It’s like you guys (the ones who cry about world buffs) make the game as tedious as possible for yourselves.
There are a ton of guilds out there who clear content just fine without REQUIRING world buffs. My guild is one of them, and the previous guild I was in was also one of them.
Sure I usually get buffs because it’s FUN for me when I have the time to get them. But it’s also nice when I’ve been busy or just didn’t feel like getting them, and NO ONE cares in my guild. Find players like yourself to play with, if your guild is requiring you to get buffs and it’s not fun for you, you have no one to blame but yourself.
I’ve also been dispelled and guess what? I shrug and keep playing, while it sucks I lost the buffs, it’s what I risked by rolling on a PvP server. When I hear people crying about having to get buffs, I just shake my head, why even play the game? You’re making it unfun for yourself, find a guild that suits your playstyle.
Basically, they’re the same people who listened to everyone who said that “If you’re not on a PvP server you’re a carebear who isn’t playing the real game” and are then upset when PvP gets in the way of their PvE content. They let other people tell them the ‘right’ way to play the game, instead of going for a play style that works for them.
I share many of your feelings about the issues. However, this a problem caused by the community as a whole. Players have willfully brought their retail way of playing into Classic. For all the cries to keep Classic authentic; the players still exploit the opportunity to buy/sell anything, especially faster leveling & anything they “reserve” during these runs.
Realistically the only ways to solve the problems all involve things that will never happen. Blizzard could nerf mages, and make it so they can’t do these things. Which we all know will never happen, because it would require so much changing that the class would become useless for play & create a massive backlash from the community because of the effect on the Raiding & PvP teams. Likewise the community could recognize that gold sellers have jumped on this gravy-train & the only way to hurt them is to stop enlisting these levels-for-gold exchanges, but there are too many in the community who see nothing wrong with buying their way to the top/end. So once again nothing will be done to change the situation.
As such we are left with 2 options, either adapt to the new environment & enjoy as much of Classic as we can…
Or stop playing & save our money.
To be fair, he’s a tank. If enough of his DPS are going full sweaty, he doesn’t have the luxury of showing up to raid without buffs and jujus, firewater, mongoose, roids, elemental sharps, etc.
Sheen of zanza helps with dispels, at least if you’re working with your guild, it’ll stop the first dispel and give you a chance at stunning/silencing/murdering them.
Why did you roll horde on the biggest, most ebin alliance streamer server that will ever exist in classic? The amount of twitch chat heroes who will play 12 hours for the sole purpose of ruining someone’s day on that server is guaranteed to be astronomical. Yet, you’ve decided to roll there.
Like the others have said that guild sounds awful. Like you need a alt for your alt raid or you’ll be kicked? That’s pretty stupid. But that’s just my opinion.