Some people will try any dirty trick in the book to get their guilds some more members. The Dambusters have come a long way in our recruitment process over the years. Like any guild, we want to be able to retain our best members and discard any drama queens, selfish or ruthless players who only look out for themselves etc.
I get it that guilds would like to poach our players and massively reduce their own workload while attempting to woo our members into joining them. Needless to say, they can try to poach Dambusters knowing full well that we have done the hard work to get the right type of people into the guild the right way. They are targeting mature, friendly, helpful team players who have already made the grade at The Dambusters. This is the epitome of lazy, but incredibly sneaky guild leadership and I find it disgusting.
Imperius is a guild formed out of dispute with our guild because I dared to challenge the tearaway group who honestly took the absolute piss for too long. I am still hearing stories of their feckless attempts to poach our players and I find it hilarious that our loyal Dambusters almost always politely decline after hearing their well-flogged sob story about how that big bully Bigticket didn’t sit back and watch them wreck his guild from the inside.
They know full well how hard we have worked to keep such a solid guild and they know exactly what we built after they left. They surely heard our shoutout on Convert to Raid because I know for a fact their guild leadership listen to it. They know what a blitz our 5th anniversary event was and they are infinitely jealous. They just cannot enjoy their own new guild and their excellent raiding progress without trying to piss on our parade and you know something? It makes me even more proud of us, because such a powerful (albeit new) raiding guild glances enviously to us and the way we stood together and revitalised our guild. I’m sure they probably thought when they left us like they did, we would collapse but as you can see we feel liberated without parasites picking at our bones.
No longer are we under control by a dictator who won’t raid if they “can’t control everyone” who thinks they should be calling all the shots and gets pissy when Bigticket or Spyrot makes a decision.
No, The Dambusters have gone from strength to strength since Imperius took the disease away with them. I feel sadness that we lost good friendships who followed but naïveté is easily bought with female sob stories and downright twisted lies. There is no way I will ever stoop to such poaching tactics where we would make up lies about a guild’s leadership in the hope that it’s members will defect to us, no that is sheer desperation and hatred who does that. We are so strong that we will never be forced into such dubious leadership tactics and I’m glad about it.
Enjoy your own guild and try to make it as good as you can, the right way. Rest assured that thousands of top players and high powered Blizzard developers will have heard our name shouted on CTR and some will already know us.
Continue your hard work that makes you a community that is the envy of certain members of the WoW community. That warm rapturous welcome you are famous for which instantly makes a new Dambuster feel like a star! There’s a reason we are 5 years old, we do it well.
/Salute
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You forgot to mention the male sob stories.