Guild Wars 2

Tier 1 GvG Workshop

Date: August 2nd – 4pm EST
Hosted in gvg-workshop.teamspeak3.com
Goal: For the health of Guild Wars 2 WvW community – Introduce Tier 1 community to the Open Field Fights/GvG Playstyle
Organizers: [OnS] Haru, [OnS] Malevolent Omen

Introduction
The Tier 1 Guild vs. Guild Initiative is a joint effort of the GvG community to introduce the open field fights playstyle to the North American Tier 1 community. It is our firm belief that a fighting playstyle will benefit Tier 1 greatly as it leads to healthy and fair competition that is based on player PvP skill and group synergy.

However, this does not have to be at the cost of different playstyles. The goal of this Initiative is to promote a mutual understanding between the Tier 1 community guilds that playing for fights and playing for server rating are not mutually exclusive; when server communities come together with the understanding that each server needs to maintain a certain rating in a tier, we will be able to focus less on pushing hard for PPT and more towards fun and competitive fights.

While GvG’s are intimidating at first, it is our hope that the workshops hosted by this Initiative will gradually introduce all guilds in Tier 1 to the open field fights playstyle and allow the scene to flourish in this tier.

What will happen during the workshop?

The purpose of the workshop is to give a direct line of communication to a wealth of resources regarding open field fighting and GvGs for the Guild Wars 2 WvW community. The drivers that have been selected to sit on the panel represent some of the top core drivers of the GvG community; these drivers have exceeded expectations in this playstyle and have revolutionized this game that we love playing. During the workshop, the panel will be asked a series of questions designed to highlight key factors in the GvG scene, whether it be driving, tactics, meta, or other salient aspects of GvG success. The panel will be able to discuss these different topics in depth with the hope that those listening will be able to pick up key strategies to bring back to their own guilds. After that, participants will have a chance to ask their own questions. Participants in the workshop will sit in a Teamspeak channel where permissions to speak will be granted by our moderators in order to maintain order during this workshop; to speak or ask a question, you must indicate it in the Teamspeak chat box and a moderator will put you in queue.

GvG Speaker Panel
[Agg] Jericho
[Ark] Diviniya
[EP] Odinzu
[HB] Gismor
[LaG] Enigma
[NS] Indevar
[RG] Intigo
[TE] James

Last minute update: Enigma from [LaG] has been added to the panel for an EU driver perspective!

The TS server is full.

Couldn’t make this, but would be interested to hear how it went from those able to attend.

Thank for the feedback. It was pretty clear to the organizers what went right and what could have been done better so our next workshop will be improved off of that. Remember that this is the first time that something like this has been done in recent memory; overall, I thought the discussion was quite nice and informative.

If anyone’s interested in helping to organize the next event, feel free to contact me.

Is it recorded? I could use some audio entertainment while I PvE in PoE.

Edit: Nvm, found the VoD.

How to get your T1 guild into open field fights:

Step 1. Realize siege is cancer

Step 2. Transfer to T2

Then T2 is going to be the next T1. No Point in that.