The Road to Raiding

We read up on the raids, and learned about the long attunement quest chain required. We had a pretty good dungeon team now, with Leffe tanking (as Fury) in my absence, so we started doing all the necessary dungeons, and after a lot of hard work we could finally enter Karazhan. I remember the satisfaction of zoning in for the first time, and just standing in the lobby, watching the trash mobs. The only thing we needed now was another six people and we could start raiding! This was when we realized only one other person in the guild was attuned to Karazhan, a Paladin by the name of Dreamevil. We had a bunch of people at level 70 in the guild, and quite a few in the high 60's. We offered to help them reach 70 and do the attunement quest chain, but as soon as they turned 70, most people rolled alts, and more or less retired their high level characters.

This was of course frustrating to us, but we persisted. We managed to pull a few people through the attunement chain, but at no point did we have ten active characters in the guild that were attuned. Slowly we began to realize that raiding was not going to happen in this guild, or at least it would take a very long time. Then one day, Dreamevil left the guild and joined a raiding guild called Thousand Souls. He was the only person in the guild that was as dedicated as we were, and his departure was a turning point for us.

Our last day as casual players.

Again, after long consideration we all applied to Thousand Souls. Leffe, Dingus, and Caninen were accepted right away. I, on the other hand, had a friendly chat with one of their officers, Orzolek, who told me they were pretty stacked on Shadow Priests, but I could join them if I was willing to go Holy. I had grown quite fond of my Shadow spec, and thanked him for the offer but told him I'd rather stick to Shadow for now. With all of my friends in a raiding guild, I went on with the endless dungeon runs. In one of those pick up groups, I met my old acquaintance from Blackrock Depths – Memory – now a member of the raiding guild TDC. We talked for a while and he convinced me to apply, and so I did.