While I understand you may disagree with us having a "fundraising event" I am wondering why you feel you need to disclose what seems to be your extreme distaste in something that we are looking forward to be another enjoyable event we hold. I would like to clarify a couple misconceptions you have made. We are a part of a much larger multi-gaming guild, and have been organized before the early access date, and will be here until servers shut down, should BioWare/EA continue to make the game available for us to play. You obviously have no knowledge about us, and I find it laughable you think we are a fledgling guild(s). We are in fact a reasonably large active guild in SWTOR that has events of some sort every day of the week. We regularly have massive guild parties in which we give away millions of credits and more prizes in the form of in game items to our members, to which we have a very positive turnout. Between our multiple guild banks, we certainly have more than enough to purchase our guild ships at release, not including the hundreds of millions, perhaps even a billion, credits our membership as a whole holds. We elected to open up this event to the Shadowlands community to involve more interested people. We really enjoy the events we hold and thought perhaps others could as well. We have had several events where players outside of our guild have participated and received positive feedback there. It seems you claim to have millions upon millions of credits, yet appear to think that 500k is a ridiculous entry fee, which seems to be pocket change, and can be made in only a couple hours as stated above, to someone of such financial wealth. You are obviously missing the point of the fun that is to be had at an event such as a server wide Bounty Hunt., as you do not seem to participate in such things. If you would rather sit on your pile of credits or find a better use for them, that is up to you as they are to do with as you please. We are certainly not begging anyone to give us credits. I truly feel sorry for you that you do not have a guild (nor interest) to play with, as many of our members will state having such an active environment to play in is really what makes playing this game so enjoyable, whether content is stale or not, as we can make content ourselves. I would even go as far as extending an invitation to come check us out and see truly what we are about. We accomodate all types of players and have something for everyone. Just click the links in my signature.

We are always on the lookout for more players. We have 2 prog groups running; 1 on each side. We have a 16M Pub side working on NiM and 8M Imp side working on HM. Come check us out at http://www.covenantofthephoenix.com/forums/forum/220-star-wars-the-old-republic-pve/ to see if we are a good fit for you. Send me a message Pub side : Drekk'en

Guild name: *Covenant of the Phoenix / *Empire of the Phoenix Faction: Republic /Empire Focus: We are a multi-game, family-friendly community. Our members enjoy all facets of the game, including leveling alts, PVP, HM FP groups, dailies groups, guild nights, SM OPs, and have a 16M HM progression group. Website: cotp.info

If anyone is interested, Covenant of the Phoenix does SM and HM 16man Pub side Ops and 8man Imp side Ops weekly. Active guild, but always looking to play with new people. Check us out in my signature or send me a PM.

We were working through our first 16 man S&V SM the other night and found these guys to be more of a challenge than any of the other groups and bosses thus far. We worked through it and defeated them, but I am looking for some positive feedback from others who have completed this fight who can maybe give a better strat than what we used. The composition of the four "blue group" that successfully defeated these guys were: Guardian Tank, Sage Healer, Sage DPS, Sharpshooter. I pulled the two guys back to the niche in the wall so the ranged could position behind. We alternated stuns on one while the DPS burned the other, using force wave and knockbacks to interrupt their cast ability. Like I said, we defeated these guys, but maybe there is a more efficient way. Any help is appreciated

<Covenant of the Phoenix> is a family style, multi-game community with Republic and Empire side guilds. We have weekly events, do all levels of operations, have forums & mumble. Check out our recruitment thread: http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=533940 Check our our site: http://www.cotp.info