Guild Colours

A guild has it's obvious nameplate sitting under a players name, but what other things make a guild stand out?

The heraldry, you can have your guild's emblem in your cloak (can it be anywhere other than that?) which could define your guild when you see their back to you... but what else?

Guild colours crossed my mind. Although colours don't necessarily mean you belong to a guild as much as the heraldry emblem and actual guild nameplate above you, but isn't it nice to see a group of cheerleaders all dressed in the same outfit doing the same together?

Can the same be done with a guild in WAR? Would a guild not take a member who isn't wearing the colours of the guild into ORvR to be a recognised guild member?

Which colours would be the ones that stood out on the server? Could Thwomp be bearing the colours of the leaders? If anything, I'd want the colours of Chaos Within to be White/Yellow like Thwomp's currently is.

The only problem with the cloak on Thwomp, is that some random player (who was extremely kind and I owe you for Thwomp's great uniform now) gave it to me, I have no idea where to get them from. Anyway, the cloak was pure white, not the 'dyed white' (or is it called chainmail?) that the vendors can do. The cloak is the standard white with the yellow (or gold) around the edge to go with the rest of his gear.

How difficult is it to find these white cloaks?

Black Orc Guide

I thought I'd quickly post this before I finish work today.

I found this really great post on http://warhammeronlineleveling.blogspot.com and I'm quite impressed!

But this is the post which has all the info about being a Black Orc and the best abilities and stuff.

Well worth a read!

WAR Dropout

I've been adding other blogs to the blogroll, and I have been using some of them from The Greenskin website, since that place is trusted and a top place to be!

I was about to add one called Bloghammer, until I read this recent post!

This is similar to how I felt about trying WAR, but now that I've started playing it, I'm more hooked on this than I was with WoW!

Ok I'm not the best player in WoW, as mentioned in a previous post, but I've found the game is repetative when compared to WAR. I've leveled 3 characters to 70... I am losing or have completely lost the motivation to pay the funds for WoW only to be in a similar situation as I am now.

WAR is new, Mythic have a lot to live up to with Blizzards huge game having such a massive impact. But Blizzard aren't delivering for me. One of my favourite battlegrounds was Alterac Valley. It was only a few months ago that Blizzard decided to move the Horde starting place back to balance it out... only 3 years to do that!!! That is extremely slack! At least Mythic are releasing fixes fast, and they offer a game that I've been looking for.

I'll go back to the WAR dropout...

He played WoW longer than me... 4 years is a long time to throw away on another game. I will almost definately not be doing the same.

Corporeal Mistake!

I posted previously that I was told about Corporeal Resistance being the resistance against physical attacks... for a tank, that is a must have stat!

To my horror, while busy sorting out my bank on Larlas (Zealot if you forgot) I had my mouse hovering over one of his spells... it caught my eye... the word Corporeal pointed out that I was mistaken!

So let me get this straight, a Shaman deals Elemental damage, a Sorceress/Sorcerer deals Spiritual and a Zealot deals Corporeal damage?

Do some casting careers have more than one school of magic? For example, you stumble across a mob with high resistance to Elemental spells, so you instead cast Spiritual spells to wittle them down?

I logged in on Thwomp quickly to see how the guild were doing with leveling. Squig is 20, which clearly points out I'm already falling behind. They'll be taking on tier 3 while I'm lagging back in tier 2! I'll pass on the guild signups for ORvR so I can grind the levels to catch up... but will they be able to proceed without a tank? Some attempts on the champions in Friday's warband had me sitting idle while I was on the phone with the rest doing what they do best.

Will I be missed? Will I be left behind and they find another guild tank to run ORvR with them?

I must step up the pace! I need to be strong and get a few levels over the others, just to allow for slack times like what I'm going through at the moment, along with me having little time to game next week!

Gear Increasing Levels

I have been reading my favourite Warhammer blog The Greenskin, and I've just read about the 'gear treadmill' (as Snafzg says). If I had enough time to devote to both leveling and RvR, I'd be blown away to see Thwomp sporting the Sovereign set which requires all of the previous gear but also rank 40 and renown rank 73 (at a minimum), at the time of this posting, he is rank 18 and renown rank 11. He's got a long way to go.

