And no, I'm not talking about that over-farmed spot in Nagrand with all the elementals....
I'm talking about the kind of plateau you hit when you're studying music or losing weight. These are moments when you've been going strong and then suddenly level-off for a while. Sometimes you see them coming. Sometimes they happen quick. Often it can be frustratingly unexpected. You know what I'm talking about...
You've dropped 5lbs every week for 2 months and then suddenly you can't drop another pound no matter what you do. Heck, you catch yourself gaining a pound or two back. It's disheartening. It's frustrating. It's confusing. What's going wrong? The answer? Maybe nothing.
In the case of weight loss, you've simply hit the point where the "easy" pounds have all dropped away. The body has adjusted to your diet. You can probably keep dropping weight, but at a slower pace. You may spend a few weeks gaining weight. It happens.
And no, I'm clearly not talking about weight loss here. This week QSS hit the plateau. We've been taking down one or two new bosses a week for over a month now. But this week, we struggled with some of our most recent kills. They aren't "farm" content yet. In fact, there were at least two nights this week that were downright painful.
It's easy to lose prospective when this kind of thing happens. I blew my cool about preparation & downloading mods on a guild-forum post. Karthis wrote a very stern post about evaluating performance. Did we go too far? Again, maybe.
The truth is that this seems completely natural. As you know, we are not a "lean" raiding guild. Every raid has a slightly different mix of players. We all know each other by now and play well together, but there are going to be nights where things don't click or someone is still learning a fight.
So, it might take a few weeks where we have to struggle with A'lar & Karath. We may even backslide a bit on other stuff. Maybe we're further from Lady Vashj than we think. That's not just raiding, that's life. We'll get off this plateau soon enough.
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I try to let Dubs handle the bad cop stuff usually ;) But this week has been trying to say the least, and I had to give people a smack.
Personally I was glad to see a post asking people to step up coming from a member.... especially our resident cheerleader! ;)
Honestly, last week sucked for raiding, and it's refreshing to see someone besides an officer just step up and say "This is unacceptable, we're better than this."
Besides, even Dubbs needs a break from laying down the law every now and again.
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