{"id":2353,"date":"2012-09-11T20:19:03","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T00:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kurn.apotheosis-now.com\/?p=2353"},"modified":"2012-09-11T20:19:03","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T00:19:03","slug":"its-tuesday-night-lets-do-this-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/its-tuesday-night-lets-do-this-raid\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Tuesday night, let\u2019s do this raid!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s Tuesday night, let\u2019s do this raid!<\/a><\/p>\n

Or not.<\/p>\n

It took me a long time to realize that Tuesdays were the “Mondays” of the World of Warcraft week. Everything reset on Tuesdays (barring raids with a 3-day reset, like old-school ZG and AQ20). Thus, it was when a lot of people went in to do their raids. Once it sunk in, though, it really<\/em> sunk in. I spent all of BC raiding on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Sundays and, later, we added Mondays. I spent chunks of Wrath raiding on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays, then my schedules shifted, but I’m pretty sure I kept raiding on Tuesdays for the majority of that expansion, with just Choice not raiding on Tuesdays.<\/p>\n

And then, back to Apotheosis<\/a> and our Tuesday\/Thursday\/Sunday grind. Although we haven’t needed to raid on Thursday or Sunday in months (the Thursday after 5.0.4 excepted), we’ve continued to raid on Tuesdays, doing full 8\/8 HM clears in Dragon Soul.<\/p>\n

So, here it is. Tuesday night. 8:17pm.<\/p>\n

And I don’t have a raid.<\/p>\n

In the last 21 months, I have missed two scheduled Tuesday night raids, both due to exams. We have rarely cancelled Tuesday raids, maybe just a couple over the Christmas holidays.<\/p>\n

Basically, I don’t even know what to do with myself.<\/p>\n

The guild has ceased raiding for now, but will go right back to the grind on October 9th. And I won’t be part of it. I’m not even going to be in town for the launch of Mists of Pandaria, I’m going to be in Italy with one of my best friends. It’s a sort of graduation present from my parents for having, finally, finished my university degree.<\/p>\n

But it’s Tuesday.<\/p>\n

And I’m not raiding.<\/p>\n

I think that, more than anything else, has really hammered home to me that my time as a serious raider, as a serious player, is over. Last night, I almost sent Serrath<\/a> a PM, asking him if he was going to do tonight’s roster or if I should do it. I stopped myself midway through my first sentence.<\/p>\n

Today, I feel as though I’m forgetting something. All day long, my brain has been nagging me to do SOMETHING. Like, to look over our logs or prep for tonight. Anything.<\/p>\n

While there are a couple of final tasks I do have to do, that’s not the buzzing in my brain.<\/p>\n

Nope. The buzzing in my brain is like, “Kurn, it’s Tuesday. You’re supposed to RAID on Tuesday.” It’s this thing I have done for so long, so regularly, for so many years, that my brain actually cannot grasp the idea that “no, you don’t raid tonight”. Perhaps more accurately, it cannot grasp the idea that “no, you don’t raid tonight… or again.”<\/p>\n

Going to Italy will be great for me. It’ll be a wonderful trip. And because it’ll happen right during the launch of Mists of Pandaria, I will be completely distracted and unavailable to deal with WoW. Hopefully, that’ll do a lot to break the habits that are entirely ingrained in me at this point. Hell, last time I was in Italy, in 2006, I WENT TO A ZG RAID. I am not even kidding. And we got Mar’li down (guild first!), too.<\/p>\n

So it’ll be good for me to get away, particularly on the dates I’m going, to help me not get all caught up in expansion fever. And maybe, just maybe, it’ll remind me that there are so many other things to enjoy on Tuesday nights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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