man raid leaders can be assholes.

I've been avoiding playing Panacea for awhile. I've been halfheartedly doing some DM runs and farming EPL for stitching and blood on Panadoll instead. It was mainly because playing Panadoll has become so familiar, I don't need to think about my keybindings and she's always pretty awesome at whatever she tries to do. But Panacea is difficult and I feel like a complete nub when I'm playing her, it's been reminding me of when I first hit 80 on Panadoll and felt ridiculous in Twelve. I worked very hard to learn to play Panadoll and now I'm kinda starting from scratch again I guess. I don't like being bad again. ><

Panacea is in a guild called Stockholm Syndrome. It's the guild Fuzo's Horde lock Safetycount is in. Although they seem somewhat friendlier than Twelve they remind me of Twelve a little, which is intimidating and I haven't talked much to them. Tonight Safetycount ran me through some heroics, with members of the guild. Was scary, cos I was painfully aware of my terribad dps (which, I later realised, was largely due to not having trained *anything* on Panacea.. man I didn't even know spirit was a trainable skill now. I'm sure I trained stuff when I hit 80! Because my dps was a lot better in the few Naxx runs I did with Twisted Fail. I guess they changed them, or something? I don't know. ><), plus I am not all that familar with heroics, having not run many at all on Panadoll (she doesn't even have Champion of the Frozen Wastes :P) and those I did run were ages and ages ago. I struggled through them though, and managed to get many, many awesome upgrades and achievements. :D Also Safetycount gave me many many golds, and some good upgrades from the guild bank, for which I am eternally grateful. I bought enchants and gems and now Panacea's looking a lot better. :D I'm actually a lot more motivated to play her now, I really wanna get her rep up with Hodir and such, do dailies for monies, and run more heroics of course. Need to get over my irrational fear of heroics. :P

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It is so weird suddenly having a high level Horde toon. When I first logged on I was in Org (had logged her out in Dala) and was like "O_O How do I get back to Dala from here?" lol. Spent some time wandering around Warsong Hold going "oooh nifty" before flying to Dala myself, I couldn't find the flight master & do all my flight paths get switched over anyway?

edit to add: I was extremely pleased to see that apparently Ironforge rep translates to Silvermoon rep. Panacea was only exalted with Ironforge, just revered with the other cities, as I'd really wanted a goat for her to ride rather than ugly elephant. Now my goats are chocobos, yays! :D

I think I'm gonna faction switch Panacea! :D Can't bear to switch Panadoll, as I've put so much work into her as Alliance. Don't wanna lose my Winterspring Frostsaber either. :P But Panacea is fairly well geared (combination of t7.5 from alt raids & quest reward greens) and really, why do I need two priests of the same faction? So think I'm gonna make her a belf, or a troll.. haven't quite decided. The thought of raiding as Horde is pretty interesting to me, as I've never been in a Horde raid before.

Meanwhile I haven't actually logged into WoW for the last two weeks, as the thought of working on Insane is extremely repellant, and if I do anything else I feel like I am wasting time I could be using to work on Insane. Also some real life crap kinda made me feel sick whenever I thought about playing. I need to get over this though I think. So.. might do something completely different & level my baby shammy. I actually levelled her at the same time as Panadoll (along with a lock also) to 40, before deciding out of those three classes I liked priest best. Her name was Pynke, but I recently changed it to Tigreine.

I haven't played much WoW in the last couple of months, mostly due to RL bullshit. Also, since I left Twisted Fail and joined Twelve again, I haven't been raiding. I haven't been actively trying to get into raids - Twelve's main raid group is full, as I've previously mentioned, plus I haven't really wanted to raid. I've been working on my Insane achievment, when I have been online. Current progress:

Bloodsail Buccaneers: Honored (Done)
Steamwheedle Cartel
Booty Bay: 325/21000 Revered
Gadgetzan: 200/21000 Revered
Ratchet: 325/21000 Revered
Winterspring: 325/21000 Revered
Shen'drelar: 5500/6000 Friendly
Ravenholdt: 3149/21000 Revered
Darkmoon Faire: 575/6000 Friendly

So yeh, mostly been doing a lot of DM key runs. Soon I shall never have to go back to that horrible place again! I plan to buy librams off the AH for Shen'drelar. Cbf farming DM for them. ><

