BREAKING NEWS IN NORRATH

[mostbitter]

so proud of you guys for leaving mobs up when there is no other force capable of downing them so brave such pras

[Ghordo]

Originally Posted by mostbitter [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

so proud of you guys for leaving mobs up when there is no other force capable of downing them so brave such pras

Lmao!

[Dacuk]

oh good for blaze, didnt realize that happened

[heartbrand]

Originally Posted by Dacuk [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

oh good for blaze, didnt realize that happened

Good for blaze and the many azrael there hand holding

[Dacuk]

Originally Posted by heartbrand [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Good for blaze and the many azrael there hand holding

not sure why helping up and coming guilds is a bad thing. my only interactions with Blaze have been pvping them, i've never even heard of them until a couple days ago.

[heartbrand]

You're only kidding yourself if you don't think the good players will end up being absorbed into Azrael or into an "alliance" in the name of Velious or something, thus leaving the casuals and "unskilleds" homeless and guildless like Hokuten.

I love how the very things Red Dawn did with Nihilum to get started and we were berated for doing are now the very things Azrael is doing with these little guilds against big ol bad holocaust.

[yevea]

Originally Posted by heartbrand [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You're only kidding yourself if you don't think the good players will end up being absorbed into Azrael or into an "alliance" in the name of Velious or something, thus leaving the casuals and "unskilleds" homeless and guildless like Hokuten.

the funny part of this whole situation is that sometimes these new guilds are truly new guilds, and leadership isn't 100% on what the fuck they are doing. Maybe they can't amass a large enough force to contest a spawn, and diplomacy is their only way to gear up and gain experience. If you have a solid [vital class here] with an every day, 6 hour day play schedule but your guild isn't able to keep another 17 people (of the right classes / skill / gear) on the same schedule.. welp. How long until that geared, skilled, experienced vital class gets tired of sitting around, hoping maybe they get enough people logged in for the right timers?

It's not on Azreal's shoulders if they are responsible for recruiting members from the so called 'feeder guilds' (of which the list is amusing for various reasons), but rather the potential failure of the smaller guild's leadership / core member morale after losing a LOT of spawn contests. No guild can currently compete that I am aware of. If Azreal doesn't do a bit of hand holding, there will only be one guild in the next few months. You need a sizable roster to compete, a roster larger than your raidforce in the event that people don't show. Calling literally every guild on the server a 'feeder guild' is laughable.

So what if Azreal is letting newcomers show up to some raids to see how to kill things. Maybe i'm wrong on this and a collection of those guilds are truly 'feeder guilds,' but mostly I suspect that the paranoia conspiracy neckbeard in forumquesters is in overtime. If people from the smaller guilds jump ship, well it's expected. How long is a guild of newbies going to last?

Smallguilds: SLAMDUNKATRON just got our first 50s this week (woot). We have many more 20s-30s members and a handful of 40s. We don't open recruit, and are not merging (flattered, but please stop asking). We are more than willing to discuss and work out plans for the future, mostly to begin with planar clears since literally everyone is wearing rags still aside from maybe 2-3 people.

[Dacuk]

i actually just looked up this guild, realized its UBN crew + some other nihi folks (Lamort, rystar alts, brutality, etc). no clue why anyone from az would help them, and i foresee zero of these folks in azrael. either way, good to see dragons going to other guilds

[yevea]

tl;dr forumquest brings out the worst conspiracy theories, if there are so many of you (actively playing) pissy about Azreal, you know who the small guilds are that are ready to raid. Work with them before Azreal does. Or just continue to make a new thread daily about how Azreal is nilly is zerg is whatever

[Colgate]

the amount of similiarities in the actions of azrael today and the actions of nihilum several months ago is pretty hilarious