Sick to death with my guild's attitdue

hey there guys my name is Droaeth. I'm on the Sha'tar server and im part of Athanatoi. We have progressed through all of: Kara, Gruul's, Mag, ZA, SSC, TK and are 4/5 in MH (got archi to 30%) and up to ROS in BT. We have a awesome bunch of people in our guild who are really friendly. the only problem is that I've had to put up with so much shizzle (excuse my bad language ) to even have a shot at being able to main tank stuff. Which i still haven't done....

I have done so much for this guild without a question or a remark. I was the first to grind my all of my SSC resistance gear and consumables . yet I still haven't used it. I have signed for 15 Black temple run, each one i have been on fracking back up. The raid leader made the new schedule about 2 months ago and asked me what nights i can raid (I can only really raid Thursdays because of school and weekends but we only raid really late on Sundays.) and he put Mount hyjal as Thursday so all I can really raid is MH which I have been to like 30 times and I'm sick to death of being their add bitch. Even when we started magtheroidon, we only had 3 tanks signed up so i 'had' to come and when the MT died at 80% and us tanks where at 2nd and 3rd on the aggro table i quickly was aggro so i went to the tank spot, and used my spell rotation for Mting. we got him down and even then my Raid leader wasn't convinced i could tank bosses...


I can pump out 1k-1.4k TPS at some points. over 2k with wings up. and i get beaten to the raid spots on Bt runs by a warrior with awsome gear (because my Rl has some love for warrior tanks) but cant gen more than 800tps on bossses let alone trash. Im at my wicks end. During T5 progression we were very very low on healers so whenever i did get a raid spot i was healing (paladin healing for the mega lose ¬¬ i hate it so much and everyone in my guild knows that...)

any advice on what i should do? they are a great bunch of people. im just sick of being on the sidelines... i dont want to leave my guild full but i also want to MT raid instances and my only option i see it to leave which i really dont want to do...



thanks for your time

Dro

If they like you, they should as well know what you want.

If they don't care for your feelings, maybe your liking for them is wrong.
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Proud founder of the 40/21 club

They do care for my feelings most of the people are really encouraging and stuff, its just that i never get to tank. They are some of the best people on the guild, its just that my RL (who is a awsome guy) never lets me tank and im really frustrated.



Dro

Stop licking his balls and tell him that you want to tank.
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Spankadin in development.
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I have done so much my throat has gone dry. its the point of that we have an Mt and he comes to basicaly every raid so i dont get an opportinity so i have to heal on bosses.



Dro

basicaly yes. whenever i go raiding i have to carry around buff food, pots/flasks and tonnes of healing gear...



Dro

If they aren't going to work you into a tanking rotation then you have a few options:

1. Start looking for a new guild that WILL let you tank. Yeah those guys are really cool but if they aren't letting you do THE thing you're playing the game for then what's the point ... Finding a new guild can be a major pain in the ass ... which leads to ....

2. Suck it up for progressions sake. How bad do you want to see then end of MH and BT before WotLK comes out? If you can't find a new guild that's at the same(or better) level of progression you might just have to deal with it.

3. Take a break until the expansion.
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I dissed my healing gear, our main healer said that he'd rather not raid instead of having me healing
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Proud founder of the 40/21 club

I think what would work best:

Make VERY clear to the guild leadership that you want to tank, and give a good reason why (more tps than warrior, etc).

If they continue to stifle you, and you don't enjoy spending your $15/month in your current role, then it might time to look for another guild. This isn't a job, you can go where you like.

http://maintankadin.failsafedesign.com/viewtopic.php?t=1936

make your RL read this.

make it clear you want to tank.

if they don't give you the opertunity either find a new guild or take a break till wotlk
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I'm Ole' Greg

Talk to the other tanks, imo.

Then on a raid night, when everyone is there and ready to go, just have the other tank tell the raid leader that you'll be tanking this boss...

Maybe try that on one of the Hyjal bosses, so they don't even have time to argue. I know Rage Winterchill isn't much, but on a simple boss like that you won't fail either, so it won't reinforce their opinion.
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