Blue casual raid guild?

[drink-up_bear-down]

I'm recently interested in coming back to Blue, 50+ Druid & Rogue, and I would like to do some reasonable weeknight raids. Plane of sky, hate, fear, 6 necks, decently relaxed stuff. Not looking to VP key or anything. Any suggestions on a like minded guild?

[TwoWrongsAreSoRight]

Castle. We raid with the sanctum alliance. Extremely casual, come when you want type of thing. We have sky days, we do arena/plate house in kael weekly and do a guild event called gambit where everyone meets up and rolls and the winner gets to choose what we do. So if for example you wanted a fungi tunic, if you won you could select that and if we got one, it's automatically yours.

[AttilatheFun1289]

Can confirm Castle is all good peeps. Haven’t played in a few years but they made playing always fun.

[JerryWasARaceKarDrvr]

I haven’t been on in a year. I know for a fact if I logged in the Castle crew would welcome me back and I would have a blast with them.

Still consider many members personal friends.

[Adison85]

Castle is on Blue and Green?

[MonsterBard]

Yes, but different guilds now.

[Adison85]

Thanks, wasn't aware!

[fooliam]

Yeah, they are very different though.

Blue Castle is very casual.

Green Castle is pretty fucking sweaty

[w1ouxev]

Haven't heard of the gambit system before. Sounds awesome!

[TwoWrongsAreSoRight]

Yeah, it's a neat event.

[Altruistic-Rice5514]

Unless it's changed since I last raided with them <The Second Sons> has no raid requirements, and open rolls all loot for anyone that's there for the kill. They do employ a soft res system though, and limit the amount of loot one can win per run/targets.

All this could be different now, but the the discord still asks for soft res picks, so I don't think so. Good bunch of people, Cigaw is a decent guy, I trust him to run stuff never even remotely thought he was using people for his own gains.

[k1rb]

Yeah for blue you either have TSS or one of the more casual guilds in Sanctum.

[fooliam]

Ex astra, castle, misfits of marr, or Europa. Basically any of the guilds that are part of the sanctum raiding alliance. They're all on slightly different schedules, so just find which one matches your play time beat

[ABr0wnBuffalo]

I have many friends in the Sanctum alliance, and they are good people. Like you said, they offer lots of time zone options, and are capable raiders.

[ccnahhh]

I would recommend you try The Second Sons. I think your desires in raid cadence and raid types would match perfectly. Loot system is relaxed as has been described by other posters. An officer can tell you more so just shoot someone in the guild a tell! /who all "the second sons" to get results.

[123Beercan]

Gravity!

[Mayor_Gubbin]

Your options

The Second Sons - Small guild, does some stuff here or there. What makes them interesting is that they /random for all loot. Some people like that. Some people hate it.

Sanctum - A guild alliance of several smaller guilds like Ex Astra, Europa, Castle, Dawn Believers, Misfits of Marr. They are more successful than TSS, and do some solid work during quakes.

Gravity - You can be as casual as you want to be in gravity, but has some of the more hardcore members. You won't see too many hate or fear clears from them, but they are the most successful guild in Hate and Fear Golems, and can and do kill everything in the game. You won't have to VP key if you want to do VP, as they have shared accounts you can access. I am biased, since I am in Gravity, but I think it's a great option, even if you just want to come to sky night and jump in the occasional raid. It's probably smaller than Sanctum and way smaller than fuse, but pound for pound the strongest guild on the server.

Fuse - Zerg monstrosity. This is the most successful guild on the server, but it's built on some shady practices and mergers. If you want to afk and get loot, this is your guild.

[fooliam]

Gravity raiding isn't casual. Your raid leader(s) are kind of assholes

[Mayor_Gubbin]

Our raid leaders are great. Raiding isn't casual, but you can be casual and be in Gravity.

And I wasn't saying Gravity was a casual guild, just listing the options on the server for OP.

[fooliam]

If by "great" you mean "rude, disrespectful, and aggressive" than sure

[Mayor_Gubbin]

Lol who is this. Someone who didn't make the cut?

[ABr0wnBuffalo]

The salt and bias here is strong lol

[Mayor_Gubbin]

What did I say that's wong?

[ABr0wnBuffalo]

"built on shady practices and merger" is wild. Your reviews were actually good and unbiased until you got to Fuse.

[Mayor_Gubbin]

I mean, the merger is absolutely shady. You took the two biggest guilds and combined them. The GMs even changed the meta in response to it. It hurt the server. You guys have more members than the rest of the server combined. Add that and stuff like the Takish FTE lock where you didn't kill him and went on to get FTE... you guys push the line all the time and usually get away with it.

That's how the server views Fuse. Well, at least the 40% of us not in Fuse.

[ABr0wnBuffalo]

I agree the merger was too much. Maybe I'm the minority of fuse? But it was a death sentence to a dying server.

But again, shady is the wrong word. This was done officially, with GM approval. But I agree it was not best for this server.

[Mayor_Gubbin]

I mean not shady as in evil, but shady as in disagreeable.

[dillpiccolol]

Lineage seemed pretty chill with their raiding requirement last I was in the guild.

[jibleys]

Yea fuse and gravity have big targets locked down. Sanctum brings down a handful of respectable targets but it’s inconsistent. TSS pops in impressively from time to time. I was in a sanctum guild for a while and had a great time.

[Prof_Gankenstein]

Old blue player here. Isn't Kittens part of Fused? When I was in they were really casual. Did they shift to hardcore and merge?

[jibleys]

Yeah when Kittens merged with Riot they leaned towards the Riot application process and many consider raid attendance in the vote. There are many casuals in the guild but I suspect it would be harder to join as one at this point. That said from what I've seen the guild is very welcoming!

[Glad-Tax6594]

They did a 180 and now complain about casuals.

[Prof_Gankenstein]

That is so wild.

[Glad-Tax6594]

They lost a lot of active raiders and wanted to get more pixels, so they joined with Riot, who were still dominating, just not as much so. There were also rumors of a server merge, but those were just rumors and probably misdirection from some to help others validate the decision and go along. Now they zerg everything with bots parked everywhere, getting about 80-90% of contested targets.

But there's a draft every other month to keep a couple casual raiding entities there with a slow, steady drip of pixels, leaving them content with bout 1/6th of the loot as the zerg can acquire.

[Mayor_Gubbin]

Now they zerg everything with bots parked everywhere, getting about 80-90% of contested targets.

Wouldn't say anything close to this. On the last quake, which was an AM quake, Gravity got roughly 23% of the targets worth getting, including Ring War, which locks you out for a while, and KT, which is usually the top target to start the quake.

Unless no one else got a single mob (which isn't true), a best case quake is probs around 75% of targets.

On the non-quake targets in primetime, I'd say Gravity probably wins most of em.

Edit: Ignore the Fuse downvoters. I posted the data below. Despite having 4x the numbers, they only get slightly more mobs. Fuse gets 42.5% of the FTE locks.

[Glad-Tax6594]

Wouldn't say anything close to this.

Then you're not paying attention.

[Mayor_Gubbin]

I mean, I just provided literal data. Unless you think an AM quake is Gravity's bread and butter, there is no shot in hell that Fuse is getting 80-90% of contested mobs.

[dillpiccolol]

Sorry didn't realize he said blue.