Guild Wars 2

New to the world of Tyria and don’t know where to go yet?

Think combat would be more exciting if you could die from a single mistake?

[TOHO] is a Touhou-themed clan in Crystal Desert, and we like to live on the edge. And/or die by the edge. And/or fall off the edge.

When you stare into the abyss, we stare back at you.

And ask you for cookies.

What does [TOHO] even do?

*Frankly, everything. But then, a lot of our starting members like World vs World. So that’s kind of why we have to restrict it to Crystal Desert only. It might be… dangerous if intra-clan communications leaked information to a rival world, don’t you think?

Rules of [TOHO]

*ArenaNet rules.
*To take things easy. Life is hard enough without having to rage in your free time too.
*Do NOT talk about Fight Club. There are no other rules.

Application Requirements

*Being able to take things easy.
*Ability to speak English. If you have complaints, take it up with the Queen for starting this convention back then, and get us some scones while you’re at it.
*Be based on Crystal Desert.
*Liking Touhou project is optional, but it might give you extra music to listen to. And bunnies. You can never have enough bunnies.
*Being insane may help.

Player Skill Requirements

*None. We intend to recruit even completely new players to the game, and we can answer whatever questions you ask on the way.

What Build Should I Use?

*Whatever you want to use. Feel free to post whatever you do end up using here, and it can be immortalised for posterity. Let’s just say that after you play enough, you will generally find that the cookie cutter builds work well, but not ‘perfectly’, with your style, unless you happen to be a mesmer clone of the original build designer. But there will still be things we can all learn from each other.

What We Do

*Talk nonsense on guild chat.
*WvW ninjacapping borderlands (Remember the last time your keep got taken by 4 guys in 4 golems? Or when Hills is taken by a 4 man group before you can get there, with nothing but 2 superior catapults on the west wall to show for it?)
*Wish that we were born in Gensokyo instead.
*Do world bosses in absurdly small groups and kill them before zergs can get there for the hell of it.
*Dodge bullets, knives, spears, fireballs and balls of flying spit.
*Do 5-man dungeons with 3 people because full parties are too mainstream.
*Fail to dodge bullets and laugh at ourselves for being narbcakes before we die.
*Explore the whole map and complain that the artwork is too highly saturated.
*Occasionally get sick of GW2, and go play another game before coming back.
*Steal cookies from skritt, who don’t care because they’re not shiny.
*Charge at the front of zergs because someone has to, and we’re the ones who can dodge the bullets.

Can I multiclan?

Why would you want to? For personal storage? Of course! To leech a larger guild’s missions? Well… we’ll have ours quite soon, but the other guild will probably be the one to talk to you about it. To play with friends? Why not?

We want people who want to be here because they want to be here. If you want to be here, you’ll be here, so the whole off-on-another-clan thing really shouldn’t be much of a problem. For that reason we won’t say 100% representation. And also because saying it is too mainstream. But if you like us, you’ll tend to be at near 100% anyway. We’re just not gonna go around chasing you for this when we’d rather chase quaggans. Because they like us too. :’-)

Rank Structure

Frankly, we’d rather there be no structure at all, but since there are certain functions the game allows for rank segregation, there’s a few layers, named after Touhou difficulty levels, because roses are red, violets aren’t blue, they’re purple, but quaggans like you.

Lunatic Mode – This tier contains only myself, Reisen Udongein Inaba.5026 and Kitsune Noa.6170. This is to avoid people from coming in and just plain deleting the whole guild on a whim and whatnot. We’re also the people chatting with the alliance. More on this later.
Extra Mode – This tier contains every player with at least one Commander character. Only people from this tier will be able to claim locations for the guild in WvW, because it’s kind of wrong to claim a location without also buffing it.
Hard Mode – This tier contains every player who knows what the guild buffs do and are generally level 80. Unlike perhaps every other guild out there, it means we’re ultimately giving the majority of members the freedom to decide what they want to spend influence on. For initial guild upgrading they’ll only be able to activate built upgrades, but once all missions are set any member can order whatever they want. With or without fries.
Normal Mode – This tier contains players who are new to guilds, but are not new to the game – generally, restricted to level 80+. Which means anyone can get here within a week or two. Though most will just jump straight to Hard Mode. New lvl 80 players come here.
Easy Mode – This tier contains players who are new to the game in general. New non lvl 80 players come here.

