I am reviving Legend -- 2 mil gold tournaments EVERY SATURDAY beginning Nov 25!

NightbladeMechanics

UPDATE 24 hours in:

I am proud to announce that in less than 24 hours, we grew to a roster of 60 active duelers, all recruited from Stormhaven duels and friends of duelers who wanted in. At one point, we had 34/51 online with all but half a dozen either dueling in Stormhaven or PvPing in Cyro.

We also have access to a guild hall containing attuned crafting stations of every set in the game courtesy of our resident crafting connection (a personal friend of mine) as well as my guild hall containing all relevant munduses. Both contain test dummies and centurions.

The guild is exploding.

I'm tired af, so I'm chilling for the rest of the night. Very proud of what we accomplished today.

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What's up everyone.

I spent a pleasant 2 months recovering from burnout, but now I'm back. Over the weekend, I tracked down the person whom Sypher promoted to GM of Legend before he quit dueling in 2015, and I acquired the guild myself. It had been a dormant bank guild for something like a year now. I intend to revive it as the game's active dueling guild and the cornerstone of the PvP community which it once was.

For those of you who aren't familiar, Legend was founded on March 30, 2014, the very first day of PC/NA early access.



Yes, you can be the GM of two guilds. You just can't create guilds yourself if you already own one.

The game's official launch date was April 4. It thrived as the go-to guild both for top tier players to compete and for newer players to gather and learn. EVERYONE was in it, filling the roster, and the dueling spots were packed with people around the clock until about summer 2015. The removal of softcaps and capless CP system in 1.6 imbalanced dueling, and people began growing tired of it. Over the next year, participation slowly diminished until the guild went dormant in summer 2016. I led Legend for most of 1.7 through Dark Brotherhood, and Yoyuyi and I founded and ran a hardcore breakoff guild called Mighty during that same timeframe. Both guilds maintained over 200 members and relatively active participation until that summer. It was a lot of fun, but eventually the egregious imbalance of DB patch and the heavy armor apocalypse ended the fun.

But now dueling is regaining popularity. Whether it's because Morrowind and recent patches have improved game balance, or the infusion of enthusiastic new players, or that Cyrodiil is just that unplayable, I cannot tell. But small dueling tournaments among excited friends have been happening, a few half-organized dueling guilds have popped up, and I've seen a lot of new faces in Stormhaven looking to fight and learn.

We need that cornerstone guild back. Many of you will remember when PvP had "that" guild, the one which everyone was always hanging out in. With the decline of Legend, "that" guild moved to Mighty, then trading guilds, then a couple small scale guilds, then we just didn't have one anymore... With the revival of Legend, I intend to infuse the PvP community with new excitement for dueling and individual improvement at the game. I intend to facilitate friendly yet serious competition among players, and offer frequent tournaments with significant rewards on the line. I intend to facilitate networking between new and experienced players and recreate a place where we can all meet and get to know players from other social circles. I intend to restore Legend to its former greatness and give back to the community this sacred place that inspired and helped guide my growth as a player years ago.

And what better way to get everyone HYPED and involved than by giving away tons of gold??!



2 MIL GOLD TOURNAMENTS EVERY WEEKEND

• Members only
• First place wins 1 mil gold and 3 week promotion to the special Champion guild rank

It's above all the others!

• 400k to second, 300k to third, 200k to fourth, 100k to fifth
• Funded from my personal gold, no entry fees
• I am in talks with sponsors for larger prize pools
• First tournament scheduled for November 25, details TBA

I will be bringing over the participation-based guild ranks that we used in Mighty

• Three duel gatherings scheduled each weekend on Friday and Sunday evenings, and following the Saturday tourneys
• We count each time you come to duels and date your last participation in your member note
• Climb the ranks by coming to duels!

- 35 gatherings
- 20
- 10
- 5

Moderators will keep chat clean

• Friendly banter is fun, but no salt, *** talk, or other toxicity will be tolerated
• We all get carried away from time to time, so first or rare offenses result in a temporary Mute
• For those of you who haven't been in a Kena guild before, I don't tolerate bull***. We will kick you in a heartbeat if you cause problems. I don't care who you are.

Get rekt!

THIS IS GONNA BE FUN!
PM or mail me in game @KenaPKK or mail my Officer @HalfEatenCornea for an invite. As of CWC patch, you will need an empty guild slot in order for me to invite you. ZOS doesn't like us holding onto guild invites anymore, apparently. We are looking to build quickly and do some real good for this community!

you all,

Kena

Solariken

Nice! This is good.

I'm going to make bowplar work via these duels despite all of Wrobel's attempts to thwart me.

OdinForge

The best part of Legend was the dueling community between when it launched to about the end of 1.5, this was a time where dueling was fantastic and the community wasn't as driven by salt or ego.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiAZahhrVbM

I miss these days of Legend. Wish you luck in your goals to revive Legend.

Foxic

I have some fond memories of legend. Unfortunately I don't really pvp anymore but good luck getting the guild back on its feet

Eirella

This is awesome! Good luck with the guild!

Acts

Man I miss dueling and the fun times that were had in 1.6 era of Eso ( Time I started dueling).
Good luck on bringing Legend back to it's formal glory!

casparian

As one of the noobs, this is really exciting. Looking forward to a good learning environment. I was solo in Cyrodiil for most of the summer, but found it increasingly difficult to find fights of the right size to allow me to improve.

NightbladeMechanics

casparian wrote: »

As one of the noobs, this is really exciting. Looking forward to a good learning environment. I was solo in Cyrodiil for most of the summer, but found it increasingly difficult to find fights of the right size to allow me to improve.

