So I joined my friend’s guild. Again. He loves being a guild leader and I enjoy playing with him, so I whenever he’s started a new guild or I’m guildless and we’re both not on hiatuses, I join his guild. He’s been in charge of I think 4 other guilds so far, 2 of which were RP guilds. While that may not be the most promising of signs, as we all know, sometimes guilds just come and go with the players, especially on an RP server. Regardless, I’d rather play with people I (can get to ) know and enjoy, even if progression isn’t at the same level as a bigger, crazier guild that already has it’s core group of players and is somewhat cliquish and all about the numbers.
As is typical in many guilds, there is a guild council or assistant GMs, there are raid leaders, and there are class leaders. They all have their purpose and, for better or for worse, do what they think is best for the guild and the players. The people I usually come into contention with most, however, are the class leaders. Sometimes, they are just plain rude, and after one look at your armory page, will then chastise you on your gear, enchants, and spec, if it’s not something that they, themselves, would use. Other times they are more polite about it, but still try to tell you that what you’re doing is wrong. They then whisper you to death by telling you exactly where you should go to get what specific gear that they think you should have, and how to respec.
Now, I’m not saying there is anything wrong with class leaders giving other players suggestions. That’s their job, just like raid leaders are to lead raids, and will tell you what to do. Despite this, I have to admit that I get really annoyed when I feel like I’m being treated like a child, and that I’m just some idiot n00b player who doesn’t know their class or the game at all, somehow stumbled my way to level 80 and some decent gear, and am clueless about what a raid is (isn’t that something you kill bugs with?) It’s especially annoying when you haven’t ever seen my performance in a raid, nor do you even really know me. If I’ve only been in a guild for literally 5 minutes, don’t you think there are other things you could be saying rather than just telling me how to play the game? I’ve been a class leader before, buddy, and I’ve been playing my mage for a long time. I know what’s up. It’s helpful to have someone to go to for tips and tricks, but it’s not so helpful to give unsolicited, unneeded advice. It would have at least been nice to see me in action first.
Also, I’ve been friends with the guild leader for years. If there’s a problem with my gear/spec/gems/enchants, he’ll tell me.
Gr. At least this time the person was nice about it. Doesn’t make it any less obnoxious.
It may just be that it’s on my mage that I have a problem…perhaps on my Paladin I wouldn’t have been bothered as much…oh well.
