Questward Ho!

If you are an habitué of the Blog Azeroth chatroom, much of what follows isn’t exactly news. But since I know most of you aren’t, I thought an update on where I am in the game would be timely. (If I totally missed the mark on that, please don’t dispel my illusions.)

A few weeks ago, I mentioned having moved Osprey and Talonis out of the guild I cofounded to a larger guild that was progressing in Karazhan. Without going into a lot of unnecessary detail, suffice to say that the progression wasn’t a lot faster than we were moving before. Because RavenLoft was bigger, we saw a few heroics and ran Kara 3 nights in one week. But when we couldn’t get enough people on Thursday for a second night in Kara last week, we pretty much agreed ("we" being my longtime friends Swissy and Katika) that we had reached another dead-end.

Our new fire mage friend and the officer who’d brought us into RavenLoft had moved his mage to The Oroborus a few days earlier. We quickly set up a Ventrilo conference with one of the officers prior to Thursday’s scheduled Kara run. After explaining the guild’s background and asking us a few questions about our experiences and goals, he let us know that we’d be welcome in the Guild.

Thursday’s non-run (we’d one-shot Attumen and Moroes on Tuesday) pretty much sealed the deal for us. Friday, we each moved a character to The Oroborus: Osprey, ice mage, and boomkin. Within an hour I was running a heroic Underbog with four of my new guildmates (none of whom I’d met before).

On Saturday, the three of us ran three consecutive heroics with our GM (at least one of which was a test run for our fire mage friend’s prot warrior alt, who at the time was still in RavenLoft). I’d withdrawn Talonis shortly after dropping Osprey from RavenLoft (and yes, I did communicate with the GM and the guild before leaving) so he was unguilded. On one of our runs through Heroic Mechanar, Tal supplied MQoSRDPS while the GM healed (holy priest and BM hunter: go figure). After that run through Heroic Mech, he asked if I wanted to keep Talonis unguilded, or if I was willing to bring an alt to The Oroborus. Not only was I willing, but honored to do so! Likewise, in short order Swissy added her warrior, and Katika her prot pally and resto druid.

Throughout the weekend, all seven characters had plenty of opportunities for heroics, and we also welcomed several other RavenLoft guildies to The Oroborus. And, we got back into Karazhan Sunday night, but not with the characters we’d run on Tuesday.

As it happened, some of the Oros had also downed Attumen and Moroes earlier in the week, but they couldn’t gather all 10 on Sunday. So Talonis, Katika and Lavynder (Swissy’s newly-respecced holy priest, and still in AWDY) helped to down Maiden. Lavy was the only priest, and Tal and Kat were numbers 1 and 3 on the damage meters for the fight (with Kat taking DPS honors). I was fortunate enough to be rewarded with Gloves of Quickness. And, we are hoping to take the same group back for Opera and more tonight!

From the moment I saw "You are now a member of The Oroborus," this has felt like a truly good fit. With the prospects of many badge runs, Karazhan, and even Gruul/Magtheridon for Osprey on Tuesday, not to mention ZA and SSC soon, I’m comfortable and confident we’ve found a long-term home.