I, Vendela, sit here on Christmas night...pondering how best to unleash my pent up fury towards Moredd as I chew the olives from my martini.
I don't want to speak out against Divinity because despite it's poor raiding reputation, it's still filled with good people. I do, however, have a huge mother fucking axe to grind with Moredd.
I won't make any low blows because I'm above that.
The best way I could describe how she runs her guild in both a positive and negative fashion is...a socialist party. Moredd is the embodiment of Stalin in EQ2's enviroment. She runs her guild as a system where everyone helps eachother and participates. There's a very helpful and appealing system where any and all masters that players find go to members that could use them. They're raid loot roll rules are NBG based. The guild is prosperous and everyones happy. It paints a very vivid picture of a society that operates on its own terms and does so well.
I joined this guild to stick with my one friend who shall remain anonymous. Now as an ambitious player I work for my own money, I don't expect hand outs and I hate taking them. I take solace in progress and finding myself in a rut really frustrates me...here's where my tale begins.
I joined the guild with high hopes of enjoying myself and I did. I got to hang out with some nice people and raid on a regular basis of somewhat satisfying content. I'll admit the raiding scene wasn't something I was too enlightened about but I'm also a quick learner. Over time I'd ask friends and aquaintances bits and pieces about their guilds and their functioning and something really started to seem amiss.
I'll take these issues down one by one...
Firstly, as I mentioned there was an honor system where any and all masters would go to the members in need. Not only is this unorthodox...it's also a very disfunctional system. Here I am...farming on a daily basis in instances and in loping planes to make a couple plat just to get some shit together for alts or myself. Now whenever I had the joy of discovering a master I'd quickly follow it up with the dissapointment of giving it away. No problem though, I liked to think of myself as selfless. Eventually I started to have my gears grinded as more and more masters came my way which could have tripled or quadrupled my money intake had I the chance to sell it. All the while other members of the guild could get by sitting around feeding off my hard work getting hand outs from me (I want everyone reading this to take a second to notice that that isn't quite right). What do I get in turn? Nothing. I'm stuck with dick all because Joe Schmoe needs the master, he's earned it. While I could use some masters and all I fucking get is some trash filliing up the guild bank and no one could be bothered to try and earn their own masters unless its picked up on a raid or in a group. Big fucking whoop you found one in a group chances are you're only going to get it if YOU need it otherwise its FFA and you have a 1/6 chance of getting it and even then its a 1/23 chance of being a fucking master I could use. Those numbers aren't pretty. People are leeching off others' hard work.
Secondly, any random shit gear, rares, money fuck all random stuff on raids is saved and held onto by the guild leader. A guild leader whos hell bent on keeping control of all assets and cash found. She'd go so far over even a harvestable rare. When she was having computer troubles or crashing the entire raid would have to go on hold until she was ready again. I can't even name an occasion where the guild was permitted to raid without her around. All these proceeds go onto the guilds muel or bank. If something rots in the bank for too long it goes to the broker or its transmuted.
Now thats a lot of money going in and out of a guild bank. No one gets to see the financial standings from up close...all transactions and profit is kept between Moredd and possibly her husband. Which leads to a lot of suspiscion as to where most of this money goes. Someone like Moredd is amazingly able to afford some rich living for someone whos toons sit AFK in QH for the day until its raid time. Your leaders could be stealing money you're entitled to and you can't find out.
Thirdly, the raid force, while a funny group, failed. Not because they all sucked and I'm in no position to judge them. It was more or less a lack of direction. A low pressure guild like this doesn't really enforce let alone suggest class spec's and what not. This lead to a failure raid force with only half the ability as most guilds. A lack of suggestion and counsiling in AA builds and similar strategy really made the little penis of a guild Divinity not only shoot blanks...but also suffer from major ED. Their inability to handle EOF content when the level cap was still 70 was a disgrace. There were barely any variations in strategy and positioning and when there was it was a shit mix of confusion where points weren't established clear enough. Like lemmings off cliffs the guild was stuck in trial and error, same trial error, same trial error...
Finally, if someone were to leave the guild, weather its on good or bad terms, Moredd will shit bricks. She'll quickly resort to panic tactics and empty threats. She'll make promises she won't keep just to get you back on her raid force, like a clingy girlfriend whos desperate to keep you around because she can't have a stable relationship (in this case guild). She had once resorted to threatening to disband her guild if I hadn't joined them again. Then tried talking me back into the guild and sending me random guild invites for the course of an hour. Acting like we were old pals. To clarify I had left twice and come back once. After I had come back to the guild she quickly felt it necessary to pamper me with "important" jobs like including me in a raid loot table. As if me somehow feeling implied in the matter would make things all better. Now, flash forward, after I had left her guild for good she went from trying to be my best friend to a total alienating, vicious bitch. After I had finalized my decision, clarifying and explaining everything I am now to you guys. She merely replied with "what the fuck you don't make any sense" and quickly went to no longer responding to me. Not even seconds after leaving she quickly went to guild chat sullying my name. Saying how much of a bastard I was and how I worshiped the almighty plat coin and didn't give a fuck about the guild. I had recognized that behavior....she'd done it to many members who left before me. I quickly realized how she would be sure to establish any leavers as an enemy of the guild...a bad guy who's commited treason and shot the president. If you aren't with Divinity you are a traitor. I began discussing this with other people who left and with my friend who was still in the guild. Everything had become evident.
That's all I have to say...and thats how I became a refugee of the USSR...erm Divinity. So long as this guild refuses to check itself, it will continue wrecking itself.
-Your friendly neighborhood Pwn*
I need another Martini
Re: Divinity ---> Antonia Bayle
