UPDATE TO THE PREFACE: Gah, I forgot I’d scheduled this. I’ve now exchanged emails with a couple of lovely people, so to be completely clear, this is more joke than an actual want ad.
PREFACE: I wrote this at the same time I wrote yesterday’s oh-noes-I-must-find-a-new-guild post, and thought I’d post it a day or two later as a follow-up. I wasn’t remotely expecting people to respond with anything other than sympathy. I also wasn’t expecting to see any activity in my current guild.
That said, this still makes me giggle so it’s getting posted anyway. And Alas might get a smile from the last point in “you will be” — I swear that wasn’t edited in.
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Wanted: raiding guild for brand-new raider.
You will be: Friendly. Tolerant of totally noob raiders. Willing to explain strategies. Interested in seeing the content and not skipping every RP event ASAP. Prepared to revisit Naxx/Ulduar/etc. Intolerant of asshats. Polite when reminding new raiders not to stand in the fire/acid/spew/pit of death. Funny in guild chat. Socially diverse. Mostly able to spell.
I will be: Inexperienced. Slightly resistant to watching a video of every encounter before I first visit it. Willing to read strategy upon strategy. Likely to get things wrong on the first attempt or two. Or three, I don’t know yet. Clad from head-to-foot in gear purchased with badgers from random HCs. (Hopefully) adequately gemmed/enchanted. Relatively poor, so not really capable of quickly regemming/re-enchanting if *not* adequately gemmed/enchanted. “Witty” in guild chat. Verbose. Likely to write about things that happen on a blog.
It’s an enticing prospect, isn’t it. I think suitable guilds (of which there must be thousands, right? Right…? Hello?) will be lined up around the block to pickup a new team member like me. Why wouldn’t they?
Hey. Why are you all looking away? Hello, I’m over here…
I can’t see this as being anything but a struggle. Judging by the blogs I’m reading, even alt runs are all doing ICC. Either that, or doing hardmodes/achievement runs in older content. Guilds which *are* recruiting are looking to fill spaces for their progression runs, wherever they are in the sequence. Very few will have the patience to bring along a noob raider.
*sigh*
I guess it’s off to the realm forums for me. *shudder*
Tags: "Looking for guild", Raiding, Want-ad
You will probably have trouble finding a guild willing to revisit Naxx and Ulduar, because the gear in there is below the gear available in the new 5-man ICC’s or purchased with Triumph badges. However, you may be able to find guilds that are still running TOC-10/25, which is a fine “training ground” for learning how to raid before hitting ICC.
Yup — very true. That said, there do still appear to be guilds out there that run some of the old content for drakes/achievements etc, so once I’m a little less wet behind the ears I suppose I might be able to take a look that way.
Hah! I did get a giggle from that last point. Spelling is important! In fact, we tell most people who can’t spell properly to get lost (although there is one gentleman in my guild who speaks a form of WoW-pidgin and for whatever reason is so funny to me that I hope he never learns to communicate more clearly).
Best of luck with your prospects!