Ok, not directly.
On a side note, wouldn’t it be kind of interesting if Blizz worked occasional national disasters into the game? It’d be tough to get a boat from Menethil to Theramore if there was a hurricane off the coast!
But I digress. Hurricane Ike did have a direct affect on my raiding alliance. The main raid leader for the alliance and quite a few other members live in the Austin, TX area. They were without power for about 10 days.
And our alliance has been without a raid for longer than that. This brings me to the real point of this post. I have found what I believe to be a major fault in our guild raiding alliance.
When the main Raid Leader is out, people don’t show up. It’s not like we don’t have other experienced raid leaders, either. We have a co-raid leader who is there for EVERY SINGLE RAID.
But when the big guy is away, we struggle to get them off the ground. I suppose people are used to his style, and used to the success we have when he is leading. The problem with that argument, though, is this: How are we going to have success with another raid leader if we can’t get people to show?
Oh well. It doesn’t matter much to PTD in the end. I had already decided to suspend my 25 man raiding in order to help my guild try to get a bear mount before 3.0 hits. I can only raid one night a week, so if it’s between 25 mans that will still be there after 3.0 and a bear mount that won’t, I’m going for the bear.
I’ll keep you posted as far as how it goes, I’ll be in the attempt again Thursday night — Hopefully!
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I find that the only people who are hoping that the patch doesn’t come out soon are the people frantically trying to acquire a bear mount. My guild is doing the same, having raided once a week since June and managed to snag a quite a few bear mounts but few for the “core group” of raiders who have been ridiculously unlucky on rolls. We’ve boosted our raids to twice a week, but I’m still crossing my fingers that I’ll be lucky enough to get one as well.
We still do not have one in guild, and honestly I don’t even care if I personally get it, though it would be nice. I’d just like to see our guild, which is a casual, friendly guild, be able to accomplish this.