The 3.1 Wait

Now I know we all complain about 3.1 taking ages, and I can understand that Blizzard want to make sure pretty much everything works ok before it becomes live. Well enough so that they don’t have too much to fix when 3.1 breaks. Which it inevitably will as patches always do

Missing in Action
It seems to me though that guilds are really struggling with the wait for 3.1. I’m seeing a lot of people leaving wow for other games or just not logging on because they are bored with the content we have at the moment. Are other guilds having this issue too?.. yes they are. It’s sad to say that Wrath seems to be far to easy. TBC lasted for 7-12 months before most guilds had end game content on farm, how long has Wrath been out, 5 months or so and the guild I’m in has had 25 man Naxx on farm for months already.
For hunters and probably a few other classes have found that heroics and dungeons are just not challenging anymore. Gone are the times that traps are necessary, tactics are required, strategy and timing of chain traps, saps pulls and the satisfaction of pulling it all off and living to get the phat loot.
Remember the days of Moroes in Kara, god damn fight that was :P and having a good hunter to chain trap or even 2 hunters chain trapping 2 adds was hard to come by, and those that could pull it off were Hunters to hold onto. Or even Magister’s Terrace and the amount of cc, timing and strategy it took to live through that. Where has all the satisfaction gone? We nuke aoe tank, aoe damage and move on.
I miss the challenge as I’m sure the rest of you do too.
I’m hoping so very hard that Ulduar brings some of this challenge back for Hunters and raids in general. I’ve not been watching the PTR closely so I don’t know much about the raid to come and at the moment its so up in the air still things are still changing day on day, so who knows what it’ll end up like, or how long the new patch will entertain us for.

WTB Guildies
Have we all noticed the lack of guildies lately? Players sitting back waiting on new content. Fusion has been trying hard and kudos to Hopegiver and Manusdei for trying to keep our guild raiding every week, when we are seeing fewer and fewer members logging on. From what we can gather it’s the same apathetic thinking that we saw in the months before Wrath. People have all the gear they require and cba to keep raiding until 3.1 comes or feel that logging on to a game they’ve pretty much completed is just boring. It’s frustrating to see this happen yet again and I would have hoped that Blizzard would have learned something from the last time and kept the content challenging, but alas no.
With games like ROM, Spellborn and Darkfall, people are looking for other games to play and either leave WoW altogether or leave until new content is released making it that much more difficult for those few left behind to carry on raiding and enjoying the game or getting the gear they are still missing. Now I’m now Qqing here, I can understand people getting bored and burnt out by the gear grind World of Warcraft has become. My partner this month the invincible Hangman quit World of Warcraft this month because he has become indifferent to gaming and really struggles to get any enthusiasm for the game any more and I’m sure this is the same for a lot of people who have stopped playing wow or drifted away from it to another game. And here is where the cracks start to appear. As we try to keep on raiding we are taking on more members to pad out the raids and then when the older members come on they find themselves left out for the newer members that we have recruited. Causing stress and tension, bad feelings and feelings of being left out even though guilds try to rotate members. It’s a sad thing but its happening and guilds are breaking down because of it. It’s a real shame. Aerie Peak EU have seen quite a few big guilds go the last few weeks


Feel the love
It’s a hard balance this game is supposed to be fun for all if you find it boring its no longer fun and for those members left behind wanting raid it is no longer fun because they don’t have enough members to do so. I think what I’m trying to get at here, for those still playing but unable to raid due to dwindling numbers is be kind to your raid / guild leader. They have and probably still are trying to get members to get you all raiding again or continuing to raid. Give them some slack if you can’t go one raid then it’s not the end of the world, or if you are not taken to a raid but a new member is, don’t feel left out. Raid leaders and guild leader’s realms over are struggling to keep the balance and momentum going. Trying to gear up new members for the content available and raids to come is especially hard at the moment because those who have drifted away or don’t log on are now unknowns. Will they come back? will they start to play actively again? Have they gone for good? Who knows, and that what guild/ raid leaders are having to think about when getting raids together at the moment.
Love your guild leaders and raid leaders they have a hard enough task as it is. I say this as an ex guild leader and ex raid leader. Its a lot harder than it look. There is a lot of stress involved and they don’t leave people out of raids out of spite. If they could take everyone online they would if they could. You must also understand their frustration when there isn’t enough online and the feelings that they are letting you down as you rely on them for setting up raids.




I know 3.1 will be here.. Eventually.
Hang in there it’ll be here soon