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“hey,” I told the guild leader, “hey, I’ve already been gone for three months, so my gear was
behind, because it had been three months where everyone else was getting gear and I hadn’t
been, um, my gear’s behind, but at the same time, I know you still want me to be an officer, but I
think I’m going to try to shoot for something higher, because you lived for three months without
me, you know it’s not going to be the end of the world if I move on ,” [ yeah] and at that point I
had contacted the four people, the, or the three who had moved into Myrmidons, which was um,
their character names were Birdsy, Grimberg, and MamaPajama, [mhmm], their real names are
Brad, Matt, and Cassandra, but anyways, they moved on to Myrmidons, and I was like “hey, I
want to move up, I know Myrmidons is higher” Myrmidons I think was like a number 4 rank on
the server [mhmm] and Goof Troop was like 17th , so it was a big jump up, but I’m like “hey,
look, I want to move up, we played together for a year and a half, you guys know me” All three
of them vouched for me , so all four of us were together again [uh huh] And uh, I joined the
guild, and like two minutes later, they’re like, “hey, look, we’re going to test you out, put on
your gear, we’re going into Icy Sea,” which was, at the point, the current raid tier, like *smacks
hands together*that was the current thing, that was the hardest, that was what everyone was good
was doing, and they threw me in there [*haha*] to a boss I had never done and then they made
me tank, so I was on the front line , [oh yeah haha] and I was completely confused, I had no idea
what I was doing, but we killed the boss in one shot, and they gave me gear, and I was like “well
I guess I’m here now” hahahaha [yeah] They were like “no, you did alright for your gear, so
here, take these bracers, we’re going to get you geared up, we’ll see how you do.” And I stayed
with them all the way up through the end of um, Wrath of the Liche King [mhmm] which was
another couple months, and uh, through them I quickly geared up, um, I started the legendary
quest where I got that legendary mount I mentioned, [mhmm] um, I became probably the third
ranking tank , which is—um, at the point there were two different raid difficulties, there were 10-
man and 25-man [mhmm] uh, 10-mean you needed two tanks per 10-man group, 25-mean you
wanted three tanks total. So, I would tank, I would main tank one of the 10-man’s and then I
would be the third tank in the 25-man, and I was also one of the top three or four DPS, when I
would switch, because I would either do, because there wasn’t always a third tank required, so
sometimes I would switch to DPS on the fights where only two tanks were required [mhmm] So
I was one of the top tanks and one of the top DPS, but not the top [okay] which um, I thought
was important because I whenever, I kind of figured out after playing that when you’re the
absolute top in your guild, that’s, when you’re top one or two, that’s when the pressure to move
up a step really starts to show, cause you feel like you’re kinda carrying people through things,
you’re like “ugh, look at these guys, they’re doing terrible, like, oh my god, I wish I was with
players that could keep up with me” [mhmm] And eventually that grates on you enough that you
bounce, and you go with players that can keep up with you. Um, but that wasn’t happening
[mhmm] cause you know , there were a few players, there were a lot of players I was better than,
but there were a few that were very good in my guild and we kinda stayed with each other,
including, um, the three players that had moved up from . And, you know, we had fun, we got
through some heroic content. I remember that I got very badly yelled at by one of my neighbors
when we killed the final boss in the expansion, [uh huh] because we killed the final boss in the
expansion [haha], because it was like two in the morning and we had been working on it for like
two months, and, actually, I might, I have a picture of it, I think it’s on facebook actually, maybe
not though, but there’s a picture of us on the internet having killed that boss, we did a group