Sin 2.0 - Rank Achievment System!

Icon of Sin: Final Boss of Doom II

I am very pleased to announce that I have developed a new ranking system for the guild that has been on my mind for awhile. With the help of a couple officers, members will now be recognized within the guild through their rank for their achievements in ToR. All members will know right away just how accomplished a player is.

Players will earn badges through their PvP, PvE, and RP activity and accomplishments. These achievements will then earn badges, and rank will go up with the number of badges obtained. Which badges have been earned will be visible in the member note, such as «\/» would indicate the Vainglory badge has been obtained.

The badges that may be earned are as follows:

«\/» - Vainglory Badge - Pride - This will be a specific personal goal or quest assigned to you by Zode.

«Å» - Asmodeus Badge - Lust  - Obtain the 4 piece PvE set bonus.

«§» - Iblis Badge -  Wrath - Rise to Valor rank 60: Battlemaster

«Ł» - Leviathan Badge - Envy - Defeat Soa in the Vault of Eternity.

«Z» - Beelzebub Badge - Gluttony - Get all three crew skills to 400.

«M» - Mammon Badge - Greed - Donate 250k to the guild bank for tax purposes.

«ß» - Belphegor Badge - Sloth - Follow the blog sin-guild.blogspot.com - and comment on a post with your in-game name to achieve this badge.

However, not everyone is called to such a Dark path and their are those who find honor in a different calling: to be a member of the Empire who walks the path of light. If they choose to forsake the above badges, they may instead pursue the following heavenly virtue medals:

[H] Humility Medal - Humbly complete a personalized quest bestowed upon you by Zode.

[C] Chastity Medal - Get your 4 piece PvE set bonus.

[P] Patience Medal - Reach Valor rank 60: Battlemaster.

[K] Kindness Medal - Get three crew skills to 400.

[T] Temperance Medal - Defeat Soa in the Eternity Vault.

[R] Charity Medal - Donate 350k to the guild bank to be distributed to the less fortunate.

[D] Diligence Medal - Follow the blog sin-guild.blogspot.com - and comment on a post with your in-game name to achieve this badge.

The updated ranks for the guild are as follows:

0 Guildmaster - Icon of Vainglory - Zode

1 Reverand Mother - Blessed Queen of Zode

2 Dark Council - Icon of Gluttony - Zode's Inner Circle

3 Dark Seducer - Officers and Recruiters.

4 « Ìߣͧ » Icon of Wrath - 7 Badges

5 « ŧmºÐ³µ§ » Icon of Lust - 6 Badges

6 « Łë\/!ã†hªñ » Icon of Envy - 5 Badges

7 « (V)åmmøñ » Icon of Greed - 4 Badges

8 « ßé£þhèG¤® » Icon of Sloth - 3 Badges

9 Recruit - Initiate drawn in by a Dark Seducer.

At this point the plan is: twice a week, Tuesday and Saturday, there will be a ceremony at Dromund Kaas or the Imperial Fleet for those who have achieved the Badges required for promotion. This will allow us to put on our finest regalia and socialize with Sin members of all levels.

Sin enters 16-man Eternity Vault.

Tonight's raid was anticipated by many, and as our players have leveled to 50 we had 16 ready to raid tonight. A mix of our eight-man team who had cleared Eternity Vault, some players who had come a few times and sat bench others, and new 50's some of whom had never raided before!

So tonight Trogdar, Vampuir, and Infest tanked. Aleesi, Hahaumissedahh, Vrassek, and Uncanny came as healers, and Achilis, Koithim, Jecht, Demoneta, Demi, Lizbeth, Kuroyama, Gorb and I showed up to deal damage.

All of our more experienced raiders were very classy and helped teach the newcomers about aggro, boss mechanic dances, ways of preparation , how to use Ventrilo. Everyone had a great attitude and a lot of fun. Congrats to Trogdar on his 4 piece set, as well Infest and Jecht on their Tier 2 gloves. And also four people for their Tier 1 helmets including Haha, Vrassek, Lizbeth, and Infest!

