Guild Wars 2

Guild History
Remember that game you played way back when, that whenever the subject comes up you can’t shut up about it? Those few guys you played with.. and kicked everyone’s kitten with? Yeah.. we’re those guys.

Addiction is a MMO guild and gaming community that has successfully transitioned through 7 MMO’s and counting. Our original leadership has retained and grown our core member base over the last 6 years and we are constantly looking for more skilled and loyal members.

Addiction has perfected its preparation for an MMO launch. Our latest conquest, RIFT, landed us as the #1 progression guild worldwide with our first raid boss kill in under a week after launch, and 2 weeks before any other guild. The culmination of our launch efforts landed us at 3 times the amount of content completed first in the world over rival guilds. Addiction was named “hardest of the hardcore” by RIFT’s executive producer Scott Hartsman for its track record in RIFT.

In addition to our RIFT accomplishments we were also a world first progression guild in Age of Conan, congratulated for our accomplishments by the developers (post 5). We have been the top guild on our servers since our inception in Everquest 2 and have carried this through not just new MMO launches but to established servers such as an original launch server in World of Warcraft, where we cleared all content 6 weeks after rolling on the server. We returned to Everquest 1, where we progressed through all 15 expansions at the appropriate level cap, which for some bosses had never been done before. We held the top 3 leaderboard positions in Darkfall on launch for kills, damage to buildings, etc.

Beyond our PvE achievements we have been known to utterly destroy or consume guilds. Repeatedly killing our enemies until they quit the game is not uncommon. Unable to quote rankings from recent MMO’s, since they haven’t implemented any leaderboards, you’ll simply have to take our word for it that our PvP proficiency matches our listed accomplishments.

Addiction is primarily interested in MMO’s, but we don’t limit ourselves to a specific genre in-between MMO titles. The Addiction ranks are filled with Platinum ELO League of Legends players, Master league Starcraft 2 players, and sponsored MLG players in multiple FPS titles. Our members have held #1 ladder positions for games such as Company of Heroes, and multiple Socom titles to name a few. Our members have been top 5 CAL-I players in Counterstrike: Source and Call of Duty 4.

Our members have a deep history in MMO’s and gaming in general, in many cases with roughly two decades of experience in the genre spanning practically every title you can name. We have members who have come from well known guilds such as Paragon from World of Warcraft, Ne Plus Ultra, Dracos Argent and Dissolution in Everquest 2, and Pandemonium in Everquest 1, to name a few. It is not uncommon for Addiction members to discover they used to play together in a previous guild from years past.

Many of our members have highly distinguished backgrounds but we value loyalty and dedication equally as much.

Recruitment for GW2
Our GW2 section is looking to grow it’s roster, but we’re not looking to sacrifice quality in favor of quantity. Currently, we have around 25+ people online during NA prime time for WvWvW, but we are looking to build our roster a bit more. We do have certain basic requirements such as:

Must be 18 years or older (avg. age of our member base is 28 – 29)
Must have a working mic
Must be active at least Tuesday through Thursday during 8PM – 11PM EST
Must be able to take criticism well
Knowledgeable regarding your profession(s)
Absolutely no drama; drama is not tolerated

We are on the Blackgate server and have been since release. We are not, nor do we want to become a mindless zerg; everything we do, we do for a purpose and we are very organized. Addiction is not a huge guild, we are a gaming community that typically has it’s hands in 2-3 games at a time. If you’re looking for a community of great players to play with in not only GW2, but in future titles as well please visit: http://www.addictguild.com/ to apply.

Current Guild Upgrades:
Politics – lvl 4
Art of War – lvl 5
Economy – lvl 4
Architecture – lvl 3

Just had some new recruits transfer over in the past couple of days, still looking for more!

If you have any questions at all regarding Addiction, Blackgate or anything at all, please send me a pm and I will respond promptly. I check these forums throughout the day!

Still have spots open for people who enjoy everything in GW2 from PvE to PvP, but most importantly those who enjoy organized WvWvW. Get those apps in now!

WvWvW is a bit of a blowout this week, but we are always going to be organizing plenty of stuff to do. Maybe some Cursed Shore karma runs, tPvP, sPvP, who knows! We’re always trying to keep things interesting, submit an app and find out for yourself!

Whenever this Halloween event decides to start, we’ll be hittin it up, come join us!

In addition to everything above we are also working on building up more sPvP players for tournaments. If you enjoy sPvP and are looking for a skilled pool of players please submit an app!

Kickin’ [bleep] and takin’ names in WvWvW at the moment. Good fights all around in Tier 1! Come join us!

Awesome fights in WvWvW last week, Tier 1 is very competitive!