Guild Wars 2

MARCH TO MOUNT MAELSTROM – SATURDAY the 28th of September – 5PM GMT (6PM BST) – Gunnar’s Hold (EU)

Hello folks!

Commander Duke Witherheart here! I’m an officer and commander in the Gunnar’s Hold guild [RPS] and in August I held the fantastic Strike on Southsun.

And it was pretty successful.

Now every PvE farmer and their aunt is killing the Legendary Karka Queen on a daily basis, thanks to ArenaNet recently buffing the rewards for doing so. It would be easy to just repeat an attack on Southsun Cove, but I like to keep things slightly original!

So we’re going to go walkabout, rampaging across the Shiverpeaks in a four hour feista while we travel from Hoelbrak to Mount Maelstrom. This time, our target will be the Megadestroyer residing in the depths of the volcano.

Strike on Southsun exceeded my expectations immensely thanks to the support of [RPS] and the wider Guild Wars 2 community. Will March to Mount Maelstrom be as profitable?

EVERYONE IS WELCOME – SO LONG AS YOU CAN GET ONTO GUNNAR’S HOLD (EU).

Where and when do we meet up?

Hoelbrak, 5PM (that’s GMT – so 6PM if you’re British) on Saturday the 28th! Just come to my commander tag there and then.

Never been there before? You can get there using the asura portal located in Lion’s Arch!

Do I need anything?

A good attitude and a fighting spirit (again)!

We will be using Gunnar’s Hold Mumble.

Since we’ll be doing some fairly high-end PvE then coming on your highest level character may help you survive a little better. Empty your inventory beforehand too – we’re in for a lot of loot!

Where are we going?

To Mount Maelstrom!

Yes, we are running from Hoelbrak to Mount Maelstrom. I predict the route to look something like the first attachment to this post!

What are we doing?

I want for us to try and take down the Megadestroyer. We will also be doing PvE events while travelling through the zones on the way, so this could be a good chance for you to pick up some world completion in Dredgehaunt Cliffs, Timberline Falls and Mount Maelstrom.

We’ll be taking a fairly leisurely pace, also killing champions as we go.

Do I need to do anything?

Not really – just turn up!

But if you’re nice I’d appreciate if you could post in this thread to let me know if you’re coming. We managed to get a turnout of about 90 people for the Strike on Southsun – and that’s down to the support of you kind folks! I’ll also be posting this on my blog too.

Please feel free to message me in-game on Duke Witherheart if you have any questions. Feel free to bring your friends but don’t worry if you come alone – we’ll have people to guide you on the night.

See the snazzy second attachment if you want to publicise the event yourself!

PS: If we still have big numbers by the end of the night, we might revisit Southsun Cove, so please make sure you at least have a few waypoints there.

This is a week away!

Sounds great fun and a brilliant idea too. Wont be around that weekend, but hope it is a huge success

Have a nice, big poster!

Hi Duke, sounds fun, cya there!

:D it will be fun

Sounds really fun I’ll try to turn up, this event starts at 3am on Sunday morning for me haha

Cool! I’ll be there for sure!

Many thanks folks! I hope to see you all there!

I will definitely be there, if not a bit late.

Btw, in case you guys didn’t know:

On GH, a small group of us run the World Tour 6 days a week just after reset-all bosses except Teq, Taidha, the temples, claw and karka queen; this includes Megadestroyer. Saturdays are our day off from the tour.

Just as a friendly notice if you’re looking to come join for a bit of boss farming and can’t join for this event.

(Back to your regularly scheduled thread: I will join for this, Duke! I missed the one in August.)

This is tomorrow!

Can’t wait! See you all there!

I’ll be coming! Looks like it’ll be a lot of fun

I will go

This is 90 minutes away!

i’ve been there… awesome

Awesome ! Can’t wait for next months Event

Hi Duke, huuuge thanks for organizing this. Definately i am in for the next one!

For those not knowing here is reddit link with some pics!

http://www.es.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1nbxme/march_on_mount_maelstrom_high_rez_album/

Thanks to all that joined, it was a lot of fun!

Indeed. What can I really say? We had a tremendous turnout for the evening, actually breaking through the hard overflow cap. We ended up having two commanders in the main server and then a third squad in the overflow.

The amount of organisation and promotion that went into the event paid off, as we were able to coordinate champion-killing, jumping puzzles, settlement-liberating and krait-slaughtering between all of the groups – despite having over 100 people there!

The Karka Queen meta bugged out and Tequatl didn’t get taken down, but we certainly stuck it to the Megadestroyer!

I’ve made three posts on my blog tonight with details of what went down. The first describes a summary of the event, the second includes some of the best screenshots I’ve seen so far of it from around the community and the third details the improvements to be expected in future events.

I’m very proud of the people who turned up Saturday and made the evening such a success. Stay tuned for forthcoming events!

The details of the next event are up!