"X Guild is recruiting exceptional players"

Сообщение от mudd

"X Guild is recruiting exceptional players"

I see this a lot on my server, and it makes me let out a small chortle. Why do guilds in WoW feel the need to turn guild recruitment into a jobsite.com type advertisment?

The adverts you see on trade with sentences like this are almost exactly like the spam email I get from recruitment agents in my inbox everyday. "Only exception applicants with 10 years C++ need apply". Except those are jobs that command $70k and not just an achievement 10 days before everyone else.

What bemuses me is that isn't the idea ofwho you play with more important than have a load of great gear and some raid experience? Now obviously you don't want to play with some tard who whispers you with "inv please" to your guild advert, however giving someone a trial, speaking to the person in chat/ voice, deciding if you actually like the guy/girl is a lot more important than just employing a load of droids to farm instances.

The whole pretending WoW is some kind of job is a weird way to play the game in my view.

Thanks for reading my rant

Сообщение от yawgmoth

$70k/yr with benefits == seeing new content when it's new and getting the most purple of epics.

Сообщение от TheChilliGod

I could take the time I spend playing WoW over the summer and get a part-time job.

Makes perfect sense to me.

Сообщение от Hyperspacerebel

Being an "exceptional player" I only enjoying playing with other "exceptional players." By exceptional I mean someone who a) has the drive to do well in the guild, b) has the skills to do well in the guild, and c) has the time to do well in the guild.

Сообщение от Crocostimpy

Being a mediocre player, I only enjoy playing with exceptional players so I don't have to work as hard.

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Сообщение от Fukerton

Being a mediocre player, I only enjoy playing with exceptional players so I don't have to work as hard.

^ this.

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Сообщение от Hyperspacerebel

So....I have no life? All us good-gamers have no life? Then I guess you wouldn't want to play with us uncouth barbarians, let alone be in the same guild....problem solved.

Сообщение от mudd

I think the days of players being able to sit doing nothing in raids went at Molten Core, returned at AQ40, then went again at Naxxramas. If you stand there doing limited damage or healing then the boss doesn't die, but you do - again and again and again.

I don't think advertising for exceptional players means you attract the best players. Maybe you avoid a few, but not necessarily. My experience (and I've been in 3/4 of guilds of the same ilk) is the guild is more likely to be filled with very serious, loot obsessed socially inept players who are generally impatient.

You can tell if a player is good by doing a heroic or raid pug with them, aka a trial. I find the language of these guilds amusing I'm not criticising anyone for playing the game how they want. Play 4 nights a week for 5 hours if you like, if that is how you get satisfaction.

Сообщение от Slimda

According to dictionary.com, another definition for "Exceptional" is...

being physically or esp. mentally handicapped to an extent that special schooling is required.

I think it's nice of guilds to give those folks a shot.

Nice that you cut away 3/4th of the meaning of the word.

1. forming an exception or rare instance; unusual; extraordinary: The warm weather was exceptional for January.
2. unusually excellent; superior: an exceptional violinist.
3. Education. (of a child)
- a. being intellectually gifted.
- b. being physically or esp. mentally handicapped to an extent that special schooling is required.

Nr. 2 is the one the guild recruits are looking for.

Сообщение от Huurka

According to dictionary.com, another definition for "Exceptional" is...

being physically or esp. mentally handicapped to an extent that special schooling is required.

I think it's nice of guilds to give those folks a shot.

Nice that you cut away 4/5th of the meaning of the world.

1. forming an exception or rare instance; unusual; extraordinary: The warm weather was exceptional for January.
2. unusually excellent; superior: an exceptional violinist.
3. Education. (of a child)
- a. being intellectually gifted.
- b. being physically or esp. mentally handicapped to an extent that special schooling is required.

Nr. 2 is the one the guild recruits are looking for.Really? :(

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Сообщение от Lionsprey

you dont have to be a no lifer to be good at wow
i dont have a life and i suck at it...

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