Anyways I've decided I want to raid again. But.. because I've been doing pretty much nothing but Insane achievement since the Tournament stuff was introduced, I haven't done any of those dailies (apart from like one day of them) or any of the new content. I know I'm geared enough to go straight into the new ToC stuff, but I'd really like to raid Ulduar again. I miss Ulduar. I think I'm going to have to pug it though. Funtimes. :-/

oh mannnnn





so so awesome IN THE MOUNTAINS

I miss Ulduar! that's it I'm going back there

So I spent way too long yesterday and today making this. It's supposed to be fairly tongue in cheek like the song, I'm not sure if people I've shown it to really get that though. :-/ Anyways I'm still amused by how it turned out. It's higher quality than my usual videos - I used CyberLink PowerDirector Express instead of Windows Movie Maker this time.



this is my first attempt at making anything like this (apart from some AMVs years ago), so it's not perfect.. there's a lot of crappy zooming due to my apparent inability to operate a scrollwheel and lots of stuff that doesn't sync up right. :P

<3 the guild

..obviously I do care about my bad reputation though, or I wouldn't be doing this. :P I hit Honored with Steamwheedle at the end of this vid btw. :D

Because grinding rep for this thing is so incredibly boring, I plan to make a few more of these how-to videos to amuse myself. :)

One of the times lowbie horde attempted to gank me while I was farming Ravenholdt rep at Stromgarde. It was always rogues who tried it. :P I actually frapsed this by accident. Fraps is bound to my F9 key, which I must have inadvertantly pressed while alt tabbed. I was cleaning out my fraps folder and found this xD

Insane acheivement progress:

Bloodsail Buccaneers: Honored (done)
Steamwheedle Cartel
Booty Bay: 26700/36000 Hated
Gadgetzan: 26575/36000 Hated
Ratchet: 26700/36000 Hated
Winterspring: 26700/36000 Hated
Shen'drelar: 3500/6000 Friendly
Ravenholdt: 1424/21000 Revered
Darkmoon Faire: 75/3000 Neutral

I've made quite a bit of progress, especially with Ravenholdt. Maxed out the rep I could get by farming mobs in Stromgarde (which stopped 1 rep away from Revered) and I've spent two nights so far (a couple of hours each time) on my friend's rogue Tekno farming Heavy Junkboxes at Tyr's Hand in EPL. At around 20000 through the Steamwheedle rep I hit a major bad luck streak and did about 10 DM runs in a row with no key drop, which was frustrating as hell (each run takes about 10-15min - so much wasted time!) but it's gotten better.. still feels like the drop rate has been nerfed or something though. >< For Shen'drelar I've gotten several librams from DM, but mostly I've been checking the AH for them (they're usually put up for around 80g each). I've also been farming Stratholme a bit lately for the frayed stitching I need to hand in with librams of protection (the ones mostly on the AH). And, although I haven't handed in anything for Darkmoon Faire yet (doesn't come around for a little while), I've spent several hours farming thorium in Burning Steppes on my dk & sent it off to Yuge to make into thorium widgets. I pretty much haven't done anything else with my playtime lately other than work on this achievement.. progress is spurring me on. 8D

and then cadey made it into this xD ~ ( under here )

What a fun, random day of WoW. :D I logged on just before midday today, and went straight to Dire Maul to farm Steamwheedle rep. Halfway through the first run, a random level 15 nelf rogue whispered me & said "Hi".

Panadoll: hello
Kered: what are you up to
Panadoll: farming rep
Kered: still doing the Insane achievement?
Panadoll: yeh.. who are you btw? lol
Kered: What's Kered backwards?
Panadoll: derek??

It was a friend I've known for several years now, who has always hated WoW with a passion. xD Apparently he has decided to play. :D He came to visit me last weekend - I hadn't seen him in ages - and I talked about WoW a lot. >< Maybe it was that. ^_^

So I stopped farming and went to run him through deadmines. Then I logged over to my rogue (Miuu, around level 17) and quested with him a bit. Was fun. :D

Thisevening I when I logged on I was invited to Ulduar sitout, so no Dire Maul runs.. and I didn't feel like farming Ravenholdt again. So I logged over to my rogue & Yuge ran me & Kered through BFD (on his dk Broodling). I'm getting sick of the rogue though. The only reason I rolled her was because, for the Insane achievement, the only way you can get from revered to exalted rep is by handing in Heavy Junkboxes, which need to be farmed by a rogue. But yeh, I'm not really enjoying questing because I've done these quests so many times before. :<

