New Guild Recruiting

[Lydon]

We're in the process of forming a new guild. We'll consist of a number of people who are quite sick of the typical generic excuses of guilds that exist out there. They're large, yet inactive, boring and impersonal.

As a result, we plan on staying small and active. That way we'll all be ensured a personal and active experience. One of our first missions will be tackling Eye of the North dungeons together.

If you'd like to join, PM me and I'll get you in touch with the leader. Remember...we want active members. If you plan on logging in once or twice a week, this isn't the guild for you! Hope to see you in-game.

[Nokkie]

and the guild is for what game? O WOW?

[Spewn]

and the guild is for what game? O WOW?

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One of our first missions will be tackling Eye of the North dungeons together.

[Lydon]

Thank you Spewn. I thought it was quite obvious, but I guess not :D

[lilDeath]

You aim sounds like what I have for my Guild.
We are small and active. We are very experienced as well and have members from all over, however with the EU summer, activity is dwindling and finding active members are not very easy. It doesn't help advertising either for active members, because being active means different things to different people. Unless of course you tell them what you expect.

I created the guild to do all the 'important' stuff together (Dungeons, Titles, HM, Elite missions, etc) and not have new players asking for help the whole time in Guild Chat. We actually want to get stuff done!

Good luck! :)

[Dr@g0nic]

LOLs @ Spewn
I was wondering WTF!!!! haha

[Devill]

You aim sounds like what I have for my Guild.
We are small and active. We are very experienced as well and have members from all over, however with the EU summer, activity is dwindling and finding active members are not very easy. It doesn't help advertising either for active members, because being active means different things to different people. Unless of course you tell them what you expect.

I created the guild to do all the 'important' stuff together (Dungeons, Titles, HM, Elite missions, etc) and not have new players asking for help the whole time in Guild Chat. We actually want to get stuff done!

Good luck! :)

Then why don't you join up in alliance with Lydon :)

Who many members are in your guild Lydon?

And in yours Lil?

I am looking for an more active guild....

I have Gaurdian and protector titles for NF and Factions, working on proph.

I have only been playing for a year.

How long does it take to become an officer in your guilds?

[Lydon]

Our guild doesn't exist yet. We don't want to start up without having a number of active members guaranteed. Guilds tend to fall apart if they start up without having all their ducks in a row, which we don't want to happen in this case.

I'm not the leader, but I will PM you guys with the details of officers/the leader who can then answer your other questions such as the amount of time it takes to get promoted to Officer etc. I'm the mybroadband recruiter :D

[Xarog]

Then why don't you join up in alliance with Lydon :)

Who many members are in your guild Lydon?

And in yours Lil?

I am looking for an more active guild....

I have Gaurdian and protector titles for NF and Factions, working on proph.

I have only been playing for a year.

How long does it take to become an officer in your guilds?
Whisper me in game damnit. :P

[lilDeath]

Then why don't you join up in alliance with Lydon :)

Who many members are in your guild Lydon?

And in yours Lil?

I am looking for an more active guild....

I have Gaurdian and protector titles for NF and Factions, working on proph.

I have only been playing for a year.

How long does it take to become an officer in your guilds?
We are in 2nd biggest ally on Luxon side atm... we may be switching back to Kurzick soon again. So ye, not too stuck in this regard.

In my guild there are 10 members. I posted in another thread about my guild.

Me and 2 other guys are very active, 2 other guys are taking a bit of a break, we have been playing together for a long time now.
We have another SA guy in the guild, so we have 3 guys from SA, used to have more, but most have stopped playing for more than a year already.

Me and another guy have quite a few titles. We also do most things together, especially the big stuff. For instance, the new M.O.X hero we completed all the quests on the first try ;)

I don't have hard and fast rules for people making Officer. Officers must be responsible and not the brat in the Guild. I just need them to be active and understand what the Guild is about and get more people, if we need them. Then I might try again myself, but recruiting alone doesn't work. Recruiting is not a simple task. It is very time-consuming.

