Road to Server Champions....

Here's another post for the LU! Live event.... btw this is the last one since I only gotten to 2 posts. >.<

RPC or Ragnarok Philippine Championships is the most anticipated event of the RO community. Almost all of the guilds participating in the WoE (War of the Emperium) feature of RO would like to participate in this event since this is the chance to prove something to the whole RO community.

As stated in my previous post, our guild obviously would like to also join in the event. We decided to join the Bloodpact Faction based on the fact that we already have a history of friendship with them. In Chaos Server, there are two main factions fighting it out to have representation to the much awaited event. One is the one we chose to be with which is Bloodpact and the other is Finality. Competition was intense but finally Bloodpact got what they want which is the goal to have equal representation

There were 2 ways to join the event which is through the Agit Lords and through the Wildcards. The wildcards is where guilds are nominated and voted to be included in the competition using points from each topup. While the agit lords is where the fun part of the RPC event takes place. Guilds need to earn points by holding agits during WoE time by increasing the economy and safeguard of any agit. Points can be multiplied by holding different agits in the other maps by the same guild. Our guild Coalescence was lucky enough to be part of the agit lords and ranked on top with the help of our guildsmen and of course our allies in the Bloodpact faction.

Here’s a commentary made by one of our guildsmen entitled ROAD TO SERVER CHAMPIONS that I think you will find interesting.

*disclosure*
This commentary is made by me alone so if ever there was any misinterpretation or correction or any violent reaction among the readers do not blame the entire guild.

Addition – I would add the images and the links for the RPC videos later because I use dial up here at home and it would take forever to load all the images so I’ll do it later when I am at school

History

Never did we expect that we would be in the situation we are today. To represent chaos as server champion is really an honor that we didn’t think would be possible. At the very beginning of Agit Lords Coalescence didn’t even have any intention of running for AL. A few months before AL came around January of this year we were already discussing what our plans would be for this’ years RPC. The decision that some of the members have concluded is this, we won’t be joining Agit Lords or Wild Cards for this year and we would just support whatever faction we would join in and we’ll make a team that would run in the regionals.

Coalescence during that time was merely less than a year old, actually it is just this august 17 when we celebrated our first year anniversary, although the guild was relatively new compared to other guilds in the WoE scenario, most of the members of this guild has been around since beta. As we all know Coalescence is mainly composed of the merger of two guilds Nihil Metus and Bisdak, due to the fallout with Remarque guild we decided to try to split the divider between the two remaining guilds left and search for a new name that would be synonymous to unity. That is when one of our guildmember came upon this word

Coalesce = To grow together; fuse. To come together so as to form one whole; unite:

With the name already decided next came the emblem, The first design which was a flaming orb being surrounded by a dragon was then later modified into the emblem what you see today because some of the members say that it is similar to the SC emblem. With the name and the emblem now in place it was time to show Midgard our capabilities. Coalescence I think became known because of it’s defensive prowess when it came to siege because of it’s ability to defend multiple agits even despite of having at most four guilds in its roster.

Agit Lords

When Agit Lords was about to begin we were holding one of the 5 high economies agit here in chaos namely Bergel. Our loyalty to the former brotherhood faction was honored as we were invited back to join them for this year’s RPC. At the first meeting of Bloodpact for AL it was already decided that our flagbearer would be Untouchables and the Wild Card would be Civitas Dei due to luck of the draw . At the beginning of AL it would seem that Bloodpact has a higher set of cards because we have 3 high economy agits [Bergel (Coalescnece, Hong-Roo (Alliance) and Rothenburg (Civitas Dei)] as compared to Finality’s two high economy agits [Skoegul (Grand Lethal) and Eyorbrigar (Shadow Circle)].

Due to the unfortunate burning of Bergel in the pre-RPC days the tide has turned still in favor of Bloodpact because it was then that the odds became 3-1. While Bergel was being burned down during one of the pre-RPC sieges in February, Coalescence was able to make amends by snatching Eyorbrigar from Shadow Circle. Eyorbrigar was then passed on to Untouchables as our way of honoring our alliance with Bloodpact. This was the time that Finality was able to capitilize the lack of organization of the BP guilds. With one crushing blow they were able to burn Eyorbrigar and snatch Rothenburg from Civitas Dei.

