I have to pug because of work other commitments. The raid schedules most guilds want are on the nights I just can’t . Like Wednesday night is the most raid times for guilds.
The amount of declines before linking curve is obscene and time wasting to say the least .
Now when I link curve I get 99% of the time invited on my alts. It’s rediculous how one feat of strength how soo much power of player’s choice and decision making.
It is elitist , it is gate keeping content. The leaders most of the time don’t even have curve. It does not demonstrate a players knowledge , skills or abilities whatsoever.
Can’t get into a key ? Link curve , you’re invited
Can’t get into a normal raid pug ? Link Curve , oh quel surprise ! You’re invited.
Can’t get into a hc pug raid ? Link … you get my point
It’s almost pathetic in a way and it aggrevates me.
So yeah having pug troubles ? Buy a curve , seems to be a cure to skipping queues it seems.
I dunno about all this. If you link curve, they will expect you to know what you’re doing in the raid. Seems like a fast way to get kicked halfway through
Most of the time, so I’d say 9 times out of 10, even if you buy a boost, you will be kicked out of the raid you bought your boost to get into, in the first place.
No matter how much gold you spend, you’ll still end up wiping the raid or dying every single time to every single boss as you’ve not learnt anything, apart from “stand here, die, and we’ll kill it!”.
Also, it’s pretty easy to look at RaiderIO or other log gathering websites, and you can tell when someone has purchased a boost.
But at the end of the day, it’s that players gold. Also at the end of the day you can not whine & complain if you get kicked out of a raid after dying to a simple boss mechanic.
Without debating if its true or not. Got a better idea how to gauge player abilities? Or better yet, i got 1 spot free and 10 signup. How to choose? Based on name? Transmog? Who makes the funiest joke in signup note?
Inviting players who have never done the fights before is a great way to have a total fiasco of a raid where you get stuck and disband. Heroic, at this point of the expansion, is too hard to assume that you can brute force it. Heck, a lot of normal raids were disbanding before the last boss. If the raid leader wants any chance at all of a clear, they have to be selective.
Curve isn’t the greatest metric for player competence, but it is a fast and accessible one, where the onus is on the applicant rather than the raid leader.
The other side of gatekeeping is that you are making a raid that actually has a chance to succeed. Pugs are not the place for learning fights and progressing; they are for doing farm content. The leaders are doing what they can to avoid having their time wasted by unprepared floor-dwellers.
If you want people to bring you to the raid no matter what, you have to engage with a guild or community, get to know people, and form some social connections. There simply isn’t a substitute. WoW has always been at its best when played with a regular team.
The good news is there are plenty of organised raids that run on non-Wednesdays. I regularly join some on friday nights and saturday afternoons, but there are options every day of the week if you go looking for them. If your work schedule is so random that a fixed day won’t work, then still do the social thing and sometimes you will be able to attend.
Sure, go ahead, pay IRL money to others to play the game for you, just don’t be suprised when you’ll get kicked when others find out that your accomplishments are fake.
I sometimes feel like this “I got a job!” excuse is so often used that it feels like a fashion trend at this point.
I got a family, I work in medical field which involves night shifts…yet I still raid and do some m+. Sure, sometimes I miss a raid or two but thats life.
People who want to raid with a guild…they will find a way even with “5 jobs and 10 kids to feed”. Ofc those who dont want to in the first place then → I cant raid because “I got a job, Blizzard is gatekeeping, I have kids, I have a car, Timmy next door wont let me”… TL:DR [insert your scapegoat excuse here on why you cant raid with a guild].
A lot of “no time for a guild” posts come with a general sense of “and I wouldn’t want one anyway”, which is a choice - but it’s a choice with consequences. Not engaging in the social side of WoW makes life harder. Flying solo is not easier because you don’t “have to talk to people”; it’s harder because nobody is ever on your side. OP as the case in point.
In my experience, a social player who joins a guild/community where they belong on a personal level will always find some opportunities to play with people there. It might be weird times, but half of WoW is neuro-divergent and on a strange sleep schedule anyway. Perhaps they have a 2-on 2-off oil rigger schedule, or go out on deployment for 3 months then home for a month; but if they’ve established relationships within the guild, then they’ll be accepted right back in whenever they are able to attend. Maybe they just took a 6 month break for personal reasons, but no problem, everyone remembers them and it’s good to have them back.
Finding somewhere that you are a good social fit can be challenging, but it is not impossible, and it is rewarding
