There is always something to be said about the power of the internet. After so many decades doing this, the MMO thing, I can truly say that there are people in the world that will undoubtedly disappoint you. But just as stark a contrast are the people that you bump into that will also inspire you and touch your heart. I have had the amazing pleasure to make some very long-lasting friendships across the world, as part of TLP. The people you see here, in this screen shot… I am so proud to say embody those friendships. All for very different reasons! What we have here in this guild, in this gaming family, cannot be easily duplicated. And there is a real strength in that. One that far supersedes mere pixels on a screen.
For Legion, we have decided to not only continue onward and push through content with our main weekday raid team, Team Olympians… we are also going to be creating a new raid team that raids on weekends for those of us that either a) have busy work weeks or b) have alts they want to level up. Dubbed Team Demi Gods, this raid team will run Saturdays and Sundays from 9 PM to 12 AM EST.
Rounding out our new raid team’s leadership will be Charsbarkley as Raiding Officer and Klavin as Raid Leader. The two of them will work closely together to lead us through successful content progression. Charsbarkley will work on the roster composition, recording attendance, and working with recruitment officers to fill necessary raiding spots. Klavin will focus entirely on strategic boss progression and getting our raiders through content. If any folks would like to join our new raid team on the weekends, please see Charsbarkley or Klavin to get on the roster’s list of try outs.
For Team Olympians, we are shifting focus from moderate raiding to semi-hardcore raiding. In doing so, there are some spots that have become or will through the course of selection become free for other raiders to apply to as some of our raiders would move to be bench players rather than roster players due to personal time constraints. This includes myself. The requirements to join either raid group have gone up to be 840 ilvl and an unlocked 3rd artifact relic slot. This does require members to continuously be working on their main raiding characters, even on off days. For many of us, that’s an impossibility. But this will allow us to push for top ranks on our server. You’ll want to message Vitalizer or Tankymcbones to compete for a spot.
A roster spreadsheet can be found here for all to review.
A lot of our core players have decided to take a break because we know that this beta is getting extended; probably will not see a release until the first quarter of 2017. Due to that fact a lot of our core is taking a break from the beta. This has traditionally been a real stickler for us. When we play a beta, we expect to be able at some very near future see the release of the game. In both instances, we’ve been bitten and now are twice shy. Speculation has us delaying this beta for quite some time based on the post here by the CEO of Sandbox Interactive, known as Korn.
First of all, I’d like to point out that we have always been very clear about our philosophy with regards to Albion Online: the main goal is for the game to be successful in the long term. The game will be released when we believe that it’s able to achieve that goal. Every time we gave an indication for a release date, we always made that clear.
Much like we did in the first beta, we continue to foster friendships and collaboration by focusing our members to fight against the horde that is [REIGN] who continues to stomp out any that cross their path. Some of the smaller guilds are going to have to make some very tough choices — either they learn to work together or start thinking about merging into bigger guilds. Albion seems to be no place for the small, tight knit groups of the past because we’re being forced out of existence. It’s time to organize and centralize to put forth an effort to not be engulfed by, or eaten alive in some instances, the zerg.
We have always created alliances in every game we have played, Albion is no different. In our first beta, we had the name Rest in Pieces (long before there was ever a guild with the same name) for our alliance. It was one of the first things we did. Now, we dust off the name and put it back to good use as we form the [RIP] alliance of Redwater. We’ve aligned ourselves with some great guilds that have for the better part moved into Redwater Bend and plan to make this place their home — at least for the duration of this final beta.
With events, GvG practices, dungeon crawls, and more organized and led by competent leaders, we think we have a good shot at holding our own.
We’d like to congratulate our Team Olympian raiders for a great job in clearing ALL of Heroic HFC in 2.75 hours — from start to finish. They earned themselves a day off on Thursday night and it was also our last night of raiding in WoD. Onward and upwards to Legion Raiding! We will NOT be raiding until September 30th as we’re giving our members a month to level and be Raid Ready! Here is a picture of all of us. 😉 Go #TeamTLP!
The wait is over! Final Beta has now officially started and adventurers are already making their way through the King’s and Queen’s Isles.
What Can You Expect in Final Beta?
Are you already on the Final Beta hypetrain? Find out what’s coming your way in our latest video!
