Or… Gruuls Lair.

So, late Monday night, And I mean late… Thanks Keesh. Mini-Maer got invited to Gruul’s lair with a dual Guild venture. Sure, 1193 healing is not much. Sure 6284 Health is not much. But hey… You’ve got a years worth of experience behind you. You KNOW how to heal a 25-man. You know the fights, you know how not to die to Cave-ins and Shatters. When the “raid leader” commented that “we all have 1800 healing, so we’ll be fine” A sheepish little voice piped up… “I don’t have 1800 healing. I have 1200″

I’m sure Keesh got a whisper and a “what the hell is he even doing here?” Well, what I was doing there was imparting wisdom. I was helping explain the fight. I was helping explain who needs heals and when. I was getting the Raid leaders to go download DBM… come on people… I was… #2 on the healing meter for Gruul. yes. that’s right my paltry 1193 healing against people with 1800+ and I was #2. Maybe it was knowing the fight. Maybe it was my anticipation of who and when to heal. Shatter’s coming up… I’m close to 3 people… HOT them all NOW! 2 Tanks. Druids own at tank healing. I cannot say it enough. I wish I had WWS and could look at that fight to see what everyone else did for heals.

I know for a fact that I was the only druid healer. I know for a fact that people were moving. Alot. Maybe that explains it. I can heal on the run. you priests and shamen can’t. oh yeah, did I mention that we didn;t have a pally healer? Yeah oversight. It didn;t matter much.

Last night was the first collaboration between Koh and whatever that other guild was called. Previous forrays into Gruul’s by Koh members were with P A L E. Who led the entire run. So, it can be said that this was “our” first Gruul kill. It felt good. So good that by the time we were at 16% on Gruul I forgot how painful the whole “I think I can get so-and-so to come. oh, no. he’s already saved. What are we missing? Can I come on my lock? Do we need more healers? We have a mage tank?” for an hour before the first trash pull…. It was painful. truly it was. I almost left group. Me and Slash were ready to drop. Seriously. I am glad we didn’t. The people were all great. Many didn;t know the fight, but just as many were either overgeared and had done the fight many times, or had done the fight on other characters. That all didn’t even matter. For a joint-guild run, we all got along great, there weren’t any ego issues and there wasn’t any loot issue. I love it when stuff happens drama-free.

Hopefully next week we’ll hut Gruul and Mag. I need my shoulders and chest.

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Maerdred it seems, has lost any sense of home. Stepping down as an officer was not the final straw, but with Mini-Maer doing so well, Maer seems to be… dead. All of his friends from that guild have either stopped playing, rerolled horde with Mini-Maer or transferred to Sunwell guilds.

The ties that bound Maer to his home have all been severed, save for nostalgia. So, who needs a part time raider with experience with every boss up to 4/9 in BT Including ZA Bear runs? I’ve been loathe to transfer yet, but the Drama Llama has reared it’s ugly head, and I am ready to sever my ties with the server I was playing on and find fun elsewhere. (and I want a bear mount before they’re all gone!)

I’m only asking here in hopes that one of the wonderful folks in BA has an Eastern guild with room for a part time raider. I’d hate to use the WoW forums and find a guild of jerks!

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Over the past 4 months, I have been slowly and steadily pulling away from my roots in my Alliance guild. My initial reasons were simple. I can’t raid anymore, I’m looking for second jobs, and Raiding is too time consuming. Cut and dry. Real life got in the way. The problem is, Real life got in the way for a bunch of people.

I was a “raider” I was an “officer” I was online every night, Raiding or preparing to raid. It was pretty much all I did. As a healer, I was harder to replace. Sure, there were other healers around with ok gear who had the ability to take my spot over. I made sure of that before I left. But. they weren’t raiders. They weren’t up to playing 6 nights a week. So, Even more healers were needed. The void I left behind was hard to fill. Take a ZA geared druid and place him in my hole. Sure, he’s got 1900 healing and 9k health, That’s ok for MH. Borderline for BT. Get that health up to 11k, and OK. we can handle this. Lucky there’s buffs.

My hole was filled, most nights, by one of a few different healers. But then we lost another Druid healer because he swapped mains to his Warlock. That made healing spots harder to fill. We lost a priest to his RL job. One more spot that’s hard to fill.  DPSers drop off the face of the earth. More spots they have to fill with undergeared, underexperienced people.

It was the start of a slow spiral. The last month has been hard. Mother goes down, and then, no raids for 3 weeks. Not enough people. Ouch. Raiders don’t react well to no raids. Guild drama sprouts up. Raiders and casuals get mad at each other. Raiders mad at the casuals for not helping them raid. Casuals mad at the T6 raiders for not dragging them through ZA, SSC and TK… Now I see why raiding guilds only have like 35-40 people in them…

Last week after a rash of… crap, on the guild forums, I had had enough. “So Long. Farewell. I am demoting myself to member. I don’t even play this character anymore. I am having way too much fun with my horde druid who is starting Kara with my cousins and RL friends. Anyone who wants to hang out. come on over and whisper me.” A few have. more will I bet.

Some of my best friends in my ally guild have called it quits, or transferred, or rerolled like me. It’s not home anymore. That is sad. In the past 3 nights, I have seen all but a couple of officers post “I transferred to raid, my alts will stay here though” posts on the forums. The guild has all but died.

Am I sad? Yes. I poured my soul into that guild for 2 years. But again, no. It is not the same guild it was. I know maybe 25 people in that guild. The raiders. the rest… meh. They killed it for me. Honestly. They never got illidan down. But they came really close. The best guild I have ever known is dead, and I’m okay with it. It was over for me months ago. I just didn’t know it.

I am glad my friends rerolled with me. and I am sad some haven’t. But the death of a guild will tear people apart. I am just glad it all happened pretty amiably. nobody ninja’d the guild bank and transferred.

Goodbye RD. I’ll miss you.

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I don’t want to go on the cart!

(I just got super busy)

posts, forthcoming.

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