Anyways, I logged back over to Panadoll. The Ulduar raid broke up shortly after - I think it reformed a little later, but by the time it did I had already agreed to go to AQ20 with Death. She and Pelor have been farming Cenarion rep lately. AQ20 was pretty fun. :D I did very little healing, just lots of shield spamming. We decided to go to AQ40 after that, where I got a Red Qiraji Battle Tank! and Why? Because It's Red :D We didn't do much of AQ40 because we really didn't have enough people. But it was pretty fun anyway. :)

During AQ I asked my friend who was there, Tekno (80 rogue) if he would be interested in earning 1000g. I explained to him about the Ravenholdt rep.. seriously I would be willing to pay 1000g for a rogue to farm those boxes for me, it would be quicker for me to make back the money than it would be to level my own rogue to farm them. He said that because he's on his other account a lot these days, I was welcome to log onto Tekno myself and farm the boxes, and not have to spend any monies. Awesome! :D

Still later in the evening I offered to run Kered through SFK. He didn't have any flightpaths apart from Stormwind & Westfall. >< So we went on a very long adventure running from Ironforge to Silverpine Forest. I wish I had a passenger mount. :-/ SFK was pretty fun though.. I've done the instance on lowbie horde toons on other servers, ages ago, but had never done it on Panadoll. So I got an achievement for that too. :D

so tired! sleep time. :P

I went to 10man Ulduar with Twelve tonight. We were just clearing up to the keepers for the leet hardmode group to finish off tomorrow. All good with me, I don't mind getting saved.. haven't even done 10man for weeks.

As soon as I accepted the invite I went to adjust my UI for raid & realised I hadn't tested it with a vehicle yet. o_o I've had problems with vehicle bars not showing up in the past. So I ran to Icecrown and jumped on one of the harpoon guns. Badness. No harpoon abilities on my bars. However the abilities worked when I pressed number keys.

So I flew over to Ulduar, thinking "oh god please put me on something easy". I'd driven all the vehicles, and had been a demolisher gunner in the past. So I know what abilities are there, it was just a matter of remembering which went to which key.. mostly I was just hoping I wouldn't have to do anything complicated like loading myself up to be shot to the boss or anything (which I've only done once before). Luckily I was given the very easy job of siege gunner, which is the only one I hadn't done before. It was easy enough to figure out where my abilities were with some experimentation.

We got Leviathan down after a couple of wipes (left some towers up). Then continued to Razorscale. It was here that I decided that I fucken hate Grid. I don't know if it was just the way I had it set up, but not being able to see my bubbles/renews/PoMs etc on peoples' bars was incredibly annoying, also those tiny little boxes? No thankyou. I switched back to HealBot after the fight.

Overall I was pretty disappointed with my heals. I just didn't get into that smooth healing zone, I was a bit all over the place and my cooldowns felt slightly off or something. Could either be the new UI, the brand new computer I'm using that I haven't raided on before, the fact that I haven't raided in a while, the fact that I was raiding with Twelve, or the cold I have that is making me feel like my head's stuffed with cotton wool - I don't know. :P In any case I need to stop watching heal metres when I'm disc. Or get that recount addon that shows disc contributions.

It was interesting, seeing the little differences between Twelve's strats and TF's strats. Some of the strategies we used were in order to go for achievements (of which I got a few :D). Kiting Kologarn's eyebeams was.. an experience (never did that with TF). lol :P Overall it was a pretty fun raid. :) Now I must go tweak my UI some more (i.e. get rid of Grid & replace it with Pitbull raidframes).

The last two nights, I've been on Ulduar sitout. Earning dkp & still able to grind rep for my crazy Insane achievement? Awesome. I can't grind Steamwheedle rep, because I can't reset Dire Maul due to being in the Ulduar raid group. But I've been farming heaps of Ravenholdt rep - got 6000 rep through to Honored last night, and 3000 more rep today. I've got my rep route through Stromgarde Keep, I know where every mob spawns, it's just a matter of putting myself on autorun & chucking SW:P on everything I see. Although I only get 5 rep per mob, the mobs are only around level 35, so they go down in a couple of seconds. I get interrupted sometimes. Lowbies are questing in the area & get pissed off when I run past & take down all their mobs. Today a rogue & a lock, both around level 35, tried taking me down - the lock feared me, and the rogue stunlocked me. I got pissed off at the interruption and raped their fases, then camped them for about 15min. :P

