What happened in Red Dragon Society?
It has been a few weeks since I have left Red Dragon Society, and now that the dust has settled, I feel I can finally talk about what had transpired. Now that I have played things around in my head, I realized that I was half at fault, though for many different reasons.
It began with when Bukki and I joined Red Dragon Society. We had jumped the gun, and found ourselves in a guild with only four people in it total. A little dismayed, but still hopeful, we still waited and began doing heroics on Bonechewer to gear ourselves up. We had arrived on November 20th, and did not begin our first raid until December 12th. This was a little dismaying, but we were gathering people. First we cleared 10 man content, and slowly 25 man content. All seemed well, until a slow rift started to begin. A lot of us, the better players (I say better because we were top dps, heals, and tanks) soon became dismayed at the quality of players we were recruiting. The guild leader took it upon himself to start interviewing candidates without consulting any of the officers or the guild. The reasoning? Because he was afraid we would scare off candidates. Granted, Irocktankz and myself were screening applicants with immense scrutiny, and found most of them were lying in regards to their experiences. Nevertheless, the guild leader did as he pleased, and the quality and success of our raids started going down as a result.
I was an officer, and MT of the guild. I argued frequently with the guild leader over how things should be ran, because raids were becoming harder and harder to clear. Not to mention, we were becoming malcontent with how lax the guild was ran. Sure, we cleared raids, but we were doing so at the cost of so many wasted hours. Most of us had lives, and were not willing to waste any more of it. The straw that broke the camels back was when the guild leader decided to invite yet another death knight to the guild, who was in all greens, who would be set as a starter. It was then that a few of us just threw in the towel and gquit. Do I feel that I could have done things differently? Yes. I left the guild. I was a MT, and that role is not so easy to earn again, in this day and age where you bring 2-3 tanks per 25 man raid. I despaired for a while, but I couldn’t handle dealing with grey quality service.
So, with that, Bukki, Irocktankz, Breetai, Robobill, Toranagasama, Tulis, and soon to be others just waited for the night and hoped that tomorrow would bring something better.
