I'm rarely online anymore, so I don't know how much weight my opinion has, but this is a huge issue with the guild and I'd like to chime in.

Perhaps my perception of what FSE is is a bit different from others'. I joined FSE when it was little more than a social guild, and I felt like I was the only one who didn't know everyone else IRL. I slowly got to know many of the people, and I enjoyed running with you all when our schedules meshed. Those ZG runs way back when? EPIC.

My playstyle is mostly solo, and decidedly casual, so it takes me longer to get to the same point as most people's mains (that, and the fact that I'm not crazy about pvp grinding). Yet I've never felt excluded because of my (relative) inexperience or mediocre gear. 

Personally, the ONLY reason that I still play this game is for the chance, once or maybe twice every week or two that I might get into a Kara run with FSE. Any 5-man pugs that I've tried to put together fall apart or never start, and I don't have the time or the inclination to spend whole days in Shatt trying to find a decent group. Hence, no Heroics, no &gt;10 man keys, or anything like that yet for me. And not likely in the foreseeable future either.

According to Brig's (or Barbie's or whoever's) list, I've recieved one drop from Kara. I think that it's actually been 2 items, but one was a random purple off trash and both were on my first run. I've run Kara maybe 10 times since, and not recieved anything. And I'll happily keep running Kara when I can whether I get anything or not-- because it's fun to raid with you guys. Especially (and I know that I'm perverse with this) when we're trying to take down a new boss for the first time.

Since I'm not online much, I'm mostly unaware of the drama going on. I don't know who triggered this, and TBH I don't care that much. IRL and in-game I avoid drama at all costs, because it serves no purpose. Period. Need-before greed is fair, and by and large main-before-alt is fair. It's what has worked for us, and what will continue working for us. 

Let's just hope that we can get past this, and get back to playing. Because that's all we're doing here: Playing. It's a game. I still enjoy it (to some extent), and it saddens me to see that people with whom I've been playing for the last 2 years or so no longer enjoy it.

- Cth