Banana Boyz Guild BBz - World of Warcraft

Number 1 on World of Warcraft Rankings

BBz News — Tue, 07 Dec 2004 04:45:00 +0800

Character Ranking out of all 88 servers

Character Ranking on the Laughing Skull Server

- 1st Shaman level 60 of all 88 servers.
- 2nd Horde level 60 of all 88 servers.
- 3rd level 60 of all 88 servers.
- 1st level 60 of all the second wave of servers opening a couple days after retail.
- 1st level 60 of the Laughing Skull server with a 10 levels advance.

So many records and a few more I won't bother listing... and thats eventhough we were forced to change server 2 days after retail (due to Archimonde's instability) and started with 22 levels below other people on our server and up to 30 levels below people of other servers.

Yet none of these "leveling titles" were the real goal, the real goal was about being done with this insane leveling ASAP to be able to enjoy the rest of the game without any special pressure. I so hate leveling that going through a week and a half of hell provides me with the satisfaction of finally being done with it.

Big thanks to Denpxc who contributed a huge deal in allowing me to level this fast without totally compromising my RL/mental health ;)

So whats ahead now?

PvPing, helping my guildmates finish their leveling, doing instances when enough of them are level 60 aswell...

As you may have noticed while there were close to no BBz in the top 25 of the server a few days ago, more and more are getting there and some are getting the highest spots.

Pyros should most likely be the next to reach 60 enventhough he started 4 days after the server opened. Zjiv and Cookie aren't far behind and decay and flexx seem to be performing well aswell.

WoW is meant to be really starting at 60 and with the strong alliance opposition we have it should be fun.

I just hope the incoming pvp patch will fix all the issues with kill rewards/death penalty and pvp death respawning location. Else the game may grow boring real fast.

Keeping Banana Boyz small

BBz News — Sun, 05 Dec 2004 04:45:00 +0800

After reaching 100+ members a couple days after the guild was created, it was decided to cut the numbers down.

Anyone below 20 who was not previously voted in was booted. This sets a simple rule for new candidates to joining us: to apply to the guild you have to be 20+. Chances are this recruiting restriction will get higher as time passes.

Why not using the recruiting policy we used when we built Blood?

Well the answer is simple: because we can.

We had set Blood's recruiting policy based on two observations:

1/ AC had monarchies not guilds, and everyone could recruit making recruiting control close to impossible past a certain number of followers. In WoW, we have real control regarding who gets in/not since only officers can add people.

2/ In AC we were the underdog when we started and we noticed that no matter how much we'd win our fights, if the enemy kept coming back with more people we'd end up loosing the fight in the long range. So we came up with a simple tactic: let your enemy swear to you, its one less opponent outnumbering you and one more guildmate helping you on the ground, making it an instant +2 bonus or should I say +3 since you'd also get his XP from the xp chain system... In WoW the situation is completly different. Only members of your faction can join you, so whether they are in your guild or not is irrelevant, they'll be on your side eitherway, plus you get no xp rewards from people sworn in... So that makes it much better to have a tight group of people you can count on than a huge mass of people.

As for the Zerg issue, I'm confident our recruiting policy will still provide us with enough numbers to be able to counter most of these events.

We could have stayed on Archimonde where Hordes were outnumbering the Alliance by 2 to 1. We instead chose a more competitive server for Hordes (Laughing Skull) where alliance has a stronger base than hordes. As time passes we welcome this choice more and more as it provides us with fun fights.

PvP urgently needs a fix though. There needs to be a reward on kills and a corresponding penalty on death. Along with that the respawn location of players needs to be changed when they die from pvp death. IE: they should respawn alive at their Inn tie, that would prevent people from coming back to the battle ground over and over within seconds. If Blizzard doesn't do that, the game will become pointless as it will be impossible to give a meaning to PvP nor to control specific zones.

Archimonde server down

BBz News — Thu, 25 Nov 2004 04:45:00 +0800

Blizzard has just added 34 new servers tonight and taken down Archimonde and 3 other servers for 24 to 48 hours.

Not knowing in which shape Archimonde will be when it comes back, we have decided to reroll on the Laughing Skull Central PvP server which came up a few hours ago. Several other important guilds also made that choice. The server population is Mid so its all good.

Theres 90% chances we'll be back on Archimonde but we're preparing the possibility that we may not be able to (ie: more than 2 days down time and still huge problems to get ig).

Banana Boyz Website Opening

BBz News — Mon, 25 Oct 2004 04:45:00 +0000

Banana Boyz (BBz) are on their way back in the realm of online gaming.

Stay tuned as more info will be revealed in the upcoming weeks.

For now you can bookmark BBz website which is still under construction:

http://www.bbzguild.com

So far so good

BBz News — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 04:45:00 +0800

Well it's been a few days we've been on Laughing Skull now and its time for an update.

Everyone is leveling pretty nicely, we currently have the highest level char of the server (with 2 alliances 1 level behind when they used to be 22 levels in advance when we started here).

The PvP is fun, I've killed some, I've been killed some. Lots of encounters & /who 25-40 stats which makes me believe we really chose the best server to play as horde since the Alliance opposition is quite strong and it should be really interesting.

I did a short come back on Archi to do server stats on both faction sides with my 2 accounts, and while there are a lot of hordes, the alliance population is really behind in terms of numbers which IMO will make this server rather pointless in the long range due to imbalance.

On a side note I was sent an URL to a news page from those wannabes known as Sanguinans. The news post is made by Doomgaze who was kicked from KoC several months ago, KoC which he had tried joining 4 times, got denied 3 times and had only been let in on his 4rth attempt due to people being bored of having to vote no for him months after months lol. He's claiming all sorts of things and now tries to bash the people he was begging to let him in the guild.

To set the record straight and point out his stupidity, we have "Banana Boyz" guild tag on Laughing Skull & "The Banana Boyz" guild tag on Archimonde (as a backup). So, as I previously said regarding all the newbies trying to jack our guild name from us, all you managed to do was wasting your time and money for absolutly no gain.

I wish the best to Doomgaze err sorry "DoUmgaze" and hope he will finally recover from all this begging and crying he showed us the past days trying to get us to trade him his nickname back:

07:46 Session Ident: Doomgaze (doomgaze@dcd1d571.pitt.east.36f5c1fe.net.hmsk) 07:46 Doomgaze yer cool 07:47 Rak thx 07:48 Doomgaze archimonde right? 07:48 Rak yes 07:48 Rak unless it blows up 07:48 Doomgaze judging by the lack of mine and addictions names 07:48 Rak awe 07:48 Doomgaze I'm assuming you your someone you know is responsible 07:48 Rak damn evil people 07:48 Rak i wonder who would do that 07:48 Doomgaze well I got Brugs 07:48 Doomgaze and Brugsman 07:49 Doomgaze so ;/ 07:49 * Rak|KoC cares

08:24 Session Ident: Doomgaze (doomgaze@dcd1d571.pitt.east.36f5c1fe.net.hmsk) 08:24 Doomgaze Dk, Niller, Pyros, Brugs, Brugsman, Ezekiel, Reg, and many others are under my control for multiple servers, so when you're ready to trade let me know, i'll be ig leveling till then