new alt vs main policy

Last week, (well, the last raid week), I signed up Loihi for ICC25 farm night. Our GM never had a problem with bringing alts to farm night, assuming they were geared enough and could pull their weight, and assuming the entire raid wasn't alts. Well, things got switched around, and they ended up going to RS on farm night, so I unsigned up, like I mentioned here. They switched farm night to Thursday, so I signed up for that. Well, they ended up doing lower spire after RS on Wednesday. Then Thursday, they continued RS and Upper Spire. That's not what I signed up for, but that's what I ended up bringing Loihi to. She got three pieces of gear (that no one else was remotely interested in, and it's not like I wasn't spending dkp on it), and the main warlock in the guild said something to the effect of, "damn, I'm bringing my alt next time." The GM commented, "Aww, DD, you don't have an alt!"

A few days later, a post pops up on the forums from our GM. We're no longer allowed to bring alts to 25 man (even on farm night) unless the alt is NEEDED. (His caps, not mine.) And they'll take main character offspecs before they'll take alt character main specs. Which doesn't make sense to me because my shaman's (my main) offspec is far less geared than my warlock's main spec. Anyway. I was invited on a whim. I never submitted an application. I never chose my main. Because my shaman was the first one to be invited to the guild, she was automatically my main, even though she was my least geared character at the time. (And she wasn't my main the first time I was in the guild.) There's now in place a formal procedure to switch mains, and I don't qualify for it.

I have little desire to raid on my shaman. My warlock has always been my passion, and I way more fun with her than I do with my shaman. It frustrates me that I can't break a certain dps on my shaman because it's the nature of elemental shamans, and it makes me not even try to dps hard. So what do I do?

I applied to another guild with Loihi. I haven't been accepted yet, but I think I have a decent chance. But I'm really on the fence about whether or not I'm going to go. KoT's policy is that if you remove your main from the guild, all of your alts will be kicked out. Well, Adelaide is listed as my main, but technically Loihi will be my main. It's kind of just asking for trouble, I think. I don't want to burn any bridges in KoT because I did that once, and I don't want to do it again. I love that guild, but I want to play the character that I want to play. If I'm forced to play a character that's no fun to me, I'm just not going to play. Aside from all that, though, school will be starting back up in a couple of weeks. The guild to which I applied ends their raids at midnight my time, whereas KoT ends theirs at 1:30am my time. Midnight is much more reasonable for me. But the other big problem, aside from pissing off people in KoT, is that Josh likely won't be able to come with me. They only have two warlocks in the guild, but every other class is overfull (though they are recruiting...). Even if he were to get accepted, his rogue is the only geared enough toon he has, and it's his main in KoT. And KoT only has two rogues (including him) so it wouldn't make sense for him to leave.

It just doesn't make sense. Loihi is <100 points lower than Adelaide gearscore wise (on wow-heroes, not sure about the addon) and she does more dps than Adelaide. Why can't I bring her to farm night?!

Bleh. It's a much more difficult decision than I'd like it to be, and I just wish I hadn't been put in this position in the first place. >.>

and i'm back

I haven't been raiding lately. I haven't been doing much of anything wow-related lately, except trying to make money. I stumbled upon the money-maker that is fishing, and in about two weeks (though really only maybe 4 days actively) I made 6k gold. The most I've ever had before was 12k, and that's when I sold a hilt I got. I gave half of that to Josh, so 6k is the most I've ever had for myself. As much as I'd like to get my little Whimsy epic flight training, I'm going to wait till I get 10k just so I can see that much money in my bag =P I tried the same tactic on Scilla, but they just don't value fish the way Scryers people do. I've only made about 2k on Scilla in the same amount of time.

Whimsy has finally hit 70. I am definitely not as good at warrior tanking as I am at pally tanking, but interestingly enough, I find it a lot less challenging. Everyone says that pally tanking is the faceroll, but honestly, I think warrior tanking is. I'm just not good at tanking at lower levels when my groups are full of noobs who think it's cool to pull aggro and then continue to beat on the mob so that no matter how many times I taunt it, it can never get back to me. Whatever.

I haven't been raiding because we get finished at 1:30am my time, and I had class at 10am. I wasn't getting up on time, so I had to stop raiding. Now I only have a few more weeks before it's back to school full time and work, so hopefully I'll get some raid time in. I intended to take Loihi to 10 man ICC tonight, but our server was down for the 24 hour maintenance. I signed her up for the 25 man farm night tomorrow, but that got changed to RS, so I unsigned up. I hated OS, and I have absolutely no desire to do RS. When we ran Diabolical, OS was something you pugged. Not just in our guild, but in all guilds. And I have a hard time looking at RS differently. To me, it's a waste of my raiding time. So I guess I'll just have to pug a raid this week since I couldn't get in any 10 OR 25. Sigh.

Since our server was down, though, Josh and I, along with two guildies, went to the B L O G refugee party on Shadow Council. It was pretty cool, but it did get boring after a bit.


Look at all those gnomes!!