We recently have been suffering from raid drought in my guild for a few different reasons. Lossing members and officers is normal for a rainding guild. We took a hit this summer and 50% of our raiders never came back after the summer was over so we tried recruiting new ones, we hit the pug circuit and trade chat and picked up a bunch of raiders, just not so many good ones. After my co-lead left I re-assigned officer positions and re-arranged the guild again. For the first time I think I have found the right mix of officers. Each has individual qualities that the guild needs and together they are a great match so I saw no reason we wouldn’t get back to where we were before the summer of 2009.

With all of the re-mixing, our raid schedule was been thinned down to 1 Onyxia, and 2 Ulduar nights per week. All of this down time has me wanting to level another alt to 80 and with the changes coming in 3.3 and then the expansion I figured this would be my last chance to spend time leveling. I rolled a Blood Elf Paladin on the same server as my guild. I have a warrior tank and a disc/shadow Priest but I was always curious about paladins. they are a hybrid class that can tank, heal and dps the best part about them is they do all three rolls very well from what I see. I thought about it for about a month and couldn’t decide between a Warlock, Mage or a Paladin. Finally I decided to level the paladin to 80 with mining and enchanting until I had all the ore I needed to drop mining and max out jewel crafting. When I am done I am going to level the warlock to 60 and park her in the outlands and save the mage for the expansion. I have a 71 Blood Elf hunter I am going to switch to Undead when race changes become available. All that will be left for me to do is get my rogue up to cap then, He is sitting in northrend at 70 at the moment. Not really in a hurry for the rogue to be raid ready because all of the rogues I have raided with have one talent that they use during every encounter – Die Fast. It maybe because I haven’t ever seen one in a raid that knew thier class well enough but he is on the bottom of my list of priorities as of now.

So while I had the time I did some research on the server we are on and found out that over the last 6 months we have lost over 5,000 horde. We are out numbered by Alliance 2.5:1. This was a bitter sweet revilation, I was glad that the reason I couldn’t find raiders wasn’t because my guild had a bad reputation but that there wasnt many raiders to be found period. I am going to give it a bit before I make any major changes. The 10 man content seems to be more fun to do and 10 mans arent hard to put together, Plus most of the people in my guild have family and friends on this server and to be honest I really wouldnt like playing the game as much without them. So for the time being i am going to level and learn a new class so be ready to see some Paladin posts in the near future.

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