It has been far too long since my last post. Yes I did the WoW thing for a while. You can read a little about it in the previous posts. It wasnt interesting enough to make too many posts I guess. So here we are back in EQ2. I have been here for a few months now and am very happy to be back. So I have some catching up to do.
Basically it went like this:
I got bored with WoW very suddenly one day. It was right after a major game update, I logged back in, was trying to update my UI to make everything work again, and my guild was asking me to go tank something for them. I told them "hold on, gotta restart the game quick so my UI changes take effect" Little did I or they know those would be my last words in WoW. Dont know what hit me, or why, but I just didnt log back in. Ever. A RL friend of mine has my toon now and is taking very good care of him and WTFPWNING instances that I am WAY overgeared for while he levels his other toons.
For a while I did nothing. I tried Tabula Rasa, which wsa good, but was not good enough. One day out of nowhere I got a postcard from SOE saying that ROK was coming, and in anticipation they would give me afree month, and a bonus upgrade to EoF! I figured why not?
I immediately remembered why I loved EQ2 so much.
After TORRENTS of tells, I was torn on what to do. I had offers to join nearly every raid guild, including Strike, and some even wanted me to be an officer! I raided with most of them, with the exception of Strike, and came away with mixed feelings. I was not happy with the progression, dedication, leadership, or raid schedules of any of the guilds I raided with. None struck me as having the talent, dedication, or leadership required to be more than just a casual guild. Quite frankly, the raiding scene sucked. I almost resigned myself to being a casual player (I really did not have the energy to be a guild leader again, or to try and build a guild from nothing) when Dreamshadow and Naggash talked to me and had the same conclusions on the raiding scene. After MUCH talking, we finally decided that there was enough of a demand to build a guild that would raid on a hardcore schedule. This new guild would recruit from the old hardcore members of the server. We would only recruit those who shared the same goal and dedication to make a top guild. We warned everyone upfront that the recruitment would be along process. We would not just take anyone, and we would not resort to the typical spam to drum up membership. This guild was for the elite of the server, the old players who remember how things used to be.
And True Blood was born.
It has been a very slow start. We have worked with, grouped with, raided with every member before they were invited. We built the guild completely on member input. True Blood is the guild that every member wanted it to be. We have slowly gathered our friends together, and built a raid force from nothing. In the past 3 weeks we have begun our hardcore raid schedule. We have destroyed everything we have gone up against and have attracted a good following. Momentum is building and soon we will be unstoppable!
