Guild History
So in the hectic pace of what we can all be doing I thought I'd take a moment to post a little bit about myself so you can know a little bit about the guild history. WALL OF TEXT INCOMING!!!
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Guild History:
Black Serpent started in AOC (Age of Conan). About 40 of us met on the forums pre-launch and formed this community. The brain children of this guild were Medea (Aarkin) and Bellok (among others). They were originally in a guild called Bellatoris Domini in WOW. For one reason or another Medea and Bell decided they wanted to take a different direction than their current guild wanted to in Age of Conan. They wanted to get to know new people, a mature player base, and just have fun in general. No hand holding and answering or responding to immature speak in guild chat. Just be able to meet and communicate with people who were here to play the game, but kept their real life priorites first while dominating in PVP.
Medea (know as Aarkin there) was originally Guild Leader of Black Serpent. We held an election pre-release to appoint a guild architect. For those unfamiliar Age of Conan promised the idea of being able to create your own massive city for your guild. Nesiral (no longer playing) and I ran for the position. By a slim margin I won the election.
Medea approached Nesiral and I and requested that we all co-lead the guild based on how each of us appealed to a different type of player base because of our different personalities. Nesi and I took up the offer.
Age of Conan launched. We had a lot of fun initially. We progressed our guild city to Tier III a little bit behind the pace of the server. Keep seiges were broken. There was no PVP exp. There were no PVP rewards. The raid instances were bugged with broken aggro tables and most players (not in our guild) exploited mobs or gems in order to progress.
We learned together as a guild our own ways to take down Kylikki and Visitrix working with the broken pathing and aggro to come out on top. It was a lot of fun.
Well stats really had no benefit to many classes. Gear was nearly irrelevant. If you farmed gems, you had the best gear to fight against other players and the PVE gear was horrible. The Ranger tier 1 shield had Wisdom on it (Priest stat for all intents and purposes).
We grew to about 139-150 members at our height. We had scheduled raids and began a PVP calendar. Our fastest clear time with Kylikki was nearly 45 mins when we all worked together (in a raid that averaged most guild 2 hours). We allied with Bellatoris Domini and then they left the game because of the issues. We absorbed the players who wanted to stay in the game. Other guilds approached us to be absorbed so they could keep playing. That's when we realized that we were losing our identity. A policy against mergers was created for this game.
Medea lost interest in the game because the broken elements of the game were too much. In retrospect, I definately don't blame him. We turned over leadership to Nesi and I. Over time Nesi stopped playing because of real life obligations and we lost touch. I took over leadership of the guild to keep the community alive. What we developed in that game were friendships I didn't think I would find in an MMO.
I was an AOC fan even when we decided to leave. But all the fun elements aside it was hard to ignore broken PVP.
Then I got invited to the closed beta for Warhammer (not Elder). Everything AOC had promised to be in there game, was in this game. It was fun. Yes, the graphics were not as pretty as AOC, but the PVP worked. It wasn't one shot stun fests. You actually had to strategize a bit.
We took a guild vote and we went to Warhammer. We started as Destruction on Dark Crag. Then we took the cloned jump to Eerie Downs where we battled against Hate, PKI, and Wreckin Krew nightly. Our guild Black Serpent was the first destruction guild to claim a keep on Eerie Downs. We ballooned to 170-ish members and were one of the few consistently active destruction guilds out in the lakes. Eerie Downs was borked to where SCs were broken (blame the cloning?). Eventually our server was dubbed low pop (which surprised me greatly because we were always in the RVR lakes) so we had a choice to move to Hochland or Praag. Hochland was already dominated by Destruction so we moved to Praag. Praag turned out to have very little PVP when we landed... after a few weeks of managing lock out timers for PVE and every destruction player zerging the one BO or keep that happened to turn blue, we decided to scope out what this guild "Ruin" was doing because they were petitioning to move to Praag. This is where Black Serpent closed it's doors and many of us went our own directions.
