World of Warcraft Raid Leader of a very casual raid team talks and vents about life in World of Warcraft, and maybe a little bit of life outside of WoW.
I have been out of school and theoretically having more free time than I had for about a month now, and I have run into an issue.
I still don't have the desire to play much World of Warcraft.
I hop on, do a couple quests here and there and I am working on leveling a few characters in my off time, but even that is very sporadic at this moment. I am more focusing on other games, I still haven't beaten Diablo IIIs expansion, I have my free copy (thank you Origin) of DragonAge Origins I never really got into playing, and I am putting a stronger focus on getting some writing done.
So even though school is over for now, my playtime has not increased.
I am not unsubscribing anytime soon, I still enjoy little jaunts here and there, but I am just not playing in a meaningful way at this point.
Therefor, for the immediate future, I am closing this blog.
I would like to thank everyone who took the time to read through my mindless ramblings and opinions on the game over the last several years. I built up to over 200 posts here, went through a few changes and had a pretty good run.
This site with stay for now. I may pick this up again someday. World of Warcraft isn't going anywhere and in a year or two I might feel like hopping in whole hog again. When that happens I might have more to write about, more opinions etc. For now my focus is elsewhere even more.
I may see you in game. Feel free to say hi. I'm am still thankful to all the people I have raided with and played with over the years. I have some fantastic memories and experiences to draw on and as silly as it is to be emotionally tied to a game I am. World of Warcraft and the players have a special place in my heart.
I am not giving a long goodbye here. I am not going to poor my heart out for pages of writing. Of course that has never been my way in the first place.
I am writing
this even debating right now if I’m actually going to post it. I have been thinking a lot lately about my
role in World of Warcraft versus student, versus father and husband. I made a decision a little over a year ago to
change my life by going back to school, getting and education, and bettering my
situation overall. I am essentially
working on rebuilding myself as a better person with opportunities that will
benefit those whom I love.
So, with a heavy
heart I am going to flat out say it. I
am stepping down from raid leading for the foreseeable future.
I am going to
even change the name of this blog. It will probably go on as theornerywowplayer
or something of that flavor. I want to
go into and explain why I am making this decision, and I want to make sure that
everyone involved understands why I am doing it.
It really hit
home to me while I was thinking about a job interview I have tomorrow. If I get this job, I will be getting up
around 6 am, heading to work at 7, working 8-5, then going to school 6-9 every
weekday but Friday. This means that I
will have even less time in game then I do right now. I will probably have an hour or so when I get
home before I go to bed, and that hour will belong to my wife and family. I am not going to play World of Warcraft when
I get so little daily time.
I have also been
looking at my education down the road. I am going to graduate from DATC when I
finish the course I am taking, and that will be around January give or
take. I am going to continue to attend
and earn some more certifications, (Project+, Administrators, Linux, Citrix) so
I will probably be enrolled until the end of summer at the earliest which is a
bit longer than I had originally planned.
After that, I may go on to try and get my bachelors in computer science
with an emphasis on Networks and Administration. Needless to say, that means I will probably
be looking at a couple more years at least in school.
Between these two
things it hit home to me. I am not going
to be able to rebuild the raid team. I
don’t have the energy and the time. I am
not going to keep pushing forward on it, because that would not be fair to
anyone who is there right now. I am
officially calling quits on raiding leading, organization, etc…
What does that
mean for the guild? I don’t know. If someone wants to rebuild the raid team or
start one I will support it. If the
guild become just a place where folks leave an alt to hop in and keep in touch
I’m ok with that too. The end line of
this is I am taking a step back from any sort of big responsibility in World of
Warcraft.
I am going to
keep playing. This game is my big stress
relief and I love chatting with folks. There are people who I have played with for
years that I worry about such as Scorpiak and Magilla. However, it is selfish of me not to say, feel
free to move on if the right opportunity presents itself. I will still probably get on Sunday nights to
run dungeons, LFR, and other such things with my family and people, but I am
not going to set my clock by it.
I am going to be
doing my own thing. I will probably be
leveling a couple of horde alts, and a couple of alts on Aerie Peak. I may find a raid team or two where I can
step in as an alternate, but I don’t plan on being the big main raider in any
shape or form. I have grown to the point
where this game cannot take priority for me.
It is not fair to myself, or anyone else involved for me to keep going
on like I have. I am done for now, and
will be doing my own thing. I hope I see
folks in game, but as everything must come to an end, my time as raid leader
has. I have raid lead since wrath, so I
had a pretty good sprint. It’s time for
someone else to pick up the mantle. Or
we can just let it lie.
Either way, I
love the experiences I have and thank everyone for helping me become a better
person through this experience. I wish I
could remember everyone. My family
Gwyndolynn, Fantaa, Aeryn, Shaqia, Whatever Toon Jon is helming right now. (Love you Jon, but you switch more than
me.) And those I’ve played with
outside, Bromli, Laserfina, hummock,
Sochia, Bannanahamock, Zhamora, and even the guild leaders in midnight, years
ago who picked me up and let me run with them no matter how that ended. All deserve an amount of thanks. And yes, I probably misspelt more than one
name there. I have forgotten to mention
so many others. I could sit here
thinking for hours and coming up with even more. But I Won’t bore folks with that.
So, for that last time, as the ornery raid leader,
