July 02, 2008, 05:41 AM
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Re: Long story on guilds, raiding, friends, and progression
I can relate to your story  .
I was an officer in my guild back Pre-The Burning Crusade. We've been around since the Beta and faced several leave-waves. However just after The Burning Crusade came, we had a major splitt up. All our more dedicated raiders left. Most of those guys were my friends.
Many people looked at me cause I was one of the offies, would I try to ressurect the guild again of leave with them? I was confused, why did they leave me? Weren't we friends? In the end I decided to join the breakaway guild. It was my biggest mistake. I never belonged there.
After one month I left. For a week I was guildless, then my old guildies started wispering: come back, join us. I did it, and it was the best decision I made. The fun was back again, raiding went slow but we progressed well. I don't have that many friends in the guild, but we go well with eachother. A lot of laughter, chat and fun. I like the mix of raiding and fun.
The best I can advise you, is to stay with your current guild and forget the old friends. Make sure that your guild maintain that "good feeling" and slowly expand, but be picky: our guild has succes because we try to take only people who already have friends in the guild. So take no hoppers, overambitious people etc.
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