Forum for Druzzil Ro

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Nightmare
Grave Lord of Druzzil Ro

hey all i was intrested in forming a guild of my own on the druzzil ro server. i have been i 3 diffrent guilds none of them were suited to my playing styles and likes in eq. i would run a guild like this...Raids,raids,and more raids. its difficult in my opinion to find people who wanna group at underused high quality zones. i mean there are alot of places with great loot and items that one just cant get solo. i have ideas on how to get tons of plats but never a group of actuall loyal friends who u can consider friends till the end ya know. i would like the guild to stay between 15-20 loyal players so the loot would be signifigant. my main goals in eq are to achive the best loot and gear possibe and be well organized to the point where my small guild can become uber in the sense of the power that my players will have. anyone intrested email me at beandip413@yahoo.com or find me in game...hours vary but i play about 4 or 5 per day if i can.

Mastress 44th warrior-DR server...Death to Gnolls!

Hello! Anyone know the deal with the constant crashing to desktop in bazaar trader mode problem? I say make another bazaar zone if the problem is that there are to many people in there at one time!!! And this soul devourer thing i saw a few weeks back? Why did I see newbs running around with a 100 dmg yes 100 dmg 10 dly yes again 10 dly weapon? I have found out that a GM gave out the weapons for some unknown reason. What are they bored now? They are never on the damn server but when they do log on or whatever it is they do they give out such weapons as this? What is going on with this game? Been playing for 2 years and I never ever seen this before. Oh, try to find out how to get one----they say " we can't give out that information" Last time I checked this was a friggin video game and not something that involves RL at all. Responses greatly appreciated.

< Qwerts > 47 Warrior

Hello! Anyone know the deal with the constant crashing to desktop in bazaar trader mode problem? I say make another bazaar zone if the problem is that there are to many people in there at one time!!! And this soul devourer thing i saw a few weeks back? Why did I see newbs running around with a 100 dmg yes 100 dmg 10 dly yes again 10 dly weapon? I have found out that a GM gave out the weapons for some unknown reason. What are they bored now? They are never on the damn server but when they do log on or whatever it is they do they give out such weapons as this? What is going on with this game? Been playing for 2 years and I never ever seen this before. Oh, try to find out how to get one----they say " we can't give out that information" Last time I checked this was a friggin video game and not something that involves RL at all. Responses greatly appreciated.

< Qwerts > 47 Warrior

I hate to admit to being this stupid. But WARNING for those of you that don't have the time to take a character from any level to another level. DON"T try to shortcut and buy it. POWERLEVELER AND EQLEVELER are both scam artists. Based in Russia. I know this because even after one ripped me off I payed the other. True it was the minimum amt. but still. They both talk an extremely good story. But both lie they will take your money and then change their email and not touch your character. Thank god they didnt' delete her. Please pass this along to any and all. They work out of ebay and a couple other auction sights so BEWARDE

I have been using this server since everquest came out a few years back, and I think Its a very good server. People interact well and very seldom have I had Ill thoughts of another. There are a lot of good friends of mine on the server. Anyone who has helped me will get help from me in return. and thats the way it is.

Im also looking for a good last name for my character. Something Noble but Sharp, also looking for a guild to give my sword and arms to one with nobility and Reverence. Good team player seeking good team.


Belrak
17 Pally
Druzzle Ro

Get eaten by the wolfs, Or burn them with a steak!

Edited, Wed Dec 4 16:42:30 2002

You guys have heard me ragging on Guides and GMs in the past few weeks, and really making fun of EQ Customer Service in general. However, I have a confession to make. I am posting this here as this in the one place I can assure Sony will not be able to have the post removed.

For the past year and a half I have also been known as Guide Aislyn on the Tholuxe Paells server. Yes, your *cough* beloved *cough* guild leader was a Guide. Not only that, I proudly served as a Senior Guide for 3 months... before being demoted.

Yes, you guessed it. I was demoted and removed as a guide because I will not keep my mouth shut when I feel something needs to be said, and not only said, but shouted from the roof tops. The subject I touch on here is one near and dear to my heart, and that is Customer Service to the players of EQ.

When I was demoted and it got out as to why (I will go into this later) many asked why I was not removed. It was because of this very post. I just became a larger liability to the vaunted Powers That Be in SOE Customer Service. My gag is off and I will NOT be silenced. If you are from Sony and reading this post I ask you one thing and one thing only... prove me wrong. I rest assured that you will not.

The whole thing came to a head the day I was promoted to Senior Guide. My birthday as a matter of fact. That was the day it was announced to the guides in the programme that servers would no longer have a GM assigned to them. We would hence be blessed with a roving band of GMs who would come and blast away the red petitions (GM only) and the customers would weep with their good fortune. Oh, players wept allright. They wept in frustration that it now takes a month to get an issue resolved, if it gets resolved at all.

