I never said logs were the only way to identify problems in a fight, but they are by far the clearest and the easiest. Otherwise you’d need to guess at what’s going wrong through observation which can sometimes be tricky when you’re focusing on so much else with all the visual noise that raids bring.
Guilds get stonewalled by fights all the time, whether by a certain boss or a certain difficulty. This is not new otherwise we’d have a lot more CE raiders. There’s many factors that can contribute to this but I can tell you from experience that having someone on roster who is good at reading logs and suggesting targeted adjustments will catapult your group’s progression potential quite a ways forward. The ability to debug a fight is one of the largest barriers to progression and logs solve that problem quite handily.
“I posted on it, must be mine as well! Even though account sharing - and piloting exists teehee.” The only true way to know, is if you stream with a face cam, + Mouse/keyboard cam innit? Since you want to go that route. Oops
Zero evidence of you playing your char during M+ either.
Didn’t they say it can’t be done because it breaks the forums code of conduct or something like that? I like how a imgur gets posted like it can’t be easily photoshoped.
That’s the other thing: removing logs doesn’t do as much to protect players feelings as OP thinks it does, all it does is hurt players who want to improve.
Speaking of, my guild had one particular Druid player who just couldn’t for the life of him avoid the mind controls. But what was even worse was that he usually ran Mass Entangle. So every time he got mind controlled he’d root half the raid and then they’d die to some other mechanic. So we forced him to talent into Heart of the Wild because if you can’t avoid the MC it would be good if you didn’t take half the raid with you.
In a work environment, sure that would sound ridiculous, but this is a video game. Some people take it seriously and their “performance” in WoW is important to them, but there are lots of players out there who are here just to chill and have some fun without worrying about their performance and how people judge them based on that.
Those people are free to group with other players who have similar gameplay goals to themselves, just like I am free to group with players who have similar gameplay goals to myself. I will never advocate for forcing players to group with someone that they don’t want to.
Besides, the main reason there are performance reviews for work is because there’s an objective goal that needs to be accomplished. That can’t happen if your performance isn’t up to par. It’s the same with raid. The boss won’t die just because everyone is having fun. There’s an objective performance bar that needs to be hit.
No one is saying that you can’t play WoW or can’t use WoW as your means of evening enjoyment if you don’t take your own performance seriously, but they are saying that their goal for forming the group is to kill the boss and if you’re not prepared to meet that goal then they don’t want to invite you.
