Name
Bo
Age (must be 18+)
21
Do you have any friends in the guild? If so, who?
You guys already feel like my friends.
But no, not really, heh.
Main Character
Charr Warrior
Character Name
Rashek Something (maybe, idk yet!)
Race
Charr
Profession(Class)
Warrior
What role do you wish to play in the guild? For example: PvP, PvE, Casual/Social
I will most definitely be a heavy PvPer. I generally go into MMOs thinking.. ok.. how long until my character is viable in PvP? What's the quickest way to get into PvP? I thought GW2 would be the same... but after watching you guys and tons of other coverage, I'll definitely be checking out PvE as well. It actually looks FUN unlike most games where it's just a speedbump to the PvP.
I'll probably be in the Mists A LOT, but with the level scaling and everything, I'll definitely hop out frequently and group up with you guys to do cool PvE events and stuff.
I'm also pretty social, I'm not one of those lurker guild members that nobody's ever seen in chat. Love chatting while I play.
Which previous MMO's or online games have you played and how long for?
Pschheww... man... A LOT. Here's a list.
Lineage, Anarchy Online, Ragnarok Online, EVE Online, Dark Age of Camelot, Final Fantasy XI, Lineage 2, City of Heroes/Villains, Guild Wars, Dungeons & Dragons Online, Silkroad Online, Lord of the Rings Online, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, Atlantica Online, Mortal Online, Darkfall, Shadowbane, Auto Assault, DC Universe Online, TERA, and of course, WoW.
I probably missed a couple, and a few I insta-quit, and some f2p garbage... but those are the major ones. The only games I really spent a good amount of time playing (1yr +) were Dark Age of Camelot, and Warhammer Online.
Were you a part of a guild? What was your experience?
I was a part of lots of guilds. Most notably was the Gaiscioch Family. It's a pretty HUGE multigaming guild that I encountered in WAR. They had a pretty cool system for rewarding participation and stuff. My experience was that they were kind of TOO big, almost, and everyone still kind of felt impersonal. More or less a zerg guild, just with a good website. They ended up leaving the game when RIFT came out, and I didn't follow.
My best experience was leading my own PvP focused guild on a WoW Private Server. It was pretty successful, had some awesome officers, and we stayed small on purpose, making us a tight-knit, organized, and disciplined force in the PvP they had going on on that server.
How did you hear about the Guild?
On the podcast of course. It'd be nearly impossible to miss hearing about it.
What will you bring to the ALTTABME community? (Chatty? Skilled? Funny? Helping?)
I'm pretty chatty as you might've noticed with my long questions. I don't just like playing games, I like talking to others about them too. Chatty definitely applies. Skilled? I like to think I'm pretty damn skilled, especially at PvP. I certainly have enough MMO hours to have no excuse for sucking, hah. I enjoy helping people, especially guildies. Guilds where people don't chat and don't help eachother out usually don't retain members, and a guild without members isn't really a guild at all. I like teaching others what I know about PvP, and then taking them out and SHOWING them. I get excited when I get people hooked on PvP, because I enjoy it so much, and the more people there are, the more epic the warfare becomes.
Will Arcanix be the only guild you join?
Indeed.
Is there anything else you would like to throw in here at the end?
Sure. Just wanted to talk about my Warhammer Online experience a little bit. When I played I always played Order. Now ask anyone who's played WAR (recently), and they'll tell you Order was HUGELY outnumbered in the lower level lakes. I would login every day and see people getting frustrated and logging out because Destruction is just stomping around the lakes, zerging them as they run around solo generally being useless, so I decided to do something about it, and help out my realm.
Later on in the game's life the devs added this thing called AAO, Against All Odds, which gave you a buff that gave you a HUGE boost in XP and Renown when you were fighting in a zone where you were outnumbered. This scaled all the way up to 400%. So, instead of QQing like everyone else, I decided to use our underdog status to my advantage instead of looking at it like something negative.
WAR is a different game in that, in PvP, you really NEED a leader to tell people where they should be. Leadership isn't met with "less QQ more pewpew" like it generally was in WoW. It was the only way to fight effectively against a more populated realm. If a leader left the warband, and nobody was willing to take command, the warband promptly fell apart. After being in the game a while, and reaching endgame (but not enjoying it) I always went back and rolled new characters to fight in the lower level lakes. Like Jon said in the last podcast, most people would go OUT OF THEIR WAY to avoid the enemy, and take the path of least resistance... I thought that was lame. So I would take my small WB of the ten or so Order that hadn't ragequit for the day yet, and I would lead them to different areas of the map that people generally don't fight at. I'd cram us into a small ravine or behind a particularly large tree, and we'd wait for Destro to take a keep, and start heading back to the warcamp. When the biggest chunk of the zerg ran by, we would jump out and grab all the kills we could. This resulted in MASSIVE XP and renown because of the AAO buff, and it was DAMN fun, because nobody expected us there, and we were getting more Renown than they did from taking that empty keep! I lead these warbands almost nightly for a couple of months, and I got somewhat e-famous(/notorious Destro side) on the server for helping these lower level guys get their characters up and out of each tier to endgame. After a while I learned all the best spots and it only got more efficient.
