overly long reply...
Honestly, I am not really sure what
I can do to relieve the issue. I am part of the problem, but I'm also just a sub.
I come to Nine Man on Wednesdays cos you guys need people when I am often not busy, and obviously because I like you all. But I'm just a sub, so my priorities are always to my reserved raids. If To 11 needs a tank that week, I'm going to lock in Maggen to help out. I try to extend my offer to help Nine Man by saying, "I can't bring Maggen this week, but I can offer so-and-so." Since you always seem to need people, I usually get taken up on the offer. It's not because I am trying to make a circus of your raid by flipping around alts or because I'm using you guys to gear up people... it's just because I don't always have the same characters available to offer.
And unfortunately, the issue is exacerbated by the fact you guys use
four lockouts just on Wednesday (TOC, TOGC, Onyxia and Ulduar) so I just can't promise the same character is going to be unlocked for all of them. Further complicating it is the fact that the two characters I
do have unlocked most weeks -- Maggen and Aryeh -- have lately not been the roles you need. Merapeh and Tziva, on the other hand, are often locked into at least some of these each week.
So. As long as you need me to sub, I'm going to contribute to this problem, albeit totally unintentionally.
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- For example, last night Hep subbed for you. He has no DPS spec, so bringing Maggen (who also does not) would have been bad for the team. Since I desperately need badges on Tziva, it seemed mutually beneficial to bring her for as much of the content as I could. I didn't figure that would hurt the team, since she IS my best geared DPS. However, once you moved to Ulduar, my choices were limited to Maggen or Aryeh. Either I could have stepped out entirely and left you a man down, or I could have brought someone subpar. I brought someone subpar because I figured that was better than the alternative, especially considering the content was a tier old.
I try to make Maggen the character most available to you, for consistency. However, when you have two warriors already, and one of them who is prot-only, there is really not much I can do but say "nevermind then."
I will gladly admit that I wanted badges on Tziva last night so I was anxious to bring her, but that was also reliant on the assumption that bringing my main (who is my best DPS and my best geared) would not be a hindrance to the raid. If I had thought, for any reason, that I would fuck you guys by bringing her, I wouldn't have.
ANYWAY.
Long story short is that every Wednesday that I'm available, I am going to offer you whatever I have available, but sometimes its going to be a different character and sometimes it may even be only for a role you don't need or want. No one is required to take me up on it, however, and if you can find someone better, or someone more consistent, or someone who doesn't need to flip characters between instances, you should absolutely bring them instead. If you don't have anyone else, this is the best I can do.
At the end of the day, I'm just here to help, so if I'm not doing that, then please don't have me sub and fuck up your raid comp.
