Southern Armada

Hey All,

Well, the Age of Conan thing was a terrible display of how not to launch an MMO 8-(

We are still currently playing WoW on Khaz'Gorath, but are looking at giving EQ2 a shot to see if we want to move towards eq instead of sticking with Wrath in WoW.

Kry has a 68 warden and I have a 57 assassin on Najena, if you guys are happy to have us again after so many years of being apart, we would love to join SA. 

I'm actually looking at rolling a brigand since it seems guild recruitment wants those. But we'll see how it pans out, i might get advise from SA peeps before doing anything.  Although it'd be good to play Ishard as an iskar monk again (well, brigand...close though)!

Mega big download occuring since I couldn't get my hands on a box set, so i'm at least 3 hours from even seeing a proper login screen, so i thought i'd drop in here and chat to peeps!

 

Usurper/Ishard

Hi Guys :)
I'm sure everyone would love to see you in SA again too, see you in game!
Strange how eq2 seems to bring all the old timers back to the fold :)

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Hi Usurper.. will be great to see you in EQ2, look us up when you get online :)

Happy to discuss class options too.

Regards,
Zel.

Usurrper:

Hey All,

Well, the Age of Conan thing was a terrible display of how not to launch an MMO 8-(

Usurper/Ishard

 As it was on how not to lead a guild either

Will be good to see you all again, and to meet new faces.

We will be trying out EQ2 again, although we can't guarantee we will be staying.
We were both avid raiders back in the EQ1 days, and just loved the layed back style of raiding SA does.  Raiding in WoW although fun, just doesn't have the same 'seat of the pants' feel.  There is no risk from wipes apart from a small repair bill.

My fondest memories are still of SA walking into PoT zones and zerging them just for fun, instead of doing them properly.   Scary part is we suceeded 80% of the time.  I really felt for Poobs though, he did die a lot 8-)

Hope to see you guys as soon as possible. but this download is seriously brutal...especailly since i started from the origional DVD's i purchased late 2004!

<3

 

Surp

Seriously Zarthaz?

I thought it went quite well.  Full T1 town, got a few fun zone runs in and stuff.
What were your concerns dude?  I thought we all had a bit of a blast whilst we were there.

When I decided that i'd had enough I logged in over a couple of days and let as many people know as possible I didn't want to play a broken unfinished game anymore, including a MoTD update, I know you weren't online but I did what I could.  No one wanted to step up as guild leader so I said I'd leave Ellandar as leader and gave the account to Unkra.

I couldn't think of any better way of doing it since 1/2 the people i spoke to agreed that they were not re-subscribing either.   I ended up subscribing for 1 more month just so Ellandar was avaliable to change guild leaders if needed...I didn't personally log in for that month, it was just a curtesey.

 

Did I do something wrong, or something you didn't agree with dude?  I do value our friendship and don't want a misunderstanding to tarnish it.

-Surp

Dude, no one had a clue where ya went, officers didn't know, me and someone who's names escapes me followed a trail to website on guildportal or sumtin , from there we gathered WoW was the thing being played instead of AoC, i remained till i was lvl 80 and so a few others , we then ended up pissing off to some other guild.
  No one including me knew why you stopped logging on, there were convo's in guildchat about it and no one knew what the fuck was going on.
  Just plain abandoned the game as far as we could figure out, well, whatever, no point in losing sleep over it, our paths will most likely no cross again anyway.
  Just as well i am not in EQ 2, would veto you no problems, but i am not, so a moot point....
 

Sorry to hear thats the way it looked, it wasn't the intention.

I had a conversation in vent with the officers before going anywhere, along with logging in a few times to see what people wanted to do with the guild.  I know Vord, Unkra, Braynz (i can't recall his AoC character name) and a few others were there but none wanted to take over the guild, hence the decision to keep a subscription going (that I had no intention on playing during) so peeps could work it out.

I didn't want to keep playing a game that was frustraing,  buggy, missing entire quests and something I just wasn't enjoying at all.  And if anyone wanted to step up and run the guild, I would have handed over no problems at all.

You obviously feel wronged by me, and I apologise for that.   Leaving AoC was a choice I made and I attempted to do it as neatly as possible; apparently not as neatly as I had wanted.

Best of luck in whatever you end up doing.

 

Usurrper:

We are still currently playing WoW on Khaz'Gorath, but are looking at giving EQ2 a shot to see if we want to move towards eq instead of sticking with Wrath in WoW.

And if you do decide to go back to WoW or keep your subscription open you can always come join us on Caelestrasz horde.

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There's an idea 8-)

Although I am a member of a guild in WoW with real life friends, so if I do end up staying unfortunatly i'd still be on Khaz.

I have been their raid leader for the past year and they are a good group of people, with extreemly similar play style of SA.  They take raiding seriously, but have a serious blast whilst doing it.  Quite a few subscribe to the "Your not raid buffed unless you have a beer in your hand" notion, which in my books is a fine idea. hehe.

How is SA doing in WoW?  Hope all is going well.   I should create an alt on Cael just to log in and say hi to peeps!

 

- Surp

There is always WAR.  still unsure on its endgame staying power though.

Though I will admit I am in Woltlk beta, and it's pretty decent, but I have always been a bit of an achievement junky.

unfortunatly SA:WoW has yet to reach critical mass for raiding.  I am having serious mental anguish about what I am doing in that regard once woltk hits.

Good point about WAR, although i've never been a big PvP fan...or even all that good at it.

 

WoTLK from what i've seen truely does look good.  I also played on the PTR and wow! My main is a paly tank and just wow!   We 5 maned kara up to nightbane, then 4 manned curator (30% in first evoc) then 3 manned aran with 1 resto druid, 1 enhancement shammy, 1 prot pallie.   Servers went down before we coudl get to prince.

Rather happy with what they are doing in WoTLK.  My problem is with the core of the game, it just isn't difficult/engaging enough in end game.  End game is nearly 100% about raiding, there's not a lot of other stuff to do.  At least in EQ there's AA points, mentoring down to do stuff you missed, very very indepth crafting skills, HQ's, leveling your guild, kitting out your house,  etc, the list goes on.    WoW, there's raiding.  Doing 5 mans till your bored with them, and factioning, or doing dailys for money to raid with.

Personally, i think EQ2 would have been a much MUCH bigger success if the'd have started with the leveling speed they have now.   That one thing may have changed it's history and given wow a bit of a run for it's money.    A lot of people want to play endgame as the main game.   Those that want to level slowly and enjoy the scenery on the way, just turn off XP every 2 or 3 levels.

 

Anyways, thats my views.   The only thing that keeps me in WoW are the people.  Which is why my delimma in EQ2 isn't quite how good it is, but a "I have two groups of friends" type delimma, but one group is playing a game that is rapidly becomeing too simple, or limited end game.

 

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unfortunatly SA:WoW has yet to reach critical mass for raiding.  I am having serious mental anguish about what I am doing in that regard once woltk hits.

now that is a hard one.  I think you'll have a lot of luck recruiting during the weeks after the WoTLK release.  Also, don't forget 10 mans are a valid raid path in WoTLK.  You may find 10 man raiding with the friends you have now is much better than 25 mans and the potential problems/pain that come with them.

-Surp