BTH is guild-shopping. He’s already put in an application to at least one guild on another server. I’ve told him that after he’s found a guild that will accept him, I’ll apply to that guild for admission as Friends & Family. I’d put on my application that while I’d like to defeat Deathwing on 25 Normal, I have little interest in doing Heroic modes and intend to take a break from raiding until Pandaria.
I do feel a little guilty that my desire to be done with regularly scheduled raiding for awhile (and not do Heroic modes) has contributed to the downsizing of ES’s raid team from 25s to 10s. The thought of leaving ES makes me sad, I’d still like to participate in the Thursday night alt run from time to time, and we got BTH’s sister invited into ES over Christmas vacation — but she won’t be playing WoW again until summer because of school. So I’ve rolled up a Mini-Me — a re-creation of Kamalia in her younger days — to stay in ES after BTH has found a new guild to run 25s with.
Loaded up with a full kit of Heirlooms (except for the Dread Pirate Ring, as I haven’t really bothered with the Northrend Fishing Tournament), mini-Kam is ready to HEAL ALL THE THINGS.
We’ll see how far she gets in the next couple of weeks. After that, her progress — and that of all my other characters — is likely to slow substantially. I’ve gotten a job as an adjunct professor teaching a couple of general chemistry lab sections at a local university, and the semester begins on January 30th. I chose to take morning sections, which begin at 7:30 am, so between having to get up significantly earlier in the morning than I’ve been used to doing for the past two years and keeping up with the grading, I’ll have a lot less evening time to play WoW in addition to a lot less middle-of-the-day time for it!
Good luck with your new position! I hope that you find a way to balance your current guild with whatever new one you find 🙂