Aaarrgh!

Here we go again. My Destruction guild has had the worst luck with picking servers since launch. We were originally on Ulthuan, then moved over to Red Eye Mountain. Now server transfers have been opened up from REM to more populated servers, like Iron Rock and Monolith. We are preparing to pick a server again, but in the meantime... Well my destro guild has had some big highs and low lows in our time. We went from being a 300+ member guild shortly after launch, to having a huge drop-off in active players after the free month was up. We had some hardcore players split because we were primarily casual, and finally server population issues forced us to move to Red Eye Mountain.

Once on Red Eye. we experienced several cycles of more hardcore members outleveling the rest, hitting level cap, and then joining other guilds because we did not have enough Rank 40's on at a given time to go do dungeons. I know, dungeons. In a RvR game. Big pet peeve, long story. This happened more than a few times, it became a self-fulfilling spiral of events. We somehow never achieved a critical mass of enough 40s to enable us to begin endgame. Some stalwarts continued to play, and coordinate with our allied guilds, pugging or playing with guildies as the situation arose. Also, REM started having the same pop issues we had on Ulthuan, and many players started new alts over at Dark Crag.

During this time, my Order guild has steadily grown through it all, even though we also had to transfer from our original home on Averheim. Now on the Badlands server, we are doing well. We aren't huge, but we have a much larger percentage of active players in all level ranges, including at Rank 40. We also have a very active core group of officers that the rest of guild rallies around. My first 40 is on there, Stahlrek the Ironbreaker, but it looks like he will be semi-retired once the Slayer goes live.

So for now, it looks like my destro characters will all be on indefinite hold until we get a destination server finalized. Sigh. The Bitter Rivals event can't start soon enough.