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So Long and Thanks for All the Cursing - An Ode to My Guild
So Long and Thanks for All the Cursing - An Ode to my Guild
Helen is unfortunately taking a hiatus from World of Warcraft but she couldn’t do
this without first giving thanks to those that kept her there for so long; her guild.
By Helen Ashcroft
I
have been playing World of
Warcraft for over 7 years
now, having taken my first
steps into Azeroth in November
of 2006. During this time I have
taken breaks of varying lengths
but for the last 2 years or so I
have been playing pretty much
constantly. The reason for this is
my guild. A good guild can make
you want to carry on playing long
after you have run out of things
to do. So what makes a good
guild and why do you need one?
This is the tale of my journey to
find my guild.
mounts and I am a sucker for
achievements. I also raid in a
25 man raiding guild which is
currently 13/14 in “The Siege of
Orgrimmar”.
Finding a good guild has been a
long journey. When I first started
playing myself and my husband
set up our own guild. We ended
up with a bunch of about 10
of us, all new, running around
together. Whilst this was fun as
we all levelled none of us had
any clue once we hit the level cap
and the guild just kind of fizzled
out as we all started quitting the
Every player wants differing game.
things out of a game like World
of Warcraft. Some want to enjoy When The Burning Crusade
levelling and exploring whilst hit I re-rolled horde to join a
others are only interested in end real life friends guild. This guild
game content such as raiding. I was fun. We levelled together,
am somewhere in the middle. I ran dungeons and heroics and
enjoy levelling alts and exploring smashed out some old content
the world, collecting pets and in just our pants (I should stress
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this was our in game pants,
not our actual pants). Then we
started to raid. A rag tag team
of people who had little clue,
we ran around Naxxramas for
months on end before we finally
killed Kel’Thuzad. Some of us
learnt our classes and the fights,
others did not. As the better
geared and skilled moved onto
hardcore raiding the rest of us
were left floundering. Some
personal dramas erupted into
play and everything went pearshaped. I moved onto another
realm and another friends guild.
This guild was small and didn’t do
much. They were purely a social
guild and although they were
an awesome bunch of people, I
wanted more.
The first Horde guild myself and
my hubby joined was full of my
friends, the second was full of
his. Although we both played
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