Oddly, exactly 1 year from the end of the universe, SW:ToR is here! A server has been chosen for us and Onibatsu and we are just gonna go with it.. If you wanna catchup or come gank, we will be playin on the "Black Vulkar" server! (yay?) I have no clue what a black vulkar is, but here is a picture.
If youre in the beta and wanna get together with some people, send me an email
1: a government in which the ruling power is given to whoever is most skillful at directing the herd instincts of the largest masses of their most ignorant citizens.
2010 is without a doubt the emptiest year for MMOs ever. Most people have been playing StarCraft 2, Fallout 3, Civ 5, and Warhammer to keep busy. Nothing really seems like it is gonna bring people together for the next 5 months.
We did however spend a few months playing EA's offering to the Web Browsers Free-2-Play-Micro-Transaction-Rape-Your-Wallet market. Lord of Ultima was a lot of fun to begin with and we had many epic battles, if you can call it that. Playing under the name "Sausages" Grudge raped World9 like no other world and claimed such complete dominance that noone could offer any resistance. Every major guild collapsed and was absorbed by Sausages until there was nothing left. Waiting (and paying) for months on end for the endgame to be implemented got to be too boring for most as our victory on World9 was so overwhelmingly certain. Even the hints of what the endgame was going to be like seemed pretty bleak. So we left and have been back in Warhammer RVRing it up until the next patch/expansion.
Grats to me on the world 1st city cap max of 401 cities and Sausages on utter dominance. That is the last F2play MicroTransaction game i will ever play.
Most of us are trudging along the barren year of 2010 trying to keep busy in World of Warcraft waiting for Cataclysm's release. Bunch of us have pre-ordered StarCraft 2 and are playin the beta if anyone wants to get some games in hop on vent.
In a turn of very disapointing news, it seems Starwars: The Old Republic is going to be delayed to Spring 2011. So it looks most likely that Grudge will be spending 2010 trying out a few of the lesser contenders to pass the time. StarTrek Online is the 1st one up coming Jan 29th we will be giving it a shot and seeing what it has to offer. Later during the year look to see Grudge in the WoW:Cataclysm expansion and also Secret World. But for now... Beam me up shoty!
.. SW:ToR Beta better be soon ;)
Hop on vent and say hi, im sure someone is playing the same game you are... /sigh
Well we knew from the start people weren't going to like the grind and what that translated to in retail release was many of our friends not enjoying the game. The hardcore krew got to 50 as expected faster than most and found the PVP ruleset in place for 50s (more grinding guards for 10,000,000 abyss points) to be frustrating and boring... Yay us for clearing pathetically easy PVE content!
I would like to take a minute to recognize Ruin's latest Server 1st accomplishment. Grats on 1st 50 on Triniel!! Keep 'em comin!
Was a bit of a challenge not knowing what to expect and being so low level, but 12 of us (around level 27-30) managed to cap an artifact... Yea we just did it to see our logo on the thing but hey, its practice ;) Many more will come and it seems like a nice system where these small caps offer no real reward which hopefully will keep people from flipping them Doorhammer style
After 5 longs months waiting and waiting... And very frustrating level caps in Closed Beta and Open Beta we are finally here! Now we can let the games begin and run loose as we race to 50. Character / Name Pre-Select Starts - Sept. 18th Headstart Sept. 20th! We will be playing Asmodians on the server:
TRINIEL
The usual suspects from the (AoC - Fatality / Warhammer - Grudge) krew will be returning for Aion! Hop on vent, and get in the beta so when release hits we can storm to the top as usual.
Open Beta Starts - Sept. 6th - 13th
25 Man Naxx went down with ease on our 1st attempt. Well maybe not thaddius, but overall was a great raid!! we are still recruting to try and fillout the remainder of the spots needed to fill 25 mans by ourselves for Ulduar. If youre interested in organized raiding fill out an app and get ready for Ulduar!
After downing Malygos tonight, that finishes up all the PVE content in the game defeated, for the 10 man versions.
Happy New Year!! Somewhat sadly, due to overwhelming popular demand, Grudge will be creating a guild in World of Warcraft. Warhammer after disapointing so many of our core members who have been playing WoW in the closet and outright canceling their Warhammer accounts, seems like its dying fast. Since the core of our guild is about the people in it and not the game we will be moving focus to World of Warcraft! Check us out, im sure we will cleanup in no time as usual!
Just like to thank everyone in Grudge for all your hard work and especially the core members from old Fatality, we couldnt have done it without you. Worldwide #1 Most Renown Earned for Order! /cheer :)
Happy Thanksgiving!! And a huge grats to Zerul on the world's First 2h White Lion Axe! Click the picture for the instructional video.
