My return proper. The Ex-Cineribus days. . .

So one day, I was talking to a friend of mine over a game of Minecraft, and he told me that the 'good guys' of OED had split to form a new guild called Ex Cineribus. So I re-activated my account, and logged in.
The guild was still relatively new (We were mid Lich king, about a month before ICC maybe?) but all the good guys were there. Ross, Gaz, Dan, and a few others. We had some good players join us. Wally, Sanctus and who could forget Smokadrood.
We became a social raiding guild. Focusing on Social, but raids being an option as opposed to a requirement as most guilds on Doomhammer were back then.
We progressed nicely, we became well known for running good pugs, and somewhere along the line I became second in command of the guild. I can't remember exactly how, but I think it was so Ross could focus on Education. It was nice being the top hunter in the guild. Although that was soon overtaken by Gaz who had this knack of being able to be top in every class he plays. Everything was going well, then Cataclysm Came.

I need to point out now that I hold nothing against any of the people already mentioned in this post. But the next one, I would not piss on him if he was on fire. He goes by the name of Lark. We called him 'chatty man' because he looked like the gay UK comedian Alan Carr.

Somehow, he muscled into my spot as guild number 2. Something about 'wanting to become a hardcore raiding guild'. I objected and instantly this put a rift between me and Chatty Man.
Before cataclysm came out we made arrangements to which classed people were levelling first so we could get raiding as soon as possible. I had three level 80 characters at the time. My Hunter, a Prot Paladin, and a Resto Druid. Gaz wanted to level his hunter, so mine was out. Ross' main was a druid, so mine was out. And there were two other paladins so no room for mine. So after going through all the classes, it was noted there were no Shamans so I decided to level one. So although these guys were going from 80-85, I would have to start at level 1. By the time I got to 85 (about ten days) I was already seriously lacking in gear. I had also levelled as a resto shammy in mind. Only for chatty man to decide he didn't want a shammy healer, and got one of his mates priests in to heal instead and I had to go ele.
I could not get the rotations right. My dps was shocking (pardon the pun) The next raid, I was sidelined for a pug. And again the following week. Then the next. I decided to have a break again. ...