Thursday (27 Oct) - Raid Schedule Drama

Thursday (27 Oct) - Raid Schedule Drama

Well, I was watching the World Series on Thursday night. Happy was in game checking the AH. When he finished up Lost got a chance to work the alliance side AH. With Texas up 1-0 around 5:20pm Lost completed her business. I decided to log Wild in to check the raid calendar for next week. I didn't expect to see anything posted and there wasn't. However, the message of the day said this: "Throne tonight, bring your A-game for the dark phoenix mount, last boss to earn the guild achievement. " First of all, "tonight" could be this night, or it could be any earlier night and already attempted. Messages of the "day" tend to stay for several days before getting changed.

I asked around, and a couple of guildies said they thought there was a raid planned. There were no guild raiders in game, though, that could confirm it. "Planned" couldn't be the right word, either, since it wasn't scheduled. Wild wasn't sure he wanted to raid Thrones, although it would be nice to kill the second boss, Al'Akir (there are only two), who the guild or Wild haven't bothered with since Firelands. To stick around and ask for an invite to an unscheduled maybe raid, or concentrate on the baseball game ... what will it be?

It's 9:30pm and Game #6 of the World Series is in the 11th inning and tied at nine. Oh my am I glad I stayed with the game!

I kept an eye on the guild, and while doing so noticed that something was going on in trade chat. The horde guild Insurgency got the Legendary Staff that Silverose has. It may be a first for the server, although I'm not sure about that. The Staff went to a boomkin named Eazybee. Wild is proud of his druid cousin. Druids don't often get offered that prize.

As for the guild raid, they did not down Al'Akir. Later (after Texas blew the game, letting St Louis off the hook) Wild had a chance to talk to Bd, the guild leader who seems to be finally back after a seven week absence from the game.

Wild was in for a revelation. All those missing raids and unscheduled "ad hoc" raiding that Wild was complaining about? Well, the reason Wild was so out of touch was that his name had been dropped from the guild's raid invite list. The raids were, in fact, being scheduled, but Wild was not getting placed on the invite list and therefore the raids were invisible to Wild. What was even more irritating is that even on days when Wild was in game around invite time, the raid leaders didn't think to offer Wild an invite. Even thought Wild was in on the one raid that has dropped a Firelands boss (Shannox), I guess they assumed since I wasn't signed up I wasn't interested, and didn't care enough to ask.

Bd didn't directly blame the other guild officers for letting things slide so badly while Bd has been gone, but he did say he had a lot of work to do to get things back to where they were when he left. By way of apology Bd did say that he was astonished that guild leadership didn't track Wild down to find out why the guild's best healer wasn't raiding. Wild's status has been restored to Raider and I should start seeing the raid schedule again.