[Lydon]

Unfortunately fate seems to be against us, as the idea has no fallen by the wayside. We just couldn't find enough people willing to be active to justify the creation of the guild. Think we managed around 8 at most.

Most have decided to move on to Warhammer and Aion when they are released and play Guild Wars 2 when it comes out. Sadly it looks like Guild Wars is on the decline now :(

[Devill]

We are in 2nd biggest ally on Luxon side atm... we may be switching back to Kurzick soon again. So ye, not too stuck in this regard.

In my guild there are 10 members. I posted in another thread about my guild.

Me and 2 other guys are very active, 2 other guys are taking a bit of a break, we have been playing together for a long time now.
We have another SA guy in the guild, so we have 3 guys from SA, used to have more, but most have stopped playing for more than a year already.

Me and another guy have quite a few titles. We also do most things together, especially the big stuff. For instance, the new M.O.X hero we completed all the quests on the first try ;)

I don't have hard and fast rules for people making Officer. Officers must be responsible and not the brat in the Guild. I just need them to be active and understand what the Guild is about and get more people, if we need them. Then I might try again myself, but recruiting alone doesn't work. Recruiting is not a simple task. It is very time-consuming.

Nice, I don't play that much any more.. playing d2:o and trying to study :p

I was just looking for a more active guild with some noobs and some pro players... but it seems GW is on its death bed... Cant not wait for GW2 :D:D:D

[d3th_n1gG4]

If anet stopped with the nerfbat GW would be far more active than it is now, the amount of players that stopped just due to the loot scaling change, followed up by the duping bs

I don't even recognise half the skills anymore they have changed that much :(

[Devill]

If anet stopped with the nerfbat GW would be far more active than it is now, the amount of players that stopped just due to the loot scaling change, followed up by the duping bs

I don't even recognise half the skills anymore they have changed that much :(

Yeah but the nerf is good for pvp.... otherwise you can just think what would happen in pvp Alliance Battles with 12 players with perma shadow form....

But I think they have a nice idea now with the pve skills and the pvp skills differing a bit :)

And yes the loot scaling sucks!

[Claymore]

Our guild members take clothes off and dance in Lion's Arch (America 1) on Thursday nights.

[d3th_n1gG4]

Dude, I played from 2 months after release, have seen so many changes and nerfs it's stupid, but a-net have made it so generic over time that the fun is gone :/

What really put the nail in the coffin was the recent gvg changes re doors etc, i log in now to see what mini's I have got

[shadowfox]

My guild started off nicely, but now the only active members are me and my officers ...

Most of the time noobs join - play for a couple of days and then disappear - its annoying. But me and my guildies are all locals, some of us know each other, so we have our fun. I'm sticking with GW til GW2 is released

[Devill]

My guild started off nicely, but now the only active members are me and my officers ...

Most of the time noobs join - play for a couple of days and then disappear - its annoying. But me and my guildies are all locals, some of us know each other, so we have our fun. I'm sticking with GW til GW2 is released

Got a bit bored of GW after a year of playing.... Had all the missions+bonus in NF and Factions done in HM and NM and most other non-grind titles :)

Now I just log on to help others or do a bit of pvp....

Can not wait for GW2 !!!

[lilDeath]

Still going strong myself. Still lots to do and the nice thing is, nothing is new anymore. I know what to do by now after 32+ months :)
It is basically the title hunters left in the game.
There are still new people starting every day, which is also strange, to a degree.
We are Kurzick now and will be joining an alliance soon. We should be able to get into 2nd or 3rd biggest alliance. These alliances are very busy and chat is always active which is nice, since the other alliances that are not very big, have no drive and simply die with nothing happening in the alliance chat.

I can understand why ANet are changing and applying changes to certain skills. It makes sense. There are skills that are just too strong and then others again never get used and then after a buff you see them being used in builds, after being in the game for 2+ years without seeing any use.

