So tonight was the first- What the hell happened to my blogger layout? I sort of hate this new look for it.
Tonight was the first actual run of the scandalous Monday Raid. I've got my own beefs with the person running it since he is apparently an arrogant braggart who tries his best to come off like an awesome player who is integral to whatever team he's on but those have been mostly shelved in favor of watching him tie his own rope. Leading up to this night was a bit of running of the mouth, claiming that his group was composed awesomely and that they would down Ragnaros, the final boss of the most-recent tier of Raiding, in their first night.
I was very impressed with their group composition, which included a hunter wearing an agility head even after he did so poorly in a troll heroic over the weekend we were prepared to kick him before he basically ragequit on us, a pvp-monkey DK with two frost specs, one to dual-wield and one to two-hand on. Oh, and let's not forget the Warlock he recruited and then didn't take. Or the tank they ended up bringing in who wasn't even in the guild and didn't join afterwards.
Overall they gave a pretty decent showing, though. It took them just under two hours to kill their first boss, Beth'tilac, and they ended up wiping to her six times before being successful on the seventh. Thanks to World of Logs for helping me discern all this; I had to look up the hunter to make sure that yes, he is still wearing a leather helmet and is missing 11 enchantments.
The most humorous part is that victory run. Allow me to ask you a riddle: How do you do 35.9m damage to a creature that only has 20.8m hp? The answer is having no ability to kill the spiderlings before entering the second phase.
They did one-shot Shannox thirty minutes later, so good for them. It would be an hour and some change before they'd kill Rhyolith in four attempts. They did snag the achievement, too, which is neat. There's some real potential there, especially as they learn the fights. However, that doesn't make me any more disgusted with the guy in charge. Filling a raid with random fuckwads out of Trade doesn't sit well with me for a couple of reasons. First, I've seen the sort of people who join shout linkshells and I know a particular retarded gimp DK who joined a guild through the trade channel. Second, I think it makes our guild look worse in comparison given said stigmas. Our guild folks are all pretty close-knit and almost every single person that's a part of it knows a bunch of the others in real life, so it had a quasi-family atmosphere. Introducing guys with stupid names and symbols that cannot be typed with knowing the alt-commands for them injects a level of weirdness. It would be akin to someone you don't know hanging out in your living room during the game; Do I continue about my normal routine? Is he going to hulk out on me if I make a joke he doesn't like? I don't like the sudden imprinting of weird social parables on my comfort zone.
I know we're all on the same team and all here but a large portion of it is my gripe with their leader. He isn't particularly well liked or even respected by just about anyone in the other raiding groups. When twenty people in a group are going "Yeah, I don't know about that guy..." it says something about either him or us, and I'm rolling with mob mentality. When you consider that he also had some pretty offensive things to say after we stuck our collective necks out to give him a shot it causes some intense feelings to boil up. Being offered a spot in someone else's group because they have a hole should not be met with running your mouth behind the backs of those very people. Especially not when you're spouting bullshit to guild officers about how we only succeeded because you had to carry us. We've got logs from those nights and I can say with mathematical proof any success we achieved that night had nothing to do with his over-healing and under-capacity healing. Acting like a chode in front of people who are on good terms with the person you're talking shit about is a bad idea, especially when you blow them off a week later on ten minute's notice to tell us you're forming your own raid. Especially after you then make an attempt to make off with every single piece of gear you can wear.
To play devil's advocate in my own blog: There is nothing wrong with lotting on gear you helped to earn. He was present, he did his part, he was entitled to lot. We don't use a DKP system or anything similar so we operate on a very "How much of an upgrade is this for you / I have better so you take it / I just got a drop so you take this one" level. Completely ignoring that and then dashing off to make your own group with gear you greedily gobbled up makes you look further like a selfish asshole.
To say I want to see them fail is an understatement. The entire group we so begrudgingly recruited FOR THIS PURPOSE wasn't even present tonight. One of the tanks came from nowhere. Half of the group is specced oddly or in a handful of cases wearing fucktarded gear. A warlock disconnected from the run after about ten minutes, showed up a long while later and then had the balls to ask in guild if anyone wanted to run a completely different Raid, ignoring the fact that the group he was even allowed entry for was doing something else. Admittedly there was probably not room for him at that point but that makes it even more confusing when you realize that the spot opened by a warlock was filled by a tank.
In the end it isn't my place to really worry about them, but I can't help but wish them ill. I'm a jerk, and an elitist, and in the worst way I tend to judge people like this. His raid is guilty by stupidity and association. He is guilty by sin of fucking pride and general doucebaggery. Tonight they made a good first run at things though so unfortunately we're probably stuck with them.
Amusingly I was going to make a footnote about the Monday raid and then go on to ramble about why Tanaka is dicks and why XI is retarded these days and then complain about the "improvements" to XIV that should have been in the game since the first fucking alpha but somehow it ended up reversed. To wit:
1) Tanaka is a twat
2) I had a hunch I was quitting XI when they revealed there was no warrior or monk update at all going to 95.
2a) To me this showed that the XI team was done letting us grow in terms of relative power; Going from 75 to 80 was accompanied by feeling like we had gotten a modicum of actual gain, and this was before we had blasted apart Abyssea to have a million HP and broken everything-rates due to atma.
3) Relics and Mythics are super-long time-sinks that are possible in a dual-box thanks to the currency farming stages and not-challenging in the killing-requirements because of how dated the relative content is.
3a) Empyrean weapons are never going to be able to be dual-boxed to capacity on account of how retarded VW mechanics are, both fight-wise and drop-wise.
4) XIV is only NOW making the crafting system "possible" in the sense that two ingots a shirt and some crystals now make armor. Gone are the 197-piece recipe lists from scratch.
I might expand some of those later but I don't think I'll be doing that now.
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