So I got a tell the other night from one of the guilds I recently applied to. They turned me down at the time of the application because they had filled the position but apparently things didn’t work out. This = win. I have been on a downward slope with my guild for longer then I care to remember but I don’t think it was until Ulduar that I really started to notice being passed over for raid invites. On the day ToC was released I was passed over yet again and that broke the camels back for awhile. I had had it with clique groups where not all members of the guild are considered members of the guild. I stopped raiding for a month to cool off and come back fresh. Well this turned out to be ammunition for the GM to not invite me to even more raids when I came back. Not only was I behind on gear at this point (most the entire guild was well on their way to 4/5 piece Tier 9) but it took me a good 3 weeks of showing up for all 5 raid nights before I even was invited to one. The one saving grace during this period was the benevolent rule that waitlist DKP would receive full DKP for the night. As time went on my DKP grew and I saw more and more raids but it hasn’t been until this past week that I was actually chosen over other players…I made it into the top 25 raiders.
Still there were issues though. If we broke off into 2x 10 man groups I usually sat bench. Once when I bought a piece of gear that I clearly had the DKP for there was a long decision time between another raider and I. I knew it was rightfully mine according to DKP but the GM still wanted to decide if he could slip it to another raider. Another night while sitting idle in vent long after a raid, the GM was mocking another “alpha raider’s” dps for the night by comparing it to mine. I would like to think they didn’t realize I was listening but really I think they just didn’t care.
That was what killed this guild for me. They didn’t care. There was a lot of selfishness involved. It wasn’t even a guild really. It was a group of people that’s sole purpose was to support the guild leader. He would cherry pick his 10 man groups so that they would always have the greatest chance for success. His avatar on the guild forums was Joseph Stalin….I’m not joking. It was both as a joke and a true tribute to his role in the guild. If you’ve ever seen/heard the Moar DoTs video, my old GM was much like Dives(their GM) on that video. He never got quite as loud or quite as angry but I swear I would donate all of my gold to the orphans of Orgrimar if he would make it through a raid without cursing at someone failing him. I talked to my class lead about my situation and he was perfectly honest. You either have to deal with the way our GM runs things or find a new guild because he isn’t going to change. I had raided with these guys as far back as patch 1.12 so yeah…he ain’t changing and somehow I fell out of grace with no hope of return. After I /gquit, I got a tell from him that simply said “wtf did you quit for”.
WTF would you have to even have ask that question?
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Sometimes, GQuit feels incredibly good
Good luck with the next one!!
Finally! It's been a long time coming…
yeah i hate major changes though…it was the one thing hold this back from happening..
i've told my wife several times…i have yet to have a bad feeling about this decision though…thats a good sign!
My guild, which I was leader of, decided that since I had started college, that they would continue to do as they had been doing without my wife and I there, one day one of my officers, asked to take over vent payments, and I knew then and there the guild had gone beyond my casual raid style, they had moved into hardcore. Sure enough, Two weeks or so later, another of my officers asked to take control of the guild, because I 'wasn't there enough'…Go figure, getting a degree was more important than killing gruul. C'est la vie.