I’m finding it hard to get into the grove with WoW and I seem to get lumbered in poor guilds or stuck with terrible groups. Maybe it’s just my misfortunate or something the game encourages… I dunno.
We Fly Spitfires´s last blog ..MMORPGs: Ultimate Hobby Or Waste Of Time

This reminds me of what Daewin and I was talking about on our last show. Raiding is about the team. And as the old cliche goes, there isn’t an I in Team.

Again great job!

Luckily I’m a switchover from PvP, so I’ve spend countless hours in BG’s with people who don’t really know how to play their character.

I originally started with bashing people, but then figured out that the kindness atmosphere works a lot better.

Additionally I’ve noticed that, there isn’t always ONE correct way to do things.. I’ve watched some battles in PvP thinking “wow…why is he doing that…” then a few seconds later I think “oh..well I guess that’s a way to do that”.

There’s so many different combo’s, rotations, situations, specs, etc that there could be a very optimal reason for a player playing that way.

-Derek B
Derek B´s last blog ..A New Way To Level?

That, and the optimism you mention will keep people actually wanting to raid instead of ninja log because it’s not fun. Let them know what’s going on is just a minor setback, not that the entire raid is incompetent, and you’ll have a better time. I’ll always sit in for one last attempt if I know we’ve done something wrong, but if I get yelled at for playing a video game by someone else playing a video game, I’m not having fun, and I’d rather be doing something else.
Professor Beej´s last blog ..MMO Guilds – Are They Friends or Coworkers?

I love hard fights. I love fights that make me use my raiders in new and unusual ways. I love fights we have to work on, because it makes the sense of accomplishment that much more sweet. I wont ever tell my raiders how easy a fight is, I will remark how easy moving out of fire is though lol.

The thing I love the most about the game is raiding, and I never thought I’d say that when I started, because I thought “raiding” equated “hanging out with socially inept people”.

Now that I’m in a well-run raiding guild and contributing the best I can to our sometimes very tough progression nights, I know exactly why raiding is so cool, and have made some amazing in-game friends who I believe will span past World of Warcraft when the time comes.

I’d gladly put in the efforts in in order to stay with a group like this, and I am happy when others get to join our team and see how very awesome raiding can be in the right circumstances

Valdesta / WoWGrrl.com
Valdesta´s last blog ..Bugged “Chug And Chuck” Allows Iron Dwarves To Run Rampant

On the opposite end of the spectrum, I saw someone post a thread on MMO-Champion today about “Onyxia is too hard”. All I have to respond with is “what fun is a boss that you can go in and one shot?” I like bosses you have to work at, because it generates an animosity in your raid towards his/her demise. Then when you finally get it, you get that momentary impetus to jump up and scream for joy.