It was a great show of Guild Camaraderie tonight.

Scam put the call out in guild. "EP are 1 keep away from gaining Emperorship. Come and help us defend."

The guild answered.

As I write this we have half of our online Members in Cyrodiil fighting back the EP hordes! It's a great thing to see, and I am very proud to be a part of a guild that has an awesome community like this.

Even if we get overrun, our ghosts can sit back and relish in the fact that we did not go quietly!

Blades of Vengeance are actively recruiting again!

Currently sitting at around 120ish active members, we are looking for new blood to swell our ranks. We are looking for social people who want a fun Oceanic guild to explore Tamriel with.

We are running 1 PvP and 2 PVE nights per week at this point and would like to get more people interested in our Cyrodiil and Trials runs.

Our weekly event calendar currently consists of:

Tuesday - PVE / Trials
Wednesday - Cyrodiil
Saturday - PVE / Trials

All Events start at 9pm (Melbourne time) right now, however with some states moving their clocks forward this weekend, the starting times are currently being reviewed.

If you would like to know more about the guild, please go to bov.shivtr.com and have a look at our "About Us" and "Code of Conduct" pages.

Everyone is welcome to join, no matter what level / class you are, so if you would like an invite either speak to one of us in game or put through an application on the website.

Have fun all.
Ransyn

So today I've been surfing the net, looking for ideas for future guild events that do not involved dungeons or raids. The plan is to have one of these "fun runs" once every 2 weeks, with the winner getting an in game prize such as gold, items, or the chance to redesign the guild tabard for a month.

We are encouraging all our members to participate, so if you would like to get involved, you should speak to one of the Officers in game or put an application through at bov.shivtr.com and join the guild!

So the guild had it's first "Fun Run" last Saturday. We started off calling it "Darts!" but ended up changing the name to "Lemmings". Check out the video and see if you can work out why.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=w0T_YVKguNo

All in all it was a fun night, and we had a great turnout from the guildies. 24 people in all showed up.

There will be more events like this to come, and they will hopefully had a bit of random fun to our ESO gaming.

If you would like to get in on the action, find me in game (@RansynBloodway) or hit us up on the website - bov.shivtr.com.

Here's an overview of what BoV has going on in the next couple of days:

Tonight from 9pm: Guild Cyrodiil run - go in and kick some red / blue butts!
Tomorrow from 9pm: Guild Fun Run: Escort! - A fun little events with prizes for the winners
Sunday at Midnight: Entries close for the guild screenshot competition.
Next Wednesday from 9pm: Craglorn questing - group up and knock out some of these quests.
Every Day: Little competitions are run from the website with in game prizes.

We have over 60,000 Gold worth of prizes up for grabs just in the next week alone.

There also have people running the Undaunted Pledges every day and are looking to get guild Trials runs going again from early December.

So as you can see, there are many reasons to check out BoV as a guild and get involved!

The guild has been a little quiet over the past month or so. The release of Warlords of Draenor, Assassin's Creed, Dragon Age and a lack of new content on ESO have meant that some of our members decided to swap games.

We've been spending some time rebuilding our numbers, are back to having 30+ people online at our prime times and our guild events are once again going along nicely. The "Fun Runs" that are held every 2 weeks have all been great successes, we are now back in a running Trials every week and our PvP nights are picking up again too.

Because of all this, I've had a discussion with the Officers and we've decided to change the structure of the guild a bit and focus more on enabling people to be able to find other members for group content from within BoV. This will then lessen the need for people to "PUG" everything.

Here is how we're looking at achieving this:

NOTE: This post will be focusing a lot on the endgame content and our goals for that. There will still be non endgame related events, fun runs, naked runs and all the other goodness and we will be starting to do more for our Non Vet players, but I'll cover that in another post.

Guild Ranks

The current system (which is only really useful to me, from a guild maintenance point of view) is getting scrapped and we're going to go with something along the lines of:

- Explorer (Lvl 1 – 29)
- Veteran (Lvl 30 - 49
- Blade of Vengeance (VR1+)
- Elite of Blades (Class Leaders)
- Champion of Blades (Event Leaders)
- Guardian of Blades (Officers)
- Blademaster (Guild Master)

As you can see, it's more of a level based system, with the bulk of our guildies being a "Blade of Vengeance". All ranks will have full access to the guild bank and store. Now, bear in mind, these Rank names aren't set in stone, so if you have any ideas on Rank names you think sound good, please let us know!

Guild PVE Goals

We have a great mix of people in the guild. We have people who want to clear all endgame content, including Trials and Vet DSA, and those who are happier to go into more casual Trials runs and just have fun.

The goal then will be get to the point of running the following each week, as a guild, so we can cater to everyone:

- 1 to 2 "Casual" Trials groups. No stress, just good times.
- 1 Speed run for the weekly leader-board quest.
- 1 run of the highest tier of endgame content . This will be a bit of a more serious run, and we will need to be a little selective as to who comes to these runs, so we can ensure success.

I want to include Vet DSA in here somewhere, but I think aiming for these Trials groups is a good starting point.

Guild PvP Goals

- 1 PvP night per week where we have a group of 16+ people specced and geared for Cyrodiil (+Crit resist gear, Negate fully upgraded etc), complemented by casual PvPers.

Each aspect of endgame requires a different set of gear and skills to be really successful, which brings me to my next point.

Guild Workshops

We will be running guild "Workshops" which will be open forums for people to come in and discuss their builds, skill setups and tactics. We have some people in guild who are able to pull some crazy numbers, and we want to share the knowledge on how they do it.

These will be informational sessions and will not be mandatory or anything like that. If you are interested in increasing your DPS, Healing or Tanking abilities, then come along and listen to what people have to say.

We will in no way be saying that you HAVE to run a certain way to come along to our events, that;s not what we're about, but we want to give everyone the opportunity to learn what has been working for people.

We have not set up these events as yet, but I imagine they will be running from early January.

Summary

With all of these goals in mind, we will probably be increasing the guild's numbers a bit, so that we have the player base to be able to achieve these goals.

We will also be looking for people who are interested in helping the guild by running events, or helping with guild coordination etc. So if there is something you think you would like to do (Recruitment, Keeping the Guild Bank clean - someone say yes to this... PLEASE, lol - running events) please let either myself, Magpie, Scamandros or Spartan know.

That's all I have for now.

Cheers

Ransyn

TL:DR
The guild is going to get awesomer!