Its turning into a bad week for my gaming. For a start the beta of WoW is proving hard work. Not because of having to file reports on all the quests and bugs I find. But because I just can't seem to get more than five minutes of play before it crashes. There was a new patch this morning and it seems to have caused more bugs than it solved.
Before I gave up playing though I did find a few changes to gameplay. One is that mounts are no longer objects in your inventory. You have to learn the skill to summon them, just like learning a spell. This does save some bag space, but it also means that currently you have to spend gold to rebuy non-magical mounts. There's a new tab for your mounts in your character page and a whole new page for pvp stuff - honour points, arena record, etc.
I managed to get to Warsong Hold as well. Very nice. I much prefer this over the Borean Tundra. Maybe its just the colours - Warsong is predominantly red and brown, while the Forsaken's base of operations is all grey and gloomy.
The other negative note this week has been the impending collapse of my guild. Again. For some reason our GM threw a fit last night, posting on our guild's board he wasn't happy with the officers. I tried to talk to him about this on vent, suggesting maybe he shouldn't have said what he said on a public board. He didn't get it. He also didn't seem to understand that part of the problem might be his management and expectations. I got singled out for criticism because apparently I had not done a good job of being the Assistant Raid Leader in Kara over the weekend. He said he had been bombarded with pm's during the raid and had had to deal with more than he was happy with - explaining loot rules and so on. I suggested maybe he could tell me what he wanted me to do before we went into a raid instead of just doing it himself and building up an attitude. Still didn't get it. Accused me of trying to 'get out of it'.
What's most disappointing is that I'm the only officer that actually does anything for the guild. Seriously - I'm the only one that's recruited anyone ever and the only one posting guides and messages on our forums. So it feels pretty unjust to be getting abused by the GM.
And I can't even take refuge in the beta.... :(
In all honesty, you should really seek a new guild, lack of proper leadership is a major downfall, and is more than likely holding you and the other members back from true success.
When the GM isn't even willing to take responsibility for his own actions (and to add insult to injury tries to lay the blame on his officers) then its only a matter of time before the imminent demise of the guild itself.
After all, if he cant cut it in the entry level 10 man raid, then what does he hope to accomplish if Kara gets cleared and your guild needs to progress? he will literally be pulling his hair out by the fistful if a 10 man was too much for him to handle leadership of.
Assistant Raid Leader is useless for a 10 man and 25 mans, it is an excuse used by piss poor Raid Leaders to be able to toss blame on another player if things go wrong. Having a second person involved in leading causes un-needed confusion and leads to wipes.
The only person giving instructions should be the RL, and he should know enough about what is going on and what is about to go on (regarding the encounters) to lead. Clearly he doesn't, at which point getting out finding a decent guild, comprised of adults primarily, should be your top priority. After all, why stick around to have someone spit in your face for trying to help?
Tue Jul 29 2008 12:31PMyou have to explain loot rules in the raid? that is a waste of time, especially for kara loot...i couldn't imagine if you were in ZA or gruuls.
leave the guild immediatly
Tue Jul 29 2008 8:18PMMMORPG.com writes:
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