Heya guys!!  So what is the future of this website?  To understand requires a brief undertaking of my recent rl/wow activities.

My Guild: WoW

Before taking my “break from wow” I joined a guild named Paragon on Bronzebeard.  Like the Sleepless Knights, they were an original vanilla WoW guild that had been a top tier progression guild (on our server anyways) for quite some time.  While joining them was taking a step down as far as the calibur of content capacity, I felt that it was a good move for my personal happiness.

Sometimes it is an eye opener when I find myself hitting content and failing as a raid when I know I shouldn’t be, but even with that the people in Paragon are phenomal individuals.  They have a small hand full of players that would surpise you with their level of skill and knowledge.

But with all of that said, I’ve been enjoying raiding new content and hitting hard modes as well.

My RL: Work

For those who read my previous post before I deleted it you would be aware at this point that I’ve been having a rough go at things.  Bad things happen, even to good people.  And then sometimes GOOD things happen as well. 

I finally got the position with the company I’ve been waiting for.  It’s amazing honestly.  I’ve been in training the past month, and just now starting to do some shifts on my own.  I suppose the training will still go on for at least another month with some shifts each week putting me on my own to see how I do.  But who knows?

But it’s a full paid medical job, vacation time, sweet 401K, etc…  It’s a dream.  And the upside as well is that it has lots of downtime where I can do personal stuff that won’t interfere with work.  Like writing this post, heh. 

What’s the downside?  There are 3 shifts at this job.  Two of them end/start when my guild’s raids end.  And the 3rd puts me in bed so early to where I’d be asleep a minimum of 2 hours before my raids end.  So long story short, I can’t see how I could possibly make the raid schedule as things stand.

There could be a possible change in this when I get a FIRM schedule for the week.  But I’m not holding my breath sadly.

It’s frustrating in a lot of ways mostly due to the fact that I was *really* enjoying raiding again.  Just having fun.  Plus I was likely going to be the 2nd person in my guild to get the Legendary.  How cool would that have been?  *shakes head* *sigh*

I really wanted that more than you know.  Yeah, I’m sure you’ve heard people say that.  But when you’ve been in a guild where you’re getting people Legendary weapons consistently, and been waiting for 5 years to get one.  And then you’re finally put into line to get one and you KNOW you’ll get it…  It’s kind of suck investing so much into this game to have to finally give up on a dream (in a fake world as a hobby of course) due to rl obligations.

The Site: SkeletonJack.com

Now I do not forsee myself quitting WoW altogether for all time.  But then again, who knows?  I rarely log in as it is due to the mind numbing frustration of being reminded I cannot go on to raiding content.  But all that aside, what happens here online?

This site was my baby.  My first real, sorta published (by me online, heh), product.  And I’d like it to still help fellow DK’s out there.

I’m thinking to revamp this site.  While I may leave it in a blog format, I think I’d like to add on pages for easy/quick reference guides for both the newb and the expert DK player.

Sample Ideas:

• Inside Mechanics Concepts/Explanations – the 2SR, hit/expertise, Rune Tap, 2H/1H weapon speed decisions, etc…
• Specs – how to make decisions to edit cookie cutter specs (you can always find one, but not always know how to decide where to deviate)
• How to DPS – real honest to God insider tips by me covering computer changes, UI changes, ways to improve, tricks of the trade, etc…  This is my biggest focus honestly.  While people rarely do what I tell them to, I plan on spelling it all out.  What you can do to make yourself just become a hands down better player.
• Tank tips – I made an alt, Skeletonjill (Blood DK tank), and had been doing raid tanking on her…yes, yes I took the time to learn how to tank and actually picked a spec other than Unholy!

But part of what I wanted to open up here was the option for you guys to ask me questions and give me sample ideas of things to put up.  This will not be an over night process.  It’d probably take about 2-3 months in total.  But the info I plan on putting up is the kind of stuff that should hold up through the test of time 2 years from now.  And I won’t be terribly upset to come back and update things from time to time.

So, if you’ve got a question you want answered or you think there should be some particle of wisdom that needs to be up on the site, tell me!!  And don’t hesitate to ask your friends what to ask either.  And if you know of some good links to other resources or blogs, tell me.  Part of my plan also includes how to properly search out info on the net.  Showing people good links, and how to find others.

Skeleton.Jack@hotmail.com

-Suffer Well Brothers and Sisters…

P.S.  For all of the kind thoughts and words, thank you.  You’ve got no idea what it’s meant to me.  But it was a lot.

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