Ok, so we killed Yogg-Saron. It took much longer than it should have, was a lot less of a rush than it should have, and does not feel repeatable at all.
Now, the screams on Vent might say the contrary, but in all honesty, the raid was, from start to finish, a fiasco. The raid leader is a recently promoted officer who is completely incapable of seeing anything further than 10 yards from him, who has the people skills of a brick wall.
His insightful observations were gems like “if you stand in the green clouds, you spawn more adds, and then we wipe”, “heal the tanks or they die” and “the people in the constrictors can’t move away”. All that was seasoned with a healthy dose of “Come on guys” repeated over and over, until my head started hurting and I muted Vent.
The group setup was, in a word, “amazing”. From the fact that the 2 best tanks were kept outside, to make room for a feral who seems to think that he should tank the green clouds, to the fact that the raid leader kept asking all the ranged to stack on top of him in phase 2. That would work well, if he would be actually capable of moving the raid as fast as possible from crusher to crusher, rather than turn in a circle, double back, and generally move like a person with a double dose of Down’s Syndrome. To top it all off, he thought that moving from crusher to crusher was enough, without thinking one step ahead, running two steps to the left, and positioning the raid closer to a sanity well, to remind them to check their sanity levels/be more pro. When I suggested that he should, I was met with silence, and then ignored for the rest of the night.
On top of all of that, he somehow get the idea that, even with one crusher at 50% and a new one spawning in 5 seconds, constrictors are still #1 priority. Cue yells of “dps constrictors”, and then bitching about his stacking damage debuffs. “Dps outside is so low, wtf guys focus”.
And of course, each and every wipe, people would blame each other, while desperately trying to make themselves look better. Which just makes me realise that a guild where people actually enjoy each other’s company is quite rare, and that, somehow, there are still people who think of themselves as God’s gift to World of Warcraft, without realising just how horrible they are.
So yeah. It was a horrible kill, and just because all the stars aligned and helped us kill the boss, it doesn’t mean they will do so every week.
To continue my idea, I am currently wondering why:
- the 2 officers in a guild that has 40 raiders feel the need to rotate them all(even on progression fights), rather than admit that out of those 40, at least 10 should go back to Molten Bore, and learn how to heal/dps and stay out of fires at the same time
- every raid is filled with empty threats about replacing people who don’t perform to the best of their ability, even though nobody.ever.gets.replaced
- a mage that upgraded his t7.25 head with the t8 head over other people that had ilevel 200 items(yay for our dkp system) then claims Hood of Rationality is actually better and tries taking it. As well as Rapture. For offspec, when other people in the guild have Naxxramas 10 weapons. He almost got away with it, too
- for 30 hours of wiping on Yogg-Saron, people were awarded no dkp. As a generalisation, the guild does not award dkp for learning new bosses.
