by Ruaraidh » Mon Nov 13, 2006 5:43 pm
Hey gang! I am a SHM in a family-oriented Anguish guild and am (lately) frequently the only shaman for much or all of a raid. Sometimes we have 2, rarely 4 or more for 40+ people on the raid. To keep raiding fun I am considering posting this request on my guild forums to alleviate a lot of stress. Please let me know if I'm out of line, or if this is reasonable, so that I may adjust my perspective accordingly...
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Buff Protocols
Before requesting any buff(s), do a /who [SHM NAME] to see if that person is even in zone.
If one of us “/gu LFG” at raid time, that does not mean spam us for buff /tells. You sending us /tells that you need buffs at raid start and after a wipe tells us you have no confidence in our ability to play our class, and therefore no respect for the person driving that toon. It also says a lot about your capacity for professionalism as a player. We know our job very well. If we didn’t, we wouldn’t have some in the top players on the server no matter how you look at it.
When raid buffing, it may be that we solicit group leaders to /tell us when all the group is there if we’ve moved, zoned, or are fragmented (wipe recovery) so we aren’t buffing same groups while others are not buffed for the next encounter.
You will not be buffed upon engagement. If you’re late, say “sorry, just got here” and u’ll likely get HP buffs already loaded for buffing the battle-rezzed, if convenient to do so.
If you die and we’re hurting for ur class at that instant and u just got rezzed, we’re aware of your death and rezz from healer channel spam. If we have an abundance of SHM then you will be buffed as u r rezzed and as we can get to you.
We have many channels to monitor – SHM raid channel, Healer channels, cure channels, /rs, /gu, as well as pertinent engagement messages and emotes. You adding buff request spam does not help, and detracts from web-surfing (jk).
Also, how you ask means a world of difference in how we view you as our consumer. I will tacitly ignore requests such as “Champ” or “Focus, Fort, Foresight”. Conversely, “I need Fort please” or “Time for champ?” get you a long way toward getting that buff. As a buffing class, we are there to serve the guild and raid for the greater good, so in a way buff classes are servants of the guild. How you treat your servants… the janitor, the busboy/girl, the valet or doorman, and even ur raid-buffer speaks volumes about your character that your typing does not.
Bottom line is, do you really want us to filter out all your /tells wholesale? That’s what is happening much of the time, with many shaman in other guilds that I am social with, possibly even your own. Or would you rather raiding be frustrating and un-fun, and we just not log on unless there’s a chance at a drop we’re after? I have a hard time with that behavior and commitment level and don’t agree with it at all, but for many players it cuts down on the rudeness and spam they have to deal with.
We try to be professional and diligent in playing our class. We ask you to be professional in return, and not act like a newbie raiding in a social guild. We’re definitely a top server guild. Let’s demonstrate that to each other on raids.
Ps – if you bring a shaman alt on a raid as your champ/heal/buff-ho', be prepared to contribute to the entire raid unless we have a plethora of main SHM on the raid.
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RANT is now *OFF*
You've gotten better at flaming! (23)
With new OOC regen I can buff entire raid of 54 people or so in well under 10 mins with Dire Focus, Fort, and Foresight without Necro feeds, adding PR/DR resists and a champ or 2 in there. I love my class and my job. I don't love other people making it frustrating to play.
Let me know if I"m outta line or in-line with this, and how you handle situations like this if any are in a similar situation.
Yours Aye,
Ruaraidh Mhor