Guild Meeting 8/6/2024

6 August 2024

Welcome to the RUIN gaming Community! Established in 2004.

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GUILD MEETING ARCHIVES

The RUIN community meets every Tuesday at 6P M Pacific Standard Time on Discord to recognize outstanding members for promotion, discuss gaming news, events and scheduling for the upcoming week!

Threads of Destiny

As the might of the Nerubian kingdom of Azj-Kahet falters, their queen must decide on the choices she’s willing to make to ensure her people’s survival. Watch it all unfold in our video.

Darkness is coming, and twisted memories of war have awoken to threaten our world. Face echoes of legendary foes from throughout Azeroth’s history in our first foray into The Worldsoul Saga.

The World of Warcraft: The War Within Pre-Expansion Update launches July 23, 2024 PDT. The Visions of Azeroth Questline begins July 30, 2024.

War Within Prepatch

Big changes arrive with the introduction of Warbands, Skyriding, class and system updates, and more with the pre-expansion content update. Take part in a new event, Radiant Echoes, and begin your first steps into the continuing story that will take you into the unexplored depths of Azeroth.

THE WAR WITHIN™ PRE-EXPANSION CONTENT UPDATE GOES LIVE JULY 23

Expand the potential of all your World of Warcraft® characters with account-wide progression across your Battle.net® account, regardless of faction—including shared Renown, a Warband bank, Achievements, Collections, and more!

Get the Band Together for Warbands

Expand the potential of all your World of Warcraft® characters with account-wide progression across your Battle.net® account, regardless of faction—including shared The War Within™ renown, a Warband bank, achievements, collections, and more!

The War Within Date Announce Cinematic | Echoes of Azeroth | World of Warcraft

World of Warcraft: The War Within launches August 26 at 3pm PDT. Be the first to answer the call with Early Access by pre-purchasing the Epic Edition.

World of Warcraft: War Within Beta Sign Up

Join us in testing The War Within. Players who have opted in can be selected to be testers, and invitations will go out regularly throughout the test.

RUIN Gaming Announces Launch of New Twitch Livestreaming and Multi-Media Studio

San Diego California – RUIN Gaming a leading name in the gaming community, is thrilled to announce the grand opening of our Twitch livestreaming and multi-media studio. The studio will serve as a hub for creating captivating content, engaging with our community, and expanding our reach to deliver the best gaming experiences across various platforms!

RUIN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ART INITIATIVE 

Explore the powerful possibilities of the new Artificial Intelligence Art program Midjourney with RUIN.

World of Warcraft Worldsoul Saga 

A grand new adventure 20 years in the making

DEFEND AZEROTH FROM THE SHADOWS BELOW

Journey through never-before-seen subterranean worlds filled with hidden wonders and lurking perils, down to the dark depths of the nerubian empire, where the malicious Harbinger of the Void is gathering arachnid forces to bring Azeroth to its knees.

WoW Classic Season of Discovery

RUIN will be deploying into WoW Classic Season of Discovery as Alliance on a to be determined PvP server!

The Worldsoul Saga™ Begins

RUIN is currently engaged in Alpha testing of Ashes of Creation and actively reviewing Star Citizen for a potential future campaign!

RUIN plans to become the largest guild in World of Warcraft and build strong branches in Star Wars: The Old Republic, The Elder Scrolls: Online, Final Fantasy XIV, as well as our upcoming beta testing initiatives for MMORPGs and survival games.