We were now left with one high economy agit which was Hong-Roo and Finality still has two agits which was Skoegul and Rothenburg. At the 2nd day of scoring Hong-Roo was successfully infiltrated by Finality and burned but this didn’t came with retaliation from Bloodpact as we were able to take away Rothenburg and was then held by Coalescence until the end of the siege. It was this day when it was decided that Coalescence would fill in as the 2nd flagbearer for Bloodpact. Although being with Bloodpact was good in the entirety of the Agit Lords, we could not say that we don’t have any disappointments in the faction during the start of the campaign. Bloodpact at the beginning of the campaign is really disorganized, and when modified experience came from level up it was really hard to ask for multipliers from allies because they would still want to obtain their own agit causing the one that they should pass onto us to be loosely defended. But when push came to shove BP guilds would perform really well.

With both factions having a high economy agit each it was apparent in scoring that Finality was more organized but Bloodpact was still able to manage to keep the gap between Coalescence and Grand Lethal to be close. But one day Bloodpact would be in awe as Rothenburg was successfully burned down by Finality (I would no longer mention the events of that day because whether or whether not it would affect the results of the siege that day is dependent on the reader’s viewpoint). With that defeat we would have thought that Agit Lords is over for Bloodpact, but Finality came up with a mishap on their own. They decided to burn Skoegul for reasons unknown to me, but this is when Bloodpact rejoiced because we knew that rebuilding the economy of an agit was still possible because AL is still a long way from being finished. With this turn of events, Bloodpact was able to secure Skoegul and then Untouchables was now in charge of defending Skoegul.

Finality came to see the error that they made and also tried to rebuild the economy of Rothenburg. But it was this time that we could clearly see our advantage as Bloodpact was able to secure Skoegul while keeping Rothenburg’s economy at bay by breaking it. Still due to the superb military tactics of Finality they were able to snatch Skoegul from Untouchables. It was during this time that Bloodpact came into a pinch again. We then decided to take Rothenburg away from SC and try to rebuild its’ economy with Coalescence in charge again this time. During this time it would seem that Finality would be successful in trying to push 3 of their guilds for AL but Bloodpact was still tenacious and would never give up. With Skoegul being passed around to the 3 guilds of finality Coalescence was able to secure the 1st place in AL and passed Rothenburg to UT.

Near the end of AL the unexpected happened. Bloodpact was able to infiltrate Skoegul’s defenses with the implementation of the lighthalzen patch. And with this turn of events Untouchables was able to safely secure the 2nd place in the Agit Lords. With that Bloodpact’s goal was able to be fulfilled which was equal representation for both factions in Chaos.

Server Elimination Matches

With Agit Lords over it was now time for Bloodpact guilds to decide their line up. Even in the middle of the Agit Lords, Coalescence was already offering our slots to other Bloodpact members because at first not even one of us had any intention of playing for RPC. I even suggested that could we not give our slot to Apocalypse since they are the pvp veterans. With Coalescence being the first match line up was a big problem for us since most of the players that we have invited either declined or has joined another team. Being pressured due to time constraints Coalescence opted to tried to find players in our own backyard (Yes, although it was still a bit selfish on our part, team Coalescence is a pure Coalescence members team). We tried to find members that would best represent our team and we have complete confidence to be the best in their class.

Professor – Shagmeister (piloted by Shad)
High Wizard – W!zZzk!D (piloted by Jax)
Champion - `vVaR (piloted by Pao)
Creator – Black Doom (piloted by Ander aka in-flamez)
Paladin – [devotion] (piloted by Blink[back to back chaos champ])
Assassin Cross – Judecca (piloted by Mike aka Huiniz)
Clown – Buster`Fuhrer (piloted by Wireless/Jason)
Sniper – Jazon™ (piloted by Chard aka Blackdoom/Warlock)
High Priest - ..Lady_D.. (piloted by Bert aka ..Natural_D..)

*reserve*
Dancer – babyblog (piloted by PJblog)
Lord Knight – xKaabaw (piloted by Fonsy)

We used this line up because these people were already familiar with each other in terms of teamwork because they themselves constantly would be in the same party in the WoE scenario. At our first practice it was apparent that we are not a pvp oriented guild as Alliance quickly wiped us out at our every practice in the pvp room. However loyal guildsmen namely Chad~ and GreyHowndz was able to secure and develop a private server for Coalescence to able to practice for RPC. We invited other Bloodpact guilds to practice with us as well as one of the running representatives for Iris which is Ninja. There was also one time when the team practiced with representatives from Loki.