The PvP / PvE skills split was way overdue, they should have done this from the beginning. SF was way too strong in PvP and also in PvE, after the buff on the enchant length. Every class could farm with perma SF. Ecto prices dropped to less than 4k each. This is not good for the economy, since ecto is a currency being used.

They recently buffed Visions of Regret. The buff was because this elite was almost never used in any builds, cause... well, it was useless. This is now the preferable build in certain pvp arenas. With this build whether you do anything or not, you take damage, simply due to your skillbar you are running with VoR. If you have VoR and Backfire on you as a caster, you take +-250damage with the use of a single skill. if you see a mesmer in RA / TA / AB, you can put a safe bet on them running a VoR build.
They will be nerfing VoR tonight a bit I bet because of this. This past weekend with the arena bonus, these guys wreaked havoc. I was almost tempted to play my mesmer and go and cap the freaking thing (since I don't buy the tomes) to pwn someone with this build. Cause, you know, it rawks to see 250 dmg in a single action. ;)

As far as the loot scaling goes, it is not that bad and did not impact me that much. It was aimed at the gold farmers / bots, and they have done this very well imo. There are still lots of people that does farming on a daily basis.

Just check the raptor cave outside of Rata Sum on double-drop weekends for sweets / booze. People farm this spot during normal times as well, for gold drops, bones, etc.
It is how and where you farm that is the difference. If something gets killed or changed which affects you, then change or find an alternative.

[shadowfox]

Nice little expo there :)

I've started going to the raptor cave to do a bit of farming ... I'm busy working on a solo build - it's a case of almost but not quite ...

[Devill]

Nice little expo there :)

I've started going to the raptor cave to do a bit of farming ... I'm busy working on a solo build - it's a case of almost but not quite ...

What class are you?

And which campaigns do you have?

Then I can maybe give you a build :)

Hah I only need Proph missions in HM to get the last tile I need for Legedary Gaurdian :D

[shadowfox]

I've got all the campaigns - Dervish Primary and as secondary I have available at the moment Assassin, Monk, Elementalist and Ranger.

[Devill]

I've got all the campaigns - Dervish Primary and as secondary I have available at the moment Assassin, Monk, Elementalist and Ranger.

Ill let you know but im sure there is a derv build for farming solo there :)

[Devill]

Still going strong myself. Still lots to do and the nice thing is, nothing is new anymore. I know what to do by now after 32+ months :)
It is basically the title hunters left in the game.
There are still new people starting every day, which is also strange, to a degree.
We are Kurzick now and will be joining an alliance soon. We should be able to get into 2nd or 3rd biggest alliance. These alliances are very busy and chat is always active which is nice, since the other alliances that are not very big, have no drive and simply die with nothing happening in the alliance chat.

I can understand why ANet are changing and applying changes to certain skills. It makes sense. There are skills that are just too strong and then others again never get used and then after a buff you see them being used in builds, after being in the game for 2+ years without seeing any use.



Whats your guild called?

[Devill]

@shadow fox here is a raptor farm build : http://www.pvxwiki.com/wiki/Build:D/A_Corrupted_Raptor_Farmer

[Renshin]

My guild started off nicely, but now the only active members are me and my officers ...

Most of the time noobs join - play for a couple of days and then disappear - its annoying. But me and my guildies are all locals, some of us know each other, so we have our fun. I'm sticking with GW til GW2 is released

Nice I like your attitude - we need more people like you. Whats your nick ingame?

[shadowfox]

I'm online as Makie of the Mists mostly these days - I'm trying to max as many titles as I can before GW2 hits the shelves.

[Renshin]

I'm online as Makie of the Mists mostly these days - I'm trying to max as many titles as I can before GW2 hits the shelves.

I share the same goal... but primarily PvP titles. Interested in some PvP? Your guild still running?

