The summer is getting to the guild quite significantly, there’s a general air of “Meh”, we have lack of numbers even for the Wednesday raid (Team Tank filled the dps gaps again), and one of the core dps has announced an intention to leave the game / greatly reduce this play time (external to wow reasons).
This week’s raiding has been juggled so we get to see Arthas again given that we’ve only killed him twice as a group, I’ve not been in on either which combined with keeping the 10-man lock for Team Pirate means no achivement OCD satisfaction for me or title. Hopefully this gets resolved tonight and we go for another dragon kill down at the Sanctum, possible some heroic training.
So, with Cataclysm coming where does this leave things?
It’s clear from the realm itself that things are very very quiet.
EO is having problems getting enough players online, even for the reduced summer schedule (Saturday is on hiatus for the moment), typically from the dps team which tends to mean we have a player or two from team tank filling in the gaps (just as well I didn’t keep the healing off spec).
Very few pugs for the weekly raid, whereas a couple of months ago /trade was spammed with them all week, the heroic queues for healers are up (4 minutes or so), though slightly perversely the queue times for dps are actually down, but I guess that’s also a sign of the number of players who are just not in the system at the moment. I’m seeing a lot of activity down in the levelling zones, so a stack of players are off getting an alt or two levelled up and shedloads more RP (I play on an RP PvE realm).
What’s coming which will bring the players back?
- Dragon lead destruction and the lead up event (that’s a no brainer)
- Reclaiming Gnomer and the Troll homeland (I’ll be playing on my horde alt for that as well)
- Cataclysm itself
- Nothing else I can think of
So enjoy the quiet while it lasts.