Comments on: Beru Sings the (Pandaland) Blues

By: Blixa

Blixa — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 08:55:16 +0000

I totally understand what you are going through Beru.
As you know, my partner is also a feral bear (and I’m a resto druid). For the last 2 expansions we didn’t really level together (I’m so slow everyone including my boyfriend has me blacklisted) but we always did the dungeon team. He quit WoW at the start of Cata and I’ve been lost without him. I took on our 25 man guild myself, inclusive of raid-leading. As per our previous e-mails, this was such a bad time for me, and I can totally understand the lonlieness and anxiety you are experiencing. But you know what? Such a negative thing turned into a positive. I love that I have just as much fun now with my guild. Just me. Often looked over because “oh they’ll probably go together” it made me get more involved in doing stuff with other people – and I love it.
You’ve spoken before about sometimes feeling detached to from your guild (I get this too, sometimes the GM is the ‘enemy’ like the principal of a school, you just don’t seem to be part of the cliques) but I found this bridged the gap.
Basically what I’m trying to say is, I totally understand how scary and awful it is, but make the best of it – you could end up having so much fun and strengthening bonds with existing members and new faces in guild. This is such a good time to be BERU, not Beru the raid leader/Gm/boss lady.
Hope it goes well xxx

By: shoryl

shoryl — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 20:08:51 +0000

Beru, I can’t remember if you’re Ally or Horde; but I have an Ally tank you can keep in your pocket at least some . I’m only taking one day off work; but I love bringing my own healer to dungeons!

By: AliPally

AliPally — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 12:41:34 +0000

I really don’t like the opening couple of weeks of an expansion. There is enormous pressure to rush, rush , rush to the level cap and get geared up as soon as possible. I hate rushing! But if you don’t, you end up falling behind everyone else.

When Cata came out I was still doing normal dungeons when most of my guild were doing heroics, and of course none of them wanted to do normals any more, so I had to pug them. I was so stressed that I was in tears on more than one occasion. No doubt the same thing will happen this time, and coupled with a new spec that I have hardly played (no real raiding in last 3 months) I am quite worried about it all once again.

By: Analogue

Analogue — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 14:28:58 +0000

This makes me sad. Leveling through a new expansion with my husband is one of the best parts of the game! I’d be so disappointed. As it is we’re going to have conflict because he’s out of work and I’m working from home…. on my wow computer… right next to his wow computer. I can see the angst from here…

Hope you guys find some way to enjoy the shiny first days of the expansion anyway.

By: Cymre

Cymre — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 11:21:59 +0000

Sorry to hear that Beru.
I love leveling with my partner too but with him being on the other side of the world, it makes things very limiting. We’ll have no choice but to take our time but i can certainly understand where you’re coming from. >.>

By: Rholm

Rholm — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 02:26:16 +0000

Aw, Beru.

I understand your struggle.

But you have a great guildmates around and I am sure they will hang around. Sure, they aren’t your significant other (should I say husband, at this point?), but you’ll have a blast leveling up your character(s) with them. They are good persons (for the most part!) Have fun and spend some quality time with Brade, whenever you can.

Much love to both of you,

Rholm

P.S.

Regards to Judis. Also, I may or may not come back to WoW. Not like Llane or Mono has needs for another sneaky Forsaken roleplaying rogue! Just don’t kick me out yet =P

By: Berry

Berry — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 21:55:09 +0000

Loads and loads of sympathy. I wouldn’t want to level without my best friend either. We don’t actually quest together usually (he’s way faster than me), but we whisper or talk in vent and giggle together.

Can you IM him at work? And would that make him feel bad?

By: Beruthiel

Beruthiel — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 21:12:02 +0000

While just taking the scenic route sounds lovely it, unfortunately, does not fit in with our raid schedule.

I did consider not taking the time from work, but the truth is I’ve been looking forward the vacation (which I sorely need) for sometime, so I opted to go ahead and take it. I also don’t know that there is a better time in the year that I will be able to use the time – and unfortunately I don’t get to carry my time over, so it’s use it or lose it.

Maybe the next expansion I won’t have the obligations that I have now, and will be able to take all the time I want getting through the content

By: Rohan

Rohan — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 18:03:46 +0000

Have you considered changing your plans? Maybe not taking the extra vacation and just taking the first month of Pandaria slowly. I mean, it’s only a month, and 2 of the raids won’t be released right away, I don’t think there’s the immediate rush to get to 90.

I don’t know the particulars of your work, but it seems a shame to burn a week of vacation time if your partner won’t be with you and you’re not really excited about what you’re going to be doing during that week.

From a personal perspective, the best time I had during an expansion launch was Wrath. I wasn’t in a guild then, and took like 2 solid months to level up and gear up slowly before applying to a raiding guild. You’re going to be raiding for two years, taking the time to slow down and savour the levelling content might be more fun in the long run.