After a grueling time clearing through some enhanced 16-man trash, we finally made it to Gharj. After several attempts we had him to 9% twice and getting blocked by the enrage. We decided to go work on our gear and come back with more focus and a tight group.

We'll be raiding Thursday at 10:15 PM and see who shows up, and if interest continues we will through the weekend as well.

Eternity Vault 5/5 Cleared: Soa, The Infernal One defeated.

Sin stands before the defeated Infernal One.

Congrats, everyone on a job well done. I could not be more proud of our raid for showing up on time and prepared with a great attitude. It has been amazing over the last few weeks to watch this guild grow from just a small group of friends with a vision, a vision of a guild that could bring in mature, adult players who want to socialize with like-minded people in the pursuit of better PvP, PvE, and RP than could be achieved alone.

And with the defeat of this the final boss of the first PvE raid, and breaking 140 members - each of whom we have gotten to know personally before recruiting them - I feel we have succeeded. 

4/5 Eternity Vault complete!

We were successful beyond expectations in tonight's raid. After a slow start, we defeated Gharj on the second attempt. We beat the puzzle pylon boss on about the third or fourth try, due to some faulty information. Virlis really shined during the raid and stepped up into a leadership role both in the raid chat and on ventrilo since I wasn't able to be on vent tonight.

 Vampuir and Trogdar both got their Tier 2 set legs as well as some other nice pieces. Kuroyama, Acchilis, Virlis, and Uncanny also got some nice loot. I recieved the Columni DPS set boots. I'm having a great time with the Vengeance spec DPS Juggernaut. I feel powerful and capable of doing strong burst, and with 3 dots my overall damage is excellent. I am also quite tough and able to off-tank the adds I kill.


We killed the Infernal Council on the first attempt, and that was just an awesome fight. So creative. I had a blast with it even if it is easy. We managed a couple attempts on Soa as well, but as it was getting late we decided to call it for the time being and re-clear tomorrow. 


Trogdar and Vampuir as our main tanks did an excellent job as always. Their consistent performance, patience, and positive attitude really allow the raid to flourish. They were promoted to Commander and Sith Lord, respectively for ongoing valor and their role in taking us to the final boss of Eternity Vault. 

For weeks now Virlis has been a constant source of amazing information, guidance, and insight both to myself as guildmaster and the guild as a whole. Having completed Eternity Vault weeks ago and also Hard Mode Karagga's Palace, Virlis is miles ahead and able to guide us by the hand through the content. A very active member and spectacular healer, Virlis was promoted to Moff in a capacity to continue to inform, inspire, and advise the ranks of Sin.


I eagerly await our continued efforts as we grow in ability, equipment, and teamwork when we return to plunder the vault tomorrow night.

Galactic Operations: Gharj

Battled Magmadar err Gharj in Molten Core - very proud of the group, we got him to 44% on the first attempt! He is simple enough, so please check out the following video to see what attacks needed to be avoided and how to move from island to island. Expect a screenshot with dead bosses soon.

Sin downs Annihilation Droid XRR-3!

Sin takes a moment to savor a hard earned victory.

Our first night raiding definitely lived up to my high expectations. Everyone was on before 11 so we were able to get into the Operation, Eternity Vault, around that time. We had about 12 or 13 in guild so we found a few more DPS to bring with us so we could try the 16 person version. The first couple attempts saw us quickly annihilated.

