I was reading the AS thread and someone posted the map being smurf blue. Another comment was about getting more competition in there and DIG was mentioned and it provided me a flashback to earlier times...Hope someone out there enjoys a bit of made ESO lore.



There is actually a very good history and roots with AS and DIG...Now journey back in time for story time with T.



For those that don’t remember the time before 1.6, let me take you back to a time where PVE greatly depended on the buffs from PVP for trial times. Old School Havoc (The strongest EP PVP Guild of the Day) had made a deal with the richest player in the game, An AD named Tiny T to allow AD to have haderus as buff server for trial purposes/PVE in exchange for an awesome deal on tripots (I am talking 100's of stacks of the stuff). Havoc essentially held Haderus as a bargaining Chip against Tiny and the progressive trial guilds of AD (AD at the time dominated trials and NA was even very competitive with EU). This bought peace lasted for a time until the greed of EP started to demand higher quantities of the crimson goodness at an even lower discount. Tiny not willing to give in to this injustice refused and havoc let loose the gates of hell on haderus. I am talking farming like you could not believe. AD tried and tried as best as it could but all for not. Havoc had us pushed to our gates for weeks. Every time a keep would be taken, EP would rally and push AD back to its gates. AD's famed buff server became and EP farming ground. During this time, the great AD PVE guilds of Purple, Eight Divines, Deviance, and WKB's suffered. Trial progress in SO slowed to a halt providing EU an upper hand in the race for world first SO speed run and HM. This is when I first started seriously getting involved into PVP. The leader of purple at the time understood the importance of the buff server and started actively gathering progression pvers in an attempt to get the buff server back. We tried and tried and made some progress but could not ever make a meaningful impact as night would come and we would wake up to being pushed right back into our gates. Now you’re probably thinking...Get to the point. How does this have anything to do with AS and DIG? Well in purple's frustration with haderus we turned our eyes on another campaign...A little known blue buff server named Azura's Star.



I remember the first push in Azura’s with purple. It was pvers fighting pvers for control of the buffs. The time in haderus did develop the pve care bears of purple into more hardened pvpers but this still wasn't enough to combat the blue zergs of AS who were not going to give up the server without a fight. During the first push and we were able to control the entire server for a day only after being reinforced by a pve zerg force organized by lolimage and his m12 guild. It was awe inspiring but very short lived as blue pushed back and it was a bitter fight for the server. It wasn’t until Gank and DIG appeared on the scene that real progress was made.



Ham (Leader of Purple) organized a pvp group in an attempt to crown emp for a pve raid that was later in the evening. We started having BRK, Alesia and Roe but ended back in Fare. To say the least, it did not turn out the way we expected. That is until a new pvp guild showed up on the scene. DIG. Slowly, keep by keep, they swept through the map working with us to take back our home keeps then take the ring by storm. Eventually the entire map was yellow. It was the first time that purple really had a solid group to work with to control the map. With DIG we were able to control AS the duration of 1.5. Even Havoc's attempts in taking AS (the same as they did in Haderus) failed.



With the buff server secured, purple was able to secure the first NA speed run of SO and fastest time World. WKB's and Eight Divines also scored speed runs making the three of the four guilds that got the runs NA. (Hordor being the EU Guild). Purple also got the first and only SO HM of dynamic ult gen (Yes you can thank that nameless guild for the split strat on world shaper). DIG was also personally thanked in Ham's thread on the announcement of the two accomplishments and to this day I hold DIG in a nostalgic manner (Even joined for a while).



Even though I've been playing more against the queen then for her as of late; I still hold those memories as some of the best times that I've had in the game. It sparked my first interest in PVP and really paved the way for NA's only real dominance of PVE (EU has crushed it sense; Kudos). It's ironic to be playing the faction that I fought against on this campaign and if DIG returned would be my adversary as opposed to old ally. It still would be nice to see their return to the campaign.



T





DC- Diablo Azul (GO Stam Sorc)

AD- Mr T



Alts: Nerf Something or Another



Guild: - Imperial City Police

RIP Guilds: Purple, WKB, Eight Divines, Rage, What Mechanics, Entropy Rising

Game: Main:DC- Diablo Azul (GO Stam Sorc)AD- Mr TAlts: Nerf Something or AnotherGuild: - Imperial City PoliceRIP Guilds: Purple, WKB, Eight Divines, Rage, What Mechanics, Entropy RisingGame: @TalosSeptim