This is how it was supposed to work (and remember this was after they RIFed about 10 GMs) you would have a cluster of approximately 7 GMs who each had different responsibilities and two GM in this cluster who were just there for Guide Contacts to handle server issues. Each cluster has a Lead GM. These clusters were assigned to approximately 7 to 10 servers. And then there was one cluster dedicated to handle e-mail from the Contact Your GM link on the EQ site. GM Breave is the lead GM of this group and handles an ungodly amount of email. This lady gets work done.

Well what happens? Servers are ignored for weeks if not months and players and guides begin to complain. Players are petitioning day after day with no resolution in sight. Finally they give up. GMs quit in frustration. The guide programme begins to hemorrhage at the rate of 10 guides per day. Senior Guides (the administrators of each server) begin to leave in unheretofore seen numbers. Each week we are told to hang on, things will get better, we just need to get used to the new system.

Meanwhile the Grading Team Chair, who is in charge of making sure the applications for a Guide Position are properly graded so that we continue to have incoming guides for the ones who retire is told by Brenlo and Ledian in Team Chair meetings that they cannot put a Help Wanted message in a MOTD on servers or in a Patch Message because... wait for it... the developers cannot work it in. Yes, evidently the developers of EQ, the most wonderous game online, who can create the wonders we daily experience, cannot put a TEXT MESSAGE into the numerous ones we witness, like today's ad for the EQ store. In my time as a Guide we went through 3 Team Chairs on the grading Team. But as it stands now, they have graders waiting for applications that Sony does not want coming in. Sony doesn't want new guides. They dont want a Guide Programme at all. No, free Customer Service for their product is a pain in the ***, and they will no longer support it. This is amazing considering that after Brenlo's major **** up of spawning Ragefire for two whining guilds on another server got out and they put the shards to spwan Ragefire into the next patch post haste when other players noted how this was unfair. Amazing they can do that and yet not put up a text message. I stand in utter amazement.

Thus begins the history lesson. Before EQ, 989 Studios/Verant had an online MMORPG that was a tank shoot 'em up. Not many people remember this game. The name isn't important (must not be, I can't seem to remember it myself), however, this fact is. When EQ beta testing was announced they dropped customer service on that product and let the game die. By the time EQ went client, the tank game was a fond memory (Kinda like Meridian59). Anyway, guess what was announced last month? SWG is going into bets testing. Guess what is getting **** canned in EQ? You guessed it. The mental giants at Verant(SOE) decided they will kiss EQ goodbye because we're all going to SWG and EQ2.

Now, who remembers Legends? Show of hands? Good. Legends was not a haven for the Uber at Heart. Legends is a marketing experiment. Once again you begin to see the light. Last month Brenlo announced there would be no Guide Programme for SWG. Guess what kind of Customer Service they will have there? You pay for premium service, say $40 a month and you get 24/7 Customer service. Any bells ringing yet? You don't pay for the premium service, then you can e-mail your complaint to someone who cares, only thing is, Verant/Sony isnt planning on hiring these caring individuals because they... cost money.

When I drew this perilous, heretical parallel I was demoted from Senior Guide and given the opportunity to transfer to another server. Uh huh, yeah, right Elder Guide Jessla. I wasn't demoted for being a **** all, do-nothing Senior Guide. I was demoted for touching on a TRUTH you don't want the public to know. And BTW, I own this board, so don't bother e-mailing me asking me to remove this post. I'll shove that missive so far up your *** you will be reading it from inside your stupid one glial celled head.

Now, let me touch upon the ineptitude that resides at the highest echelons of Sony Customer Service. There are the employees of Sony, idiots like Brenlo, Mr. No Jessla and Agnieska are NOT Elder Guides because they lived in my house! And the volunteers, Like the Elder guides. Elder Semiconsious, as he is fondly referred to in the halls of SOE in San Diego, and Pending, then there are Jessla and Agnieska, two women who are so inept that a word has not yet been coined to sufficiently describe their stupidity. Jessla, in her infinite cluelessness actually locked a thread on the Common Hall (General Discussion Guide Board) written by a soldier in Germany who happens to be a Guide extolling the virtues of those who have given their life for the cause of freedom since 9-11. Yes, dangerous post, Jess. Seditious in it's very patriotic message. One Elder guide resigned after her attempts to get Agnieska and Jessla removed went nowhere. Her crime? She cared about the guide program and the players who would be effected by their stupidity.

Let me tell you why the Elders hate me. Shortly after becoming a Senior Guide I made a post asking why, after 3 years, the Elder Guides had no policy in the Policy and Procedures regarding their accountability. Everyone is accountable to someone in the guide program, so why not them? I was basically given a song and dance routine reminiscent of Vaudeville, with one guide going so far as to say that this is not a democracy. I was also written up for inviting the Elders, all of them, to a Senior Guide meeting, which we held every other week to discuss issues, because it was "sarcastic and degrading". My post was not either of these things. I mentioned that Jessla was the only Elder I ever witnessed and it did not seem fair to keep heaping all of our ire on her as she was not the only Elder Guide in the program. Another Senior Guide made another post saying the exact same thing mine did and he was not rebuked or in any other way reprimanded for his post. Selective reading? I think not. Jessla had Agnieska do this task as she was insulted and degraded by my invitation to the other Elders so she would not be beat up on all alone. I sometimes imagine her crying at her desk reading that post.

