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Hi everyone, this is another personal note from Zokku.

After a few months of waiting for S2 and Vella, the release has not quite reached my expectations.  However, Vic and I have been discussing plans for the guild and it's in our best interest that we finally relieve ourselves from Isolation Mode.  As you know, Isolation Mode was no recruiting, no events, no raids, and L*tarded Zokku for about a few months.  This process was used to filter out members for those who liked the guild for the people and for those who just liked it for whatever reasons.  Our main goal in this plan was to keep members who would still stay by our sides even though the guild would fall into probably one of its deepest recessions (Hah, get it?).  In other words, WeTheProud is changing its interface-ial name from a Guild to a Team.

Guild Changelog/Plans for S2:
1. Recruiting system is changed.  Players will no longer be accepted through friends/connections/recruition(Shotgun approach)/guild thread.  Instead, players will only be accepted through Interviews and Tests of "Decent" Skill.  More information on this later.
2. We decided to limit the recruitment of people to 1 per 1-3 weeks.  The reason behind this is to make sure our guild stays as a close knit community that doesn't turn out into some huge explosive and scattered cliche mess (Ex. T-*Cough*).  There will be exceptions to this.
3. As the new guild slot limit is 200, it's unfortunate for us to say that we'll have to start calculating Activity times for people.  This means, Alts to some extent will not be accepted into the guild, and it's part of your responsibility to make sure you're active enough to stay in the guild.  (Remember, this is just another small conduct in order to make sure we don't have 3 month old players that are level 10).
4. Guild Expansions and Chests are completely useless.  I already took into account of what these features may include, but they're absolutely useless.  Don't bother wasting your time.
5. As we no longer have dedicated raids or events, we're going to try to keep the team together by having 1 favorite activity that everyone can participate in.  This activity is unknown for now because our main source of "guild related" activities were Raids.  However, Raids have become stale and its in our best interest to include something different such as "Guild PVP", which is coming up in the next patch.
6. Admins.  VictoriqueDB is the only admin that players can refer to for now.  Bulldogg and Ohashi don't have time anymore, so they're going to have be relieved from their duties.  Ikame is still on and off, so you may refer to her whenever she is available.
7. Zokku.  The reason why I've been acting extremely childish and like a complete retard was to test the community's feedback from a leader's perspective.  I'm extremely glad to find out that members weren't affected (to some extent) by my behavior, and this has shown me proof that I don't have to layout rules or policies.

Website Changes:
1. We're going to drop Dolby Axon.  It's too inconvenient.
2. We're still going to keep Steam, but it won't be as prominent to members' communication methods.
3. We're restoring Scribblar.
4. Blogspot is restored too, I'll be posting more often.

Personal Review of S2:
TLDR: Honestly, S2 isn't quite what I expected it to be.  In fact, it's a bit repetitive in my tastes because it's all about killing new monsters, hoping for impossible drops, and then making equipment that isn't exactly the best looking (Avenging Blades, LOL).
So I raise my question to Nexon and to the Team, what path does Vindictus have from here?  From this moment on, it seems that the only route for Vindictus is casual play, just as how we've been casually playing on/off throughout the years.  It's a sad story to tell, but nevertheless, casual player is better than ladder anxiety.

Future Updates:
1. Open World.  Vindictus Devs have begun Open World development, where players can fight (PVP) and kill some monsters in Town.  This sounds a bit inconvenient, since we still have map changes.
2. AP Reversal Weapon.  This is only a rumor or terrible translation, but the devs log announced that
players will be able to restore their broken weapon such as going from +12-13 by sacrificing an ENORMOUS amount of AP.  Probably sacrifice about 3-5 Rank 6 Skills.

Emergency! Read This About Guild Bug!

1. All guilds in vindictus cannot be disbanded BEFORE the patch
2. You cannot join a guild even if it was made AFTER the patch
3. You cannot remake a guild with the same name

In other words, all WTP members, please do not leave WTP as a guild (not that you have a choice), but try to add each other on friends and keep in contact until there has been a fix.

Apparently there's a huge guild bug where people can't join guilds or remake them due to certain issues.
We'll just have to wait for a few days or few weeks to see if Nexon is able to fix this.

Instructions:
1. Stay in the guild channel, this is our only means of communication
2. Colhen and Morvan CAMPFIRE will be our main pad area for socializing (You'll find me there)
3. Try to stay on Scribblar (Brought back, dropped Dolby) until we can fix this issue.

It's Time.

Season 2 is here.  Get ready for some big changes.

Halloween Update 10/24 Confirmed by Aeselli

In KR, you have to buy surprise supplies which provide Death Reaper outfit.  Not sure if they'll use that same concept for NA, but it looks really cool.   There are two versions, one with feet showing and one without.  It might just be exclusive for Karok though.

There are some sale tag prices for about $15 for the whole set or $1 to get boxes for chance of 1 piece of the set.

Ugh.