Thwomp is a beast in his current gear... but if he could get his hands on the sovereign set... I'd be ecstatic each time I logged in.
This is what an orc tank should look like!

Gearing up is something I've never really been up for in my experience of MMO's. My first experience of MMO's was Runescape... yes, laugh at me, I know you want to. I leveled to be a mage for a number of reasons. Firstly since it was the easiest way to get around the game teleporting and portaling others, but the problem with it was I was not set to be a 'Pure'.

A Pure was someone who was geared and skilled for PKing (player killing). They would outclass any other player who was maybe 5 levels above them which had a varing choice of combat specialties such as Attack, Defence, Magic and Prayer. I created my character (Cunning Git) in the hopes that I would be one of the highest rated mages in the game.

Who could ever be better than the legendary Zezima?

Zezima was one account, one character, and possibly 6 people playing. I knew the true best player in Runescape. Sadly he died. 'The Old Nite' was a great guy, I met him once (ingame) to do business.

My gear in Runescape was nothing special, I had rubbish gear for long periods of time. ocasionally daring the wilderness to get to the Mage Arena in deep level 55+ wilderness. Once I had 230k gold while running up to the Mage Arena to buy runes to further my Magic level. I stumbled upon a clan just outside the entrance. I could do nothing, they slaughtered me, mages binded me while rangers shot me down. It was at this point that I became less interested in Runescape.

I devoted a lot of time on my recent MMO choice, World of Warcraft. I have a Rogue, Warlock and Druid at 70. Both the Druid and Rogue are poorly geared, either Karazhan gear or lower. Wakeofdeath, my Warlock that I grew attached to as mentioned in one of my first posts is taking a time out from gaming. Wake has respectable gear for entering Karazhan and Gruul's Lair, it's entirely possible that he could perform well in Tempest Keep and Serpent Shrine Cavern.

Would my guild take me there? No... so I left the guild and have been working on my PvP gear, which isn't really that great, but who cares when it' going to be replaced in a few weeks. Who cares if Wake doesn't return to WoW?

We come to WAR... I've spent my time at work, creating and editing the guild website. I've started and enjoy writing this blog. I love playing the game. I love playing alongside my guildmates in WAR. Why should I be bothered if I never see Thwomp wearing the Sovereign set? Why should I be bothered if Thwomp isn't the toughest tank in the game? I'm not playnig it to be the best! I'm not playing it to laugh at players less geared than me. I'm not playing it to pass the time until another MMO comes out.

I'm hooked... I admit it... Why should I look for anything other than WAR?

I play WAR cause it's a fantastic game, I'd be more than happy to be sitting at level 40, renown rank 45 and equiped with full Conquerer (or the Black Orc equivalent).

Friday Open RvR

Friday night was fantastic! Plenty of Open RvR! The night started out with a half warband meeting at Barak Varr warcamp to assault the keep and take control. Unfortunately we met resistance.

It started out as one bright wizard trying to harrass us and turned into a mini warband of Order killing us while we tried to take on the champions. Even with us taking on the Hero and 2 champions at the same time... we were at this for about an hour, maybe longer. We did get close to killing the hero at one stage, but a healer agro'd and ran back to the ledge causing a reset... I do believe that he was not a guild member.

After stacking up 5x battle fatigue making me go to pretty much below 2000 health, I decided I'm not going any further. I disbanded, and soon the rest of the warband gave up. Squig invited me to a group and started organising a global tier 2 takeover! Squig was kind enough to get plenty of photos of us taking the BO's...

Thanks for all the members of Chaos Within that took part: -

• Myself
• Squig especially for starting the group
• Aedronil for the lovely heals
• Effyr (who joined Chaos Within during one of the takeovers from Alpha Legion)
• Gorssen
• Kaboela
• Thanks also to Toocs (The Darkside), Marena (Unholy Legion), Sarkath (Unholy Legion), Lazareth and Sinate (not sure of guild names)

I'll be looking forward to more ORvR with these guys and maybe we can take some keeps!

