Boost me, boost me!

When you’re part of a close raiding team and you’ve worked your butt off to be successful in that team, you all develop an understanding and a camaraderie together. We have that in the Dambusters. Don’t get me wrong, we would love to be a heroic guild team and I’m sure we can be but it’s all about having fun and playing with your friends.

Learning what people’s strengths and weaknesses are while trying to overcome a progression encounter is a fantastic experience which all culminates the first time you kill a particular boss. All that hard work, grinding the game to gear up, working on your profession to get that little bit extra from your character’s stats all helps to make us bond tight as a team.

The raid team might be close and together but some nights not everyone can attend. The times when something in real life gets in the way are a pain because you trust the raider you lost for the night, you know them well, their strong points and weaknesses and ultimately you gotta replace that close friend with someone untried, unknown and potentially weaken the team.

Every so often this happens and we unearth a little gem. It happened with Tinytim, Sîdney, Wenya, Devilslotus, Teniel, Skankas and actually everyone in the team at some stage or other. These people put their necks on the line, they committed to the guild when it mattered. They opened themselves up to our team and put the hard work in. They impressed on the night and kept their spot for the next time.

All too often, people in the guild complain about not getting to raid. Most of the time I offer a few tips to help them improve their chances. Fundamentally, a potential raider must be online and hoping for a call from Wenya or Spyrot the moment the team are a man down. This is the moment you must be ready for if you plan to raid with the Dambusters. I say, if you want to get boosted then set a pug run up and pull interested people from inside and outwith the guild if need be.

Don’t expect that team who have spent months working their butts off learning their class, gearing up and practicing the boss fights until they are easy, to welcome you aboard for a good old free boost. That ain’t gonna happen. People who waltz in and get a chance to join in 1 week and then disappear for 3 weeks are a pain. These raiders show a glimmer of promise and then disappear. You know what? Next time, don’t even ask to join because all you do is give Spyrot and Wenya hope they might have unearthed a gem only for you to vanish again. This happens too often, you even get loot that a regular raider might have needed and you don’t show up again for a while.

It’s a great thing to get a boost but its only value to the guild if that boost leads to you repaying with regular attendance. If you want in, prove it! Be there watching the guild chat while the team raids. Hell, you can even listen into the raid on mumble as long as you don’t disturb the team.

I have kinda worked this into a rant and I will summarise with a statement I expect I will be forced to repeat in /gchat because the people who want free boosts on their terms are the very people who won’t be reading this lol.

Anyone I see asking for a boost or complaining they never get to raid in the guild…

“This is not a raid guild”

“You’ve had plenty chances, where were you when we really needed you?”

“Get to work then, raid spots don’t walk up to you with open arms!”

These are the type of statements I will be issuing to the ‘Boost me boost me’ brigade. What I really want is the guy/girl who shouts “PICK ME” when the call is made, they do their job well with minimum fuss. Well prepared people have a chance here as long as you really are WELL PREPARED!

So put the time in guys, there will be a spot. Only tonight is the perfect example, I’m at work and the main raid team are in Ulduar instead of progression Iron Qon where they should be. That’s because I’m unavailable and a few others too. So Sunday at 6pm is already the perfect opportunity to replace me with a good, hard working healer if you got what it takes to replace Bunnyboiler. You know what? I’m working Wednesday night too dammit! That’s another chance for a good healer to steal my spot. If you do well, it’s gonna be hard to replace you so get in there and do it.

The guild still needs a very few committed raiders to fill up the team during times like these. Only the willing will succeed, speak to Spyrot or Wenya, grab the chance with both hands!

/Salute