Its the end of the world as we know it.

And I feel fine.

For the last 4 months, I have been healing - and I am finally done. I took a backseat to help progression, behind tanks who do half the research, play half as hard, and care half as much as I do. And I am done with it.

Coming into Wrath, I am taking matters back into my own hands, I will be tanking in a smaller setting, with the people I enjoy again. There will be no more excuses, no more pigeonholing due to seniority. If we find a tank better then me, he main tanks - I don't care who it is, as long as they care.

The guild I am leaving, is trying to "tighten" up ship, when half the officers are the worst players of the respective classes we have. I see no way to fix things without disrupting the fragile balance they have, and I wish them no ill will - I just want to have fun again, and play with people who aren't just running the motions. We managed to get "Lolidan" after the 3.0 patch, and it was even more of a joke that some people in my guild felt that we earned something.

I understand enjoying our hobbies in various ways, but is it really fun to be so bad at one? If I made macaroni art that always looked like a buffalo, I wouldn't make macaroni art anymore. Hence the problem with a semi-serious "raiding" guild, you have 10 people trying to carry the other 15, and my back is tired.

For a while, I had a glimmer of hope - my current GL approached me after my post stating what I would be doing, offering me a tanking spot again. But 3.0 has shattered even that, Blizzard went and made tanking easy enough, its not glaringly apparently how terrible our other warriors are. Such is life, at least I know I will be prepared for the future.

“Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.”