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).