The other day I made a decision. It was a decision that was a long time coming, and I’m sure some people weren’t very surprised by it. If you follow me on Twitter, you already know, I gave up raiding with my guild. I did not give up the game. I did not leave the guild. I just gave up raiding.
I’ve given up raiding before. I did so in TBC so I could level a brand new character and then started raiding with him. I did so again in Wrath because I was sick of raiding guilds falling apart underneath me. This time, It’s for a different reason, though very similar. Burnout. I’ve been raiding with the same group of people for 2 years at this point. We’ve been in our current guild for just over a year, and we have fun. I raid 25′s 2 nights a week, and that’s pretty much all I play. I Don’t log on for 10′s on Sundays most often. I don’t log in daily to cap VP. I never even finished Therazane Rep, or Firelands content. I have been skating along under the radar, and I felt that it was unfair to the guild to keep it up.
If I’m not raiding, they don’t have to support me. They don’t have to pay for my repairs and my enchants and all those other things. If I’m not raiding, I can be questing and farming and putting more into the guild that I’ve been taking. I can also do this on my time. I can log in and do 3 Daily quests before Beth gets home, and then log for the rest of the night and actually live with the girl I live with. I can log in on Sunday when she’s at work and I can farm herbs for 4 hours to restock the guild bank for the raiders. I can finally finish some of the questlines I’ve skipped out on. I can just play the game the way I like to play the game.
Will I miss raiding? Yes. Will I go back to it in the future? Who knows. Over the past month I’ve spent more time being sick than I have spent raiding. Over the next month, I expect to spend more time out with family than I will spend in any game. After the holidays are over, SWTOR will be here, and I’m sure that’ll be taking up a large chunk of time. Do I see myself back raiding any time soon? No. Is it possible in the future? Yes.
I love my Guild. I love my Druid. I love my Family. Which do I love more? That much should be obvious. World of Warcraft can wait, I have a family.
What does this mean for the Blog? I’m not sure. In a perfect world, I’ll be able to spend some of the time I had spent raiding, coming up with blog posts instead. Do I see this happening? Honestly, no. Do I want to write interesting topics for people to read? Yes I do. Do I have the time to do so? Not really. I’ll do my best. I feel I’ve neglected this blog far too long. I’d love to come back to it more often. If you want to read more from me, go ahead and comment. If nobody comments I don’t have incentive to write more.
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I read you, and would read anything you post. It’s the poster not the content:) Trying to focus on just posting about WoW almost killed my blog for me. Compared to the rest of the blogging community, I had little to offer as far as useable content. Deciding to just post whatever and whenever was the best decision I made. Other games, real life, silly stuff and screenshots and ya know, people still read it! Stop putting so much pressure on yourself:)
No one can ever doubt that family and rl come first, it is a given.
I must shamefully admit that I’m seldom actually on your blog site. You’ve held a place in my reader for longer than I can remember atm, and will continue to do so. If you chose to write, I’ll still be reading.
I wish you the best in all things and long life!