Guild:Bleed With Honor

BWH is an up-and-coming guild on Rift, with a well defined past and ever-higher expectations for the future. We plan on playing on the Guardian side of the upcoming MMO as a team mostly focused on PVE. Bleed with Honor started out as one of the dominant academies of Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast. At the time and consistent with the game's ethos, the clan was highly hierarchical. Progress up the power-ladder was tough and lengthy, and reasonably so: it was based on experience and skill. Our masters were the best and our students the brightest, and more importantly, the atmosphere was coherent and respectful.

After the decline of JK2 and the uprising of Starwars Galaxies, many members dispersed into separate guilds. Still, a few passionates clung together, memories of the long-lost academy still vivid in their minds. The values set forth by the founding fathers of the JK2-based venture had lived on long past the death of the clan, and they still do today. With this in mind, the group decided it was time for Bleed with Honor's name (and fame) to rise once more: a new chapter was born on World of Warcraft.

The reunion happened during the decline of The Burning Crusade. The goal was to be sufficiently prepared by the time Wrath of the Lich King came out, and we didn't disappoint. Before WotLK, our team would clear Zul'Aman in 35 minutes, so to relax and have "fun" we would 4-man Karazhan. When WotLK came out, Bleed with Honor quickly rose to the top 5 medium-sized guilds on the server, defeating Kel'Thuzad as server-second. Later on, several members became busy with their life-goals and BWH merged with another top-server guild and a different story with different successes. I assure you, however, that dormant as Bleed with Honor may have been, it is ready and willing to take on new challenges today.

Soon, our patience will be put to rest. Rift will be our new home and we hope you care to join us. We've got a bunch of goals, but it is our firm belief that the best ideas will come from a skillful member-base (hint: you). On behalf of Bleed with Honor, I urge you to browse the website or talk to our officers in-game, and I encourage you to apply. We look forward to hearing from all of you.

WHO WE NEED Our recruitment is strictly based on your capabilities as a player. Bleed with Honor's strength has always been its members. We look for people who understand the role they fulfill and the class they play. That is, we want players who can tell us what is best for them, not the other way around. It is not our role to teach you how to play; it's yours to teach yourself. You will likely learn by playing with us. In exchange, we also want to learn by playing with you.

We look for those people who are the best at what they do because they enjoy doing it. Often times, these people read about their class, figure out the math behind their spells/skills, think about rotations, gear, specializations, etc.

Once again, your capabilities will define you as a potential candidate or not. A skilled player can bend any rule. However, we feel that the following characteristics generally fit our members well: - 18 years of age or more - Be able to speak and understand English, you will need to be able to communicate on Mumble - Be available Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Mondays from 21:00 to 00:00, GMT +1 (Paris, Madrid, Bruxelles, Copenhagen) - Be able to take and give constructive criticism. This is a cycle, it works both ways. If we're frank about things, you can be too.

It is a sad, sad thing to know more about someone else's class mechanics than that player him/herself. At BWH, however, we see it as a strength, something to strive for. It is a formula for excellence: from a PVE perspective, it means we understand the needs of each other and can therefore react faster in a fight; in PVP, it means that that poor player is about to die.

OUR GOALS FOR RIFT With the size of raids officially fixed at 20, BWH is targeting a guild size of 30 active members, of which we want 100% to be f**king beasts at what they do. With thirty players, we hope to set our schedule to three (3) raids per week. We aim to be part of the top 10 PVE guilds of our server, both factions included, as measured by the various tools generally available to us all in a game: website rankings, completion of instances, first-to-accomplish whichever accomplishment is relevant.