To EQ1, seeing as EQ2 blows.

Any decent casual newbie guilds around?

define all of: decent, casual and newbie.

to elaborate, to what extent do you want each of these characteristics? decent i.e. able to raid effectively? casual i.e. raid every night but attendance not required, or raid maybe once a week as a guild. newbie as in what, velious? pre ele? time?

define all of: decent, casual and newbie.

to elaborate, to what extent do you want each of these characteristics? decent i.e. able to raid effectively? casual i.e. raid every night but attendance not required, or raid maybe once a week as a guild. newbie as in what, velious? pre ele? time?

Casual as in raid once a week together, newbie level <40ish

ah, sitting in PoK for a day watching the /shouts would be better than the advice i could give on the low end sorry sir :( Good luck!

What would you raid at level 40?

Nice to see em comin back to us!! haha

To EQ1, seeing as EQ2 blows.



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:(

What blowed about it?

What would you raid at level 40?

When I was level 40 I remember raiding Guk and Permafrost. I was raiding since level 25 when we used to raid Mistmoore Castle. There are quite a few raid events that are in Luclin (the Grimling war, for one) designed for level 40ish people -- though I haven't done any of them since I was 60 when Luclin was released. Additionally around level 40 people can now start prepping for Naggy / Vox / Fear / Hate / Air / PoG since they will be easily beatable with the current standard of gear for a large group of level 45s.

I guess you were always good at thinking small!

I imagine thats better than belittling people for trying to experience a game at their own rate.

Tons of decent casual family type guilds, just nobody knows who they are cause they are casual family type guilds. :)

You two quit bickering. Kiss and make up.

:devil

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Kad

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Thanks,
Bouwou

haha rivervale mafia.. thats neato

I imagine thats better than belittling people for trying to experience a game at their own rate.
But it's just not as much fun.

Bouwou - well written webpage!

Bouwou - well written webpage!

The Boss is pleased at your comment, our thanks. Happy hunting.

Marz, you probably have plenty of options. Other then those that still toot their own horns here on this board about raiding achievements (R.I.P and F.O.D), most all guilds still in existance now are casual. Just take a week or two and get some levels. Guilds are eager for membership these days so most have dropped requirements down to the level of:

In order to join this guild you need:

1) To be breathing.
2) own a computer with a modem.
3) own a copy of the game.

Well, there are varying degrees of "casual".
I think there are several guilds progressing through the elementals, including at least one that is fairly close to reaching Time. I'm not sure if they'd count as "casual"; they just haven't progressed as far, and may not raid quite as often. There are also guilds that don't raid at all, and everything in between.

Guilds are eager for membership these days

Very true. Spend any time in PoK and you see the mass recruitment.

Grab a few groups, meet some peeps. Tag along and learn who ya want to hang with.

Best way to find out where ya fit.

Well, even some casual guilds have stricter requirements these days. I'd still call VC a casual family guild (our raiding is 2 nights a week) and even we cant take people who arent elementally flagged already. We'd be more open to it if the backflagging didnt suck so hard.

Kad

uhmmm didnt sony make it so it wasnt as much of a pain to backflag .. or get rid of backflagging all together?

Once the guild is killing elemental gods, yes, killing the gods flags people for those zones. Valiant Crusaders may not be ready to do that quite yet.

Backflagging through PoP isn't nearly as bad as it used to be when PoP was first out.

But from what I gather it's still a pain.

Fandros

The "catch" with Elemental Flagging is that if you're still in the elementals, you haven't killed the god for at least one zone that you're still raiding in, so you're pretty much v-flagging people in at least ONE zone, until you're giving out time flags.

uhmmm didnt sony make it so it wasnt as much of a pain to backflag .. or get rid of backflagging all together?

I asked that very question myself and I was NOT pleased with the answer:

http://www.graffe.com/forums/showthread.php?t=29542

Tho I freely admit I come off as a whiny biatch in that thread (moreso than usual anyway)

Kad