IMPORTANT Step 1 - Who are BOON Control?

Guild Creation and the First Golden Age of BOON

BOON Control is an old mmo Guild / Community it was born back in 2005 when Katiechops merged his guild "Pest Control" with another friendly guild "The Fellowship of the BOON" to form a new bigger guild BOON Control in preparation for Molten Core and 40 man raiding.

The guild became a successful and prominent raid guild with a lovely reputation for ganking! Katiechops along with many other fine BOON Officers and members took the guild through Vanilla and TBC. TBC was truly a golden age for the guild and its strong sense of community was firmly entrenched in 2007 we did 270 raids from Karazan through to Black Temple and defeating Illidan. My favourite movie of that time was not one of a single boss kill but a collection of screenshots that I had taken over the year as the guild progressed together towards its common goal.

Favourite boss kill movie

Next came Warhammer online, Katiechops still had misty eyes looking back to his past times in Lineage 2 and its sieges and couldn't resist the opportunity to take BOON Control into that environment, all went well we destroyed Destruction in the Warzones and Conquered the RvR areas. However rapid success went against us, the RvR was still broken and night after night at looking at us holding keeps etc and the zone capturing mechanic being totally broken started to get tiresome.

With no fix in sight and the badly timed (yeah for EA/Mythic) release of Wrath of the Lich King 80% of the guild returned to WoW, what remained merged with an ally guild "Mystical Awakening" for the remainder of their time in Warhammer.

Two BOONs and two paths, Katiechops stayed and played Warhammer with MA but also learned from that experience. From that point on we would make new BOON Control Guilds for every new game the guild was going to play to ensure the guild kept strong and was committed to that game.

The Second Golden Age of BOON

When Aion arrived a new BOON Control for Aion was set up and the two BOON Controls effectively parted their ways the old WoW BOON Control can still be found on Kazzak but to all intents and purposes is a completely separate guild now.

Aion was exactly the game needed to make a kick ass siege guild and pre-release a 73 member BOON Guild all of whom had played alongside Katiechops in previous games was ready and raring to go.

Aion truly became a second golden age for BOON Control the guild set out with one mission to dominate the siegefield and destroy the Asmodians. When the guild took to the siegefield the server noticed, such was the guild success the guild would have over ten thousand Abyss Medals and other spoils of war in the bank.

The guilds success in sieging was immediately noticed by NCsoft and BOON Control was the first EU guild featured in the official Aion magazine for their siege success and sheer number of enemies killed. Article here.

The guild went on to form the Elyos Alliance with some ally guilds which in turn dominated the Abyss eventually leading to BOON Control capturing Divine Fort and complete Abyss domination. This feat was repeated after the server mergers which brought us an influx of Asmodians from Caster who despite being a successful siege faction on Caster meet the same fate as their Telemachus brothers and BOON retook Divine fort with the aid of all the Elyos.

Then server transfers came, the Asmos ran and the EZ Mode Elyos arrived and it was said...

As a siege guild the game was over and a couple of months later we disbanded the guild, there are countless movies of Telemachus Elyos sieging many are in our media section so I'll link a mix and match of us doing stuff in Aion and one of our transformer team in action.

The Wilderness Years

After Aion, came the wilderness years we knew the next game we wanted to play, Guild Wars 2 but we also knew it was years away so the guild entertained itself doing all sorts of gaming crap picking up and droping games at random just for some light fun and to pass time and hang out with their mates.

Several weak mmo's came and went, Rift, SWTOR, Tera, with no significant end game, none kept players past their subs and hence the hellish reputation the mmo market has these days, however there was always a light at the end of the tunnel, Guild Wars 2 was starting to shape up and from the far east news of new mmo Archage was filtering through to the west.

BOON Control had some pretty significant highlights during the wait for GW2, the most obvious for anyone following the guild or GW2 was BOON Control being invited to Gamescom 2011 to help out at the Guild Wars 2 battleground stand for the week and help demonstrate the battlegrounds for the first time on the ESL stand against the Arenanet game designers we lost 3-0 but hey we were playing them at their own game! Fridays match, massacred after a bad start first match, almost got them second but just couldn't hold out.

Another highlight for the guild was gaining access to Archage, XLGames gave us access to their beautiful new game, they watched us streaming a one week beta in the west and after seeing the sheer number of hits we managed to get on our stream and other Archeage materials, gave us press access to try and raise its profile in the west. hmm who did we meet at Gamescom and showed them GW2 that has a Youtube channel with almost 1 billion views? That's right the Yogscast crew. So we took them on whirlwind jaffacake fueled tour of the game that was a truly hysterical experience to say the least, they are nutters! Oh and the movies have past the 2 million views mark on Youtube, so job done imo.

The rest of the Yogscast and BOON Control Archage movies here

Dawn of a New Golden Age for BOON?

So where now for BOON Control? Well there are still a few insane BOONs playing TERA, god knows doing what, but now the time has come to prepare for Guild Wars 2 the beta stage has started and while there is still no sign of a release date like all good boy scouts it's always good to be prepared. We have now decided to move our private plans for GW2 into the public and start recruiting.

Interested? Just keep following to Step 2 here

Thought I would post a couple of WvW raid movies to give people an idea what we are gettign up to each night on Piken Square. Its the offical RP server for the EU and a med population server so we have no ques and can in fact even switch maps even in prime time most nights.

Ironic that a RP server what can't even fill the WvW maps at primes time dominates all servers during prime time due to it having a range of HC WvW guilds that can form raids and enter the battlefield and work together as fast moving, disciplined hard hitting units.

If your interested in WvW and doing lots of it and looking for a WvW guild who runs in WvW as a guild raid then feel free to apply.