Fight on the Flag

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Age of Conan open beta glimpse

I personally don’t plan to buy the game. I heard the pvp system is guild based, and that’s not something I’m interested in. Conan’s rating is M for mature. Here’s why:

The game is definitely mature content on multiple levels, so anyone planning to play it should go in expecting nudity and graphic violence, along with quest lines that require things like the blood of a prostitute.

Now that would be interesting. Too bad I don’t have a screen shot.

If you’re playing AoC tell us how it is on the forums.

For those who still follow this, here’s a quick update to our DAoC adventures.

Realm RVR as stealthers is lame on the Devon cluster. We go out and try to find people to kill and it takes at least an hour. There are no choke points because of the way the portal system works (You can portal from keep to keep to avoid the fights when you’re trying to get somewhere basically).

Instead we tried level 24 battlegrounds on the Devon cluster, which was a lot better. Fights were more frequent, but then you would run into the guy who had his guild farm an artifact for him (gear for level 50 players) and you could not kill that guy.

So now we’re back to playing on Alb/Gareth. We’ve leveled characters up to level 24 and are working on playercrafted suits of armor. I suspect we might be playing there this weekend, but with busy schedules it’s hard to tell.

I’ll try to put some screenshots up when we do get around to playing.

As for the next game, I am not sure if there is a consensus other than “anything but WoW.” Age of Conan, which comes out at the end of May, could be promising, however, it is guild vs guild combat. While I enjoy PVP, I think this would lead to more griefing than I am willing to put up with. Just like in Shadowbane, this would create monster guilds and alliances. It would be more about politics than PVP. We might just have to suck it up until Warhammer this November.

On a side note, one of our guildies from a long, long time ago saw me posting on the DAoC forums and decided to join us on Gareth. Welcome back Revvo! Good to see one of the old crew about.

EDIT: Forum discussion here. If you do not have an account yet please be patient as each one requires manual activation by me.
It’s been a true pleasure playing with all of you. But logging into Warcraft has become more of a chore than a treat. I canceled my account a month ago thinking it was just going to send Blizzard a message and that I didn’t really mean it.

I was wrong, probably on both counts. Blizzard does not care about PVPers. It never has. Ever since the early PVP team left Blizzard to create Guild Wars, the PVE leaders took over the game. I am tired of forking my money over to a company that could care less about my business.

So the founders of this guild are going to play Dark Age of Camelot (Perle, Saaz, Pylith +Organdonar). We played this game together long before World of Warcraft was even thought of. Much has changed, but we want to have fun again. We need to have fun again. And it’s something to do before Warhammer Online comes out.

Is this a permanent change? Only time will tell. We might not like DAoC and decide to come back into WoW for a time. Thank you for being a part of the fleeting dream that was Fight on the Flag. Thank you for having so much fun with us. I really looked forward to logging in with each and every one of you.

You are welcome to stay in the guild for as long as you like. The guild will remain active.

If anyone wants to play DAoC with us, please post below. We are settling on the Albion/Gareth server in the Bossiney cluster. (Check for the guild Score of Lunatics.) Albion/Bedevere server in the Devon cluster (Check for the guild Legacy of Storms).

Three of us already have max level characters there. We are going to play stealthers because there’s only four of us and if we played visibles we’d need more people. On Alb/Gareth, because we won’t have to PVE as much to get to top level gear. I also have a necro to powerlevel people with (don’t ask unless you are already familiar with the game).

I also have some accounts that are not being used so if anyone wants to come, feel free. You won’t have to buy all of the expansions

(And no, you can’t have my stuff.)

Again, thanks for being a part of this wonderful guild. Fight on the Flag might not be around anymore, but its spirit will live on.

Yes it’s AV weekend again. That means we can actually do guild premades with Preform AV Enabler. OMG! My hope that Blizz will change the premade system is dwindling. But let’s not lose our sense of fun in the game. Let’s maintain it enough until we can head to something else (but try not to over-hype the other game in your head so much that you’re disappointed).

Looking for some good participation this weekend. It’s been a while since some of you have PVP’d with the guild, so keep in mind that you must be on Vent, and you also must have a working mic to PVP with us. Communication is essential in this game.

See you out there!

Now that 2.4 has been out for a couple of weeks, I’ve noticed a disturbing trend. Less PVP in this guild that was founded on it. I know everyone is disappointed in the change, myself definitely included. But we have to move on and figure out how to overcome this.

Personally I have given up all hope that Blizzard will ever treat PVPers as equal to the PVE crowd. We are and will remain second class players in Blizzard’s eye. At the moment, many of us are biding time until Age of Conan (~October 30) or Warhammer (Nov. 2008) are released.

But why wallow in self pity for six months? Why not try to have some fun? What are our options with this new patch?

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Despite the massive shortcomings of patch 2.4, I have to say AV is awesome now. We all thought the horde would suffer because they moved our starting point back to near our base, but this is not the case.

Oh noes! PVP in a BG? Say it ain’t so!

AV battles are like those of old. One last night lasted 45 minutes. We would’ve summoned Lokhar, but the BG was too busy crying because Spitey took Snowfall Graveyard. So for now fellas, please download the new version of Preform AV Enabler. If we are going to be able to do anything as a guild, it’s going to be either AV or world PVP.

See you on the battlefield!

OK thanks to the help of some folks at The Safehouse, I’ve figured out some bugs in the system and our forums are now official.

Post to your heart’s content. Just keep in mind if you’re registering a new account that I have to approve it before anyone posts anything. Since I work it might take a while.

So have fun posting this Tuesday!

First off, thanks to Bleeder for organizing this shindig!

EDIT: Read Bleeder’s awards for WSG including damage/heals/KBs.

When I got home from work, there were two spots left in the Warsong, so me and Stomples joined up, making it a full premade. During the time I was there, we only lost one game to a full, very geared, KT premade. But the next time we fought the team, we took the flag and protected it well, for we knew if we did well enough, they would give up.

We sent two rogues and a lolferal druid after the flag carrier, and they almost downed him. (They put up a mild assault as well but couldn’t deal with three paladins healing a geared warrior.) When our stealth team went after the flag carrier the second time, I noticed something peculiar about their team:

Bwak bwak bwak (chicken noise).

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Thanks Bleeder for taking up the torch on this one! He wants to start getting some PVP on for Wednesday nights. I thought I’d give you a day’s notice.

According to his post on our forums, He wants to start at 6 p.m. Central (5 p.m. server time):

A full premade can win a WSG in about 15 minutes. It’s good, quick honor if we can get enough people. Even with 5-6 we can have quite an affect in a BG that is 10 v 10.

I’m a pretty good runner with blinds, CoS, and double-sprints but it’s nice to have some backup runners as well

Thanks for stepping up Bleeder!

I said I’d never do forums. I was wrong. But if the forums are abused in any way, they’ll be taken away. This is a beta version. Please help me test bugs and such.

View the forums here: <Fight on the Flag> The forums

When I’m satisfied there will be a perma link here on the Web site.

Feel free to post suggestions on forum titles, catagories and user titles. I am incredibly new to phBB forums so please bear with me.