Especially since this Guild actually helped me be a better player to an extent. By that I mean that I leveled completely solo until level 63; not even a single Dungeon run while working my way up. Even my Talent points were just kind of thrown together into some abomination of a Marksmanship build. (Oh yeah; my main is a Hunter.)

But after joining the Guild, I made a point to actually go and read up a little better on how to perform in a group setting, what the better arrangements of Talent points were; that sort of thing.

Running Dungeons, doing my first Heroic, stepping into Kara… Combine that with the first five months of Wrath, and I have fond memories of the old crew in its heyday. I’m thankful for that chance meeting with the guy who would be my GM that day in Zangarmarsh, because I met some good people in that Guild.

Hard not to wonder sometimes about what might have been, or what I don’t know about from my away time, though…

One of the advantages of high level gear being easily available is that even if you take a break from the game, it takes no time to catch up. There’s a lot less grinding to do in the game now too, so I’m finding I don’t need to dedicate as much time to the game as before, which is very nice for my offline life.

It was certainly a bit frustrating, to say the least, but thankfully I had gotten to know a couple of my Guildies well enough to have exchanged e-mail addresses by then. That meant I could go down to the local library and use their Internet a couple of times a week to keep in touch as well as I could.

Around May or June, I believe, I was alerted that my Guild had kind of exploded. Some went off to do their own thing with other Guilds, others don’t play as often or at all anymore. I still keep in touch with those that I really liked, though.

But needless to say, it kind of threw a wrench into the machinery to come back into the game and find myself not only two Tiers of content behind; since ToC had been out for a few weeks by then, but without a Guild.

I reguilded within a couple of weeks, though, and while I’ve had to change my playstyle a little bit (no Raiding for me these days), I’m mostly content.

Heck, last week I even made my first alt in two years of playing.

So your little break doesn’t sound all that bad to me.

I haven’t had a forced break from the game (other than last week and I was so busy I didn’t having time to notice) since I started blogging, but I think I’d be the same as you. I’m finding that I want to do out of game stuff more than actual playing, but if I had the game taken away from me, I’d suddenly want to play again really bad.