I was reading a blog post from my friend, the ever insightful and interesting Alyviel over on Bitter Roots. While we are of the same guild, officers both, we have differing viewpoints. This does not prevent us being friends, thankfully, as everyone needs friends, but there are issues at times. One of those such issues is a difference in perspective. I am a casual raider, raiding when time and other things in life allow.
I write many things, not just these stories, and I also have the podcast. Raiding is maybe 8th or 9th on my priority list. I like the gear Arita has, and hope to get more for Med to bring him up to par, but if I had a choice between a 3 hour raid and 3 hours of writing, podcasting, or even questing, I would take them. Progression, epics, and all that goes with raiding is great for many, but does not have an overarching dominance within my realm of interest to be honest.
So, when I read Aly's post today, and her statement,
Perhaps I am taking Aly's words a little too literal. Perhaps she only means less Kara. The way I see it, though, is that there are only 7 days in the week, and we can't run Kara to get people geared for those 25 mans if we hit 25 mans every other night, not as long as we hit Zul'Aman at the same time. I understand burn out, I see what it does to people. I just think that Eledith, her healer, doesn't need to be on a run every week.
We have at least 4 or 5 other decent healers who can main heal in Kara, be it raid or main tank. So let Eledith and the other top geared players who are tired of Kara and don't care about Zul'Aman go off and hit Magtheridon, Tempest Keep, and Serpentshrine Cavern with 15 PUGs or another raiding guild, and let those of us who still want to learn Karazhan, and still feel we have something to experience do so. Just because we now have more raid focus than before, doesn't mean we need to leave the beginner raids behind.
I write many things, not just these stories, and I also have the podcast. Raiding is maybe 8th or 9th on my priority list. I like the gear Arita has, and hope to get more for Med to bring him up to par, but if I had a choice between a 3 hour raid and 3 hours of writing, podcasting, or even questing, I would take them. Progression, epics, and all that goes with raiding is great for many, but does not have an overarching dominance within my realm of interest to be honest.
So, when I read Aly's post today, and her statement,
However, I've been looking at some boss fights and I think we're ready to move on.This made me sad. I love my guildies to death, they are like a family, but I just don't see this push to raid, to move past the content. I am not saying we can't go on to 25 mans, but it takes more than 10 people to go to Mag, ot Tempest Keep, or even Serpentshrine Cavern. What her post shows is that we have 10 people who have hours on end to kill in a dungeon on a Sunday afternoon, forsaking all other plans. Her post doesn't say a thing about the Zul'Aman run that was canceled because their full run tired everyone out.
Perhaps I am taking Aly's words a little too literal. Perhaps she only means less Kara. The way I see it, though, is that there are only 7 days in the week, and we can't run Kara to get people geared for those 25 mans if we hit 25 mans every other night, not as long as we hit Zul'Aman at the same time. I understand burn out, I see what it does to people. I just think that Eledith, her healer, doesn't need to be on a run every week.
We have at least 4 or 5 other decent healers who can main heal in Kara, be it raid or main tank. So let Eledith and the other top geared players who are tired of Kara and don't care about Zul'Aman go off and hit Magtheridon, Tempest Keep, and Serpentshrine Cavern with 15 PUGs or another raiding guild, and let those of us who still want to learn Karazhan, and still feel we have something to experience do so. Just because we now have more raid focus than before, doesn't mean we need to leave the beginner raids behind.
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Maybe I should have made it clearer, but we're not leaving Kara behind. Right now, we're looking at one day a week for 25-man raiding, the rest for whatever people want to do. I'm still intending to tank Kara on weekdays until I have to stop staying up so late. We still have plenty of people to gear up. We just NEED to have something else for people to do, or we're gonna lose a lot of people. Even those that are currently wanting to stay in Kara.
Oh, and why don't I just stop going to Kara?
Because then a whole team won't go. There's a reason I run one. Not many other people will.
Well, my dearest Aly, perhaps that problem, the desire to go do shit but not wanting to take a part in making it happen, should be looked at. It seems to me that if you or Mega aren't there, raids seem to fall apart. Perhaps as a guild that problem should be looked at, because if the popular leaders aren't there, a 25 man will fall apart just as quickly. Also, if people were simply discarded for Zul'Aman, is it really feasible that we currently have 25 people geared enough for the raid dungeons? It is not my fault, nor yours, that there are a lot of selfish and self centered people who only care about making sure they progress without caring about others. This is why many feel the 25 mans are as much a Guild check as a Gear check,
Thankfully we do have some more up and coming raid leaders, and there are Kara raids going without me or Jason there, and raiders that haven't even been in one of our raids. That's a way I want it to go.
And there are even raiders that don't like me, believe it or not! :P