So to avoid wasting time there are some rules and expectations.
The first is to be cool headed and reasonable.
I will not at all tolerate anyone shouting at anyone else out of pure anger, I will not tolerate silly nonsensical kitten such as straight up lying about certain things, and I will not at all tolerate infighting.
If you have issues with me, my co-leader, your squadmates, or the other people of the discord. You will keep it out of my discord general chats and you WILL kitten SURE keep it out of the raid. You tell me what is going on, why you are upset, and if required I will step in and fix it. Especially if I am somehow part of, or entirely the problem. But if it becomes a problem that I am never notified of that starts to eat away at the group, I will snip the offending parties out without any remorse.
The second is to understand we are all people
People are crude, rude, sometimes lewd. People can be mature and they can be immature. The general group that’s already assembled is a lot of uncouth misfits with foul language and crude jokes.
I will not compromise this. If you want to make a racial joke; do it dude. If you are offended deeply by people saying what they like; Don’t join dude.
If you have deep psychological issues of any sort that require a safe space of some description. Either handle your problems, or discuss it with me. But remember; your rights end where the others’ begin. The second you start making others hold back who they are, I kick you from raids. It’s all fun and games until someone starts making an unwanted safespace that ruins the entire flow of the community.
The third is you are expected to show up.
I do not at all expect to have only my raid as the thing your week revolves around, and I accept personal real life responsibility comes first. As long as you are able to make the times, you can be a part of a different group every night of the week and snort pepsi off of a truck station toilet for all I care. So long as showing up on time is a priority; do what you like. (but please don’t snort pepsi, I’m pretty sure it’ll just straight up kill you)
If you are unable to meet our time, let me know in advance and I will consider the situation. As a general rule: if you’re sick and in bed; you’re free to go. If you’re skipping out to watch a stream, then you’re free to leave. If your wife is furious with you, we’re not dragging you in here. If your wife wants [explicit content] too bad, she can wait. This is scheduled weeks in advance. There is no excuse to be absent without notification unless you literally died or were sent to the hospital… or your internet shut down, but same thing.
You are expected to attempt and attempt to learn.
If you no longer, for whatever reason, feel the need to try. I will notice. If you are no longer interested in the content. I will notice.
If you are unhappy, uninterested, or just plain unwilling to put forwards the effort required to learn and clear; Let me know personally. As sad as it is to say, if you don’t want to be here then you’re better off not here. Unhappy raiders kill groups, and often they would leave themselves but certain things may hold them back from speaking up.
But that said, if you for whatever reason, do not feel obligated to learn the fights… you’re going to be expected to recite all of the mechanics for the next fight. ALL OF THEM. If you fail this, you’re out. This is more lenient than I should be, but I put this out because this is still a budding raid community and many have never raided in another mmo. I will not crucify the unknowing for not knowing. But once you know, and you fail to or simply refuse you get removed. The most important thing to remember, is that you’re not just wasting your time and my time, you are wasting NINE peoples’ time (Maybe even ten if you don’t want to be there). And I will not tolerate that.
The last is that you use discord
Bring a mic that works, and be able to talk to people. I’m not going to host silent raids every thursday where I just talk to player models. I want people in my raids. People with color, personality, senses of humor, and opinions. I want snide remarks intended to create a snicker, I want playful jabs, and I want fun. If nobody says anything at all it will all fall apart within a few weeks. I’ve done this before, and I can tell you this is not an exaggeration
Now with all of that out of the way, assuming you’re still here.
Our raids will not begin for a long time now; the expansion is going to be rough on the meta I’m sure of it, not to mention I have a lot of recruiting to do.
This group will be meeting every thursday regardless, however. We will be doing fractals 24 and 25 to A: get to know eachother, and B: do -something- while we wait.
The slots currently needed are: 1 power dps. 1 PS warriors of any description (or powerful mightstackers if the expac shakes the meta enough) , two chronomancer tanks (who will both be tanking bosses; I will be sure to alternate on bosses that have a MT mechanic).
and 1 healer. The way I look at healers: Druid is fantastic for party buffs, auratempest is insane sustained healing, and ventari revenants are the absurd burst healing and protection uptime. All three are welcomed in my raids.
I do prefer people play at least two roles. Condi dps and power dps are considered different roles to me, so it is acceptable to just have two dps.
We will be meeting on Thursdays at 9pm Central time.
https://discord.gg/bMUzhcU please join this discord for questions on joining.
(edited by Murdock.6547)