Long blog ahead! you've been warned

I do this to myself, and I do it all the time. I care too much, I suppose.

For the last 6 weeks at least, I have been in unguilded limbo. I have had a few opportunities to run kara as a sub for my friends guild, but my time has mostly been spent running dailies for my epic flyer (not even close and very burnt out on that subject) running heroics and leveling my feral druid. However, I havent run a heroic in 2 weeks at least, and have been doing partial daily runs at the max. I'm burnt out on it.

One thing that has been contributing to my recent disgust is the fact that my guild app was denied, and not just a "we arent recruiting you at this time, but thank you" but a "(insert massive condescension and jackassness from GM here)"

I have a solid group of friends whose guild I applied to. The GM shredded my post on their forums. Not just armory shred, but massive personal shred. I brought this to all of my friends attention, and the response I got was "Well, He is like that sometimes"

I sent him some tells in-game to try and ascertain what was going on, but all I got was more condescension. My friends in the guild knew of this, and told me that 98% of the folks in the guild think he's an asshole, and 99% of the people arent there for him.

All the while I'm thinking to myself "What does this mean for me? Am I just SOL? Am I gonna be relegated to hoping a spot for kara opens up for them and I get to go? Screw that."

I will say this, my best friend in the guild and on the server stuck up for me like a champ, and I appreciate it. But even that was not enough for me to get any headway on getting into this guild and getting a stable flow of badges and various items before the expansion. With nowhere to go on the server, I looked to transfer servers. My main is still my Hunter and I post on a well-respected Hunter forum. The sites master/leader/whatever started his own guild for wrath content named after the site, and when I spoke of my plight to the folks on the board, it was suggested I move there.

This idea made a lot of sense because I would go to a server where I would have an instant amount of credibility, as well as a guaranteed spot in raids, and friends! albeit internet forum friends. They may not be server friends who you've known for 9-10 months, but at least they're friends and they want to progress. I had sent the GM a PM on the forums saying that the transfer should be happening sometime late last week, and that I should be on Shadowsong soon.

So it was with a heavy heart that I prepared to transfer servers over the weekend. I hadnt said any goodbyes because its not like I dont have their private vent info, and I wasnt transferring my druid at the time, just my main.

But oh no! I had mail in the bank and couldnt put the transfer through! lol, noob.

I figured I would get home, run my dailies, clean the mailbox, and do the transfer, no big deal. Whilest running around I informed another good friend (damn good pally tank) of my decision, and then he said something that has made my had spin for the last few days, something to the affect of:

"Well, (GM asshole guy) pissed most everyone off last night, now there is talk of a bunch of us leaving and forming a new guild."

Dammit.

That news halted my plans, and I asked him to keep me informed when he knew new details. I should note that I planned my escape during a week when my best friend on the server (the one that stuck up for me) was on vacation (I know, mean) and I decided that I should wait until she got back and was brought up to speed on the situation before doing anything. Bottom line for me that is if I can be in a guild with friends who progress, thats where I want to be. If being on Azuremyst is what makes that happen, thats where I am. If Shadowsong is where that happens then thats where I'll be. I want to kill Arthas, but I want to do it with my friends. Some people dont have it that way, and I dont want to sound selfish, but that is what I want to pay for, so I'm gonna go for it.

So this friend gets back and is informed of the guild members angst and solution, but also that I'm thinking about transferring. I get a tell from her, and we discuss things, and she says that they definitely want me in this guild, yada yada yada, you get the idea.

So I'm still in limbo. It sucks. I refuse to wait forever on this server for things to happen, but now I have folks on Shadowsong thinking I'm coming over. I dont want to be tooled around anymore on this server, but I also dont want to tool around the folks on Shadowsong. ugh.

My initial solution, if the new guild emerges, is to transfer my Feral to shadowsong. Other hunters on the forum have done that, transferring resto shammys and the like. I would leave my main on azuremyst. I'm not thrilled with the idea, but at least I give the Hunting Lodge guild a character, and I get to stay on azuremyst. It seems like....meh, I dunno what it seems like to be honest

Complicated, eh? We're only halfway there.

One of my groomsmen, who I call my little brother, has been recruited to get into the terrible world of warcraft, and he and I are leveling twin paladins.....on shadowsong!

I told him to roll on shadowsong because I thought I would be transferring there. This happened in that terrible gap where I had tried to transfer but was held up, and the time I talked to a friend about the guild separation/re-form.

I dislike the idea of juggling 3 toons on 2 servers, but Im not asking my little bro to pay 25 bucks when he's already paid 100 or so for comp upgrades + the game. So I have a little more motivation to have a toon on shadowsong than just the guild, after all, we need a bankroll

So at this point its messy, but I'm hoping for a good resolution. Im hoping everyone ends up happy and that I end up in a place with friends where I can progress and have a good time, all at the same time.

Sorry for the wall. Thanks if you read this far