Put simply, this guild although a great idea at the time, failed. We couldn't even get the guys through naxx 25. Myself and the other officers have now had enough of trying to drag up under-geared under-experienced people up to the level needed to progress in Ulduar. Thinking about it, there has only ever been two guild in which I was not either an officer or a person with quite a bit of influence in, and every guild has had its highs and lows, but this was the last straw for me.
When I realised this was the end, i'll admit it now, I did actually cry. I know, it's such a girlie thing to do, but the core members, guys I been friends with for maybe two years now, now face the prospect of being split up. I have only just got everyone together!!!!
Why is it not as simple as it could be? All we need is around ten more people like us, and we would be set for the rest of our WoW careers. Dedicated, fun and friendly guys who want to raid and progress and more importantly want to do so in the company of like minded and fun people.
It got to the point where I seriously did consider quitting WoW, once and for all. But I am too addicted to the people, not the game, to do so at this point in my life. While at uni, I don't see many people other than my landlady; as lectures are mostly mon-existent in your third year, and as I live alone while here, I crave friendship and people to talk to. Hence the fact I will not be leaving WoW for at least a few more months :-) I don't know how many times now I have threatened to quit :S
The best thing we could do we decided was to try and get into a good guild, and take a well deserved rest from leading, and just get a chance to raid with decent people. So, I was sent off to talk to guys I have generally been in awe of since being on Karazhan, people whom have helped me in the past with questions on all kinds of stuff. People like Vordek (GM of Nightshift in TBC), Mushi (Current GM of NS), Karalis (Infest, GM Of Arctic Avengers) as well as lesser known guys.
I didn't really plan on ever even applying to a guild like Nightshift, I wasn't too keen on the initial welcome in old 'top raiding guilds' but I went and spoke to Vordek anyway, more socially to start with, reminiscing about players who have moved on to better things irl and to other servers etc. When I posed him the situation of having around 5-10 great raiding players, he urged me to talk to Mushi, as he thought we deserved a chance with NS. He said if he was GM he would have accepted me and a few more people on the spot, but as he is still away partaking in military service he couldnt!
Mushi was a really nice guy, we decided the best thing for all of us to do would be apply independently to NS and see what the overall reaction from the officers would be.
So we all sat on Skype (No vent at the moment) and corrected everyones English to try and make us sound like half decent, good speakers of the English language and Fantastic players of WoW!
As you have probably noted, my command of the English Language isn't great :S I'm very dyslexic, and can't spell at all, also I am queen of typo's! Generally due to having my hands bandaged up all the time, or I get to eager and try to type as fast as my brain is thinking and my fingers can't keep up!!!
Things went downhill from the moment we got on skype, found out why vent is so much more popular, you dont have to talk all the time on there! You dont push to talk when you yell for 'CHEESE SANDWICH PLEASE' or burp, or take phone calls!!!! Also I talk to myself ALOT whilst playing wow, and sing away all the time, but being on skype meant everyone could hear me all the time!
We went on to do a quick UP run to gear up Azzys friend, and just the whole experience of last nights parties and raid on Karazhan was hilarious!
Shamans go 'Pew Pew' but tanks (or maybe just this tank) go 'Boing Boing'!!!!! No idea why but this really tickled me.
Another thing I found stupidly funny was Valrok's attempt at rolling his R's xD He sounded worse than me, more like a dying cow, or something in dreadful pain, rather than the melodic purring many people can do. I'm sure it is just because we are English, we have had no need to learn this embouchure position, so basically it's going to take some learning if either of us ever wants to do it!
Well this was a very random and fast post, while im sat here waiting for a reply from Nightshift on my application (so so so nerve racking) and the fate of our little group!
Childrens week is upon me now in game again, so I guess even if I don't get in NS i will have something to do for a week at least!
last but not least, here is a few screenies from yesterday :-)
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