The guild I was in for the second half of Wrath and through T11 in Cata fell apart shortly before T12 launched. We were a 10M guild, and our Pally tank and 2 of our healers (arguably the stronger 2 of the 3 we had) decided to up and leave because we had hit a wall progression-wise due to attendance and being unable to recruit more people to stabilize the roster. They left overnight, leaving us down 3 people, which in turn caused our GM to pretty much ransack the guild bank and go to a different guild. I'm usually one of those people that stays til a guild's dying breath. I like the comradery and I bond with people and hate leaving with no advanced notice because it's (in my eyes) disrespectful. I hate when people leave the guilds I've been in like that, so I try not to be one of those people. Anyways. After those 3 left, I decided to pack up and leave. I knew that there was no hope for recovering from the loss of those 3, so I decided that instead of waiting for the inevitable, I'd just part ways.
So I applied and was accepted into a different guild on a different server, made it through my trials, etcetc. They had asked me to go resto a couple of times when healers were MIA (like I said, blessing and a curse). They were really pleased with how well I healed, considering they had a streak of getting rather awful healers in who just couldn't pump out enough heals for heroic T11. I was kinda eh about it, and I was still the new kid on the block, and I was bribed to go full-time Resto for a nice little chunk of DKP. I agreed, and continued to do my Resto thing. Week by week, I realized how much I hated healing full-time. I never minded doing it once every couple weeks, or doing it when I wanted to, but having to log in to raid and spend the time regearing some slots over to resto from elemental, as well as the progression wipes, really wore me out on healing. I ended up talking to my GM and RL and asking them to find a healer to replace me so I could go back as DPS, even offering the DKP back I had received for going MS heals.
T12 came, I was #4 in our guild to get my DTR, but I was still required to heal on some fights because we were still being plagued by bad healers coming in. In retrospec, it had to have been really embarassing for these healers we were recruiting to be destroyed by me in my OS. I had even ranked #3 for healing Rag (normal) one time! Still, I constantly was gently pushing and reminding them to find a solid healer so I wouldn't have to heal as often. It was as frequent as 1 - 2 nights each week I was healing for something. I did it for the good of the group, but ultimately was hoping for a godsend for some sort of competent healers. T13 came, and we experienced a fallout of about 8 people who decided to leave and form their own 10M guild. This 8 consisted of 3 of our legendaries, 6 DPS total and 2 of our healers.
Adding insult to injury, they proceeded to take everything of value from our guild bank to use as their own mats in their new guild, as well as trolling and slinging mud at us on the recruitment forums, trade chat, and any other public means of communication they could. This was a HUGE blow to us. We had been stalled on progression for weeks, hitting our heads against a wall, and this of course was also due to a handful of those 8 purposely sabotaging the raids. Blowing Bloodlust in the first 30sec, letting Zano'zz's orbs hit the walls and not going to them, etc. Literally, there were times we spent 2 evenings of 90+% wipes on bosses because of their lack of teamwork and just working against the rest of the raid. They left - 2 Mages with DTR and our 1st rogue with FotF- and took our mats, formed their own guild, and continued to prod and poke at us even though we left them alone. Our recruitment took a WHILE to get good players in our roster and I was still tasked with healing, especially now that we'd lost 2 solid healers.
Finally, 2 (almost 3) weeks later, we got enough people back in who could tell their ass from their elbow and who weren't just absolutely horrible. And, lo-and-behold, after all this time, we somehow managed to recruit "too many" healers. By "too many", I mean that we had 2 of our healers switching to DPS offspecs. Now, I have the option of my dual-spec being free from the cold, cold hands of healing! I'm almost unsure what to do with myself. I've kept my healing OS for so long that I feel weird getting rid of it. I'll still be required to heal if our only resto sham doesn't show up, or if we're short on heals, but now that we're in surplus of healers, I can finally get rid of resto and do something else with it.
I can finally make my PVP build (so I have things like Earthbind Root, which I sorely miss). I can make my Fire Ele spec for H Ultrax, or I can go enhance and play around with that in RF or HoT heroics. It's so liberating to finally have my choice - it's been at least 2 years I've kept resto as a backup. I'm just nervous to get rid of it. I feel like it's Murphy's Law - as soon as I get rid of my resto spec we'll randomly lose 2 healers and I'll be on healing duty occasionally again. Maybe I'll just wait through the end of next week before I decide what to do with it.
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