Yes, I know we all love WoW and many of us are raiders, but who are the people behind that Disgruntled tag? Our average age is probably a bit older than the average WoW player, and many of us have family and work responsibilities that don’t allow a hardcore raid schedule. I opened a thread over on our forums to find out just who we are behind the toons.
Disgruntled’s members represent a diverse range of professions, including a lawyer, a veternarian, an acutary, an oncology nurse, a chemical engineer, a social worker, a flight line mechanic, a small company manager, an international franchisor Vice President, a gun shop owner, and several IT professionals. Our outside interests include such varied and sundried subjects as art, photograhy, SCUBA, flying planes, astrophotography, bicycling, and scrapbooking. Our family lives range from single, to in a relationship, to married with children. The parents in the guild have children ranging from newborn to college-age.
But even with the vast disparity of life experiences and interests, we have some core similarities. We all love World of Warcraft. Sincerely. We don’t endlessly grouse about how it used to be so much better in Vanilla or how Blizzard doesn’t know what the players want or blah blah blah. As such, we prefer to play the game with others who don’t see this game as soley a competition with others or treat it as a drudge. We pay money and choose to spend our limited spare time to play. What better way to do that than with a group of intelligent, interesting, enthusiastic players? Yes, I was a very lucky girl to find Disgruntled.
The 25-man ICC raid has gotten in some practice on Festergut, but he is still taunting us with his ugly face. We really need a strong, consistent group of raiders, so recruiting is continuing. If you run across a quality player during a PuG, please refer them here so they can check us out. Recruiting is a group effort, so we can use everyone’s help.
Both 10-man groups are starting to make progress. As always, we often seem to have DPS extras. Hang on — illness, work, and other real-life emergencies often mean that subs are needed.
We are constantly trying to improve the raid experience for our guild members. First, it was a daily repair stipend for raiders. Then, free flasks on the night of raids. Next, we upped the ante when Skinjin agreed to lead the 25-man raid. His experience and enthusiasm have been infectious. We are also running the weekly raid quest and VOA in conjunction with the 25-man. This week, we have altered the EP/GP decay rate to 10% per raid. Although this doesn’t change the relative priority position, it makes it easier for newcomers to play catch-up quicker, and more heavily penalizes long-term absences. It is our goal to continue making improvements to benefit all raiders and guildies. Next up will likely be weekend ToC/ToGC runs and providing enchant mats for gear upgrades obtained during raid (thanks for that suggestion, Smaug!)
Over on the forums, there is an excellent discussion for improving MM hunter DPS. One question has remained unsettled though. Is it better to stack all CDs, including Rapid Fire, with Bloodlust, or is it better to burn them whenever the are available and ignore stacking?
A couple of the newer members have added their pics to the forum, which leads me to realize what a slacker I have been.
Anything to add?
