In the wonderful World of Warcraft, I play a level 80 Nightelf Hunter. Ever since first rolling her back in 2006, I have loved running with Aurendar. She is literally my alter ego. Heck if I ever decided to have a daughter (NOT) I'd be half tempted to name her Aurendar. But that is another post entirely.
Anyway, about two weeks ago, I began to really loathe even logging on to run her. I've ran with the hunter class for so long that it's just become boring to me. There are a couple of things that I believe led to the proverbial "rock and a hard place" that I find my situation in.
1. I'm going to say it and I hope I don't get blasted for saying it - I HATE THE SURVIVAL TREE! With the latest WoW patch, if you are a raider (which I am) and you want to get the most benefit out of your hunter not only for you but your raid, you BETTER be survival! When the patch dropped, I ran to the nearest trainer and respecced. Now, it's not really that bad to play, it's just BORING! My shot rotations got all screwed up and I've never really been able to adjust. Going back to Beast Mastery really isn't an option when you do endgame raiding.
2. Recently, in my guild, we brought on some additional hunters. If you don't play WoW, I'll tell you right now, hunters are probably one of the most played classes second to probably Death Knights. Not 100% sure about that as I haven't run any hard numbers but I'd bet I'm pretty close. Does a guild really need that many hunters? I have no idea but one thing I can say is that successful runs rely on over-the-top DPS which is something that hunters do very well. Aurendar isn't going anywhere but on the back end, I'd like to explore other possibilities to avoid quitting this game all together. With the additional hunters on board, I started thinking about this a bit more.
Can you tell I'm frustrated?
Anyway, in order to garner interest again in one of my favorite past times, I rolled a Druid March 15th, 2009. I named her Wynari in homage to one of the best Druid's I've had the pleasure of knowing, our main tank Dunari. I can only hope that one day, I'm a quarter the Druid she is. Over the past week, I've had an absolute BLAST running her! Last night I dinged level 30 with her and got my traveling form as well as her first mount! The World of Warcraft is getting that spark again. A spark that I hope never dies. But now I'm on the "other side". I miss my guildies. I miss running with my friends. I wish I could magically snap my fingers and Wynari would ding 80 with some nice gear so I can run with Summit again. I'm just going to be patient and level her.
Who knows, maybe Summit can form a 'guild within a guild' and fill it with alts so we can all run together. I've been playing WoW for so long and have run with many guilds. There just isn't anything quite like running with Summit. I honestly have no interest in running with any other.
What to do, what to do...
