Guildless
2006-10-09
Yesterday afternoon my [main] WoW character left her guild. By yesterday evening I had been invited to four others. People really value healing-spec priests: they need someone to shout at when it all goes pear-shaped.
I left the previous guild because they were obsessed with raiding. I don't really want a bit part in a 40-man extravaganza of sitting around for hours at a time, the tedium of waiting for everyone to get back to the keyboard and ready broken only by the occasional five-minute bout of getting our arses kicked by some unlikely-looking computer construct. I'd much rather be a fifth of the team in one of the smaller dungeons, where I know I'm making a difference and have an outside chance of actually making some money and improving my kit.
There will come a time when I can't get better gear without raiding, but Age of Conan should be ready by then.
Thing is, I don't want to raid until I feel the character is ready for it (if at all). Currently Penumbra's gear is junk, a lot of it has been with me for 10 or 20 levels, so she's not as good as she should be; I don't want to be raiding while that's the case. Being unwilling to raid I eventually decided that hanging around in a raiding guild was unfair on them (and hardly made me feel good), so I left.
So, with only the friends who keep to themselves online, I joined random groups going to a couple of the hardest 5-man dungeons. Both groups were guild outings with only me and maybe one other as the pick-up (if you can't get your own guild outings, joining someone else's is the next best thing, with a few notable exceptions), both were huge fun even though we kept dying (to die because the group is good but not good enough or to die to an honest mistake is fair enough; to die because somebody in the group is a liability is depressing, and all too common), and in both cases the group leader quietly thanked me for helping and invited me to their guild. Both were told politely that I intended to remain guildless for a while, but both guilds are the sort of thing I'm looking for: young, growing guilds that send entire groups into the kind of dungeon I want to be running at the moment. And lacking in holy-spec priests is a point in my favour too...
I was also invited to the guild one of my friends went to after he left the one I just did, although besides him being there they don't have much in their favour. They may be easy-going about raiding, but I don't know how long that will last. Besides, their guild name is in all-caps, and I'd have to have that floating over my head all the time, whenever anyone looked my way.
One other person sent me a private message asking me if I wanted to join his guild. Apparently they were running Molten Core soon, but he had no way to know this was a point against him (well, the guild running MC is fair enough, but the fact that it's in his opening line isn't good).
If anyone wants to bug Penumbra, she's on The Venture Co RP-PvP server.
I left the previous guild because they were obsessed with raiding. I don't really want a bit part in a 40-man extravaganza of sitting around for hours at a time, the tedium of waiting for everyone to get back to the keyboard and ready broken only by the occasional five-minute bout of getting our arses kicked by some unlikely-looking computer construct. I'd much rather be a fifth of the team in one of the smaller dungeons, where I know I'm making a difference and have an outside chance of actually making some money and improving my kit.
There will come a time when I can't get better gear without raiding, but Age of Conan should be ready by then.
Thing is, I don't want to raid until I feel the character is ready for it (if at all). Currently Penumbra's gear is junk, a lot of it has been with me for 10 or 20 levels, so she's not as good as she should be; I don't want to be raiding while that's the case. Being unwilling to raid I eventually decided that hanging around in a raiding guild was unfair on them (and hardly made me feel good), so I left.
So, with only the friends who keep to themselves online, I joined random groups going to a couple of the hardest 5-man dungeons. Both groups were guild outings with only me and maybe one other as the pick-up (if you can't get your own guild outings, joining someone else's is the next best thing, with a few notable exceptions), both were huge fun even though we kept dying (to die because the group is good but not good enough or to die to an honest mistake is fair enough; to die because somebody in the group is a liability is depressing, and all too common), and in both cases the group leader quietly thanked me for helping and invited me to their guild. Both were told politely that I intended to remain guildless for a while, but both guilds are the sort of thing I'm looking for: young, growing guilds that send entire groups into the kind of dungeon I want to be running at the moment. And lacking in holy-spec priests is a point in my favour too...
I was also invited to the guild one of my friends went to after he left the one I just did, although besides him being there they don't have much in their favour. They may be easy-going about raiding, but I don't know how long that will last. Besides, their guild name is in all-caps, and I'd have to have that floating over my head all the time, whenever anyone looked my way.
One other person sent me a private message asking me if I wanted to join his guild. Apparently they were running Molten Core soon, but he had no way to know this was a point against him (well, the guild running MC is fair enough, but the fact that it's in his opening line isn't good).
If anyone wants to bug Penumbra, she's on The Venture Co RP-PvP server.
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