Guild Wars 2

Hello!

My name’s Duke Witherheart. I’m a commander and during 2013 I held five very successful PvE campaigns over on my fantastic home server of Gunnar’s Hold (EU).

The first was the splendid Strike on Southsun, the second was the marvelous March to Mount Maelstrom, the third was the fantastic Fight for Frostgorge, the fourth was the sublime Slaying the Shatterer and the fifth was the riotous Rampage from Rata Sum. All events have been hugely successful and I’m very pleased to announce the next, which will be bigger and better than ever:

The World Vs. Orr!

This is a very special PvE expedition that will be taking place simultaneously on the EU server of Underworld and the US server of Anvil Rock. This is a joint operation with my guys handling the EU side and the fantastic Relics of Orr leading the US contingent.

The goal of the evening is to clear as many temples in Orr as possible, completing any random events we come across on the way. We’ll start with the Temple of Balthazar and hopefully end up at the Temple of Grenth.

Perhaps we’ll even cap off the night by killing a Karka Queen or giant wurm head…

EVERYONE IS WELCOME – SO LONG AS YOU CAN GET ON TO UNDERWORLD (EU) OR ANVIL ROCK (US)!

Where and when do we meet up?

Fort Trinity, 8PM GMT on Saturday the 5th! Copy and paste this link to see what it is in your local time:

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=The+World+Vs.+Orr%21&iso=20140405T20

There will be assistants within the Fort to assign groups and tell you what’s going on.

Never been to Fort Trinity before? You can get there by running directly south from Lion’s Arch!

Do I need anything?

A positive attitude with the willingness to take on some of the hardest, zergiest events in the game!

Obviously you will need to get to Fort Trinity so bring a decently levelled character. You don’t need to have explored Orr before though; we generally run from each location without using waypoints.

As the event will be taking place at the same time on both sides of the Atlantic, we will likely be sharing a TeamSpeak server so the US guys can experience what it’s like to be a part of one of these events. I really, really recommend that you grab TeamSpeak beforehand; Fight for Frostgorge, Slaying the Shatterer and Rampage from Rata Sum all made great use of TeamSpeak, with over 50 people coming on to join the fun. I want to extend that with this event!

We will give out the details for the TeamSpeak server on the night at Fort Trinity.

Where are we going?

To Orr!

We are running through the continent from Fort Trinity to Cursed Shore. Folks who have attended one of my events before will likely be familiar with the sort of emergent madness to expect and this should be doubly fun.

What are we doing?

We should be capturing all of the available temples and concluding with this meta event, but we’ll likely throw in some surprises on the way (or even afterwards).

Do I need to do anything?

Not really – just turn up!

This is the sixth of these events that I’m hosting but don’t let that put you off; we get new faces every time and I assure you that we explain things very clearly to newcomers. All I ask is that you attend and have fun!

I’m very excited to team up with Relics of Orr and this is guaranteed to be my biggest venture yet. Together, I’m confident that we will pull it off successfully for both the EU and the US.

Feel free to bring your friends but don’t worry if you come alone; we’ll have people to guide you on the night. You can also ask questions (or just post to say that you’re coming!) in this thread.

Remember that you can play with us even if you are not a native of Underworld or Anvil Rock. Click here for more information.

Hope to see you there and please see the attachment if you want to publicise the event yourself!

I have updated the OP with the ‘proper’ banner, although the original is still available to view for those who are curious here. ;D

Well it seems fun) I will join, ty

Is this really a big deal? Like really? Devona’s Rest does this every Sunday like clockwork.

Teq -> Temples -> Karka Queen.

Clockwork. Really. You could just Guest to Devona’s Rest and do it here. Don’t mind the overflow.

its more about campaigning on the map…and the temples.

planned events are also more interesting then popping on some random overflow. It could be fun, and I’ll be around to take part

Polyamorous Firefly.4071:

Is this really a big deal? Like really? Devona’s Rest does this every Sunday like clockwork.

Teq -> Temples -> Karka Queen.

Clockwork. Really. You could just Guest to Devona’s Rest and do it here. Don’t mind the overflow.

I sorta agree in the sense that there’s a lot of servers that do a temple run frequently, yes. In fact – that’s one of the reasons why I’m not holding it on my usual haunt of Gunnar’s Hold; they generally clear Orr on a Saturday night.

BUT! You have to consider the other perspectives.

Have you ever heard of Orr being run on two separate servers, on two different continents exactly at the same time? I haven’t and if this goes well, it opens the way for similar (perhaps more challenging events) in the future.

Coordinating across TeamSpeak also gives us a lot of opportunity to share the random shizz that happens on the way, along with opening up the potential to do fun things like races for temples.

Plus, we’re clearing Orr on servers at times that Orr isn’t usually cleared. In fact, I’m not sure if more than one of Underworld’s temples have been opened at a time within the past few months.

Finally, if you look back on my past events you will see that how the ‘challenge’ of something does not really factor into considering whether or not to host one. Heck, two of the previous ones have focused on – and concluded – with us throwing ourselves at world bosses that are killed every few hours without issue on any respectable server. Folks don’t attend these because they’re difficult, they attend because…

- the TeamSpeak discussion is generally quite high energy and witty;
- throwing ourselves off the bridge at Citadel of Flame, only for a champion fire elemental we’ve never seen before spawn where we land is surreal;
- seeing 30 people in a zerg of 70 discover a waypoint for the first time looks fantastic;
- throwing that same zerg into the Plains of Ashford arena has hilarious results;
- taking on the Claw of Jormag with nothing but sticks we bought from a random vendor and seeing who can stay behind him the longest is awesome…

And so on!

All of this is to say you do have a point, but it’s not the point of these events. If you want your ordinary temple run, then you can guest to any of the big PvE servers on either side of the Atlantic on any weekend evening. There’s seriously nothing wrong with that.

However, if you are after something a little more unique – and many people are precisely because they can do a normal run on any given weekend – then I would really recommend coming along, having an open mind and seeing what happens.

I think this is a great idea! To run around bashing undead! Count me in.

Polyamorous Firefly.4071:

Is this really a big deal? Like really? Devona’s Rest does this every Sunday like clockwork.

Teq -> Temples -> Karka Queen.

Clockwork. Really. You could just Guest to Devona’s Rest and do it here. Don’t mind the overflow.

Your comment is invalid.
Are you required to attend? No.
….Plus EU’s can’t guest to NA.

Thanks for your support so far guys.

There’s now a Reddit thread and a big poster thing.

This is tomorrow!

I hope to guest on Anvil Rock to participate in this event. I think it’s great that it’s going to be a multi-server event so that players from all servers can attend and participate. I’m sure that many servers do temple runs “like clockwork” but events like these let you meet players from all over the game.

Yeah exactly Rox. It should be an… interesting experience

This is today folks!

Sounds fun, will see to gather some from our guild to join in.

I participated in the event hosted on Anvil Rock and was impressed by the huge turnout. I had a lot of fun! Many thanks to all who were involved in the planning and preparation of this event. The Commanders did a fine job – kudos to them as well!

We completed lots of events and several of the harder skill challenges in Orr. My Elementalist even got an achievement for being “Wurm Barf” because we also participated in events outside of Orr. All in all, it was a great way to spend the afternoon. My video card, on the other hand, is still smoking. Just kidding!

Haha. I’m very glad you enjoyed it Rox. I was leading the EU side and personally had a few crashes myself – despite my PC usually being able to handle pretty big zergs.

There’s currently a Reddit thread with screenshots and videos of the evening, alongside my blog being constantly updated with a ‘best of’ selection.

Hope to see you all at the next one!