Nearing the end of The Burning Crusade, I feel that I've failed in my primary duty of organizing guild "stuff". I'm unsure how to sort out this chicken-and-egg syndrome of not enjoying PvE due to no guild runs and masochistically running non-stop PvP to get the gear.

To combat this, I will be taking a much more proactive interest in the PvE progress of one of Shadowmoon's oldest guilds: Monkey Shines.

I've been avoiding "running a guild" as I burnt myself out on doing it in previous guilds. I feel that I have come up with a casual way to run a casual guild. My plan includes 2 days out of the week to run an instance; be it a regular, heroic, or raid. As we all know (or should, by now), a properly formed group will have a Tank, Healer, Crowd control, Ranged DPS, and Melee DPS. Most of us have more than one character at, or near, 70.

I would ask all of you to choose a main character and primary alt. This is not to restrict anyone. My biggest issue I had to deal with in any of the guilds I ran was the 'issue' of alts. If we establish a set of characters up-front, there will be no communication problems on expectations of our guild mates.

The next major issue to deal with is to determine who will play the selfless roles of tank/healer. As I look over the roster nearly everyone that is playing a class that can do either of those roles is currently spec'd out for solo-play. Again, no fault of anyone but leadership's. If you'd be willing to try out tank/healer; let me know. I will be more than willing to pick up the slack in the other department.

Initially we will need at least one more tank OR healer to begin current 5 man content, I'll pick up the other role. Eventually, I would like to see 2 tanks and 2 healers, with some hybrids that can switch mid-fight.

All of this will prepare our guild to get in the mindset of group questing/instancing/raiding for the incoming new content. I want to avoid 100% solo game play, and be able to provide a foot in the door of instances in the upcoming months.

Step 1: Tell me if you care about this, and give me feedback.
Step 2: Pick a Main and a role you are interested in.

Ok, so the night started out with me wanting to push to 44 on my warrior, Tueur. I had a ton of quests to do in Gadgetzan, 1/2 a level to go and some fresh gear from my previous run in Zul Farak with Cristia, Testudo and Zorlocky.

As Egaenil and I ran around doing some of the world quests, I leveled and unlocked a few more quests in ZF, so he kindly offered to take me through again. After the first run, I managed to get Sang'thraze the Deflector, and once we saw that, we reset the instance and went after Jang'thraze the Protector, which miraculously dropped on our first try! I can't use them both until I hit 45, which should be some time Thursday, but I think I'll re-spec to Fury to try out some dual wielding fun. :D

I finally managed to get Doodiehead to 70 :)  My /played was 17 days, which reflects the much more casual pace i went at, compared to a /played time of 11 days to level 60.  All in all, not bad :)

So here's the photo of me actually leveling. Going through the Dark Portal helped a LOT. The time from 58-60 was nearly nothing, and the drops & gold have been amazing. In an average night of playing about three hours, I earn roughly 20g, which doesn't include the money I make off of the AH, since I mail everything to Blighted to sell.

My /played is 11 days, 11 hours, 44 minutes. Not bad! Hunter's been a lot of fun, and has been the easiest to level, by far :D