Taking a Break

Last week I stepped down from the raid roster. It was a tough decision, but I realized that the time and effort I put into raiding twice a week (Wed, Sun) were not paying off. Our guild, like most casual raiding guilds, didn't have the mechanism or culture to enforce skill requirements, so that significantly held back our progression. Despite those drawbacks, Naxx-25 went smoothly over the course of 1 month as follows:

2/12 Finish Arachnid and Plague Quarters
2/19 Finish Military Quarter
2/23 Finish Construct Quarter, Sapphiron
3/2 Downed Kel'Thuzad-25, complete Naxxramas
3/30 Downed Malygos-25

Ulduar is significantly harder, though, and we lack the people to keep trying on 25-man. Too many skilled players had left the game for us to make real progress on Ulduar-25. Hence too much remaining work for too little reward, and time to finally leave raiding.

Cheskie and Babka hit 76. They can go to Sholozar Basin (which I've never seen), or they can do more instances, five of which are still new to them. By now the crafted blue Saronite set is mostly available to Babka, so he is rocking out in them. Plus, I used Emblems of Heroism to buy the +10% exp shoulders for both Cheskie and Babka to help them in their leveling.

In the meantime, I'm trying out Free Realms and having a good time with the ultracasual mini-games.