This was directed toward Thoreck " You aren't top 100" . While we couldn't figure out for the life of us what this meant I think I have a counter for it now. As of now Thoreck is on the 50th ranked 3v3 in the US. And if my most difficult calculations are correct, that is indeed top 100.
Grats Thoreck. I wasn't speaking to you about PVP but still getting Top 100 pvp is a good accomplishment. I only hope my wishing you well doesn't sour the experience for you. :) Not that it would.
I know it looks like it but I don't harbour any ill will towards any of you.
I've had time to reflect on my experiences with MG and I think that things got way out of hand. I felt like I was on trial instead of being a trial member. But I was promoted to raider, so I wasn't really supposed to be on trial still. I think that some of the things the officers did made me feel like the guild wasn't really interested in truly helping me and that caused me to be defensive.
I've sorted out my shit and moved off server.
You can think of this as a kind of exit interview if you want, but I really think you guys have a good guild but you lacked at the time, you lacked a lot of maturity, regarding your players. You can probably make a few adjustments to how you conduct trial memberships so that you don't repeat this process with someone else.
Last night I did 7.1k on Patchwerk, which is exceptional in my gear. I have sorted out my DPS issues. My computer had technical malfunctions when I was going through my trial with MG. You were not patient with me. You made me feel like I was worthless to you instead of asking the right questions to correct the problem.
You see I had vista turned up to the nuts. Aero glass, prefetch, max settings on vista. My hard drives were still set up with factory settings. I performed like 100 tweaks to vista or so.
I fixed my mods and went with a combination of Buttontimers and dotimer. My mods all look like Supplicium's Vezax youtube video.
Anyway I fixed my shit, but you weren't patient enough with me.
But I'm happier now. I don't think that the mood in MG at the time was very healthy for me so I probably would have left anyway.
I don't hate any of you but I think you could all stand to raise your maturity level especially with new recruits because it doesn't feel very fun to be treated like an outsider when you have the same rank as everyone else.
So why was I even promoted if only to be shown the door?
Politics and Park Balance appear to go hand in hand.
Jugganot, feeling sorry for me for getting a raw deal with Minority Gaming, decides that it would be cool for me to raid with Park Balance for Icecrown, so he invites me to Park Balance. Nice guy, no complaints here. Park Balance is also a good guild, because I raided with them very briefly before they stopped doing 25man content.
But there is a bit of a problem here with politics. And I really hate politics.
So Lithic of Park Balance sends me a tell that she wants to talk to me. She wants to know what the deal is with Minority Gaming. I explain the situation from my perspective, and she informs me that my toon Pyrox cannot be in Park Balance because I had a beef with Minority Gaming and because Thoreck is friends with Shore. So it won't work.
Wow. Can anyone here explain what that has to do with pressing buttons and moving your toon around the map to get the boss down? I mean what else is there?????
Lithic informs me that Minority Gaming went to Park Balance officers with a lot of negative comments and essentially these guys have blacklisted me from going into any good raiding guild on Cho'gall.
So think twice before joining Minority Gaming or Park Balance, imo. They don't have your back even if you did work hard to try and help them when things were amicable.
I thought about the problem a little and suggested to Lithic that a name change might do the trick and she agreed. But I think at that point she was just putting on a brave face. I seriously doubt it would work.
It occurred to me that a name change won't work because like as if Shore is going to keep it quiet that I am allowed to play wow.
I mean when you leave Minority Gaming they want to take away your ENTIRE RAIDING EXPERIENCE. They don't want you to play the game at all. They want to see your account closed.
I mean that's the way you roll, right Thoreck?
Plus I'm not sure Park Balance is right for me because I tend to prefer having my guilds be a little more honest and good hearted, kind.. sincere... supportive -- not psychotic, political and/or manipulative.
Damn I'm NEVER going to find a guild that meets those requirements, am I?
I joined Minority Gaming (faux-pro guild) a little while ago, after Park Balance stopped doing 25 man raiding. They had a reputation of not being the best guild on Cho'gall, kinda came out of thin air a little while ago, but they also had the rep of not being terrible.
