I was in the guild, Giant Censored Robots, for a good time. I’m not one to simply guild hop; it’s usually things that cause me to leave a guild. The guilds I’ve been in, from first to last:

Warrior Nation – I spent a good year or two in this guild; it’s the first guild that I began to raid with. However, RL issues with the guy I was seeing at the time caused me to leave, and apply at Remorseless. I went back to WN when things were resolved with this… guy, but the depression of having wasted an entire year set in… Things had changed so much in WN, that I felt like I didn’t belong anymore, and so I moved on to Giant Censored Robots.

Remorseless – this guild was amazing; the first really “pro” raiding guild I’ve been in, and I love all of them still. The same guy who caused me to leave WN caused me to leave Remo as well; however, I’m still in contact with many of the people from Remo, and will probably go back to Arthas at some point on some toon to play with them again.

TG – Yet again the same guy, but this time… I found myself a heals leader, and a raid leader. Then, well, the GM sold his account, and the others in the guild weren’t too happy with that, so we all basically left, and it melted away… and I went for several months guildless, then went back to WN.

Giant Censored Robots – GCR was the first kind of hardcore raiding-type guild that I’ve been in – at least, it was a step up for me. I began to raid with them whenever Wrath hit; I piddled in T6 content with them for a little while, but it wasn’t until Wrath that I became an actual part of their raiding team. I’m still friends with some of the people in there, but what really pushed me out were the kinds of people in the guild; it upset me that someone could insult other players in the guild and still have a raiding spot (as precarious as it was), and the kinds of comments I was receiving after I took an hour out of my life to write a post in the forum outlining the things I saw in the guild that were going to be a problem – it became oversimplified by my guildies and was simply glossed over by most of them. It ended in me making a very brash decision, and trialing at Aftermath.

Aftermath – the guild I was part of for approximately a month and a half as a trial. The problem? They had a sudden surge in attendance… And I guess that I’m not one who wishes to sit outside of an instance for nearly 6 hours, or on vent for 6 hours when I could be doing other things. If I’m not needed, fine. Tell me. Let me go do my dailies and bullshit with my friends instead of wasting both of our time.

Where do I go from here? I’m not quite 100% on that myself; I have some friends in another guild that I’m looking at going to, while a friend or two in GCR are asking em to rejoin them (or at least making me regret my brash decision further). Frankly, I want to find a guild where I can live by my philosophy that raiding should be done with a team of friends – it shouldn’t be a time that I dread, or one that I feel apprehensive and nervous about. Have I found that guild through the ones with my friends? I certainly hope so.

On the other side, will I get to see the hard modes? Will I get to see the final final boss now? Or do I value my friends above that question? Can I set aside my desire to be “the best” and my competitive nature?

Admittedly, for a person who’s always seemed to find a place among top guilds, I find myself wanting more and more to just have fun while raiding – so yes, yes I can. I mean, it was fun raiding with GCR before all of the crap I received, but I want a guild I can joke around with and be myself – I’ll admit my sense of humor is a bit rough around the edges. I don’t feel like hard mode honestly matters in the face of friendship and fun – fun to me is not being told I’m “bad” for a rather humorous death in which I was tanking Auriaya for half a minute.

Even so, I’ll admit that I am looking at folding when it comes to playing WoW. I’m not too enthused by the attitude of many of the players – that you have to be in a “top guild” to be any good or to have fun. If it is going to become this serious of a game, then I would prefer to find destressing through other means – perhaps replace WoW with the hobbies that it replaced in my life.

As promised – the video of the tram ride on Mimiron!  I thought it was really neat.

As I went down the hallway, I tried to catch some shots of just how fantastic the place was.  Notice how each hallway has its own feel; entering Mimiron’s just feels like re-entering the level 30 instance of Gnomeragan, and you noticed the initial hallway – Freya’s – felt like a small jungle.  Going into Freya’s itself felt like entering a fantasy – despite its huge amount of trash, I thought it was pretty neat with all of the dragons, the ents (walking trees – I’ve always thought they were like ents), and of course, the walking flowers.

So, tell me how Ulduar is going for you!  I’d like to see some opinions

Well, the site has actually been live for a few days, I just haven’t been able to blog.  Between being the GM of a guild of a guild started by some friends and I, in addition to the release of Ulduar, it’s definitely been….  Interesting?

So here’s my introduction post!

My main is a shaman, as I hope you guessed!  I originally rolled her the week before World of Warcraft’s Burning Crusade was released, and leveled her up as Delerium on the quiet realm of Anub’arak.  I raided her all the way through Sunwell!  Of course, I’ve had some bumps along the way.  I unfortunately had to do T4, T5, and T6 all with different guilds for different reasons.  I’m now playing on Mal’Ganis as the shaman Delecious.  Why don’t I introduce you to my cast!

Main!:

Delecious

This, of course, is my shaman – and a troll.  I played her as Restoration for a while – in fact, I even leveled 36 total levels as restoration!  (1-30, 67-70, and then 71-73 as resto).  I’ve piddled around as Enhancement a little bit, but now I’m raiding with her as Elemental.  The release of Dual Specialization was a HUGE boost to me as a person – not only can I quickly switch from Restoration into Elemental or the other way around, it doesn’t cost me a fortune!  Definitely a huge welcome from me.

Delecious is definitely my most geared toon, and my most played.  I’m standing at 93 days of played time on her – that’s a lot!  And I look forward to having many, many more played days on her.

Tastysnack

I made my warlock, Tastysnack (originally Delerias) when Delecious was around level 50.  She very nearly became my main, namely because of how easy leveling her was.  She hit 70 kind of late in the game when I had to take a break from her, so I never really geared her past Karazhan and one run of Tempest Keep.  She’s a blood elf – in the spirit of Burning Crusade – and basically just makes enchanting mats for me.

She’s currently the GM of Repercussion as well, the guild I’m starting with some friends.  I’m also thinking of taking her to Arthas in order to play with some other friends of mine.  We’ll see what happens!

Rinir

Wow, breaking the mold with a random name!  Rinir is my Death Knight.  I always did enjoy tanking, so I went ahead and made a Death Knight.  I tried leveling several paladins, but things always got in the way, so I ended up not getting any of them past level thirty or so.  Rinir’s now able to tank a few simple 10mans, and while I’m not a big fan of how powerful the Death Knight class is, I really do enjoy the ease of tanking with them.

And a bit about me:  I’ve piddled around in Warcraft for a long time now, but never seriously played until I began my shaman with a friend of mine from high school.  Yes, I’ll admit I’m a bit addicted, but I believe that keeping a healthy balance is important.  I still do quite a bit in my life – I recently published a novel, I have a freelance business, and a thriving social life.  Yes, I do play on Mal’ganis with one of the more “serious” guilds, but my goal is to simply have fun with my friends and enjoy myself in the down time I get between heavy projects.

Oh, and I’m also a grrrl gamer.  I’m sure you’ll hear plenty about that!