Guild Tabard Get

The first hurdle of a guild is getting the 10 silver required for the charter. We managed to get that within the first few hours of Classic. The bigger hurdle however is the 10 gold required to be able to choose your tabard design. I remember back in Vanilla we did some runs of Deadmines where we vendored everything that someone didn’t actually need and funneled that money into funding the 10 gold. This time around we took a more communal approach. As you reach 20 you start getting a little more wiggle room in your money situation, and as such I set up one of my alts as a banker and folks mailed donations to it.

Over the course of four days and lots of generosity we gathered the 10 gold needed to buy the tabard design, and last night when I first got on I labored over making sure to pick the right items. I really wish there was a number system or something so that I could make sure that what I was choosing was exactly what I wanted to choose. I had used some of the tabard designers to come up with the basics of what I wanted and last night was largely just trying to match that design in the tiny window that is the tabard designer and the generally poor lighting conditions of Undercity.

In the time it took to earn the money I also cobbled together a logo. The idea for the tabard was to make it sorta look like a pirate flag given that we are playing on the pirate themed Bloodsail Buccaneers server. The purple border is for the Forsaken given that a huge chunk of us were Forsaken to facilitate the signing of the charter. I also happen to really like purple as a color and thanks to Ultros I will always associate the color with octopoids. In my travels I found a really cool woodcut illustration of an octopus on a public domain site and I incorporated that into the logo.

Other than setting the tabard, last night was largely one of chill leveling. I originally went over the HIllsbrad to help Tam out with a quest, but then realized it was at the very end of a quest chain… where I opted to try and catch up so we could do it together. I did not realize this was one of those quest chains that went on forever and I made it to step three before I stalled out a bit and reached a phase where I am going to need to call in some help myself to push through it. I tried duoing it with a Shaman but we just didn’t have enough oomph to push through it.

In other bits of excitement, thanks to a pretty regular flow of materials from Dynar I am now officially an Expert Blacksmith. This is another point where I did not remember things working like they do. I kept trying to train in Undercity and my memory told me that I should be able to train the next rank at level 20 and 125 skill… both of which I had passed. After a quick jaunt over to the WoWhead Classic blacksmithing page I realized that I would need to take the Zeppelin. I vague remember this now but in order to train a skill you have to find a higher skilled smith than you are currently. So in order to get to Expert I had to find an Artisan, and the only ones of those that exist are in Orgrimmar and Ironforge.

Then when I want to move to Artisan I will have to go to Booty Bay and track down the only Master Blacksmith in the game. Now it makes sense as to why the quest for the purple smithing hammer was in Stranglethorn Vale. So at some point… I am going to need to make my way to Booty Bay, which thankfully is WAY easier for the Horde than it is for the Alliance. It also means that I am going to have to do the faction repair method in Dire Maul if I decide I want to become friendly with the Bloodsail Buccaneers. I mean I could trash my goblin rep once I have trained all of the available patterns… but that is a decision for a really long time from now.

3 thoughts on “Guild Tabard Get”

  1. Someone in guild sent me 2g towards the tabard last night. I had a really bad night trying to go solo, tried killing creatures my level, ended with me dead, trying to do a level 11 quest at 14 had me dead in the bottom of a cave filled with mobs grouped in 2’s and 3’s. Getting out resulted in 2 more deaths. At the end of the night after selling everting I lost 5 silver dropping me back down to 12 silver total. This morning I messaged the person that donated gold that I would be sending it back. I really appreciated their donation, but I did not want to end up accidentally using that money for repairs.

    It is amazing how one really bad evening alone playing can alter your perception of the game.

  2. I absolutely love the tabard – and your logo design. It gives me a very pirate feeling and I think you did a fantastic job choosing it all. I am proud to be a part of this classic guild!

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