Tonight I actually got called into Ulduar for Mimiron. Earlier today I'd revamped my UI completely, I went from this to this. Very different, and making much use of invisible bars. I also finally decided to switch from HealBot to Grid + Clique. But because I haven't ever used Grid + Clique before, I was way too nervous to use it when I was called in.. so I used HealBot. When I switched UIs, I had to redo all my HealBot binds, and I think I mistyped Prayer of Healing, because when I tried to use it, it didn't work. Also, my bind for Pain Suppression didn't work. The result: I stood there spamming my PS bind when I was supposed to use it, saw nothing was happening, targeted the tank in a panic and manually cast it from one of my (invisible) bars (thank god I actually put it on there). And my heals were atrocious. I am not used to being so bad on that fight. I've always been holy for Mimiron in the past, because awesome raid heals are needed for phase 2, so doing it as disc was.. different. I did survive the entire fight, but that wasn't difficult - I was there for all of TF's progression encounters and a billion times after that, so I know the fight pretty damn well. Just.. heals were bad. When I realised my Prayer of Healing wasn't working I was kinda like "ugh" and just tried shield spamming and casting lots of PoMs and Renews. My Divine Hymn got interrupted dammit. :P

Anyways. I'd been waiting to get a chance to show Twelve that I'm not the nub I was when I was last in the guild. Hopefully the fact that I didn't die on Mimi indicated something of that at least. I was so nervous though, lol. :P And, I didn't really know who my heal target was, I mean there were two holy pallies there I think so I guess I was raid heals. Raid healing as disc: a great way to show the guild my potential lolol. Should have gone holy, but it all happened so fast after I was summoned in. I was slightly disappointed that I didn't get to go on with them to Thorim, because I think I shine as disc on that fight - shield spam ftw in the arena. :D But really I'm just happy that they let me come in for something. ^_^

Note to self for next time I'm called in: Make your damn raid stuffs bar visible without mousing over. Said bar has my Divine Hymn macro, pots, shadowfiend, Desperate Prayer & other useful things.

Current progress on Insane:
Bloodsail Buccaneers: Honored (done)
Steamwheedle Cartel
Booty Bay: 9550/36000 Hated
Gadgetzan: 9425/36000 Hated (this is less than the others cos I stupidly killed some guards in Gadget when I stupidly tried to use the flight path)
Ratchet: 9550/36000 Hated
Winterspring: 9550/36000 Hated
Shen'drelar: 2500/3000 Neutral
Ravenholdt: 3040/12000 Honored
Darkmoon Faire: 75/3000 Neutral

So I left Sanguinary, and went back to Twelve. I'm really, really happy to be back. Even if I'm not raiding, there's something comfortable about being in a well respected guild. There's no room for me in the 25man Ulduar group, but more often than not I can't make Twelve's 7pm raid time these days anyway. However tonight I got put on sitout (earning dkp apparently), which was awesome. :D Hopefully I might get a chance to go to a 10man run soon, I think they do them over the weekends & since I don't have my daughter to look after on weekends, I can actually make raid time.

Meanwhile, after spending much time levelling Dollfase & Zkay, I got a bit burnt out on levelling & decided to go do the Midsummer achievements on Panadoll. I got Flame Warden, the first event title I've gotten (I'm usually too lazy to do the event achievements :P). While I was running around grabbing flames I also finished off the Explorer achievement, and started thinking about other achievements I might like to do. Eventually Panadoll & Tkay went to kill goblins in Booty Bay for the Bloodsail achievement. :D It didn't take very long at all - mostly due to Tkay being able to round up practically the whole town. I mostly just healed him. :P Anyways while we were doing that, I started thinking about the Insane achievement.. I've decided to go for it. xD The day after we did the Bloodsail thing, I went back to Booty Bay and got my rep up to honored. It took me longer by myself, as I mostly just single targeted the goblins, but it wasn't a terrible grind.

