The Road to Karazhan …
… is fraught with drama, where even the smallest guild seems to suddenly have ego problems sprout overnight.
I am in a small guild, it originally had around 30 characters in the guild with about a third of those being alts. Some of the members had never been online but the regular members were nice and friendly and would gladly help you out. We generally did a 5-man a day and all was good.
Now, none of us are particularly well geared (with the exception of two officers in the guild) as we are still collecting bits and pieces from normal 5-mans and stocking up on our “welfare” Season 2 epics. This is important, going into heroics with greens and the odd blue is just asking for trouble. (Even mostly blues and the odd purple could be a problem depending on how exactly you are geared.)
The guild leader changed the message of the day to one inferring we should focus on getting geared up for heroics, which is great because that’s exactly what we should be doing.
This soon changed, today I logged on to be greeted by “<guild name> will soon be raiding, get DeadlyBossMods, Omen and GuildCalendar from curse.com”. (as a sidenote, there is no addon called GuildCalendar, they meant the excellent GroupCalendar, all these addons will be covered in a future Addon Corner btw ;))
Raiding? We haven’t even successfully completed a Heroic yet, how the hell can we be raiding???
I was out at a barbecue last night but Joanne was convinced to try a Heroic Ramparts run, it was a disaster. 3 hours total and still no clear.
If we are too undergeared to successfully clear normal 5-mans without incident, let alone a heroic, how can the guild leader seriously expect us to do Kara?
Also, the “friendly” nature of the guild seems to have vanished over the last few days, our member count has jumped to 50, and while that should be a good thing as most of the new blood is already level 70 with some very nice gear, there seems to be a lot of e-peen stroking and bravado.
We shall see how things progress but I’m not very optimistic about the guild’s future.
