I'm a terrible blogger :(

Hello everyone! Sorry been MIA, I've been meaning to update this blog but haven't as often as I wanted to. So many things I've planned and topics I want to write about are still stuck on my drawing board; well in my case, it's my handy-dandy planner. Maybe if I get this going, I'll learn to be more consistent...in life in general.

I was on a hiatus for 3 months from playing WoW and just got back towards the weekend after 4.2 hit. Why did I take a break? A number of reasons, minor at first but they all just added up and eventually it pushed me to not play for awhile. I always knew I'd be back. I left around end of March and had estimated I want to play again some time in the summer.

(Klondike bar break)

Ok back XD Long story ahead...

I've always been a loyal guild member, unless the reason is of my own and it's not resolvable, I'm there to stay. Last year I was in the Cataclysm guild with long time friends from Avatar. When Luminescent, our GM, left for deployment, the guild got a bit unstable. Some people didn't like how things were being run at the time, as leadership was passed down to someone who was relatively new to the guild. He wasn't entirely embraced by the mass I guess. He just rubbed off the wrong way to people like when he was promoted to officer quite quickly by Lumi and people didn't like that and some other things. (I'm talking about a shaman named Shocker :P Hi Mat! If ever you happen to read this, lol. Still <3 ya buddy). So when Lumi left and passed down the leadership, few weeks after, the group of people who were from the guild Armada prior to Cataclysm, decided to rebuild their guild. I got asked to go but I was very hesitant as these people are new to me and I have long time friends from Cata. I was then told a list of people who will be going to Armada and hearing the names reassured me of the decision. The same day Armada was rebuilt, was the same day that Shocker stepped down from GM and passed it down to Sacrupales (guild treasurer). I left Cata and joined Armada, with assurance that I still would be raiding w/ long time friends.

Not quite. Those people chose to stay in Cata as they were promoted to officers the same day of the split, and people still felt loyalty to Lumi's guild. So then there I was in Armada, familiar with the people I was with but still didn't feel the same as playing with people I've known for years. It honestly dampened my excitement to play. But even then, I still raided. We were doing good in BWD and BOT. I was getting geared, and at the time I got this main hand dagger from Omnitron, so I switched from playing Combat to Assassination. Few weeks later, a guild split happened within Armada, and Xinu and Atrusa formed a new guild called Hoogabooga. Since I've known them longer than the other Armada people, off I went to the new guild. Things were doing okay until Xinu had to handle some RL issues, so the guild dissolved. At the time, I'd been farming Molten core with Judge for the left binding and it's been 9 months already by that time. The stress from guild hopping, lack of motivation as I was still bummed out not raiding w/ people from Cata, and Baron Geddon repeatedly letting me down for months had resulted to depleting my will to play. In my last attempt to get my raiding spirit going, I talked to Sac about rejoining Cataclysm and maybe help lead a 2nd 10man raid with Judge. I was really excited for this plan to work, but alas, Sac had this rule about once you leave Cata, as long as he's the GM, you can never go back. Which I thought was an unfair rule because it's not like he announced it before and then I had the choice to stay or leave, and still left knowing that I wouldn't be able to come back. I respected his decision as a GM, but still disagreed with it. Sadly, I was back to coming up with a plan where I'd go from there.

It was 4th week of March and my subscription was going to expire soon. Judge and I went to MC in hopes Baron Geddon would be nice enough to drop the left binding. In the 10 months we've farmed up that place, we've seen 3 right bindings drop, and 2 eyes of sulfuras. Judge had his legendary mace crafted, and I'm still left with no legendary. I then said right before killing Baron Geddon, "Blizz, if you don't drop my left binding right now, I'm not renewing my subscription".

And so, my hiatus started.

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I'm a terrible blogger. Did I say that already? Everything you read prior above that line break was written on August 5th, and I'm not just continuing this post >_< It's August 18th!!!

...(rereads everything to refresh my memory of where I left of)


During my WoW break, I tried not to talk about WoW to people I knew who played the game. I wouldn't ask about their raid progress, game changes, etc. I knew the topic would interest me, but at that point I wanted to take a break...I needed the break. In the three years I played Immortelle, I never took a break that long. In fact I didn't really take any, it was a continuous subscription until then. On the third month of my hiatus, I'd been chatting with Sruma (guildie from back in Avatar but more acquainted in Cata) often on facebook and little by little, my interest in going back grew. I didn't give in right away to the thought of coming back, I waited one more month til I did.

June 30, at around 2am, I logged back on to Azeroth for the first time in 3 months. I was excited to play :) First thing I did was checked who was on at the time from my friends list and /who'd a few guilds I knew people from. At the time, only Pennpenn from Depricated was on. Depricated is a guild formed by Squishable and Zylaen, guildies from way back in Avatar and Cataclysm. Sruma had told me that there was a Cata guild split that had happened. Squish & Zy left, along with Avatar-era players, formed the new guild. I've truly missed those people. Most of my fond memories of playing WoW were with that group. I messaged Pennpenn, chatted for awhile and at the end of our conversation, he sent me an invite to join Depricated, and so I did.

I'm going to end with this part of the story as this is getting really long. Stay tuned for the next blog! There's a ton that has happened since that first day of coming back!

Also to look forward to, I'm going to try to post more videos on my Youtube channel. I'm pretty excited about that :)

I hope you enjoyed reading this blog. Have a great day! Or night if you're reading this as late as I'm typing right now (it's almost 3am). Til next time!