With 2009 closing, and the bulk of my heart no longer within XI; I decided to make obtaining Maat’s Cap my final hurrah. Of not only the year, but of the game.
The free week on WoW really drove it home for me. Majority of my friends are long gone, I do not enjoy 95% of the parties I’m getting while leveling at all, and the game turned more into a chore than a pleasure as a result. So for the bulk of December, I basically checked out of XI. I’d log in a few times a week to seek in the mornings on PLD and try to get a level a day… then switch over to my newly reactivated WoW account for the rest.
So despite most of the year off XI due to unemployment, I had accomplished three major goals for myself. More completed sets of AF, Cap and Floor 100. I really couldn’t ask for more. There will always be a lot I’ll never see, but was likely to never been seen by my eyes anyway. Sparing myself the distress and disappointment, I think is the ultimate road I could take.
I only discussed my plans, and usually very briefly, with only a few. I wanted to keep my temptation to stick around at a minimum… nor did I wish to field questions of, “can I have …?”
I have since taken the plunge and transferred and faction changed the majority of my characters to join Valascaziel and Dreadnot on Draka. The experience so far has been a fairly significant mind fuck for both being alliance for the first time, and being in a guild that actually cares and doesn’t have the “all in it for myself” mentality. If you care to track me, feel free to glance at my newly updated profile page with all my character’s info.
XI, I have loved you. But after five and a half years, I feel it’s finally time to close that chapter of my life and look ahead at new ventures.
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Very nice, congratulations!
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