I see a lot of recruiting posts for hardcore guilds but none of them really explain what makes them hardcore?
is it just leveling to 60 and gearing really fast?
6 hour nightly raids with no bio breaks
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I heard something about making every guild member have engineering for the arcanite dragonling, so theres 40 of them hitting the boss to add a debuff I guess
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Rule #1 to be considered a hardcore guild. Must have 6+ girls (that are actually girls) that do not cause drama. They actively snuff out the drama.
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they snuff out drama? how?
what do you mean a hardcore guild needs 6+ girls in it ? That does not make sense
just read something about making a lot of your members level warlock alts to run to the entrances for ony/aq/nax and world bosses
and then having the rest make lvl 1 “clickers” who also run to these places to help summon
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Warcraft tattoos, catheters, and epeen.
I assume that if people in hardcore raids can’t meet a minimum DPS threshold, die in the fire, or are the weakest healers they get a gkick.
But IDK. I always played in what we called “hardcore casual” guilds. We raided a lot. We did have expectations. But we were also friends so tried to be cool about things (didn’t always work though. drama will rear its ugly head sooner or later).
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The take I have on someone claiming “hardcore” is they want their guild to have a strong focus on raid progression, with scheduled raids that prepared members show up to, with players who take raiding seriously and bring their A-game. Of course, until they have enough guild members recruited and until there’s an actual game for those members to demonstrate they actually will show up prepared, it’s pretty meaningless.
“Hardcore” is often used as a way to try to stand out as “not casual”, as if there’s only two kinds of players - no-life min/maxers doing raids and ranked PvP, and the scrubs who stick to leveling and alts in the couple hours they play.
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They use Vent, and the only thing playing on it is Nuclear Assault.
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No, its more than that. Being hard core means you have fun or add to the fun of the game by competing against other guilds and people. I remember being a core raid member and top dps in the #2 guild on my server in cata. I put a lot of time into it and had a lot of fun. Now I’m casual because I’m not trying to compete against other people, I’m just hanging out with friends.
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They’re going to tell you how to spec. They expect high raid attendance (some say 90%) and lots of hours raiding. Also many hours farming consumeables.
And you will be expected to level alts to help gear up everyone’s main characters.
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both and neither.
My definition of hardcore is as follows.
“Willing to do anything and everything for an advantage regardless of how much time it takes”
Trick question, women in WoW = myth, impossible to answer.
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Generally, time investment, dedication to progression, and a willingness to subsume personal goals.
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There’s some really good voice mods out there though.
Alexa isn’t good.
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Mandating every single player use every available raid buff to clear the already trivialized 1.12 Molten Core, shaving off a single week of clear time.
Bonus if your raid roster collapses because everyone gets sick of Molten Core three months in, with another 2-3 months to go until BWL.
People who play the speed-running metagame to compete for fastest times are exempt from these insults. They’re doing they’re own thing, and they usually know better than to put the red flag “dominating*” in their recruitment posts, which is covertly understood to mean “will explode over trivial nonsense”.
*with one exception I can think of.
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Mostly unwarranted self importance, followed by a guild implosion when the guild leader master loots himself and his inner circle the best pieces of loot.
No guild worth joining is going to call themselves “Hardcore”. Only posers will do that. The real top guilds are the ones you are going to see sitting in Ironforge/Orgrimmar decked out as heck, probably just calling themselves normal raid guilds.