Some took a break from MMOs for a time or went with their former guilds to other servers, but they always have a home here as do you. And now we look toward Aion.
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My views on the guild community:
My goal is always for us to have fun. Real life always comes first. I don't want to see us get in a situation where we ask you to sacrifice real situations to play the game.
Black Serpent was developed with the idea that we aren't here to hold your hand, but we won't ignore you. We'll help you get to where you want to be, but we want to see self initiation. If we're constantly telling you how to play or where to quest you're missing out on part of the adventure that is an MMO.
PVP is our focus. (Yes, Rocker and Medea made me blood thirsty). We will participate in raiding (I'm sure of it) but PvPvE, Artifacts, and Keeps are huge in this game.
If you ever want to give us input, post in these forums. If you have an idea. Toss it out to me or any officer. There's no request that's too silly.
All members have access to the calendar. You can create your own event if there's a time you want to try to do an elite zone run or even throw together an event toss it up there. We will get people organized to plan consistent events, but right now we have to narrow down people's play times and really get to know our members.
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Final thoughts:
I never want you to feel faceless in this guild. We have brought a lot of new faces into the fold in the past and for that I was VERY excited. We may simmer on recruitment for a while so we can allow our members to settle in and get to know each other. We want to get tactics developed. Formations, strategies, etc. We want to be organized. Most of this comes from just knowing how your other guildees operate.
If you meet people or know people interested in the guild. Our policy is for them to fill out an application. If you want to vouch for them, have them place your player name in the application.
I feel honored and humbled to have the chance to play with and meet each and every one of you. Guild Leader is just a title. I play the game just like each of you do. I will wear the title with pride in our members and will always listen to you. I will always consider the best interests of the guild as a whole, but I will always have open dialog.
You'll typically see me hanging out in vent all the time. I park myself in the AFK channel when I'm at work and if I happen to be floating in a channel don't hesitate to pop in and say hey. Even if I'm with other people don't be afraid to step in and say hi.
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/ending my epic Sardoni post. This is how I am
Look forward to meeting you all!
Updated: 8/31/2009
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Guild History:
Black Serpent started in AOC (Age of Conan). About 40 of us met on the forums pre-launch and formed this community. The brain children of this guild were Medea (Aarkin) and Bellok (among others). They were originally in a guild called Bellatoris Domini in WOW. For one reason or another Medea and Bell decided they wanted to take a different direction than their current guild wanted to in Age of Conan. They wanted to get to know new people, a mature player base, and just have fun in general. No hand holding and answering or responding to immature speak in guild chat. Just be able to meet and communicate with people who were here to play the game, but kept their real life priorites first while dominating in PVP.
Medea (know as Aarkin there) was originally Guild Leader of Black Serpent. We held an election pre-release to appoint a guild architect. For those unfamiliar Age of Conan promised the idea of being able to create your own massive city for your guild. Nesiral (no longer playing) and I ran for the position. By a slim margin I won the election.
Medea approached Nesiral and I and requested that we all co-lead the guild based on how each of us appealed to a different type of player base because of our different personalities. Nesi and I took up the offer.
Age of Conan launched. We had a lot of fun initially. We progressed our guild city to Tier III a little bit behind the pace of the server. Keep seiges were broken. There was no PVP exp. There were no PVP rewards. The raid instances were bugged with broken aggro tables and most players (not in our guild) exploited mobs or gems in order to progress.
We learned together as a guild our own ways to take down Kylikki and Visitrix working with the broken pathing and aggro to come out on top. It was a lot of fun.
Well stats really had no benefit to many classes. Gear was nearly irrelevant. If you farmed gems, you had the best gear to fight against other players and the PVE gear was horrible. The Ranger tier 1 shield had Wisdom on it (Priest stat for all intents and purposes).
