Ding, level 60. And, now what?

Let me back up.

For couple months now, all of my little guild of e-thugs’ efforts have been focused on dinging level 60 and amassing a small portion of game wealth. We helped the laggers, redid the highly profitable quests ad nauseum for the “lesser” classes among us, gathered crafting components until our asses were numb, and whored every stick of uncommon, rare and epic loot that fell into our virtual laps.

So it was with a great sense of accomplishment that we all dinged level 60, one by one, this weekend.

After a bit of wooting, the one guy asked the obvious, “now what?” (Thanks for ruining the moment, asshole.)

The way we sees it, these are our options:

Create an army of alts so we can each two-box the bigger raid instances. Benefits: no sharing primo loot with people we hate. Downside: two-boxing requires a level of attentiveness we don’t often reach on the weekends.

Recruit outsiders for the e-thug guild. Downside: Isn’t it obvious? Benefits: Handmaidens to do our bidding … maybe. Mostly outsiders whine and expect the insiders to entertain them each night with high adventure and verdant pastures of uber loot.

Form an alliance with another end-game, as it were, guild. Benefits: short attention span acceptable. Downside: sharing. We don’t play well with others.

Join another guild. After taking an objective look at some of the other guilds on our server, there’s not a lot of choices here.

There’s the guild with the /yelling guy. Swear to Christ, every night he’s running through Ironforge or Stormwind, /yelling that some elite Horde are raiding Darkshire and all the high-levels, especially us lazy asses, should come to defend. (If they’re so damn elite, why are they beating on level 30 guards?) Obviously, that guild would be a disastrous match.

There’s the farming guild. No, not the Loly pretend-guild-so-Blizzard-won’t-think-they’re-professionals. The mostly level 60 guild with a small core of players that are online 16 or so hours a day. They’re either in the big instances (your BRD, your BRS, your Strath, your Scholo, etc.) or, they’re in Ironforge setting up new auctions.

Setting aside that some of the farm guild has me on /ignore for a minor incident involving one of my auctions (and they on my /ignore as well), we took some time last week to do a few equipment inspections. All that time farming, they should have some nice shit, right?

Wrong. Who the fuck is getting all the nice bind-on-pickup crap they haul in? Maybe the guildleader and his clique of handmaidens, because the raiders we’ve inspected haven’t gotten dick for their efforts. Most of them are strutting around Ironforge in fucking level 40 gear.

I realize that a lot of the people playing Warcraft are new to this massive-multiplayer thing. Here’s the most important tip I can offer to the noobs when selecting a high-end guild: Any guild that focuses its efforts on equipping a few, at the expense of the many, is gearing up the few for either a guild-hop, or more likely, an Ebay sale. That kind of abuse you can get for free in any guild, why bust your hump to get abused?

And so, the search goes on for a new gaming goal.

Meanwhile, we’re cranking up some support alts and hauling out the level 60s to put the beatdown on low-level instances on their behalf.

Mmmmm, revenge. She can be sweet.