There has been a thread about competition and it caused me to reflect on what we have done in Relentless over the last year.
First let me say that we (leaders of relentless) realized that completely starving out members of our server that were not in our clan was not a healthy thing for the server, and long term the health of the server effects the health of the clan. It’s a ying/yang effect. We had to ask what we needed/could do.
We discussed a lot of different concepts but ultimately decided that as a dominant clan we had a responsibility to our clan mates to reserve for us what only we alone could obtain. A large part of this realization was due to the line of people waiting for top end game upgrades (please don’t comment on this concept as the topic of drop rates has been beaten to death and VR is clear on their strategy). Thus, anything we did as a clan to help the health of our server refer to be done in a manner that allowed our hard working hardcore clan mates to have accesss to end game upgrades.
We did find in our discussions that we had a lot of items sitting in our banks that we were sure individuals in the community would love to have access to, items we deemed as trash or worthless. Furthermore, we wanted to undo the perception that we were hoarding all this amazing loot. We had individuals in other clans accuse us of holding onto enough Crowns and EDL Arcanes to gear 50 toons. This was just simply not true. Even with the adjustments that VR has made to Snorri we were still voting on who got the next set of crowns. But that was a reality the rest of the server wasn’t aware of.
The forming of an alliance: we realized that there were some end game players we didn’t want in our clan but that people needed an avenue to access end game content. There were players on our server that were level 225+ that had never killed Mordris. We still had to farm and kill Mordris and Necro due to the fact that the helmets from Mord and Rings from Necro remain end game best of class for all intent and purposes.
Originally our plan was to stop awarding DKP for Mord and Necro once BLoodthorn loot was able to replace those items. Once we realized that this wasn’t going to be a reality we had to come up with alternative plans.
Coming up with the concept of an alliance kind of fell in our lap. Lady Von and Jansen of our server were two individuals that had applied to relentless and were accepted but decided they wanted to be in a clan that was aimed at helping new players. This presented us with a unique opportunity. Here are two leaders of a clan that have a good relationship with relentless, as a matter of fact they were wanted by relentless. Discussions began on how to include them or bring them to relentless. We had tried “feeder” clans in the past and they always fail miserably. Then it happened, Praetorian and I were talking one day and we thought of the idea of an alliance, one in which we share our banks of lesser bosses (bosses lower than 220) and even as individuals prove themselves to have Integrity and play well in a positive manner with our clan we would allow them to “progress” in their access to end game bosses; up to and including BLoodthorn.
We took the idea to the clan. A little visit at at first their was no denying that the server health is important to our health as a clan. The clan eventually agreed that we would form an alliance under the terms that, until drops are more abundant, relentless maintain Doch, Seed, and Exquisite Anointed upgrades, as well as our leaders vote for who receives EDL weapon upgrades and all arcanes and ancient runes are banked with relentless. The leaders were to vote on weapon upgrades for the entire alliance not just relentless.
We took this proposal to Jansen and Lady Von as well as athe other leaders of Prestige Worlwide and an alliance was born.
Today we still stand together at bosses and work together to progress in the game.
I challenge leaders of other dominant clan servers to assess your situations and while our alliance might not work for you maybe you can find something that works for your server that includes more individuals than just your clan.
Aimed at top tier end game clans
#1World - Gwydion - semi retired in 2020
- restarted in 2022 on Herne - 220 (rogue)
Searching for the next adventure.
- restarted in 2022 on Herne - 220 (rogue)
Searching for the next adventure.