Just "ugh".  Apparently, Average Element Stones can give you +DEF stats on armor.
All this time I've been using Blue Expensive Element Stones.

All that ap.
All that money.
All that time.

Just "ugh".

Jump Event Organization, WeTheKai Disbanded

Free level 50's for everyone.  Right.

First thing's first, if you're deleting a char to make room, or just remaking to gain free levels, then delete your alt from the guild.  You can also just delete the character, same stuff.

Next, apply with your new character, but include in your intro, THE MAIN IGN, and character type.

Ex. "I'm applying with this char, my main is Zokku, Vella"


I'm deleting my Kai to make him lvl 50, so WTK has been disbanded.
We'll discuss whether there's a need to remake WTK, but at the moment, it is highly likely that we won't proceed with such actions.

Prepare.

The ultimatum is almost here.  In fact, my egregious actions of posting random nonsense deplore the fact that this actual post was made.  Nevertheless do not worry my brethren, the ultimatum is almost here...prepare.

S2 New Skills

More Gust Stingers for all!
I couldn't find an EMBED code for Evie's Dark Hole Skill so here's the link:
http://www.inven.co.kr/board/powerbbs.php?come_idx=2034&query=view&p=1&my=&category=&sort=PID&orderby=&where=&name=&subject=&content=&keyword=&sterm=&iskin=&l=308665&nxid=15

Z's Personal Update

Hi guys, it's been a jazillion years since I last created an official update via blogspot.
This is one of my more personal blogs in order to fully convey all my information towards those who read this blog and for those who actually still take time to visit and such.
Anyways, without any wait, I wish to post this as an official Fall Season update.

Vindictus:
1. Ignition Update.  This is 90% of the what we're all waiting for.  It'll change the entire gameplay of vindictus.  New HUD, more HP potions, Invinc frames, Jump, Stat boost, Skill boost, did I mention Invinc frames?
2. Guild Update.  Prepare.  There's going to be a HUGE change in the guild once this comes out.
3. Morvan Update.  The new town will hopefully feature enhance/enchant and all other necessities that people find in Colhen to be in a rather tight spot.  That way players will be able to afk and such in Morvan, rather than Colhen.  Morvan is connected to Colhen.  You reach Morvan by going through Colhen docks.
4. Vella.  Female parts that shake.  Must I say more?
5. Hurk.  Some rumors, but apparently this character was "scrapped" when Beta was out.  He's a Two-handed giant sword wielder.  No news yet.

WeTheProud Community:
After contemplating many routes and organizing referendums for several issues, it's in the best interest that the guild tries to cut its numbers.  Summer was extremely hectic due to tons of people floating around and half of which I could personally not get to know.  One thing I do regret is losing several core members due to both inactivity and certain incidents.  However, we all make mistakes and as a result, the proper course of action to proceed with the guild is to simply control the activity.  This does not mean we're going to try to kill the community numbers itself, but rather try to close relationships among each other and build tight trust bonds so that the community can become one as a family again.
Ultimately, it's been fun so far and now that summer has officially ended, the game will proceed to hibernate and many players will quit.  As of now, the guild is in proper control, except for the fact that certain issues are still sprouting about and that we no longer use a main channel.  Albeit, hold your horses because in Morvan, we're going to make a lot of changes to the community.
Overall, Summer has been an interesting experience for us all.

Zokku:
This is probably the first post I've made that is personal and I wish to do so because I believe this is the proper time to finally announce to everyone, including those that are viewing this blog from other guilds that my time is limited.  By this I wish to make no promises nor oaths of the vague assumptions that comes from my statements, but consider that 2 years is long enough in leadership.

Personal rants:
1. Vindictus is a fast paced game, not in the sense of combat action, but in its content.  It's one of those games you play for about a few months then quit.  There's no substance in continuing to play such a game although I'm not exactly one to talk.
2. Evie is just plain out IMBA (Imbalanced).  There's no risk factor at all for this class and devs need to give the class more thrill and danger.  Especially in PVP, hops need to consume STA.
3. In my honest opinion, Kai was a failure as a class.  It has no unique attributes other than spamming arrows, which a certain class does already, but in another shape and form.  It's also one of the low DPS classes out there and cannot solo at all.  Then again, stutterstep needs to be removed.
4. If I could personally fix Vindictus, my number one suggestion would be to open a sourcemod like TF2/CSS.  We need more mods, gameplay styles, and a factor of skill.  Take out the enhance system.  Just give everyone plain weapons and let them duke it out based on skill and timing attacks.  More skills to balance this factor.
5. If I could place breasts on characters, then I'd put some on Lann.  Oh wait.
6. Vindictus is a free game, and as a free game you're going to meet some bad quality people with some bad quality customer service.

Closing statement:
As the community slowly dwindles in its numbers, it's time to say that WeTheProud is taking its steps towards a new form of guild.  It's time that WeTheProud no longer declares itself as a guild or community, but as a Team.

Prepare for Team WeTheProud.

Jump Update/Ignition Preview