Sea of Sorrows!

Ruethryl broke the news yesterday that Lethality will in fact be going to the server Freeholds. This is 100% true. There was a bit of an outcry when this news came out, and I'd like to shed some light on why myself and the rest of the council voted for this server name. First let me clear up some of the complaints that have come up:

• -As of now, NO ONE knows how populated a server will be. Freeholds could turn into the largest server since it is the newest one and many guilds may decide to do what we've chosen to do.
• -We did not select Freeholds because we think it will be easy mode. Many people brought this up, and as of now, no one has any idea how easy or hard any server will be just as we won't know the server population.

Now here are the main reasons why we choose Freehold:

Whether you were aware or not, as a guild on Serpentis Isle we did in fact make a few enemies. Myself and some other Guild Masters called out a few "Ass-hole" GMs in CBT4 and CBT5. Due to this and a high probability that some people may try to Troll our guild and the other guilds who stood by me and the other GMs, we eliminated Serpentis Isle from consideration. I want to make sure our guild as a whole, not just the Hardcore players, has a home to have fun in, and not worry that someone will try to take our guild name or the names of guild member's toons.

Second, as of now all guilds were split evenly across the servers on the NA forums. Temptest Reach was the least talked about server and Freeholds took its place, though we can't know whether that lack of hype prompted EME to change the server name. Being a server that none of the Big Guilds have claimed yet gives us the chance to be the first large guild to stake a claim. However, it does look like Freeholds may be in the same boat compared to other servers as other guilds have announced that they're going there.

Dragonfall was the 2nd most voted Server behind Serpentis Isle on the guild vote. Since some of the ass-hole PVE guilds and just about every single small guild are going there, we wanted to steer clear of drama and the chance at server ques when logging in for the first few weeks. There is a high change of Dragon Fall filling up and people being forced to go over to other servers, based on what EME has said in their character creation post (i.e they'll wait until servers fill up before deciding to add extra slots per server or extra servers).

We realize Freeholds is a bit of a Gamble on some levels, but the Council and myself feel that in order to make the majority of the guild happy, it was the right choice. Some people had told us to they won't follow and have chosen to quit the guild. People like this don't make a guild great in the long run, they just bring us down due to their bitching.

Going forward onto our new server I believe we will start a great new chapter for Lethality. People are already making great friends and are always on-line playing multiple games together. I look forward to the days where Lethality has 100s of players across multiple games that stay with us, not because of the numbers we have, but because they've made friends here, and can stay and with them and move on to the next great thing.

- Daphonic