Starting guild in GMT +8 timezone

Luccian

Dalayan Adventurer
Good morning all,
It has occurred to me, being stationed in Okinawa Japan, that there is a lack of players online at any given "comfortable" time within our timezone. Given this, it is extremely hard to ...
1. Juggle times to raid with other top tier guilds, lose sleep or work time to attend
2. Attend raid regularly due to the time difference
3. and when you do get to attend a raid, its usually not for long because of the before mentioned..

Given this, i have also seen in the forums people asking about guilds around this time zone, or a few hours off with little/no luck. i understand that the player base is very low compared to, say, Live.. but it seems even lower during play time for someone such as myself, who gets off work at about 4pm here which would be the equivalent to 2-3am the same day back in the states. In addition to that, most top tier guilds are either U.S based or Euro based, which isn't all bad, but still Euro guilds are a good 6-8 hours different :(
Because this creates problems with getting into raiding guilds for those of us in this situation, i wanted to propose forming a guild for us. i want to gear it more towards raiding than just socializing. Of course, begin small (tier 0 mobs, whatever we need to) but i think this is a possible solution to a problem i see as being fairly large to those of us high enough to do these larger raids but are bound by time constraints created by times set by members on the other side of the world lol.
I want to begin this guild being 50-60+ and progressing quickly to 65 and AA's. Exceptions, i believe can be given on a case to case basis (former player coming back, gave away old account, etc...) but you would be expected to catch up quickly.
This would also be a well founded guild for us in GMT time zone, starting slow and steadily... building up to raiding. I would like to avoid "guild characters" concept, making characters SOLELY because the guild wants you too, but we also have to recognize we will need certain classes for these raids, so if interested i more than promote the drive to fill in these classes (cleric, warrior, chanter,etc..) and as being a leader, or in a leadership position i would full support and help level chars to begin with.
I would love for this guild idea to flourish into a good guild for us in these odd time zones, and give us the ability to experience end game material as much as other U.S and Euro guilds. please leave any kind of comment to support this, or add your ideas. You can also contact me in-game on my main. Thank you again.

--Luccian Black--
 
This is a list of mobs/ areas that can be raided once we begin the recruiting and training of characters. i would like to begin setting up for raiding or grind grouping within a month or so of creation of guild. i don't really have a name picked yet for our guild... i am open to suggestions. i was thinking <Blood and Steel> or something. i like, but don't really care for at the same time, the single word guilds =P no offense to my buddies in Steel or Ruin heh. but yeah, suggestions are more than encouraged.


Tier 1-

Animal Named (Gnok, Plaguefang etc)
Teratzu
Dreadfang Tower up to Yinazra
West Waste Dragons
Lower freeport named
Ancient Deepfiend
Parcelain and Mielech

Tier 2-

Firkaal and West Dragonhorn Keep named
Enforcer Hsargh, High Priest Colrasha and Fluxator
Yinazra
Ancient Wind Torrent
Mushkl and Dblash in Torment
Mi Firah, Livia, High Scholar in Air.

Tier 3-

Faralak and other lesser named in SE
North Dragonhorn sans Zirvane and TR
Misery sans boss
Windrider in air
Shadowlord Kas'Thox (Freeport Boss)
King Rymaz

Tier 4-

Agonizer, Abom, Spiders and Gibber in torment
Zirvane and TR in DHK
Misery Boss
GoTSS and MotEC in Everchill
Great Librarian in SE

Tier 5-

Warden, Rotters in torment
Seductress, Sultan, and High Lady in air
Master of the Gates in Prison
Scribe in Sepulcher
Dergalak in SE

Tier 6-

Eurikos, Xavara, Spouses and gishna in Sepulcher
Mirrors and Manifestations in Prison.
Arbitor of Air in PoA

Tier 7-

Taeshlin the Guardian
DOTO in sepulcher
CoD sans Versikol

Tier 8-

Inner Prison in its entirety
Blissfull in Air
Versikol in COD
4 Lower Thazerans wings

Tier 9-

Upper Thaz
 
I think that a guild raiding during that time frame would be a great addition to the SoD community. I can think of a few aussies that play SoD that would definately agree (they are about 13-16 hours ahead of us in the states)! And, if I remember correctly, there have been multiple people asking about guilds that raid during this time frame in the past.
 
Nice list there. Glad you took the time to type it all out. Il be sure to give you credit if I use it in the future.
 
Wow, i'm very sorry Waldoff. I guess in my rush to get this post up i had forgotten to cite your info/ give you credit for the hard work you put into it :(.
i apologize, i really didnt mean to just take it and not give you any sort of kudos :keke: coulda swore i had said thanks, but sadly i am mistaken lol. but again, very sorry. didnt mean to rob ya, just got excited at how well it was done.

--Luccian Black--
 
It is not a huge deal =p Just felt like giving you a hard time.

I agree with Jayelle that a raid guild at this time slot would be pretty nice to have,
 
i thought so too. looking through the forums for a guild already made that fits this description, but sadly found none. so figured the better fix would be to manage a guild like this for others to join. already messaged a few people i noticed.. hope to get some feed back from people interested :dance:
would hate for this to crash and burn without a chance of success heh

--Luccian Black--
 
As I told you when you messaged me, I wish you all the luck on getting this going, however, I'm actually an ESTer, and just am sometimes up that late, usually on the second half of a raid with my guild.

This is Osunaia/Oscar btw, the only toons you really know me as ;)
 
i would love the chance to get in a guild of that timezone. has this guild been started yet? many of my guildless friends also play in that timezone as well who would most likely be intrested.
 
We have spoken about this online and I agree that there needs to be a guild for the GMT crew. I will keep an eye out for you and hope you can pull this together.
 
sounds great lets try to get organized this weekend to form up the guild. as long as we have a base to begin recruiting from then we can work on filling out our ranks.

--Luccian Black--
 
I'm up for it. I'm in the same timezone, Taiwan. I play a 63 dru, Oish, with a little over 100 AA's. Send me a tell when we're online together or PM me.
 
I'm new to SoD but I have experience raiding in Live. If this guild got together or is still trying to get together please let me know and I can at least help you get it formed. I am an EST'er but usually play in the mornings after I get off work. PM me if you have any questions or need my help! Thanks
 
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