Kam`Janitor
Joined: 15 Jun 2007 Posts: 704
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re: Locked forum
by Kam` on Fri Dec 30, 2011 22:46:06
Just a thought- if Zaka and I weren't giving you migraines, we weren't doing our jobs.
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@Lurt:
I completely agree that Blizz needs to fix their loot "modulus" and your comments cause me to ponder a few things.
WT wrote a lot of the plays that other guilds copied when Wrath was new, on Doomhammer anyways. In the days before TankSpot "KinderRaid" videos, a few of us took notes. Why we didn't attract more and become the top Horde raiding guild was mainly my fault. We had our chances early on in WotLK, but our make-or-break raid was Malygos (we did not get that fuck on farm status 10 or 25 soon enough due a variety of problems); so "we" decided to stay small and do our thing and partner on Heroix, and to continue to recruit mainly by word-of-mouth.
We still have uncommonly high retention and lower turnover than most. By the numbers, we were at right about #30 in gear levels (wowjitsu, etc), but that isn't the full story, WT was more like THE top 10-man guild for months and months; the fact that we got that high in guild ratings while only pug'ing a few 25's is testament to how serious and capable our raiding "core" players were; we could repeatedly max characters in 200+ gear levels in under a week. Hell, look at Urchin's characters... before Uldaman!
If you add up all the "UBER 25 Man Guilds" that have come and gone since Zul'Gurub was put in the game (yes, WT is that old, pre-TBC, have SS of the original charter (Nov 2006) BEFORE "The Devil's Rejects" splintered and became HAVOC etc) and see where their UBER sexy members went, it's no surprise that our overall guild model has endured. ((EDIT:HAVOC is coincedently, Dommhammer's "top" Horde Guild as of this writing; 1/8 DS 10H. A few of us were former guildmates with Rezz' and Ondo, and Dysmartyr, etc. What's kinda sad is that DH's "top" raid guild is Drow [A] and they're like 950th or something in the world? Our server's top raiding guilds by that standard are nowhere near top raiding guilds either /boggle))
If being who we were; who we are; isn't being a top raiding guild, then I suppose our criteria differs. WT is still top 100 on the server of T13 guilds even with the faction disadvantage and half the guild MIA, KIA, XFER, REROLL, MILF-IRL, or playing Farmville.
Next kill, even on 10r, will put WT at 79th spot or higher.
Just something to think about.
Lastly, at the risk of sounding "overly-offended by virtue of volume of counter-argument" (and I'm not), think about this analogy: our guild is a little like a Chevrolet Corvette; whether it is a top performing World Sports Car, or just a clunky old collectible, depends mightily on what criteria you're using and what era you have under the microscope.
Other top raiding guilds? DeLoreans, Lambo's, M1s, Meraks, Mirages, etc...
Again, YMMV
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Also, I've noticed that none of the new "LFL" Looking-For-Loot Gear is flagged "Unique"- is that a benefit? Or an oversight?
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