<Carnage> of bonder Crystal. We were the premier 16 man guild on our server. We were the first to 10/10 nightmare mode ev/kp. We were the first guild to kill nightmare pilgrim, we had what we believed to be the best pvp group on the server as we only ever lost to our own premades. We had everything we wanted, we were ready for 1.2 and had built our guild so that we could be server first in PvE and PvP for a long time to come. 1.2 dropped with no nightmare mode, no ranked pvp, and nothing for our end game competitive players. The new Opperation was great, significantly better then the first 2. We had no complaints there. But our guild was extremely PvP focused for a progression raiding guild. I'm pretty certain that most of us were looking forward to ranked PvP more then we were to the new opperation. There wasn't a guild on the server that could compete with us at 16m raiding and we knew it, so there was nothing to push us.
Needless to say a lot of our players lost interest when ranked PvP didn't come out. We had steady progress through Denova but where we used to have 20-22 on for a 16m raid it quickly dropped to 16 and then below. Our guild leader announced the guild was leaving the game when he was mainly the one leaving. Needless to say with a low population server, infrequent PvP pops and no player base to recruit fresh talent from our guild just kind of disolved. There are a few of us around still pvping some together and just trying to ride it out until server transfers are up but it feels pointless. Most of our top players from the PvE and PvP teams are long gone with no intentions of coming back. They are either rolling into Diablo 3 or waiting for GW2 to get a fresh start and see if they can have better success then SWTOR did.
It is really depressing to me to see the guild die the way it did. We had an exceptional base, great relationships, and were built to last, but the dwindeling server population, lack of competition, and length of time between easy content just took the fire out of the guild and most moved on. It's sad, but the fact is that if we had been lucky enough to be put on fatman at launch we would still be happily playing this game, loving the constant PvP and pushing for server first progressoin raiding to beat the other guilds that were driving us, instead I'm typing this out and getting ready to go do a little research on Diablo 3, a game I had no intentions of playing.