SRS News - Week 5

Werewolf v Dragon, who wins?

Hi Everyone A fun-packed week indeed, and a new month begins, happy February! Here's a round-up of all the stuff that happened last week and will happen soon.

Trader

Doing ok in Ebonheart, we switched traders a little, which means someone bid more than 1.5M for our spot. No worries, we will get it back this week. I've also bid somewhere else this week, but I don't expect to get it.

I've noticed we don't really have a lot of people selling items, only 14 pages of stuff or around 1400 items, it used to be 1000 more than this with fewer members, not sure why this is. The TTC website has had some issues this last week with both the website and the client, but everything seems to be working ok now. So don't forget to scan the store after listing your items; this will ensure they are placed at the top of the list in the TTC website.

Promotions Congratulations to @TheSunbringer and Andy Wilson on reaching 25 events and promotion to SRS Adventurer. This unlocks guild bank access. Congratulations to Joel (Dr Death) and Warhed on reaching 100 SRS events. This bestows the Event Dabbler achievement and rank (unless succeeded by Paladin or Officer)

and also a nice reward of 100K gold. Also thanks to Kachz on becoming the latest Paladin.

Thanks also to SoupDragon on his big donation of 1M even though he's already a Paladin, and to AlienOutlaw for his astonishing 5 million gold donation!!! You guys rock!

Werewolf Mayhem

Our last Werewolf Mayhem to coincide with Whitestrakes Mayhem was awesome; everyone stuck together and we achieved all 6 dailies within an hour. Most of the enemies that confronted us were ripped to shreds in seconds, and to be hones,t most of them just ran away, haha, I bet the NPCs wish they could run away. Normal Duelling will return next Thursday. As an aside, it cracks me up the lack of intelligence in MMO NPCs, you'd think they'd program some basic survival routines into them. For example, last night in Cyrodiil, we had two teams with 16 EP players. We captured a resource in seconds and killed all the guards, then a lowly farm labourer who is still under enemy control before the flag flips, sees the massive crowd of EP hoard who had just wiped out his entire elite squad of soldiers, and what does he do? Yup, you guessed it, rather than run for the hills, he charges headlong into the middle of the pack, attacking us with a broom. Haha hilarious.

Cyrodiil Saturday

Talking about Cyrodiil, as mentioned, we had two good-sized teams last night, our Saturday Cyrodiil slot is very popular, and the amount of rewards was insane, most of us got 15-20 rewards of the worthy packs along with the Whitestrakes packs and a ton a AP. Do try to join us on Saturdays; the more we get in our group, the bigger our zerg and the better chance we have of taking every keep we come across. It's epic fun, I never knew PvP could be so enjoyable. When I started this 18 months ago, we were lucky to get three or four people; I didn't even want to do it as I sucked at PvP, (I'm still not very good). Now we are running two teams! Come along and have fun, it's well rewarded on Guild Points too, 60 per hour and most of us are there three hours on average. Don't forget each reward of the worthy box contains 25 transmutes if you open one box per day. I have 17 boxes from last night, that's 425 transmute crystals from 3 hours of fun!!! So don't open them all at the same time, in the next update, the amount of transmutes you can hold is increasing by a lot, I think I read up to 3000, so keep those RotW boxes and open one a day. What's on in February

The highlight for February for me is a brand new event, Heart's Week. Sadly, they are not adding romancing into the game yet, despite years of talking about it, but you will be able to level up your companions faster. Here are a few details: Heart’s Week (February 11–18)

Earn a new memento while enjoying a bonus to XP and rapport gains for your companions during the Heart’s Week in-game event. Look for more information about this new event closer to its start date.

Golden Pursuits—Hasten to Heart’s Day (February 11-18)

Earn even more rewards during the Heart’s Week event period, including an affectionate emote, furnishings, and more, with a new Golden Pursuits campaign. Have fun, everyone and good luck in this evening's next attempt at Ossein Cage on Vet!

Matt GM