I have created myself a new character, 3 big reasons why. Larlas (his name) is a Zealot, and my goodness does he enjoy healing in scenarios. He has picked up salvaging and talisman making so i can craft my own talismans for any characters I use and the guild (if he gets good enough for that). Most importantly, Larlas was created to be a bigger bank for Thwomp!

Thwomp is starting to pick up so much with his scavenging that I'm commonly leaving items behind, having to destroy useless items or potions to allow for room, or having to go find a merchant to sell sell sell!

Being an Apothecary stinks at the moment, my scavenging is getting close to 100, but my apothecary is 31... it took 15 potions to get from 30 to 31... I'm not spending time and money to increase it up to 50! Maybe it's the low level items I'm using from the merchant? I've picked up about 100 waters for level 50 use, which have been sent over to Larlas along with plenty of other main ingredients.

I'm well over my 20g budget for my mount at level 20.

I was quite slack on Friday if I'm going to be honest, I probably spent too much time devoted to ORvR instead of getting Thwomp to level 20, or 19 at least.

This week is a bad one for me. The girlfriend has the week off and wants me to spend as much time with her as possible. I can only be online for Wednesday and Thursday, this is until Monday the following week! Even then I'll only be able to play that Monday and Wednesday...

Let's hope that the guild and my fellow RvR group don't get too far ahead of me with leveling.

Thanks again to Squig for getting the pictures of us in action, I hope we see some more. I'll be putting all of the photos on the guild website and hopefully do a little more work on the site.

The Chaos Within Website

I've had some thoughts on this, and they are good thoughts. http://the-chaos-within.webs.com/ also has it's own email incase anyone wishes to leave feedback privately about a member of The Chaos Within, the website itself, or any suggestions to put up onto the website or guild info in-game.

On the website is a photo gallery, and I'm not 100% sure how much space we have to store images and stuff. The Chaos Within email will be like an archive of images, each character will have their own folder, and images will be emailed to this account and when an admin is available, they can upload these images to the photo gallery on the website.

The Chaos Within email address is... the-chaos-within @ live.co .uk (spaced out to avoid email bots)

This will (hopefully) be in the guild info in-game and on the website, should it all be approved.

Are there any other guild bloggers? Or bloggers on Karak-Norn that wish to add me to their blogroll to help me get some more traffic?

The Chaos Within Grows...

Thwomp reached a big rank 18 last night! And to celebrate, I customed Thwomp's gear so that it's not just white, but now white and yellow...

Here is Thwomp giving us a ferocious RAWR!!!

Here's another one from a slightly different angle and performing Da Biggest war bellow...

I was quite surprised while playing last night, Fjorten offered me the title of Vault Manager in the guild, with me being someone he can trust... well the only time I've spoke to Fjorten was when he invited me into the guild... how could I have been so foolish, Fjorten is my Squig Herding greenskin hunting partner also known as Squigboss.

Not long before it was getting late and people were heading off to bed, I was having a bit of a think, is there a guild website? After asking, I was told that there isn't one yet and that Fjorten (I'll call him Squig from now on since I'll probably be referring to him in future posts) had forgotten the codes to create one, so I offered... and here is my first attempt http://the-chaos-within.webs.com/ it's not great of course, but it's just to see the reaction of Squig and the rest of the guild. If they like it, great, I'll continue. If it needs a tweak in major areas, fine, I'll stick with it, if they don't like it, well... they can do it themselves right?

Anyway, as Vault Manager, one of my duties is to organize the guild vault. Unfortunately, we are only guild rank 9, so we only have 1 tab available to us. If we can get guild rank 11 iirc, we get a second tab to use, but the third is a long way to get.

I mentioned in a previous post whether I would be able to get my 20g for my mount at level 20 before I get to that level of course...

This might answer that...

In fact, I seem to remember me checking before I logged out last night, I'm sure it was 24g...