There was this one Order keep that's particularly awesome in T2 Elf. After taking it, Destro would jump and suicide off this giant waterfall, because it's faster than running all the way back to the warcamp. I watched 'em do it once, and I started brewing an evil plan. I took a couple homies with me, and we hid in this little bushel of trees right next to the waterfall, and we would wait for them to start leaving the keep. Right as they started jumping, we'd spam all our AOEs and anything we had that would tag the most players. When they hit the ground, we got all the Renown as if we had killed em all ourselves, stacked with our 400% AAO. It was just... badass... lol... so many numbers on my screen! Could get a Renown rank or two in one run.
Anyways, I WAS going somewhere GW2 with this, honest. I'd love to help lead these kind of small scale skirmishing groups in WvW in GW2. It definitely seems like this is something servers will NEED to be doing to be successful in WvW. I just wanted to share that experience with you guys, because I think that's the most important thing I will try to help bring to the guild: strategy and organization in PvP. I'm a big armchair general kinda guy, but never really liked RTSs (except Savage, pretty good game). Real generals don't lead from some strange, onmiscient viewpoint in the sky, they lead from the frontlines, and that's why big-scale MMO PvP really appeals to me. That's why I waited to apply until I saw your WvW episode to see if the guild was really right for me.
This is what I plan on doing when I get rolling (know the professions, know the maps, know the strategies) and I'd really like a cool guild with relaxed, but serious gamers to do it with. It seems like you guys definitely have a good balance here. I don't want a casual guild that doesn't really care if they win or lose, but I don't want a super hardcore min/max douche elitist guild either, and it seems like you guys are just right. I'd really love an invite if you still have space. Also wanted to say I'm loving the podcast! I've watched a few others, but you guys are the only one I really look forward to watching, you guys seem like your really gamers and not just reporters who happen to game. I put only you guys in my calendar on my Android. ONLY YOU! Good luck with the guild and the podcast, and I hope I'll see you in game. Peace.
Bo
Age (must be 18+)
21
Do you have any friends in the guild? If so, who?
You guys already feel like my friends.
But no, not really, heh.Main Character
Charr Warrior
Character Name
Rashek Something (maybe, idk yet!)
Race
Charr
Profession(Class)
Warrior
What role do you wish to play in the guild? For example: PvP, PvE, Casual/Social
I will most definitely be a heavy PvPer. I generally go into MMOs thinking.. ok.. how long until my character is viable in PvP? What's the quickest way to get into PvP? I thought GW2 would be the same... but after watching you guys and tons of other coverage, I'll definitely be checking out PvE as well. It actually looks FUN unlike most games where it's just a speedbump to the PvP.
I'll probably be in the Mists A LOT, but with the level scaling and everything, I'll definitely hop out frequently and group up with you guys to do cool PvE events and stuff.
I'm also pretty social, I'm not one of those lurker guild members that nobody's ever seen in chat. Love chatting while I play.
Which previous MMO's or online games have you played and how long for?
Pschheww... man... A LOT. Here's a list.
Lineage, Anarchy Online, Ragnarok Online, EVE Online, Dark Age of Camelot, Final Fantasy XI, Lineage 2, City of Heroes/Villains, Guild Wars, Dungeons & Dragons Online, Silkroad Online, Lord of the Rings Online, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, Atlantica Online, Mortal Online, Darkfall, Shadowbane, Auto Assault, DC Universe Online, TERA, and of course, WoW.
I probably missed a couple, and a few I insta-quit, and some f2p garbage... but those are the major ones. The only games I really spent a good amount of time playing (1yr +) were Dark Age of Camelot, and Warhammer Online.
Were you a part of a guild? What was your experience?
I was a part of lots of guilds. Most notably was the Gaiscioch Family. It's a pretty HUGE multigaming guild that I encountered in WAR. They had a pretty cool system for rewarding participation and stuff. My experience was that they were kind of TOO big, almost, and everyone still kind of felt impersonal. More or less a zerg guild, just with a good website. They ended up leaving the game when RIFT came out, and I didn't follow.
My best experience was leading my own PvP focused guild on a WoW Private Server. It was pretty successful, had some awesome officers, and we stayed small on purpose, making us a tight-knit, organized, and disciplined force in the PvP they had going on on that server.
How did you hear about the Guild?
