Hi my Names Mark and I hate alt runs, or rather the attitude oh so prevalent within them.
Can you guess the one?
“Its only my alt”
Ahem I would just like to say fuck you scrub, my rogue is my alt yet in worse gear then almost all of or guild mains (and not by a small margin talking average item level 229 vs Average I level 251)
Yet I still beat our resident Epeening gear score junkie DK about 90% of the time now granted not by a lot but when hes running around with a Byrntroll and ive got a Blood Weeper and Sharpened Ice Razor that’s pretty fucking sad.
Heck his fucking hunter is better geared than my rogue and before you all say it yes the gear gap there is mild and thus expect on any prolonged fight ill win that one however when I can get 7-8K tunneling down on something with no more than ten man buffs than WHY I ask can he only get 5k on a good night (no MM hunters are not that far behind so shush they are actually very very close) I will tell you why because I do not expect to be carried simply because its my alt, I want to raid with my alt so I do the appropriate research figure out what gear is good for me, what my priorities are its funny if I was that fucking lazy with Seerath id be questioned about it. I mean seriously my offspec Elemental shaman competes with Unholy DK’s and arcane mages and quite frankly that’s just fucking wrong. Elemental shaman do pretty low damage compared to both of those.
I have a little game i play in my guild its mostly just something fun i do every time i see a guildie flaunt their gear score, I reference my guild bench mark for actually knowing how to fucking play (Happily thats my alt rogue :-p ) We have a DK in my guild who brags about his 6K GS but has yet to even once beat my rogue that has only in the last week has cracked 5.1 K which by the way scale of measure wise thats basically full 25 man ICC gear vs bits of 232 and 251 mixed. Now yes thats a rogue compared to a DK but mind you DK’s are not exactly slouches on DPS if they are played right.
This has had mixed results ranging from raging gquits to people actually learning to fucking play and everything in between including me getting nothing but cold silence on vent from them.
The reason I feel like this is simple, if you go into a raid to have fun but your incompetence is ruining others fun than you’re a blight on that group something that needs to be removed much as you would a tumor! If you cant have fun while actually you know learning how to fucking play then please do me and a lot of other players like a favour and do not fucking raid your wasting raid slots that could potentially be going to those who want to actually try even if they are alts.
I put this out here bluntly were it my choice there would likely only be about 13 people raiding in this guild because honestly most of them do not deserve a fucking raid spot.
I will say this DPS, Healing and Damage taken are not the only factors in useful players but on pretty standard fights they sure as hell help you figure out who the fuck knows what they are doing. Typically speaking the same DPSers that pull poor DPS for their gear are the same ones who can not fucking interrupt or get out of bad stuff and switch targets, the same healers that can’t keep a reasonably geared tank alive through Gormok the Impaler in ToC 10 are the same ones that die in the fire on the ground and get them selves frozen in place with the toxin or better still can’t heal out side of their own group!. The same tanks that can’t hold agro worth a shit are usually the same ones that take disgustingly spikey damage and move the bosses when they have no need to.
Seriously all i ask of people when raiding is regardless of whether this is your alt, gear and spec the thing properly and while your doing that learn how to fucking play it seriously there are countless good sources of information as to how you should be playing. Oh bonus points if you stop asking people “Hey is Epic item A better or Epic item B?” because A) you learn absolutely nothing by doing that and generally piss the person your asking off and B) gear is something that needs to looked at as a whole X item may be better on its own than item Y but then the rest of your gear may not work properly if you use it.
Tanks avoidance is great and all but it doesn’t stop you getting two shot try to remember that next time you bitch about not getting healed after taking two back to back hits for more than half your health. Big tip more HP and more armor are favoured yes an avoidance string where you don’t get hit for like 20 seconds looks fucking awesome but the fact is it only means the tank healer is probably wasting mana on you and B) when you get hit its going to be A LOT harder.
Healers you have more than one fucking heal button even druids despite popular belief have more going than rejuv and wild growth spam particularly on 10 man where they cant rely on that other healers to pick up there slack.
- Shaman each and every time i see your healing with more than 80% chain heal on a fight that doesn’t have constant raid wide damage i want to fucking punch you.
- Pallies its nice that you can heal the tank by healing someone else but if your assigned to tank healing (who am i kidding you will be) let the raid healers do their job unless the fight explicitly requires you help.
- Priests if your holy your not a bubble bot and if there is a disc priest in the raid with you, you are hurting more than your helping as well as this you have flash heal to use between circle of healing in order to stack up Serendipity and i think renew does it too though uhh don’t quote me on that.
- Druids who don’t spec in to natures swiftness or swiftmend seriously delete your fucking toon your wasting raid slot and peoples time also do remember you have other buttons aside from Rejuvenation and Wild growth so on occasion you will need to use them. The same goes in reverse for the love of god make sure you are using rejuv and wild growth.
