Comments on: The Dr00d with no guild http://thebigbearbutt.com/2008/04/09/the-dr00d-with-no-guild/ Feral Druids in World of Warcraft Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:50:02 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Galoheart http://thebigbearbutt.com/2008/04/09/the-dr00d-with-no-guild/comment-page-2/#comment-5467 Galoheart Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:37:28 +0000 http://thebigbearbutt.com/2008/04/09/the-dr00d-with-no-guild/#comment-5467 Hey BBB, always love reading your blog postings though I really don't play a druid. Though I'm sorry to hear about your situation you made the right decision in leaving. Its what makes you happy within the boundaries of how you interact and play the game and what's fun for you and the Mrs. Im on somewhat of a Hiatus from WoW but your situation is not that far from mine what happened to me about 2-3 weeks back. Its was a tough decision to leave my casual guild as one of 2 dedicated tanks and me being a very good geared Kara OT. Due to looking at direction the guild/members was going and many other things that was problematic I decided to leave on my own after talking with the GM. Its a tough thing to decide to leave a guild you also help gear and participate in building. But all the same I left back in to the wilderness of being Guildless. Its not so bad being guildless you just feel more free without stress. Instead of making any decision to do anything for a while or consider my decisions going forward. I just decided to take a Hiatus from WoW for a while. So yeah i know how you feel and what your going through. I've read your blog on and off for a while and looking at what your looking for in a guild those are really great ideal to look for as it fits what you and the Mrs want in how you play WoW. The best thing I would say is to "Create Your Own Guild" and thus you have the foundation to create the guild you wish to be in. Whatever you do hope it all works out and Im sure to read about it at some point. http://ardentdefender.blogspot.com/ Hey BBB, always love reading your blog postings though I really don’t play a druid. Though I’m sorry to hear about your situation you made the right decision in leaving. Its what makes you happy within the boundaries of how you interact and play the game and what’s fun for you and the Mrs.

Im on somewhat of a Hiatus from WoW but your situation is not that far from mine what happened to me about 2-3 weeks back. Its was a tough decision to leave my casual guild as one of 2 dedicated tanks and me being a very good geared Kara OT. Due to looking at direction the guild/members was going and many other things that was problematic I decided to leave on my own after talking with the GM. Its a tough thing to decide to leave a guild you also help gear and participate in building. But all the same I left back in to the wilderness of being Guildless. Its not so bad being guildless you just feel more free without stress. Instead of making any decision to do anything for a while or consider my decisions going forward. I just decided to take a Hiatus from WoW for a while. So yeah i know how you feel and what your going through.

I’ve read your blog on and off for a while and looking at what your looking for in a guild those are really great ideal to look for as it fits what you and the Mrs want in how you play WoW. The best thing I would say is to “Create Your Own Guild” and thus you have the foundation to create the guild you wish to be in. Whatever you do hope it all works out and Im sure to read about it at some point.

http://ardentdefender.blogspot.com/

]]> By: Ror of MIB http://thebigbearbutt.com/2008/04/09/the-dr00d-with-no-guild/comment-page-2/#comment-5402 Ror of MIB Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:31:32 +0000 http://thebigbearbutt.com/2008/04/09/the-dr00d-with-no-guild/#comment-5402 Too bad you're one of them. Sounds like our Horde guild is what you're looking for. http://www.mibguild.com/ Best wishes on your new adventures. Too bad you’re one of them. Sounds like our Horde guild is what you’re looking for. http://www.mibguild.com/
Best wishes on your new adventures.

]]> By: Clapus http://thebigbearbutt.com/2008/04/09/the-dr00d-with-no-guild/comment-page-2/#comment-5398 Clapus Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:36:57 +0000 http://thebigbearbutt.com/2008/04/09/the-dr00d-with-no-guild/#comment-5398 When you find that guild, let me know. That is exactly the type of guild I am hoping to find on my server. My wife an I find ourselves in almost the same situation. We are in a 3 person guild, the remmants of our first. The "boys" started it after they got us to playing. They have moved on, burned out or just gave up. Meanwhile the Mrs and I and my brother are still plugging away. Shazira, mt wife, is a BG maniac. Shercules, my brother, too has decked himself out in BG PvP gear. Whle poor ole Clapus has his early Kara tanking gear, some cat gear and 20 badges, 3 from the new Sunwell dailies. What's next for us, who knows? I guess we are just 3 ronin wandering the wilds of Gurubashi doing what good we can. It works for us, we are still having fun. Good luck to you and Cassieann. When you find that guild, let me know. That is exactly the type of guild I am hoping to find on my server.
My wife an I find ourselves in almost the same situation. We are in a 3 person guild, the remmants of our first. The “boys” started it after they got us to playing. They have moved on, burned out or just gave up. Meanwhile the Mrs and I and my brother are still plugging away.
Shazira, mt wife, is a BG maniac. Shercules, my brother, too has decked himself out in BG PvP gear. Whle poor ole Clapus has his early Kara tanking gear, some cat gear and 20 badges, 3 from the new Sunwell dailies.
What’s next for us, who knows? I guess we are just 3 ronin wandering the wilds of Gurubashi doing what good we can. It works for us, we are still having fun.
Good luck to you and Cassieann.

