Heya fellow WoWers:
Just a helpful tip if you play Horde on the Hyjal(US) Server. STAY AWAY from the guild Hellbound Hearts. I personally spent about the last six months raiding (If you can call it that...)with this guild.
What you will find if you go there is: A Guild/Raid leader that generally does not know fight strategies beyond the basics and/or what someone else has told her. YES, her... She will rotate one of FOUR toons into raids for pieces of gear, but will continually claim she HAS to because someone else in the group is incompetant. Yet, the previous fights and the following ones get downed with those same ppl.
The "martyr" mentality is a constant with her, and while she enjoys having all the power of the GL/RL position, she complains CONSTANTLY about the duties that come along with it. there are offcers, but they say/do nothing as far as the "guild politics" go, unless it's to jump on the bandwagon of something one of about 3 ppl say. They are/have been promoted on the basis of popularity with the guild leader, not on knowledge or play skill. This becomes PAINFULLY obvious while in raids. Generally, most of the raiders will show to raids late and/or unprepared. The loot most participants receive is unused to it's full potential.(I ALWAYS held the best DPS for the entire guild,on 2 melee toons, even when in a lower ilvl of gear.)
The GL will also complain IN WHISPERS to players about other players' bad performance & her lack of gear reception. She will deny this in open forum, of course, and claim to be the most humble person in WoW, but fact remains she had 3 ppl rolling on an item THEY could have used in this week's LFR for her Tank set. Keep in mind, this person shcuks the tank responsibility whenever possible, and when she does it, she generally has the OTHER tank do the "harder" bosses that have any movement or "o no" moments. I.E.- COMPLETE strafe failure on Hagara every time.
The best part though, whenever someone stands up to this person and tries to point out the issues to get them out in the open, or has a complaint of their own, she turns it into an "I do so much for this guild", "I never get anything", "you always get everything", and "If this game is just going to be about the gear-I'll uninstall" poor me situation. BUT this person spent an afternoon this week building a spreadsheet of previous recent loot drops, dropped one line whines in O chat until she got a response and then kept them going for 2 days...Yeah, don't sound like loot is a concern to her at all...
In short: Do yourself a favor and steer clear of this guild!! They have NEVER downed a heroic boss in BoT/BWD/FL/DS. The 2 raid grps are made up of the same 6-8 ppl on alts for the second grp. The grps are a little above mediocre as far as progression and skill, but noone will research farther than "what this guy told me". You may get lucky with loot drops in a week, but be prepared to listen to how "you always get stuff" the next week, even if nobody else in party can use what you get.
If you do join this mess: You will work harder than needed in some game aspects, due to the guild itself only being lvl 18.(Yes, they are lazy too, & don't do much beyond a cpl raids each week to try to lvl it.) I.E.-no farming bonus, big raid cauldron, etc. etc. You will be forced to watch/listen to hypocritic statements by an Ambien/Adderall addled control freak, BUT don't DARE say anything even in a joking manner, any facts you state will be denied, lied about, twisted back on you, or redirected to irrelevant fringe subjects to take the heat off the truth. NO MATTER HOW WELL YOU DO, you will be told you are not working hard enough while others continually fail around you w/o consequences.
I know it's a wall of text, but if you took the time to read it, I hope it has saved you valuable time and effort. LOK'TAR OGAR!!