I recently made one of the biggest mistakes of my gaming career. I had my friend apply to the guild a few weeks ago. She’s actually the best holy paladin I’ve ever known, to be perfectly honest. But there was a serious personality clash, and she came from super awesome hardcore guilds to our little wanna-be casual guild. Things didn’t smooth over well.
First off, she and one of the officers had a terrible cat fight. Me and my friend were under the impression that the officer was treating her unfairly to somehow “convince” others or herself that she wasn’t treating friends special, and she believed that I was letting her off easy because she was my friend.
Then, she had problems with our raid leader. More specifically, he didn’t call anything or anyone out. That’s a post in itself that I’m stalling at the moment, but point being, she hated not having immediate feedback. She also hated how nothing was called, but if any raider dare speak up, another officer (not the raid leader) would snap and tell them they’re not the raid leader…. who never calls things out anyway.
She transfered back to her horde server this weekend. I’m happy she’s happy…. but I kinda miss her here. I worked my ass off to get her her ToC crafted bracers. I saw her do brewfest from my bed on my desktop. I was there when she got her first piece of loot from the guild. Loot she earned. I also miss her as a raider. Like I said, she was the best holy paladin we’d ever seen. Now we have to recruit to fill her spot, and one of our holy priests may be going disc to cover until then.
Something good came from it though. The current officers are getting a second comb-through because of this mess. We as a guild lost both an excellent player with a great attitude, but an intelligent human being who brought new insights to our raids.
C’est la vie.
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