So on my main account my guild is clearing 10 man naxx each week. This week we start a new run again and there is space for 1 dps. So they put a DK and a rogue and cycle them out for the bosses they need. But then one of the dps that was there the whole time so the gmaster is looking over the guild list and he was saying he needs a ranged dpser. So there is like 1 other ranged dps on, he dinged 80 yesterday. He gets invited to the raid. I have been 80 for a week and waiting to get into naxx every night we raid.
Am I expecting too much? I am just a recruit after all and this person who was taken who dinged 80 yesterday is a core raider after all. Maybe because I joined this guild after leaving a more casual raiding guild who could only do 10 mans in which I was a class officer? In that guild I was invited to every raid, and sometimes took spots of normal members. I guess I am on the other side of that now and didn't realize it sucks.
I really don't know what to do, I want to raid and progress as the beginning but its looking like I will be left out until the content is on farm for alts and then I will finally get to go.
I'm not sure %26quot;too much%26quot; is the right term, so much as %26quot;too fast%26quot;. Your on trial, they had a full member available - time dinged means nothing to most people against trustable, proven ability. Will you ever raid? Not a clue. Is it too early to be over reacting? Yeap.
I am having an issue where I am not sure what my guild's policy on invites is and I am therefore worried about how it seems to be playing out where they take core raiders over recruits on learning runs. Instead of going to the website and looking around to see if there is a posted policy about invites, or even talking to an officer or raid leader to find out what the invite and promotion process is, I decided to come ask a bunch of people who know nothing about my guild if what the guild is doing is okay.
Of course, I can't tell these people what the guild is doing, because I have not bothered to educate myself about the actual guild policy.
What's more, and oddly enough, I used to be an officer in a raiding guild, and yet it does not occur to me that when a member is in a situation where he doesn't know what the process is, the first thing that said member should do is educate himself about the actual policies in place, as opposed to freaking out about something that may or may not be an issue at all.
I also realized that I must have been a really bad officer in my previous guild because I actively engaged in policies which I now realize really sucked for the other people involved, but in the past, I was so busy making sure I got what I wanted that I never even bothered to think about what the process might feel like to the actual members of the guild.
Perhaps it's because I was such a self-centered and oblivious officer that it doesn't occur to me that in successful, stable, long-lived guilds, things like ranks and raid invites are usually discussed in actual policies so that everyone knows what is happening and can see that things are fair for everyone.
Now that I stop to think about my situation a little more clearly, I realize that I need to do some research to find out if my current guild has officers as self-absorbed and clueless as I was when I was an officer, or if this guild actually has reasonable policies and processes, written down and comprehensible to all members.
I may be back to ask for input on the actual policies of my guild, once I know what they are, but I do understand that until I actually know what the policy actually is, asking you all if it's a fair policy is unfairly asking you to telepathically figure out what my guild's policy is.
I'm sorry for wasting everyone's time.