Tea

Hello everyone

I am Teija. I am 34 year old and addicted to wow. I have been playing way too much since the release of the game and I still love it. My first main was a holy paladin Päivätär, and together with my dps husband and tank friend we joined our first guild in mid fifties. That guild was nice and cosy but it became a really hardcore raiding guild competing for server firsts. I ended up in classleader and officer position, raiding seriously at least six nights a week with sleep deprivation. So obviously i burned out.

I stayed until we killed C'thun and after that, a bunch of us burned out officers/friends decided we had enough and made a guild of our own called The Zoo. It was supposed to be the kind of guild that Lemmings is as far as i know, relaxed, friendly and no pressures. And most of all, we decided we will never raid more than 3 nights per week and not too late which was unheard of for guilds at that time.

I became the guild leader of The Zoo and i had high hopes and put a lot of effort in it for a long time. We caught up the guilds that raided much more than us. We wanted to succesfully combine the social aspect and raiding effectively. But of course it is not easy and being a guildleader really takes its toll on a person. I was very committed but in the end, the balance was very hard to keep and i found it hard to find people who would have the same mindset and stick with it

During TBC i switched my main to resto shaman Kaneli because we didnt manage to recruit a good, reliable shaman (they were at very heavy demand those times). When Lich King came, i once again chose to switch my main to what was in highest demand in guild, ending up as resto druid.

As you see, i have always had main that was mainspecc healer. That is the role i enjoy the most but i have also offtanked and dpsed, but healing is what i do best.

So, what happened to The Zoo and I? I knew i had to step down, i felt i had poured so much of myself into that guild and it still evolved to more to the raiding than social path. I just felt like it is better I let go. So last autumn I first quit raiding. I still helped whenever they were short with sign ups. Then before Christmas i stepped down from guild leader position and promoted an officer that i knew would be a great guildleader. And now i have knowingly faded to the back ground gradually. Now it is finally time when i can cut the string with knowing that they will be doing well and i am finally free to move on to what i want to do

And what i want to do is finally to join a guild that i dont have to lead but whose leader seems to think a lot like me and a guild that i feel home in without having to fight for it to stay like that and not turn into this faceless pro leet guild where people hardly discuss with each other and where your value is counted on figures in charts of dps done instead of how much fun you are to play with.

Ah so, I found Lemmings since i have been a keen reader on official wow-forums guild relations section and i always noticed Wilgjes posts and found that her and my thoughts often matched. So i looked you guys up and it seems perfect

As i said, I am a wow addict and i do have 10 level 80 characters on my old realm. I quit playing them since I didnt have anyone to have fun with anymore, most of my old guild just log on raid times or do their own thing. I have done all the instances a thousand times, collected badges, done raiding. I dont care about the gear itself, gear is means to an end and since i didnt raid, gearing up lost its meaning.

I am going to transfer at least one lvl 80 char when i pass trial, hopefully more. But to transfer all 10 of them would cost a bit too much So at least my druid whome i consider my main and then some others that i miss.

I hope we can have lots of fun together!