Here’s why:

Check out that Order zerg at the zone line to Fell Landing. They are waiting for the first push to wipe. It doesn’t take rocket science to figure out, guys. Really, the last time I saw a pop capped fort on Gorfang, the people who didn’t get in were pouting and screaming in region chat about the injustice of it all.

This is a seriously organized group of Order that we are fighting. All the more challenge for us here on Phoenix Throne.

Yes, we get stomped into bloody puddles because we are all in level 37 greens (which is bound to continue for a little while longer because one of our main group mates decided to switch due to the AE nerfs coming out). I wanted to publicly thank Nala on Destro for helping us out and donating some 40 blue repairable items. Those will be incredibly useful when we get Contamination (Nizzlegloz’s Maurauder) to 40.

Finally a rant.

I have to say that I’m incredibly disappointed with the Shaman class. The Archmage is so much better, and only because of  Funnel Essence. The Shaman’s comparable ability, Do Sumfin Useful, is not even in the same league. I get another heal over time, which is nice, but I prefer burst healing.

The patch is coming out today. Read the notes here. They did have a very brief round on the test server, and I think it was cut short because nobody logged in to test the patch (ShadowWar tested the changes on siege pads). Therefore, we are probably live testing the changes.

I will reserve judgment until I can actually play the game.

Yeah, granted we have level 37 greens for armor. Yes, we aren’t all 40 yet. What we lack in gear we make up for in enthusiasm and organization.

From the looks of the Order zerg, we’re going to need it.

It’s hard to tell from this angle, but there’s a huge wave of Order zerging up over the hill.

Here’s another angle. And I’m told this is a small force. On Gorfang this would have been a great RVR night.

We are looking forward to all that this server has to offer. We are not looking back to Gorfang at this time. Maybe if things change, but we’re not holding our breath.

Welcome back Kuvasz! She played an armswoman in DAOC and ran with our 8-man gank squad. After New Frontiers, we all quit because we were tired of keep humping (sound familiar?).

We had exciting times on Saturday in Praag, whipping up several groups of Destro into tasty batches of renown. I managed to get RR71, so I guess I drop Royal Crests now. With the number of Destro who zerg around me now, I probably should hire a Swordmaster to guard me :p

Unfortunately it seems Doorhammer is all we do now if we want to see RVR. Destro is too wary of our group (unless they have 150 of them defending a fortress and all we have is eight people, like on Monday night).

Yes, underneath the hooves of the Destro warhorses is a dead ginger-headed freak (Bright Wizards is what we call them on Order side). We couldn’t find any RVR until we realized a fort had been taken and Order left to go somewhere else. We investigated and found tons and tons and TONS of Destro outside Fell Landing.

I would be lying if I said our first attempts were anything but utter defeat. In our defense we were missing a couple of key players, but we managed to kill equal to our number before we died.

Doing our part to reduce the Gorfang/Order population.

Because of the dwindling quality of RVR on Gorfang, Fight on the Flag is temporarily rolling alts on Skull Throne/Destruction. We love playing our characters on Gorfang, and the Order team there is great. However, anytime we fight in RVR it seems the Destro are always woefully outnumbered.

We do know that there are more Destro level 40 accounts than Order. Why Destro opts not to play I am not sure. In any case, we feel the only way to promote balance and help the Destro is by not PVPing there. Many of us had taken to rolling alts anyway. We figured if we were going to roll more alts, we would switch servers. That way if the RVR continues to suck on Gorfang we at least have a backup plan.

Now, if there is quality RVR on Gorfang, we would like to be there for it. Order folks who know our Vent information are welcome to come into the channel and ask for us to show up.

If anyone wants to join us on Skull Throne/Destro, please do so (even Destro if you want to play with some laid back and cool people). We picked Skull Throne specifically for the reasons why we wish more people would pick Gorfang/Destruction: They need the help of an organizing force and there are a lot of people of the opposite faction to kill.

So far the action has not been too disappointing. The Tier 1 scenarios have been popping like crazy, except for a couple of hours so far. After a brief unscientific poll, it appears Tier 4 scenarios are also frequently manned.

Considering how few members we have (eight at this posting, and we all have level 40 alts), you can be sure if you see one of us it’s probably one of the crew that you see every day.

I rolled a white lion named Cascade, and I named my lion Tfourislonely (thanks for the awesome suggestion Dworf!).

In any case, we’re still recruiting both a BFF for Riamin and more members at FOTF. Other than that, the fights have been too boring to report anything of note. We’ve been doing a lot of PVE. Let’s hope the action picks up soon.

He hoped Sunday would be the day, so we started off with some scenarios, but soon found an excellent AE grind spot and sat there for a few hours. We went to lunch and came back and decided to finish up in the scenarios. I managed to get a screenshot of the moment:

We would also like to thank Enelira and the many Destruction who were slain before her who made this possible. Needless to say we all look forward to the day when we are 40 and can RVR instead of do scenarios all day.

Otherwise we had much fun running scenarios and some open RVR on Sunday. For once we ran scenarios that were not Serpent’s Passage:

Grovad Cavarns was a nice change of pace and we won one game 400-2. Destruction isn’t usually that bad so I wonder what that was about.

We also had some fun in open RVR this weekend. We took an objective in Dragonwake and ran into a group of Destruction when trying to take the objective near their war camp. Good fights all

No leaderboards this week. I think the Herald Web site is wonky due to the recent server transfers.

Thanks man! Now you’re an officer. I’m not sure what that means, other than you get officer chat (which we rarely use by the way unless we’re booting someone because they’re annoying).

Oh, and here’s a random pic of an AB fight we did yesterday when we had a 11/15 premade:

Notice LM under control and two more nodes under assault. We 5-capped that game.

If you are interested, please let a current officer know in game.

Personally it would be nice to know that the organized PVP is not going to die off once we log.

Requirements below.

To qualify, you must:

• Mention your interest in becoming an officer to the current officers. You will then enter a trial period, remaining at your current rank.
• Organize regular PVP groups for a couple of weeks.
• Get along with current members.

Officers who organize PVP will give guildies preference to organized PVP groups. If you are running a premade and a guildie wants in, you must kick a non-guild to allow the guildie to join. Personally I prefer to not host non-guild PVP groups but that’s because the general populace of WoW doesn’t inspire my confidence.

The second is we created a special rule: Nobody under 18 allowed.

Screen shot proof below…

One of his many past times was provoking people into dueling him, and then crying that he wasn’t yet level 70 and saying he would “kik ur ass” when he finally did achieve 70. Pylith had enough, and decided to oblige. This special person got Pylith down to a whopping 85 percent:

The kid is 13. I think we exercised quite a bit of restraint whenever he’d show up and start being his teenage self. I have to admit, it wasn’t only his fault that we have this new rule. It’s because of all the other preteens who boldly came before him.

[I should add that he also violated Rule #4: he did not have Ventrilo and a mic. We are going to strictly enforce this rule from now on, fair warning.]

So now, nobody under 18 allowed. At all. If you are a month from your 18th birthday, that’s great. Send us an invitation to the party and we’ll invite you after we eat some cake.

Now, Pylith has been bugging Organdonar for quite some time to come back. They’ve been playing together for more than a decade, starting with Descent.

Welcome back Organdonar! Pic below the fold.

He has zero resilience because he was in an SSC guild before the big server transfer, but that will soon change!