Logged on WoW on Wednesday, ready for raiding, to find that all raids had been scrubbed off the calendar. One of the Mages is in an autocation with the guild leader and is shortly kicked from the guild. Another person leaves of their own accord.
"WTF is happening????" I type in guildchat.
"Dropveter (The guild leader) has stopped all raiding cuz no one is turning up 2 Rated BGs." Comes the reply from Calastor, one of the guild's top healers.
"So no raids ever?"
"nope"
So it came to be that my guild, which had been performig pretty well in the rankings on the server in terms of PvE, decided to forsake all the progress it had made in Raid clearance and persue a broken game mechanic.
"Fuck this" I type in disgust and quit the guild on the spot. I organise a faction change and go to join an Alliance guild that I had raided with in Lich King. I am met with a nasty shock.
Turns out that the alliance guild, DNS, had a rule about having a main character outside the guild. The officer i Spoke to, Gracegrace, claimed that I had been "Jerking the guild around for quite some time". These allegations frightened me a bit. DNS are a nice bunch and I didn't want to find myself unceremoniously ejected from their ranks. I try the arrogant approach: "What if i told you that my paladin had 154k HP unbuffed?" I also flash some achievement progess on the raids. Gracegrace isn't impressed. Realising the future of my raiding career is at stake, I promise to level up what the guild percieved to be my main, my Deathknight, to 85 and get it raidworthy.
"You better" GG replies. I thank him for the second chance and log my Deathknight, where I am contacted by another officer, a nice guy called Pete, who invites me for a little chat on ventrilo and tells me that the other officers are pretty pissed off with me, and that my place in the guild is only secured by the fact that i spent £20 transfering my paladin across to be with them, a gesture that they find amicable. I guess my guild drama is over for now, but only time will tell. They resolve to let my paladin in the guild, but that I cant raid with it as a main, despite having superior gear and experience to everyone else. I accept this because they have bent the rules enough to keep me in, and see this logic-defying limitation as a punishment for my infraction on the rules. The core raiders though, who I raided with during WotLK, are happy to see me.
You have learned a great lesson my friend. Social networks are very important especially for games like WoW and it is always good to never stab people in the back. At least you are a back in and with time you will be accepted back into the social circle. Trust is the biggest part and they just have to learn to trust you again.
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