tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6728842525831292167.post4595934417735240049..comments2023-10-31T08:33:40.588-04:00Comments on Amava Knows Aggro: Amava.....out!Amavahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15186036397007131175noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6728842525831292167.post-50094799477531909642009-08-06T01:27:46.237-04:002009-08-06T01:27:46.237-04:00You know I checked this blog pretty much daily for...You know I checked this blog pretty much daily for the last 2 months and when I finally broke myself of that habit you posted again.<br /><br />I'm not sure if you'll read this but thanks for all the content you've posted over the years. I know I've enjoyed reading your work for quite some time and I wish you all the success in the world going forward.<br /><br />It looks like you've left the scene for the right reasons so don't regret it and have a great time!<br /><br />Silk :)Silkhttp://silkwow.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6728842525831292167.post-83007964508848597952009-08-05T16:16:35.816-04:002009-08-05T16:16:35.816-04:00No longer can I live vicariously through you! Sorr...No longer can I live vicariously through you! Sorry to see you go Amava, was great reading your stuff, sorry I never got around to writing that guest blog for you. I've stopped playing WoW altogether myself, but still follow whats going on in the community and other blogs. <br /><br />I can understand the time thing though, thats why I had to quit, the raiding situation and everything that goes along with a higher end raid guild I cannot relate to though. <br /><br />See ya around, GL on getting the Insane achievement. <br /><br />DurganDurgannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6728842525831292167.post-62224852947536877492009-08-03T19:19:24.398-04:002009-08-03T19:19:24.398-04:00Hi Amiva!
I'd just like to say that I miss yo...Hi Amiva!<br /><br />I'd just like to say that I miss you in the raids. I've always agreed with your philosophy on raiding, and I wish I'd been more vocal about it.<br /><br />Brio and I are firmly in the camp that wants to just accept where we are as a guild and go with it. We're not that ambitious, probably because our interest in WoW in general is waning. There's very little desire to deal with the drama, but then again, I said we were in until the expansion's done and I'm holding to that.<br /><br />I think things are changing in guild, and I'm seeing more recognition of the level of guild we actually are (decent, but not record-breaking). I think that's the way to in-game happiness.<br /><br />I selfishly wish you were back in the raiding corps as you were one of my favorite people. I'm holding out the hope that I'll run into you sometimes in game!<br /><br />Many hugs,<br />SydSyderahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16678378709885767949noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6728842525831292167.post-56387281994447923042009-08-02T13:46:14.078-04:002009-08-02T13:46:14.078-04:00I've been gone due to touring and moving and s...I've been gone due to touring and moving and such... I'll miss you, Amava :) <br /><br /><br />~ krinTaleahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04567957387940086118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6728842525831292167.post-90685461554911613182009-07-31T11:28:54.154-04:002009-07-31T11:28:54.154-04:00@kimbo continued....
