Organizing A Second Tequatl Kill & Why We Guest

Hey all, this is Phineas Poe, a senior officer of Ethereal Guardians [EG].

As most of you know, EG kills Tequatl daily as a guild.

We do try and make a point to kill him as often as possible on Sanctum of Rall, to give you guys the best opportunity for rewards, but sometimes the number of Rallians (and others that guest to our server) result in EG members being left out. Given that our Tequatl kills are a guild event, not a server event, we are unfortunately forced to guest in such situations to a lower population server.

We do not like doing this. We do not like leaving you guys out of our kills. We do not like removing you guys the opportunity to get your loot.

So when we guest, please do not think we do it out of spite, or that we do not care about you. We do, but we are a very large guild with a lot of dedicated members, and sometimes you just have to make a choice. It is not a choice we like making, because we do have friends outside of the guild that have been left out of our kills.

It may be hard for you to believe me, but there's nothing more satisfying to me than to see a random player participate in our Tequatl kills and receive Tequatl's Horde: an ascended weapon with the stats of their choice with a unique skin. It is perhaps one of the best drops in the game, and I feel like seeing some newer, less experienced player walking away with a mound of goodies is exactly what these world events stand for; we like helping the server, and we like to maximize the number of kills we do on Sanctum of Rall. It is why we haven't changed our time, and is why we open our TS info to the server at large so you guys can truly be a part of it.

But unfortunately this Saturday we were forced to guest. This decision was met with vitriol. Personally leading Saturday's kill, I felt somewhat guilty and responsible. And I was met with tons of whispers that continued to flood well after Tequatl was dead and we had begun our WvW run.

"Why did you leave us?"

"What about us? You just don't care."

"Why can't you do another kill?"

I need to remind you all, at large, that we are not TTS. We are a general interest guild. We do world events other than Tequatl. We just don't have the interest or the numbers to do multiple Tequatl kills. We are trying to do our part in rebuilding Sanctum of Rall's WvW community. We are teaching newer players how to run dungeons and fractals. We are working on legendaries. We are praying to the RNG gods for fractal weapons. We organize our own guild events, run guild missions, and simply play Guild Wars 2 for more than just dodging fish heads in Sparkfly Fen. We're actually somewhat ready to move beyond Tequatl at this point and to start organizing Wurm events in its place.

I do not come to you to complain, or to give you excuses. This is a less than ideal solution. We do not like guesting. So I am going to come to you all with a proposal: help us organize a second kill. Help us widen the margins a bit and give players a better guarantee for loot.

But we cannot do it ourselves. We are more than happy to assist other guilds into teaching them how to organize their own kills, how to do defense and turrets, how to command the zerg. We are willing to teach you this. I am willing to teach you this. But you all as a community must come at me, at us, at least halfway.

Even if you can only bring 5 players, know this: it takes only 30 people to organize the defense groups on the whole. A few smaller guilds can take care of it in its entirety. And while I cannot guarantee 100% success, I can assure you that your work will eventually pay off. Tequatl as a fight is best designed to be killed with 60-75 players. You do not need a full map to complete it.

So I am going to go ahead and extend a hand here: if you are interested in organizing a second Tequatl kill, please contact me in-game at Phineas Poe.3018. I cannot guarantee that this will happen. I cannot guarantee a time or a date. I cannot guarantee that you will be successful on the first try, or even the second or third tries. But I guarantee you that if you work with me, we will find a more ideal solution to this problem. Because it is fixable. But we cannot fix it alone.

Thanks all.

» Edited on: 2014-03-24 07:54:10

» Edited on: 2014-03-24 07:55:48