Having been a WoW raider, I actually went through a lot of guilds. I don't remember all of their names, though...
The basic story was me joining WoW to play with a friend while in Tech School in the military. I forget if there was any guild at that point or what-have-you. I do remember him getting into Unity on Dragonmaw, run by Vividorrin, which was one of the top raiding guilds on the server. Through having him in there, I managed to get a trial run and got brought in with them.
That was how Vanilla WoW went. At some point or another, a group of us splintered up to form... Ixion? Something like that. And we made a bit of a name for ourselves by being this little upstart guild that managed to get through all the content from what looked like out of nowhere.
Then we decided to transfer to Proudmoore... and things kind of declined from there. Not everyone came with us, so we had to grab new players - and along with them came problems. Egotistical tanks, players who stuck around only long enough to get gear... that sort of thing. We still managed to do a lot, though!
I quit for a while around this point, and ended up coming back in at some point during Lich King out of boredom. Friend had gotten into a new, progressive guild whose name I can't remember and I managed to trial and get in after bringing my Hunter up to speed. Did content with them... and I think I took a break again from it before Cataclysm came out? I don't quite remember.
Either way, Cataclysm through Pandaria went well enough at first. I don't remember if it was the same guild or a new one... but we had cleared all the Cata content and were pushing through Pandaria. And then all the things I've mentioned over and over again when talking about why I'm burned out from raiding occurred - more people using us as stepping stones, horrendous guild drama, people continually bailing and forcing us to get and reteach new players... all ended up with my friend (who by this point was guild leader AND raid leader) just up and disappeared on us, leaving me and one fresh officer recruit in charge of the remains...
... Anyway...
When I got into FFXIV! I started on Zalera, playing with my sister and chilling in the supposedly pretty laid-back FC she was in. Don't remember the name, again. All that I can remember is that the clique in it got upset at my sister for not liking her attitude or something... and booted her. A few of her friends left after that, and so did I since there was nothing I really had worth staying for there.
I ended up joining my sister's own FC - Black Waltz - which was just her and her friends and me. Very very small, only JUST got a house a couple patches back. Sister's main, however, hopped from FC to FC as part of statics and whatnot. Since I wasn't doing that, I just sat in a usually empty FC and talked with her and her friends over a shared LS.
Made Chachan, and got into Coral! Which is full of all sorts of fun folks, and have a bunch of fun events for me to RP in. There's no real pressure to do any actual raiding (which is delightful), and we all seem to step up to help out when one of the others needs help with crafting or a dungeon or whatever. It's nice.
... Definitely better than the drama-filled nonsense I've had to deal with up until then.
The basic story was me joining WoW to play with a friend while in Tech School in the military. I forget if there was any guild at that point or what-have-you. I do remember him getting into Unity on Dragonmaw, run by Vividorrin, which was one of the top raiding guilds on the server. Through having him in there, I managed to get a trial run and got brought in with them.
That was how Vanilla WoW went. At some point or another, a group of us splintered up to form... Ixion? Something like that. And we made a bit of a name for ourselves by being this little upstart guild that managed to get through all the content from what looked like out of nowhere.
Then we decided to transfer to Proudmoore... and things kind of declined from there. Not everyone came with us, so we had to grab new players - and along with them came problems. Egotistical tanks, players who stuck around only long enough to get gear... that sort of thing. We still managed to do a lot, though!
I quit for a while around this point, and ended up coming back in at some point during Lich King out of boredom. Friend had gotten into a new, progressive guild whose name I can't remember and I managed to trial and get in after bringing my Hunter up to speed. Did content with them... and I think I took a break again from it before Cataclysm came out? I don't quite remember.
Either way, Cataclysm through Pandaria went well enough at first. I don't remember if it was the same guild or a new one... but we had cleared all the Cata content and were pushing through Pandaria. And then all the things I've mentioned over and over again when talking about why I'm burned out from raiding occurred - more people using us as stepping stones, horrendous guild drama, people continually bailing and forcing us to get and reteach new players... all ended up with my friend (who by this point was guild leader AND raid leader) just up and disappeared on us, leaving me and one fresh officer recruit in charge of the remains...
... Anyway...
When I got into FFXIV! I started on Zalera, playing with my sister and chilling in the supposedly pretty laid-back FC she was in. Don't remember the name, again. All that I can remember is that the clique in it got upset at my sister for not liking her attitude or something... and booted her. A few of her friends left after that, and so did I since there was nothing I really had worth staying for there.
I ended up joining my sister's own FC - Black Waltz - which was just her and her friends and me. Very very small, only JUST got a house a couple patches back. Sister's main, however, hopped from FC to FC as part of statics and whatnot. Since I wasn't doing that, I just sat in a usually empty FC and talked with her and her friends over a shared LS.
Made Chachan, and got into Coral! Which is full of all sorts of fun folks, and have a bunch of fun events for me to RP in. There's no real pressure to do any actual raiding (which is delightful), and we all seem to step up to help out when one of the others needs help with crafting or a dungeon or whatever. It's nice.
... Definitely better than the drama-filled nonsense I've had to deal with up until then.
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