Allow me to make a correction. The officers in Minority Gaming are fucking terrible. They wipe on easy shit. They shout at players for no reason. They fuck up themselves and then assign blame to people.
I'm a good warlock, and have known how to raid since BC. I come ready to raid, fully flasked and consumables ready to go... and yet I've had a rough time getting my footing with that guild. I can't explain it but they just suck.
Minority Gaming seemed nice at first, but their GM at the time, Brendal, had a pretty big chip on his shoulder and very little patience for raid leading. They even asked him to give up GM very recently and so he agreed, reluctantly.
Brendal blew up on me during a raid spot out of the blue because he has tourettes, and later that night he apologized to me in vent for going too far. I guess he still held a grudge because he would continue to try and prove I was an inferior warlock to the other guild members and talk behind my back. But it didn't stop with me. He was atrocious to other players also.
Butthurt, Brendal began being a drama queen during raids, calling people out and being utterly rude to everyone for every little mistake. His butt buddy Thoreck started acting all big too.
These guys are internet thugs.
These idiots think they are pro. Fucking Final Chapter is better than Minority Gaming, and Final Chapter sucks.
You can always tell when a player is qualified to lead. He has leadership skills. He empowers his raid, he doesn't deflower them.
But we all know that pro players are also good spirited and take a coaching approach to the game as opposed to a judge/jury or a shit-kicker approach.
Brendal has superior gear, and a solid knowledge base of Warlocks and a general knowledge of the game. He's just fucking shady, is all. The guy sets up the fights so he is always #1 DPS, and he doesn't encourage the other DPS to do better, or even coach them. He shines above them and laughs at them when he's #1.
He thinks he is competing AGAINST everyone else.
So there really is no team atmosphere going on in Minority Gaming.
Anyway, long story short. I agreed to start doing FRAPS videos to help promote the guild, as the attendance was at an all time low, probably due to Brendal's terrible leadership.
I bought FRAPS, paid for it with my own cash. I bought Sony Vegas, a new $500 seagate hard drive, and a bunch of other software that I acquired through business made it possible to deliver the following video.
I've had some trouble with my mods recently, and as a result my DPS has suffered. Just trying to get the most out of my new system, I still haven't tweaked Windows enough, but the point is, I haven't been at the top of my game, but I have tried very hard to make everything work better and I would have continued to do so.
Just when I started to get my stuff sorted out and started to improve, the mood in among the officers was that they did not want to extend the olive branch or work together, and they wanted to still treat me like an outsider even though I had been awarded the title of Raider, which is meaningless in Minority Gaming because the officers treat everyone like an asshole.
So anyway I spent upwards of 5 hours preparing for filming Iron Council Hardmode, read strats and re-tooled my system and mods. What I didn't count on was that the game would freeze up on me on both of our first two pulls I was included in. I still did 5.5k DPS but because I was not DPSing for a large portion of the fight -- logged out with wow closed, of course my DPS was bad.
So I was benched. I waited around for an hour to get back in, and still they didn't ask me to come in,so I figured I would go tinker with videos to be ready for the next kill video I could do. Another warlock was in group six so I figured he would want to get in anyway, and I also wanted to tweak vista better because it wasn't responding well due to Aero and prefetch hogging resources.
So that's not all. Brendal, the god of Warlocks was actually beaten on the charts by one of the other warlocks who has typically lower than my DPS in better gear, so I made fun of Brendal in the forums, and his epeen couldn't handle the torment so he started getting the other officers to agree that I should be kicked out of the guild.
Thoreck decides to give me a goodbye letter in tells, so I gquit before he could boot me, because I was planning on leaving at that point anyway.
This guild is stupid.
I guess what I hate to say, is that if you are going to boot a player from your guild, maybe you shoudn't boot the guy who is doing FRAPS for you. Or maybe you should have figured out what the plan was before wasting everyone's time.
