Real Life and Raiding

So anyone that regularly has been reading my blog (which is porbably just me) you might be wondering to yourself "How do you find so much time to play games?". Truth be told i'm not sure myself. I do spend a lot of late nights staying up way to late when i should be sleeping earlier or occasionally deferring things like washing dishes or cleaning until later jsut to spend more time unwinding in a fictional world or trolls, humans, gnomes, orcs, monsters, and cow people.

But I do try and balance my normal life with the time i spend playing WOW. Lets face it. Not only is it bad for social interaction when you devote too much time to something like wow, or any game for that matter, but at times playing the game for hours on end can get tiring by doing the same quests for the 100th time. Whether it be for your 8th character that you have made or your running your lower lvl friends though a dungeon sometimes it can be more like work than play.

i do admit that i love running people through lower level dungeons as it gives me a break from my daily grind in Outlands or farming for mats, or earning money just to buy things i want. Plus it gives me a boost to my confidence as i can clear a dungeon in 30 min that would have taken me at least 2 hours with a properly lvled group that knew what they were doing. One-shotting mobs that once took a good 30-45 seconds to kill can be quite satisfying in some aspects. But when too many people want me to run them one right after another then things start to feel too much like the daily grind and i Feel like i can't get things done that I need to get done.

But back to real life. Recently in the months that are coming prior to WOTLK expansion I still feel like i have plenty to do. I'm one of the lucky souls that haven't beaten every dungeon/raid yet. I love the fact that I am just now getting to go do Karazhan and that we've only run it 3 times so far but every week we seem to progress further than the last. I feel like I'm finally getting to do something that I've wanted to do for all this time. Truthfully I would like to go back and raid Onyxia who seemingly has fallen off the face of the planet when BC was released raising the level cap to 70 and making lvl 60, 40 man raids almost an afterthought. I love looking forward to raiding kara once a week and doing some heroics every now and again with the other people in the guild as we now have enough to do a couple heroic groups and almost enough for a full kara group.

Well as fate would have it i'm out of town on a business trip this week and so i can't make the regularly scheduled appointment time of Firday as I will be In the air on my way back home. but I've noticed that we don't have it scheduled till tomorrow later. But I still do have something much more important happening tomorrow that really doesn't make me regret not being able to go. My grandmother is turning 90 and so all the relatives will be in town for this event celebrating someone who is kinda the reason most of us in our family are alive.

it kind of saddens me to think that if i had a more crucial role in the group that i might be worried about the guild more than my family, but I find myself fully understanding that it's completely ok to say that you can't make a run some week. A lot of guilds might not like this, but truthfully if you are that shorthanded on people to do raids then you are going to need to recruit some more help anyways. It's hard to get even 10 people together for raiding once a week let along 2 or 3 or 4 times, unless you all work at the same place which has 8-5 mon-fir work week, and you all are single and have no other responsibilities or extracurricular activities.

So although some people say casula raiding can't be done...well i'm doing it. Nuff said. Life should come before games as it gives us something to talk to others that we know in game about and thus make playing the game that much more fun.