I know exactly what you mean about when people say “don’t take it personally”. I got that too from my guildies “oh, it’s not big deal, you’re really not missing that much, don’t stress about it”. Riiiiight, easy for those who ARE included to say!

My problem comes from feeling left out of 10 mans, which seem to be constructed from the same 11-12 people (this was before Cata hit, of course – I’m in a 25 man guild). Hopefully, the feeling eventually goes away. I don’t enjoy feeling left out of things, as much as people are not intentionally leaving me (or anyone else) out. Makes the game not fun – it’s easy to say “don’t take it personally” but if it hurts, it hurts, and there’s nothing that can be done about it.

But cheer up – being one of the first to 85 means that you can NOW take some breaths of fresh air and do some studying. Since I hit 85, I have been scaling back – I vow never to do that race again. Maybe we both have the same problem, hehe – try to go at whatever pace feels comfortable, and settle into a rhythm with a buddy.

I hear you, though.

The healing seems to be challenging, but not impossible, I’ve really been having a lot of fun with it too. And it is really nice to be able to move around during fights without really compromising our healing.

I don’t think my guildies are intentionally leaving me out of stuff. They’re just excited about seeing the instances and forget that there are others who want in on the fun.

The server firsts are, yeah, kind of annoying, but it’s amusing at the same time to see people going nuts, competing for them. They blow past slow little me so fast that they don’t really get in my way.

And on the bright side, having done a few pugged heroics has given me a crapton of blogging material.

Good luck with your move!

See this is why I rarely get competitive: whenever I do, I go way overboard.

Never underestimate the power of QQ though. The next time I logged in after writing this post, I found myself a guild group pronto.