In the long run, basically only 3 people will be in the Lunatic tier (who don’t actually do anything different from the others), WvW commanders will be in the Extra tier, and basically everyone else will be in the Hard tier within 2 weeks of joining.

We like our structure as flat as possible. Putting rank progression creates unnecessary politics. We’d rather everyone respect everyone else. When there is no incentive to play politics, we have more incentive to play the game.

Additional information

[TOHO] is a member of the Crystal Desert Celestial Consortium guild alliance, which at present also contains [LuX], [HAX], [DS], [RAN], [WCTD], [KOBO], [WISP], [HuN], [Lux], [RMRD], [Sees], [HA] and [code].

[TOHO] is directly affliated with Gensokyo, a MechWarrior Online clan. as our initial members are from MWO.

We’re currently using Evolve as our VoIP program.

Why do you talk so much?

Because silence is golden, and we like to keep our gold investments valuable by limiting supply.

That’s all. You may now post.

YAHALLOOO!

Did he mention we have cute bunneh? ^^

Post all that, no activity. You mention the bunny, I suddenly get messages.

Bunnies are overpowered.

AND cute ^^

Touhou Music for Guild Wars 2:

Because with good enough music, there’s no way you can lose.

House: Kuroneko Lounge
Trance: Sensitive Heart
Orchestral: Kitsune Workshop

And a shameless self-plug. I don’t exactly intend to make additional Touhou remixes though given this one already combines 23 songs… though my Soundcloud channel has plenty more non-Touhou original tracks.

In other news, we welcome Klein as the first member to join [TOHO] since its official opening. And to answer the question before it recurs, we have 10 Guild Bounty Trainings saved up in preparation, and we’re Lvl 5 in Art of War in preparation for Guild Bounties. Guild Missions haven’t yet started in earnest, and will start only when we have enough people to do them… schedule for Missions is not set yet.

To end it off… probably the most epic attempt ever made to sing Flandre’s Theme – She Was Unknown.

EDIT: In case you don’t know what I’m talking about, you can change the Guild Wars 2 soundtrack to anything you want.

A video of your guild in action would be awesome

They’re sleeping. In its place you can have a video of a guild member in action. ;-)

Because purple is a pretty color for a level to have.

The music isn’t added on after. It’s what happens when someone with too much touhou music plays a game that allows you to change your soundtrack.

I’ve been doing a little bit of exploration, decided to archive this on this thread for clan use.

These are the locations of all the permanent rich ore veins I’ve found so far. That is to say, its position never changes from day to day – you can mine each once per day per character. Each time gives you like 10 silver, 15 iron or 10 platinum ish.

Many of these are guarded either by Champions or by veterans. If Champion, ignore the champion and mine it flat (unless your dps is so high that you can kill the champion without taking too long), then run before you die. If veteran, kill it then mine it.

Lastly, these respawn every 23 hours, so try to mine them at around the same time every day to make it a daily.

Snowden

Valslake Silver
Snowhawk Iron

Kessex

Overlord Silver
Cereboth Iron

Lornar’s Pass

Icedevil Iron
Durmand Priory Silver
Demon’s Maw Gold
Dwarves’ Gloaming Iron

Diessa

Silex Castrum Iron
Blasted Moors Silver

Brisban Wildlands

The Shattered Henge Silver
Gallowfields Iron

Dredgehaunt
Hessdallen Iron (East)

Timberline
Thistleweed Grove Platinum

Iron Marches

Grostogg’s Kraal Platinum

So it’s about 50 silver, 105 iron, 10 gold, 20 platinum per char so far with these… I’m still searching for more perm locations. It’s generally 2 perms per map, though Lornar’s Pass is so big that it has 4 perm veins. Multiplying… if you use 4 chars, that’s 200 silver, 420 iron, 40 gold, 80 platinum. At an average cost of 1 silver per, it’s about 7.4 gold per day from this alone (practically, 10 gold because there are other random nodes on the way)… and it’s blazingly fast. You can complete the whole rotation in less than 30 minutes per character.

Here you have more rich veins for the list ^^

Iron Marches:
Fellmyst Falls (Platinum)

Fields of Ruin:
Dragonrot Domains (Iron)

Gendarran Fields:
Overlook Caverns (Iron) [Champion Cave Spider]

All of them permanent

This is not in any way near optimal because it’s a very heavily crit-based build operating on an uncrittable target, so it should be possible to kill much faster than this, but yeah… videos of how bunnies rawr.