So like most of you here my guild often thinks that my historic achievements are not all that impressive. Sure it’s been a while but I was a ray leader for the Hall of Fame for several expansions. I also have notched a six world first boss kills as well under my belt over the years.
Sure I play a lot more casually nowadays focusing on just having fun with friends getting a bunch of characters to some arbitrary Mythic plus score that I shoot for each season, etc.
We are working on Heroic Queen and our raid leader was unable to do call outs tonight and the pulls were really bad we’re about 40 pulls into this boss and we were not even getting through the first part of phase one last night.
So after a bit I decided I would start calling everything out, calling out each mechanic, counting down, coordinating where people with mechanics go, calling for cooldowns, audibles for changes, etc.
Within the next few pulls we went all the way through phase one and two into deep phase 3 almost getting it before he had to call it. Sadly I really don’t want to keep raid-leading but it’s evident that it’s going to take us much longer to get it down if I don’t do it some kind of crossroads of what I do.
Needless to say I have a lot of people believing in me now when I tell them that my previous achievements are not simply easy just because by modern standards people can do in their sleep.
Some simply have a talent for organization. While taking it easy is great, could consider the extent of how much you would want to do for the group success. Sometimes people need a voice to listen to to herd those cats through to the finish line and if it comes down to it that you don’t want to, there’s always the opportunity to try and teach someone else to fulfill the role at least to the capacity required for the content you’re doing.
I helped raid lead from MoP through to DF season 1 when my guild died, people got old, had families, jobs and all that and needed to move on, so I swapped guilds. Those of us left all swapped with the plan to just play, no more leading.
Within like a week I was back to raid leading.
Once you have that experience it follows you around like a bad smell, you can never get away from it, because it takes a special someone to be able to do their role, i.e. tanking or DPS while doing all the mechanics and being able to watch DBM while babysitting the group and calling out peoples names and directing them to do stuff.
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