Where the hell have I been?
Hmm, I guess you thought this blog died.  Well in a way it did.  I have been so busy with so many things that I have not been able to update it.  So lets try to catch up to where I am today.

 

When I last updated I was just getting into Kara with Gabbath.  I was still in Disavowed.  We were doing OK in Kara then Khaos (then our Guild Leader) had a tragedy hit his family and quit the game.  Leadership was transitioned to Abbigaile and we continued.  We had more hit and miss success in Kara until we added Sitherian and Vitrious (Warrior and Druid) they transferred to the server and added two items that were really needed 1. a damn good tank (we had Raize, the best tank on the server, and a few others but none were as good as Sith) 2. a druid that was knowledgeable and willing to do whatever was needed to be a success.  I took lead on the second Kara team and with Sith, Vit, Real (one of the best healers I have ever been around), XL (mage friend of Sith and Vit who is as good a mage as Sith and Vit are at their characters), Hypnos (our #1 rogue), Phirlyon (outstanding warlock), Gwynn (the best player I have ever seen.) and me as the base to the team.  We would add others as they were available but we were good.  We were clearing Kara in two raid days with little struggles.  At the time just having two healers for Kara was unusual.  Real and I were able to do it with no issues.  In a very short time we were able to have all the gear we wanted from Kara.

 

Problems began brewing in the guild.  Abbi was very paranoid.  Every time someone spoke up she felt as if her leadership were being questioned.  As a guild we had developed three Kara teams.  The first team was clearing Kara in two to three days, my team was clearing in two, and the third team was not doing good at all.  Abbi was on the third team and she was pissed.  We did some shuffling, I became a guild officer.  That made our leadership team of Abbi - GL, Gwynn - Sr. Officer, Jakks, and me.  I never felt that Abbi trusted anyone and that she acted "in the best interest of the guild" but was really focused on "the best interest in Abbi".  Instead of blowing up the Kara teams we set our focus on the 25 man raids.  Gruul, Mag, Serpent Shrine Caverns and Tempest Keep.  We were able to down Gruul without too much of a struggle, when the raid was primarily the top players from the first and second Kara teams.  As people bitched and moaned over who was attending the raids and who was ABLE to raid (not just be there but contribute) the guild began to stall.  We were not progressing, we were beginning to cancel more and more raids, and morale was in the crapper.  So we had several meetings with another guild that was just below us in capabilities and progression who was having many of the same issues and ended up merging into a new Disavowed.  This worked ok for a while.  The first night as the new Disavowed we took down Void Reaver, in TK, for the first time.  As we got things working we were able to down a few more bosses in SSC. 

The merger ended up being a total mistake.  The leadership from the other guild would not let go of friendships in order of progression and demanded that certain people be brought into raids even though they had no business being there.  Abbi too had gotten into the "lets be fair" crap even though it meant we would not be successful.  I had many clashes with the leaders of the other guild and decided it would be best for me to leave the guild.  When I left I started a Blood Elf Priest and went on my merry way.

 

Within a couple weeks after I left the guild it completely imploded.  Those that wanted to raid and be successful had had enough of those that wanted to have all their friends and 500 alt characters each (with NONE of their characters being fit to raid) in all the raids.  Disavowed was disbanded.  The old Orpheus (Abbi, Jakks, Gwynn, Revan, Iq, and others) people re-created Orpheus.  I was an Old Orpheus member so I signed the charter and stayed with them for a day before I figured out what I wanted to do.  I was in Oryx on the horde side with my priest.  Orxy contains a lot of people I knew from Lanys (EQ) and was fun to play with them again.

Sith, Phir, Vit, Xl, and several of the good raiders got together with Real who had left for Elysium (another guild that was facing troubles) and some Fidelium people and created Fatal Nemesis.  Fatal Nemesis is an all new guild, no merger, no existing heirachy, no garbage, just a brand new start.  I joined the guys in Fatal Nemesis

:::more to be added later:::