Out of Retirement

I transferred my warrior from Barthilas to Aman'thul a while back, the intention being to help out my mum whenever she needed a tank. So every now and then when I wasn't raiding she'd call me online and we'd do a heroic together.

About a week ago I decided, being pretty bored with my druid right then, that I'd bring my warrior out of retirement and start properly playing him again. It's been pretty fun so far, pugging heroics again and stuff. Though I don't have the gear to run everything without CC yet, places like Underbog are fine as long as I have a competent healer behind me. I haven't tried the hard heroics yet, either (namely MGT, SH, Arcatraz, and SL), but I expect I'll be able to do them before to long.

Once I find my sea-legs again, I expect I'll be trying out the SS/SS build (about 8/21/32), despite it missing some top-end prot talents that are important to threat; namely, two points of Focused Rage and three points of One Hand Spec. Until then, though, I'm doing SSO dailies and farming badges. Fitting everything around my already-existing raiding schedule is a bit tricky, but with a bit of luck I should be able to get in maybe 4-5 heroics and a Kara run every week.

On another note, I'm wondering if there'll be servers released alongside WLK, like there were with TBC. If there are, and they're non-transfer servers, I might reroll there. Seems kinda silly, since I rolled my druid to be a WLK character, but then again I expected WLK about five and a half months ago. And I suppose it wouldn't really be fair to the friends who I seem to drag from server to server, who are mostly close to or just hitting 70. But even so, a theoretical male orc warrior named Lolicon beckons me. "C'mon," he says, his [Dreadnaught Pauldrons] gleaming. "Your chance to be part of a new reroll server! Levelling to 80 among the first wave of hardcore players, rushing for server firsts, perhaps even being a main tank!" And I chew my bottom lip and make an indecisive noise in my throat.

I learned, a long time ago, that I'm never satisfied with where I am in WoW. So I'm constantly on the prowl for new opportunities and fresh starts - a new spec, a new class, a new role. Tight-knit social guilds have never worked for me; although I end up good friends with everyone, the slow progression and casual attitude frustrates me. And so I want to quit, but I can't bring myself to, since hey, they're my friends. It's the same, I suppose, with a server - though I may want to reroll, my ties with both the people I brought there and the people I met there will keep me there.

Another thing I learned a while back is that if you're not willing to step on other people's toes you're not going to get anywhere.

I sigh. At times like this, I hate the game. At times like this, I want to quit.

But I know I won't.

For now, I'll keep raiding on my druid, keep farming badges on my warrior, and then I'll see what the wind brings me between now and WLK. Perhaps I'll still be Pappas, perhaps I'll be Darakinel again, perhaps I'll be Lolicon. Whatever.