XCM And Chaos Within Activity

I'm impressing myself how quick I'm picking up these flourishes using a deck of cards. I'm now getting the hang of fanning half a deck (which is what I've been using now for all flourishes for practice). I'm still using an old deck so it sticks very often and leaves gaps and stacks in various places frequently. This is not to my dismay... I'm still determined to perform a fan using this dirty sided old deck...

I'm not doing too bad... here's one I've quickly whipped out... ... ... Well I was going to add it on here... but for some strange reason, my computer can't recognise my phone... when it did it about 10 minutes ago with the image of the cards in this post...

(edit: image now added)

Anyway... I'm picking up the fan (which I will post when I get chance, if it works)... but thats enough ofmy newest hobby.

Thwomp is now rank 16! He hit the magic number of 15 in the Phoenix Gate scenario with a group of guildies... those guys were great to battle alongside... I must say I wasn't at my best in the battles, but I did what I could and killed my fair share of Order scum!

While I was with these great guys, and I should mention Squigboss, I changed the colour of my armorset to white! I'm sure any female WAR players on Karak-Norn Destruction would love me as their Knight In Shinin' Arma' since white is kinda shiny...?

Tonight's project... finish up the quests I currently have in Chaos T2 and head over to Dark Elf T2 for my last push towards getting my mount! Ooo I must get a screenie of my cash at the moment, I'm sure I'm close to 20g now... maybe even 15g... image should hopefully arrive tomorrow.

Till then... TARA MUSH!

Update

Today's post will entail plenty of gubbins and stuff that Thwomp has been getting himself into along with a few things about what I have been up to.

Let's start off with Thwomp.

Thwomp has been a bit mad with the leveling, he progressed up to 14! But I don't have the screenshot of it at the moment (it's on my computer at home). However I do have a shot of him at level 12...
This gave me my first tactic also... Thwomp is making big steps right now at becoming a full blown killing tank!

The shot of rank 12 is in early content of greenskin tier 2, the next shot is me collecting my rewards of the local public quest, and boy oh boy did I enjoy smashing all them stunties!

Not only was this an upgrade from my shocking shoulders from before, but they were my first blue item! And here they are equiped...

I'm still bearing the rank 2 shield in the picture... even as level 14 I'm still using... but there have been some PQ's that I'm sure I've seen a nice flashy new one...

Thwomp has been a bit of a busy bee lately, before all of this happened he did some hardcore high elf killing, and picked up the ToK unlock. after completing the PQ to pick up his first blue (shoulders), he also got the 'Kill 100 Dwarves' which I'm quite pleased about!

As I said earlier, Thwomp is now rank 14, renown rank 8 (I think) and sporting a nice (blue) one hand axe! I'm still on the lookout for a new shield since I'm still carrying around my rank 2 Recroot Chopstoppa (I'm sure it's called that).

A level 20 something Chosen called something like Fjorten invited me to my first WAR guild Chaos Within. I had the usual pleasant welcome, and everyone seems like friendly people, which is what you want in a leveling guild right?

I had only found out on monday from the guild that Corporeal Resistance is resistance against physical damage... so I'm a tank... and I have plenty of Elemental Resistance, and Spiritual Resistance thinking that there can't be many spells that deal Corporeal damage... so I have very little... if only I knew then what I know now, my choices of accessories would be stacking more Corp than Ele and Spirit Resist. I take it that Corporeal Resistance is similar to WoW's Resilience Rating except, it works on PvE? Or doesn't it work on that?

I'll move onto something out of WAR...

I have found a new hobby! Card Manipulation. Being able to control a deck of cards and performing flourishes that appear impossible or extremely difficult without a fixed deck of cards.

Well i've been having a look at some tutorials on YouTube, and I'm starting to pick it up already! I've only really had about 2 or 3 hours of practice, but I'm performing some swift cuts and I'm picking up something called a 'Sybil Cut'... it looks smart if I could execute is quicker, but I'm not that great yet. Practice makes perfect as they say!