sword_man.gif posted:

postcount +1 soon i will be a verified shitposter/drama queen

Eonwe posted:

Kimsemus posted:

Not all of us. I don't think Eonwe should have been kicked for making fun of SCT/supporters, I think he was entitled to his opinion and posted a thread indicating as such. I think people should be welcome to express their opinions and if you do something that 98% of goons disapprove of, trolling is only natural. Don't speak in sweeping rhetoric using phrases like "guild leadership" like all of us are fine with the current state of affairs -- we're not. I've said here and in the offsite I don't think SCT or many others involved should be welcomed back to the guild after they went pirate, but I'm viewed as "radical".

Axel Serenity posted:

The issue is that small minority also has a decent amount of control in terms of invites, bans, guild resources, planning, etc. It's definitely not all leaders (I know you've been fighting the good fight for awhile, Kimsemus), but the group that does stick up for SCT is unfortunately ruining it for the 99% of goons that understand what's going on and no one has the power to tell them otherwise.

Third World Reggin posted:

bad games are fun when you play with friends

Axel Serenity posted:

Then the current leadership needs to put their foot down and make that clear

Kimsemus posted:

I was logged in today.

The problem as I see it, pre Auroria, is since I've already made my money and built up my land holdings, there isn't much to do. Piracy is entertaining but for many goons who still need gold, time=money, and fishing is just a better way to do it, and I've really no interest in any more fishing myself.

I'm still very much involved with what is going on, but for many players, this is a CD period until Auroria drops.

Nerevar Indoril posted:

Just started playing a few days ago on Aranzeb, what guild do I apply to? I skimmed the last thread enough to know about the drama, so is Goon Squad still who I should apply to?

Unguided posted:

Whatever happened to farming event gear for our tanks? Did all the other healers quit because they were sick of paying respec and repair costs for gear that wouldn't benefit them?

Thronde posted:

Did some of that tonight, Wiped a Man Up ship twice (maybe even three times, they just kept coming back) and killed Umji and some other FC guys in a genuine :goodfight: scenario just for the sake of making fights. And someone got a pair of packs stolen from some poor lowbies boating about randomly.

Internet Kraken posted:

It was pretty silly all things considered, given that 3 guilds got into a huge sea battle over a grand total of zero packs. Hell I think the only ship casualty was Unji's clipper.

Widestancer posted:

I don't know who the point of contact is for the Pirate guild so I just assumed SCT would want everyone's messages and can work with it. He's competent enough I'm sure he'll manage.

Morglon posted:

Well there is stone cloth with strength and stamina. You can use it as a cloth tank set for normal tanks on the third boss in GHA but that's really about it.

There are a bunch of hybrid plate casters and if you go offensive like the Skull Knight it works fine. Sort of. The arguably best tank is the Templar though which is pretty much a plate healing tank. Great during alpha when heal was on int, now it's sort of hosed because you're barely doing any damage and can't get the gear to make your heals count so the class is sort of stuck in a limbo unless they're guild pushed and have a really really really good club at which point it becomes awesome again.

You could always play any other caster class in plate but you'd be giving up on the full cloth set bonus you kind of need to make playing a caster viable.

Edit: Actually I was wrong, no crafted set cloth has any non caster stats on it just the weird random poo poo I picked up for cloth tanking that one boss. Yeah, looks like plate is the only armor class that has any attempted hybrid gear in it and thus gets shafted.

Deadclown posted:

This game looks horrible but I have decided to download and play it anyway. See you all online soon.

Any good tips you wished you knew before starting?

Extra posted:

Why does common staff mana recovery break stealth

AL -> Stealth -> Common Staff Mana Recovery Activates -> DoT still ticking -> guards aggro -> dead

e: and just spent 200g trying to regrade an L44 piece of green armor to blue

I'm not sure if the XLGames strategy is to poo poo on the player repeatedly until they develop stockholm syndrome or what

30.5 Days posted:

This is perhaps the most hilarious thing I've read on these forums.

Have you considered splintering?

Internet Kraken posted:

Fishing goons legitimately do not understand why they need to be ready for PvP when fishing in the middle of a PvP area. Its hilarious.

Kimsemus posted:

You try to be so edgy, but then you post frothy, rage induced gems like this:



10/10

Kimsemus posted:

...focus wholly and entirely on mass equipping gear and learning to play the game well.

Deki posted:

When we say goons are generally undergeared, do we mean they have green/blue GHA and hasla, or worse than that?

