Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Guild Drama! WOO! Hunter changes inc!

So Survival is getting a much needed nerf (PvE wise). I think it's a good thing, in the end. I don't think that the nerf isn't that huge that Survival hunter's will be gimped (Survival will be losing 5% of their agility buff) and if I were to remain in survival I think I'd lose about 300 agility. This gives the impression that Survival is being "balanced".

I hope that markskmanship becomes a viable build again; aimed shot and chimaera shot are both getting buffed quite well so I'm going to be looking at Marksmanship again come the patch. The notes are changing quite often so there's really no point discussing them.

MM just feels right to me as a raiding spec. The name says it all. Survival sounds like a PVP spec to me and that's what it used to be. Beast Mastery sounds like a hybrid between the two.

Other people may see it differently to myself and to that I say "You're wrong damnit!" :P Let me know what you think on the matter.

Guild drama is long gone by the time of me writing this and I'm not going into what happened. I will say that I am absolutely glad it's over and the drama queens who left the guild have done so in the noble cause of creating a better environment in "Big Wipe Theory". Word on the street is they quit the game shorty after /gquit'ting as well. I find it quite hilarious. Who knows exactly why they quit the game but I don't think that there's much of a coincidence there.

Guild drama is a huge topic to discuss. I mean, in the end it's just a game, right? Some people think so and some others disagree. I am of the latter and I will explain.

World Of Warcraft is a game with various means of forcing players into social experiences with other players of the game. It's impossible to function successfully as a player to achieve everything there is to achieve in the game without interacting with other people in the game. This starts at group questing, dungeons and battlegrounds all the way through to guilds and arena teams along with the events that you perform with your effective teammates. The chat window in itself is another way that WoW promotes being social in game. Shout out to professions as well, yo!

With people comes problems, someone may have taken an item that you wanted or someone has said something that rubbed you the wrong way. These are common examples of people pissing other people off in WoW. Put yourself in a guild with a person that pisses you off for one reason or another. This person does not cease to piss you off for whatever reason (that reason could be yourself :P) and you now have "Guild Drama". Like in real life where families fight a lot between each other so do guilds. Your guild is like your family that you can ditch whenever you like and go find another family. The only difference is that this is in a game :P

Guild Drama is something that I particularly dislike about the game but the thing is we all get pissed off about something at one stage or another. Try to deal with it constructively and actively in order to not create unnessecary problems. Being the Deputy GM of Big Wipe Theory I am highly involved in any guild drama that occurs. Believe me when I say that I am certainly not void of creating guild drama; I have done so heaps of times. Noone is perfect and I am certainly far from perfect myself.

It seems that the guild is taking a turn for the better at the moment, I am really looking forward to raiding with my guildies and I am having a lot of fun taking a break from raids. My name gets thrown around a couple of guilds for pug raids and heroics, which I don't find much time for in game but nevertheless it's nice to know that people still respect me and my awesomness of teh hunter skillz.

Big Wipe Theory I love you dearly <3