]]> By: Kheldar http://thebigbearbutt.com/2008/04/09/the-dr00d-with-no-guild/comment-page-2/#comment-5386 Kheldar Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:24:28 +0000 http://thebigbearbutt.com/2008/04/09/the-dr00d-with-no-guild/#comment-5386 good post. i am in the same situation and have been for sometime. pre -bc i was in a guild that started off fairly casual but ofc with new members coming on board seeing us progress it got more hardcore and people began to fall out with previous 'friends' who were there from the casual days. i got dispensation to actually only raid 2 or 3 times a week when they required new members joining to raid 4 times minimum. with a job and a wife 2/3 times 4 hrs a night plus time for getting consumables etc was a lot. by the time BC came this raid guild had imploded with the hardcore all joining the guilds regularly running Naax (we were farming MC / BWL but were still moving slowly through AQ40). i moved servers - a few friends came but soon got bored of wow / moved on to consoles etc. after taking a break i came back as the only member of my guild ! Lol. i got to know a guy through some quests together and he joined my guild after he got kicked from his guild cos he could not raid several nights a week despite being in the guild - a casual guild - from its inception ! so i doubled the membership at a stroke ;) and with him having a holy priest we suddenly found ourselves with a tank and healer for lvl 70 5 mans - which meant we always found a grp for a 5 man :) we now have the sum total of 4 members ! and we run heroics most nights with someone we know whose in a bigger guild usually but on an off-raid night ! and for a while we actually had 5 members :p but one left for a Kara guild. it works for us and its enjoyable. 2 of the 4 are married and are big pvp'ers so if nothing is happening 5 man wise they are more than happy to return to pvp. i would like to be seeing more of the end game content but my life - now including a 19 week old baby boy - does not and will not allow it. GL in your future WoW BBB. good post.

i am in the same situation and have been for sometime.

pre -bc i was in a guild that started off fairly casual but ofc with new members coming on board seeing us progress it got more hardcore and people began to fall out with previous ‘friends’ who were there from the casual days.

i got dispensation to actually only raid 2 or 3 times a week when they required new members joining to raid 4 times minimum.

with a job and a wife 2/3 times 4 hrs a night plus time for getting consumables etc was a lot.

by the time BC came this raid guild had imploded with the hardcore all joining the guilds regularly running Naax (we were farming MC / BWL but were still moving slowly through AQ40).

i moved servers – a few friends came but soon got bored of wow / moved on to consoles etc.

after taking a break i came back as the only member of my guild ! Lol.

i got to know a guy through some quests together and he joined my guild after he got kicked from his guild cos he could not raid several nights a week despite being in the guild – a casual guild – from its inception !

so i doubled the membership at a stroke ;) and with him having a holy priest we suddenly found ourselves with a tank and healer for lvl 70 5 mans – which meant we always found a grp for a 5 man :)

we now have the sum total of 4 members ! and we run heroics most nights with someone we know whose in a bigger guild usually but on an off-raid night ! and for a while we actually had 5 members :p but one left for a Kara guild.

it works for us and its enjoyable. 2 of the 4 are married and are big pvp’ers so if nothing is happening 5 man wise they are more than happy to return to pvp.

i would like to be seeing more of the end game content but my life – now including a 19 week old baby boy – does not and will not allow it.

GL in your future WoW BBB.

]]> By: Semirrhage http://thebigbearbutt.com/2008/04/09/the-dr00d-with-no-guild/comment-page-2/#comment-5384 Semirrhage Fri, 11 Apr 2008 06:11:04 +0000 http://thebigbearbutt.com/2008/04/09/the-dr00d-with-no-guild/#comment-5384 Hey B3 - congrats on the hard decision. As others have said, there are guilds out there like the dream guild you described. In fact I would say my guild is exactly like that (Soulbound on realm Proudmoore). We only have to serious raid nights a week (sat/sun aussie nights) with kara runs tossed together when people are keen on other nights. If you guys are keen for this type of guild and havent had any luck yet - Tabby (Tabatha) is always keen to have more mature couples joining up. Great blog by the way - I Hope whichever way you decide to go that things work out well :-) Hey B3 – congrats on the hard decision.

As others have said, there are guilds out there like the dream guild you described. In fact I would say my guild is exactly like that (Soulbound on realm Proudmoore). We only have to serious raid nights a week (sat/sun aussie nights) with kara runs tossed together when people are keen on other nights.

If you guys are keen for this type of guild and havent had any luck yet – Tabby (Tabatha) is always keen to have more mature couples joining up.

