Waiting for 3.3 is destroying my life

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Perhaps that is going a bit overboard. I will say though, it’s been a long haul waiting for 3.3, and it at least FEELS like I’ve been waiting for the next patch since about two weeks after A’Nub was opened up.

My guild is NOT hardcore in 25 man content, we didn’t clear everything immediately, and we still only run the 25 man version on normal mode. In 10-man content we’ve clobbered everything on heroic, including A Tribute to Insanity and A Tribute to Dedicated Insanity. The latter of those is one that I really like, because it doesn’t allow you to simply over-gear the content and come back for the achievement…you HAVE to wear a specific item level or lower to complete it…but I digress.

Calling the Coliseum raid a “filler raid” is an understatement. It was a novel idea, to create a raid that is basically a 10 or 25 man version of The Ring of Blood quest line in the last expansion, or The Amphitheater of Anguish quest line in the current content. When I first heard about ToC, I was pretty excited (“Finally no trash pulls!”). I was slightly disappointed when the content wasn’t all released at once, but hey, it was new content, and though we still had things to do in Ulduar we were ready for new content.

Week after week of killing the same bosses in the same room DID eventually get kind of old though. I didn’t realize how much I actually missed running around Ulduar, and how much I actually enjoyed the change of scenery from boss to boss. Even though there were some interesting fights, there really wasn’t much interaction with the environment other than A’Nub, which I tend to like.

The good news is the folks over at MMO-Champion have a good hunch that the patch will drop December 8th/9th. That’s good news for everyone, especially guild leaders and raid leaders.

The REAL challenge of 3.2 has been just running day-to-day guild management things, and hoping beyond hope that raids fill to the extent that we can run 25 man content on scheduled raid nights. I am excruciatingly aware of raids running short, and the attendance problems any guild like ours faces. I am also well aware of the “I’ve got my drops, why should I raid” attitude, which thankfully are few and far between in my guild, but still exist to degrees.

The big difficulty seeing raids run short is the question of recruiting. I can’t in good conscience recruit for ANY position until I see 3.3 drop, and see what kind of numbers we have then. Raids that have been running with 18-22 sign-ups may very well hit 27-30 after the patch when people return to see new content. Actively recruiting before 3.3 is just asking for trouble, and in the meantime we’ve been making the best of it running raids short.

Thankfully we’ve actually been able to run our normal night of Toc 25, Onyxia and Vault with well under 25 people, one night we even ran it with 18-21, and 4 healers at that. I think overall we only had to cancel 1-2 raids during that time, minus not scheduling one the day after Thanksgiving.