Yes it's snowy and foggy here in Utah. Wonderfully so. Can't say much for the inversion though, that stuff sucks
For the last couple of weeks holidays, getting my computer fixed etc... have kept me offline. I have now been able to hop on a couple of times, in hopes of getting the holiday mount from the Winter's Veil Dailies in the garrison. So far no dice, but I've only been able to try for a few days, and I believe I just tried for my last.
But here we are in a new year. The force has awakened, and most of us have set resolutions that will last for another week or two. (Don't worry, I haven't set any to break) I am now looking forward to what this year will bring.
School for me will probably be going until the end of this year. Assuming I bust my butt and get all my coursework up to Network Administrator done at DATC I will probably still have some work to do at Weber College to get my Associates. This means that I don't foresee a time this year I'm not dealing with school work. I also have been trying (unsuccessfully) to get back to writing and editing because I would like to have my book ready to submit to different agents/publishers here in a few months. I need to stop putting it off and put the work in. If I get published I will be screaming it here as well.
This means for World of Warcraft my time will continue to be a lot more limited than it has been in the past. For now while we are in the slog between expansions that is OK. I'm taking a little time to teach my friend who has just subscribed but otherwise haven't been on much. I'm not going to take a 100% break from game, but for now it's definitely on the sideline.
When Legion drops I'm not sure how this is going to effect things. Normally at the beginning of an expansion most of our raid team comes back and we get running within a few weeks. I am hoping this is the case again. I have asked people if different raid days would help etc... but at this point have gotten little feedback so I plan on keeping things to weekends. I am looking forward to introducing my friend to raiding and building up a couple of resources who have been kind of sidelined at this point. I am playing with the idea of swapping to demon hunter, but have a hard time thinking of setting Lag aside as he has been my main for most of Wow since Wrath.
But here is the thing.
If raiding doesn't start up with folks coming back again, I'm not sure I have it in my heart to rebuild things. I have been working with the ups and downs for several expansions now and part of me is just tired. I want to raid. I want to be there for the team and I will feel some guilt if I just let go, but at the same time fighting people to show up is getting old. This is still several months away, but it is on my mind.
Of course, I could pull a 180 on this by the time Legion drops with the excitement of a new expansion and shiny new stuff, but right now this is where I am at. It was made pretty apparent that if I step out, raiding will probably fade away from our guild and I don't want to be the cause of that. At the same time, I'm not the only one responsible and I need to start seeing it as that. If folks don't want to show up, or put the effort in this expansion might be the one where I give up raid leading and whatever happens happens. I will keep on playing, and keep being involved with folks, but if this next expansion is as much of a fight as Warlords has been I'm done.
But, it's early yet to be negative. Folks will come back. Some will be looking for a guild and we have some good guild recruiters waiting to pull folks in. We may get a shiny new/changed raid team and start blowing stuff up and laughing maniacally. This as with every expansion has the potential to be the best expansion for our guild, Fear Itself, on Zangarmarsh.
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