I am entering a new phase of my WoW career (yes, a career... casuals have a game, addicts have an obsession, and 30-something obsessed executives call it a career). One with which, after almost 3 years of playing, I am not particularly familiar... the drive to NOT raid. Yes, that's right, NOT raid. Now many players new to Warcraft, i.e. post TBC, are unfamiliar with the pains (let's face it, they were usually painful) of 40-man raids. Yet, die hard player I was, I found myself weekend after weekend raiding MC, BWL, AQ40, and a few paces in Naxx with 39 other brothers and sisters. 39 people I didn't really know except for casual interactions over Vent or TeamSpeak. We'd raid for up to 6-8 hours at at time! "Get the door, it's Dominos!" "Where's my cathoder?" "Stretch break, be back in 10!" Ahh yes, the epic raid. All for a couple of epics off a boss. Remember those first few visits to Molten Core? Epics dropped off the trash! Amazing...
