An epiphany!

Over the past couple of days, I’ve had several conversations with guild mates and friends about the beta and our experiences – with the game as well with others. With the maintenance downtime today, I’ve had a chance to do a lot of thinking. A dangerous thing, I know. But I had a few epiphanies, one of which I will write about today, saving the other for another time. I’m sure this isn’t going to go over well with people I know. *sigh*

We are a raiding guild. That’s what our primary focus is – we raid. On off-days, we do 5- and 10-mans, quests, etc., but mostly we raid.  So when the expansion date was nearing, we talked about our plans on getting back into raiding as soon as possible. We figured two weeks would be a good time period for most, if not all, core raiders to be ready to jump into 25-man raids. The plan was for those who could to push to 80 as fast as possible, then help out those of us who are slower at it due to work, real life, or just sucking at questing (this would be me). However, that hasn’t really happened.

Instead, it seems as those who managed to hit 80 already, and there have been more than a few, have forgotten about helping the rest of us peons. They pressure us, sometimes in subtle ways and sometimes more blatantly, to hurry up and get to 80 so we can move on and start raiding. But instead of helping us, for them its become all about doing quests we can’t do, doing instances we can’t do, and basically just doing what is good for THEM, rather than what’s good for everyone.

I understand that rep grinds need to be done for gear and enchants and whatnot, but you know what? EVERYONE will need to grind the same reps, which can only be done in certain ways. Wouldn’t it be easier/better if we could get more groups together to do instance grinds and/or daily grinds so we could all benefit instead of just a select few? I understand people wanting to finish content but why not help the rest of us catch up so we can do it together?

Are we being selfish and emo for feeling left behind and wanting to play with the others, or are they being selfish in thinking only of their own needs first? I’m not sure, perhaps both. But trust me on this, I may be the only one blogging about it, but I’m not the only one feeling this way.