07-06-2005, 07:20 AM
On my server the strongest guild seems to be buying up all the over 50s healers. I was grouped with the Guildmaster of a medium sized guild and he told me he has lost several healers to a top guild called Dusk. Dusk has been offering them fat bribes to switch guild. While we were grouped he lost another one. Later on that night we had a group of 4 from my guild plus a mage from this Dusk guild. After the instance our healer left our guild. I spoke to him about it and he said he was going to try out another guild. Dusk of course, the mage must have been working on him during the instance run. No wonder he wanted mana breaks all the time. I took a bit of petty revenge by telling the healer he could wangle a fat bribe out of the situation, he hadn't realised or been offered this.
I'm at a bit of a loss how to combat this. On the one hand I guess it could be seen as a weeding out process where all the lame healers get siphoned off leaving us with the more sensible ones. On the other hand there's a chronic lack of available healers over 50 and it seems to be getting worse
Has anyone any experience with guilds doing this? I'm quite tempted to power up my own priest, join this guild for a vast bribe and spend two weeks spreading as much carefully considered malice as possible. I could just concentrate on my under 50s alts and hope that the problem goes away, with luck the guild might implode. I suspect though that the bonds that keep high level people in power-gaming guilds (a chance at MC drops) are stronger than the forces that divide them (they're horrible people)
Unfortunately any kind of guild sanctions probably won't be effective. The server has a low population of healers and this power-gaming guild has a decent healer base which is of course growing. It isn't really much of a sanction to say our hunters mages and shammies won't group with you since most of us play the more superfluous classes. Still I certainly won't be having any non-healers from Dusk in my groups again
My last thought is just how viable is it to 5 man end game instances with no priest but a Restoration specced shaman? Is it possible to do Blackrock Depths Scholomance and Stratholme like that or is it unthinkable?
I'm at a bit of a loss how to combat this. On the one hand I guess it could be seen as a weeding out process where all the lame healers get siphoned off leaving us with the more sensible ones. On the other hand there's a chronic lack of available healers over 50 and it seems to be getting worse
Has anyone any experience with guilds doing this? I'm quite tempted to power up my own priest, join this guild for a vast bribe and spend two weeks spreading as much carefully considered malice as possible. I could just concentrate on my under 50s alts and hope that the problem goes away, with luck the guild might implode. I suspect though that the bonds that keep high level people in power-gaming guilds (a chance at MC drops) are stronger than the forces that divide them (they're horrible people)
Unfortunately any kind of guild sanctions probably won't be effective. The server has a low population of healers and this power-gaming guild has a decent healer base which is of course growing. It isn't really much of a sanction to say our hunters mages and shammies won't group with you since most of us play the more superfluous classes. Still I certainly won't be having any non-healers from Dusk in my groups again
My last thought is just how viable is it to 5 man end game instances with no priest but a Restoration specced shaman? Is it possible to do Blackrock Depths Scholomance and Stratholme like that or is it unthinkable?