One thing that I haven’t written about is a change that happened recently. Due to a sudden influx for Real Life vacations, moves, midterms, new jobs, illnesses, as well as good ol’ burnout, the guild got hit hard for getting a full group of 5 people online to do 25 man content. The officers all talked then gave the guild a heads up that we were going to hold off on raiding til further notice. There was just too much going on in everyone’s lives for us to actually make any progress on 25 man content, and it wasn’t fair to those that came out week after week to keep putting other things on hold, only to find we would have to cancel that night’s raid because we lacked people.

Pretty much, the whole guild agreed this was a good idea. I think everyone’s been getting frustrated at the brick wall we seem to have hit in progression. There an ebb and flow to MMOs: you’re either making progression or you’re not. You losing members or you’re not. And a lot of times, we see that those two flow hand in hand. As soon as a guild stops raiding, there are some that feel they have to move on to guilds that are still raiding. For our guild, I don’t think we’d hold it against them.

I know that I’m actually happy about the no raids other than the guild members throwing together Kara runs or 5man content. See, I’m about to do a Big Thing: a “life reboot”. I’m quitting my current job as a graphic designer, moving two states away (lucky Boyfriend, he gets to not fully unpack, then pack up what he didunpack and move all over again in less than two months), and starting a new life as an art store/teacher resource/bookstore manager for a brand new store opening in a town I’ve never lived in, only visited. I’d already known I’d have to put raiding on hold til the move was done and we were settled, but this way, I don’t feel guilty for not being there to help and (I’ll admit it) jealous at the Phat Lewt others are getting.

Of course, knowing my luck, they’ll start raids back up two nights before we leave Atlanta. :;sigh::

So what do the non-raiding folk do? For my part, it’s heroics, Kara on those nights people have it and I get picked, rep grinds, dailies (oh god lots of dailies), and… well… yeah. Oh and alts. Don’t forget about alts. Now I have the alts on my main server, and then there’s the ones on the About Last Night’s server. And then there’s the shiny PS3 that keeps singing it’s siren song at me from downstairs. Hmm, maybe I do have quite a bit to do.

(Bonus points to anyone who figures out where I bastardized my post title from.)

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