The Guild Split

My guild split this week over the usual issues that break up guilds.

1. Lack of Raiding
2. Lack of Guild officers being online to get things done.
3. Lack of Advancement in the guild for those that do hard work.

These are valid reasons for people to leave. The group that left decided to form a new guild on their own. The old guild is going through restructuring. I wish both groups of my friends well. I will move an alt to the new guild and keep my main in the old guild. I'm not going to be going through end game content any time soon so I'm not too worried about lack of oppertunity.

I also had more important things going on:

Like finding out that the foot pain I've had for forever was a broken metatarsel in my foot.

And celebrating my 36th birthday by apartment complex giving me a suprise party. Few things can compaire to getting given a slice of chocolate oreo birthday cake and being sung Happy Birthday in French by the French Foreign exchange students.

Or playing WoW with my friends daughter and watching her figure out how the game works. Then there is making level 50 with a run through Sunken Temple with old friends who have no vested interest in guild drama.

Some things are more important than any guild.

Drama

So I've not been blogging for a bit because of real life issues. Yesterday was just crappy all around.

I log in this morning after feeling a bit of frustration with life the universe and RP and I go talk with a friend.

Evidently there is the potential for a mass guild exodus. I had noticed people were getting pulled into private conversations all last week but figured it was of a personal real life nature.

Evidently there is a mass difference of opinion. Offically the guild no longer wants to do raids on the old instances like Kara because when WotLK comes out the gear will be useless. There are a group of people in the guild who think this is pure BS and have continued to go on Kara raids and whatnot.

This has caused a tremor in the force. All is not well in the guild. I don't know where to stand on this issue but my take on it is if people want to raid let them. Let them explore end game content if they want to. Doesn't hurt you if they do.

Personally I'm just shaking my head. I've had enough real life drama going on that I don't need it in my game. I don't want to RP it and I don't want to get dragged into it and I get really pissed off when people drag me into it or jerk me around about it. I go to have fun. Not to watch other people having fun. I go to RP. Not so I can get hassled or have someone stomp on my toon to get to someone elses toon.

Its all irrelivant anyway. If the guild splits its a moot point. Part of me wishes it would so I could move on.

One of the reasons I have multipul toons is that inevitably I hit a wall with my highest toon. You know the one where you can't take 2 steps without dying or you feel like the class you picked is the stupidest one in the game.

When this happens I log into an alt. If you knew how many alts I have you would know how often the game frustrates me. Still I shall perservere. I will get past the slump. I will reach level 50 before my birthday.

Some days it doesn't pay to log in

Some days it doesn't pay to get out of bed. Today I spilled my coffee, and my dinner. My mike refused to work for a span of time and I died out in the middle of nowhere while I was trying to figure out why my mike wasn't working. This did not bode well for Zul' Farrak

Some Instance runs just go sour. It happens to everyone. Some days you just can't get anything done. Today was one of those days for me. Even though the instance dropped only one good piece for my mage and the rest was stuff that no one could have used, it was still a bit of a downer. I made 47 because I was able to turn in a quest but I'm still feeling blah.

I've got 11g to my name due to leveling my skills and it seemed like EVERYONE was cranky tonight. I just figured to heck with it. I'm not going to take my grump factor out on everyone so I logged.

There is always another instance. There will always be the chance that the next one might drop something a person can use. That is why I go. Even when the deck is stacked against me I try to have a good time because usually someone is getting XP

The old me would have gotten pissed and stayed mad. The new me knows when to log.

And that is half the battle.

Decisions

There are many players that can grind a toon to 70 at the speed of light.

I am not one of them. I'm a 30something who has gone back to school to get my BA in History and my MA in Library Science and Information Resources. I also recieve SSI. Yes I'm on the government dole. The government pays for my healthcare and I get food stamps.

To show my gratitude for this I'm an honor student. I have a 3.75 GPA. I bust my ass when the semester is going. Some days I don't even log into WoW. My life nine months out of the year is school. Its my job, my life and the thing I pray about when I go to bed.

Reciently I felt bad because I didn't have a level 70 and EVERYONE I know does. I was feeling like I couldn't keep up and that I was a drain on peoples resources. So I had a talk to the higher ups in my guild. All of my issues I discussed with them. They pointed out that having 2 level 40somethings and 2 level 30somethings is an accomplishment. They also said that if I get hassled in game and a polite whisper doesn't get people to back off THEY will do something about it regardless of the guys status in the guild.

I decided to focus on my mage for the moment and work on leveling her. I rearrainged my spells and casting order and I'm hoping to see some improvement. I plan on reworking my paladin too as something to play when my mage is totally out of blue time.

This decision has taken a load off of my shoulders. Knowing I don't have to keep up and kill myself doing it is a great relief.