I don’t think this applies to me as I’m very outspoken when I dislike something, which mostly gets me into trouble.
But hey I’m guessing you want a story so here it goes.
One day at the start of DF I randomly reached out to the RL from one of my previous guild and asked if they had DPS slot for me. The RL said they were forming a team for VotI but didn’t have a 2nd tank and healers, so I convinced my dungeon group (IRL friends) to come as most of them could fill multiple rolls (I’m the only dps baby there). So of to raid we went, blasted normal pretty easy, and went into HC. Here is where the problems started. I will be honest and say that most players in that guild are not particularly good at the game and really rely on brute forcing fights with ilvl. We were slowly progressing HC, it was something like we would get 1-2 new kills a week (2-night raid weeks). My friends from the dungeon group were kinda getting frustrated with the pace we were moving but ultimately decided to continue because A- the people were fun to play with and B we all wanted a somewhat stable progression group. So we finally get to Diurna and here is where we hit our first wall, this was the first week we didn’t kill any new bosses. After 2 weeks on Diurna we killed her just as our second raid night was ending and managed to do a pull on Raz just to see how it compares to NM. The next week me and the dungeon group were excited to go and progress Raz, but the RL and the guild had other plans. They realized that they need gear, tier sets to be more specific as mostly none of them were doing M+. So the re-clears started to happened, 4 weeks of reclears with very inconcistant Diurna kills (one person from the dungeon group was playing evoker so you might imagine he was upset). But hey we did 4 weeks of reclears and mostly everybody had a full tier set, good-ish ilvl and the revival catalyst had been out for quite some time, It’s time to progress Raz right? Well no, because the tank from the guild only had 3/4 tier pieces and for some reason he refused to use the catalyst to convert his gear. I asked “why were we going into a 5th week of reclears, just because 1 person refuses to use a catch up system that Blizzard have put into the game”, RL answered “People still need gear we can’t do Raz”. I inspected every single person in that raid group and everyone had all they needed from the bosses prior to Diurna, everyone except the tank who was missing a tier piece. My dungeon group was getting more and more frustrated but again they gave in and joined for the 5h week of reclears. At this point some people had started to bring their alts for the reclears in case we drops weren’t needed by anyone (which started to become the case more and more), we fist went for the bosses that the tank needed for tier, Dathea was no luck but on Spider boy we finally got a drop, the tanks final tier piece dropped… And an 370ilvl warlock alt got it. As the warlock was laughing his you know what to the bank, I obviously spoke out.
ME: Wait, why did Steve* roll on that", RL answered "We don’t restrict loot rolls in our guild.
RL.: We don’t restrict loot rolls in our guild.
Me: Yes, I get that, but the only reason we are still doing reclears is because the tank needs a tier piece.
RL: Yeah, and he lost the roll fair and square.
ME: Yeah, he lost it to Steve*'s canine fecal matter warlock which was getting carried this whole night.
RL: Everyone can roll on gear in our guild.
The conversation carried out mostly in this manner, I kept questioning the decission and why the tank was refusing to just use the catalyst, didn’t get an answer and I still have no clue. The next morning I wake up to discord massage from the RL on discord.
“Dear Amonet, me and the other officers talked about what happened yesterday during our raid night and we find that you called Steve “canine fecal matter” unacceptable. We do appreciate everything you have done for our raid team but at the end of the day Steve is part of the guild and you and your team are outsiders. We regret to inform you that unless you apologize to Steve you are not going to welcome to our raid any longer.”
So I replied, “Ok, I didn’t call Steve CFM, I called his alt that because it was undergeared, but at least I can finally see where the priorities of the raid team are. You can tell Steve I am sorry I called his alt a bad word if he cares that much about it and don’t worry I won’t be joining your raids anymore”. Didn’t get a reply, but come the next raid night the RL had the nerve to ask me if any of my dungeon friend would be joining them for their raid, I just answered “No but I’m sure Steve will bring his CFM alt, and he is from the guild and that’s what really matters at the end of the day”.
Thank you for reading my drama time story, I know it’s not exactly what you were asking for in the OP but I hope at least someone had good laugh from reading this.
***Steve is a made up name, the person I mention in the story is not actually called Steve, so don’t at me Blizzard, I’m not naming and shaming anyone.