Because I only have Green/blue GHA (5 loving wasted armor scrolls on chest), and perform acceptably in pvp when not facing down people who RMT'd or had their guilds funnel gold straight to them.


If goons in general don't even have that, well you're going to need some insane luck in Auroria.

Flavahbeast posted:

Goon Squad
Something Lawlful
Too East Too Furrious
Wicked
GOONFLEET
More Money than Sense
Forestcrow
Customer Support
Rude Dudes
Valor


did i miss any

Eonwe posted:

offsite forum admin wire unbanned me and is allowing all goons to take part

pretty swell guy

no clue who banned me, but I hope it was cathartic

Internet Kraken posted:

This is pathetic. All the goons that abandoned the guild are trying to blame it all on Kimsemus when all Kimsemus did was a run a raid that ruffled some feathers. Compare this to leaving the guild, stealing supplies from it, and telling goons to gently caress themselves when they ask to get it back. You guys got pissed off at one person and instead of handling the situation in a reasonable way, stormed out of the guild in a huff.

But I should blame this all on Kimsemus and not the people that ran away. Ridiculous.

balistafreak posted:

I trusted you, mang! I mailed you the armor thinking to myself, "Man, this is a rock-steady guy I can count on to not flip out."

And then you were in Hold My Pole, but that was okay, you were still with us on Freedich.

And then I saw you in Halcyona, and I saw the barrage-proc buff on you, and my heart sank, and your model finally loaded in amongst the zerg, and I wept, for my indomitable, reliable GG heal-target had run off with the spoils of our combined efforts.

BUT WE SHALL REBUILD

apseudonym posted:

Ugh they're adding T2 and T3 Hasla weapons.

Given that all I do is PVP and I dont have stupid amounts of money I'm losing my excitement for this. gently caress grinding another 500 tokens so I can kill more tryhards.

apseudonym posted:

But I dont know what happened to all the Dungeon Friends

Bait and Swatch posted:

So I will be very surprised if there is ever a seige in this game. The seige system seems similar to Global Agenda's AVA in that the guilds who own castles can just funnel money to an alt guild and buy-out their own bid to avoid the threat of losing. This is even easier since they make extra money off castle taxes, but hilarious in that they won't even lose gold once they "beat" their alt guild, since the pot goes to the victor.

I guess it continues the libertarian utopia theme, so there's that. I'm looking forward to the pubby anger that will flow once they realize they will be screwed out of a castle yet again. Valor#1

Arcade posted:

A lot of people left for a lot of different reasons, but I like to think that majority of us left because what we were looking for out of the guild wasn't being offered any more. And that actually was an issue long before you and Werkwerk took lead.

jeffraider posted:

I just want the same evidence that an irl lawman got to make him completely change his mind

I want answers

I want the TRUTH

Angela Christine posted:

It totally could have worked. It just didn't work with only a couple months to pull things together, and a never-ending drama train.

As neither a fisher nor a pirate, the problem seems to have been communication. There was a public rule "don't gently caress with fishers who are fishing with/near goons" and a ~secret~ rule "don't gently caress with fishers at all until after Auroria launches". Kis was absent from the leadership meetings that discussed the secret rule, so he broke it and while doing it ignored anyone who told him he was breaking the rules, because he only knew about the public rule. I feel bad for the fishers that goon fishing was ruined, but it doesn't rise to level of "goonfucking" to me.

Keeping the real rule secret because OPSEC was a mistake. Yes, some goons would have bitched about a fishing pact that gave pubbie fishers a free pass on the high seas, but the goon pirates would probably have grumbled and still grudgingly restricted themselves to pirating reds for a couple weeks.

Eonwe posted:

I like that all the future plans that could have possibly motivated & united people were hidden on the officer forum and only discussed in an officer only mumble channel

Eonwe posted:

all I know is that people in the guild seemed really desperate for some direction, and there was a major officer meeting, and nothing was discussed publicly on the offsite/guild chat/mumble with the guild at large at least when I was around during primetime

would have been neat for someone to be like "here is our basic plan" or even "hey we have something, we'll let you know in the next few days" but I didn't even see anything like that

Eonwe posted:

no I hadn't you idiot

Eonwe posted:

ok good pointless derail glad you talked out of your rear end about my status of the guild and are now onto the next thing

anyway, sure would have been nice to hear a plan out of someone, or just "hey we promise we've got plans"

Tsargon the Great posted:

First we decided that GS had drifted too far from our secret fishing rule to be saved. Second we decided to steal the guild bank.