First for the week of 8/18/2014
Tuesday was good. We went into Flex wing 3 and managed to work our way through the whole place. We wiped once on Spoils of Pandaria and two or three times on Thok, but managed to get them both down. It felt good to get through all of wing 3 without having to cry a little because we seemed to be backtracking. Not that I cry. Ever. O.k., there may be some manly tears from time to time.
Wednesday we went in and tried one or two swings at Blackfuse. When things didn't seem to be melding well we realized we had 10 unsaved players and decided to try regular 10 man SoO. I am glad we did. Immersius wasn't too hard to handle, but we had to fight kicking and screaming to get the protecters down. At the end of the night that was where we stopped when we realized we wouldn't get any real tries at Nurushan with the time we had left.
Now when I say I am glad we struggled on protectors, it was because I wanted to see how the team did against the regular content. It was nice to know that if we were to go to a ten man it wouldn't be a face roll up to where we have already been. I have done the first two wings, (up to Malkorak) on my hunter, but I was in a group that had been tacking regular difficulty, and it was a 25 man to boot. I knew the content was a little harder, but didn't realize how much.
I am hoping it was kind of a wake up call to realize that the stuff you can ignore in flex, can just destroy you in normal. That was what was killing us, there were mechanics that some of our players just absorbed, or didn't try to get out of quickly on flex, that they were prepared for in normal. It's not a good sign when your healers are out of mana before the first round of abilities are done.
Then we have the week of 8/25/2014.
I will put it simply, we didn't raid. Tuesday we didn't have the folks, and ran LFR. Then Wednesday we went and cleared H. ICC and Some other Wrath content. 'Lil bit of fun, but not what I had planned on. On the bright side we still went out and did stuff together. I believe this is important.
More then ever the end of expansion doldrums are hitting us. I am seeing a lot of people not logging on, or playing. I myself have slowed down a bit and find myself meandering on alts, or only playing in bits and pieces. I think I am done with this expansion for the moment, and hopefully will be re-energized for the WOD. Then we come to the elephant in the room.
Without people we can't raid. Even with flex we need at least ten folks.
I am going to continue to schedule raids for us to run. But if we keep not having folks I may call a break until into WOD. I don't want to. As much as I'm feeling expansion fatigue I still think it's best to keep the group together and doing things so we maintain the habit of running things on the same nights. However, if we can't field a team at all at this point, I would just as soon wait until the next expansion to rebuild things. The core of the team will still be here and those who have stopped showing up really have no stake left in the team at this point. Now, this isn't a strike against those who have real life going on. We have folks who due to work etc.. are now missing a raid night a week or so. They talk to me and I understand this.
This is meant for the folks that have just disappeared without a word. Sorry, if you come back I'll welcome you, but I can get along without you. Feel free to stay disappeared.
Yes, I am feeling a bit bitter right now. This expansion above all the others had really had a plethora of folks who built themselves up raiding with us, then moved on to raid elsewhere. I am tired of this. I know it's a fact of life that it happens, but what out team would have been now if they had invested in where they started rather then finding the greener grass on the other side.
There are days where I debate banning people from coming back if stuff falls apart. But that is not the attitude I need, and it's not the attitude my team needs. I will welcome people back every time. Sometimes even when I would rather shake my head and say no.
Lag/Dizzty/Lazyeye.
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