Minority Gaming Cho'gall - Worst Guild 2009

Here's the background to the story.

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.

Because he might make a video like this.