I have a feeling that in time Helms Deep may actually become an unofficial MLG chatroom – it may actually make a nice change from all this virtual killing we feel compelled to do night after night!

fuck that shit its £11.99

altered_ego said:

 

MMO's are very stupid sometimes. Only thing being I'll get my XP for advanced spider killing…

too true – in fact you might even get a new title 'leet spider killa' or something like that

Post edited 12:16 – Sep 4th 2010 by mikeydredlox

I'd be happy with that – would they rename their guild to Helms Deep if we asked nicely?

Do they have a website / forum we could take a look at?

from an earlier post it looks like mixindaves lev 50 is also on snowbourn

I dont mind joining an established guild so long as its not full of kids, and we are all guaranteed to be allowed in – as well as any future mlg'ers

what im not so keen on though is running through instances with people who have done them before and know what they are doing eg 'careful theres a huge troll round this corner' etc etc

some people might find this helpful as it can reduce your chance of suffering an untimely death, but I see this kind of thing as a massive series of spoilers, I've been there too many times before – the game is reduced to getting to the end of the instance as quickly as possible and maximising loot, rather than a real immersive gaming experience

another thing that can ruin mmo's imho is getting 'twinked' from high level players ie being given high level items which are way better than any drops or quest items you might receive – hence devaluing the effort you put into getting your quest rewards in favour of trying to get the most 'uber' gear

what do other people think?

Being a noob to the game, it probably doesnt matter either way to be honest. 

My character is only level 10 and hasn't taken me very long to get there, so if people want to reform on another server thats ok. 

But I'm keen to get as unspoilered an experience as is possible. I'm happy to stick together in our own guild and as people drop away etc, other people might want to join in, and might be put off by a non-MLG guild. I don't really know. Ideally we want to be as welcoming to new people as possible, I would imagine. 

As usual, I'll go with the consensus, but if I was asked to sway one way or the other I would say that we should see how we get on numbers wise etc for a couple of weeks and then make the jump if a better experience would be served up

Post edited 14:02 – Sep 4th 2010 by mikeydredlox

Yes I agree I think we should stick with Helms Deep for the time being and see how it goes, so far its been really nice getting the few of us juiced for this as a new experience closely tied with MLG and this could easily be lost if we are swallowed up by a larger guild

I do like the idea though of being allied to the last alliance, particularly as there is a chance Helms Deep may not survive – the problem being if numbers drop below 8 we would be disbanded – it gives us the opportunity to bail out if Helms Deep doesnt work and still be part of an established guild – it also gives AG and Dave a chance to keep their higher level characters going alongside their lower level characters. It would also help to boost our own kin numbers and reduce the risk of us folding.

My lev 34 runey would probably come over to Snowbourn, I dont mind paying the transfer fee as his previous guild has gone under.

The longer we waited the more painful it would be to move (if we eventually decided to) and start afresh, unless we paid for a server transfer.

So it seems we are agreed on keeping Helms Deep going, the question is do we reform on Snowbourn and start new characters or stick with Laurelin??

moving to Snow and reforming Helms Deep as soon as we have 8 characters in total would be my vote – I would suggest we wait a little while though so that other forum mebers who may not have spoken yet can have their say too, I'd like to see a consensus on this, and I wouldnt want anyone too hacked off about having to re-roll

although as altered-ego mentioned it doesnt take long to get to lev 10, and sometimes its nice to do it all again just to realise what a hash you made of it first time around

my snowbourn characters     davegar hobbit hunter lvl 54 and roychubbybrown a level 16 captain lol

mixindave said:

…. roychubbybrown a level 16 captain lol

tolkien is spinning in his grave as we speak

if we are going to re-roll is everyone sticking with their original class?

it would be good to hear from craigeh as hes been quiet for a few days – if he's too busy with work then one of us may have to consider going minstrel – it would be very helpful to have at least one healer amongst our merry little band

..as if by magic

well the plan is we move servers to Snowbourn if everyone is agreed – which means rolling a new character and doing them quests all over again (unless you re-roll as an elf or dwarf in which case you start in a different zone with a different set of quests)

 - the dwarf minstrel shout is sooo much more manly than the little whelp of the hobbit, (if that matters to you!!!)

go ahead, it would probably work out better than having two hunters

Post edited 19:11 – Sep 4th 2010 by mikeydredlox

OK so it seems like people are happy with the move to Snowbourne – if people can post what their new character names, classes and race are ill get this list updated

mikeydredlox – Dredorin, human guardian

altered_ego – hunter

cagedthunder – champion

craigieh – minstrel ?

mixindave – roychubbybrown, captain

ancient gamer – ? burglar

duggydarko – ? champion

(a lore master would be a nice addition for crowd control, but probably requires an experienced mmo player to play well)