But was we continued on and learned the boss abilities and refined our methods, our attempts improved... 60%... 40%... and finally a couple below 20% that were ended by the enrage timer. Understandable, since many of us had just hit level 50 cap in a day or few before. My gear was quite awful and I was tank spec when we already had a couple excellent, dedicated tanks, so I was not much help either - except in the Leadership department, where I truly shined.to

It was great to get everyone on Vent and finally get to chat and do some larger stuff socially. After awhile it became clear some folks had to go, so we broke the 16 person raid down into the 8 person version, I re-specialized to damage dealing and got some higher level gear

The boss was so exciting and tuned very well. Trogdar was our Powertech Bounty Hunter, and Vampuir our Juggernaut Sith Warrior tank. Both were excellent, natural leaders communicating to taunt the boss off one another if the other got injured. Our healers, Hahaumissedahh, Uncanny, and Virlis, were amazing. Very professional, healing through any mistakes players made in dodging missiles, never running out of Force, and never complaining. A pleasure to work with. Lizbeth, Gorb, Greenthumb and Sourne were awesome DPS careful not to pull aggro, dodging a lot of randomized damage and up against a stiff enrage timer for fresh level 50's in very unoptimized gear. 

Even though it was the easiest boss, our team worked together and never complained through many wipes and challenges to defeat this mechanical menace. I'm very proud of everyone for sticking with it for many hours until we found victory.

I'd also like to thank Fiddler, Kuroyama, Ralphrotten, Rain'drop, Larynn, and Bz'aro for helping us learn the mechanics of the fight on the more challenging 16 man version. The friends we make won't be forgotten.

Finally, we got some great loot: I love an 8 person boss that drops 4 items, and an epic 400 Cybertech Schematic for Virlis to boot! No stingy bosses like WoW! Sourne and Lizbeth got class Tier set glove tokens, Uncanny got an epic headpiece, and LORD ZODE got an Epic Heavy DPS Helmet!

We are going back in tomorrow at 11, and Tuesday at 7, this will likely be our schedule for the future, shorter raids likely as well. Hope to see you there!

http://www.swtor.com/news/news-article/20120119

so if it works the title of this post should link to the new trailer bioware posted. some really exciting this coming up which i know will keep me playing. i think its brilliant bioware has kept the team who created the game together to maintain and create more content. that was the biggest blow to wow, so many talented developers who created the game were not there to continue high quality design principles. guild banks are coming. also grreat news for us. hopefully they add guild halls or guild capital ships, having a sin star destoyer would be amazing. great news for everyone really, ranked systems and new warzone for pvp, new raid content for pve, and legacy system for those altoholics out there. i usually have one or two alts but they dont get nearly the attention of my main. even so, ji want one of each class here, just to see the story and build my legacy. good times.

Starting to Raid

i am almost level fifty, and many in the guild are fifty or close, so soon we will begin our will begin weekly pve operations. right now i am looking at raid times of saturday at eleven pm est and tuesday at seven pm est. raids will run three to four hours depending on the night and our group. if both of these times are impossible or you have input please contact me as these are not set in stone. so we will be looking to start the first raid saturday night and i hopand i hope to see you there. please have ventrilo installed and a mic if possible. thanks

Introducing Sin... Snowblind Down!

Welcome. I'm usually terrible at updating or maintaining any kind of web site or project, and I'm too much of a control freak to let anyone else do it for me. 
That said, with any luck I will be posting some regular updates with how <Sin> guild on Ven Zallow (east coast RP-PVP server) is doing. I think we are all excited to be playing Star Wars: The Old Republic, and can sense that it is the dawn of a new era with hopefully many years of adventures together. It is easy to feel the excitement and enthusiasm. 

With that in mind, feel free to use your google account, or register a new one with your in-game name, and comment on these posts. You know, since their won't be any forums or anything. like that. I will also be updating news here about raids, possibly schedules, what bosses are down, upcoming activities, things of that nature. If I get around to it.


For now, I will post the information that inspired me to create this: tonight we ran our first Ops to down some world bosses! Below are some photos of our Ops group with Snowblind, a level 44 Heroic World Boss on Hoth! We defeated other Heroic World Bosses as well: Ulgo Siegebreaker on Alderaan, The Ancient One on Taris, Rogue Cartel Warbot on Quesh, and Battle Droid R4-GL on Nar Shaddaa! All these bosses dropped 3 epics each and a bunch of credits, so it was a profitable night! -LordZode 

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