Final Beta starts with the server wiped clean, and a brand new world to explore, as well as many new and reworked features. Here is a quick overview of what you can expect:
New World: Royal Continents and The Outlands
Biomes: Swamps, Steppes and Mountains
New Powerful Artifact Weapons, Off-Hands and Armor Sets
Reworked Guild vs. Guild Battles
New Reputation and Crime System
Reworked Destiny Board
… and more!
Want to learn more about the upcoming Final Beta? Check out the Final Beta update page here!
Your Adventure Begins Now!
Legendary Founders have immediate access to Final Beta, while Epic Founders will be able to join tomorrow, August 2, at 12:00 UTC, and Veteran Founders can hop on the live server on August 3, at 12:00 UTC.
Not yet a Legendary Founder? Purchase your Founder’s Pack or upgrade your current pack in the Albion Online shop to get immediate access to the Final Beta!
Join us for some fun and community! TLP-FFXIV is hosting our very next Cards Against Humanity™ Family Night happening on Friday July 29th at 10 PM EST / 9 PM CST. We encourage all our members and fans to join in on the fun! Our Community nights will be happening once a month so if you can’t catch this one, you can plan on the one next month! Not interested in playing but just want to come hang out? Sure, np! We will be hosting it LIVE through our amazing partners at Twitchon our main channel:http://twitch.tv/TLPGuild and you are welcomed to come hang out in our TLP Main Discord Server with the rest of us.
Cards Against Humanity™ will also be played LIVE in person during our up and coming “Meet n Greet” with our guildies and streamers in San Diego, CA when we all attend #TeamTLP Twitch Con 2016 on September 28th, 2016. TLP has acquired an entire apartment building for all our teammates and guildmates and is hosting a “Tired N Hungry” dinner for all of our folks flying in that Thursday. Expect lots of fun and laughter!
The summer is here and we’re all taking much needed time with our families, friends, and out of town visitors! It’s a special time where folks are happiest sitting on a beach working on their tan or swinging slightly on a hammock reading a book. As such it’s been hard to coordinate a Talk Show schedule that suits that streamers on our team that normally have an interest in participating in it. So we’ve decided to take a break for the month of July and August and then come back strong with a NEW SEASON of The Titans Talk Show sometime in mid-September for #TwitchConHype #TeamTLP #TLPCompound #SanDiego #GotCarriedAway #WithAllTheHashtags
On our first night in, for some the first time raiding content in WoW ever and for others the first time in 8 years (me included!), we managed to one-shot two bosses, two-shot the last two. In order we downed Hellfire Assault, Iron Reaver, Kormrok, and the Hellfire Council. The sixth boss is rather complex but I think we’ll make progress with it tonight. We did spent a good hour on it last night so I think we’ll get through it tonight.
I think after a second go (next week) in Normal, we can bump it up to Heroic depending on how much gear we farm up out of these instances. I do know a lot of us are busier in real life than some and are not able to get into the LFRs as much or get into PvP to grind out some PvP gear to put us in the DPS checks for Heroic. We’ll need folks closer to 700 to try Heroic, but what we could do is farm the first few bosses in Heroic, while still trying to learn the fights from Normal. We’ll explore that possibility!
I want to specially thank Mortalsins, Danmachi, and Odie for helping to explain the fights for most of these as I was really too green to do the job all alone (Gawd I hate Raid Leading!). Everyone really did so well and I was so happy to have us go in there and synergize the way we did. Everyone got along great and nothing major stood in our way. What an amazing night for us as a guild! 🙂
I’ll be getting more screenshots of our guild in action tonight, and see if there are any more screenshots to add but these two are my personal best shots. Enjoy!
Hello folks, please try to make our very first guild meeting on Tuesday 6/21 @ 9 PM EST here on Discord. We will be talking about the following topics:
💥 Raiding — What is needed from us and how many folks will be able to go to HFC normal, what our makeup will be, and who’s going to be leading it.
💥 The Apprentice Program — Want to help but don’t necessary want to be an officer? Be an apprentice. As an apprentice you get one small area of responsibility and focus on just that one. 💥 Legion — What is good, what is bad? Who’s switching mains, etc. Open discussion about goals for Legion.
💥 Suggestion Box — A means to submit anonymous feedback to our entire leadership team (across all chapters!)
💥 Streaming for TLP — A run down of our streaming program and how that works for all that may want to turn gaming into a career (must be 18+ in age!).
💥 Guild Rules —- A review of our guild rules and what is expected of you.
💥 Open Forum —- A few minutes for anyone to give feedback, suggestions, or air concerns.
