Friends or Progression....

This is one of the many dillemas people talk about on their blogs these days, especially with WotLK drawing near. Many of us want to see the big "Game Over" in the middle of our screen before the new "click here to continue" button appears. The biggest hurdle most seem to find when trying to reach this goal is this:

"Do you stay with those friends who you have played with all those hours, those friends you will probably continue to play with in WotLK... or do you take the window of opportunity when it opens, climb through it without looking back, and jump the hurdle with ease..."

Well, yesterday....that window opened for me. It has its draw backs, things I am not so sure about, but the positive sides of it are far out weighing the negative...including the chance to see the rest of Sunwell and possibly seeing KJ die once or twice before Wrath gets here.... I think for once... I am going to crawl through that window without remorse...

For those of you who read my blog back when my last guild died, the one I main tanked for... you know that I am far from the selfish type. At that time I could have joined almost any guild on the server as my tank, but I stepped down from tanking to allow a very good friend a chance to find a good home and I took a step backwards to play my shaman (which these days, sadly, has became my main...atleast until WotLK hits). I stuck around in that guild until the very end, longer than I probably should have, and bid each of my friends farewell and best wishes as they lifted their anchor and sailed to other harbors. All the while, I cannot deny the fact that these friends that did leave ever so quickly, are the reason my shaman is as geared as he is today in the short amount of time that he was. If it were not for them vouching for me and my play style as well as what they had seen by my tanking, I would never have gotten into any of the guilds. Afterall, what kind of BT guild wants a resto shaman in Karazhan epics and no flying mount as well as very little raid healing experience? In the end, it turned out boding well for the guild that snatched me up (after all, most guilds would have readily snatched up a resto shaman with a tier6 tank alt for those "oh no we need ....class....." moments that all guilds reach.) as my raid attendance was 100% and these days I am sitting at the top or near the top of the healing meters on almost every fight besides the obvious gimmick fights for certain classes (bloodboil, illidan, etc etc). For this, I do thank all those friends that begged their new GM to invite my budget alt, and I thank the GM for actually giving me the chance to prove myself...but, like I said... its my turn to be the selfish person, to actually reach my own goal... I want to see the "Game Over". I'm tired of being so far behind in progression over the rest of the world, and I do not want to be one of the people in a year from now who tells stories of never seeing certain fights, but being ever so close. Hell, six months ago, I would have told you that I never would have thought to see SSC/TK, four months ago, I never would have thought to see the death of Kael/Vashj/and many other BT bosses....Two months ago Illidan was out of my grasp and seeing him dead while my tank standing over his body as he dies in his cinematic was something I thought I would never see due to the explosion of my guild, and before yesterday, I never thought I would have a chance to see Mu'ru or Kil'jaedin...but now...

Now the option is there and I am taking it

My only issue, is that the option involves people that I did not get along with very much when Good Guild was still in the picture. I had a run in with quite a few of them, and I do not know what this will bring as a result, but I intend to keep a positive look on things, overlook the past, and keep my chin high. When WotLK comes, I plan to be pushing the frontal content and hopefully be on the front edge of progression, seeing possibly even world firsts... I am sooooooooooo sick of being behind times....