So for this achievement, I need: Honored with Bloodsail, Exalted with all Steamwheedle Cartel (Gadgetzan, Ratchet, Booty Bay & Winterspring), Exalted with Shen'drelar, Exalted with Ravenholdt, and Exalted with Darkmoon Faire. I'm working on Steamwheedle, Shen'drelar and Ravenholdt at the same time. I've been running Dire Maul north (had to get the key first, which gave me some Shen'drelar rep) where there are 2 repeatable quests for Steamwheedle rep, and also librams drop which I can hand in for Shen'drelar rep. I've also been to Arathi today to kill all the Syndicate mobs in Stromgarde for Ravenholdt rep. They're just 5 rep each but I just run around chucking SW:P on them all and they drop really fast. Today I farmed 3000 rep to take me to Friendly in just a couple of hours.

So here's my progress with this crazy project so far:
Bloodsail Buccaneers: 50/12000 Honored
Steamwheedle Cartel
Gadgetzan: 1625/36000 Hated
Ratchet: 1625/36000 Hated
Booty Bay: 1625/36000 Hated
Winterspring: 1625/36000 Hated
Shen'drelar: 500/3000 Neutral
Ravenholdt: 115/6000 Friendly
Darkmoon Faire: 75/3000 Neutral

Yeh I have a long way to go, lol. :P I'm enjoying myself so far though.. I actually kinda like farming rep. xD I know it will take me a really long time, and I'll probably get burnt out on it, but then I'll be motivated to play my alts again. :D

I drew this a few weeks ago for someone in TF when I was bored on a shutdown night. :)

( priest )

Also something I didn't mention here when it happened.. Panadoll got her awesome blue birdie mount, after many many runs through Sethekk Halls with Damager's druid alt. xD I just thought of it cos I changed my lj profile & added a pic of it there. :)

So Sanguinary.. isn't really working out. Raids starting at 9pm are definitely good, but ending at 1am.. not so much. I think 8-830 is still my ideal raid start time, with 12 the ideal finish time (or earlier! :D). My daughter has just started school, so I have to get up early Mondays, Tuesdays & Wednesdays, which means late night raiding on Sunday/Monday is no good for me anymore. Sanguinary has only been doing Ulduar on Wednesday & Thursday nights, and 25man Naxx on Monday nights, purpose being to gear up people for Ulduar. They are very pushy about people only bringing mains to the Naxx runs so that they can smash through it fast, which didn't end up happening the one time I went (I declined the invite to the one this week, using the excuse of computer issues, which is partly true). I really don't want to be obliged to go to Naxx anyway, I've done it so many times that I hate the place (apart from Heigan, which is always fun :P) and I'm not gonna get any upgrades from there.

Also.. the Ulduar raids with Sanguinary are painful. Horribly painful. I joined the guild thinking that I would be the only disc priest & was looking forward to a refreshing absence of holy pallies. So I was slightly horrified when I turned up for my second raid with them and saw three holy pallies and another disc priest in the raid group. Do these people not understand that holy pallies & disc priests are tank healers & ideally you should only have two of them? I suggested I go holy for the raid, and was told to stay disc. Cue much eyerolling. We proceeded to wipe on XT several times, and I just respecced anyway. Nobody actually noticed until later when somebody posted the heal metre, and the raid leader (or someone, in this particular raid there was nobody really "leading") said "oh, you're holy". >.> I rock that heal metre as holy. xD

I was impressed when we managed to down Auriaya, using a very bad and drawn out strat (only just beat the timer). Auriaya is as far as the guild has gotten through Ulduar. We made several attempts on Thorim, which failed miserably. I asked the other disc priest to help me shield spam in the arena, they ignored me. I tried to give suggestions on what we could do to improve our strategy (for starters, more healers in the tunnel than out in the arena is a terribad idea), I was ignored. This pissed me off. I don't mind being in progression runs, in fact I really enjoy them, but not when I can see that we're doing stuff obviously wrong & when I point it out I'm flatout ignored, and we continue to wipe over & over with the same bad strat.

I had PC issues last week (overheating & switching off in the middle of boss encounters), and hence couldn't raid, which was refreshing. I played around with my alts & had much more fun than I would have had in Raid of Badness. I think I decided then that I want to go a bit more casual for a while. I'd still really like to raid occasionally (I'd love to see a Yogg kill & try some hardmodes) but not so scheduled, and preferably not with bads.