Shortly before being made Senior Guide Brenlo told the senior guides that they would no longer be able to change first names and there was a programming snafu and only GMs would be able to do first name changes now. Two weeks later the Pay For a Name Change was announced. Brenlo admitted to "misleading" the Senior Guides and apologized. Great Mea Culpa Bixie. Shows how foreign that particular action is in your life. Since then the program has been losing guides and seniors at a fairly brisk clip.

Guides are sick and tired of taking abuse from players because their GM Only issues never get resolved. Remember Darissa? She was also Sandpiper. A few weeks ago she quit the game, returning all the items I had ever given her. She had been a guide for a few months on the Povar server. She quit because of all the abuse she'd taken from the players. She found herself unable to even log in to play. She was a great guide. That's the kind of people they are running off. When I was a Senior Guide it was nothing to spend 30 hours offline handling administrative issues for my server. I was on ICQ nearly 24/7. My email box was constantly full. And I still managed to do 11+ hours a week online handling online issues. I was back guiding one week after my miscarriage because Senior Guide Glaiven told me I needed to get back to work. This is the kind of people they are running off.

The question that stuck in my mind was why? Why run off their free customer support? Why did they keep kicking us when we were already down, nearly out?

Premium Service baby. You're gonna have to pay to be ignored in SWG and EQ2. Bow down before the one you serve, Sony. You're going to get what you deserve.

Thank you, but I will not ever slip into mediocrity to please others who worship at it's altars while trying to hide their Peter Priniciple. I'm out, glad Im out, and praying that someone pulls their head out of their *** and helps the dedicated guides and GMs who do this because, despite it all, they still think they can help players. Think about that next time you file a petition that never gets answered. Maybe they all got fed up and quit, and the GMs are all in a meeting listening to Brenlo talk about how great he is to have thought of the entire scheme while keeping all us mushrooms exactly where he wants us.


I am Elrond, Lord of Rivendell. I chose Elvenkind over Humanity and was gifted with great wisdom. During the War of the Ring, I called a Council of the free peoples of Middle Earth and founded the Fellowship of the Ring, all the time wearing a tiara. In the movie, I'm played by Hugo Weaving.
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Severine Wolfe
Nuclear Reactor #54
Officer of Battle Forged on Solusek Ro
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Here is what Sony said :) hopefully they keep there word we love eq rocks :)

Greetings all,

Rest assured that there is no plan to institute a "pay for Customer Service" model. We have a large staff of over 70 GMs and Supervisors for EverQuest alone and plan to continue with the same level of Customer Support, as part of the purchase price for all of our soon to be released titles.

Customer service will always be an integral part of SOE's products and while we may not respond to every issue as rapidly as we would like, we do try to resolve them all in time. If you find that your issue has not been responded to, please use the Contact a GM link on the EverQuest board. These emails are generally responded to within 48 hours thanks to the diligence of our Email GMs. In addition, while GMs are available in limited numbers 24 hours a day, you may have the best chance of contact during peak usage hours which are from 5PM to 8PM PST as this is when most GMs are available.

Thanks for your time and patronage.

Alan Crosby
Customer Service Manager
EverQuest Games




Edited, Thu Sep 19 10:21:24 2002

I think it might be interesting if the GMs one day decided to make a horde of orcs actually invade a city and it was up to us PCs to defend the city.

Edited, Thu Jul 25 10:06:01 2002

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Edited, Thu Jun 13 19:16:37 2002

I have played on this server since shortly after it went live. All I can say is that I am extremely happy with the enviroment on that server in general. I see the occasional young player(heck sometimes even older players) making stupid remarks or taunting someone in ooc or shout, but for the most part the regular players on the server really make an enjoyable game that much more enjoyable. just my 2cp worth :+)

I have come to Druzzil to join the armie of trolls. My new warrior is named Fewmaster i am a very experienced warrior with information on the "lighties". I am hoping to join your ranks please respond.

Your humble servant,
Fewmaster, Troll warrior


Orcriist Gobliincleaver
22 Gnome Warrior
The Rathe

"Knowledge are those who speak, wisdom are those who listen"

Hello all I am quiting the rathe server and wondering if anyone will buy my stuff from there and give me plat on druzzil ro, i have a wurmy, centi warhammer, crafted legs, 2 crafted bracers, crafted gaunts, and an SSB. I would like 3400pp willing to negotiate or if u can supply me with same equip on druzzil. If interested contact Orcriist this friday anytime from 9 pm central to 8 am saturday.

Orcriist Gobliincleaver
22 Gnome Warrior
The Rathe

"Knowledge are those who speak, wisdom are those who listen"