The Trials of Phank

I choose this wording, not only since we did trials in Plane of Justice this week, but also for something Phank is going through.

With the new expansion everyone is experiencing their own personal trial. We all see friends, or enemies, racing to the new goals the game sets forth. We all struggle to make the most of our time, to find fun with the new content.

We all become disenchanted.
That's Korus speaking on Anelia. He logged her on to help get her a flag for trials. Flags are these things you get to go onto the next zones. You get them by beating challenges. They are extremely hard and overcrowded. It is something that should be fun and intense, but instead becomes stressful and aggravating. For those that fail get left behind and have to keep trying.

The same thing goes for experience. With 5 new levels people that have set up experience crews level much faster than those that must look for a group each time they log on.

A divide was happening. Even in our small happy happy guild. So guess what? We decided to take control. As a team and as individuals. Each person went through their own pain and came out the other side (a couple Phank may still be going through this dark tunnel.)

Korus plots revenge, Svol dug his claws in and used pick up groups like mad to level, Tylia read the Phank quotes page, and I turned OOC and Shout off, and stopped pinging the server to see who was in what zone.
Bring it back to you and friends. As a team Phank has decided to not let anyone fall behind. Some of our great phanks that are all ready through their tunnels of darkness-pop-shit are helping others through. Phank does not measure a persons worth based off of play time. It's attitude and skill. These reasons alone make us a strong group. And as a family, we watch out for each other. This does not mean we hold hands in a zone. Each Phank can take care of themselves and most do...as in /gulp a pick up group.
The lines are sick. I really suggest you have one leader who is in the trials chat channel and the rest of you turn off ooc and shout and just hang out and play games with friends. Or try one of the other crazy ass trials that Phank has yet to beat. We sure have our theories though. We have not really tried any other than lashing a lot though. We love lashing. So fun to get whipped over and over. Svolthoh loves it and keeps wanting us to go back.
Noashan dire charmed a pet, which was all cool, but he proceded to kill us all. Yes, I laugh now, after my second corpse is all ship shape again.
Trials...just thinking about them hurts my hands and head.
So after all the trials bull (they are actually fun, but the stress and line waiting is not) almost all Phank have the flags for the next zones. We have a handful left of people.
We also had some success with these bad ass mo fo's.
We did some killing in Valor, which is kinda fun. Not the best fun, but good xp. Tirsada and her evil squad decided the mobs were not evil enough, so they got some other guys...
And here is Jalynfane, one of our most kick ass clerics, in a form Gracor shall soon be ALL THE TIME...muahaha...Speaking of illusions....
Tylia had the best answer to all the new stress. She was going to give her account to Epiphany it was so bad. But as I said above, she read the quotes page and was reminded why she plays. Now she is focused on friends, and taking back HER game.
We got together with Plan B to do the gnome in PoI. It was so much fun. We even killed the Junk Beast that kicked our ass last week. I think he does some AE blind thing, too funny.
We made it all the way around his path, the end gate in sight, and we messed it up! He got stuck behind some people and despawned. Imagine being so close, and poof! &$@#*(@!!! Oh man, we sooooo suck, and we felt it.
May our future success be all the sweeter for it.
The next group is from last night. One group, deep in somewhere, having fun, hunting and talking. This is sometimes the best cure for when the game gets too big.
So I hope this helps those of you still trying to find a good place in game. Even though I think I have it, I still have to work at it sometimes. I still have to make sure I am enjoying what I am doing, and if not I change something or even turn the computer off.

Have fun taking your game back!