So as most you you readers (the whole two or three of you) know, I am a WoW chick and I have been posting a little bit about my role as a druid raid healer. Elfy, well Scritch actually, and I have a horde raiding guild that we have been a part of for a while. It's not the same guild we raided with at first. We left that guild because success was getting to some members heads, and it was causing the raids to feel like work instead of something fun to do. We left that guild, and actually quit playing the game for a few months. We started up alliance side and had a bunch of really stupid crap happen there after we leveled our chars and got into a "raiding" guild (I use raiding loosely here because they had no idea what a real raiding guild was, it was more "you are my friend so you get to come, even if you can't heal and we all die all night."). I think I posted about that drama trama already. So we came back to our horde chars and picked up playing with our horde friends.
The guild we are in horde side is much more laid back than our first guild. It has most of our dear friends from the first guild, who also left for similar reasons. We started running things with them, starting out in the 5 man instances for practice, gear and fun. Recently we started working on the 10 man content. For the most part, it is fun. Learning a new fight is stressful at first, but getting it done and learning the fight with good players is fun. The raiding was relatively laid back, and low-stress.
Recently, there has been a player or two (you know how there is always one, and then they rope a few others in) who have been pushing to try encounters that frankly, the guild is not ready for. There are a lot of factors that have to be conisdered with each fight-how much healing needs to be done, how much damage per second, what classes are best for each boss, and so on and so forth. Our class pool in our guild is limited (we are a small guild), and people are still working on getting gear to better their stats and such. It's hard having someone pushing pushing pushing us to move forward when we just don't have the power to do so yet. So then the fun starts to drain away, tempers flair, and I want to stop healing everyone and let them all die. It feels just like being stuck in a class of first graders, where there are always one or two kids who are trying to rule the class. I think "bossy." In this situation, it's too many leaders an a confused group of followers. Tonight was just really really stressful because I hate conflict. And I hate wankers who think they know it all but won't step up when called out.
If it keeps going like this much longer I see myself done with WoW. I'm not done just yet. I can't pass up the chance to use my healing powers for evil. The only power I have, is the power to not heal someone. My one amusement is to have a no-heal list, and after tonight, it has at least one new name. :)
