A Fond Farewell

Dearthair

Dearthair

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Hello everyone. I wanted to take a moment to let everyone know that I will be leaving WoW in a couple days. This was not an easy decision. However, real life issues do take precedence.

I want to thank everyone for helping me to feel at home. And for those of you I had the pleasure of meeting, I truly enjoyed it and will miss you all. But most important, I want to thank each of you for allowing me to help out as a "Junior" Officer. It was an honor to serve in the small way I was able.

I will be back on the forum to check up on all of you so don't be too rough on Blu and the other guild leadership. ;)

May the Lord bless each and everyone of you and yours with all His love and grace and keep you under His mighty wing!

Your Brother in Christ!
 
Heya Dearth. We'll miss ya. It was fun chatting with ya when it was mostly only u, firedk and me. *LOL* I was planning to come back for a bit for MoP, but sorry to hear u won't be around. Hopefully u will be back sometime down the road and we'll catch u then. Best of luck as u work on stuff in RL. :)
 
Take Care, Dearth.

Twas nice seeing you consistently on, whenever I'd see what Redeemed was up to. Hope RL treats you well!
 
Thank you all. Don't want to burden you, but will explain a bit so you can stand with us in prayer. I'm disabled and have a very rare neurological syndrome. Quite simply, it causes migraines, absence seizures (blanking out for a few seconds), affects my memory, as well as impairing my cognitive abilities.

I guess the best way to explain it is to say it's like waking up one day after having a mild stroke and then finding that it just continues to get worse over each passing year. I have medications for the migraines and seizures which help. But even though it's not life threatening, it is progressive and there is no cure.

Still, there is therapy that helps to keep it from progressing. And oh you're not going to believe this but, poor me, it's gaming. :D Seriously, I've been doing it for several years as part of my treatment and it is keeping everything from getting worse. So I guess all those high priced specialists were worth it.

Still, it's extremely frustrating. Kind of like going to physical therapy for an injury compared to going to a gym because you want to get in shape. I've done both and they are really very similar things and yet they seem totally different. It's a matter of perspective. But the Lord helps me through each day.

But I guess that wasn't quite enough, and the enemy had more in store for us. About 6 months ago my wife was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. At that time, the doctors gave her 6-9 months. But we have trusted God and she began radiation and chemotherapy. She completed the radiation and her first round of chemo right before her medical leave ran out, her employer terminated her and we lost our insurance. The treatment was very hard on her physically. Still the Lord had it under control. It worked out that the doctors planned on her taking some time off before beginning again. Thank God!

And He is good. Right now she is doing well. And we just found out that she has been approved for social security disability and it will begin in a month. And even though she has to wait another 18 months for Medicare, today we were able to get her insurance to get her back in treatment. It's expensive, but God, as always, will provide.

Obviously, these past few months have been rough. And there are times when, as humans, we do get worn down. And we are there. More expenses and more stress are not things we need in our lives right now.

But over the past few days, my wife and I have talked it over. And I realized we can't stop "standing" on His Word. We need to continue. And I can't stop my therapy over $15 a month. And I still need an outlet. Just because we don't always see it, doesn't mean the Lord isn't helping us.

So we decided that I'm going to continue to play. But I need to reduce stress in my life and not add to it and I'm fed up with getting ganked by pvp players from other realms while trying to lvl new toons. So I've decided to move my hunter to a PVE server where I'll play the majority of the time. Then all I'll need to be concerned with is competing with all the cross realm players for farmin nodes. I haven't decided on the realm yet, but I'll let everyone know when I do.

Dearthair is now lvl 85 and exalted with the guild. He'll will remain on Stonemaul and in Redeemed even though I won't be playing him much. Starting over will be a process, but it's still just playing the game. So it's ok. To make it a little easier, I started a new personal guild on my hunter and I'm lvl'ing it to lvl 2. I'm slowly going through all my items and mats and moving them to that guild bank. Only 4 tabs, but it's enough.

Once I'm done I'll just do a guild realm transfer so I can move him and take the bank with me. It'll give me mats to sell and some things to make starting new toons easier. I don't have a battletag yet. Need to do that too. Once I do, I'll let everyone know and if any of you want to group for a dungeon or a raid, once I get raid gear, I'll be able to do that either on him or via the cross realm grouping.

So it's not good bye after all. Just won't see each of you as often. Which I will miss. And I'm still looking forward to doing some dungeons with Gongli and learning some more. So when he's back in game, let me know. ;)
 
Thanx for sharing Dearth. I wish for u guys the best of health and I know your priority will be to take care of your wife first. Spend as much time with her as u can and enjoy her company as long as u can cuz u never know when she will be gone; God willing, I hope it won't be for a long time. hopefully in the mean time, u will have some spare time to play WoW a bit. :p

Glad to hear u will be around. I'm surprised u got ganked so much, cuz I know Stonemaul was a bit of a ghostland when I was playing over the summer. I know there will be some ganking in the new Panda world, but I expect most other places to be quite barren (maybe that place where u were getting those Nether Drakes were an exception). It's usually a surprise to run into another player (enemy or friendly). *hehe* Anyways, I plan to come back for the Halloween World Event. I'll be behind u guys by about a month and I'll be a total noob to the Panda world. I'll probably be counting on u to learn the new places/dungeons and the revamped talent trees/specs. Maybe we can also learn some other things together. ;)
 
Fatkid said:
I'm surprised u got ganked so much, cuz I know Stonemaul was a bit of a ghostland when I was playing over the summer. I know there will be some ganking in the new Panda world, but I expect most other places to be quite barren
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It was fairly quiet everywhere once I hit lvl 85. Until the cross realm zones hit. Then all the lvl 85 PVP'ers from other servers with nothing better to do began camping zones in gangs and killing every alliance toon that came by. A favorite tactic of theirs is to camp at a griffon master and waste folks as they taxi in. Nice huh? :(
 
Fatkid said:
I'll be behind u guys by about a month and I'll be a total noob to the Panda world. I'll probably be counting on u to learn the new places/dungeons and the revamped talent trees/specs. Maybe we can also learn some other things together. ;)
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I going to be spending most of my time on new characters. So we can learn some together and you can teach me some too. :D
 
Fatkid said:
Hey Dearth: what's that chinese character in your avatar?
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侍 This is actually the Japanese character, or Kanji, for Samurai. And one of the primary definitions of the word "Samurai" is "servant". We always seem to only see the Samurai as being warriors. However, being a servant is at the very core of the way of life they embraced. Not unlike how we as Christians are expected to live.
 
Ah, OK. I never they knew they had cross realm zones, must of been implemented cuz of shrinking player base across most realms.

Dearthair said:
It was fairly quiet everywhere once I hit lvl 85. Until the cross realm zones hit. Then all the lvl 85 PVP'ers from other servers with nothing better to do began camping zones in gangs and killing every alliance toon that came by. A favorite tactic of theirs is to camp at a griffon master and waste folks as they taxi in. Nice huh? :(
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Kewl

This is actually the Japanese character, or Kanji, for Samurai. And one of the primary definitions of the word "Samurai" is "servant". We always seem to only see the Samurai as being warriors. However, being a servant is at the very core of the way of life they embraced. Not unlike how we as Christians are expected to live.
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Aight, catch u in about a month. :)

I going to be spending most of my time on new characters. So we can learn some together and you can teach me some too.
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