Blood Tithe has moved to the Prophecy of the Five server, lots of mid-westerners in the guild.

My guild exists on Keetael, a light population server. Warzones are scarce except on days that WE start them (i.e., Blood Tithe has the largest concentration of 50s on the server, and we are the only guild that can field two 8-man teams consistently). Now, even though Blood Tithe has a reputation for being brutal in PvP, not ALL of our tagged members are good at it (a fact I've had to explain to them...just as adding a NOS sticker to your car does not make it faster). So in our PvP fests against each other in the past, even if the losing team got blown out in a 6-0 Titheball match (yes, that is what our server calls it) they still saw some sort of reward without the need to go "medal hunting" (which objective based PvPers will agree is detrimental to a winning effort). Now, if you're in a losing match up, "medal hunting" is absolutely necessary to get any sort of credit for the warzone. And when you're forced to "medal hunt", you further decrease your ability to organize a winning effort. You often eliminate yourself entirely from any sort of concerted effort to win just to get these "medals". TL;DR verson: the medal system and current three medal requirement is going to screw over a lot of the casual and less skilled PvP players, which is going to kill matches for the rest of us. Commander Sheppard does not approve.

Step 1) Roll Empire on Keetael Step 2) Contact a member of Blood Tithe Step 3) Shadow one of our PvPers until you know his moves better than he does Step 4) Go back to your server, faceroll at will.

Notice to future MMO developers. Take a page out of Everquest's book, not World of Warcraft. Give us more than 1 zone to level 11-16 in...give us more zones for every level bracket. Give us choice, give us variability, give us random rare spawns, give us class specific gear quests that are WORTH doing (*sniffle* I miss you Etched Ivy!), give us quests that culminate in massive events (LFM for Coldain ring war!). Everquest offered more of a sandbox than any game since. And I promise you, you'll find more players with fond memories of EQ than you will players with real, lasting memories of WoW. There was a reason it was called "Evercrack" or "NeverRest". Its because there were SO MANY different ways to use your playtime, it was nearly impossible to get bored. Do it Bioware.

Not intended as a troll, but seriously? If you're trying to 1 v 1 a tankasin, you're just doing it wrong. Bring friends, or stop trying. The build is intended to be durable while dealing steady damage. It has no definitive burst and is easy to counter if you have a clue (clue 1 being bring a ranged friend, clue 2 being don't try and 1 v 1 a tankasin).

The ranked gear's cosmetic appearence gives true PvPers an edge for one reason. Just by looking at a player, you will be able to tell if he's wearing "welfare epics" or if he earned his stripes. As the converse, the cosmetic appearance of ranked gear will give you "freebies" a least a half second more to sh*t yourself knowing whats coming your way before we spike you.

Holy **** I think the entire office heard me laughing at this. Both floors.

1) Make friends with people good at PvP 2) Queue up! 3) ??????? 4) WINRAR!

Sounds like it works fine for people that have the skill to play the class correctly. If you spent more time getting better and less time whining on the forums, you might figure it out.

I'm Commander Sheppard, and I approve this idea.

I don't know about you, but if someone is choking me by the THROAT, it means they are not choking me by the ARMS. So why is it so unbelievable that they could use said arms to chuck the huttball? Now I can understand not being able to chuck it if you're caught in a freeze grenade. And I really think flash grenades should white out/dark out your screen like the old Everquest blind used to do (jump and kick yo, jump and kick!). But I imagine there would be a scream of nerd rage to rival poor Anakin's if anything like that was ever implemented.

I beg to differ. If any Pub guild on Keetael asked us to come play in the big bad world we'd be more than happy to oblige! Never is what Bob listens for when he needs a laugh.

This made me chuckle heartily.

The QQers brighten my day, knowing that there is (even if its a small one) a chance I'll go home tonight, log in, queue up, and roflstomp one of them.

LoL @ you, its so cute that you think you're important. Blood Tithe currently has over 200 members, and guess what...we love Huttball! So no, we don't "need" you solo queueing because A) you're not on our server, and B) you don't matter, as much as you'd like to convince yourself otherwise. Honestly, the only time we get any competition is when the match is BT vs. BT, or when we face our buddies in Jamming the Radar in the 50 bracket. And guess what...we all...group...queue. So, go find something else to be self important about.