Fail raid...

Since I am a pretty insufferable nerd, I am a GM in a world of warcraft guild. Because if anyone knows me, they know that when I get into something, I go balls to the wall. The guild in question is a raiding guild, and right now we're raiding the top tier content, Icecrown Citadel. It's motherfucking hard. It's retarded, takes an obscene amount of teamwork, which up until tonight the guild has been showing in spades.

Tonight, frankly, sucked balls. I think the last time we played so poorly was 4 months ago in Naxx- now there are some scary ass memories. Tonight we did the alliance gunship battle and deathbringer saurfang. While gunship is supposed to be easy train, Saurfang is gimicky, annoying, and hard as hell. Tellingly, we did badly on BOTH fights. We managed to down the gunship battle after the 2nd try, but Saurfang took 5 attempts, which is pretty pathetic by our usual standards.

It was the execution. Dps is pretty good, healers (myself and warbringer) and the tanks (fernando and andrax) are great. But this fight has a lot to do with crowd control, and for some special reason it took us 5 tries to get that part down. And everyone was playing poorly tonight. Warbringer is a generally ok guy, but he's cocky as all hell. When he's doing great, everything is awesome; his pontificating on how leet he is can be endearing. When he screws the raid over not healing the tanks like he's supposed to, he becomes petulant and butthurt, especially if you bring it to his attention that he's not doing his job.

We had a problem with Nubbz too- earlier before raid, he was going on and on about he was super leet in this fight, how he always crowd controls by himself. He also made a comment about how he expected Fernando to screw us over because Pally tanks are weak in that fight (pally tanks use a lot of aoe, which you can't do for fear of messing up the crowd control). I thought it was a pretty poor assumption of someone who has proved themself to be skilled at tanking. It was especially interesting when Nubbs had to get help from the other druid we had along for crowd control- he STILL tried to blame it on Fernando sometime around wipe 4. So stupid.

Anyways, we managed to down the boss, but it wasn't really a victory. Both Fernando and I were too annoyed to take part in the celebrations. And we ditched not long after.

Tomorrow, I'm just going to play cello, and not deal with the guild. I've got cranky raiders mad that they can't come to all raids, cranky raiders pissed that they're not getting preferential treatment, cranky raiders pissed when I point out the mistakes their making. I feel like I spend all this time making the guild a great place for people to play and I don't get any thing back at all, except for the accomplishment maybe. One person (out of like 40 people in the guild, past and present) has thanked me for doin what I do. ONE!

Like I said, tomorrow, is cello day. The next 2 weeks are cello days. I refuse to deal with any more guild bullshit until my audition is over.