[shadowfox]

The guild is still running ... more or less :p

I'm more into the PvE side of things, although I pop into a couple of AB's from time to time. I haven't invested enough time to get past the random arena's or hero battles yet.

[lilDeath]

I'm the same shadowfox, but PvE has basically become a grind-fest for myself, nothing really to achieve there anymore, so I am mostly doing PvP type stuff, JQ mostly these days and getting zkeys. Did some HB this past weekend too, etc.

Have been thinking of getting into the PvP scene for several months now, but getting into good HA teams or GvG is very difficult with little or no rank / fame. So, have been doing RA on and off.

[Lydon]

I've always wanted to do HA too, but as an unranked individual finding a team that will accept me is tough, not to mention that they don't understand the trials and tribulations of a South African MMO player.

[shadowfox]

I've tried RA a few times ... drives me nuts though - you get tossed into such random combinations - I start crying everytime I get put in a team and I see a Rit - I've never seen a Rit pull off a good PvP. I'm sure it's possible - but none of the guys I've been with had the skill.

Furthest I've gotten is the 3rd battle ...

[Devill]

The guild is still running ... more or less :p

I'm more into the PvE side of things, although I pop into a couple of AB's from time to time. I haven't invested enough time to get past the random arena's or hero battles yet.


I'm the same shadowfox, but PvE has basically become a grind-fest for myself, nothing really to achieve there anymore, so I am mostly doing PvP type stuff, JQ mostly these days and getting zkeys. Did some HB this past weekend too, etc.

Have been thinking of getting into the PvP scene for several months now, but getting into good HA teams or GvG is very difficult with little or no rank / fame. So, have been doing RA on and off.


You guys in an alliance?

If your guilds are not pm me and you can join ours :p:D

[Lydon]

I've tried RA a few times ... drives me nuts though - you get tossed into such random combinations - I start crying everytime I get put in a team and I see a Rit - I've never seen a Rit pull off a good PvP. I'm sure it's possible - but none of the guys I've been with had the skill.

Furthest I've gotten is the 3rd battle ...

Rits make for excellent healers if played correctly. It's not so much Rits as much as it is the idiots playing them. That, unfortunately, is one of the joys of RA. Thankfully I got grouped with excellent players once and we managed to win battle after battle, which unlocked Team Arenas. Then a good organised team there allowed me to unlock Heroes Ascent. Took far less work than I was expecting.

[Devill]

Rits make for excellent healers if played correctly. It's not so much Rits as much as it is the idiots playing them. That, unfortunately, is one of the joys of RA. Thankfully I got grouped with excellent players once and we managed to win battle after battle, which unlocked Team Arenas. Then a good organised team there allowed me to unlock Heroes Ascent. Took far less work than I was expecting.

Lol, yes PvP with noobs are always going to be a gamble :p

Found some great players and then I also found some really bad players :o

I made a PvP monk Just for RA so I could get past it, the other monks were useless.

[shadowfox]

You guys in an alliance?

If your guilds are not pm me and you can join ours :p:D

Left my alliance recently because the leader guild was even quieter than mine - which takes a bit of work - believe me.

Is your alliance kurzick or luxon?

[Devill]

Left my alliance recently because the leader guild was even quieter than mine - which takes a bit of work - believe me.

Is your alliance kurzick or luxon?

Luxon... take it yours is Kurz?

[Lydon]

I made a PvP monk Just for RA so I could get past it, the other monks were useless.

The best way to ensure there's a monk on your team is to play one :D

[lilDeath]

The best way to ensure there's a monk on your team is to play one :D
All suggestions for people wanting to improve in RA and move on to TA and get a higher glad rank is to play a char that you will have the most success in.
This means rolling a monk and playing it in RA. It's a sad truth.

Rits can be excellent, like any other char, it is the player behind it and executing those 8 skills which makes the difference.

