Hello all,
I'd like to hear the opinion of MMO-Champion posters about something that's been troubling me lately. The reason I decided to create a thread here is because many good players lurk around these parts and have been without a doubt in similar situations to mine.
Our guild recently killed Aggramar Mythic. The guild structure consists of a GM, a raid leader, 2 officers, core raiders and raider ranks (never mind the raid trials for this). These are all ranked in the order listed.
Our guild started discussing tonight what will happen after our first Argus kill, regarding the mount drop. Initially, way before we even killed Aggramar, they told us that they would distribute the mount in the following way: Each rank would get to roll for it. So initially, the GM would get it, then the Raid leader, following that, the 4 officers would roll till they all get the mount. Afterwards, the core raiders, and last but not least, the raiders.
This all sounded fair, as everyone would get the chance to roll for it. I am pretty new to this guild (been raiding with them since Imonar, and have been on every one of their progress kills, including Aggramar). I've recently joined the 'Raider' rank and I became a mainstay in their roster ever since joining their guild due to low amount of mistakes, high attendance and good dps/doing mechanics.
However, after tonight's kill of Aggramar Mythic, they announced that they'd require the group to stay subbed for a minimum of 4 weeks mandatory to assist with Argus re-kills, so that mounts will be obtained for quite a few people. If we fail to comply with that, we will be kicked from the guild. These 'four' weeks, conviniently fall into the GM, raid leader, and officer body only to get the mount as you might have realised this by now, by combining this piece of information with the one about how we will roll for the mount,
which I mentioned earlier.
I understand that I can't expect my guild to stay for 18-20 weeks and farm Argus, after obtaining cutting edge, should they feel burnt out on WoW, but I find it unacceptable that they want to force us to raid 4 weeks exactly at the very least, in order for them to get the mounts and don't really care about if anyone else will get the mount afterwards.
I'd understand if they would let us all to roll fairly for it these 4 weeks, as then everyone who worked so hard for the Argus kill, will have a chance at what I think is the ultimate reward.
Have you been in similar situations? Do you think the guild's leading body is in the right, or in the wrong for this decision? How would you tackle this problem?