And so another expansion is about to hit and I find myself in a situation that I honestly did not expect a couple of weeks ago. I'm writing this primarily to clear my thoughts, but feel free to comment/mock/pity/laugh at me in the replied below.
When Cataclysm came out, I was more or less done with WoW. Two kids and a demanding job had punched big holes in my WoW time and I pretty much expected to level once to max and then cancel my subscription. Through a series of unexpected events, I found myself as the main tank of a 10-man raid team consisting of people with the same kind of time constraints as I had and was having the time of my life. I have never raided prior to Cata, but we ended T13 as 6/8HC and Firelands progression was pretty much the best time I've had in game ever.
We made big plans for MoP. We planned out what alts to level, when to start raiding and even started discussing adding a 2nd raid team to get some more people we liked into the guild. Then one day there was a post on the forums explaining that one of our best DPSers had decided to drop out of raiding. Two days later, our raid leader and one of our tanks announced that they too were withdrawing from raiding. It took only a few days after that and suddenly the guild that showed so much promise was no more.
I know from stories that this is a fairly normal thing to happen, but I still feel sort of at a loss for what to do tomorrow evening when I log on to MoP. My anticipation for the things to come has been replaced by, well, something else. For me, the game is about the team, the feeling of contributing to something bigger than yourself and to accomplish things with people you like. Leveling in Pandaria with no purpose, no team mates racing alongside me and no raid spot waiting when I'm done appears terribly anticlimactic.
But, I will do it. I have started expansions far less prepared than I am now and who knows what I will find in the mists? So, once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more.
/Emerich, Champion of <Chasm> Moonglade-EU
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