Venomancer Guild

I've actually been tempted to make an untamed only guild before, yes. b:chuckle Never got around to it because of funds, mostly. Was going to call it WildThings or something.

79 and the 89s are considered low level FBs these days? All 3 can be tanked by a herc veno who knows what she's doing.

Personally I don't like this proposal. Never been a big fan of clubs that are "exclusive" for whatever reason and it does seem impractical to me. Further there's no real rationale behind the idea, as a roleplaying guild it would be kind of lame (and I'm saying this as an old tabletop RPG veteran) as just plain gimmic it's even worse. You guys would be needlessly turning yourselves into targets for ridicule to no apparent gain that I can see.

Let's keep in mind that, per the game's background story, the untamed are not a race in the sense of a biological species. Venomancers and Barbarians do not spring from biological procreation amongst each other, rather they're animals stemming from diverse species that have somehow managed to gain both sentience and a humanoid form. Going into the archetypes they probably wouldn't even be sharing a common history had the developers' deus ex machina not forced them into one. The Werefox is a common legend in Far Eastern countries, like the Kitsune of Japan, mostly malevolent spirits that seduce men to fulfill their own selfish/evil purposes. They would probably see no gain in Barbies (other than as brute enforcers) and would likely recognize them as too dangerous to control. Weretigers on the other hand, while often portrayed as sorcerers and man eaters, do seem to follow in the same tradition of the cursed/broken man as Western Werewolves. The Venomancers would appear as vain and manipulative to them. Both classes would likely feel more attracted to humans.

From a more pragmatic standpoint the two classes do not share the same sinergy as say the Earthguard. Barbs are a tanking class that would most benefit from partnering with a healer or a DD that could help with their somewhat gimped damage while on the leveling curve. Venomancers are a solo class by definition and they've got their own tanks to heal, they could perhaps best partner with other ranged/caster classes that could benefit from the pet and speed up the kills. These classes can't really help each other overcome bosses they couldn't solo on their own and in terms of trials and upgrading faction bases there's not really much they could accomplish without outside help. And it's not like you could TW with just these two classes. So you're giving up on many of a faction's goals and capabilities just so you can have Kemonomimi and furries prancing around together? I mean I just don't see it.

This is just my opinion of course, and I apologize if it seems rude, but someone had to come out and say it.

Vitenka - Dreamweaver wrote: »

Can't do 69 though; so can't get there to 79.

And, well; I'd love to encourage you. But you won't find very many people willing to do the good old fashioned 2-3 hours FB runs nowadays.

You could do 69s with like three herc venos working together and alternating tanks. It'd be difficult and impractical of course, but doable. Don't see where a barb would fit into this equation though besides buffs.

I'll have to mull this over a bit while I level a little more.

thx.