All is fair in Love and Warcraft

It's been a while since I've had a chance to update here, not for lack of things to say. I've had a few ideas of what I wanted to say but haven't really had the time or the energy to really update anything.

I guess the first thing I want to touch on in guild management. I have several toons across a couple of servers. I've been in every type of guild imaginable from hardcore raiding to social guilds. Up until recently I had an excellent balance of guild types. On one server I had a social guild I was in, and then on another server I have a semi-hardcore raiding guild that I belong to. 

With everything that has happened over the last couple of weeks, I'm beginning to think that the raiding guilds have more cohesiveness than the social guilds do. 

I see less drama, and less real life issues in raiding guilds, there aren't verbal attacks on people in raiding guilds, well, there is and there isn't. Usually the verbal attacks are because people aren't following the raid leader's instructions. 

I'm finding that in social guilds it's the opposite, they seem to ooze drama and bullshit. Recently I was in a social guild on one of the other servers that I play on, I have since left that guild, unfortunately with very hurt feelings. The whole scenario was that there was an attack on my person that was not asked for nor was warranted, and even though I walked away from the argument, it was brought up again and again resulting in my temper flaring, and eventually a yelling match ensued. Things were said that were less than appropriate, and name calling ensued. Unfortunately, there was someone in the guild that I care very much for, and now I'm being punished by that person for my indescretions. Though that is not what this post is about. 

This post is pretty much about how far is too far. 

There are people in the World of Warcraft that come from different walks of life, they have different personality types. Some people take criticism well, and other's need a more softer approach. 

I unfortunately am the latter. 

When I play any toon, I do research, preparing a toon to be heroic or raid ready takes months and months of planning, and the planning can be ongoing. When I build gear sets, I go after gear that is going to provide the best route to reaching the necessary caps (whether it be hit, expertise, defense or whatnot). Unfortunately it sometimes seems as if I'm doing nothing, until you turn your head and look and I'm almost geared out. 

Some people do not understand how I play this game, and some others do. My guild on Draenor-US understands that I play a very mathematic game, and have basically given me the title of statistician. Nothing ever gets past me, tanks say they're not getting heals, I call them out on it, someone says they didn't get heals, I pull up the timeslice of their death.

This is how I play the game. I will not change that for anyone. I play based on the mathematics of the game and I play analytically.

Some people don't like this because it comes across as slow and tedious. I can agree with it being slow, and tedious, but I'm not going to take a piece of gear to play with when someone could necessarily use it more than I could. 

Anyways, I'm rambling here. 

The whole situation in the social guild was this....apparently someone wasn't pleased with the fact that I was aiming for hit/expertise cap...which had nothing to do with tanking, and apparently had gotten the idea into their head that I cannot DPS for the life of me, which is completely incorrect. My death knight, who currently is in half DPS gear and half defense gear (tanking) pushes a tidy 1700 DPS, this 1700 DPS is with credit to my close friend Ceridwynn of Azuremyst-US. If it wasn't for her, I would still be farming ore, and begging in trade chat for titansteel cooldowns, and leatherworkers. Or still grinding not only my mining, but my blacksmithing, and basically tanking regular dungeons for lowbies.

There were accusations that I was doing nothing, which is untrue. I had people in guild asking me to tank on another character, which I was doing willingly, and pushing myself to the point of exhaustion, I would log out at the end of the day so exhausted from tanking instance upon instance and literally pass out in my chair. I do agree that I was doing nothing on the toon I was supposed to be playing, but on the other hand, I was helping guildies get the necessary gear that would help them perform better. In otherwords, I was putting the guild before myself. I helped another guildie open up hundreds of dailies, so that he would have access to funds aside from crafting. 

But then, I suppose that this is how the cookie crumbles, and gives me a sharp reminder that sometimes not all is fair in the World of Warcraft, and that to the jerks go the spoils.