Originally Posted by Valjean
The "hardcore" players stay in the guild because they like the people and the atmosphere, but I think their competitiveness is going to keep gnawing away at them until they snap.
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This is me you describing there. The guild went into BC with the mindset, that a heavy mix between casuals and hardcore would work out for our benefits this time. Right about now the guild totally broke down to about a half a dozen of casuals. Everyone else left into totally different directions. I lost all motivations within this process to achieve anything advanced within BC's lifecycle. E.g. rather waiting for Zul'Aman than to go through the usual process of finding a new guild, socialise within, gaining DKP and so on. I'm done with this for now. At this point i'd rather start from scratch.
To add something to the topic. Honestly i do not think a mix of players will work in this current content. Not try to pull this into hardcores vs casuals again, but for a mix of playertypes to work out, you need to give players room to breath. This expansion doesn't. When your healers or tanks burn out and want to switch to DPS for a while, you're screwed. You need people who farm their stuff before switching specs, who trade roles with others, all the things you can not expect from casuals. So my result for the last months is, it will not work out to mix playertypes.
You will experience situations where people have to throttle down their personal goals, this will lead to all kinds of drama, sooner or later. You just can not expect everyone to work as replacable ressources for raid leaders. This has nothing to do with "think for the greater good" but with "this isn't my kind of fun". Many players to not accept the loss of accessibility when raiding the current endgame, while others seem to urge for it. Trying to bridge between those two factions is something every player should try to avoid at this point.