Milestones and Directions

Well, I suppose my biggest news is that I've broken 50k!

And when I say broken I don't just mean eked by just by the barest margin, but with enough wiggle room to continue buying raw mats and stay above 50k. ^_^ Feels really nice and somewhat annoying at the same time in a weird sort of way.

I can't really describe why it feels annoying, the really nice is obvious, but it does. It's almost like, well, I don't know. It's indescribable, but I suppose it really comes down to the progression, or lack there of really, along other lines. I've been trying to keep up with all my gold making schemes, get the daily dungeon done on all my 70+ characters (four right now, my Paladin, Death Knight, Priest, and Druid), keep all my profession cooldowns cooling (even been ignoring the cloth ones since they're going away soon and the price is falling flat, or so I tell myself so I don't have more things to juggle), do the weekly raid, and maybe even, if I have the time, raid with my guild a bit. But what it really comes down to is that I'm getting some of this done, mostly the gold/profession stuff and things on my Paladin. It does mean that my three other 70-80 characters are progressing just about in step, but none of them are doing it at any appreciable rate.

So I'm thinking I'm going to push more on one character to 80 while keeping my Paladin doing the 80 stuff cause I really want the Tier 10 Ret Set since it's so sexy. ^_^ First up for this plan is my Death Knight since she's closer than the rest, so it'll be questing/one dungeon with the "spare time" that gold making/professions leaves me with, with some mixing in the Priest/Druid when I want to do something else for a change.

We'll see how that goes...

And while that may seem like the Milestones and Directions thoughts of the title, the Directions part really refers to what my old guild is doing and the reason I moved on after the break I had taken. I'm not keen on what they're doing, or sort of how they're going about it, or I suppose who they're going about it with.

It's none of my business, which is why I'm not going to say anything about it to them, and I'm pretty sure none of them know of this blog, but it's a more hardcore direction than I'd ever want to take again. I've been there a few times briefly in my past and never liked it, in fact, quite a while ago, I came to the conclusion that if I ever end up raiding in earnest again it'll be very casual in a 10 man guild since it's so much more tight-knit than a 25 man guild. Of course me being me I'd want to be doing that with skill and focus, with equally skilled and focused individuals, but I don't think I'll get around to that again.

So anyways, the direction they're going, or at least a sub-set of the guild membership seem to want to go, is one that I'll never want to be a part of again, which is sad, since I really do enjoy their company, and if they were just as focused, but as a 10 man guild, I'd be VERY hard pressed to stay away, which would involve another faction/server change of at least one character to get back on my original server.

But I don't foresee them ever heading in that direction, it was never the direction that the guild had originally been founded under even, but it's the direction that I'd love in a raiding guild.

And I suppose that's really the melancholy behind my current mood. The complete and total understanding that there's now another group of people who I very much enjoyed hanging out with that I'll never really be a part of again...

-LaFollet