Bye Tao

The way I see it, this never had to happen. Everyone can quote me all you want, and disagree with what I say, but this is my opinion - you don't like it then QQ m0ar.

If Tao could have received a good leader - someone who can lead a faction. Someone who does something everyday, and can get people motivated and upbeat for TW/Growing larger, this whole thing would have never happened. The failure on the part of leadership was the real killer. Also, when you invite people (Not gonna name names) to your faction, that has many other problems in other factions (Stealing, PKing low lvls, KSing MQ bosses, etc), your only looking for trouble. Tao invited several people that caused a lot of drama, which they should have never been invited in the first place. If someone in my faction invited someone that I knew, or others knew of causing drama/issues, then I boot them. Plain and simple.

Tao's name being "tarnished" and unable to recruit? Lol, gimme a damn break. Actually a long time ago when my faction was starting I actually thought that we had an issue like that. Then I realized most people don't care, don't know, or just want to join to be part of your faction. This issue, isn't an issue. If Tao got the leader or an officer to RECRUIT LIKE MAD (Not once or twise a day), and if needed - to drop the online application process for a bit to speed things up, they shouldn't have had any issues.

"Let Tao die with dignity". If they didn't have such poor leadership, Tao could have regrown and wouldn't need to drop it's "dignity". If Tao had good leadership, what should have been done was to defend those 2 lands as much as possible. In the meantime recruit. When they lost both lands, keep recruiting and stop all work on "Weekly TW" for now. Begin recruiting even more, as well as start doing faction TT runs to get geared up. Work on some PvP-events, such as duel events so people can learn their class. Granite at 85+ like Tao was recruiting, people SHOULD know their class, however most don't nowadays, and even if they are hardcore Tao fans, and love the faction - they still need to know how to use their class. After Tao reached a good 150+ members, start working on doing TW weekly once more. Nothing too crazy, don't worry if they lost etc. After each TW, work together as a faction on new strategies, as well as some events (The time your faction has the most online is generally right after TW, so events after TW are a great way to get a good portion of your faction involved together beside's just in TW). A good event is to kill some World Bosses as a faction. Recently my faction just has a Hide & Seek event w/ tons of prizes to help our faction. If you actually give a damn as a leader, your faction can go very far.

So again to conclude...
Tao has had poor leadership. The leaders for months now have been complete morons, and unless someone can sit here and prove me wrong, then I will keep on believing such. I won't reply however. You want to talk to me, I'm in-game 12+ hours a day.