  1. World of Warcraft (WoW): As the flagship game of our guild, we are committed to expanding our presence and influence within WoW. Our goals include recruiting new members who are dedicated to raiding, mythic dungeons, and PvP, as well as fostering a positive and inclusive community. We will continue to organize regular guild events, such as raid nights, battleground groups, and social gatherings, to promote camaraderie among our members.
  2. Star Wars: The Old Republic (SWTOR): We recognize the potential of SWTOR as a popular MMORPG and aim to establish a strong branch within the game. We will actively recruit players who are passionate about the Star Wars universe and interested in all aspects of SWTOR gameplay, including operations, flashpoints, PvP, and roleplaying. We will also encourage cross-game participation among our members, allowing them to enjoy both WoW and SWTOR.
  3. The Elder Scrolls: Online (ESO): ESO is another game with a dedicated player base, and we are excited to establish a solid presence in Tamriel. We will focus on recruiting members who are interested in PvE content, such as trials and dungeons, as well as PvP campaigns. We will organize regular ESO events, including guild runs, group activities, and social gatherings, to foster a thriving ESO community within our guild.
  4. Final Fantasy XIV (FFXIV): FFXIV has gained popularity in recent years, and we want to tap into this growing player base. We will recruit members who are passionate about the Final Fantasy franchise and interested in raiding, dungeons, and PvP in FFXIV. We will also provide resources and support to help our members excel in this game, including guides, mentoring, and in-game events.
  5. Beta Testing: As a forward-thinking guild, we are always looking for opportunities to participate in beta testing for upcoming MMORPGs and survival games. This allows us to stay ahead of the curve, explore new games, and provide valuable feedback to developers. We will actively seek out and participate in beta testing initiatives, and encourage our members to join us in exploring new gaming experiences.
  6. Guild Leadership: To effectively manage our guild’s growth and operations, we will continue to invest in strong guild leadership. Our officers will work closely with the guild master to oversee recruitment, event planning, member management, and community building. We will also establish clear communication channels, such as Discord and guild forums, to facilitate communication among our members and ensure that everyone is informed and engaged.
  7. Member Engagement and Retention: We recognize that our guild’s success depends on our members’ engagement and retention. We will continue to prioritize member satisfaction by providing a welcoming and inclusive environment, regular events and activities, and opportunities for members to contribute and advance within the guild. We will also actively seek feedback from our members and address any concerns or suggestions to ensure that our guild remains a thriving community where everyone feels valued and included.

In conclusion, our guild’s plan to become the largest in World of Warcraft and establish strong branches in other MMORPGs is centered on recruitment, engagement, and community building.

We will actively participate in beta testing initiatives to explore new gaming opportunities, while also fostering a positive and inclusive environment for our members to thrive in. Our guild leadership will work diligently to oversee operations, and we will prioritize member satisfaction and retention. With everyone’s dedication and effort, we are confident in successful RUIN campaigns in World of Warcraft: Dragonflight and upcoming MMORPGS.

ABOUT RUIN

The community came together during the 2004 launch of World of Warcraft. The guild assumed the name RUIN during the Warhammer Online campaign which culminated in the World First Inevitable City conquest.

Current Focus: Casual content in World of Warcraft, World of Wacraft Classic, Season of Discovery PVP campaign, Star Wars The Old Republic, we have additional areas of interest in a variety of upcoming MMORPGS!

  • Work on your characters in SWTOR, ESO and our private survival servers: Ark Survival Evolved, Conan Exiles, Minecraft etc. 
  • Dragonflight Campaign. Raid and PVP team formation.
  • Discord and guild community recruitment and inactivity clear. 
  • Long term Guild sustainability fundraising.
  • RUIN livestream studio project.

Welcome to RUIN Gaming! Join one of the best gaming communities on Twitch, stop by the stream chat and Discord! Thank you to all of our long time members and supporters!

RUIN GUILD MEETING UPDATE

Exclusive community driven events in the Subscriber Events channel! Upcoming game content

Friday RUIN after Dark! 

Traditionally Grand Theft Auto Five and other popular games in a relaxed fun environment on Discord. Social drinking encouraged, spend time with your guild mates doing Heists, Races and other iconic content across the best massive multiplayer games! Get to know your guildmates, make friends and plan for the future!

Saturday Whiskey and Murder!

Play the best in multiplayer online Shooters! Destiny 2, Call of Duty, Battlefield and other upcoming next generation games. RUIN is a multi gaming guild and encourages members to enjoy best in genre gaming content!

Subscriber Thursday

Casual community selected content. Tours of all games the RUIN plays!

Casual Sunday:

The World of Warcraft: Grand Tour Returns!

Comprehensive Retro World of Warcraft content: Mount and achievement clears! Rides of justice, clearing out all remaining rares for pets, mounts and other cosmetic items of interest! Currently sunsetting Battle for Azeroth and Shadowlands expansions in World of Warcraft!

Media Monday Games Tour!

Media Monday and other games tour! Final Fantasy XIV, ESO, Destiny 2, Conan Exiles, Ark Survival and other exceptional games!

Executive Summary

RUIN will continue to encourage our community members to branch out into the full spectrum of online multiplayer games through our Summer 2021-2023 Campaign.

Serving a mission that is greater than gear score.

Large parts of the RUIN community are deliberately moving away from Activision Blizzard games towards more healthy environments to build communities. Star Wars: The Old Republic, Final Fantasy XIV and other games align more closely to our values. Strong interest in new and upcoming games.

We need fun, engaging content that encourages players to grow together as teams and individuals.

World of Warcraft and other MMORPGS. 

