Or banter outside of the battleground while waiting for the next one to begin. Or recruit people in town to adventure out to the closest dungeon. You no longer battle outside of raids, running from the graveyard back into the instance. They make the content easier to play, but greatly lessen the connections to the people you are playing with. Thus, with all MMOs, a main draw is that you are playing with other people people you can befriend people you can grief.īlizzard has done a great job of creating content, events and areas that help form connections between people, but that has been reduced greatly by group finding tools. The content is expansive and high quality, but people consume it so fast that only the end game and random grinding/farming prizes are left to entertain. Nowadays, even the great raiding guilds are falling to the side, even Paragon has disbanded. I remember when I could tell a lot about a person just by their guild, because it said a lot about the people they hang out with and what they enjoy doing. This wasn’t always the reaction, though, because guilds meant more to everyone in the past. People are often startled when they hear I am still raiding and even more surprised when they see the strength of the bonds in the guild. Sure, I know they are Joe, Dan, Katrina, etc, but that’s not their name to me. These are names of the people in my family, even when Frakir is fondly called “Fucker”. Durkk, Tullen, Estara, Rel, Riin, Kinan, Raun, Frakir, Cyria, Perse, Sumerr, Nite, and more. They are my second family and I enjoy every single game I play with them, but World of Warcraft is the one that we all play together.Īll of them know my name is “Renee”, but I am still called “Riku”, because that’s my name in this family of mine.
Scalebane has held strong since before the release of World of Warcraft and is the oldest active guild on our server. I’ve been in the guild for nine years, yet I still feel like a newer member. Yet, every Wednesday a group of people come together, yes, to raid, but also to laugh and talk and banter.
This is the state that most of my guildmates are in: all with great gear, all know every fight, and we slaughter every boss without much thought. Even my legendary ring is maxed out at 795. I log on every Wednesday to raid Heroic Hellfire Citadel, even though my druid has, for the most part, best in slot gear.
My main character in World of Warcraft, a feral druid named Riku.
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