Hot Mess is for people 18 and up and we can and will be discussing sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Despite being in our thirties and up, we may still succumb to the lure of [anal] trade chat.

But we are not shitty to groups of people, so there will be no heterosexism, sexism, racism, etc. This has always been self-explanatory and hasn’t really ever been an issue, but if you bring friends along who are used to talking a certain way, you might want to fill them in before they show up. It puts the raid leads in a very awkward position if the friend of a guild member is being obnoxious.

Nor do we pick on any particular individuals, so again, remember that there are always real humans at the other end of whatever you say.

We’re also not about judging people over their performance. If you’re consistently at the bottom of the charts, you should feel comfortable asking us what to do to get better. We pretty much only bench or gkick people for being assholes.

How Does Hot Mess Handle Bad Performance?

This is a question worth answering: if the reason you’re bad is because you’re not trying, then it is a problem. It’s not fair to the other raiders if your DPS is consistently below the tank because you didn’t google anything about stuff. It’s hard to define what is and isn’t “having your shit together”, but the guild does whatever it can to help people learn to play their character and get raidable gear for their mains. The game is arcane at times, particularly when you’re raiding (it seems pretty simple once you’re in it, like a language) so we’re not shitty to people who put effort in. But if you don’t have gems in your gear, you don’t know your rotation, and we mail you gems and offer to teach you your rotation, and a month later you’re still like “la la la la I’m going to show up five minutes before raid start and I still don’t have any gems slotted and I still don’t know my rotation derrrrrrrr” then we may say something. Although we’ll still probably say it nicer than the raid lead who gkicks you for leaving your pet’s taunt on.