S
Simius
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First off, gratz to the albs involved in taking back the staff tonight, from what I hear it was a well planned and well executed attack. But 'from what I hear' is the problem...
Our guild is a) made up mostly of friends and good people we've come across in game so is not a big guild and b) currently in a dying alliance, and as such did not have a clue that anyone was even thinking of an attempt. I have been active in RvR all week and yet not a single person even hinted that there would be an attempt. Security you say? Fair enough... My big problem is with what happened at Sauv/Emain this evening.
Myself (L50) and a L46 friend headed to CSauv this evening having seen that the hibbies had too many of our keeps. Being from a smaller guild we couldnt organise takebacks on our own, but were eager to help in any attempt to do so. When we got there, we assumed that the mini-force there was to take back keeps and defend Excal, so we asked if any one needed us in their group to help. After some time and some asking we did not recieve one single response. So we went our seperate ways...
Xethron went into FSauv to try to help with the retaking/defense, but all he got for his troubles was to be completely ignored and killed by mids when trying to help. When people complain about no-one helping in our own frontier and then ignore a high level player willing to help it makes you wonder why we should try to help in the first place.
Seeing the army porting off it was becoming more and more obvious that this was a relic attempt. Now I had no idea where everyone was going, but an educated guess took me to Hib. When I got there, the army in the pk left nothing to the imagination. So, eager to help, I asked for a group. All I got for my eagerness to help was people bitching at me simply for asking for a group. Of the few people that did talk to me, not one in a helpful manner i might add, I was told that I should have come with my guild. I refer to the points at the start of my post about the size of my guild.
So I sat in the pk, a L50 Sorcerer, apparantly one of albions most needed classes, getting nothing but abuse. The fact that I was part of a small guild who showed up to help just seemed to make matters worse. After an age waiting for anyone who might have needed help, I logged.
Now I can understand the need for security on such an attempt, but what message is it giving out when a level 50 character specced in something albion is sorely lacking is turned away purely because of the size of his guild? Or when a high level character is ignored when trying to help in his own frontier? This kind of elitism deprives guilds, made up of people not wanting to be lost among people they dont know, of an important part of the game and just reminds us why we wanted to play among friends in the first place...
Our guild is a) made up mostly of friends and good people we've come across in game so is not a big guild and b) currently in a dying alliance, and as such did not have a clue that anyone was even thinking of an attempt. I have been active in RvR all week and yet not a single person even hinted that there would be an attempt. Security you say? Fair enough... My big problem is with what happened at Sauv/Emain this evening.
Myself (L50) and a L46 friend headed to CSauv this evening having seen that the hibbies had too many of our keeps. Being from a smaller guild we couldnt organise takebacks on our own, but were eager to help in any attempt to do so. When we got there, we assumed that the mini-force there was to take back keeps and defend Excal, so we asked if any one needed us in their group to help. After some time and some asking we did not recieve one single response. So we went our seperate ways...
Xethron went into FSauv to try to help with the retaking/defense, but all he got for his troubles was to be completely ignored and killed by mids when trying to help. When people complain about no-one helping in our own frontier and then ignore a high level player willing to help it makes you wonder why we should try to help in the first place.
Seeing the army porting off it was becoming more and more obvious that this was a relic attempt. Now I had no idea where everyone was going, but an educated guess took me to Hib. When I got there, the army in the pk left nothing to the imagination. So, eager to help, I asked for a group. All I got for my eagerness to help was people bitching at me simply for asking for a group. Of the few people that did talk to me, not one in a helpful manner i might add, I was told that I should have come with my guild. I refer to the points at the start of my post about the size of my guild.
So I sat in the pk, a L50 Sorcerer, apparantly one of albions most needed classes, getting nothing but abuse. The fact that I was part of a small guild who showed up to help just seemed to make matters worse. After an age waiting for anyone who might have needed help, I logged.
Now I can understand the need for security on such an attempt, but what message is it giving out when a level 50 character specced in something albion is sorely lacking is turned away purely because of the size of his guild? Or when a high level character is ignored when trying to help in his own frontier? This kind of elitism deprives guilds, made up of people not wanting to be lost among people they dont know, of an important part of the game and just reminds us why we wanted to play among friends in the first place...
As for not getting an invite into the relic force, that was unfortunate. However, bear in mind that most of us were VERY busy organizing everything before the main force moved out, and that, coupled with the amazing lag that goes with an army of this size, meant that most of us had our eyes turned inwards. I don't believe this is elitism of any kind, just human nature: when stress increases, selectively ignore parts of the sensory input.
- and I'm sure he let as many people as he could know about it.
for Wildfire.