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Title: Raiding and Achievements
Post by: Grimnar on September 22, 2009, 10:14:28 PM
During the raids focus on the fight instead of the freaking useless achievements!!!!!!!!!
 
As it gets us killed!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
As that happend tonight a few times.. A few people focussing on a bloody achievement instead of focussing on the fight itself.. And that got us killed...
 
So sod off with your freaking achievement hunting and just get the job done!
 
 
/rant over....
 
Hope some woke up now!
Title: Raiding and Achievements
Post by: Drakelin on September 22, 2009, 10:53:42 PM
terribly sorry but when you have a macro you push with you mouse and use abilitys with your keybord you can easily do it but it requires focus

some can handle others cant. thats all i have to say
Title: Raiding and Achievements
Post by: Deminion on September 22, 2009, 11:10:07 PM
ye, sorry i tried it to, had the macro lying around, but since i didn't do it properly it's been thrown away. Never to be done again.
Title: Raiding and Achievements
Post by: gijs on September 23, 2009, 05:49:33 AM
I do agree with Ice on this one..no achievements untill Boss is on Farm. then you dont have to focus cos it comes naturaly giving you time to focus on the achievement.
 
wich achievement are we talking about anyways?
Title: Raiding and Achievements
Post by: Azunai on September 23, 2009, 12:50:28 PM
The Yoggy P1 one.
Title: Raiding and Achievements
Post by: Deminion on September 23, 2009, 02:21:01 PM
and as i have found out, it's not to be done in P1, but in P2.
but anyways, will wait till we actually have done her/him/it a couple of times
Title: Raiding and Achievements
Post by: Drakelin on September 23, 2009, 06:44:11 PM
Its to /kiss sara while she is angry with you and she doesnt become that untill phase 2
Title: Raiding and Achievements
Post by: Jim on November 03, 2009, 09:38:45 PM
Quote from: Ice Hawk;290585During the raids focus on the fight instead of the freaking useless achievements!!!!!!!!!
 
As it gets us killed!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
As that happend tonight a few times.. A few people focussing on a bloody achievement instead of focussing on the fight itself.. And that got us killed...
 
So sod off with your freaking achievement hunting and just get the job done!
 
 
/rant over....
 
Hope some woke up now!

Quoting the truth
Title: Raiding and Achievements
Post by: Limps on November 03, 2009, 10:16:38 PM
yes can only agree lets please keep the achievement for another kill, lets use our focus 100% on the kill no matter what.
Title: Raiding and Achievements
Post by: Deminion on November 03, 2009, 10:17:21 PM
i'll admit i did it, but not until more than 50% of the raid was dead, and i was almost dead anyway. kept my head focused on the raid all the time. And btw, it never crossed my mind, until others started on it.
Title: Raiding and Achievements
Post by: Mezzanine on November 03, 2009, 10:30:21 PM
In general I agree with Ice's post (but I suppose after reading what I have to say next, no one's going to remember this first sentence).

However, in this case:

I think it's hypocrisy to say it's a qft when you've done it yourself tbh. Isn't that a bit too much...? People were doing that achievement when it was a certain wipe and neither of those who did it stalled the the next attempt. Taking into consideration the amount "well said" whispers I had, I suppose there are more feeling similarly.

Is it maybe time to focus on more acute raiding problems like what flasks were used (or the absence!), how much time is spent chatting in the general channel whilst raiding, why people don't know the tactics which in turn makes each attempt take forever to start etc etc?

Stop acting on this kind of details when we yet have major issues to deal with. It's ticking me off.
Title: Raiding and Achievements
Post by: Drakelin on November 03, 2009, 10:38:38 PM
i know i did it adn i would agree on not doing it in the middle of a try but i was dead (guardian spirit) and over half the raid was dead, i knew it was a wipe and not before i know it was a wipe i did it, was dead anyway had a few sec left on the spirit so why shouldnt i, it wasnt anything i planned to do i just saw it that second and thought it would be a good time,

so im sorry if i dont seem to follow you as far as i see why shouldnt the raiders do the achive also when the officers have? theres no justice in that and i did my part and didnt slack even thinking i had major backpain the whole night!!!!

so i guess i can say i agree with mezz but now you have my full story/oppinion
Title: Raiding and Achievements
Post by: Limps on November 03, 2009, 10:40:31 PM
Quote from: Mezzanine;295136In general I agree with Ice's post (but I suppose after reading what I have to say next, no one's going to remember this first sentence).

However, in this case:

I think it's hypocrisy to say it's a qft when you've done it yourself tbh. Isn't that a bit too much...? People were doing that achievement when it was a certain wipe and neither of those who did it stalled the the next attempt. Taking into consideration the amount "well said" whispers I had, I suppose there are more feeling similarly.

