Just abit sian

Makan has been progressing well ever since i have joined. I felt very happy coz i am part of this family that helps the guild to progress as a whole.

Joint Raid:

lately, we thank a few big guilds like Doom and Defy that help us to explore 25man dungeons. I like this idea coz a couple of our raid leaders like wtm , xavi and CT can gain valuable experience and thereafter bringing the expertise back to Makan to lead us. But lately, has it been too frequent to the extent that we need to be "on-standby" ??

I do understand the point of joint-raid of gaining exposure , and the possible challenge to reach greater heights. But this theory came into me : "richer will become richer, and poorer become poorer" . Applying this to game, our skilful players become better, our newbies become still noobie [ sorry ] .

Newbie

I am not saying that we should spoonfeed our newbies, but tell me how many times did we actually learn from pug. DPS overaggro and horrible CC in pug doesnt represent good examples to follow , which is why running with guild mates will enable the newbies to suit into our practices faster and efficient. I have been leveling hunter recently, i got a shocked when i LFG and i cant find that much tanks and healers as compared to my MAGE leveling time. Even Blitzage'alt also faced the same problem, which indicates this server has reached a "heroic-saturation" stage.

Today we ask , why the newbies not gearing up themselves, why are they playing alts and not the mains. We shldnt push the blame to them immediately, ask ourselves this question first, did we do enough to help them ? If we blame their dps, then ask ourselves did we help them to identify their problems and not eliminating them in front of 25 human beings in a joint raid.
We are veterans or we hold a position is for a reason, not for us to see show or to scold people when they fail to perform.

We have been packed with dailies and heroic badges farming for future patch. Now we have to packed ourselves to fulfill the joint raid with defy. Ask ourselves again, are u guys mentally and physically still able to help the newbies?

I would be looking forward to see our new forums, how much valuable information is there in the next few weeks.

Scenario

Newbie: Hi can u help me with this normal instance?
Veteran: Sorry , i cant... got to help defy
Newbie wonders how come we not helping our own family members and went to help others.

Helping Defy

I do appreciate their help and i do believe we should reciprocate the help to them. But if today we have to recruit a DEFY's alt into guild for a reason of facilitating the joint-raid, i would question our recruitment requirements.

Now if they do find our makanians are skilful and helpful, they should be joining us and not the other way round. Looking at their guild numbers, they have more than enough people for 25man raid, so why they need us? A simple fact, because the rest are newbies, not geared up or not skilled resulting in more wipes. In the long run, we become their subsidiary and have to provide men wherever they need us.If one of their class is not free, we are been called up. If they are full on a particular class, makan would not even be needed to gain the so-called exposure.

Sorry to mention , i know he is a very nice guy and from a nice guild, join us for supper . So if he really like to mingle with us alot, i would see his main and himself spiritually and physically joining us and not the makan veterans joining him. I will be even sad to know if he is using us to remove his less skilful players in his large guild which i think is highly impossible.

Mages Part

Now u audience that see my post, would properly think Gillahsa is eating sour grapes. Now as a mage in makan , i have to fight for my fellow and future mages. A simple fact is DEFY has LOTS of mages, have u seen Gillahsa and Maicha needed ? So if we are talking about letting makan gaining exposure, i would love to see makan mages been given that same amount of status as their mages. If we are not needed in their exposure raid, how is my future mages able to gain exposure? Try to remember the efforts we make in attending the 4months of kara raiding and not the dps we failed to achieve each week.

Makan will never walk alone

I understand we need to help them to solve their problems, even though we are different guild tag. But Makan has problems itself to solve, why are we so eager to solve their problems. We should solve our home problems then solve something that is outside our boundaries.

Our own 25man

I have been seeing the number of 70s online , i am pleased to say our own 25man raid is feasible. Even if, in the next few months, that i went missing from WOW, i will tell myself confidently that i help Makan to gear up the newbies for our very own 25man raid.


Enough of the above venting of emotions, oops. I understand there is no big fuzz about this but if a few of Makanians do feel this way, then there is definitely a fuzz.

All i have to say is, i agreed to let our veterans have some time to go to joint-raids. Its all for the experience and exposure gaining. Veterans do need some time and chance to see newer things if not they will be stagnant . But if we forsake helping our guild in order to join them , i will reject to that. Must remember that helping can only to a certain extent, applies both to newbies and joint raid.

Lastly, i will hope everyone spent some time with Takoyaki , then u will realise WOW is just a game, take it easy [ even though he is farmer!! ]