The Biggest Guild Breakers in World of Warcraft

"I feel so unprotected by you all!" Casts Blessing of Protection Gold.

If you ninja and disenchant it on the spot, you are either a literal troll or you wanna see the world (of warcraft) burn.

biggest guild breaker: real life

I've never played WoW but watching these videos is almost like a history lesson on the origins of many game design choices I see in the more modern MMOs. Thanks for making these.

Fun fact: Gurgthock, the shaman in the video that deemed C'thun impossible is Ion Hozzikostas (current WoW Director).

Cataclysm wasn't just a guild breaker, but also a realm breaker. My entire realm back then just fell apart because people quit, which made me quit as well.

15:13 “I feel unprotected by you all!” turns casts blessing of protection

"I spent all of my emotion, That's why I'm dead to this day." The line that marked a day I died of laughter lol. Nicely put sir lol

Sorry for the delay in videos! Was busy for the holidays but I'm back at 100% now. This has been a request for a while - figured I'd give my spin on it. I avoid raid bosses since that's been covered already. Instead I go more into the social aspects of guild leading and some of the pitfalls you can run into.

I ran a guild from closed beta through vanilla. I believe the woman GM in your video was a former guild member we kicked for being a drama queen, her name was Kitiara, a druid.

My guild must be one of those rare ones. We have been around since a few months after the launch of vanilla and are still around today with the same leadership as back then.

I played wow 15 years, from the launch until I believe the start of legion or maybe end of world of draenor? Somewhere along there, the 15 year mark. I was part of several hardcore guilds as well as some more casual guilds I played around in when I wasn't doing the hardcore stuff. In all that time, I only really experienced 2 real drama moments. The first was in Burning Crusade when the 2nd warglaive of azzinoth dropped. It went to the main rogue on our raid team, who had the other one to complete the set. Immediately after he got it, he logged out and never logged in again. We found out not long after, he sold his account to someone for a few thousand dollars because he was one of the best geared rogues in the world and one of the few people who had both warglaives. It was disappointing for everyone else, but it honestly didn't really matter much because black temple had been on farm for a long time at that point and the expansion was pretty much over. That guild died before Sunwell released, so it was the only raid tier that I didn't complete when it was current content. The second instance was many years later, in Mists of Pandaria, and the entire situation was just incredibly stupid. To put it into perspective, my father had just died of glioblastoma, a brain cancer, the week before and I had just started playing again. I had taken a month off from raiding to spend time with my father while he was dying and I was there with him when he passed. So I was obviously distraught, but I found playing WOW helped distract me from the bad thoughts and gave me something to do, so I started raiding again that next week. Anyway, some item I had been wanting dropped from a boss we killed. Some weapon I believe? I think it was legendary or maybe held a legendary gem or something? I don't really remember, this was a long time ago. Regardless, the guild wanted me to get it because my character would've gotten the most use from it, which is how we always divided the loot up, but this other guy wanted it and said I was too unreliable to get it because I had missed a month of raiding. The group debated it for a bit, I didn't really participate because I didn't really care that much one way or the other. Ultimately, because I didn't seem to want it very much, they told the guy he could have it, so they gave it to him. I didn't really care, but after a couple more boss fights, his dps had gone down instead of up, and the guild ultimately decided that the weapon should go to me instead and he agreed because the weapon wasnt working out for him anyway. This was during the era when you had a 2 hour window to trade raid loot before it became permanently bound to you. So he said he wanted to try DPSing one last boss with it before giving it up, so I said thats fine. We fight the boss, and right before the boss dies he disconnects and is offline by the time the fight is over. He is well known for having notoriously bad internet and this isn't terribly unusual. I wait around for a an hour or so to see if he comes back on, because that 2 hour grace period to trade loot only counts while you're online. So eventually he does come back on and I immediately message him saying he needs to trade that weapon pretty quick because the time is probably running short at that point. But it was supposedly his wife instead of him playing the character. This was also not unusual as they both had accounts and played on each other's characters frequently. She said she didn't know what I was talking about, so I explained to her what happened and said she needed to trade the weapon to me before the time expires or it won't be tradable. She says she isn't going to give away one of his weapons if he isn't around and he had left after the raid without telling her anything about it. So I tell her she would have to log off the character until he got back so the timer won't run out, at which point she became unhinged and started going off about how she doesn't have to do what I tell her to do and she wants to play that character right then so she is going to, etc. So I essentially call her a crazy bitch because she started behaving like a crazy bitch, and I just didn't have the emotional bandwidth to deal with that level of stupidity at that point in time. I had absolutely no tolerance for nonsense given what happened just a few days prior to this with my father. Afterwards, I muted the character because I didn't want to further converse with her in a frenzied, crazy state and then I went about my business. A few minutes later, I guess she finally realized that her messages were being blocked, she got on another character and started having unhinged rants, and I just muted each character on both of their accounts without saying a word to her because I just wasn't in the mood for any of it. So the next day, I get on and its the actual guy, finally back, and he made a brand new character to try to go off on me for apparently insulting and disrespecting his wife and all sorts of other things. I told him exactly what happened and what I said, word for word, even had the logs to prove his wife was the one who just flew off the handle randomly, but of course he wasn't having any of it and didn't care at all what happened, so I just blocked him again and instead contacted the GM and told him what happened. Few minutes later, all of his and his wife's characters were removed from the guild because he didn't hand off that weapon as he was supposed to, started a bunch of nonsense drama, and everyone was already fed up with him anyway because he is so prone to disconnect during raids, so he was done. Just because I was so irritated by the whole fiasco at this point, I decided to twist the knife and I reported them for account sharing, which was against the TOS. He admitted it many times in chat, from both accounts, that he did this so it would've been cake for anyone to confirm. So I basically forget the whole mess, because I never cared for that guy anyway, and we're out doing dailies a few days later, and he pops up on another new character and starts rage whispering me. Apparently, those accounts had already been flagged and warned and temporarily suspended and all that from prior issues with account sharing on top of other violations. When the GMs got my report and confirmed he was account sharing again, they permanently banned both of their accounts. I couldn't help but burst out laughing and I thanked him for letting me know before ignoring his character once again. I'm usually not petty and spiteful, but after losing my father I was just not in the mood for childish stupidity, bullshit, and nonsense. I always smile when I think back to how that little asshole's behavior and greed, coupled with his wife's insane rant out of nowhere cost them a decade of work on those accounts though. Sometimes shitty people do get what is coming to them. Very next week, the item dropped again and I got it. It's funny, almost comical in a way, how many ways that whole situation could've been resolved amiably, but both of them were committed to being cunts and I didn't have the patience to play nice and be peace keeper with them at the time.

