I'll most likely be focusing on ranged/stealth; it seems to be the most fun and I absolutely despise the ridiculous abundance of polearms.

Honestly, from what I've seen from the majority of raid/siege videos of even major clans that claim to be well-organized and coordinated, it's really just a giant dustcloud-style melee.  I've seen nearly zero separation of roles, as in everyone is trying to do everything (melee/magic/range) all at once, and there are absolutely zero battle-lines, formations, or even groups moving and working in unison.

That being said, I'm convinced (until I see it tried and utterly defeated in-game) that with the proper coordination and teamwork, we will be able to decimate groups of much larger sizes.  Since we are so few in number, this is crucial to our survival!

I think (really, it's common sense) that we should spend a certain amount of time each week (or whenever, really) conducting various wargames and scenarios to get our PvP skills up to snuff and, more importantly, get us accustomed to working together.  A major thing we should focus on is fighting while outnumbered, since we will be vastly outnumbered pretty much at all times.

There is definitely some merit in simply going into the field and PvPing the reds we encounter or rival guilds we meet, but I think a more focused approach will yield greater results.  There's a reason real-world military/sports teams/teams of any kind utilize specific drills and ways of practicing rather than learning by pure experience.


Though I must say that I am not in-game yet (hopefully this next week!) so I don't know what we are actually doing in-game to develop our PvP skills; y'all may very well already be doing this or have decided that it's worthless.  I'm just adding my opinion; I'll leave it up to the leaders to decide what we are to do.

Wow, what a greeting!
I definitely look forward to playing with you guys in Darkfall!

For those who were in MxO since the beginning, I remember playing with some of you in beta/early release (first couple months).  My name was "Erathaol," perhaps some of you with amazing memories might recall me.  I actually tried to get into FA back then, but couldn't puzzle my way around one final riddle involving a Merovingian code that was a long string of letters and numbers...  anyway, that's not important.

As a side note, I've requested a name-change from Tbone since I just decided to change to Mirdain from Human.  I'll be re-using my old MxO name, so hopefully I can get my forum name changed to reflect that. (I know, I'm a real pest requesting a change right after joining, sorry!)

Right, that's quite enough of me rambling.  I'll leave the rest of the chatter for in-game or over TS.