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Wolf Legion is a Guild located in Ascension Valley Server - PVE - and was first Founded almost 1 year ago, we still consider ourselves as a "new guild" since we are still growing in numbers and experience we still have alot to learn, lately Wolf Legion has changed so much, with new RANKING SYSTEM , private FORUM , Facebook Group, a more stable TeamSpeak channel and alot more members...
The following post will explain in detail where we came from, how we started, where we are now , what changed, what we will become as a Guild and what are our objectives.
As explained before, most of us came from other MMO games, like LineageII, Guildwars 2, World of Warcraft, Dynasty Warriors Online, League of Legends, Smite, Dota2, among many more..
WORGEN & LYCANZAR were the first to play TERA after watching some game reviews from old friends!
Ofcourse they were amazed with the graphics , races, enviroment and arquitecture designs and the story was not as childish as most MMO! and yes, the battle mechanics were simply amazing and unique! (for a MMO)!
After sometime lvl 50 was reached , we poked a few friends to play with me, and then we were talking about making a guild! Something....diferent...Unique... and then we came up with the idea of using Aman male characters with wolf masks and run around like a wolf/werewolf race.
WOLF LEGION GUILD was Born with some lame logos at first! shortly after making our first aman male characters(with wolf masks) the community gave their first impressions, they did like it. We were thrilled since alot people actually thought there was a Wolf race ingame!
mostly new players (like we were at that time) but still it felt awesome!....
The guild was finaly born!
we got some cool logo ideas (with wolfs ofcourse) and we started to make our first Guild advertisement!
What was the main idea? a AMAN ONLY guild, and having like 80 active players all wolfs so we could make some cool GvsG and alliance raids, DGs, battlegrounds etc looking like a wolf horde.
We gathered a few, but still it was very hard to get Aman players, most ppl didnt really like aman (brute race) and most actually prefered elin and castanic , something between cute & sexy ! but still, Aman Only it was...After awhile many players from all races,poked us, they wanted to join but they had NO aman characters.. but they seemed like cool ppl and friendly, we then thought that this "aman only restriction" would be the downfall of our guild since we kept refusing new members that were NOT aman,
later we made exceptions, and we started to add a few players wtv the race they were, some liked the idea of having a Wolf character so much that they started to make Aman alts, to keep the Guild lore alive...
But still, we were not getting the numbers we desired..
After awhile, some guild members took a break (Core Members) and we stopped being as active as we once were
Some Guild members kept the guild alive, we owe them so much for that!
And then, fate of arun patch arrived, most came back, but still some only played during summer vacations! We didn't start from "step 1" again because we actually kept in touch with each other, either via facebook group or Teamspeak and we allready had so many things to work with to keep the guild alive, we had the logos, guild ideas, the graphics and the designers to do it!
So it was actually easy to bring the Wolf Legion back up! and keep going Forward...
Meanwhile...
Some time passed and the Guild was finally back to its feet, many players, from diferent levels, old friends and new friends , all helping the guild, questing, Bams, Alliance quests, DGs and even some PvP training!
Wolf Legion was finally stable but a new "problem" was happening! We had over 70 players and not even 1/5th was aman male, the guild lore was slowly dying! we were no longer a wolf legion, but a multi race legion, the ranks were off, the guild was unbalanced! we lost our objective...
But even so, it was a "fun to be with" guild, and players were happy & enjoying, we had NO drama, NO issues, NO problems!! we made some new logos (current logo version) and even made animated GIFS, forum banners, forum signatures, and some "aman/wolf" character creation guides!
This was made to enhance our guild image aswell as motivating all guildies, making them part of something!we had a new objective,We need a new ranking system and ofcourse wolf legion needs wolves! there was no other way to do this...
After some meetings and sharing some ideas, where EVERYONE gave their opinion and vote! the best solution to keep the "Wolf Idea" alive as main core of the guild was via ranking system!