I had this experience back in wotlk, we cleared naxx 25 man with a pretty solid group, but when ulduar was released, a "rebel" group inside the guild left to create their own guild. Then, in trial of champions the officers of the 2nd guild left their gm and made a 3rd guild. it was crazy, i had buddies in all of the 3 guilds asking me to join them, not coz i was a pro player, but coz they practically had not enough people to keep raiding. at least not in 25. Well, the first guild disbanded and some of the people made another guild (guild 4 i guess) and i joined them coz they were the group with less drama, and we did ICC in 10 man (we never passed the sanjains blood princes). and after a couple of months, guild number 4 disbanded coz some people left to join guild 2 and 3. The gm of guild 4 quit the game and i asked for the leadership before he left, he gave it to me. i kicked out all the people (most of them last connected by months) and now have a guild bank with a background full of treasons and fights among "friends".

Rolled up under a hot blanket watching TheMadSeasonShow for 20 mins.Thi is heaven.

They don't call Deathwing the world-breaker for nothing.

The 40 -> 25 raid size change was handled differently by my guild. We already had spare people on the benches. We went with 2x 25man raids. Many of us had alts as well and if needed the we just swapped people around.

"Wern't part of the Clique, wern't part of the raid." That phrase summarizes various quits from me.

Over the last 15 years I've encountered many types of players, and with a few exceptions, I was lucky enough to avoid 90% of the toxicity. Had a main tank steal half my guild at one point; that sucked, but those of us left behind picked up and carried on. When I led raids (late vanilla through cata and all of legion) I never freaked out. Always thought that was such a terrible way to treat people. This video definitely reminds me of groups I joined up with over the years though. Some people forgot that it's only a game. Good times. Great video, thanks for the upload MadSeason!

The way you talk about the community and your views on WoW in general takes me back to the interactions I had in vanilla. The culture seemed so much better overall. Trolls were few and far between. “Barrens chat” was really only in The Barrens and not everywhere all the time. People tried to work together. They had to. I didn’t play enough to max out and get a taste of raiding culture (in vanilla), but the guild environment was so unique and interesting. The people made the server. I really do miss it.

We've had a guild that's been going strong since burning crusade. While the majority of us have quit over the years and return for every new expansion, we're still strong. Always raiding together, transferring servers together, etc. I've built long last friendships with all these guys over the last 10+ years.