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Requirements:
- Exceptional player in every aspect
- Planning to raid WotLK
- Not a nightelf
Concerning this last point:
Nightelf applications and trials are accepted. However, in case you pass trial and join method, I will expect you to reroll either human or dranei.
- Exceptional player in every aspect
- Planning to raid WotLK
- Not a nightelf
Concerning this last point:
Nightelf applications and trials are accepted. However, in case you pass trial and join method, I will expect you to reroll either human or dranei.
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Here is our reasoning:
Human: Desperate Prayer, Human Spirit
Dranei: Symbol of Hope, Inspiring Presence
Dwarf: Desperate Prayer
Nightelf: Err....
Why did I not fill in anything for nightelves?
You gave the answer yourself at the bottom of your post. Even though it [Starshards] increases personal dps, it decreases raid support. And raid support is the only reason a shadowpriest comes to a raid (I can say that, doing 1700dps on Brutallus, I am a support class, not dps). We did the math ourselves (like you just did) and I think we came to slightly higher numbers.
Starshards has another drawback on top of this: it takes a debuff slot.
Human: Desperate Prayer, Human Spirit
Dranei: Symbol of Hope, Inspiring Presence
Dwarf: Desperate Prayer
Nightelf: Err....
Why did I not fill in anything for nightelves?
You gave the answer yourself at the bottom of your post. Even though it [Starshards] increases personal dps, it decreases raid support. And raid support is the only reason a shadowpriest comes to a raid (I can say that, doing 1700dps on Brutallus, I am a support class, not dps). We did the math ourselves (like you just did) and I think we came to slightly higher numbers.
Starshards has another drawback on top of this: it takes a debuff slot.
There is more in the thread, but I didn't think it appropriate to copy/paste the whole thing.
http://www.shadowpriest.com/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=14705
Sooo, thoughts on the matter? Are racials the be all and end all for raiding? While I think any guild has the right to dictate the terms for their members, are people losing sight that WoW is still a game? Not really sure what my thoughts are on all of this, but I am curious to see what other community members think about this topic.
Oh, and here is the link to the thread on the O-Boards:
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=7903643841&sid=1
*edit*
Here is a link to Method's forum. Apparently they are a very high end raiding guild, so I guess I can understand the stringent requirements...but still.
http://method-guild.co.uk/portal/index.php?page=1
Edited, Jul 22nd 2008 2:19pm by Miskreant