Summertime Blues

This is a slight sideways shift from my general posting topics, based on a couple of discussions I've been having in game with different people over the past couple of weeks regarding guilds, discussions which feel eerily similar to ones I was having this time last year, and the year before that...

News flash - during Summer, your guild attendance will fall to an all time low. At least for US based servers, it happens to every guild, every year, its the way of things. If you're looking for an excuse to leave your guild, this is the perfect time to find that excuse. Raids will be canceled, tempers will fray, raiders will move on to "greener" pastures. It happens every year.

Anyway, this is a post to encourage those of you sitting on the fence, still considering moving on to another guild due to your current guild having some number issues, to exercise as much patience as you can before taking that plunge. Remember, you're not the only one that is missing raiding, and if you can wait it out another few weeks it will almost certainly return to normal. Yes, some raiders will move on and you will probably lose a few people; other people will leave their guilds and perhaps find a home in yours. Some people that will "upgrade" to a bigger raiding guild will find that once the Summer is over, they're having a hard time getting a start all of a sudden - mainly because even the bigger guilds will lose people through the Summer, only to have them come back once things return to normal.

The bottom line is just think it through, and don't make a rash decision simply due to some raids being canceled over a handful of weeks. In most cases this is going to be a temporary situation, and things will return to normal before you know it.

Of course, this isn't a blanket answer that is going to be the correct choice for everyone - I mainly just wanted to make it clear, especially for people that might be in their first year of the game and may not have been through this before - that this is business as usual, the sky isn't falling, if you've been happy where you are until now then you should seriously consider just grinning and baring with things just a little longer. I say go get a tan while the getting is good :)