Recently I made a public statement regarding myself, that I am dealing with some personal issues effecting my ability to invest time in to raiding and that I have been suffering from what feels like burning out. What I didn't bring up was the core reason as to why I am burning out.

The reason for my burn out isn't because of grinding artifact power or anything related to the game to begin with. It is because I am Guildmaster of a guild, my guild, that is being run behind a certain set of principles to obtain the best possible rank, seemingly at whatever the cost may be. A price that we are paying that I was never willing to pay. Right now 22 people within our roster progressed anything of significance. We have a roster size of 29. I have always been someone who runs a bigger roster then normal. For reasons like being able to class stack without having to maintain more than one alt and that someone having to quit the game for whatever reason was never detrimental to the guild’s survival. While having such a big roster I did my best to always keep it fair for everyone and give everyone their fair share of raidtime while not sacrifising raidcomposition. However, never before was I over halfway through a raid with people who have not yet set a foot in mythic progression. Over the course of Legion progression this changed slowly in front of my own eyes. There are people who put in the grind to 54 traits who have got nothing in return for their efforts, even though our wowprogress recruitment page states the following "We value farm the same way we value progress. More than anything else, high attendance and reliability will earn you just rewards.".

Some people asked me, "why do you make kill screenshots with a 30man raid?" Because everyone was a part of progression and should feel that way. We are all equals, I am not more important than a raider and one raider is not more important than another raider. Right now 1/3 of our roster isn't being treated like a raider they are being treated like tools, a means to an end for split raiding. This disgusts me.
Those people deserve better, they have all right to be upset, angry or disappointed in my leadership. We are currently world rank 39, a rank I am happy with but a rank I believe would have been obtained just as well if the guild was run like I did prior to Legion for 6years. We ended HFC world rank 38 yet the amount of complaints and unhappiness within the team was basically non-existent and everyone had a fair chance at raiding. This has caused those people to not be perceived as part of the raid team, to feel alone and not part of the guild whatsoever. Because I haven't treated them as a valued member of the team, no one should ever feel this way over a game.

I made this guild for the people, to have a serious raiding environment where people are willing to put in the time and dedication without an absurd time investment (although with M+ and AP blizz did force us more this way). Right now this guild is not being run for 1/3 of those people and I will no longer stand by that. I will no longer tolerate people being treated like shit behind their backs because some believe they are worse players and I will no longer continue to lead a divided guild. The world rank to me was never anything more than an indicator of how well you did and a tool for recruitment purposes. Being world 25th or 35th doesn't change anything, there is no reward other than a wowprogress number. Something I am not willing to pay the price for that I am paying right now. I am not willing to make people feel like crap over a game and I am not willing to run a high turnover guild.

If this were to continue by the end of this tier we will not have a guild to come back to. I am not going to stand idly by and let that happen for something so minor.

This is going to change, starting today. What does that mean? For most of you not a lot, you won't notice a difference other than where possible we will give people a fair chance at showing their worth on a boss fight that I feel they would be an asset to. People who are consistently dying on a boss will be swapped for someone else to get a shot during progression of said boss and if a boss demands a specific comp then I will run it. Thankfully those bosses are generally not even 25% of a raid tier. Everyone will get a shot at progressing a couple encounters where that is possible. Those that can't contain themselves behind other people’s backs even if they perceive it as "banter" I will confront the moment I hear this is occurring, and if at that stage it continues I will proceed to take more permanent action.

For those that don't agree with this mindset of running a guild, I respect that and will have no hard feelings towards you if you choose to leave to a more hardcore guild, I am here to run a serious raiding guild like I did from Wrath to the end of HFC and will proceed to return to now. A guild people call home where they stay till they quit the game all together. To those that felt hurt, used or anything that you should not feel over a game, I am sorry. I dissapointed you and I learned my lesson.

In the end, when you quit WoW or the servers have gone offline to never return the first thing you remember is not the rank you obtained, its the people you played with, became friends with. Never forget this.

/Vincent