Careful podcast listeners probably heard Hugh accidentally mention plans for an official One of Swords World of Warcraft guild. This is something we’d been talking about quietly for a while, since several people have said they’d like to play with us. I am already an altaholic, so I figured this might be fun. I went looking for a PvE server that was located in the middle of the country that would minimize lag issues for anyone interested. And we found it, with an bonus in-joke.
When I was the EIC of the WoW official magazine, I hired Hugh to write a story about the lore of Doomhammer, the mace that Thrall wields. He wrote the story…and the story got bumped. Then got bumped again. It finally was printed, roughly a year after he wrote it, much to our collective surprise. So…no brainer there. We’re setting up on Doomhammer-US.
I have formed an Alliance guild there called One Of Swords, and even though I didn’t really want to call my character “Oneofswords” too, I did anyway, for a simple fact that Kat pointed out: If I didn’t claim the name, someone else would. Kat is “Celticat” and Hugh is “Disterbakov.”
No, that's not Devon. But the resemblance is striking.
This is purely a social guild. Do not be tempted to transfer your high-level characters; do not change your WoW lifestyle. We’re not going to be doing serious raiding; we’re not going to be requiring attendance. Be whatever you want to be, do whatever you want to do — do not worry about what kind of tradeskill we need or what kind of character we can use. Play for fun and we’ll all get together. Ideally I’d like to do Playing With Swords events every so often — you know, “everybody show up at this time and we’ll run Battlegrounds for a few hours together.” Or maybe, “hey, let’s go run this instance or dungeon together, for fun.” That’s about as far as it goes. It’s a way to have a public WoW presence without messing up my existing vibe.
Wanna join? Cool, you’re in. Just send me a note in-game or use the Guild Finder and look for us. I’ll work out a time to invite you in.
