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Daeva of War™ was founded in September of 2009 at the release of Aion. We pioneered Aion with many server firsts and became renown for our coordination and strength as a group. Shortly thereafter we pushed into 1st place on our server and held that title for nearly 10 months when many of us became bored and left Aion for other games.

After our leave of Aion, many of us began playing games like Call of Duty and League of Legends to pass the time until we found another MMO to immerse ourselves in.

Today we reside on Istory in FFXIV.

New Player Trial: (New players that apply to Daeva of War are required to complete a 3 week trial)

DoW has a "trial period" that lasts 3 weeks, where a new recruit can not receive gear. After their trial period has ended and they are accepted as a full member, they can receive loot. This is meant to prove commitment and dedication. Our policy is "you are 100% in, or you are 100% out. Strong policy, but if a player has the commitment to the guild, they will be rewarded with skilled players to play with, all the gear they need, and a damn good time to boot!

Loot Rules:

In FFXIV our loot distribution will be determined by our officers using Loot Council.

All Loot distributed will be posted in this thread: http://dow.dreamaura.net/forums/show...0-Loot-Council With a reason explaining why the gear was given to said player (keeping things transparent is important) Here is the example of our Aion Loot Council thread (at the time of writing, FFXIV has no loot from NM's): http://dow.dreamaura.net/forums/show...3-Loot-Council

New:

Currently we are recruiting players that want to get into the raiding scene. Our goal was to beef up our linkshell bank with a few hundred million gil (which we have accomplished).

If you are looking for some new gear, some new friends, or just a place to hang with good players, don't be afraid to apply. Right now we have a ridiculous surplus of NM gear that is just getting sold, and I would much rather give it to a member than sell it on the market.

New Edit: Snow Crash linkshell merged with us a month ago and it has been a blessing to both of our shells. With the DoW experience and leadership, and the Snow Crash commitment and WONDERFUL community, we have grown more than I ever expected.

We are also now allowing a social shell or two alongside the DoW pearl. Just a heads up for those who were concerned with this rule.

Thanks for reading ^^

Mog


Edited, May 10th 2011 1:24pm by DoctorMog

We are readying ourselves for NM hunting, our first Rainbow Basilisk kill:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v252/Smiley7890/ffxivgame2010-11-2321-43-05-18.jpg

Yeah yeah, we all died, but so did it ^.^
(If I am recalling correctly, they are the hardest monster in FFXIV atm)

We killed an ogre as well, but it was much easier.

Everyone right now is just ranking up as much as we can so that when content hits, we are ready to hit it hard.



As for loot, there are no "points" we award loot based on whoever deserves it the most.

If you have 4/5 of a gear set and think you are going to "slide" into the last piece you need if you aren't helping everyone else get what they need, you are mistaken. If you want that last piece of your set, you better be helping out. Everyone is treated equally, officers included.



Edited, Nov 24th 2010 6:19pm by DoctorMog

12th rank 50.

Grats Hidden Soldier!!

Tankue, get back in your box.

Lets not derail anyone elses threads anymore, stick to our own.

Edit: I think we are on 14 rank 50's now? Maybe 15, Magica will get it today or tomorrow.

Edited, Dec 14th 2010 3:38am by DoctorMog

All the new NMs All killed within 3 hours.

http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com/rc/character/playlog?cicuid=1296289 (proof)

Great Buffalo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFi93ShtVx4 (Part 2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yL-LLb6miQ (Part 3)

Dodore:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJQjZjYA1dU (Part 1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw8NTSbnnLw (part 2)

Uraeus:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngKpxRsHUwI (Excerpt and Kill)

Eler Mosshorn:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKHUXz13OdA

Edited, Dec 16th 2010 10:20pm by DoctorMog

Up to 19 active rank 50s,

Still have spots for crafters as tankue said, and dedicated gatherers.

Many benefits come with a shell this dedicated, I employ people to give it a serious thought if you are high rank.

Chela Belles made a nice chart showing our total levels

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AoIXbWYAp7htdFJmSlVyTnh1amFWbUNuOFNLTXRGdGc&hl=en&authkey=CJzd_9AB#gid=0

Worth a look.

Crafted 5 Dodore Doublets today.

Grats to Alita Makayla, Soldier Zerg, Drahkor Humpalot, Pro Loco, and William Star

Edited, Jan 4th 2011 9:08pm by DoctorMog

Ok, a TON of updates:

Tonight Alita got server 2nd double rank 50 (first double crafter rank 50) and made us all 5 of our dodore wings into doublets!

img.photobucket.com/albums/v252/Smiley7890/FFXIV_1294189513.jpg

Grats on doublets:

Alita Malayka
Soldier Zerg
William Star
Drahkor Humpalot
and Pro Loco!


Soldier Zerg just +2 the Bloody Birdiche we got tonight!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v252/Smiley7890/BloodyBirdichie2.jpg

Also, we got 15 Silver Tricornes made!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v252/Smiley7890/SilverTricornesmall-2.jpg

Grats on hats to:

Carl Linders
Dylan Xxx
Cosmo Xxx
Sparik Neve
Tankue Vedymuch
Soldier Zerg
Pro Loco
William Star
Razielle Gharak
Tiberia Veritas
Mog has 3 and Alita has 2 (one broke)

One of them is +1. It will be a reward someday for something fun ^^

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v252/Smiley7890/Tricorne1.jpg

Edited, Jan 5th 2011 1:37am by DoctorMog

Edited, Jan 5th 2011 1:39am by DoctorMog

Still looking to recruit a bit. If you are rank 40+ and looking for a long term home, you should consider applying!

