Guildwatch: Stripped bare
by Mike Schramm 
May 15th 2007 at 9:48PM
Getting your toon stripped to his undies is bad enough, but what happens when your guildies do it to you? That's what happened in the picture above-- click the link below to read more in this week's Guildwatch.
And don't forget, the only way we get all this drama, downing, and recruiting in one place is via your tips-- send them in ASAP to wowguildwatch@gmail.com. And if you don't, be careful. Your bags just may end up full of junk!
DRAMA
- Merger: Veiled Shadows was supposed to merge with Midian on Aman'Thul-H, but apparently things haven't gone as planned. Raiders have all joined the right guild, but casuals have split off and formed Rum N Drunks. A few former officers aren't real happy about that.
- If there's one thing that a guild can't seem to handle well, it's having the GM up and leave. That's what happened to Piracy on Area 52-H. The GM ditched and his second-in-command is apparently excluding people from raids, even spinning it to make it seem like someone else caused the excluding. It's caused a few guildies to just give up and join the casual guild Steve (winner, by the way, of this week's Best Guild Name award!).
- Some guilds just attract the drama-- here's yet another report from Gnome Ravagers on Terenas-H: "That returning player who called shotgun has caused two gquits that I'm aware of, and I know two more who are thinking about it. Interestingly enough, he has since quit himself, sighting lack of guild raid potential as his reason. He was also talking about leaving with another officer to make their own guild...no word on whether or not that second officer has decided for or against that idea though. " Sigh. At what point do you just choose to disband a bad guild?
- This is interesting, and it probably will be helpful for fans of our Officer's Quarters column-- a group of guildleaders from Blizzard's Guild Relations forum are planning a Ventrilo get-together to chat, commiserate and discuss good guild leadership. Date hasn't been set yet, but they're looking at the afternoon of Sunday, May 27th. Good luck, hopefully good things will come out of it.
- From Age of Redemption on Drenden, one of the sweeter tales of vengeance drama. One of the guild's tanks unexpectedly quit the guild without a warning or goodbye, but one of his guildies had his account information, and gutted the warrior (you can see the hilarious/sad/scary results above). After a little forums drama (which has since been deleted-- apparently Blizzard's CMs don't have the taste for drama that you and I do), the warrior posted he has since settled his differences and is back with the guild. Hopefully, they helped him get some of his equipment back..
- Diener der Elemente, a German guild on EU Bael'gun-A (their name means "Servants of Elements") announces that they've dropped Attumen within their first two hours in Karazhan. Grats!
- FOEHAMMER on Skullcrusher-H (I'm not sure if their name is in all caps or not, but it should be) has driggidy-dropped Moroes and Maiden this week.
- And my guild, Gothic Bunnies (<3 Belacroix!), has finished off Curator and the Chess Event. Shade of Aran is next, but we're still learning the chant.
- Astral Order on Eldre'Thalas-A has gotten Maiden to 75% and will get her down any day now. Meanwhile, they're looking for some more help, especially a good shaman and a few raiding rogues and hunters.
- Primal Devolution of Stormrage-H dropped Gruul for a Horde first on the server! Awesome! They're also looking to invite two more mages.
- Afro Ninjas on Dethecus-A is looking for all classes 65 and up. They say that "if you hear a ninja.... it's probably the last thing you'll ever hear."
- Travelers of Orgrimmar on Windrunner-H is recruiting casual adult players 60-70 to raid with them weeknights and weekends. Contact GM Aserak for more info.
- Ages on Blackhand-A wants a few to help them out on High King Maulgar. Specifically they want Prot warriors, Non-Paladin healers, Warlocks, Hunters, and Mages. They raid Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, and on weekends I guess they get a little crazy: last weekend, they held a "Gold Spam Drinking Game." I leave it to you to imagine what that must be like.
- Drachaean Order on Hellscream-A is looking for all classes, with a focus on some extra healers.
- Argent Exodus on Steamwheedle Cartel-A needs some help with DPS heading into SSC-- yup, they've already finished Kara and Gruul and are heading towards the realm of Vashj, looking for a few good mages and locks along the way.
Filed under: Guilds, Raiding, Guildwatch, Bosses, NPCs
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Rakuen May 16th 2007 12:02AM
Yes, FOEHAMMER is in all caps in the guild name.
Peyotee May 16th 2007 3:02AM
on Blackwing Lair is looking for players who are primarily interested in PVP.
Peyotee May 16th 2007 3:03AM
Guess you can't use carrot brackets. That was supposed to read: Hordecore on Blackwing Lair is looking for players who are primarily interested in PVP.
Fabian May 16th 2007 4:57AM
I guess the German guild is called "Diener der Elemente" - with an additional "r". Just a minor typo, but I bet they could touchy. ;-)
mindrazor May 16th 2007 8:59AM
Man, if someone ever logged into my account and did something like that they wouldn't be playing WoW anymore. How does that crap not count as a banning offense? I don't care who you are or what you did, you can't log into someone's account and trash it. Blizz should kick that jerk out of the game and delete his/her characters to see how they like it. Oh, and the tank is a knucklehead for letting said guildie have his account info.
Prauche May 16th 2007 9:19AM
Ah, well, of course, if he hadn't shared his account info in the first place....which is a technical violation in and of itself. No sympathy here. If you don't want someone in your account sharding your gear, don't give out your account specs.
Kilawhar May 16th 2007 9:23AM
@5
That's what happens when you share your account information. If the player willingly gave his password away Blizzard isn't going to do anything to the offender. They might give him a restoration so he can get his stuff back, but other than that they'll be hands off. That's why you don't give out your passwords.
Smithra May 16th 2007 9:24AM
looking at the pic, you can see he still has his:
tabard, legs, axe(???), hearthstone, chestpiece.
Yes, those might not be his equipment pieces, but who would fill up all of someone's inventory minus 4 junk greens with dwarven braziers? And who would make "tabard purchase" a high priority upon finding his account h4x0red? I'll wager everything else is either in his bank or the mail. Plus, had they really trashed everything I don't think just a little yelling and cajoling would get him back in. Guilds just aren't that hard to find...and he'd already left them once.
Maybe the whole thing is staged, or maybe he was just annoyed by the initial freakout of thinking all his stuff was gone...I could see how someone might have a pretty limited sense of humor about something like that.
Rabbid May 16th 2007 9:45AM
GG Shamelessly plugging your own guild each week. Curator is bleeding edge content, amirite?
Tusva May 16th 2007 11:07AM
@8: The items in his backpack aren't Dwarven Braziers, that's the static doodad in Ironforge that he has his cursor over during the screenshot. Those all look like shields too me (like the one he has equipped). Perhaps the person who gutted his character was trying to make a statement since the character in question is a prot tank.
Mike Schramm May 16th 2007 11:26AM
Yeah, I think I will pimp my own guild every week. We may not be on the cutting edge, but we're downing new content regularly and getting drunk while doing it. Good times.
And if you want to pimp your own guild, feel free to send an email, and I'll be happy to post it.
Rabbid May 16th 2007 11:33AM
As long as there's drinking involved. WTB drunken WoW stories.
Thrombus May 16th 2007 2:29PM
OMG, you said toon.
Bobby Hansen May 16th 2007 3:41PM
If they were really stripping him bare, they'd have taken the Bags too.