So ... that happened. I decided to see if I could still play WoW and have fun. My memories of the five plus years suggest I can, but is that just the past coloring the future; should/would/could I take part in the upcoming Mists of Panderia expansion? Or will I find it boring and unpleasant? To answer that question in part, I opted back in and signed up to raid with what is left of Terror Nova guild.
Yeah, there's still folks there I know and like: Tychem/Medford, Cymro and his trail of Cym-alts, Zalvadre, Palazza, others... But there are many I don't know. Anyhow. Off I went Thursday night. Having just read four long capstone draft papers I was in a mode to kill something big.
So, obviously I was under geared having not raided in more than half a year, but my guildies tossed me some goods from the guild bank and off we went. ... to Dragon Soul on 10man normal. This is the newest raid. I assumed I would suck. I only died on this the fourth boss,
Ultraxion, I think it was. And, I wasn't the only dirtnapper. It's one of those fights with an out-of-phase thing where you need to jump in and out of the Twilight Realm...and need to time it perfectly. We ended here after three wipes. For the earlier fights, the group was uber enough that I had no trouble.
Did I enjoy it, the raiding? Yeah. I did, or rather I enjoyed the banter and the goofiness and the trash talk and the gear whoring and all that. Enough to play more? Mmmmm. Maybe. Note that the tank did more DPS than I did. If I rejoin play I'm going to have to start grinding for gear, lol.
PS - That was last week. Last night we downed the last boss, Deathwing, after three failed attempts. And yeah... I fist pumped.
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