Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Top Gearing Early Leaves You With No Raids - Help Guildies!

A friend of mine brought to my attention that we were rather well ranked on our server -- granted, it is early in the expansion however it still speaks to our ability to triumph over the heroic hurdles to be in a position to equip the gear that gets tallied up. It also speaks to just how difficult the heroics are given that we rank in the top 100 on a server with a population in the 13,000s hosting Premonition no less - the originals.

Still, while ranking 25th, and 4th druid (#3 is a cat so we aren't going to really count them given that this is more of a tanking blog) is pretty nifty, the reality is that suddenly, I have no raid groups to run with! That's right!

Basically, in order to hammer into the content that is at my i350 level, I would need to be in a raid group plowing into BH, BoT and BD consistently. However, the only guilds on our server doing that at this time are the hard core guilds - which we are not. We are first and foremost friends that raid together - some RL friends and some friends met in game - and we are mostly seasoned professionals, married with families and with real world demands on our leisure time.

Certainly, I was able to get into one of the first pugs of BH being lead by a highly respected and capable rogue raid leader (/props to Saintdomingo). However, the pugs capable of downing the bosses have all but dried up now that enough of their fellow guildies have geared past i340.

Naturally, the top end guilds have their own tanks and once again we see that all too true problem re-surface: not enough tanks for heroics, however not enough tanking raid seats for the number of serious tanks.

The course of action I am picking is to help gear up fellow guildies as often as they want to come without pushing hard on the topic. It means there will be a fair lag between when I geared for raids and when I will see those raid bosses downed. However, one of my best friends in game and out said it best: "What's the rush?"

= )

I love that simplicity. You may also be in the same position where you geared faster than anyone else in your guild because you wanted to do your job and be a well-prepared tank. Now you have options in front of you (if you plan on staying with your guild) which include: patience and helping others; organizing gold DKP raids for the new content (people always come to those); and pinch-tanking for a guild when one of their regular tanks is away (contact those guilds and give them your name and interest voucher!).

What are you doing at this stage of the expansion?

1 comments:

Andy said...

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