On Being Guildless

Last night while my main server was down, my Guild Leader was talking about disbanding the guild because he's been so frustrated with our lack of progression in ICC.

I didn't think anything of it and I was tired so I went to bed.

This morning when I woke up and logged on, I found that everyone of my characters had been kicked from guild.

This wasn't just some random guild for me. I helped pick the name while I was leveling my DK to 80. I've been in the guild since before there was a guild. We've lost some members, and gained some new members. I led the guild for a month and a half while the GL was away and I've run several raids. I've helped people level, helped people gear, helped with hard quests and answered random questions.

Until this morning, when I'm not in it any more. I spent the whole morning thinking that my GL had disbanded to put his 80s in "real" raiding guilds. Then found out a little after noon that the guild hadn't been disbanded. Our guild leader had kicked all the people (their characters) that he felt were keeping him from progressing in ICC.

I guess that makes sense. I mean it's not like I was at the raid every week, knew the fights and never caused trouble in the raid group. OH WAIT. I DID DO THAT. I'm not even a huge fan of raiding, but I was there every week with my 3k (WH) gearscore warlock, ready to flask up and take down some shit. Two of the others he kicked were also raiders that were there every week and did their jobs.

So I'm pissed because as much as I loved that guild and those people. I feel betrayed by them. The people left in the guild (who seem to be the people that still need the most help raiding) are under the impression that it's our fault we got kicked and that we had bad attitudes for feeling betrayed and pissed off.

I spent an hour or so flying loops around stupid Icecrown (the zone), which I hate) to farm the herbs for flasks. Because on top of everything, I had a ton of herbalism and alchemy shit in the guild bank. They can keep it, I'm fine thanks.

Me, and four others that got kicked today are now the proud owners of our very own leveling and raiding guild, and a vent too. A place where we can still hang out and talk (because these are people I talk with every night). We're gonna recruit a bunch of people to join us. All of us love helping people level and learn the game. And we're going to start raiding from the beginning. Yeah, we're in mostly ICC gear, but we're going to get enough (interested) 80s and start running Naxx every week. Then Ulduar, then ToC, then ICC, ToGC and Ruby Sanctum (when it's out). Because raiding is more than knowing how to do your own job, it's knowing how to work with the people in your group. So we want to work on getting a full group (gearing some people up if necessary) and learning to work in that group. Til we can do that we'll find pugs for ICC to get the badges (and some more experience).

I'm A Dork and I Get Bored Sometimes

I'm A Dork. My druid has finally made it to level 80. I was so excited when she dinged last week, but then didn't get to play her at all over the weekend after. She's still wearing pretty shitty gear, but I think I'm doing okay as a healer. It's my first non-dps toon to make it to 80 (and my 3rd 80 total). I've healed all the lvl 70-80 instances (except for Halls of Reflection) on regular, and I've done all but three of them on heroic. I also healed the weekly (Razorscale) which was my first 10-man healed on the live servers. I know I need to spam run a bunch of heroics and get all the triumph gear I can get so that I can be in ICC soon, but I've been doing a bunch of dailies (and some TLPD camping). I'm only 1400 gold away from epic flying which would make dailies a lot faster. Also she's a flower picker and alchemist so it would make farming herbs faster too.

I Get Bored Sometimes. When I get bored I like to learn new things. The new thing I've decided to learn with this patch of boredom is ho to write shorthand. I've looked at a couple sites for shorthand and the one I've found with the most (and best) information is Pitman For Geeks. There is a lot of information there, but it's organized very well. The site is well written, and funny as well. For now I struggle through sounding out and using the write symbols for everyword (and putting the symbols in the right place is a little bit crazy). But I pick up codes fairly well and I've already started to remember a bunch of the consonants. It's going to be the many different vowel sounds and not spelling things "correctly" that will be the hardest for me. However, the idea of being able to write very quickly and concisely is a huge plus for me, at work and when doing crazy things like NaNo (and especially trying to fit in some NaNo writing on my break at work). 100+ words per minute? Yes Please!

If I ever get a new pen for my tablet I'll post some pictures of my shorthand, for now though it's probably best kept hidden in notebooks because I may be doing it so wrong that it could offend people.

On two other notes I think I may be getting an ear infection (I haven't had one since I was a kid) and Adobe CS5 (Photoshop in particular) looks super sexy. Erin showed me the following video yesterday: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH0aEp1oDOI. It almost looks like easy mode for Photoshop, but I can see where using that tool and then tweaking that area even further will be really awesome.