So we made unique ranks for the "aman race" such as (for example) only a Aman can be "Guildmaster" but still we were lacking some "cuteness" in the guild, since (as stated before)
Not many ppl like aman characters... and since the Popori race & Elin races were "animal races" they would become the perfect fit for our "NEW GUILD LORE" (currently working on this) we made exclusive ranks for them too! and then we have the remaing races (later called the "UNION" - similar to the Valkyon Federation (group of multi races) ,
baraka, human, highelves, castanic, all got new ranks and finally everyone could join and NO MORE RACE BARRIERS and inside each race you have a hierarchy , associated but independent to the Wolf/Aman ranks!(popori & elin only)
So you had the "Kingpori" which was the highest rank for the popori(requires echelon leadership mask) and is responsible for all popori guildies/members and we also have the "queen elinu" which was the highest rank for elin(requires echelon leadership mask) and is responsiblefor all elin guildies/members! with this...we had the perfect balance between all races, didnt matter if we had more aman or not since the aman race (wolves) had a diferent ranking system (and privileges)
We got new members again, ppl joining and shortly after joining some guildies actually made aman characters to join "the cause"
Everyone was thrilled and so were we...
After Filling the Guild Ranks with new and Old Member we realized that TERA's Guild System was flawed...
Only the GameMaster has unique Guild Management Perks (like kicking players from guild and changing/creating ranks)
And TERA Guild System didn't support multiple "oficers" (like in most MMO)
So the Guild Main Members Gathered for a Meeting and started to "Brainstorm" some ideas that would balance the Guild in General but mosty the "core members" to bring stability and fairness to the creators of Wolf Legion...
Thus, the "GUILD CORE" & "GUILD COUNCIL" were created
Were the "Guild Core" has three main ranks : Guild Founder (2 players max) , Guild Masters (3 players max) , Guild Leaders (5 players max)
We implemented the "GUILD MASTER ROTATION" where we would change gamemaster every 7 days (same time as alliance resets - Tuesdays) this would give all "core members" a chance to improve the guild, rules were made and every decision required a meeting to vote
The "Guild Council" main purpose was to create a group of trustfull players that want to help the guild and participate in guild meetings aswell as give fresh new ideas, Guild Council also votes.
To join the "GUILD COUNCIL" you MUST lvl 40 or higher and MUST send a "message/ parcel post" to the current active "guild master" your aplication will be presented to the "Guild Core" and later to the "Guild Council", and we will decide if you are worthy, we require "trustfull" and "helpfull" that respect the guild bank and want to help the guild achieve its objectives, we are aware that Guild bank contains alot of "crafting items" that will help you increase your crafting skills, but those items were gathered by guildies aswell as some items are stored in guild bank but belong to other players, remember to respect everyone and treat them as equals.
The voting system is really simple, Guild Core has a "static" weekly meeting to discuss guild improvements and priorities (unless more meetings are required) votes to aprove or disaprove new content and after deciding "what to do" we arrange a new meeting with "guild council" to explain the "meeting objectives" and then Guild Core & Guild Council Vote again to decide the guilds future.
Infuence Points:
-Guild Founder/Guild Core ( 5 influence points per vote)
-Guild Master/Guild Core (3 influence points per vote)
-Guild Leader/Guild Core (3 influence points per vote)
-Guild Conselor/Guild Council ( 2 influence points per vote)
After the "Guild Core" and "Guild Council" were aproved, we started to implement them , we chose a hand full of trustfull & most valuable members to be part of the first "Guild Council" .
Shortly after new Forum Signatures were made for Guild Founder (red), Guild Master (black) , Guild Leader (black ) , Guild Conselor (blue) as a small event to prove that they are part of the guild and we care about them as much as we care about the guild!
In the Future we plan to have:
-Guild Council with more ranks and sub-ranks
-Active PvE League that would be responsable for equiping sub ranks for more challenging Dungeons
-Active PvP League that would be responsible for guildtraining , Alliance Raids and Battlegrounds stategies
-Guild Forum with game guides, guild guides , guild events, guild information
-Guild youtube channel with guides and PvP tips aswell as advertisement
-Guild website for wolf legion advertisement with art threads and goodies
-Wolf Legion Community where we could expand to other games
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Wanna be part of something diferent ?
Fight for us FOR THE LEGION !
