First off my apologies for the length of this wall of text...
I'd like to begin by saying I'm sure most don't remember me but I joined the game during the Warhammer days ( I normally use the names Zardayne, Mardane, or Korgann/Kerros if Dwarven). Truth is I'm not a huge socialite so I tend to lurk a lot in games, doing my own thing, and enjoying listening to everyone else. I've been pretty much doing this since my Ultima Online days. Even though I haven't really contributed much to this guild due to "shyness" I'll admit every time I play elsewhere I come to miss this guild. I guess family is a better word. I've been playing ESO since the beginning on PC but like a fool I decided with some of my friends/coworkers to go to the DC side in hopes of trying to balance the game. I had figured there would be a flood of Ebon heart. After quite a bit of time there I tried to come back to Ebon heart but as a lot of you know, once you start building up your crafting skills, motifs, horse, etc it's tough to begin again. I ended up going back to DC, found a guild there and tried to stay interested in ESO but failed. I ended up taking another month break and blamed it on the guild there as to my boredom (along with ESO). After doing some soul searching what I thought was MMO burnout is really my fault. I don't try hard enough to be interactive with my guildies. Back in Ultima, Asheron's call, and WoW I ran my own guilds for a short stint but somewhere along the way I quit socializing. Perhaps due to voice comm. I don't know. You know in 2+ years on this game I've only ran 2 dungeons..not that I didn't want to. I'm just not comfortable in grouping. Even with all of my years of MMO xp I'm still scared to screw up or join a group to say oh your build doesn't include such n such skill and get dropped. I thought it was just me but a close friend of mine and fellow AWOL Gaiscioch member said he felt the same. With all of this said I'm going to try and make a return with a better attitude toward socializing. I'm going to try my best. Unfortunately without faction transfers I'm returning to a 50 that's going to need some work but just being back and active with you guys seems to make it worth it. In all honesty I don't know why I wrote this other than to shed some light on who I am, where I've been, and the issues that have plagued this older gamer and kept me from really enjoying some of the newer MMOs. I hope to see you all in game soon.
I thought I'd add a little information about myself in closing since I've been away for such a long time. I'm a 43 year old safety manager of a pressure vessel manufacturer here in SE Texas. As I said above, I'm an older MMO games that began the second day of Ultima Online and played just about all of them since and also an old D&D pen and paper player and DM. Normally in games I play the druid or as close to a nature class as possible. Use of a spear or polearm is a plus! I prefer being a support or healing class over DPS. Every year I dress up for Texas Renfest as my take on a fantasy druid/warden/ranger. In my opinion there is no better time of year than Renfest (Oct-Nov here). I'll include a picture :). Other than that I'm metalhead and I'm constantly on the hunt for new tunes.