Great blog by the way – I Hope whichever way you decide to go that things work out well :-)

]]> By: Meegeekai http://thebigbearbutt.com/2008/04/09/the-dr00d-with-no-guild/comment-page-2/#comment-5377 Meegeekai Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:13:51 +0000 http://thebigbearbutt.com/2008/04/09/the-dr00d-with-no-guild/#comment-5377 Hey B3 - As this is the end of a long, but fascinating, chain I just wanted to say that I respect you even more for the hard decision you and Cassie made here. I am in a great guild very much like you are looking for on Mok'Nathal. We recently lost members because we are not hard core enough for them. We have done Kara, or at least a few have, but we are not obsessed with raiding and stick to 5 mans pretty much on a casual basis. Most of us are leveling alts, questing, doing dailes, bg's and arena, or grinding for rep. When not doing any of the above, we are helping each other level up. We have developed the core belief to have fun, stop not having fun, and all you have to do is ask and we will come running. Promotions are actually based on how much you are willing to help others. I myself am the ultimate "completist" and having hit 70 on my first toon 6 weeks ago (DPS warrior) have vowed to see as much as I can to get my monies worth. Great blog and I hope you appreciate the community and discussion your decision to leave the guild has generated. I know I have. Hey B3 – As this is the end of a long, but fascinating, chain I just wanted to say that I respect you even more for the hard decision you and Cassie made here. I am in a great guild very much like you are looking for on Mok’Nathal. We recently lost members because we are not hard core enough for them. We have done Kara, or at least a few have, but we are not obsessed with raiding and stick to 5 mans pretty much on a casual basis. Most of us are leveling alts, questing, doing dailes, bg’s and arena, or grinding for rep. When not doing any of the above, we are helping each other level up. We have developed the core belief to have fun, stop not having fun, and all you have to do is ask and we will come running. Promotions are actually based on how much you are willing to help others. I myself am the ultimate “completist” and having hit 70 on my first toon 6 weeks ago (DPS warrior) have vowed to see as much as I can to get my monies worth. Great blog and I hope you appreciate the community and discussion your decision to leave the guild has generated. I know I have.

]]> By: Messyah http://thebigbearbutt.com/2008/04/09/the-dr00d-with-no-guild/comment-page-2/#comment-5368 Messyah Thu, 10 Apr 2008 20:54:43 +0000 http://thebigbearbutt.com/2008/04/09/the-dr00d-with-no-guild/#comment-5368 <i>By the way, and totally unrelated… a feral druid and rogue husband/wife team is great fun! </i> Why is that? So your significant "stealthed" other can sneak up on you while you're hybernating and backstab you with annoyance? ROFLMAO By the way, and totally unrelated… a feral druid and rogue husband/wife team is great fun!

Why is that? So your significant “stealthed” other can sneak up on you while you’re hybernating and backstab you with annoyance? ROFLMAO

]]> By: Mama Druid http://thebigbearbutt.com/2008/04/09/the-dr00d-with-no-guild/comment-page-2/#comment-5367 Mama Druid Thu, 10 Apr 2008 20:44:23 +0000 http://thebigbearbutt.com/2008/04/09/the-dr00d-with-no-guild/#comment-5367 By the way, and totally unrelated... a feral druid and rogue husband/wife team is great fun! :D By the way, and totally unrelated… a feral druid and rogue husband/wife team is great fun! :D

]]> By: Tigersoul http://thebigbearbutt.com/2008/04/09/the-dr00d-with-no-guild/comment-page-2/#comment-5366 Tigersoul Thu, 10 Apr 2008 20:38:55 +0000 http://thebigbearbutt.com/2008/04/09/the-dr00d-with-no-guild/#comment-5366 Congratulations on your newfound freedom! I second (or third, fourth, whatever) the idea a few people have stated already. Start your own guild and set the requirements exactly the way you want. Somehow I've been lucky enough to be Guild leader of a ridiculously laid back guild. Lots of people have left, a very few have been kicked because we are a little TOO laid-back about the loved/desired/dreaded PROGRESSION - but after (almost) one year of being in existence... we are finally getting into Kara, or at least getting attuned, even though it's not required anymore. And now that we can go into Kara - we'll get there sometime. But there's no rush. We're having fun, and we're REALLY enjoying playing together. Good luck in your endeavors. But I say take control and do it YOUR way! Congratulations on your newfound freedom!

I second (or third, fourth, whatever) the idea a few people have stated already.

Start your own guild and set the requirements exactly the way you want.

Somehow I’ve been lucky enough to be Guild leader of a ridiculously laid back guild. Lots of people have left, a very few have been kicked because we are a little TOO laid-back about the loved/desired/dreaded PROGRESSION – but after (almost) one year of being in existence… we are finally getting into Kara, or at least getting attuned, even though it’s not required anymore.

And now that we can go into Kara – we’ll get there sometime. But there’s no rush. We’re having fun, and we’re REALLY enjoying playing together.

Good luck in your endeavors. But I say take control and do it YOUR way!

]]> By: Rhoelyn http://thebigbearbutt.com/2008/04/09/the-dr00d-with-no-guild/comment-page-2/#comment-5365 Rhoelyn Thu, 10 Apr 2008 20:38:19 +0000 http://thebigbearbutt.com/2008/04/09/the-dr00d-with-no-guild/#comment-5365 No, seriously, TripleB. Call me. *mouths it again 'call me', complete with that weird hand phone-gesture* ;) Not a Stalker, ~Rhoe No, seriously, TripleB. Call me. *mouths it again ‘call me’, complete with that weird hand phone-gesture* ;)

Not a Stalker,
~Rhoe

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