First off let us welcome you back into the year 2012, the year of the Dragon has fallen upon us all.

So here we are folks back into the grind of another year that is slowly dawning and we are not sure what is going right now, we have many plans in mind and I believe that in terms of our own guilds here we share the common thing to look at ways of doing future raids in the near future.

I thought to throw in the title "New Years Resolutions" to get you all thinking and wondering what the combined guilds of Elysium, Killer Inc and Spaceballz guild had come up with and thus brought it before to the table of Revanantz Forces guild.

As you know the forums are quiet and the community is silent, dormant and waiting for new things to talk about or even merely discuss about future ingame content and perhaps resuming the onboard roleplaying as of late. Well the community was large and is now small, majority of which those people who have chosen to stay and visit would more or less participate whenever they feel like it.

So... Where does Revanantz Forces guild say for their own New Years Resolutions?

Ladies and Gentleman,

The Revanantz Forces guild are always potentially looking for new guild members that would help us either in the short or long term goals. Proactively the guild is having fun questing and doing random Flashpoint dungeons as either a group or working with other players on different servers looking for new members all the time.

^ Image of the year 2011: Guild Leader Satelerevan playing on his Jedi Knight character Krurin Masaror with a pug group through the Flashpoint Taral V

I would like to mention that during throughout the BETA program, we really enjoyed having fun with other players from all over the globe who were able to help us make the game whole and make the game as it is today. No doubt the vanilla version of Star Wars The Old Republic (SWTOR) has a few glitches and bugs here and there but like all MMO games that I have played from the beginning infant stages, we all start off from somewhere. The good thing about this game is that you will find noobish players both young and old would be playing this game for the following reasons...

And much more simplistic comments like that my friends have either sparked the whole contraversy of why we want something that is either new, exciting but different to the other online games we have played for. I will admit, last time when the WoW guild Elysium from Silvermoon server tried to break away from World of Warcraft was to try out the brand new MMO game called RIFT. Even though this had partially succeeded in a way to try out the game for at least two weeks but this had backfired for future intensions of leaving an MMO that we had known for a very long time and go back to starting fresh with similar characters and classes that we know but we find it with better graphics. However it was good to try it out but we were disappointed with the overal game experience.

Remembering the good memories of 2011

After returning back to World of Warcraft and continued our fun of raiding, dungeon finding and of course the questing of leveling more newer characters on the server had literally led us down the path onto a more repetitive state of mind where we found ourselves getting bored with the new content of the game. However we appreciated after the changes that were made and introduced at the beginning of the Cataclysm expansion pack that had made us create or continued working on characters to become the maximum level and get up to level 85.

When we all reached that level though, raiding could be only done by one character at a time. By the end of the Wrath of the Lich King, Killer Inc had been disbanded and moved on with the guild had split up into a new guild that was reborn called Elysium, originally this guild was led by Revan (aka Satelerevan) however remained as the Founder of Elysium and became a well respected VIP official of the guild. In return, Jazzybelle took the reigns of being the guild leader and till this day has led the guild quite successfully.

Despite the history of the guild, we all have moved on and focused on guild achievements and progression together. For those who needed Icecrown Citadel drakes were given the opportunity to go ahead and form teams to get in there, get it done and get out. However the elitist team comprised of Satelerevan "The Wrath Destroyer" and Jazzybelle "The Jazzy Jackson" had selected a few people within the guild to go in for the Lich King Heroic kill to gain the upperhand of the title "Bane of the Fallen King'

After four long hours, the team had finally arrived to confront the Lich King himself. Dare we say it, 11 bosses in four hours seemed overkill yes? Despite how long the raid was, the group did not care about snack time or drinking too much. Satelerevan led the final charge of discussing the simplist strategy as quick as possible whilst Jazzy did the talking on the run as the group winged it together. In two good attempts the group managed to conquer the first two phases properly but at one point we had the Lich King almost dead and vanished before our eyes!

What a glitch, nothing to be proud of I'm sure for our third attempt.

On the fourth attempt (which we called it our third) we finally defeated the Lich King and gained our heroic Lich King titles. We were known as the "Bane of the Fallen King" heroes of Elysium. After the Lich King had been defeated and getting the 10man version Icecrown CItadel drake, we were content with it. However the following week we all worked together for the Lich King 25man kill that we never had accomplished but we did achieve it together however despite of getting the achievements done, we all lost interest for the Light of Dawn raid that never happened for us.

Despite missing out Light of Dawn, some of us were lucky to obtain it from another guild run whilst others transferred faction and servers that got their own titles. When Cataclysm came out the best highlight for us was when the guild was working together and everyone was supportive of the new content and guild. Guild progression was fun overall where the vast majority of players were raiding and seeing the new content.

I remembered when on how many attempts that we fought and died trying, and spending countless gold repairs to try and kill the first boss on Bastion of Twilight called Halfus. Eventually, we killed him after like 13 attempts and that was fun. I still remember till this day on how the guild fought tirelessly against Halfus for the heroic version and scored a kill on that one as well before Firelands had come out. When Firelands came out, Elysium went in with six raiding teams and our guild was rapidly growng quite fast to the point that our guild was at a large size. That was the best memory we had of Elysium, it was thriving and despite whatever happened on thereafter, our friendships with those we had still remained till this day. 

Aftermath of Elysium?

The biggest let down was the new expansion for World of Warcraft that was recently announced by Blizzard had us thinking why it was called "Mists of Pandarian", this had triggered a huge backfire within our guild itself. Elysium was split into several minature guilds. Revanantz Forces was formed by Satelerevan as a brotherly guild to Elysium and remained as allies to them. Elysium was still the main founding guild led by both Jazzy and Revan, however the other guilds that were formed broke away eventually when drama had become the solid issue that could have been prevented but the past is the past.

When the new expansion was announced and a lot of people were annoyed by this sudden shellshock change, for those who were on the Star Wars The Old Republic beta had a chance to escape from the crowd. There was a lot of bickering, hate and the constant fighting back and forth about why raiders had felt neglected this time around. Although with the storyline of Cataclysm was due to end sooner or later, when the latest patch was realeased in early December last year, Deathwing was out and the new Raid Finder was available. When people joined up for the Raid Finder, the raid for the Fall of Deathwing was felt too easy by some people but once we had got the achievements we needed and had seen the ending of the Cataclysm expansion. A lot fo people had decided to quit the game.

So, what did happen? That was the summary. Revanantz Forces guild had finished planting their flags on WoW as the best raiding guild on the server alongside with Elysium but after defeating Deathwing and for those guild members who were invited to the Star Wars The Old Republic beta program were able to do whatever they wanted and relax. When the pre-ordering of the game was available, it was only a matter of time before majority of the guild had decided to leave the game they had enjoyed for so long and move onto something new. 

Is the New Years resolution to join Star Wars the Old Republic? 

Well that is really up to you!

We don't have to use the ways of the Force to convince you to join us but if you want something new, we are here because of the new.

As of 20 December 2011, the guild Revanantz Forces and its allies around them have moved onto the Star Wars universe leaving their years of MMO experience from other online games. Desptie how we felt about those games, we always had welcomed to the new change and particualarlly believed that if there was a game out there that is both relaxing and enjoyable, anyone could do it together with anyone they liked.

In this author's opinion, considering that we all had our good and bad moments, we always welcomed a change but at the same time we always preferred action and raiding rather than  doing family activities all the time. Ultimately this new MMO we have been playing for lately has been something we had been waiting for a long time now, it has been several years since the last release of Knights of the Old Republic that games like that would have inspired anyone in any shape or form. We all know that the final product is not yet complete but just like all games it takes time to get its fruitrition to make it grow.