I can't say the PVE in this game has been all that difficult or challenging assuming you have 5 warded tanks, until now... We pretty much sailed through Lost Vale, 1shotting alot of the bosses on the 1st attempt. But damn, the last boss is a winner... 25 puddles to avoid, getting thrown up in the air over and over, 15k 180deg cleaves, mass amounts of adds... not to mention a 7 minute long run back from the zone in to make it that much more interesting. After clearing the other 13 bosses in 1 day, we just werent ready for #14... But after days of attempts, shes finally dead! Grats to everyone involved, excellent work, determination like that deservers a medal. And also thanks to everyone in the guild for putting up with us MIA in the Lost Vale for 4 days straight... Back to PVP to get to the King and use all this darkpromise gear!!
After leveling 3 characters to 40 since release and finally finding a class he wanted to play, seems somewhat fitting that in 1 day Ruin ended up scoring 3 sentinel pieces and the servers 1st darkpromise weapon for order. Grats Ruin! Btw: Our new home on Red Eye Mountain is everything everyone wanted, nonstop pvp 24x7...
And i feel FINE!
Its amazing how fast things can change, one day a dead server, next day High Pop pvp-goodness 24x7. Grudge has transfered to RED EYE MOUNTAIN! Come on over the server is hoppin! For gods sake even the guild leader room works in Altdorf!
Nice to be able to say PvP has been picking up so much dont have time to make regular updates. Open RvR is why most everyone plays this game, and there have been enough times where the numbers have been balanced on both sides to provide some very fun and memorable battles. Most of the time when the numnbers arent close to even on either side it becomes a flag flipping Renown grind... One day the whole Victory Point system might get fixed and we can start participating in the point of the game, to cap and destroy the enemy city. To learn the definition of insanity click this picture.
This place was rough... Horrendous 4 pulls, over and over. Was fun and challenging though, but the loot of the bosses was total crap, level 37 blue junk? Are you kidding me! We did get a few Sentinel pieces off the trash. Too bad we dont have any HAMMERERS in the guild /sigh
So I finally got a Gold loot bag, and what hot hot hot epix did i pull? Grats me on a Black Orc pos... Made up for it later when the set pieces started dropping... Finally nice loot, nice setbonus', bosses that drop 5 pieces at a shot... what else could you want.
The PvE side of Warhammer doesnt get much press, but i have to say, this dungeon is EXCELLENT. Its always nice when your guild is so far ahead of everyone else you have entire public dungeons to farm without anyone else showing up. By far one of my favorites in any MMO. The Public Quest concept is brought in full force as the entire dungeon is back to back, almost overlapping public quests. The two side wings ending in 6 man instanced boss fights. Some of the AI had people screaming in laughter on vent, check it out for yourself. The only problem i can imagine is having to share the place, but for us having the place to ourselves for 4 days straight has been a treat. As you can see tho, their set itemization could use some work...
Twice we have tried to pick a server before they were actually online and twice those choices werent even on the list of available servers. If Mythic radically changes their rollout plan again before launch im gonna shoot someone.
Open Beta was quite a success btw ;)
After checking out the changes for 4.1 on Deathsword, alot of it looks right on target. Personally i cant figure out why we are all testing this stuff with level 1s again, i really think they should have given more time for people to test out the lvl 40 aspect, but i guess im mostly just frustrated its still TWO more agonizing weeks till release.
Thanks to everyone who showed up to make preview weekend one of the most fun times i have ever had in an MMO. The folks at mythic have nailed this game to perfection and we are all going out of our minds waiting for release. Grats to everyone involved in making Grudge the top guild on Blood Keep with the highest guild rank earned in the time allowed. Check it out on wardb.com
We set out to destroy and conquer the entire population of the Set server in Age of Conan and we succeeded faster than anyone ever expected. Every guild we crossed crumbled and their battle keeps were left in a heap of burning rubble. We constructed our city and built it up to T3 status, never actually finishing every building due to bugs. We downed every T1 and T2 PvE Boss on the raiding side of things as well. Granted some of the T2 Bosses were (what else) bugged.
Not wanting to wait any longer for Funcom to fix a terribly broken game, all of us at Fatality have decided to send the whole guild over to Warhammer Online to do it all again. If you are a friend from Set (or even an enemy) and want to be on the dominating team for WAR, fill out an app and come hang out as we wait for the Sept 18th release.
- Harpua / Icculus