A New Fire

This morning I am surprisingly awake for it to be a Monday.  I started waking up naturally around 4:30 and finally got up about 5:25 a few minutes ahead of my alarm clock going off.  Last night I was feeling pretty lousy so I begged off on our normal evening walk and just went to bed.  Apparently I was still able to get some extremely deep sleep.  Hopefully it will give me a decent start to the new week.  At the very least my boss is back this week so no more having to pretend to be him.

Guild Quests

This weekend was very much still about getting things up and running in the House Stalwart guild on Faeblight.  One of the things I personally prioritized was trying to make sure we got our guild quests taken care of before the Wednesday reset.  The first quest I picked up was the kill 500 planar beings and close 50 rifts.  This one seemed like the easiest to me, and over the course of Friday night I managed to whittle down the vast majority of the quest.  Then I think it was Rae that finished the last rift, on her lowest level character to push us across the line.

The next quest I chose was the dungeon quest.  We needed to defeat the boss at the end of Iron Tombs 4 times.  I figured if nothing else I could just run in there on my level 60 and wreck the place to finish out the quest.  However by the time I got up Saturday morning… someone had apparently done just that and we were quest less again.  All that was left for us to do… was the dreaded PVP quest.  I want to say it was something like kill 500 players in pvp…  even though it was incorrectly worded as “kill guardians”.

I tried Sunday morning to make a dent in it… but I suck horrifically at PVP.  I was getting 10-16 kills per match, so I quickly lost heart and gave up on it.  I thought to myself…  2 quests per week will still level us relatively quickly.  Then last night…  Delevax became the guilds savior.  He single handedly whittled down that quest averaging around 40-50 kills per game.  I bow to his intestinal fortitude!  I figure eventually Thalen will get in the act because he actually mildly likes PVP, but for now at least Del gets the medal of honor for single handedly getting well over 400 kills in a night to push over the quest.

So now… days after forming the guild we sit at level 3 and are unable to progress again until Wednesday.  Though I am just finding out… that apparently you can send a Guardian into Sanctum to pick up the guardian flavor of all the quests for you.  If that is really true… we can do the planar and dungeon quests again easily for maybe a few more levels.  We already have full Tithe in effect as well as Mass Resurrection and Mass Summon.  Currently I am working on Blood Thirsty to give the folks pvping some extra healing.

A New Fire

Any doubts I might have had about whether or not breaking out into our own guild was a good idea have long since disappeared.  Everyone seems so much happier now than when we were a part of someone else’s guild.  It has lit a fire under so many of us… giving us a purpose and focus to trying to make our new home an awesome place.  Rae of course continues to build amazing stuff in our guild hall.  The above image is this cool temple area she is working on at the top of the waterfall.  She changed the course of the path going up… and it now winds to the top of the mountain.  No screenshot really does it justice, but below is a picture from the trail leading up.

I personally have been working on a lot of crafting.  Belglaive my renamed baby warrior that I started initially over on Faeblight has been turned into a pure harvester, and I have been working on catching up both butchering and foraging.  On Belghast I added yet another tradeskills, this time Artificer since we did not have one.  I have put a lot of resources into leveling that and at this point I am well into the Storm Legion levels.  However I had to take a break as I literally was running out of platinum.  Each ten levels ended up costing about 15 plat to push through.

I was able to craft some needed stuff for the guild hall.  In part I picked up Artificer because for whatever reason they ended up the tradeskill that can craft wooden items for dimensions.  Rae needed a large quantity of Wooden poles to use as posts and anchors so I purchased the pattern and have been turning those out as needed.  Additionally over night someone bumped up the number of slots in the guild hall again.  When I went to bed we were about 50 items away from the limit… but someone bumped it up to the third tier which grants over 1000 items.

About the People

No matter how much stuff you have… the guild is always going to be about the people and I have to say… we have an amazing collection of awesome people already.  It has been really cool hanging out with Rowan and Sctrz, and hopefully we have yet to scare them off with our antics.  Additionally I am looking forward to getting Psynister and Fynralyl into the guild now that they should be back from their vacation.  From the traditional Stalwart front, we’ve managed to meet up with Ryalcus and get at least one of his characters moved over as well as Valkkon and it has been awesome to see Qirii in game again on her ever unprounceable characters.

There are still a handful of people who have mentioned that they would be joining us, that we have not been able to meet up with as of yet.  However we have already gathered up around 20 amazing people under one banner.  I can only see that over time more folks will find their way here.  I feel like right now I have an endless list of things that I want to accomplish.  This time around the goal list is different, it is more focused on making an awesome home for my friends.  I guess I am going through a digital “nesting” phase.

I shift back and forth between various little goals.  Recently I have been trying to populate the guild vault with 24 slot bags for folks to use on their characters.  As a result we are also getting a decent artifact exchange going on, as each of us dumps the ones we are not needing in the vault.  At some point soon I am going to have to go back into daily mode so that I can gather up some cash to afford the push to 375 artificer and help afford the next guild vault upgrade.

Wrapping Up

I need to wrap this up so I can get on to work.  The long and short of it is… we all seem to be having a blast together and enjoying our new home.  I am wishing I had done this ages ago, rather than trying to skirt the whole guild leader thing for two years.  Everything seems more enjoyable because we have a shared reason for doing it.  I guess today at lunch I will work on whittling down the Guardian guild quest I just accepted while writing this… Close 100 Rifts.  I hope you all have a great day, and that it is the start of an awesome week.