Forward

Unfortunately, I pushed the data out of my blog so I only have Overall. What I wanted to screenshot was the Recount for when we finally killed Hagara last night. I did something like 10m damage. The lowest DPS did 3m. I was pushing 30k dps. The lowest DPS was barely staggering over 11. The second-lowest was a 383-equipped Arms warrior doing 13k while using a Gurthalak from LFR.

I lost tier token to the lowest dps, the one I outperformed by about three-fold. This is after losing a tier token Thursday to them and outperforming them by about the same margin. This is a DPS that died almost every fight to Wall of Ice, a very visible, very obvious moving wall of death. Every fight. This is a DPS who manages to do less than a tank who is in partial 359 tanking gears. This is a "DPS" that I would vote to kick from a dungeon group and doesn't belong in tier-11 raids with those kind of numbers, let alone winning tier tokens from 13.

The best part is, after winning two pieces of tier in three days, the character is being sidelined so the player can bring a terrible healer to the raid instead. A healer who was consistently the lowest on the charts and despite only having one healing assignment, allowed the tank to just get meleed to death. A healer in 333 blues and a pair of 325 shoulders.

The bestest part is, because the leader is running with friends and not treating the raid like a raid at all, there are rules in place that would give priority to people without tier on tokens. You know, like LFR tokens, the sort of stuff that's been in the game for weeks and weeks. Of course she doesn't have any, but that's because this healer being brought in to raid-heal a single target and failing is only 363 ilvl. This means, since I know my class and perform well and put hard work into getting my tier bonus, I am not allowed to lot over an inferior failure of a player being carried by Puggies to a boss kill. This is after, of course, I lost two pieces of tier to the SAME PLAYER who then switched. So basically, I can't get tier until this shit paladin has better gear than me, and given how we chain-wiped to Hagara long enough to RESET TRASH that's going to be a month or more.

I can't suffer that. I need to be able to talk numbers to people who appreciate them, I need folks who won't freak out and quit and whine when I tell them they are underperforming. Most importantly, I need room to grow. I can't continue being disallowed to lot things because the leader is friends with horrible players and won't call them on it. People were dying to Raiding 101-type things the entire night; Bujbuj The Terrible Warlock managed to die to Ice Wall in every fight, I think. When I first joined, I thought they were a growing progression-type guild. I thought that the fundamentals were there but they just needed polish. This is very, very far from the truth.

The bulk of them are terrible. Bad players in vital roles will sink a raid, and when every single healer is undergeared or underperforming or just doesn't know how to dodge very visible attacks, there is no way you are going to overcome the odds. I know a single DPS can't carry a raid but my nearest competitor on the DPS charts was Kimi's mage, and I beat him by a fair margin. I was 26.5% of the raid's damage in a fight with 6 DPS and a tank. I won't say they were only winning because of me but I can for sure say they won't do nearly as well without me. We were pushing berserk timers on Hagara; I watched my Record Kill pass by with her at 53%.

I think I'm going to try to track down Sicx this week, his run went fairly well and had a pretty laid-back-but-capable attitude that I'm looking for. We almost solo-tanked Ultraxion, for christ's sakes. We got him down to the Murderspree portion at 20%.

I feel bad, but I think OCC ended up being my Rebound guild after my break-up with GDI. Dal is a great guy but there's not a chance of them killing Ultraxion, period. I outright said that on the vent channel last night and no one challenged me on it, but I get that people were uncomfortable with my brashness. Dal asked if we wanted to take a shot, I told them it was pointless because there was no way the group had the DPS to make an effort of it.

Bleh. I don't mind losing gear to people who will use it. I hate wasting tokens (twice!) on shitty players who can't be assed to LFR and then put the character to pasture but won't pass because it's their "main."

Learn to play, nubs.