Friday Night - Order Claims Its 1st Keep!

[JoBildo]

I meant to post this yesterday, but with a 3 hour trip to IKEA (Yay, Swedes!) I didn't even get to surf the internet yesterday much less play. But on Friday night, there was ONE keep not taken by Order in all of Tier 2. A group of CoWs, members from War Dogs, and many others stormed The Cascades of Thunder in Ellyrion.

It was rough going on first, but once everyone was in synch, the Hero witch fell and the Keep was ours!

Outside of the top floor there's an interactive "standard holder" or something along those lines. Your guild simply needs to have a Standard Bearer on hand, and one standard in his/her inventory. Deploy the standard, right click the holder, and voila.

Casualties of WAR owns the Cascades of Thunder keep. Check out the screenshot below to see our banner (sans logo, as we're not of high enough rank yet) flying on the bugger.

Not sure exactly what bonuses doing so netted us, as there was no clear indication of anything happening as a result of it. But as you hovered over the map, you'd see that the Keep was claimed in our name. If you were AT the keep and you click the guards, or NPCs, you'd see our Guild name underneath them.

Yep, it pretty much rocked, and I'd say it's something we should be doing whenever we claim a keep from here on out. Provided we have the funds to support it.

[Werit]

I could not find the proper thing to interact with in T3 (prior to our keep capture).

[Hammerix]

Hardcore OWNAGE!!!! Good Job Order and lets do it again this weekend. By the way Bildo, have you checked the guild vault to see how much gold is missing? Would be good to get an idea how much it costs to hold keeps for a little while.

[JoBildo]

We had roughly 450 at the time of taking it, and were down to 160 or so by the time I released it this afternoon.

Yeah, it was EXPENSIVE.

So, while I'd like to see us claiming keeps as often as we take them, we'll also need to be sure to release them when the last person involved leaves for the night. Just to keep funds adequate.

[Gasto]

Congrats, guys/gals! Holy crap that's a ton of cash. lol

[Ysharros]

We had roughly 450 at the time of taking it, and were down to 160 or so by the time I released it this afternoon.

:SHOCKED: Next time I say we take over Motel 8, not the Ritz!

Though the guild is also more than halfway through 14 now, which presumably the keep holding had something to do with?

[mikejl]

Gratz! Hope the rent is not too steep.

[JoBildo]

@ Ysh: Aye, that's apparently what Keep Holding gets you. More renown and more guild XP. I think from here on out, so long as we release them by the next day, we'll be fine.

[Warsyde]

The rate of guild advancement over the keep claim period seemed fairly phenomenal, and probably explains why the guilds that hit 14 first shot so far ahead of everyone else. Let's crank up our guild tithes so we can claim keeps frequently!

I kept kind of hoping someone would try to take the keep so that we could rally to defend and enjoy the keep-wide standard bonuses, but sadly destro seemed to leave it alone until we released it :p

[Genda]

Grats guys, that's awesome!

[Warrender]

The rate of guild advancement over the keep claim period seemed fairly phenomenal, and probably explains why the guilds that hit 14 first shot so far ahead of everyone else. Let's crank up our guild tithes so we can claim keeps frequently!

I kept kind of hoping someone would try to take the keep so that we could rally to defend and enjoy the keep-wide standard bonuses, but sadly destro seemed to leave it alone until we released it :p

Very true. I noticed we were actually competitive for a while until the top guilds hit 14 and then left us behind. Hmmm...I might up my tithe to 20% actually. It's not like I'm going to do anything with all this gold anyways with the endgame Renown gear looking as lackluster as it does.

[JoBildo]

What's interesting to note is that if there's a Keep out there that Order has and it's not claimed... we can claim it, reap the benefits for a while as we RvR and scenario it up, and then release at the end of the night.

Be on the look out for such situations, and feel free to /tell an Officer or Founder to bring a standard, make themselves an SB and go claim it for a few hours. It really could go a long ways towards pushing us to Rank 17 (where we'll have both guild cloaks and recall scrolls to Altdorf!).

[Heartless_]

May be a good idea to change the MOTD while we have a keep to "We have X keep claimed! Go out and defend, do scenarios, level!", just so players logging on know it is the time to shine

[Ysharros]

Regarding tithes -- it pays to check em. Now and then the game seems to forget you have one set and won't deduct it from coin drops. It's easy for me to see because I try to keep the proportion at 50% total (so if guild tax is 20% my tithe is 30%), so when it's not taking half the coin I notice pretty quickly.

Simply going into the guild panel --> rewards page and clicking in the column next to the "Tithe" reward name (guild level 3?) will open a little dialog that you can use to set your tithe.

Try it -- it really is painless. The only thing that's taxed/tithed is mob/RvR coin drops. You'll never notice it, and the Keep-Holding fund will thank you for it.