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These are the People in your Raid
I found this when I was cleaning the mess on my PC today. If I’m not mistaken it was posted on official WoW forums and reposted on my guild’s forums back in the Molten Core days, still a nice read.
You raid with these people. You work with these people. These people are closer than your family. You should worry.
The GM
He’s sacrificed his health, friends, and probably a couple of jobs to drag you through new content. When the guild isn’t performing, these decisions are in question. Prone to shooting sprees, forum flame wars, and the rapid advancement/gearing of whatever toon the guild “needs”. If you can keep your mouth shut, he’ll go emo and quit before you get gkicked. Still, you do like the guy. Or did. Before he went crazy. See drunks, below.
The GM’s Significant Other
Okay, so he was going to have to quit but he tricked his SO into playing. She loves it. She’s terrible. You’ll effectively 24 man every boss. Count on 4 constructs in the raid, every attempt. She plays a Belf.
The Raid Leader
When you stand in the flames, he dies a little bit inside.
The Heir Apparent
When the GM goes psycho, ninjas the bank, and gdisbands, you’re the guy the guild is gonna look to to to fix the mess. You see it coming. You can’t decide if ritual suicide or being the new gm would be more painful. Read more…