Is it maybe time to focus on more acute raiding problems like what flasks were used (or the absence!), how much time is spent chatting in the general channel whilst raiding, why people don't know the tactics which in turn makes each attempt take forever to start etc etc?

Stop acting on this kind of details when we yet have major issues to deal with. It's ticking me off.


Tbh mate you should not be ticked of by leaders saying it, its a matter of repsect towards the decision of not doing it. if there are other problems with flask and absence etc then its fine to come with input to leaders but it has nothing to do with this matter.
All we ask is not to do it it dont matter how easy it is to do or that others did it, all in all its only one person pushing the button.
Title: Raiding and Achievements
Post by: Limps on November 03, 2009, 10:45:03 PM
please there are no need for drama, if some officers did the achievement then its their bad and i agree not very smart, but it cant be changed now and we do need to focus on what important and this achievement is not. lets keep focus on a great raid night we had, and not making this a bigger deal then it is.

and there are no rule that says officers are allowed it, same rules for all.
Title: Raiding and Achievements
Post by: Mezzanine on November 03, 2009, 10:47:32 PM
I respect the leaders fully, be so sure, when there's a valid reason. To tell you the truth I was even linked a good macro to complete this particular achievement by one of the leading officers, but refrained to go on with it when it became such a fuss.

What do you call such a double standard?
Title: Raiding and Achievements
Post by: Limps on November 03, 2009, 11:15:03 PM
Quote from: Mezzanine;295142I respect the leaders fully, be so sure, when there's a valid reason. To tell you the truth I was even linked a good macro to complete this particular achievement by one of the leading officers, but refrained to go on with it when it became such a fuss.

What do you call such a double standard?

I would call it "not good" and a mistake, something that should not have bin done but a lot of sides to a story it could have bin meant for a 10 man run and it dont really matter what it was for. You got to keep in mind 1 officer dont represent all. But i do agree with you it could be looked at as a double standard but i am sure its not meant like that.
Title: Raiding and Achievements
Post by: Mezzanine on November 04, 2009, 12:47:38 AM
I assure you it was meant for tonight, not a 10-m raid. I guess you can say it was from a person who I believe sense what is worth addressing when it comes to raid discipline. And harmless fooling around when it has no effect whatsoever on the boss attempt outcome isn't covered by that. On the contrary, it could raise raiding spirits, a feeling of some kind of accomplishment.

I don't get your point about officers. If one officer is telling me it's ok, then he's just one person not representing all of you. But when two class leaders tells us that the same thing isn't ok, *you're* representing the officers? What logic do I miss here?

And claiming the raid is stalled or unfocused because of a 1 second typing when waiting to die is like telling us we can't remove our weapons before an inevitable wipe to slightly cut down on rep bills because it decreases our performance when we go down. I don't understand how this can become such a great issue that players are growled at and it's even brought to the forum, when non-flask users, slacking or general time consuming behaviour are accepted.

Besides, what if you had made something positive out of it instead? Said that ok, if we call it a wipe this go, you're allowed to use whatever macro to get your achievement. We wipe, but the raiders are quite happy anyways. I don't think for a second it would be abused or that someone would consciously cause a wipe to get it. It would be quite ironic - here we die kissing and making up.

This is no big deal to me, really it isn't. I don't care one bit about that nubcake achievement, more than it could be a few moments of amusement. But it gets to me when raiders are shouted at for ridiculous reasons. How are they to see the forest when you're planting so many silly trees?
Title: Raiding and Achievements
Post by: Azunai on November 04, 2009, 01:21:13 AM
We need not be kids about this:

- It's completely retarded to aim for any sort of minor individual achievement whilst your time is better spent raiding, making sure a wipe does not occur
- When half the raid is found kissing the floor and the wipe is 100% certain anyway, feel free to throw Sarah a kiss if you must. Like Mezz says, there's even macro's you can use
- Anyone who draws the conclusion out of the above that it's ok to go tickle Hodir's balls or whatever else is out there because it makes his/her virtual e-peen 10 points bigger, whilst we need your behind to DPS/raidheal/tank the bugger instead, needs to wonder if he/she's in the right raidgroup

End of pointless discussion :)
Title: Raiding and Achievements
Post by: Gandalf on November 04, 2009, 07:18:53 AM
Quote from: Azunai;295162We need not be kids about this:

- It's completely retarded to aim for any sort of minor individual achievement whilst your time is better spent raiding, making sure a wipe does not occur
- When half the raid is found kissing the floor and the wipe is 100% certain anyway, feel free to throw Sarah a kiss if you must. Like Mezz says, there's even macro's you can use
- Anyone who draws the conclusion out of the above that it's ok to go tickle Hodir's balls or whatever else is out there because it makes his/her virtual e-peen 10 points bigger, whilst we need your behind to DPS/raidheal/tank the bugger instead, needs to wonder if he/she's in the right raidgroup

End of pointless discussion :)

I couldn't have put it better myself.