Yep, that is one of our primary focuses. Be sure to join quickly so that we can get going soon!

Acts wrote: »

Man I miss dueling and the fun times that were had in 1.6 era of Eso ( Time I started dueling).
Good luck on bringing Legend back to it's formal glory!

TotallyNotVos wrote: »

I have some fond memories of legend. Unfortunately I don't really pvp anymore but good luck getting the guild back on its feet

You should come back and be part of it!

OdinForge wrote: »

The best part of Legend was the dueling community between when it launched to about the end of 1.5, this was a time where dueling was fantastic and the community wasn't as driven by salt or ego.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiAZahhrVbM

I miss these days of Legend. Wish you luck in your goals to revive Legend.

I miss those days too. The community needs this. I hope to repair those wounds.

Solariken wrote: »

Nice! This is good.

I'm going to make bowplar work via these duels despite all of Wrobel's attempts to thwart me.

Do iiit!

Jaybe_Mawfaka

Good luck with it

nukynukerton

yay, welcome back. i'm glad you're doing this, now i need to figure out which guild i have to leave *chinstroke*

Tonturri

This is wonderful and I'll definitely poke for an invite once I get home, but also...

Good god, how in the world are you going to sustain 2mil a week.

And welcome back \o/

Vilestride

Good work kena. Legend definitely added to the level of community in the early days.

Ghostbane

I still remember that first major Legend tournie.

"WTF Whitestrake's" - Sypher
"lawl" - Davenaro

Good on you Kena, go make some memories for folks.

Rickter

@CavalryPK - come on man, this is all you!

CavalryPK

Thanks @Rickter for tagging me. I am very glad this is happening. now I just need to figure out what guild to drop. Much love to @NightbladeMechanics . I am glad he is back!

Arkangeloski

OdinForge wrote: »

The best part of Legend was the dueling community between when it launched to about the end of 1.5, this was a time where dueling was fantastic and the community wasn't as driven by salt or ego.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiAZahhrVbM

I miss these days of Legend. Wish you luck in your goals to revive Legend.

Lol he looks like he's 12

OdinForge

Arkangeloski wrote: »

OdinForge wrote: »

The best part of Legend was the dueling community between when it launched to about the end of 1.5, this was a time where dueling was fantastic and the community wasn't as driven by salt or ego.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiAZahhrVbM

I miss these days of Legend. Wish you luck in your goals to revive Legend.

Lol he looks like he's 12

lmao

Thogard

Need to drop a guild.

Need to tune a toon for duels instead of small scale PvP.

This could be fun I’ve been avoiding dueling for a while now and I’m sure I’m terrible at it after so much time spent in small group PvP.

MrTtheDK

Moderators will keep chat clean
Friendly banter is fun, but no salt, *** talk, or other toxicity will be tolerated
We all get carried away from time to time, so first or rare offenses result in a temporary Mute
For those of you who haven't been in a Kena guild before, I don't tolerate bull***. We will kick you in a heartbeat if you cause problems. I don't care who you are

That guild chat used to be so toxic at times. It was beautiful.

NightbladeMechanics

MrTtheDK wrote: »

Moderators will keep chat clean
Friendly banter is fun, but no salt, *** talk, or other toxicity will be tolerated
We all get carried away from time to time, so first or rare offenses result in a temporary Mute
For those of you who haven't been in a Kena guild before, I don't tolerate bull***. We will kick you in a heartbeat if you cause problems. I don't care who you are

That guild chat used to be so toxic at times. It was beautiful.

Yea it was. I kicked and muted so many people!

Waffennacht

PC only?

NightbladeMechanics

Waffennacht wrote: »

PC only?

PC/NA

NightbladeMechanics

I added an update on our progress to the OP. The guild is taking off!

Waffennacht

I so wish you were on xbox

NightbladeMechanics

Waffennacht wrote: »

I so wish you were on xbox

Working my magic.

Dottzgaming

Is there a minimum CP requirement to join? Would love to be able to get in on this - love dueling, but my CP is mid 400s. Working on raising it a bit every day to get closer to cap to make dueling easier.

IcyDeadPeople

yay, good job Kena and good luck with tournaments!

CavalryPK

respectfully waiting for discord info!

Araxleon

I Joined legend a little after it started.
Everyone just wanted to improve and get better obviously people trash talked but in the end it was about having fun and we had conversations like "How did you do that? How did ya beat me using that skill? That set is actually viable?" nobody had any idea what was "good" you couldn't google PVP builds, people seeked out legend for builds and improving and instead of just learned builds they learned how to play and those players grew.

I remember dueling Velokudi and Chadv, If i remember correctly Chadv was sorta like a mentor since he was a better DK.
It was interesting because I could beat Chadv and not Velokudi at the time, which seemed silly. I remember beating Velokudi at one point and he demanded a reduel and we did that for ages...and after awhile he beat me, he didn't do it out of anger he did it to improve, we all dueled and practiced to improve.

(It was a open field with a random wall and stone pillar we dueled there alot 1.5 and before)

I remember being a officer with my ex and trying to stop some random dude that Ganked duels.

I remember Fluffykins declaring war on duelers XD

I hope you can revive that energy and community legend had. ^_^

(sorry for spelling errors/mispelled names :P )

(I play more BDO now, but I would love to come back and join legend in ESO)

CavalryPK

@Araxleon are you the famous EP magblade? that legends go around ?

Araxleon

CavalryPK wrote: »

@Araxleon are you the famous EP magblade? that legends go around ?

When I used to play. I made a popular build, that ZOS nerfed by changing skills to stam morphs.
I was a Magicka NB Khajiit that wore pink I didn't believe in using race to min/max