History Revised: Enraptured

[Fael]

Because the history of Enraptured has been brought into issue within the raid discussion forum, I thought I might clear up some confusion: Enraptured was not a guild created by TMO. Enraptured was not created auspiciously to circumvent a 2 week suspension by TMO that would occur months later.

Instead, Enraptured was one of the premier guilds on Stromm server, at least for the first six months or so of that server's life. Jagganath and Xerovash and several others intended to establish the guild on p99 to provide a third option for raiding.

For whatever reason, TMO decided to foster a relationship with Enraptured. I don't claim to know what DD and Zeelot ultimately intended by reaching out to Enraptured leadership, but I figured it had more to do with TMO’s spite for BDA than some sort of grand merger plan. It certainly had nothing to do with circumventing TMO's suspension that would occur a month or two later.

BDA felt threatened in some small way by Enraptured (at that time there was no real contender for 2nd best (a title they seem to covet). Accordingly they executed a several month long smear campaign against Enraptured in an attempt to brand it as nothing more than an agent of TMO, alt guild, feeder guild, etc. –Asgard can probably identify, although BDA’s campaign against Enraptured was quite a bit more focused.

BDA’s campaign was fairly successful, as Enraptured had difficulty recruiting and growing. We never really got more than 20 active players. Ultimately, when TMO got suspended Enraptured became an opportunity for DD and Zeelot to try to circumvent the suspension.

Nevertheless, it is not true that Enraptured was a creation of TMO. If anything the fact pattern involved with the Enraptured / TMO merger has a lot more in common with this present merger between 75% of IB and A-Team; albeit there are some notable differences.