I recently approached guild leader asking if we have any mats from MC (cleared MC 7 times) to craft some epic leather working items. His reply is that he sold them all as they were not needed.
Should i be right in thinking this is not the normal thing to do?
I’d say there’s a good chance said guild leader is using the guild for personal profit.
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I dont see any reason why would the guild leader see the need to sell all the mats for the benefit for the guild. Unless he is providing the consumables for the raids.
But i havent played vanilla/classic/private servers before so im not sure what is coming in the future. What i know is that our guild is saving the mats for the future crafts necessary for raids (resist gear if i remember correctly)
By that i would say your guild leader is selling them for his own benefit
I don’t have great knowledge of the game, lava/fiery cores are used by many different professions. I guess I knew the answer but just need someone to agree with me. This is not a good situation, the guild is 100+ people.
When I was like 15, on one of my characters, the guild master stood down and I became the leader. I ransacked the bank, stole the 100,000 gold and all the items, left the guild and bought a name change.
This stuff happens to varying degrees in all sorts of guilds. I’d suggest not depositing things to your gbank and have a word with the leader.
Yeah guild leader is definitely pocketing the gold for their own needs.
The thing is even if the raid roster was miraculously 100% fixed to supposedly guarantee nobody was going to need any mats from Molten Core, some items you can craft with them like Blackguard or Nightfall are not even in the game yet.
There’s a chance your guild leader is incompetent or misinformed (which would not make them a good leader), or values cash to buy other stuff for the guild more than “craftables” (strange opinion, but not impossible), but personal profit is number one on my list.
He is a good leader regarding leading a raid and is very knowledgeable. He did get his epic mount very quickly and exalted with thorium brotherhood which cost a lot of gold. He bought various expensive recipes for his blacksmithing. Hard one to prove unless the guild asks to have a screen shot of guild bank i suppose. Tricky situation, feels like one of those movies where someone uncovers embezzlement, brings it to the boss (the embezzler) when they ask have you discussed with anyone else, you say “no,” then you get bumped off.
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I imagine that’s where some of those Lava Cores etc would’ve gone.
There’s nothing wrong in boosting certain members’ reputation so they can get recipes (in fact that’s the most efficient way of making sure the guild has access to certain stuff), but the explanation about the items having been sold because they were no longer needed is just fishy.
I wouldn’t feel comfortable in such a guild. If it’s not possible to ask for transparency by bringing the matter to the attention of core members, I’d probably leave, no matter how successful the guild is. Selling raid materials without justification is a red flag.
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Good meme, but… yeah.
A quick fix that I see is you asking him what portion of the gold earned from selling those mats are you entitled to, since you attended raid MC 7 times and I imagine everyone auto-passed and the “guild bank” got those blue/green mats.
Depending on his answer you can probably decide how best to move forward.
this is not normal, find a better guild.
yes, everything goes to guild bank from raid. We never see anything except class drops. Thanks for the replies, i feel i know which direction this is going in.
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Sounds like now you know where all the gold and mats went for
Right now there is barely anything worth crafting with the mats, so most proper guilds try to earn as much gold as possible to purchase flask materials for AQ and Naxx progression.
What is it that you want to craft anyway? And if its something that will benefit the raidgroup, the guildmaster should save the stuff for you until you got what you need.
But it depends entierly on what you want to craft
This is actually very normal in progress oriented guilds.
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Yes right now there is nothing worth it to craft, but in future there will be.
Thats why you save the mats for the future.
And 500iq, in future when the mats are usefull the prices will be higher, so why not to wait until then to make more profit for the guild ?
It looks like the GM is just selling them for his own benefit, there is no reason to sell them right now
No there arent that much good to craft in the future, corehound belt and nightfall is the only things really. And you get so much of the stuff that you dont need to save it.
The prices will go up in the future yes, but so will the prices of the things you want to buy. Black lotus are in low demand on most servers compared to in a few raid tiers, in addition to the supply being higher due to layering, so buying things early is very beneficial.
When that is said, what the guildmaster in this guild is doing is impossible to say, and he should be open on what the gold is used for or he risk more drama than needed
AQ and Naxx? Seriously?
FR gear for Ragnaros maybe?
It’s not. I don’t know this guild but most could use another Sulfuras it there’s a chance. Unless they already have their guild bank full of FR gear for any possible new members and reserved for Nightfall etc, you keep that stuff. You don’t sell it.
We’re way too early into the game to just throw away MC mats. Even the best guilds with plenty of such materials will store a lot of it and only sell the excess. If the bank is empty, something’s wrong.
There is no progression in classic, everything has been done.
And the fire res gear can be worth getting on every warrior, corehound belts and nightfall are obvious choices too