Welcome to Cenarion Circle

Well, I gave it a lot of thought, and last night I made a decision.

I transferred my main to Cenarion Circle.

Welcome, Ketlan Jancis, to your new home.

I have been avoiding naming my main up until now on the off chance the you, my reader, become defictionalized.  I wanted to keep this blog mostly about my RP and music, and I had an inkling that I would be mentioning how unhappy I was on my original server.  I didn't want to have anyone thinking ill of my server or guild.

Let me set the record straight right now:  I played on my original server, in my original guild, for two years.  You don't do that if it's a bad server, or a bad guild.  I was unhappy there not because it was a horrible server, but because my interests where drifting elsewhere.  There have been several times that I've rerolled a character back on Harper's Tale because I missed RP.  I'm happy to finally be somewhere I can play WoW and get my RP fix.

Why did I finally make the move?  As I said in my previous post, I came to the conclusion there was nothing that Ketlan could do on her home server that she couldn't do on CC.  The only thing I would lose would be level 25 guild perks, which are nice, but the only one I ever used on a regular basis was the 15-minute hearth.  She wouldn't even feel lonely without guild chat: AllianceOOC fills that void very nicely.

When I was watching Blizzcon, I had a choice about which server to log into to share in the party.  It took me five seconds to decide on CC: the people there were more likely to be mature and engage in honest conversation without QQ.

Also, I was getting irritated missing out on what was going on in CC whenever I logged into Ketlan.  I didn't feel the same way in reverse.  I think it's because whenever I left CC, I was missing out on STORY.  

Finally, and this will take some explaining, I decided to transfer because I've never felt inspired to PvP.  My old server was PvE, as is CC, but there's a couple of guilds here that are promoting world PvP.  I hear about the battles, and I want to join in.  Even if I die in five seconds because I don't own one piece of resilience gear,  I want to make a showing and defend the Alliance.  Wouldn't you want to play on a realm that inspires that?

More and more of my time has been spent on CC.  Ketlan's been my main since the first few months I played.  I have too much history, too many items stowed in the bank, too many achievements, to leave her behind.  It made sense to move her.

It didn't take long to log into Ketlan and make the final preparations to move.  I had my banker (the original Elren!)  ship her all my gold and any hard-to-farm items I wanted to bring with me. I probably could've waited a few days for all my auctions to clear, but I wanted to rip the bandaid quickly, if you get my drift.

I stopped by the guild bank to deposit 500g as a good-bye gift.   I also stopped by the guild vendor to pick up some heirlooms to ferry over to Derscha and Elren. Derscha's getting my now defunct Illustrious tabard, since Ketlan can't use it anymore.  I was tempted to pick up a lion for Derscha, but I felt that would be cheating too much.

I said a good-by in guild chat; there weren't many people on, but I felt I should say something.  I did a quick post saying, essentially, 'Thank you for all the fun, but I have decided to transfer to an RP realm.'  I sent a letter to the GM explaining why I was leaving, and again, a thank you.

Then came something I almost decided to skip.  I had a low-level alt in the guild I rarely played.  I almost left her there, but it's probably better in the long run if I just sever all ties.  It's not fair to the guild to tie up a roster space with an unused alt.  So I logged on her, told guild chat, 'Hey, don't be surprised when I quit in a moment, it's just Ketlan again,' and I /gquit.

A little over an hour later, I was logged into CC.  Fun trivia: since I had reserved Ketlan's name on my server, and had previously logged on as lvl 1 Ketlan and joined AllianceOOC,  the moment I logged into lvl85 Ketlan, I auto-joined AllianceOOC.  Seems the game just went ahead and used all my presets from the other Ketlan's folders.

So today begins day 2 of Ketlan's new life.  It gives me an interesting point of view on her character.  I'm playing her as a Northrend Vet who's just returning to SW for the first time.  For my, as the player, there's a parallel, in that we are both going to someplace that should be familiar, yet everything has changed.

I suppose it's appropriate that it's Hallow's End right now.  So, to echo Genn Greymane's words,  here's to change, to shedding to worries of the past, and to forging new friendships!