Server Quarterfinals (Coalescence vs. Mors Mortis)

This was the scariest of all matches because it was only a 1 match round and you couldn’t really determine which team was better because it would be really a matter of luck which team would be frozen and which team would be able to capitalize on that situation. Fortunately for us luck was on our side as Mors Mortis were frozen by a timely frost joke and arrow shower which led to the stripping of their Land Protector and the loss of their members.

Coalescence vs Mors Mortis Offical LUG Video

Server Semifinals (Coalescence vs. Dire Wolves)

We were quite unsure how fierce our opponent was this time because they have defeated Untouchables in their previous match. During the first round it was really fierce at the beginning of the match because the dire wolves champion would throw several EFs on our team fortunately they were all still devoted to the paladin and was able to survive and because of his several attempts the dire wolves champion was killed and soon after his entire team followed. At the second match however there was an event which led to the opportune moment to kill the enemies as when the Dire Wolves professor was spotted casting memorize. Our professor quickly removed their LP and soon after all members of Dire Wolves was down.

Coalescence vs Dire Wolves 1st round video by Coa

Server Finals (Coalescence vs. Alliance)

At this time although we are facing our allies, we know that they would be our fiercest competitors because each of those characters that we were facing are veterans and well known in their job class. At the first round it was fortunate that BC was not moving due to unknown reasons and he was quickly killed by our SinX at their starting point. With Alliance already one of their main killers down, Coalescence was able to capitalize on the situation and win. During the second match things were not looking well for Coalescence, this is because Coalescence has already lost their Sniper and SinX early on and they are still facing a complete line up of Alliance. Again opportunity would knock against our doors as Alliance team was again frozen and Coalescence was quick to respond to it resulting in the second win. At the third match it was a hard face to face battle but somehow Coalescence emerged victorious.

Coalescence vs Alliance 2nd round video by Coa
Coalescence vs Alliance 3rd round video by Coa

Acknowledgement

We would like to thank the entire members of the Bloodpact faction because without your dedication and support we won’t be able to make it here. We would like also to acknowledge Finality for being good competitors despite all the trashtalk being thrown for us it was merely a way of spicing up the action. We would also thank the neutral guilds for their resilience in the battlefields and being also good sport when we face them. But most of all we would also like to thank all the Coalescence members, without your support and dedication none of this would be possible. Special thanks to be added later kailangan ko na magayos lapit na pasok. Pero pangunahan ko na yung special thanks kay Pakwan aka Vigilant~ without you this would not be possible

Special Thanks to those who go to portal to watch our matches and support us, and Thanks to portal 1.618 for their never ending support to us

Although I Would like to acknowledge more the other Bloodpact guilds in their performance in the Agit Lords medyo hinde ko na kasi maalala yung detail so I’ll be adding it later after makapagtanong tanong muna ulit oks

Here is the Acknowledgment from one of our guild leaders W!zZzk!d:

First and foremost we here in Coalescence would like to thank the Lord for always being there for us; we might not be the best team in Chaos but we believed and He answered. Thanks to Bloodpact as well, specially to Alliance, the game awhile ago could have gone either way, I would say that we only got the breaks of the game and that made it. Thanks to the GMs and most specially to all those guildsmen of Bloodpact who don't usually get credit and appreciation because they choose to be passive, to all of you guys who play your hearts out in order to support your guild and your faction. Thanks to makmak641 - mak, like what I have said, personally halos impossible ko na mabayaran ang utang na loob ko sayo lalu na nung tinulungan mo ako nung na hack ako - and to all those na nagpahiram ng gamit nung ALs after ko ma-hack.

To Leic and Espionage, Lou, Melganis, Slick, Jay of Armada... thanks so much, yung pressence nyu sa games namin means a lot to Coa. To Mark a.k.a. Pepper, since nung kindred plang kayo and Fierce kami, the bonding tlga kakaiba, thanks for joining Bloodpact and sa lahat ng support nyu not considering the practices pa.