If not playing a rit healer / monk you have to hope to get a monk in your RA team, if playing something another char and sometimes it takes quite a while for this to happen... so have patience.
Also, it has been known to happen to get 3 monks in a team when you are the monk, so it goes the other way too :D

[Lydon]

Sometimes if a team simply can't beat you (too much defence), they rage quit and you win. It's a great way to ensure victory haha.

[shadowfox]

Luxon... take it yours is Kurz?

Nope, we're Luxon.


All suggestions for people wanting to improve in RA and move on to TA and get a higher glad rank is to play a char that you will have the most success in.
This means rolling a monk and playing it in RA. It's a sad truth.

I've tried that ... I've found that when it comes to monking in a fast paced environment like PvP I can't keep up. Add to that that the other team automatically targets you as well :p

I've found the class I'm most comfy with is an Ele - I can do some serious damage - but alas, my teams just haven't measured up yet. And again, once the opposing team catches on to my spiking, I get nailed in 10 seconds flat :(

[Lydon]

I love playing monk in Fort Aspenwood. I must say it was a bummer when they introduced an update that caused Siege Turtle attacks to remove enchantments on whatever it hits haha. In an instant gate bonding was nerfed. But it's still nice standing there healing the gate guard NPCs and them Luxons being helpless!

On another note, I don't hate Luxons. I have R7 Luxon and R7 Kurzick lol. Switched guilds randomly inbetween.

[shadowfox]

Hehe ... I did nasty things to monks doing that. At least if they got close enough. A combo of liquid flame, immolate, mind blast, burning gaze, immolate and mind blast again finishes off most people quickly :P

Especially with my fire magic on 16 :D

[Lydon]

Hehe ... I did nasty things to monks doing that. At least if they got close enough. A combo of liquid flame, immolate, mind blast, burning gaze, immolate and mind blast again finishes off most people quickly :P

Especially with my fire magic on 16 :D

That's why you bond the bonder :cool:

[shadowfox]

*lol* Luckily the last guy I performed that little stunt on didn't have anybody bonding him :p

[lilDeath]

I actually haven't bothered with FA since the updates to the siege turtles.

I just got too pissed with the grievers at the Architects, killing them with their AoE 'passive' disease and minions. This happened way too much to my liking, plus JQ gives more faction.

[Renshin]

Hehe ... I did nasty things to monks doing that. At least if they got close enough. A combo of liquid flame, immolate, mind blast, burning gaze, immolate and mind blast again finishes off most people quickly :P

Especially with my fire magic on 16 :D

Try this when you have time:

Searing Flames (Elite), Glowing Gaze, Liquid Flame, Meteor, Fire Attunement, Weapon of Warding (Ritualist skill), Wielder's boon (Rit Skill).

Heals, Knocks down, Does a **** load of Pressure and spike damage. Use only one +2 rune MAX - never ever use a +3 rune, unless you're going for some kind of strange build. The loss of life at the cost of 1 point in fire is not worth it. Even a +1 rune does the job quite well with no negative bonuses.

If you use a +1 fire headpiece, and +1 fire rune, +50 HP major rune, +1 Rune of energy Storage, 1 Rune of Vitae while using the +Health inscription on all your armor pieces, you should roughly have 600 hp whilst having your fire on 14 points.

you need 600 hp in PvP. 580 is also ok, but if you are running around with less than 540, you are mince meat.

For that build you will also need a 40/40 Fast casting staff with 20% enchant or +30 Hp (get both if you can, and use the 20% enchant when using your attunement.)

I'll give you the exact attribute point allocation when I get home. its something like Fire 12 (+1 +1), energy Storage 9 (+1) and Restoration magic 9

[shadowfox]

Hmmm ... that looks like a fun build to try ... :D

I'll give it a shot tonight ...

[lilDeath]

Ye, it's a nice build that gets used in GvG a lot, even though run with Shatterstone+Steam most times, but it's great for splittability and survivability.