IMO what the poster did, was touch upon a bunch of rants that would have made great individual topics by themselves.

IMO what he/she should have done was stick with one topic and support the topic with stories/descriptions of experiences, statistics, etc. that reinforce that specific rant, ending it with a suggestion(s) on how it could be avoided/prevented/fixed. Also concluding the topic with a question (preferably thought provoking) to spark discussion and feedback.

What we ended up getting was a mess of rant topics and with each new paragraph I expected/hoped the writer would latch onto one of those rants and address it completely with information and perhaps a story. Instead with the turn of each paragraph, another completely different rant was expressed until by the end of the post I was completely disappointed.

It came across like the author thought he/she only had one chance to write about something, and instead of focusing on a juicy topic, just listed everything that they ever wanted to write about on a blog.

I couldn’t agree more on the ‘back seat raid leader’ thing. It’s one of my pet gripes. On a similar tangent we have one guy in our current raid who no doubt means well but just has to repeatedly state the obvious over vent, It’s SO ANNOYING. I just yell at my computer (after making sure my push to talk key isn’t depressed) hehe.

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I feel your pain on the rant thing. That was my nightmare assignment! I’ve gotten a lot of practice focusing on the positive in this game and ignoring or explaining away the negative stuff. A lot of us do that in order to hold together our guilds/raids/etc.

One thing I really sympathize with from your post is the idea that the community aspect of WoW is more difficult to negotiate than the gameplay. I always feel that any guild who can beat the Organization Boss can take down Illy, Archie, and Kil’Jaeden, no problem.

@ Plaidmam: Sorry for my less than perfect grammar, I can proof read as many times I want but I’ll still miss stuff. And like I said, txt speak was a failed attempt at humor.

@ george: I am *so* glad you responded again, however I feel awful I came off like one of the people that I despise.

Less scatter-brained and more on topic. Thanks everyone!

This I think pretty much sums it up. It felt like there was not a clear focus and that you pretty much just covered everything that bugs you in game. I know I would have a hard time writing a rant on demand, so I am still interested to see the rest of your entries. But from reading this and knowing nothing else about you, my first impression of you was that you would be one of those people who sit in AV and make sure everyone knows they are doing it all wrong, or post on the forums complaining just for the sake of complaining.

I am not a writer by any means, but it seems like it would have been better to just focus on your initial point of stupid people in pugs and groups. If you could have expanded on this idea in some way, rather then switching to back seat raid leaders, then people coming unprepared, then kind of back to your original topic I think it would have been better.

I found your comment response to be much more enjoyable to read than the entry itself – as a person you came off more human and less like someone I’d try to get out of a group with asap!

I sympathize with your response that it’s hard to come up with a rant w/o feeling an urge to do so. I’m interested to see your next entry and will definitely watch for it. =)