User talk:Papahyooie

Welcome to the Homepage of Hell Mode Alts, a leveling guild in the MMO Game World of Warcraft. First and foremost we are a social and leveling guild, focused on teamwork and helping each other achieve our personal and mutual goals, while having fun doing it!

Our second goal is to encourage challenge and skill in World of Warcraft by implementing a new mode of play heretofore known as "Hell Mode" Hell mode is a collective of personal rules, enforced only by the player himself, set in place to make the game more fun and challenging, and therefore more rewarding.

How to Play Hell Mode

First send a mail message to, or speak with, a guildmaster stating your intention to create a Hell Mode character, including the new character's name and any special rules he will be playing by.

Rules for all Hell Mode alts:

-You must start a new character at level one. No pre-existing characters.

-You cannot level any professions until level 80.

-You cannot obtain gold, items, enchants, or any other help from any player who is not a Hell Mode Alt (including your own characters), and if a character is a Hell Mode Alt, you cannot obtain anything from them if they are more than 5 levels above you.

-You cannot group with players more than 5 levels above or below you (i.e no "runs")

-Quests/ Instances are expected to be completed at or below thier required level.

-You cannot use any Bind On Account items (experience boosters or otherwise)

-If possible, do not group with players who are not Hell Mode Alts for instances, this will upset the balance and difficulty.

-Deaths in instances cannot be ressurected. (i.e if someone dies, you go on with four men). A wipe means the instance gets reset and you start over.

-If anyone has anything they think would improve these rules, please take it up with a guild master, all ideas will be considered. Be creative!

On top of these mandatory rules for Hell Mode Alts, you can choose to use any sort of optional rule that you think will require more skill or enhance the difficulty of the game. Custom ranks within the guild can be arranged by the guildmaster for a sufficiently worthy personal rule. Examples of optional personal rules:

-casters maintain a 1 Defense rating (aka, never get hit!)

-Don't carry a hearthstone (if enough players wish this to be mandatory, it can be so)

-Level "nude" I.e Never wear any gear exept for weapons.

Or anything else you wish! Get creative!

Examples of currently implemeted special ranks:

-9th Circle: If your character dies at any time, you lose your status of "Hell Mode Alt" and are demoted to "Fallen Hero"

"Nudist" - never wear any gear exept for weapons, shields, and offhands.

"Brawler from Hell" - Never use any weapons, shields, or offhands (for melee classes only. Fist weapons are acceptable if no armor is worn)

"Ranger" and "Nomad" - level without ever having visited a capital city.

And the most prestigeous, most honored title of all: Hardcore Alt: If your character dies at any time, you must delete that character and anything obtained. (once at Lvl 80 you are freed from this requirement, but retain your title.)

So, to designate a new character as a Hell Mode Alt, contact a guild master with the characters name and any rules or titles you would like to have implemented. Your character will be invited into the guild and your rank will be set according to the rules you are playing. Also, please put any special rules you are playing with in your character comments.

Obviously there is no real way to police these rules, and indeed there is no reason to. The entire game is based upon the honor system. If you fail at your aspirations, you will be expected to notify a guild manager so your titles can be adjusted accordingly. There is no point in cheating, as it won't gain you anything. It's all about fun and personal achievement, so the only person you are cheating is yourself. At the moment there is no punishment in place, and I sincerely hope that there is no need for one, however, if there is ever any grevious misuse or circumvention of the rules set forth, rest assured your character will be labeled within the guild with the dishonerable title of "Easy Mode Alt"

As for general guild members, there are no requirements, if the character is not labeled as a Hell Mode Alt. The guild is open, and so long as nobody causes trouble, everyone is welcome. General rules for the guild will be compliant with the normal rules of any other guild. Consider guild chat age 17+. If anyone has any objection to this, or is under this age, please let me know. I wish this to be a fairly mature guild, and therefore see no reason to set down hard rules at the moment, however please be respectful of all guild members and non guild members, after all you are wearing our tag when you are adventuring in the world, and your reputation reflects on us all. Any problems can be taken up with a guild master and they will be dealt with on a case-by-case basis until it becomes clear that hard rules are needed.

Thank you, enjoy the game and the guild and have fun!