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Longest summer ever

Posted 08-24-2008 at 12:13 PM by thugthedum
So I've noticed a tendency in my guild, at least, and I assume server wide, for raiding to slow down a bit during summer.

Guildies in University are doing what good productive late teens early 20's members of society should be doing, i.e. mental chemical rearrangement and repetitive mating attempts.

"Adult" guildies are taking family vacations, or working harder to cover co-workers on vacations. Heck, one friend of mine is taking a one month sabatical to float down the Mississippi. Can't say I blame him.

It's harder to see 25 people on line at once, basically.

To add to the complexity however, we've traditionally had one or two MT (me) and three or four solid raid leaders (not me). I took two weeks to get married, and the other MT just finished his degree. So both of us disappeared for a little while... and so far, I'm back and ready to go but we are short good players - and have only one raid leader type, and he's not on very much.

To add to all that, the officer core has decided:
  1. WotLK will not require 25 man raids to have a decent progression path.
  2. It's real hard to get 25 good people around all the time.
  3. We don't like all these people we recruited to do 25 man progression.

So they've all decided to basically stop playing their mains or show up on raid nights in any dedicated way, all at once.

Problem is; I'm not a gamer - I'm here for the comradery and the challenge, I'm not the type to just go get another video game and be content with that. I'm bored; and WotLK doesn't come out for a while, probably. Even if it did, I'm not sure I'd suddenly want to go grind out 10 levels.

I don't want to look for another guild because the guild I'm in is made up of IRL friends, and random Internet strangers just aren't as compelling to me I guess.

This post has no point; I'm just publicly describing my dilemma.

Will I quit the game?

Will I quit the guild and find another raiding guild?

Will I just wait for WotLK and slog through 10 more levels? Roll a DK?

I just don't know.

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I share your dilemma.
Switching to another Guild won't bring you a happier playing time, my guild has stopped raiding, and the highest raiding guild all quit or transfered, so i'm left with playing an alt.
Tried few other guild realizing it's all the same.

Quiting the game is plain healthy.

Rolling a DK on PVP in my case will be a horror.
it will be 24 hrs a day pvping and all mains will be rolling their DK, all L70 will be boosting their friend's DKs
Posted 08-24-2008 at 05:22 PM by BoJlk BoJlk is offline
 
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