Playing with Aureus Knights in ArcheAge - Naima Server / West-Nuia Faction

Welcome to the Playing With Aureus Knights sticky for ArcheAge. This sticky is intended to be a one stop shop to give you all the information you need about playing with Aureus Knights in ArcheAge

Guild Information

Aureus Knights is a premier guild built from the ground up to be well run so that we can focus on the most important thing: having fun.

In ArcheAge it is our goal to use our large community to create a guild that's able to be tackle and be competitive in all areas of the game. We plan on using our guild's VAST (we were a top RvR and WvW guild in WAR and GW2) experience in organized open world / mass PvP to dominate the battle field.

We will be playing on the Naima server on the West/Nuia faction.

Getting an Invite to the Guild
The guild is created, so find yourself an invite! How you ask? Any member (those with the rank Knight or greater) can invite to the guild, so hop on Mumble or find someone in game and they'll be able to invite.

Your best bet is to contact an officer (See the below officer team list)

I’m a new recruit how do I become a full Knight?
To become a full member of Aureus Knights recruits need to complete a trial of around two weeks. An officer will contact you in game once you've been invited to the Guild to start this trial. If you have started your trial, your rank will be Recruit in the Guild roster. If your rank is unprocessed that means your trial has yet to begin. If you are unprocessed and would like to start your trial feel free to contact any officer in the list below who has Recruitment as one of their officer roles.

Officer Team
Taas (RJO) - Chapter Sponsor
Tokin (Gagtech) - General Officer
Bigcedric (Bigcedric) - General Officer

Where do I download the game?
Download here

Tell me about ArcheAge!
TO BE ADDED

Why ArcheAge for Aureus Knights?

Once upon a time there was a young guild who had a couple successes. It started out as a group of friends that grew in to a community that grew in to a PvP power house.

Wait what? This is actually the unlikely story of Aureus Knights and how we came to be a dominate force in Warhammer Online. Coming out of our first successful and large chapter in Vanguard we turned our attention to Warhammer Online. The idea of RvR excited us as fans of DAoC and we couldn't wait to experience the spiritual successor.

Now you have to understand where the guild was at this point, and it's actually very difficult since 99% of our members joined during or after Warhammer. In Vanguard we had around 40-50 members. By the time we launched in WAR we were at around 300. Overnight we had become this sprawling community. We were up for RvR.

Early on in Warhammer we dominated the lower level PvP lakes. We were coordinated, and importantly for that level, WE WERE LARGE. But in T2 and beyond a greater challenge was waiting. That challenge? Well some would say we made a mistake. Some would say our server choice was insane. Because we found ourselves as the largest Order guild. Going up against multiple guilds from the Something Awful community.

This was a zerg community made up of skilled gamers who had been playing together for years. Gulp.

But night after night Aureus Knights would set in stubbornly and we'd build up, push out and control the field. Zerg after zerg, 9/10 times we stood tall at the end of the night. From the ashes of those battles Aureus Knights was truly formed. Most of the CLT, many of our long time regulars all came from that era. While WAR was a flawed game the emergent game play that was available to us raised the level of fun we had well beyond the game itself.
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So here we are with ArcheAge on the horizon. Yet again we have emergent PvP gameplay staring us in the face and this time we get the extra bonus of having a sandbox / world game on top of it. As a UO vet every feature I learn about just gets me more and more excited. As a guild master the potential for community building blows my mind.

So when we started discussing the chapter it didn't take long for me to jump up and down and say LET'S.DO.THIS.

I think Aureus Knights is going to be huge in ArcheAge. I think Aureus Knights is going to rise again to the PvP challenge and take the fight to our enemies and to assist our allies.

Ladies and gents. We will be having an ArcheAge chapter, and I'm pretty sure it's one you will NOT want to miss.

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More to come over the next few days...

WOOT

Looking forward to playing with AK again, the early days of SWTOR was a blast. I have a few guys from work that will likely want to play with us as well.

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Originally Posted by Anata

WOOT

Looking forward to playing with AK again, the early days of SWTOR was a blast. I have a few guys from work that will likely want to play with us as well.

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Awesome! Bring ALL the people!

I'm all set for headstart on Friday.

1. Mumble installed & set up for AK server - check
2. New headset ordered for delivery Thursday - check
3. Endless number of YouTube "how to" videos perused and absorbed - check
4. Arranged for Friday off work - check!

Cyas in game :)

Ghuler

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Originally Posted by Ghuler

I'm all set for headstart on Friday.

1. Mumble installed & set up for AK server - check
2. New headset ordered for delivery Thursday - check
3. Endless number of YouTube "how to" videos perused and absorbed - check
4. Arranged for Friday off work - check!

Cyas in game :)

Ghuler

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I tried to get Friday off, but my boss it out of town, so its a no go... But hopefully it will be slow enough at work that I can log in from work!

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Originally Posted by Gagtech

I tried to get Friday off, but my boss it out of town, so its a no go... But hopefully it will be slow enough at work that I can log in from work!

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You've got a guild to create since I won't be around until 6 or so :D

I will be online all day so I can send out invites if needed like last beta.

Never created a guild in AA heard about some faction thing to choose when creating the guild. I should be around Friday most of the day and can we about helping start it. Just wasn't sure about the faction thing.

The requirements for starting the guild is just having a full party and paying 1g. Either Gagtech or myself will be around when things go up and will get it started. We will need a few people to group temporarily for the founding, but there is nothing else that anyone will need to do.

