Week 25 Rankings are Up!

We’re continuing to show the weekly renown rankings from CROM, the biggest PVE General server in AOC and provide a brief commentary on the guilds’ progress/regress. You can also check numerical stats for current week globally at the official AOC Online Guild Rankings site, http://guilds.ageofconan.com/

Weekly Summary

It’s almost August but the servers seem to be still in a lull. CROM has seen a rather visible drop in all activities across the board (save for PVE), and this week has thus some pretty surprising guilds among the top 3s. Tainted Souls managed to climb to the 3rd spot in Totals, despite losing speed in Valor and Glory due to somewhat higher amount of Artistry. The Unforgiven concentrated fully on PvR&T and PVE and it paid off – they’re now 2nd. However, the biggest surprise was seeing Carnage climb all the way to the top. Yes, it’s that persistent guild that went through pure-PVP to pure-Crafting transformation in the last few months and was seemingly content with staying at the 3rd spot in Artistry for almost as long a time. However, an overall decrease in productivity on the server meant that their contuing, stable performance granted them a noticeable boost – to no.1. There’s a few more surprising moves on the rankings aside from the top 3 Totals. {EzO} managed to finally gain on Tainted Souls and BoB in Valor, becoming no.1 PVE guild. In Glory, the Northern Legion managed to gain the 3rd spot. And finally, Tainted Souls had been propelled to no.3 in Artistry owing to an overall decrease in crafting.

The lull in activity is very visible in numbers. Artistry has gone down the drain, considering only two of the top guilds even managed a score remotely close to the previous weeks. While Valor had even grown somewhat, Glory and Artistry – and thus, Totals – have been shown neglect. This will change as the holiday season is drawing to a close, but until then – CROM is surprisingly silent.

See the details and screenshots below!

Total Renown rankings for week 25, CROM EU, July 18 – July 25, 2010

VALOR, ARTISTRY and GLORY Renown rankings for Week 25, CROM EU, July 18 – July 25, 2010

Rankings summary:

TOP 3 TOTAL RENOWN GAINED:


• Carnage (519 members – 14 more) – 33.4 million points (up by 3, first time at the top!)
• The Unforgiven (386 members – 5 more) – 31.1 million points (2.7 million less, but gains 1 spot – even though dropped one compared to last week!)
• Tainted Souls (489 members – 12 less) – 28.3 million points (up by 2)

TOP 3 VALOR RENOWN GAINED:


• {EzO} Circle of Eternity (364 members – 2 more) – 21.1 million points (4.1 million more, back at PVE top, +2)
• Tainted Souls (489 members – 12 less) – 20.3 million points (almost exactly the same score as last week, but ousted by {EzO} nonetheless, -1)
• Band Of Brothers (519 members – 48 less) – 18.6 million points (similar score to last week, but still dropped by 1, ousted by TS who were ousted by {EzO})

TOP 3 GLORY RENOWN GAINED:


• The Unforgiven (386 members – 5 more) – 18.8 million points (1.3 million less, still dominating Glory.)
• Predator (176 members – 6 more) – 16.2 million points (2.1 million less, continues to slow down but no change in place.)
• The Northern Legion (562 members) – 5.1 million (first timers in Glory top 3, up by 2 and ousted TS)

TOP 3 ARTISTRY RENOWN GAINED:


• Carnage (519 members – 14 more) – 22.7 million points (1.5 million more, and owing to other guilds’ slowdown in Crafting thus gain no.1 in Totals too!)
• AmbrosiA (688 members – 12 less) – 16.2 million points (almost 5 million less, no change – no competitors in Crafting aside from Carnage and AmbrosiA anyway…)
• Tainted Souls (489 – 12 less) – 5.6 million points (ousts BoB and finally in crafting top 3, up by 2)

This week’s Winners:

Carnage continues the winning streak this week. After last week’s progression, this week’s gain is very visible as Carnage went for no.1 in Totals, not just crafting.

Carnage are not the only ones that go from strength to strength. Tainted Souls managed to gain a position in top 3 owing to diminishing Crafting efforts on the server, and even they dropped slightly in Valor and Glory, their superb score in Artistry propelled them to no.3 in Totals this week.

This week’s Runners-up:

This week’s significant runner-up is, without a doubt, SolidLine. This pretty experienced guild usually shies away from the spotlight, but they managed to sneakily increase their overall power by breaking into Valor and Artistry top 10. This resulted in them showing up at the very bottom of the top 10 guilds of the server (Totals), but their achievement is there nonetheless. In Valor, SL managed to gain 6 spots (9. position) and in Artistry they grew by 5 spots (5. position). This last gain is owing to the overall decrease in top guilds’ Artistry efforts, since the 10+million earners are simply not there to take the first few spots. Should SL manage to turn this further to their advantage, they might rise quite high in the Totals as well.

Check back with AOCVault in a week for new Rankings rundown and commentary, check http://guilds.ageofconan.com/ for the official continuous rankings per server and globally to check how well (or badly) your guild has done in comparison to guilds on other servers!