We grew to about 139-150 members at our height. We had scheduled raids and began a PVP calendar. Our fastest clear time with Kylikki was nearly 45 mins when we all worked together (in a raid that averaged most guild 2 hours). We allied with Bellatoris Domini and then they left the game because of the issues. We absorbed the players who wanted to stay in the game. Other guilds approached us to be absorbed so they could keep playing. That's when we realized that we were losing our identity. A policy against mergers was created for this game.
Medea lost interest in the game because the broken elements of the game were too much. In retrospect, I definately don't blame him. We turned over leadership to Nesi and I. Over time Nesi stopped playing because of real life obligations and we lost touch. I took over leadership of the guild to keep the community alive. What we developed in that game were friendships I didn't think I would find in an MMO.
I was an AOC fan even when we decided to leave. But all the fun elements aside it was hard to ignore broken PVP.
Then I got invited to the closed beta for Warhammer (not Elder). Everything AOC had promised to be in there game, was in this game. It was fun. Yes, the graphics were not as pretty as AOC, but the PVP worked. It wasn't one shot stun fests. You actually had to strategize a bit.
We took a guild vote and we went to Warhammer. We started as Destruction on Dark Crag. Then we took the cloned jump to Eerie Downs where we battled against Hate, PKI, and Wreckin Krew nightly. Our guild Black Serpent was the first destruction guild to claim a keep on Eerie Downs. We ballooned to 170-ish members and were one of the few consistently active destruction guilds out in the lakes. Eerie Downs was borked to where SCs were broken (blame the cloning?). Eventually our server was dubbed low pop (which surprised me greatly because we were always in the RVR lakes) so we had a choice to move to Hochland or Praag. Hochland was already dominated by Destruction so we moved to Praag. Praag turned out to have very little PVP when we landed... after a few weeks of managing lock out timers for PVE and every destruction player zerging the one BO or keep that happened to turn blue, we decided to scope out what this guild "Ruin" was doing because they were petitioning to move to Praag. This is where Black Serpent closed it's doors and many of us went our own directions.
Some took a break from MMOs for a time or went with their former guilds to other servers, but they always have a home here as do you. And now we look toward Aion.
-----------------
My views on the guild community:
My goal is always for us to have fun. Real life always comes first. I don't want to see us get in a situation where we ask you to sacrifice real situations to play the game.
Black Serpent was developed with the idea that we aren't here to hold your hand, but we won't ignore you. We'll help you get to where you want to be, but we want to see self initiation. If we're constantly telling you how to play or where to quest you're missing out on part of the adventure that is an MMO.
PVP is our focus. (Yes, Rocker and Medea made me blood thirsty). We will participate in raiding (I'm sure of it) but PvPvE, Artifacts, and Keeps are huge in this game.
If you ever want to give us input, post in these forums. If you have an idea. Toss it out to me or any officer. There's no request that's too silly.
All members have access to the calendar. You can create your own event if there's a time you want to try to do an elite zone run or even throw together an event toss it up there. We will get people organized to plan consistent events, but right now we have to narrow down people's play times and really get to know our members.
----------------------
Final thoughts:
I never want you to feel faceless in this guild. We have brought a lot of new faces into the fold in the past and for that I was VERY excited. We may simmer on recruitment for a while so we can allow our members to settle in and get to know each other. We want to get tactics developed. Formations, strategies, etc. We want to be organized. Most of this comes from just knowing how your other guildees operate.
If you meet people or know people interested in the guild. Our policy is for them to fill out an application. If you want to vouch for them, have them place your player name in the application.
I feel honored and humbled to have the chance to play with and meet each and every one of you. Guild Leader is just a title. I play the game just like each of you do. I will wear the title with pride in our members and will always listen to you. I will always consider the best interests of the guild as a whole, but I will always have open dialog.
You'll typically see me hanging out in vent all the time. I park myself in the AFK channel when I'm at work and if I happen to be floating in a channel don't hesitate to pop in and say hey. Even if I'm with other people don't be afraid to step in and say hi.
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/ending my epic Sardoni post. This is how I am
Look forward to meeting you all!Updated: 8/31/2009
Edited by
Sardoni 12 months ago
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