Meanwhile, I'm having so much fun with my alts. Dollfase the mage is currently level 71 and questing in Borean Tundra. She's cute, she looks like a little bee on her yellow & black striped mechanostrider. xD Mages are a pretty powerful class I've found, but a bit boring to level. All I do really is spam frostbolt. :P

Zkay the DK (named after my DK friend from Cabal, Tkay) surprised me by being extremely fun to play. I adore playing her cos she smashes through everything so fast! :D And for once I don't have to run & hide from horde, lol. :P I'm still bad at PvP but at least I have a fighting chance now. ^^; The playstyle is so different from other classes I've played (casters), which makes her more fun & interesting. I kinda wanna tank on her. :D At the moment she's level 70 & in Howling Fjord.

I'm levelling mining & jewelcrafting (both around 350-375 currently) on Zkay. While levelling mining in Nagrand I noticed I was getting a lot of Kurenai rep killing ogres in the caves, and after I finished levelling mining in the area I decided to continue on for a bit & get to exalted. I got Zkay her tan talbuk today. xD On Dollfase I'm doing herbing & alchemy (I've got her herbing up but haven't invested much time in alchemy yet). I spent a huge amount of money levelling Zkay's jc. >.> But hopefully I will eventually turn it into a profitable profession. I made a lot of money levelling inscription on Panacea recently, farming all the mats myself. I'm still saving for Panacea's epic flyer so she can farm herbs faster.. but after the amount I spent on Zkay's jc it's gonna take a while I think. :(

p.s. in other news, I broke up with Damager. We're still friends. :) He's going to take a break from the game I think.. boo. :(

I've spent the last several weeks raiding with Twisted Faith. It's been pretty good. Managed to raid with them right up to Yogg - I was there for their first kill of Vezax, but we didn't manage to get Yogg down. I got a lot of nice gear upgrades, mostly from the 10 man Ulduar runs I did with them, plus a few from 25 man (only tier gear I got was t8 gloves from 10 man). Last time I checked I was 21st priest on the server, but of course that's just based on ilevel of gear.

I gquit Twisted Faith last Friday night. The reasoning behind it was complicated, and more so because I was very upset when I did it. I don't really want to go into it, suffice to say that I had become very paranoid about what the higher ups in the guild were saying about me behind my back. I felt extremely guilty about it also, because I was their last raiding priest, and I knew I was screwing them up for the next couple of raids. But I just couldn't stay any longer in that kind of environment. I play this game to enjoy myself & relax in the evening after stressful days of looking after my toddler, I just don't have the energy to deal with extra stress from people in game.

Panadoll's been guildless for the last few days, which was very freeing - I felt like a huge weight was lifted when I left TF - but still felt weird. I don't particularly like being guildless. I had a look at other high end guilds that I could apply to, but they either weren't looking for disc priests, or their raid times were bad for me. One thing that has been good since leaving TF, is that I don't have to stress about getting my daughter to bed in time to get online for raids. I've been able to relax & draw out her bedtime routine a bit, which has been really good for both of us.

So I was in Ironforge last night, on my mage alt Dollfase (now in a guild I created a little while ago on my DK alt, called Hiding On My Alt), when I saw a recruitment ad for a guild called Sanguinary. They were looking to recruit for 25 Ulduar, and their raid times were 3 days a week, 9pm - 1am. So perfect for Panadoll, cos then I wouldn't have to stress about getting to raids on time & I'd have an extra day in the week to level alts & muck around. I logged over to Panadoll & whispered the guy to ask how far they were progressed through Ulduar. He said they had 6 bosses down. Which, tbh, is not great. A big step down from TF. I didn't reply to him, and then he whispered me to say he'd armoryed me & asked if I was interested in joining because they could really use a disc priest. I replied that I'd be interested if they had a MT healing spot, and asked him if they had many holy pallies raiding. He said there was a lack of raiding holy pallies in the guild. That... kind of sold me, lol. So I joined Sanguinary.

It feels weird to go from a high end raiding guild to a guild still progressing through Ulduar bosses that I see now as relatively easy (they're up to Auriaya/Hodir etc) but I think this will be a good change of pace for me. Damager won't be raiding for a few weeks, as he's in the process of moving (to Sydney ^_^) and when he finally does start playing again, he says he's going to leave TF as well (he's had a lot of problems with the guild also). So I think when he gets back into the game, I'll probably try to find a more high end guild home with him. But for now, Sanguinary is comfy & relaxed. I'm liking the guild so far. We'll see how it goes when I raid with them for the first time tomorrow.