Comments on: This is not an Ulduar post

By: Lenelie

Lenelie — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:40:26 +0000

I wish it were the strangers that bug the crap out of my during raids. Alas it is RL people I know. One in particular is in a hard core raiding guild and will commence to tell me what strategy I should use during a fight in whispers when I am in raids. He completely ignores the DBM messages he gets and will just keep going regardless if I reply or not. It took very forceful language for him to understand not to talk to me when raiding. Which is sad, but I’m a healer I don’t have time to go into the finer points of my mana regen stat weights or why we are using one strat over another mid fight. I have people to keep alive! :)

By: Suxxy

Suxxy — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:33:36 +0000

I don’t seem to have a problem when people whisper me in-game when I’m in the middle of something; I’m usually too focused on what I’m doing, that I don’t see any messages trying to grab my attention. I’m a mere male, I don’t multi-task.
I remember doing a pug group quest an hour before my very first Kara run with my new guild and the GL was trying to get my attention, to make sure I was still going to show, make sure I understood the time was fast approaching, just generally trying to make sure I was ready. Apparently he was trying to contact me for a good 10 minutes before I noticed and responded; oh yeah, that was you, B3 ;)
I run 3 separate chat panes
1) General (minus guild * whisper);
2) Guild
3) Whisper
I may not respond straight away, I may not even see something directed at me at the time, but I usually scroll up on those windows when I get a moment, just to catch up.

By: Rootgrrl

Rootgrrl — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:15:29 +0000

You could always hand them off to the therapist: http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info9780-AGT-AutomaticGoblinTherapist.html

Sometimes I’ll use a chat window in raids that only has raid chat displayed. Tells, guild chat, etc are filtered out.

By: Copey

Copey — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:04:21 +0000

“It’s people that can’t just wait a few moments for a response. That will whisper me again, pissy at not getting a fast reply even though I do have DBM telling the just what the heck I’m doing.”

Oh, if that’s what you are talking about, then yeah, that is some serious B.S. /ignore was made for people like that.

By: Asara

Asara — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:34:54 +0000

If I go to visit someone on another server, I always check and see what they’re doing before I say hi. If there’s an instance name next to theirs on /who, I’ll come back another time, thank you very much. I had an RL friend log on to WoW one day while most of my guild was in Naxx and I was spodding around on my paladin, who was not in the guild at the time. He came on to say hi to me, which I appreciated, but instead of seeing that my main toon wasn’t on and trying again later, he started whispering other people in the guild, trying to find out where I was. My class leader told him I was on my paladin, so he started whispering the only paladin who was online at the time, one of our healers, and didn’t believe her when she said she wasn’t me. Boy did I chew him out for that when I finally heard about it and figured out who it was. Not only was he pestering the bejeebus out of my guildies, he did it while they were raiding. He was a raider once, he should have known better, I don’t know why he decided to make an idiot of himself. It drives me crazy that politeness seems to be considered more and more a waste of time.

By: Fish

Fish — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:46:49 +0000

I sometimes wonder whatever happened to in game mail? I mean isn’t that theoretically what it’s for? Now it just seems like extra storage or AH rejects. I wholely agree with you on friends first. My guild has people who are active in raids, and we’ve had people leave because we’re not a “raiding guild”. I choose to spend my in game time with people whose company I enjoy. There are always raids to be found if you’re skilled enough. . .

By: ximera

ximera — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:38:43 +0000

i know it is largely irrelevant and not the point of your post, but just as an aside, as a hunter who has been shot onto FLs back, we are not good for this. Because we cant shoot while in melee range, we can only target the other turret, and not the one we are actually standing in front of. Also, my pet did not seem to be able to stand up there. Not a good thing to have to melee it down.

By: Rowtan

Rowtan — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:31:34 +0000

I understand the feeling well. We have a similar guild, I suspect – only just cleared Naxx, been into Ulduar once and after about 10 wipes (but having fun all the time -and boy the trash beforehand is good!) downed the first boss. I’m disappointed to learn that you can’t squash the trash with your tanks tho – damn I ran over lots!

Anyway – to the point – we’re not a hardcore raiding guild, we’re not made up of the type who can raid whilst watching TV, cook their tea, talk on the phone and multiple other tasks – we still have to concentrate on what we’re doing – even on the trash in most cases. Yet being GL means that you regularly get whispers at all times, regardless of where you are. I’ve now gotten to the point where, if we’re in the process of a bit of down-time (a wipe, or someone else explaining a fight, a bio break, etc), yes I can answer a quick question. But most of the time, unless the chat is in the raid channel, it either gets ignored, or a quick “speak to me when I’m out of the raid pls”.

If they want to know why you haven’t replied, its easy enough to work out where you are/what you’re doing, if they are rude enough to ignore that, then I think its only fair that you return the compliment :)

By: Lissanna

Lissanna — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:08:19 +0000

I think that at least one of the raiding boss mods has an auto-reply feature for whispers, and you can set it to either show the whisper or just to tell them to contact you later… Like an answering machine for tells. :)

By: Phaedra

Phaedra — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:04:35 +0000

You have my sympathies, BBB. Several whispers during trash or a boss encounter can be extremely distracting, especially if you’re tanking or healing. Heck, I have trouble handling /w conversations doing my dailies or questing.

In addition, people who apply to guilds without doing any research are trouble waiting to happen. Seriously, why would you apply to a guild that isn’t what you’re looking for? While I love the blog, I would never join your guild on my main. I want a raiding guild. Yours is not a raiding guild (some of your stories about organizing your raids and runs make me cringe a little, but to each his own). I am not running off to join your guild simply because it’s the BBB guild.

Since my guild is focused as a raiding guild who’s social, when we do have low level friends of members join, we tell them. Flat out. We’re a raiding guild. While occassionally you may get help with leveling, don’t expect it. Our bank is for raiding, not leveling. In addition, we’re not recruiting. If and when you do hit the level cap and get yourself appropriately geared, there’s no guarentee you’ll get a raiding spot automatically. I breathe a sigh of relief when people decide that despite their buddy being in our guild, we are not a good fit.

Best of luck with your new recruits — hopefully you’ll be able to beat some sense into their heads!