By alex
Hey Guys’n'Gals! Look at this! 3rd post in 3 days! That’s gotta be a record or something.
So last night was rather eventful – the busiest night I’ve had in wow for what must be 2 or 3 months. I took my first steps with the new raid group and it was rocky at first but seemed to be good in the end.
First we started at TotC 25-man normal. I died early on – OH NO!!! That thankfully was my only real facepalm moment – A few days ago I was running a friend through ZF and I’d put Righteous Fury on. Yep you guess it I left it on and forgot about it – consequently I drew aggro from the tank and SPLAT! I made my apologies to the GM – I was nervous as you like, thankfully she was ok and told me not to worry.
So we moved through there, then onto Onyxia then to VoA. All cleared in just over 2 hours. A hard-mode Ulduar run was almost put together, but we lacked 1 tank and a healer – not enough achievement whores in the guild it seems! Doh!
It was a fun couple of hours, the guild are a fun bunch, and I saw a few more people in there I knew last night that had come from Rage. I also spoke to a few people from Rage who hadnt realised I’d moved on and I was a little sad for a bit, so I logged my Horde Death Knight and completed my the Argent Tournament – just need some more rep with Argent Crusade and home cities to complete the Crusader title.
So it was a fun night, and I really enjoyed being back in a guild that want to progress with things and not just sit around happy to do 10-mans all the time due to lack of sign ups. I’m really looking forward to seeing some real progression night again in the up-coming 3.3 and in TotC Heroic 25-man as well.
I was lucky enough to get to bid on some loot last night as well – which made all the difference to my evening – I’m severely lacking in gear compared to some of the DPS in the guild so a few updates will make quite a difference – there are 1 or 2 other ret-paladins in the guild who are way geared better so I was really struggling to keep up with some of the DPS classes in there. Seems my absence from raiding is really showing – I’ve barely played firelight these last 2 months and I’m really rusty. Plus I’m playing with a new interface that is taking a little getting used to. (Spartan UI if anyone is interested – Will post some pics later if I get the time)
All in all last night was a real blast, I got the feeling back that I’d been missing – While I was particularly quiet on ventrillo all night, it was fun just listening for a change and getting to know peoples voices.
One of the guildies has posted some really funny video’s about Independent on You Tube – I’ll dig them out and post them up here later also.
I hope all of you are having fun in WoW cos I certainly am!
By alex
Just over 2 years ago I started writing this blog shortly after I first joined Rage in an attempt to catalogue my advances in being a Retribution Paladin. Well a lot has happened in the last 2 years, and it was with a very heavy heart, and a tear in my eye I wrote my farewell post on the guild forum, then a quick goodbye message in the guild.
Watching the guild slowly fall apart these last few months has been a little upsetting and its taken me a long time to come to the decision. After I /gquit I had a number of whispers from the few people who I consider some of the best friends I have in game – added them to my friend list.
I’ve joined a guild that’s been around a little while called Independent – they’re a 4 night a week raiding guild with proper rules in place and penalties as well as bonuses for commitment to raiding 3/4 times a week. Tonight I should get my first run with them and see whats what.
Turns out this is where a few people from Rage have gone to as well – see a few good guys in here that I’ve missed in the last few weeks/months. Which is a bit of a bonus!
I will be making more of an effort to write about my experiences as 3.3 comes out and over the next few weeks while I get settled into Raiding with a completely new team of people. Exciting times head I think!
Wish me luck.
By alex
Hey peeps – wow its been a little while since the last post, best explain myself eh!
Well what with moving into my new place, and having the obligatory Internet problems, then I was struck down by a nasty chest infection which really knocked me for six. Thankfully the illness is more or less gone now, and my Internet is back up to full strength as well. So I’m slowly getting back into the swing of things in Azeroth.
Rage have had a management re-shuffle in the past month or so, our GM moved onto another server and switched to horde so We have a new GM who does things a little differently. But with Kuta moving on the structure of raiding has fallen somewhat to the way-side. New rules put in place by the management team have said that people only need commit to 1 raid per week. While this suits our casual status, what it does do is massively limit the amount of people we have signing up for raids..which in turn means we loose out on 25-man raids a lot. Don’t get me wrong 10-man raids are fun, but I joined a 25-man raid guild for a reason.
So in the last 2/3 weeks I’ve done maybe 1 25-man raid and we’ve lost a few good members from the raid team making it even harder to get things done. Its very frustrating to me as I only really play to raid. I have however gotten my DK to 80 and he’s almost completed the Argent Tournament – just 1 more set of daily quests to complete today.
Then to make things even more interesting, one of the guys who left Rage has told me that the Pally CL in the guild he’s in is after me – not sure how true this is, but will be speaking to them to see whats what. Not 100% sure if I want to leave Rage – its been my home for the last 2 years and I’ve formed good friendships with people in there. Sadly a lot of them have moved on or quit the game.
I’m at a virtual cross-roads so to speak – and not sure where to turn. To my left i see the road leading to Rage and the uncertain future the guild has… Ahead of me is the road leading to the other Alliance guild that want me…and to my right is the road leading to me quitting the game on the eve of Arthas coming to town – the single most important thing to me in the Wrath expansion. I don’t want to miss that…
There’s also a fork in the road ahead – I hear that a horde guild are looking for a ret-paladin on my server. But I don’t know if i can bring myself to change into a Blood Elf….Maybe once Cataclysm comes around I might switch to a Tauren, but we’ll see – that’s a fair bit of time away.
Leaving a guild you’ve been with for such a long time is for me one of the hardest things I’ve had to think about in the time I’ve been playing the game. Any words of wisdom any of you have would be greatly appreciated. If I do decide to leave I will not be doing a ninja /gquit at 3am, I will discuss it with the GM first, and make sure i’m 100% into this.
In other news my obsession with Blizzard Micro-Transactions has gotten me the 2 new pets available from the Blizzard store, and also Firelight is now a space goat!
