Much has happened since I last posted here.
We got “Of the Nightfall” though it was a very bittersweet night- we had to not take any of our melee – set up was
2 Paladin healers
Druid healer
Warrior tank (drakes)
Pala tank (adds)
Druid tank (on Sarth)
Ele Shammie
Mage
Mage
Shadow Priest
I was sad about the set up we had to use, and as a result didn’t raid lead the attempts, but we got it down – and that was the important thing.
The week after we worked on 6 min malygos, with me solo healing – we were in the end around a minute too late (unfortunatly the strongest dps wasnt available), but solo healing still felt sweet.
The next day it was Ulduar time.
We had some awesome initial progress, but then started to quickly hit our heads against a brick wall – players stopped signing up after 2 weeks of raiding there, and the furthest we got was to Iron Council.
It was at this point I decided to take the guild to inactive status. We’ve been through this situation before- recruiting more people to fill peoples gaps because they couldnt be arsed to wipe. And to be honest I don’t spend half my life in a game or checking tactics and idea’s for people to just not care.
2 members of the council decided to try keep the guild going after I stepped down, but they suffered the same problems and after 2 weeks they transferred to other guilds. rerolled.
I personally at this point reduced my play-time significantly. Transferred to my original home on Scarshield Legion and planned to rejoin a guild I’d played with in TBC towards the end – Echoes. However. I’m taking a sabbatical from my RL job this summer to go to Sweden, learn swedish and attempt to get a job. There’s a lot to do, and if I’m playing WoW I’m not going to do it.
So as of Monday this week I’ve completely stopped playing.
I don’t regret this, it was time for me and its taken so very much of my life over the past few years.
But then without WoW I wouldn’t have met so many amazing people and visited them. I wouldn’t have met Toomaj. I would’t be moving to Sweden.
From a very real point of view, raid leading over the past 6 or so months has also helped in the real world. I’m more assertive and can take better control of a situation than I ever could before. I can tell what motivates people more easily (true in the real world it isnt achievement points, epics, progression or playing with friends) and I actually find it easier to approach and talk to people than I did before I played.
But it was time.
This blog will go on, though I will probably change the skin/etc to reflect that I’m real not a tree anymore.