Besides, out of all of the raiding achievements, this is the easiest to get with a macro if you know what you are doing. But ONLY this achievement, as it can be done with a one button press when a wipe is called.

Simply bind;
/target Sara
/kiss

To a spare slot in your hotbar, then if a wipe is called, press the button = instant achievement.

I suggest you all bind that macro, then the next time we call a wipe in there for whatever reason during P2, you can press the button, get your achievement and we can move on from this, as discussions like this will just end up going round in circles and not acomplish anything.
Title: Raiding and Achievements
Post by: Sithvid on November 04, 2009, 10:31:15 AM
The primary objective is to have fun.

We need to accept that not everyone has the same viewpoint as ourselves, to some people the achievement chasing in futile banal pointless etc to others it means something.
As Mezz said there was no risk to the Raid progress and really no issue.

The only issue I take offence at is the tone in which some of these things are pointed out. :ranting2:
 I am sure we get exasperated which each other flasks buffs ability,train, train wrecker, spammin fishy macros, BUT respect each other and speak nicely and generally people are more responsive...
10 years and a diploma in management have given me this viewpoint it may be subjective to my life but shouting don't get you very far...

 now how do I bind that macro...
Title: Raiding and Achievements
Post by: Limps on November 04, 2009, 02:14:22 PM
Quote from: Mezzanine;295159I assure you it was meant for tonight, not a 10-m raid. I guess you can say it was from a person who I believe sense what is worth addressing when it comes to raid discipline. And harmless fooling around when it has no effect whatsoever on the boss attempt outcome isn't covered by that. On the contrary, it could raise raiding spirits, a feeling of some kind of accomplishment.

I don't get your point about officers. If one officer is telling me it's ok, then he's just one person not representing all of you. But when two class leaders tells us that the same thing isn't ok, *you're* representing the officers? What logic do I miss here?

And claiming the raid is stalled or unfocused because of a 1 second typing when waiting to die is like telling us we can't remove our weapons before an inevitable wipe to slightly cut down on rep bills because it decreases our performance when we go down. I don't understand how this can become such a great issue that players are growled at and it's even brought to the forum, when non-flask users, slacking or general time consuming behaviour are accepted.

Besides, what if you had made something positive out of it instead? Said that ok, if we call it a wipe this go, you're allowed to use whatever macro to get your achievement. We wipe, but the raiders are quite happy anyways. I don't think for a second it would be abused or that someone would consciously cause a wipe to get it. It would be quite ironic - here we die kissing and making up.

This is no big deal to me, really it isn't. I don't care one bit about that nubcake achievement, more than it could be a few moments of amusement. But it gets to me when raiders are shouted at for ridiculous reasons. How are they to see the forest when you're planting so many silly trees?

I cant comment anymore on this subject i think i made my statement and seems not many agree, so such is life disapointed but hey.
Title: Raiding and Achievements
Post by: Grimnar on November 04, 2009, 02:29:55 PM
can someone close this topic.
 
 
Lets go raid again as a team:flirty:
Title: Raiding and Achievements
Post by: Mezzanine on November 04, 2009, 02:32:57 PM
Maybe we can agree that ice cream, mudcake and hot fudge is the best dessert combination in the world? <3
Title: Raiding and Achievements
Post by: Gandalf on November 04, 2009, 03:17:01 PM
Quote from: Mezzanine;295235Maybe we can agree that ice cream, mudcake and hot fudge is the best dessert combination in the world? <3

oh yes! :wub:
Title: Raiding and Achievements
Post by: Gandalf on November 04, 2009, 03:26:53 PM
Quote from: Ice Hawk;295234can someone close this topic.
 
 
Lets go raid again as a team:flirty:

ok, this is now getting silly. I have made a decision on this and will add to the info thread.

Basically, all achievements are off limits in raids UNLESS it is a specific achievement run.

Please do not try to get any achievements and focus on the raid.

If an achievement does pop up during the course of the raid, then that is ok (Such as nerf gravity bombs, etc) as these are awarded for doing the raid as it should be done.

I'm closing this now as there isn't any more to be gained from this and we are going to end up going in circles and causing divisions which is not what we are here for.