Midwinter transferred to my server and I think a couple of the top 10 mans left as a result, but I can't really tell you if it was because of that or they wanted to go Horde. I really think it was more about racials. Speaking with some of them, I can tell you they weren't happy about them coming here as they liked a shot at the FoS, but they're attributing it to racials. Either way, I'm cool with anyone transferring here regardless of who they are. I welcome more guilds to Sargeras because I don't want to see it die, but it seems its future is solidified as one of the 10 megaservers anyway and I like to think my efforts in promoting the server have bore fruit because Sargeras and Stormrage are the best 2 Alliance servers. Several new 10 and 25 mans transferred here during the 50% off sale. I personally think caring about realm firsts or any sort of ranking is pointless outside of for recruitment purposes, and for the most part recruits care about US rank/bosses killed rather than realm rank. So on the GR thread I'll mention our realm rank. I don't even bring up ranking with the guild because it just encourages guild hopping because random people will set unreasonable or pointless expectations, as in to set themselves up to be disappointed. All I want to do is keep promoting a good atmosphere because that'll keep everyone happy and minimize turnover in the long run. Again that's just me. The higher you climb in ranking the harder it is to ignore it and it can be the motivation for raiding hardcore, so I get that. I just don't feel like we're competing with anyone except ourselves vs these encounters.
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Yeah I could pump out 8% more dps easily as a troll on a beast boss. Just takes some smart, but simple use of the haste racial.