Posted Mar 20, 2007 at 07:16PM by Ceasar S. Listed in: News Tags: raiding
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The Nihilum guild takes down boss C'Thun - Image 1Here we go, this is what we've been talking about last time. Nihilum, considering themselves one of the professional raid guilds on the Magtheridon realm, have open spots on their raiding guild for a Shadow Priest, a Warlock and a Hunter. Guess who's going to tank and who's going to DPS?

Now while they've got a comprehensive list of requirements for interested applicants, they've got pretty strict do-it-or-frikkin'-die rules regarding player behavior and "maturity". In fact, WoW Insider blogger Elizabeth Harper finds that the requirements are slightly disturbing: Nihilum specifically will not recruit females.

Sexist? Perhaps, but they have altered the application post to rid the clause stating "no females allowed" sometime earlier today. Unfortunately, even with a cha-cha backstep to neutral ground, Nihilum still keeps certain rules that mostly male geeks would qualify to.

Nihilum probably wishes to set the standards for Raid competition and ranking, just as ZERG IT DOWN and Power Trip have been recognized for their feats in the World of Warcraft Arena tournament. While no one has picked them up at the moment, they are banking on being the best Raid guild and best looking guild until the next expansion.


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   by skye (Unregistered) - 2007-03-21
 » I don't like it, but I don't blame them, either

Having led many, many, many, many (etc) more people in more hours of raiding than I'd ever like to actually count myself, I can totally understand why a group dedicating themselves to being the absolute best, no nonsense, do it or die kind of place would want a unisex organization.

When girls are involved, boys start acting stupid. They give them things for no good reason, they hit on them (constantly), they start acting creepy, they start jockeying for position in the girls' affections. Girls in the group get catty, very quickly, especially against the ones that get the most attention. It can go downhill very quickly.

Now none of this, is the fault of the women. I totally understand that - however a raid group is not an EOE Workplace, there are no sex discrimination laws guiding their recruitment and placement, and there is nothing requiring anyone to be fair.

As a casual raider, I am more than willing to put up with the difficulties of personal interaction - I prided myself on being able to take a group of 30ish inexperienced people into Molten Core or BWL with my friends helping lead, and getting them through every boss, even if it took all night. I was involved very heavily with one of (if not THE) the largest non-guild groups ever run on WoW - and we had drama-aplenty, but we could still run successful raids, and we did.

But from that perspective, how much less drama would we have had without the catfights and relationship issues? Probably 80% less, because people start acting really stupidly when intimate relationships get involved, and that caused a huge amount of issues. A hardcore raiding guild, trying to cut all the excess from their group, is going to want to avoid that, and if they can achieve that by being unisex, they are probably going to. And they'd hardly be the first guild to do that.



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