Good luck with your new blog, hope it works out as well as it did in your previous home ;)

Perhaps you should give some korean grinding MMO a chance... looks like you'd enjoy it!

Why do you have a hard time saying no?

I've noticed that in MMOs I have an attitude that may expect one to be disliked by just about everybody but it's just not the case. If you do what you want to instead of what others want you to do you somehow become a lot more interesting to them, plus you won't be getting depressed with your guild anymore. Just don't take it to the point of being an unreliable person.

It's rather ironic that a guild that seems to be showing a severe lack of dedication from some of its members, considering the lack of attendance and skill from some of them as you suggest, would still try to push one if its members so. When I raided I was always the high attendance player but I could still understand other people's schedule and find alternatives instead of harassing them.

I haven't read your blog long and as such I don't know how your actual relation is with the guild but it seems that it may be time to find something different. If you're getting a burn out, not just from playing with them, but also getting frustrated with having to play a character that you don't want to play just so the others in the group can leech of off you I can't imagine it doing anything other than ruining the game. Nevermind them not having any respect for your out of game activities.

My alliance guild had a little horde alt project running on the server where we would do 25 man pugs while doing ICC10/ToGC10 with our horde alt guild only ,every friday/saturday. They'd always give me crap because I didn't want to stay past midnight but when I told them they could either live with it or find somebody else it still kept happening and I decided to just cut of the horde raiding. Even though this slowly lead to the end of this little project, which was quite a shame as it was fun while it lasted, I believe that if your out of game priorities aren't respected you shouldn't be playing with them.

It was more of a joke than anything else. I'm personally not a big fan and only make use of it as I mentioned in the previous post.

That doesn't mean I don't realise other people enjoy its uses nor what it is capable of. I still find it a silly site though, and I doubt that'll ever change.

Twitter only has a few good uses:
#1 Narcissists
#2 Celebrities that have crazy fans
#3 Crazy fans that want to know what their celebrities are doing
#4 Getting your site indexed by google
I personally use #4 and I can recommend it for anybody that's getting a new site out ;)

Rule #1 with Computers:
Don't change it if it's not broken, most likely you'll only break it!

You should release this in an e-book on WoW etiquette, would fit in perfectly I'll say. Over the course of my dungeon crawling I've been guilty of some of these aswell, but most of those bad habits you quickly get rid of once you start healing yourself.

It's hard to imagine people can get ticked off just because you tell them to "get some mana" or "stop lettting me drop to 5% health just because you think it's funny to see how low you can get my health without letting me die". I'm sure everybody hates being told what to do as much as your local healer and I'd just stick to that train of thought.

You often hear people randomly complaining about how bad puggers are but you don't realise how fun the arguments can be untill you put them together afterwards.

I love the "lag" excuse. Can't have a list of excuses online without at least dropping that one in!

It's almost mean giving us such a story just to have it end like that. Titanic all over again.

The best moments in World of Warcraft for me are definitely these kinds of situations where you're just having some fun with other players, be it helping out a new player as you did or messing about with friends/guildies. When I'm semi-afk I always sit in Exodar. The funny part of this city is that new players always get lost and can't find the exit. Always find it amusing to invite them to group and ride them out on my Mammoth and make them go like all "Woah!"

I rarely find myself able to do other things like this anymore while it was a common activity for me in Vanilla. ;(