Horde Guide

This blogger talks about his difficulties with committing himself to a guild completely, and I can empathize. My comments are in bold italics.

I joined my new guild about a month ago,  but didn’t bring  my alts over because they were comfy where they were .  One was my AH runner, and the  other my herbalist and Gm of my Alt bank, that I was semi leveling for her herbing, and now is close enough to 80 that I might as well get her those last 3 levels.

Might as well.

Joining a guild is like starting a realtionship – what you get out of it, often depends on how much work you put into it.   Do you give it your  all, or do  you hold something back?  Ive always held something back.  A secret Toon on the same server as an escape.  My ’secret’ toon is now on another faction and server, but who knows when the faction change comes it, she might be ideal to to bring her over, though I must say I am enjoying questing on the other side for a change.  So on the weekend I have brought my other toons that I do potter around with into the guild.   I guess this is my committment to staying. In contrast to the week before when I was logging in only to raid, and was escaping off server as often as possible my playing time this week was mostly in my guild, and I think my experience was enhanced because of it. Guild Pvping – running instances ect ect..

It’s interesting that he equates joining a guild to being in a relationship, as there are some GREAT guilds out there, and some not so great ones, just like relationships. I personally keep the majority of my toons out of guilds because I enjoy playing solitary, or with a few “Real Life” friends.

I think I said too much once on vent though, rather early in the morning in my attempt to stay awake for the Twisted Nether Blogcast, and I said that this guild was the end of the road for me, and I mean it.  I don’t mean that I will be leaving the guild, or the game, but its my last hop in raiding.   I don’t think 3 guilds in 10 months is excessive, but as my 3rd wrath guild  I am tired and just want to settle down.  So the toons I play on my server I brought in, and I am hoping I stay happy enough to stay ( even if they also have 3 raiding priests..  )

I hope he has a good time and is comfortable with what he does. Be sure to check him out at Pugnacious Priest.

This is an interesting little post I found from a dude listening to Twisted Nether. My comments are the ones in bold italics.

I got up at 5am on a Saturday morning to listen to the Twisted Nether Round table.

I had planned on going right through and stay awake until 5am and had made sure I had set my log in up before , but I lasted till 2.30am and I had to sleep some – but I set my alarm for just before 5am and crossed my fingers that I had calculated the time  conversion right so I stumbled out of bed and got to hear people live, and  read the chat room and type some  – so here are my thoughts as I listen to some of the things discussed..

Timezones suck.

Extended lock outs – I don’t like because clearing to our progression content is not an issue, and we can do it one raid night.  But..    fielding the right people in a raid is easier for us on a Wednesday night ( our 1st night of raiding after reset due to time zone)  then the end of a raiding week on a Monday, so an extra day on a peak raiding night could be beneficial if we have had difficulty getting the optimised team for a progression attempt.

I disagree with this as a principle, but I can see where he’s personally coming form. I covered it in the last post.

Faction changing – unless some of  my friends get off their pvp realm – I am staying Alliance.  I’m not sure I am particularily attached to alliance,  it is where my main played toons, and it would be good to give my Horde toon some fincial assistance but – when I rolled Alliance I made a promise to protect and defend my faction,  and its not just a roll playing

My first toon is Alliance, and I have a few others, but thanks to playing with my fiance I now have mostly Horde. It’s just a matter of preference for how I feel at any given time.

Questhelper inbuilt into game – Besides an extension to my theory that all useful mod ideas are being borrowed for implementation into game – I used it for my main from 70-80 because the guilded wanted us to level as quick as possible so we would be able to be somewhat quick on the new raiding content, and I do use it for my alts..  but I am glad that I kept my mains experience as vanilla as possible while leveling.  So having done at least the 0-70 the hard way – I really don’t want to do it again.  A built in quest helper should be less buggy then a mod and make it ‘easier’ to focus on leveling.

This I can agree with, personally I use Joana’s Horde Guide, Zygor’s, and Quest helper along with some other stuff to amp my leveling speeds. A built in helper would be pretty great.

Noob players and giving advise.  I cry when I see some gear/gem choices, but I know how odd some of my gear has been at times in the process of waiting for a better thing. An old friend of mine started getting serious at making her Shadow Priest better in DPS – my learning curve came from months of information – not  just Shadowpriest.com, or blogs, or patch notes, or class forums  it was the jounrney and learning information as required.   How do you summerise to one player  advise when they might not be on the same level of class understanding.

I think everybody should have to face the learning curve of perfecting their toon themselves, it will give them a much richer gaming experience in the long run.

and I listened to about 7am.. but then my eyes started drooping and  the birds started singing so now I am off to bed..

Twas an awesome show.. and I hope I work out the time zoney things to catch the nex live cast..