MMOs, at their core, are games that provide for the communal experience of the Great Myth which is a fundamental human pursuit throughout nearly every culture and time in history. Intellectual properties such as, Star Wars, World of Warcraft, Elder Scrolls, etc. are modern adaptations and additions to the great human myth telling tradition. Expansive universes in which the heroic journey of many trials can be more directly experienced.

We encourage members to immerse themselves in the rich lore and ever expanding stories that are the foundation of every game we play. Invest time and pride into your characters! Strive to  fully enjoy the online gaming experience within our community!

Community Objectives

We remain excited for the future, with many improvements in the gaming genre on the technological front with the introduction of new consoles as well as next generation gaming engines and intellectual properties! Unreal 5 engine is of particular interest to us in 2023!

Have fun and win!

Gaming News

Gaming news of interest to the RUIN community!

The Dark Heart Content Update is Now Live

Dive into the final chapter of Dragonflight as it sets the stage for the upcoming expansion—The War Within™, sojourn into new questlines, Heritage Armor sets for Draenei and Trolls, six new hair colors for Kul Tiran Humans, access to all Dragonflight quests regardless of Renown for maximum-level characters, and more.

Uncover the mysteries lurking in the shadows, explore new questlines, and discover adventure in the Dark Heart. And don’t forget to mark your calendars:

WOW REMIX: MISTS OF PANDERIA EVENT

The World of Warcraft Remix: Mists of Pandaria event launches on May 16 at 10:00 am PDT globally! Dig through more details in our WoW Remix article.

The Cataclysm Classic Pre-Expansion Patch is Now Live

You’ve toppled the undead armies of the Lich King and ended Arthas’ reign. Now, Deathwing, The Worldbreaker, bursts from the heart of the Maelstrom, unleashing his rage. Reignite the fire and help usher in a new Azeroth.

The Cataclysm Classic pre-expansion patch ushers in the shattering of Azeroth and the changed landscape in Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms, a variety of systems changes along with new class and race combinations, and the new Worgen and Goblin races. Players can also begin learning the new Archaeology profession, use Reforging to upgrade your gear, and more.

Diablo IV: VESSEL OF HATRED

Prepare for the next chapter of Diablo IV. Become the apex predator of the jungle as the all-new Spiritborn class. Expand your map to journey into the new region of Nahantu in search of Neyrelle, who is both suffering the fate of her choice to imprison the Prime Evil Mephisto, and seeking a means to destroy him. Recruit Mercenaries to aid you in combat, fight together in a new PvE co-op activity, & more. Pre-purchase and instantly unlock in-game rewards*.

SEASON 4: LOOT REBORN IS NOW LIVE

Become the hero of your choosing. With a newly improved itemization system, the power is in your hands to craft the weapons of your dreams. Temper your gear with a new crafting system to face down hordes of enemies in the updated Helltides. Achieve the pinnacle of your build through Masterworking and try your hand at the daunting challenge of the Pit. This season brings the biggest update to Diablo IV since launch across itemization systems and more. Discover and craft even more powerful gear to fit your playstyle. Helltide is updated with new events, enemies, and a new threat level. Explore the season journey and Iron Wolves activities to reap more rewards.

DIABLO IV PATCH NOTES

The Diablo IV team has been monitoring your feedback. As we introduce patches to keep your experience in Sanctuary smooth, we will update the below list and denote whether the fixes are intended for PC, Xbox, PlayStation, or all platforms.

Journey into the Traveller

Journey into The Pale Heart of the Traveler, where paradise has been twisted into corruption.

In The Final Shape campaign, you, the Vanguard, and your allies will pursue the Witness to thwart its plans. It won’t be easy, especially if you play it in Legendary Mode. You’ll have to test your mettle on every fight, but your efforts will earn you upgraded rewards, like a set of armor with a high enough Power Level for raid content.

Destiny 2: The Final Shape | Launch Trailer

The Final Shape looms—a nightmarish calcification of reality into the Witness’s twisted design. Embark on a perilous journey into the heart of the Traveler, rally the Vanguard, and end the War of Light and Darkness.

THE FINAL SHAPE: ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW

Starting in 2024, Episodes will be replacing Seasons as our new way of storytelling and content update format for Destiny 2. Each Episode will contain new story content and rewards, including a new Exotic mission, Exotic weapon and armor. Episodes will be split into three Acts, with a new Act releasing every six weeks—containing new stories, quests, activities, weapons, artifact mods, pass ranks, and rewards.

SWTOR Galactic Seasons Objectives: May 14 – June 17

The SWTOR devs discuss the upcoming features in Game Update 7.5 “Desperate Defiance”!

