am I on standby when I’m the best DPS ever/best healer ever/only missed 3 days last week/feeling punished for no reason?”


I’m not reading…

* /Gchat because you all were talking about cars/sex/your epeen/nonsense and I don’t care

* /Officer chat because you were bickering/insulting me/bitching/talking nonsense/arguing

* /Raid chat because your emotes have pushed aside anything that may have been important/you’re bragging about your DPS or heals/you’re talking about nonsense that has nothing to do with the raid

* Anything at all because I’m buried in all of the above and just truly missed it


And you can fully expect me to truly be ignoring any of the following…

* “What time are we raiding?” - It never changes…are you really asking this?

* “Are we raiding?” - Is it a raid night?

* “What are we raiding?” - You know I don’t announce this ahead of time and, duh, it’s probably ICC 25 unless it’s Saturday and, Dumbass, it doesn’t matter as you should be here for anything we raid.

* “What are you wearing?” - ‘Nough said.

* Absolutely anything I choose that is not raid related when I have /DND Raid Time up. Seriously, did you think that didn’t mean you?


So stop complaining, grab my attention in vent, and get over it. Unless you’re a masochist and like feeling abused in which case keep doing what you’re doing. And I will keep not seeing your comments.

You Tell Me...

Is it a new low in bribery or a brilliant motivational tool?



Frankly, I’m just looking for a way to keep the team willing to show up on wipe-fest nights! It made sense to me until one of the officers responded to the mail with a LOL and “desperate, are we?”. Meh, at this point whatever works to get new bosses down with a minimum of whining and ninja dcs.

Stupid Awards of the Week

Emo /Gquit Award of the Week goes to…

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The warlock who was told it was against guild rules to pug ICC 10 before Sunday and went anyway! When called on it he said, and I quote, “You can’t tell me what to do” and left the guild.


Stupidest Waste of Flask Time Award of the Week goes to…

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The druid who left raid to hop on an alt to buy buff food for another druid who came to raid unprepared!


And the OMG I’m a Greedy Dumbass Award of the Week goes to…

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Nomoremana, the level 38 warrior, who rolled Need on a +spirit cloak against my level 40 priest in Uldaman…because it was blue.