All of you new people will quickly learn the differences between Nihilum and Azrael and make the best choice that suits you personally. However, please make those decisions based on your own personal experiences with the guilds, and not shit you see in /ooc or on the forums. If you are the type of person to make a decision based on what you read on forums or what you see in /ooc, we probably don't want you anyways.
I have been in Nihilum since October of 2012 so I am obviously biased, but I cannot imagine being in a guild and having to listen to guild chat from the majority of people that troll /ooc. I also cannot imagine being in a guild being co-lead by Andis. Over time, I have seen that quality players eventually gravitate towards Nihilum, and the immature kids, griefers, and your drama queens eventually gravitate towards Azrael.
Unfortunately, based on the type of people that have gravitated towards EQ pvp servers in the past, the majority of these people fall into the Azrael category. You can't lead those type of people, nor can you rely on those types of people. The recent Azrael success is the result of simply been being able to produce more bodies for a longer period of time (as well as cooperating with multiple other guilds). While Nihilum does tend to win the fights when we are dealing with even numbers (mainly due to the fact that Nihilum has higher levels and better gear), the better gear that Nihilum has (and the fact that resist gear / level differential does not help as much as it did on Live) can only account for so much. We'll see how long Azrael can keep it up. I hope they continue because having more people to kill makes the server more fun.
Choose your side wisely, and I look forward to grouping / raiding / pvping with whoever decides to go with Nihilum.
Nothxu / Nothx
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