The guild needs to take acti...@kimbo continued....<br /><br />The guild needs to take action to soothe that angst, either by shutting it up and accepting the current level/rate of progress -OR- by taking action to change the rate of progress. A guild sitting on the fence between wanting more progress but not really doing anything to make it happen is likely to be torn in two.<br /><br />As I've said on our forums, I think that direct, specific feedback is the most effective. It places responsibility on the player(s) that caused a wipe. If delivered properly, the player won't feel attacked, and can focus on fixing the problem.<br /><br />IMO, each wipe should be followed up by someone (maybe the raid leader, maybe someone else, but it needs to be a specific person who's name is announced at the beginning of the raid, and not just anybody who cares to speak up on any given wipe. I think IceIce would be good at this for Conquest) calmly talking through the first death or two. Who died and what was the cause of death (the names of the spells/attacks that killed them, directly from the Recount death log). This is completely objective, no reasonable person should feel offended or attacked from this because it is raw data and not somebody's interpretation. Who died, and what damage killed them.<br /><br />For successful kills, any deaths should be analyzed in a similar fashion during looting. Damn, how bad I wanted Immortal from Naxx. If we had been scrutinizing deaths like this from the early days, it was within our grasp.<br /><br />Even if the discussion ends there, the team (and not just the individual who died or wiped us) is able to learn from the wipe or death.<br /><br />Personally, I think the conversation should continue a moment longer and include a sentence or two about what needs to be done differently. Does this player need to move quicker to avoid fire, does their class have an ability that would be useful that they might be overlooking or burning the cooldown elsewhere, or try to figure out which player lightbombed them causing them to take so much damage, or maybe player died due to acceptable/normal incoming damage (ie, wasnt standing in a fire, wasnt lightbombed by a slow-moving neighbor), so look to healing assignments and name the player who was supposed to keep them alive or the tank who didn't pick up his assignment.<br /><br />If the person doing the death reporting remains calm while doing this, it can greatly improve overall team success. The people messing up either fix their issues, or if they're continuously the source of problems (night after night, wipe after wipe), it'll be very visible and they will either remove themselves from the team, or at the very least will not be surprised if an Officer approaches them after a raid and says that they need to improve or be replaced.<br /><br />If a team builds this into every single wipe, it becomes habit and people get used to it. No player is being singled out. However, the fact is, we DID die and there IS a reason. So we talk about it. Every time. And if you were the first to die, or if you caused the first person to die, you will be publicly asked to fix it.<br /><br />I think if Conquest puts Kimbo back in as RL, with the caveat that he keep quiet for the minute or so following a wipe while someone else (IceIce or Maller) performs the death analysis, progress would skyrocket without any other major changes.<br /><br />This is my opinion of what will work given the goals of the guild, and also the personalities of the Officers and the core group of raiders.Amavahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01455843297167787383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6728842525831292167.post-83093411803559296102009-07-31T11:28:44.724-04:002009-07-31T11:28:44.724-04:00I'm not sure if I can even fit this into a com...I'm not sure if I can even fit this into a comment, but I'll go for it anyways, I've never been one to shy away from a wall of text...<br /><br />EDIT: nope, max of 4,096 chars per comment.<br /><br />@kimbo - Its nice to see you write this. You never said anything to offend me regarding raid performance. I don't agree with everything you say about raids (for instance, some of the recent micromanagement conversations), but there's a big difference for me between disagreeing and being offended. Now, the things you say about general life stuff are sometimes ridiculous, but that's not what we're talking about here :-)<br /><br />I still look at Conquest as an outstanding guild, led by and made up of people who are fun to play the game with. The level of success and progression the guild has seen is very good if you look from the outside, but you can tell from the inside that there is angst to do better among many players.Amavahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01455843297167787383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6728842525831292167.post-86855467820407310812009-07-31T11:26:32.500-04:002009-07-31T11:26:32.500-04:00@dax - My daughter was with her mother this year f...@dax - My daughter was with her mother this year for the 4th so no fireworks with me, much to my chagrin. The play was rained out, stupid outdoors venue. And me and the uber gf? Yeah, that part has been pretty cool :-) You've always played a big role in the community over here at my little corner of the Internet, and I appreciate your involvement.<br /><br />@fitz - thanks for commenting and reading. Hope its been fun for you. I know its been fun for me.