Galactic Seasons 6: “Building a Foundation” started with the launch of Game Update 7.4.1! Here is the list of the Season Objectives from May 14th – June 17th.

RUIN will actively alpha testing Dune Awakening. A survival sandbox mmorpg in the Dune Universe rendered in the Unreal 5 engine. 

Embark on a breathtaking journey across Arrakis with Oscar-winning Cinematographer for Dune: Part 1 & Dune: Part 2 Greig Fraser, and Funcom Creative Director Joel Bylos, as they give us a glimpse at what it takes to bring Dune to life.

Sign up for Dune Awakening Beta 

Rise from survival to dominance on the most dangerous planet in the universe. Dune: Awakening combines the grit and creativity of sandbox survival games with the social interactivity of a large, persistent multiplayer game to create a unique and ambitious Open World Survival MMO.

Throne and Liberty

Throne and Liberty is massive player versus player versus environment massive multiplayer online role playing game.

CLOSED BETA DETAILS

Explore diverse environments, encountering the effects of weather and evolving battlefields in a vast open world!

RUIN is actively testing Throne and Liberty. The massive player versus player epic battle content focus of Throne and Liberty has strong potential as a future campaign.

COMMUNITY

Our mission is to provide an oasis for gamers and a much needed escape from the real world intended to uplift morale and provide a hopeful place to socialize, make new friends while maintaining connections with all of those we have met along the way over the last sixteen years.

This last year has been extremely difficult, presenting many unforeseen challenges and significant losses, the impact on the greater gaming community has been significant.

DISCORD

RUIN’s Discord server has reached over 11,000 members! 

We continue to remain a supportive meritocracy, where our success is a direct result of finding new gaming leaders and team-builders within our community, then empower them through providing resources, training, support, and a friendly community to become the best possible leaders. We utilize the features of Discord to make all of this possible including tech support, suggestion channel, gaming news, and guides for our favorite games.

RUIN has several channels dedicated to daily life such as: health and wellness, music, our live Ruin Lounge with Groovy Bot streaming music, technical support for community members, news (media) outlets, all combined with a healthy sense of humor and maturity. To promote further fun within the community, RUIN has also provided numerous user generated activities, contests, giveaways and other charitable events.

All members and officers have the opportunity to provide feedback through the weekly guild meetings and our Discord server channels. This helps us to adapt and improve to continue to make the community thrive and be an enjoyable experience for everyone.

Discord Meeting Schedule

  • General meeting: Tuesday 6PM PST / 9PM EST
  • Officers meeting: Tuesday 5PM PST / 8PM EST

GAMES

Core Branches in 2024

RUIN Private Servers

Upcoming Games of Interest

Would you like to be a member of the RUIN officer team or help the community directly?

We are always on the look-out for new officers in all of our gaming branches. Members with prior gaming experience, administrative abilities, military backgrounds, or those who simply want to learn to be a leader for the first time and have the enthusiasm to step-up and lead groups or help within the RUIN community should feel free to ask in our Discord server for officer training and promotion. It’s all of you taking the time to help as much as you that makes RUIN as successful as it is today!

SOCIAL MEDIA

We aim to provide exciting content on current and upcoming games via YouTube, Twitch, Social Media and more. Subsequently, we encourage Game Developers to provide our community with massive multiplayer content that we have always envisioned, bringing virtual communities into a fully realized and complete state. We hope to engage an increasingly wide player base and keep invested in currently popular and upcoming gaming platforms by utilizing our social media well.

EVENTS

RUIN traditionally hosts a variety of guild events in and out of game. Including Blizzcon, movie premiers, summer vacation retreats and other gaming or entertainment industry related conventions and events!

The Roadmap featured here, is based on an extensive collaborative effort to review games all across the MMO Genre to build a concise vision of what we hope to achieve. We constantly gather suggestions and feedback directly from our communities and players in order to effect change and positive reforms within RUIN.

Plans are being developed to also host viewing parties of various popular series that include The Mandalorian, and some from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. 

RUIN Gaming is one of the largest multi-gaming communities in the world and the largest in World of Warcraft with branches on 30 servers.

Congratulations on the successful completion of the World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth War Campaign! RUIN sincerely thanks all members of the Alliance who fought and won the fourth war under unprecedented conditions of challenge in and out of game.

In game events are intended as a morale improving victory lap and a method to thank and reward the many thousands of Alliance players for their incredible, undefeated, Warmode campaign during the 4th war!

BLIZZARD COMMUNITIES

Bring your friends and family of the same faction together cross-realm through our new World of Warcraft Communities feature: