Wonder Gem PigtailsOfDoom wrote:
Okay, checking wowprogress gave me a bit of an ego boost in regards to how well my toons are geared. =x Proudmoore is considered to be a pretty good server (ranked 12th out of the US servers) for raiding and my priest is tied for 44th with 13 other people. That seems kinda sad, especially since I'm only ilvl 359. I have no heroic gear at all, and there's only 43 priests on my server that are better geared than me. Willow is in the same boat. She's ranked 43rd, tied with 15 other people and the same gear level.
Even better, Pop is ranked 10th best geared for Horde players. =x
Why'd you transfer servers Brisin?
Several reasons, really.
TL;DR: I got tired of social/casual dramas and wanted to try and be in a hardcore guild before deciding to quit.
Long explanation: I've been playing this game since mid-tBC and been in a casual guild. We did T6, but I never killed Illidan, only got till Council. Cleared all the rest, though after the nerfs.
Same thing happened with WotLK, though I did quit from february till later november because of time constraints.
The fact that the guild had a core of people that I really liked and actually knew some of them iRL and consider myself friend and the fact that something like 10/12 people actually knew how to play, made me stick around with them and not really worry myself with the fact that we had to carry another 10 people, had to wait for nerfs to actually kill the bosses that needed a bit of thinking, etc. Although we could try and kill bosses on 10 man during WotLK, since the guild was casual, no one actually cared to raid more than 2 days/week.
Cata came and I tried to actually pick those 10 people and make a more hardcore group. It worked for a while. In 2 months of raiding (we started late, around late february) we were sitting 9/12 normal and farming a bit of content to get geared.
Things were fine, but, then, we started having problems. The guild was still casual and the fact that we were a more hardcore group (though not really hardcore, only 3 days of raiding, 3 hours everyday) and more competent of the rest of the guild, problems started showing. People were jealous, wanted to participate in the raid group, the guild leader wanted us to lead 25 raids to get and integrate (is this word right? it's "integrar" in portuguese) people in the guild and we did not wanted to. But some of the raiders in our group were actually officers, so the guild leader started to show them that they needed to act accordingly with the guild moto, wich was to be casual and what not.
So, **** hit the fan, people started leaving for different guilds and the guild is kinda falling appart. After 3 or 4 people left, I decided it was the time for me to leave to. I just couldnt decide myself if I wanted to quit for good or to look something else to do. In the end, I decided to apply to a hardcore and competent guild (the one I am is top 300 US) and they actually liked my application. Yesterday was the my first day raiding with them and they are trying Sinestra and they decided to bring me along to see if I was full of **** or if I could hold my stuff in hard bosses. I think I fared well, though I did fail once or twice.
They do run 4 days/week but in my application I said I would be able to run only 3 days/week. More than that, my girlfriend leaves me, and rightfully so.
I still talk to a lot of people in the old guild, still am friend with some people there and my alt is still there. But I dont like dramas and what they had to offer wasnt compelling anymore to me.