Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Raid Group

I was going to post the following in response to Lakini's latest post, but I figured I would just do it here. 

I agree with Lakini, if you leave because your "bored" or whatever..stay gone. It is TOTALLY and undeniably unfair to those of us who come consistently and do whats best for the raid group to just let individuals come roll on and recieve what they want, and then leave the game. This ends up not helping any of the other people in the raid progress their toons in the same way we have aided those individuals in progressing their character.  Issues like these become more and more important and larger based on difficulty of content.  I understand things often times are dramatically more complicated than this. And this view can seem simplistic, and we probably will have to deal with much of this in order to continue on as a core raid group. 

Like I said before, I understand that some of this BS is unavoidable in raids. Do I want to see the raids from different points of view? Sure I do, I have a melee character, but I am not even about to CONSIDER raiding with a different class until EACH and every single piece, both on and off spec, is aquired from our primary raiders, or my alt(s) are needed for specific encounters. It is just not the right thing to do. 

I have, for the majority of my WoW experience sacrificed some for raid gain, and that is fine, its what is most important for me.  I pally healed all through the majority of BC (stabbing pencils through my iris sometimes seemed more enjoyable,) I played a resto shammy (alot of fun so not really a sacrifice, but hey its healing!) I went with range dps (I love my Shaman, I am elemental and it will absolutely remain my main spec through the majority of progression content, but it was not my initial desire, as melee is honestly more entertaining).

Basically what I am saying is, I like to do what makes the raid a better raid. That is my priority, I know this is a game, and its everyone's 15 bucks, but it still does not mean you just forget about what other people need and what your group needs. 

Monday, January 12, 2009

Cleared

Heroes Inc. raid group "We Stand in Red Circles" has officially cleared all 10 man PvE content thus far in Wrath of the Lich King.

I am very proud for each individual involved. Alot of the credit has to go to our raid leader, Ellevis (aka Wichita) who is always prepared and does the best job I have ever seen with leading raids.

Secondly our tanks (Donk, Ellevis) and healers (Blackhaus,Starkra,Zadorr) both just do fabulous jobs with cooldowns, effeciency, and threat, as well as know how to handle diverse situations very well.

Also, things would not die without our damage dealers. Although all of us don't seem to live through the entire fights, (red circles, and splashing green poisonus lava do tend to leave most toons unconscious and without a pulse) we can certainly dish it out. Depending on the encounter and specs usually Lakini, Myself, Ofn, and Vunderman are the top 4 damage dealers in our raid with others right there with us. If Dottiez would ever raid with us I am sure he would leave several of us behind.

As a whole our raid composition has really meshed and we are all having a blast clearing content and enjoying each other's company. Grats to everyone who has downed Malygos, as well as those new "Champions of the Frozen Wastes." I have played this game for years and cannot recall having more fun than what I have had in the last 6 weeks or so. Thanks and see ya in game! (PVP Post coming soon)