Guild Progression and Moving on..

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!