Guild Fun

I thought last night was going to be another uneventful grinding and questing session, but it ended up being the most fun I've had in a long time. When I was about to hop on the Zeppelin outside the Undercity to head back to Stranglethorn Vale to grind, a call for anyone interested in a Scarlet Monestary run came up in guild chat. Thinking "why not, I'm only lvl 42, and it sounds like more fun than STV" I raised my hand. It ended up being a mixed guild/pug run.

We went through the Armory pretty easily (with a bit of squabbling over a drop), and I hearthed out to UC to avoid respawns and to vend stuff. We wanted to do Cathedral and Kamikiiro waited for me and Shadorath (a non-guildmate, soon to change I think) to return. (The two others had dropped out of our group).

While Kami was waiting, a couple of lvl 60-something alliance, flagged for PvP were in the SM lobby. She kept them pretty much continually sapped, while she called in the cavalry. Soon after Shado and I returned, Witchdocta, Fealty and Shyven arrived to give the alliance scum their due. It was great fun.

After camping the alliance corpses for a short time a raid group was formed, and all six of us went into the Cathedral. I didn't know it was possible to go with six, but in we went.

It was a blast. Thanks to our high level guildmates, it was easy too. They would aggro tons of mobs at a time and we (mostly they) would mow them down. I did die once, but Fealty brought me back from the dead quickly.

I wish I had taken screenshots during some of the action, but I didn't. I do have a few from our fun and frolicking afterwards though.

Thanks to all of you for the fun last night, and Shadorath, I hope to see you on the guild roster soon!! = D

Edit: Ha! I didn't realize until I read this that Shyven was one of those (Azure) that had dropped out of our earlier group. Or that Azure was being camped. I feel so dumb !! I do have vent, but don't usually use it cuz my wife is sleeping three feet away.
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Hey Where is Everybody ??

I live in Hawaii, and play on Earthen Ring, a US server who's "time" is 5 or 6 hours behind my own. Since I typically logon after my kids go to bed (~9:00 pm in Hawaii, 3:00 am server time), the server is usually pretty deserted. This doesn't bother me - it is actually nice when solo grinding/questing - but it can make it very hard to find a group for running instances. During my usual playing time there are few guildmembers (maybe 6 to 12) playing, and only a couple in my level range. The LFG system is often deserted too. This week I've been using the LFG system each night for RFK, Gnomer, and Scarlet Monestary, with no groups at all.

I've tried /who, and am considering trying the "polite whisper" addon, but I don't like to bother people. I'm continuing to level through questing, but I love the instances in the game and don't want to level past them, and their typically better gear drops.

My other option would be to use an oceanic server. I do have a couple of low level toons on one of them (Jubei'Thos), and their population is much higher at the time I usually play. I really don't want to leave Commish or the Alea Iacta Est guild behind though. = - (