<br /><br />@pazi - In DM key runs, I killed minimal mobs. My goal was to get a key to free Knot, hopefully get another key so that next time I come back in, I'll already have a key, and loot the tannin on the second floor. So I kill as few mobs as I can. In the process of getting Steamwheedles from 0/36000 hated to 999/1000 exalted, I looted 42 of the librams. Actually, that's a lie. I think I've bought 4 of them off the AH, so looted 38. Amazing how rare they are on my server, I check the AH at least twice a day for these babies for about 6 weeks now and only found 4.<br /><br />To get the remaining 40 librams needed for Shendralar, I'll be going back in with my Druid and killing everything. When I ground the Bloodsail rep, I did it with my druid doing most of the work killing Booty Bay Brusiers, and my hunter following her. With the hunter now at exalted, the Dd is going to repair her Steamwheedle rep, up to at least neutral so she can go to goblin cities, and loot librams along the way.<br /><br />Sound like a plan?<br /><br />Oh, also I strayed from the "kill minimal mobs" for a little bit, because I found myself with not enough Rugged Leather to do the Tannin quest turnins. So for a while (the last 50 runs or so), I would bring in a skinner toon and kill all those hyenias in that first room of DM:N and skin endless stacks of Rugged off them bitches.Amavahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01455843297167787383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6728842525831292167.post-5110294275364952632009-07-31T05:39:32.423-04:002009-07-31T05:39:32.423-04:00My hunter is after the same achievements XD, altho...My hunter is after the same achievements XD, although I still "raid" 25 naxx/ulduar 2 days a week. Currently I'm completing outland-stuff like loremaster/fishing/cooking/reputation-grinds (just got my netherwing-drake two weeks ago, only 6 days from neutral to exalted - I guess they changed the egg-spawn-rate because I found 84 by just doing the dailies). I collect pets too, 72 now (looking for someone horde-side to exchange the 5 AT-pets). I do PvP to get the PvP-mounts some day. My rogue is 70 and farming tyres hand whenever I have half an hour. I created a bank-alt with his own guildbank to collect books. I soloed mechanar normal with my bear in beastmaster-mode yesterday (yes, all bosses, full clear because I need rep, it was the daily). Once I'm done with outland-stuff I'll start farming the ZG-mounts.<br /><br />Do kill the mobs in dire maul too or do you try to avoid them (books drop from any mob, right?).Pazihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02184916781042069778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6728842525831292167.post-14516565588708238992009-07-30T16:43:14.023-04:002009-07-30T16:43:14.023-04:00You know it is odd because over the past month or ...You know it is odd because over the past month or so I had to sit back and think about what I wanted and expected and maybe scale it back somewhat. I often thought I was the problem with our guild and I was the one that was pushing people harder then perhaps they were capable off. <br /><br />The only way I know how to lead is the hard way. Previous guilds I was in had some very hard guild leaders and while we were successful it was a very hard and demanding place to play. I can go even farther back to the Counterstrike days and I was a very hard task master then as well. <br /><br />What I found with this guild is the hard Task Master persona just would not work with this group. Too many people had other ideas that a guild could be succesful without one dominating presence in its raid. While we are some what successful in what we do now I do not think though we will ever be as successful as some of us want to be or think we can because of that. <br /><br />Anyways Amava I Just want to say If I ever offended you I apologize for that. It was never my intention to do so. If you want to play casual I recommend that you stay and play on what is a pretty fantastic server for pugging raids and doing PvP. As for the future of Conquest we are kinding talking about what we want to do and what we should be doing right now so if you ever change your mind I hope you feel you can come backKimbonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6728842525831292167.post-16701559267925521482009-07-30T13:55:35.149-04:002009-07-30T13:55:35.149-04:00LOL'd at the uber gf comments, that is serious...LOL'd at the uber gf comments, that is seriously true. I'm married and it's still true. A piece > WOW in every sense of the word "greater."<br /><br />I'd been silent until now, but I enjoyed your blog as well. I'll leave you on my favs list for a good while so if you do choose to write about anything else or casual wow, I'll probably still be enjoying it. If not, farewell and enjoy the extra time away from Conquest!Fitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10822446969197409741noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6728842525831292167.post-13204754489813971922009-07-30T11:27:27.918-04:002009-07-30T11:27:27.918-04:00But...but...you can still blog!!
You know, blog a...But...but...you can still blog!!<br /><br />You know, blog about the play you saw.<br /><br />Or the great time you and your offspring had watching the fireworks.<br /><br />Or about the funny time you and the uber gf had with the...uh, don't blog about that...<br /><br />And, I'm glad that I could throw a wrench in some sprockets for ya...Rustyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13163970891615204620noreply@blogger.com