You don't need to repair anything, this game isn't a psychiatry. Guild rules exist for this reason, so that there isn't anarchy. I'm not saying the OP isn't to blame for his kick, his actions lead to it, however I dislike leaders who let stuff like this happen when it could have been stopped.
so hypothetically you would be ok if this happened instead, right?
A: Hey can I swapblast?
B (RL):No. If you do it you will be benched and may even removed from guild
A: why not? "insert a wall of text of why he thinks it's ok"
B: You cannot do it and that's final
A goes and does it anyway and is removed from the raid and guild.
I wouldn't kick someone over such petty things. Benching deals with the problem. If the guy wants to raid again, he'll know what not to do. Else he just stays as social while everyone else gets all the sweet loot.
But hey, it's easier to gkick and dust your hands off, I guess. Realistically a lazy guild leader can deal with all problematic members this way. A bad leader will always be a bad leader.
I think Nheela is more of a "i'll toss you into timeout until you quit yourself. That way my hands are clean and I'm a good leader that didn't gkick people"
I'm not saying the OP's previous guild's leadership is necessarily good, but Nheela seem to think that the OP has flawless record over the past 3 years and is just unreasonably kicked for one offense.
If they did let him use the blaster in raid; it's their poor decision. How it transpired to a gkick is a detail that both side omitted: neither really explained if people complained about it and if he was asked to not use it, etc.
I guess I just really don't like Nheela's generalization of "kicking is bad leadership".
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Wow, people here must have forgotten how to have fun in a video game, it must be completely miserable to play in your groups. In my old progression guild people would use toys all the time, priests would lifegrip while the RL was setting down marks, and in almost every single kill shot we had our belf mage in Gokk'lok's Shell, right in the middle of it. And it relieved a lot of the stress of having wiped for the 30th time on a tough heroic (mythic) progression boss.
@Titmeister: move on. Once there has been a gkick, the sour feelings will always be there and you'll never feel like a part of the group anymore. It sucks that it happened, but take it as a sign that your old guild was not worth it. I'd approach a few memebers I liked and ask for their Battletags, to add them as friends, but I wouldn't think of getting back into the guild structure anymore.
Different people have different definition of fun and while you may think using these toys help alleviate the atomosphere, it can easily be interpreted as fucking around after someone has fucked up an attempt. It easily goes both ways.
In the end it's about respect. Maybe your friend doesn't care about you swapblasting them off the face of the planet, but if there are any complaints you should stop.
Sounds like a terrible guild leader and a terrible person. These actions just didn't start recently, its probably something he personally let slide for months on end. An let multiple people get away with in some form or another.
Oh yes. Nothing I love more than pushing logs on a farm boss and getting swapblasted. "Keeps the raid on their toes" is just a stupid reason, especially in a farm run. I know when to move and when to dps, why should i have to be edging on "will i be swap blasted." It's just stressful. And killing some one with it even outside of encaunters is stupid. You are wasting everybodies flask time, that persons foodbuff. Swapblaster should be disabled in all dungeon and raid content.
Just because you have a long term relationship with your guild doesn't make you immune to rules applied by the guild.