On the podcast of course. It'd be nearly impossible to miss hearing about it.
What will you bring to the ALTTABME community? (Chatty? Skilled? Funny? Helping?)
I'm pretty chatty as you might've noticed with my long questions
. I don't just like playing games, I like talking to others about them too. Chatty definitely applies. Skilled? I like to think I'm pretty damn skilled, especially at PvP. I certainly have enough MMO hours to have no excuse for sucking, hah. I enjoy helping people, especially guildies. Guilds where people don't chat and don't help eachother out usually don't retain members, and a guild without members isn't really a guild at all. I like teaching others what I know about PvP, and then taking them out and SHOWING them. I get excited when I get people hooked on PvP, because I enjoy it so much, and the more people there are, the more epic the warfare becomes.Will Arcanix be the only guild you join?
Indeed.
Is there anything else you would like to throw in here at the end?
Sure. Just wanted to talk about my Warhammer Online experience a little bit. When I played I always played Order. Now ask anyone who's played WAR (recently), and they'll tell you Order was HUGELY outnumbered in the lower level lakes. I would login every day and see people getting frustrated and logging out because Destruction is just stomping around the lakes, zerging them as they run around solo generally being useless, so I decided to do something about it, and help out my realm.
Later on in the game's life the devs added this thing called AAO, Against All Odds, which gave you a buff that gave you a HUGE boost in XP and Renown when you were fighting in a zone where you were outnumbered. This scaled all the way up to 400%. So, instead of QQing like everyone else, I decided to use our underdog status to my advantage instead of looking at it like something negative.
WAR is a different game in that, in PvP, you really NEED a leader to tell people where they should be. Leadership isn't met with "less QQ more pewpew" like it generally was in WoW. It was the only way to fight effectively against a more populated realm. If a leader left the warband, and nobody was willing to take command, the warband promptly fell apart. After being in the game a while, and reaching endgame (but not enjoying it) I always went back and rolled new characters to fight in the lower level lakes. Like Jon said in the last podcast, most people would go OUT OF THEIR WAY to avoid the enemy, and take the path of least resistance... I thought that was lame. So I would take my small WB of the ten or so Order that hadn't ragequit for the day yet, and I would lead them to different areas of the map that people generally don't fight at. I'd cram us into a small ravine or behind a particularly large tree, and we'd wait for Destro to take a keep, and start heading back to the warcamp. When the biggest chunk of the zerg ran by, we would jump out and grab all the kills we could. This resulted in MASSIVE XP and renown because of the AAO buff, and it was DAMN fun, because nobody expected us there, and we were getting more Renown than they did from taking that empty keep! I lead these warbands almost nightly for a couple of months, and I got somewhat e-famous(/notorious Destro side
) on the server for helping these lower level guys get their characters up and out of each tier to endgame. After a while I learned all the best spots and it only got more efficient.There was this one Order keep that's particularly awesome in T2 Elf. After taking it, Destro would jump and suicide off this giant waterfall, because it's faster than running all the way back to the warcamp. I watched 'em do it once, and I started brewing an evil plan. I took a couple homies with me, and we hid in this little bushel of trees right next to the waterfall, and we would wait for them to start leaving the keep. Right as they started jumping, we'd spam all our AOEs and anything we had that would tag the most players. When they hit the ground, we got all the Renown as if we had killed em all ourselves, stacked with our 400% AAO. It was just... badass... lol... so many numbers on my screen! Could get a Renown rank or two in one run.
Anyways, I WAS going somewhere GW2 with this, honest. I'd love to help lead these kind of small scale skirmishing groups in WvW in GW2. It definitely seems like this is something servers will NEED to be doing to be successful in WvW. I just wanted to share that experience with you guys, because I think that's the most important thing I will try to help bring to the guild: strategy and organization in PvP. I'm a big armchair general kinda guy, but never really liked RTSs (except Savage, pretty good game). Real generals don't lead from some strange, onmiscient viewpoint in the sky, they lead from the frontlines, and that's why big-scale MMO PvP really appeals to me. That's why I waited to apply until I saw your WvW episode to see if the guild was really right for me.
This is what I plan on doing when I get rolling (know the professions, know the maps, know the strategies) and I'd really like a cool guild with relaxed, but serious gamers to do it with. It seems like you guys definitely have a good balance here. I don't want a casual guild that doesn't really care if they win or lose, but I don't want a super hardcore min/max douche elitist guild either, and it seems like you guys are just right. I'd really love an invite if you still have space. Also wanted to say I'm loving the podcast! I've watched a few others, but you guys are the only one I really look forward to watching, you guys seem like your really gamers and not just reporters who happen to game. I put only you guys in my calendar on my Android. ONLY YOU!
Good luck with the guild and the podcast, and I hope I'll see you in game. Peace.