Thank you all
Sunday, February 07, 2010 (05:54:17)

Posted by Kyena

As most of you have probably heard by now, BoV is shutting its raiding doors for good. We've been hard at it for almost 6 years, going all the way back to the WoW beta, our years spent on Blackhand, and our current home of Baelgun.

There's been WAY too many great people to come into the BoV family through the years to even attempt to thank them all. The fun times we shared everywhere from Molten Core and Blackwing Lair, all the way through The Burning Crusade and The Wrath of the Lich King. The real life debauchery in Las Vegas, San Antonio, Biloxi, and everywhere in-between, has been amazing as well. I came into playing this game with a small group of friends who were all refugees from Everquest, and we end the long journey many years later with many new friends, which will last much longer than any video game.

BoV really was like a family. We saw our friends and guildmates get married, get divorced, have kids(raiding while in labor is not recommended, but its been done!), and really experience the whole range of human emotion. We've had guildmates sucker their wives/husbands/children/parents/cousins/siblings/aunts/uncles, their whole families, into sharing their online time together. That is what really made BoV special. It was a place that everyone could be comfortable and call home.

Sure, we always enjoyed laughing when our mages didn't get healed and died, watching our tanks charge a new boss and get 1-shotted, watch a random mob get loose and eat all the healers, yelling at our hunters to feign before they get aggro, yelling at our druids for that last innervate, bitching at the paladins for not buffing our pets, curse at our rogues for vanishing and surviving the wipe, screaming at a warlock as their pet decides to run off into a room of enemies on its own, generally cursing Blizzard when 75% of our loot was stuff we didn't need, but it was all a hell of a lot of fun along the way that is for sure.

So thank you all, every single person who spent time with us in this crazy guild, and made it what it was, a great place to log on and hang out with friends for all these years. It was a great run, and one of the most enjoyable experiences I've ever had in getting to know all of you. Through the good and the bad, all of those long conversations and R-rated late night, alcohol-influenced guildchat trainwrecks, I wouldn't trade it for anything.

-Joe, aka Kyena