To Hikaru too... To thunderbolt, Danilo, Kravitz, Shadow Nash, -Fire, lep-, BC, Garha, Mizpeh, ate Cry and sa lahat ng nde ko nabanggit, you know who you are guys! Bloodpact the best... To Coalescence... specially to Wygraf - soft spoken pero kung magsalita very meaningful, PJblog - another soft spoken GM of Coalescence, pero if you need his support he is always there 110%, xKalabaw - although medyo lie-low ka na, yung mere pressence and support mo and CDO peeps gave us strength, thanks for calling after games. To Huiniz, for the great sacrifice that you made... and most specially to aLL Coalescence guildsmen, to aLL my guildmates... sa mga help nyu and contribution in your own little ways, we can't ask for more... guys super thanks for always believing in ourselves, supporting one another... this win's Ours!

To Alliance Team, guys super thanks... kay Prof-DY, Nasty Pao, Lep, Lacus, BC, Dan, Gabs, Kravz and Taka... thanks sa practices and sa mga advices that you gave us... and also we extend our gratitude to Team CD - Mark, Mishra, Adrix, Nash, Lionheart, Vigilant, thunderbolt, Lou and Bad Locke... to Team Untouchables... Thanks! To Chaos... we really didn't expect this much, we don't deserve aLL the credit... but we are now here and aLL we could do is say THANKS! To all those who supported and who believed, thank you for giving us strength and inspiration... to all those who doubted and expected less from us... thank you for giving us the motivation to strive harder.

Do expect less from Team Coalescence... now that we represent Chaos. But rest assured... we would continue to give our all now that we are the privileged few who would represent our beloved server... Thank You aLL Guys! Live Strong Coalescence... for they FeaR!

Here's a pic of the team with some of our other guildmates. Unfortunately, I am not in the pic.

Team Coalescence

Ragnarok....

The following posts should have been for a promo for the LU! Live event of game publisher Levelup! Games....

I have been playing Ragnarok Online or RO for short for almost three years now and I didn’t expect that my RO experience would be this enjoyable. Players that I know come and go till the time that our group of friends formed our current guild in Chaos server, Coalescence. There were already so many things that happened before we made this guild, fights between members, sacrifices made just to make the guild a better guild for all of the members.
The best thing that I think that I contributed most to the guild was organizing a guild message boards for our guild to discuss RO and anything that our world has to offer. With the help of Alliance guild’s Nanflexal and our very own Retman, our message boards is now a website.
Well most of the time people just visits only the boards and does not look much into the main site since I am pretty lazy in updating stuffs to it. Hehe. I really felt good about this site of ours. This is the place where we air out our grievances, our joys and anything that we want to. The only problem that I have encountered with this message boards are the spammers and the two times that someone hacked into our database. Thank God for backups we didn’t have much trouble restoring back the site. You can check out our site at http://www.thecoalescenceguild.org

The site also gave some of our artist friends place to post their artworks. The artworks are really awesome and those artworks are the ones that gave us an idea that we join in making a guild booth for last year’s RPC (Ragnarok Philippine Championships) event at the world trade center. We didn’t win any price for that booth but at least people appreciate the work that we have done there. With the experience of making a guild booth last year, we decided to make one again this year after seeing the requirements needed for the booth (now called LU! town) at the LU! Live Official Site.

Same old news....

After all the ranting about my job and the people that I have worked with in Okaya, there’s still no change. I have been with Okaya for 1 yr plus now, doing good business and all and the company changing it’s general manager here my sentiment for this company is still the same and that is I do not have any future here and I need to find another job ASAP.

I really really thought that things would change around here in the office with a new boss. It did change but for the worse. My boss before even if he always pushes me to do better, there’s some compensation like taking us all to lunch or even asking me to join dinner with him. There’s also the fun side with my former boss joking around sometimes, he knows how to motivate people. My current boss just wants me to do things that are very difficult and just that. It is also a little harder to work with my current boss since he doesn’t know anything about our country and always thinks that we are taking advantage of him.

I am the lowest paid employee here in our office but I have made very good income for this office since I started here. Camaraderie with my officemates is not good especially with Madam. If the atmosphere in the office is good then I wouldn’t have mind everything that I have done for the company but its not so…

Currently, I tried applying at jobstreet for potential job openings. Luckily, I found 2 that I think I can get the job. Those jobs focused mostly on technical stuff which I really am fond of doing. The companies are Convergys and a coffee shop. Can’t remember the name. I really need to get out of this company.