I'll be on as Ghuler...shoot me a party invite and I'll help.

I debated this, as I am still playing GW2 WvW, but pulled the trigger last night to buy a founder pack. Will be a total newbie (just a little of open beta), and with there being so many options on classes, settling on one seems a daunting task, but will see how it goes.

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Originally Posted by Taggund

I debated this, as I am still playing GW2 WvW, but pulled the trigger last night to buy a founder pack. Will be a total newbie (just a little of open beta), and with there being so many options on classes, settling on one seems a daunting task, but will see how it goes.

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Me too; and adding TSW to the mix too, so will be juggling those 3 games in the nearest future :) Though TSW (cool as it may be) always gets the short end of the stick...

Im online but at my job!! Cant get into mumble and stuff!!
Is it possible to get an invite? IGN is Shynkx
Thank you knights

If you haven't gotten invited yet poke Nalani when you log on or Tokin we seem to be on a lot and can invite you

Anyone online? Everytime I try to add someone it says "Select Target", so I assume no one is online...

My name is just "jbs" though, if someone could add me that would be great, thanks!

I'm sad about these new character creation restrictions - I created a Nuian char on Naima before they happened, but my GF didn't get past the queues soon enough to do the same, and I'm not about to play without her. Which is too bad, because I really wanted to see what AK was about in-game. :(

I'm sure they will start to open up again once people start to spread out more.

I hope so, I was going to make an alt today and suddenly after my dc the server came back up with the restrictions...

Hey guys,

So, I literally just started gathering some info on this very interesting game and gave it a try for the first time last night. I was only able to create my character on the Naima server and do a few starting quests, so I'm really not sure what I'm doing yet. I haven't really played a true sandbox MMO since my first MMO experience with the original Star Wars Galaxies. My character's name is Gilden and I hope I'm on the right side to play with you guys...not sure how the factions work. I did roll a male Nuia though :)

Yeah you're on the west continent so you're good.

So, I made it up to level 9 last night and having a blast exploring the early zones. I can now say that I have rowed a boat in an MMO now :)
I got to see some easterners getting killed near the port of Crescent Throne. BTW, just watching the ships sailing across the ocean is probably one of the coolest things I have seen in an MMO.
I almost uprooted some trees near some land that I think is owned by a guild called Latinus or something, but I had a feeling uprooting would basically steal the trees. Do you get warnings when you're about to commit a crime?

Really looking forward to exploring more and probably look for a guild invite after I get past level 10.

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Originally Posted by crumbler81

I almost uprooted some trees near some land that I think is owned by a guild called Latinus or something, but I had a feeling uprooting would basically steal the trees. Do you get warnings when you're about to commit a crime?

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Yes, sort of. If you tried to uproot the trees, it would tell you that the trees belong to someone else and ask you to confirm if you really want to do that. It doesn't specifically tell you it's a crime, but you can figure it out based on the warning.

When you uproot it doesn't give you any logs, but you do have a small chance to get a sapling, which you can plant yourself. If you do uproot or take other's property, it will increase your larceny skill, and will leave red footprints on the ground. If someone reports you, you get a crime point. At some point (maybe someone could explain this better) once you get a certain amount of crime points you go to trial with a jury of other players. They decide your guilt or innocence and choose your sentence. It can be anywhere from 2 mins to several hours, depending on your rap sheet.

Thanks a bunch! Can you plead not guilty due to being a noob?

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Originally Posted by crumbler81

Thanks a bunch! Can you plead not guilty due to being a noob?

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You get to plead your case. Check out the trial chat channel (it's frequently hilarious). Reverse psychology seems to work often. Tell people you're trying to become a pirate (requires 3k crime points) and they'll find you innocent, which lowers your crime points.

When you hit 50 crime points, you get the Wanted debuff. You keep that debuff until you are killed in PvP. Normal deaths will not put you in trial, only deaths to another player.

You immediately teleport to jail instead of a Nui statue. There you have an option available, you can plead guilty and go to jail for the amount of time noted, or you can go to trial. Then you wait till one of the two courtrooms open up (during our large in-faction battle, jail got a little full and I spent more time waiting for trial than I did in jail...).

Once the courtroom opens up you're on the other side of what a lot of people have seen in Jury duty. Everyone sees all the crimes that you've done that have been reported up to the point of your death, and then you get a chance to plead your case. Then the jurors have 6 choices, 1 is innocent and then the other 5 are the amounts of time you will spend in jail, so they can go heavy on sentencing or lighter depending on their whims.

If you're innocent, you pop out somewhere (not sure where I wasn't found innocent). If you're guilty you get put in the jail cells and get the debuff that basically stops all your skills/abilities/emotes/etc. until the time ends, then you're ported outside of jail.

Also note: You can drop back below 50 crime points through the dailies, but the Wanted debuff will not fall off due to this. Once you're wanted, you keep it until justice is served.

Thanks for the info. Hopefully I won't commit too many accidental crimes as I level up ;)

There's your defense for when you uproot 100 trees. It was an "accident".

You can always do the dailies to drop 40 crime/infamy points each day. So if you do a few little crimes here and there, you'll get a chance to rectify those transgressions with the dailies before becoming wanted.

One additional note, once you become Jury eligible, your trial counts reset if you become wanted. I found that out the hard way and now need another 5 jury duties to get that cloak instead of the remaining 3 I had waiting. :(