Lots and lots of changes!

After my little rant about Garrosh, just before Christmas, we gave him another go and got him to 2%. Not without some issues of course. Our tank and co-GM decided to voice his opinion about me, a healer, killing the engineers. Mind you we have no issues on phase 1, but he doesn't like me doing it because it's not the way he does it in his progression group.

To make this long and dramatic story short, they demoted me and took over my group to prove some kind of point about their way being the right way to do Garrosh. Their changes made absolutely no difference what-so-ever. People were still dying to the same things. So after 3 hours of raiding we finally killed him, no surprise there seeing as it was bound to happen with the 2% attempt the week before. It seems I wasn't being a team player because I was being told by a so called experienced raider how to kill Garrosh and I just didn't want to listen. So the fact that I've done my research and the fact that he could never give me a valid reason for any of the changes he wanted us to make were not acceptable reasons for not doing things their way. I tried to stick it out a few days after that, but things just weren't the same. So Izzy and I decided to leave the group and join a friend's guild. It was the best decision we could have made. And to my surprise most of team came along with us.

I hate the guild dramas and such, and it seems I've had my fair share of them lately, but what they pulled was completely uncalled for. Everything happens for a reason though, and we're very happy where we are right now. I have full control of my group and yet the GM and officers have been very helpful in filling in on alts and such while we try to get our group going again. As it stands right now, we have one more core spot to fill and hopefully we can get back on track. 

Haters will hate...

As some of you know my raid team has been together for 5 weeks now and this is our second week on Garrosh, with no kill yet :( I can tell people are starting to get frustrated, probably because we've killed everything else with much ease and now it feels like we're hitting a brick wall now. We've spoiled ourselves into believing that we would breeze through Garrosh as well. I believe that with this weeks gear upgrades we'll get him.

I myself was dying to stupid things last night and it has a bit to do with the bit of gossip I got from Izzy during raid. Let me give you a little back-story so you understand:

When I left group 2 (solely due to their change in raid days) and made this group, I made the decision of not having any alts in the group. Although I have no issues with alts I don't feel that the dedication is there as it is with a main character. I was able to find core raiders except for 1 tank before our first raid. The GM and her boyfriend, Xinu, offered their alts to help as we needed them until we were set up. Both of their mains are in the guild's main raid group and Xinu is actually their raid-leader. Our entire group had about a 540 ilvl when we started and we've all worked hard for our gear and for those boss kills. After many days of looking for a tank for our group Xinu told us that he would dedicate the time on his monk alt to our group and so it has been for the past 5 weeks. Which leads me to last night's gossip. Group two is run by the GM's son (who's also in the guild's main raid group) and his girlfriend, and while we've progressed to Garrosh, they have been stuck between Galakras and Shamans for the past 6 weeks. They don't have a consistent group, many alts and end up melee heavy a lot of the times, none of which is any of our fault. And so now the GM's son's gf feels the need to complain and pretty much talk shit, saying that Xinu, who is on his alt and just as under-geared as the rest of us when we started, is carrying us. She feels that he should do the same for her group, which I don't get because they hate him anyway, but I guess not enough if it means a stupid boss kill. Oh but wait, her bf is in the main progression group as well, and his alt is in group 2, so why isn't he carrying them all the way to Garrosh? Could it have something to do with the fact that one person can't carry an entire group? 

It's very upsetting for me to hear this because even though I left group 2, I have continued to recruit for them in hopes of getting them consistent raiders. I certainly don't wish them bad, never have. When our group started there was talk of friendly competition within our own groups chatter, never in guild chat and never in a malicious way. When we passed shamans our competition shifted to the guild's main raid group (who are now 3/14H) and that kept us motivated to push forward.

So now after 6 weeks of having a dedicated group we are at risk of losing our tank because this woman is jealous that we are at Garrosh and her group isn't. It has a lot more to do with the family dynamics than anything else, and I hate the fact that it's starting to affect my raid team. How bad will it get when we do get our Garrosh kill and start working on heroics?

Have you ever had to deal with family issues within your guild ranks? How do you deal with people like this, who don't seem to be happy unless everyone is miserable like they are? I'm more determined than ever now to have my team, group 3, succeed!