I'm pretty sure that the opinion of an outsider who made an account just to post this is not important - at all -, but I feel like writing it anyways. In the end, your LS, your rules. And if there's any rule or requirement that I and many other players really consider "crazy", is the "drop all linkshells" one. It's the only rule that actually prevents me from applying for your linkshell at all. And I bet that I'm not the only "somewhat high leveled and dedicated" player that don't like that part.

I understand you want commitment to DoW and want to create a strong core group, but simply forcing people to drop all their shells feels more like you want to try to reduce outside contacts to a minimum and well locked in the realm of tells (lol). Also known as the "Your only friends are us." rule. I am pretty sure that it's not the case and I'm not saying that "Hurr Durr, you don't talk to nor have any friends outside of DoW, Hurr Durr", but it surely feels like an useless restriction and for someone looking from outside, it DOES feel that you just want to lock players inside of the DoW bubble.

I just don't see any gains from preventing players to keep social shells or "country / language" specific shells to keep a decent contact with their GROUP of friends (and not just individual tells).

Is that just because you don't want him to do leves with some other group every once in a while or give that COOLZ SWORDZ +2 that he happened to craft to someone who isn't in DoW? Because this is the only practical reasons I can imagine.

I don't want to criticize you guys or nothing, neither I am saying that you are wrong, or that you are all mean and unfriendly people (I know it's not the case, by the way). Actually, you aren't even the only linkshell who does that. Just wanted to comment what most people actually think that it's the "crazy" requirements for your linkshell, and some others who have that same rule.



Edited, Jan 15th 2011 4:24pm by AishaBernadette

The commitment we are looking for, by dropping other shells, is what has put us in the good position we are in imo.

Without the distractions of other shells, helping each other at no cost, and working exclusively together, we have grown much stronger as a group than we would have otherwise.

The rule is put in place because far too often people come, get what they want, and leave. The 1 LS rule really helps with that, believe it or not. Because everything in our LS is given at no cost, protecting some of that hard work is important to a lot of us.

Being a very tight knit, strong group of players with only 1 shell does not mean we have no friends outside the shell either XD. Many of us came from other places and still keep in contact with them.

Daeva of War also tends to help other LS's when we can. As a group, we have gone to SnowCrash leve runs, have invited members of theirs to our NM runs, and other such things with other shells.

So in short, DoW is not an "island" linkshell separated from all others, I am just trying to keep commitment, gauge trustworthiness of members, and keep players interested with nightly things to do. If they all had other shells, attendance for our events would trail off for one reason or another and in the end, we would be just like every other shell. I enjoy being a bit different, and I like that the people we have are very dedicated. They know they have a linkshell to log into every night that will have the same players on, that they know and trust.



Edited, Jan 15th 2011 9:02pm by DoctorMog

I like to think I was in a serious shell in xi, and it didn't. More common were other serious shells which would certainly not allow you to be in another ls that actually did stuff, but wouldn't care if you wanted a convenient way to talk to some friends who had helped you get your AF, or who you had brought to the game with you, or whatever. And then, yes, there were shells that did it your way too.

Anyways, this is why I never applied to your ls here despite your being clearly the most accomplished one around that I'm aware of. I Came to the game with a friend of six years or so from xi who made herself a little chat ls, and I think it would be ridiculous to abandon people I know well to get in a shell that does well (in fact, caring that much more about virtual goods and firsts than people would make me a bad person imo, and would be a good reason to reject my application).

The basic fact of the matter (imo) is that the difference between doing things great and doing things well in these games is pretty small, beyond the satisfaction of getting it done in style. The events here aren't /that/ intricate, and most decent groups of people will eventually figure out how things get done. You've all done the best, as far as firsts and such go. But the rest of us will catch up.

Don't get me wrong. The satisfaction of doing things with style is great and worth having. It's pretty much the number one source of enjoyment in the game. But still. Somethings matter more.

My first post, yay. Not meaning to be overcritical - your ls sounds great in about every other way. I just wanted to say something since the topic came up, and I'd thought about this in the past.

DoW has a "frineds and family" policy.

you get in as a member, you bring a friend or two for free. They are not "members" but can apply if they want.

We already have policies in place so that friends can join/play together.

Still recruiting players of all roles, especially physical DDs!

Starting up nightly grind and leve groups again!

Would love a few new faces to stomp NM's and do leves with. XD

Thanks for the message Vydarr ^^

Updated the main post, some things have changed. Most notably that all our members have every NM item they want and we have nothing to do but keep farming it to keep padding our bank or make HQ items =/

So, if you are looking for some new gear, some new friends, or just a place to hang with good players, don't be afraid to apply. Right now we have a ridiculous surplus of NM gear that is just getting sold, and I would much rather give it to a member than sell it on the market.

We run leves every night of the week at 8PM EST now (except raid nights) to level our alt jobs (if leveling is your thing) and because we have so many battle class members, our dedicated crafters are usually overloaded with materials (if crafting is your thing) ^^

So, please feel free to apply and don't worry about your rank or playtime. I am more interested in growing our community with people that plan on playing FFXIV for a while. We have the strong leadership, good nature and established community that most players want. If a linkshell that is doing things and going places on a regular basis is what you want, toss in an app ^^

Thanks for reading ^^

Mog



Edited, Mar 6th 2011 12:09pm by DoctorMog