The real life 617 ‘Dambusters’ Squadron recently celebrated their 75th anniversary and us here at the World of Warcraft Dambusters tribute guild will celebrate our own 4th anniversary this coming Friday, 26th July.
The day I pulled together 10 signatures to create the charter seems so long ago because such a lot has happened since that day.
I remember whispering people to request their signature. I helped a guy with a couple of quests I had already done before asking for a signature politely, I even let a higher level rogue test his crit on me in a duel before he would sign my charter. Those were the days when I wore spirit on Bigticket, bragged about my mana regen in aspect of the viper and voyaged from Hogger’s patch to Booty Bay as a wide-eyed lvl 10 adventurer.
I went everywhere, exploring and getting my butt kicked and I fondly remember those days. The days of people like Zeitgeist, Crimsonious, Annelie, Icebabe, Chrisg, Bás, Ellchera and too many others to name including a lot more good friends I’ve made since while all being part of this big old guild.
The people come and go, some friendships last and some turn sour, usually due to communication problems more than anything else. The friendships you make in the game are what keep people coming back and that is why it is so important to try and gather all Dambusters up for our event this Friday. This will be a celebration of the friends we have made and a timely reminder of friends we have lost from the game.
Think of it for a moment, was there a good friend in game who simply stopped logging in? Do you wonder where they went? You were such good pals and all of a sudden they were just gone. This is a fact of life in this game and it happens all too often. People leave the game for all sorts of reasons and we are left behind with no option but to be glad of the good times we had. We will make new friends in the game but it’s just possible that old friend is somewhere, thinking of you…
On Friday, we will march from Northshire Abbey as a guild in memory of those friends we lost in the game.
We will shout and celebrate the name of our guild with pride so all of Stormwind will know our name!
We will pull the server together and take one last swipe at Garrosh Hellscream before next patch takes him down and the server will know us! We will treat others on the servers as our friends and show them what our guild is all about and at the end of the day, there will be a big pot of prize gold and a pretty TCG mount loot code for one lucky, hard working Dambuster to show off!
BE THERE!
/Salute
Yo Yo. I’ll try and be there m8, what time?