Guild Wars 2

The Expedition [XP]
NA-EST | 18+ | TS3 | Raiding Guild | Team PVP | Open World PvE

[XP] is a newly forming guild effort to established a small community of passionate GW2 players who want to experience team-oriented PVE and PVP through raiding, PVP leagues, and open world events.

We are a new “start up” raiding guild that is now recruiting general membership!

Raiding is our primary focus, and we are looking for strong raiders (note: RAIDERS, not necessarily GW2 PVE veterans) from all backgrounds, whether you are a player from GW2 launch to a new MMO player who recently picked up GW2 Heart of Thorns.

For non-raiders and casuals, we are also welcoming general members and friends who support our guild initiatives and philosophies.

Please visit our Information & Recruitment forum for insight into us and our application process.

Please note that the two founding members of this raiding guild effort have beaten Vale Guardian and Gorseval consistently with reasonably minimal progression time on each boss thanks to the excellent teammates from our former raid guild. We DO have successful experience in GW2 raids and are applying what we have learned so far to the foundation of this raiding guild “start up.”

Please contact Rivendusk (Rexivus.3794) or Sharpes (Sharpe.4051) in-game for any further questions.

Hey, everybody. Just wanted to give a status and clarify some things.

A lot of interest in our guild ideas, but the question is: “How many people do you have right now?”

Just from opening recruitment on Dec 1, we have 11 people. We definitely need more for this effort to start, especially raiders; however, the people who have joined are all passionate about making this system work and are patient enough to wait for the right people to join. I understand the hesitation of joining a start up, but if you are still interested in us, we have to start somewhere, so I encourage you to at least apply and come chat with myself and Sharpe.

In addition, as far as our approach to raiding, one of our applicants put it very simply… Think of it like a “high school sports team” approach to raiding and competitive play… such as focusing on coaching and improving each other, but also being realistic of our own areas of improvements. We are going to set high standards, but also push everybody to improve and progress at their own pace with respects to the larger guild rate of progression.

Otherwise, good luck to all of those still looking for a home, or looking for a new home!

=[PHASE I Status Update for Potential Applicants]=

It hasn’t even been a week of recruitment, and we have a roster of 15 raiders, casuals, and friends.

We will be doing our first meeting tonight at 9pm EST to address our next step as far as getting the raiders into Spirit Vale. We are still looking for more to start our progression raiding core with our flexible raiding schedule, but this week will be “learning about each other” and for the Raid Leadership to build personal assessment profiles for each person — to identify strengths and truths to people’s claims of skill and capabilities, sit down and decide on next goals for ascended gear, and for us to coach specific roles and areas of improvement in 1-on-1 practice/scrimmages between the player and the Raid Leaders.

I suggest please considering your general membership applications soon if you want to raid because I will be capping the raiding applicants at a point while I focus on this developing the first core of raidmates. We aim to be getting our team integrated into raiding well before the holidays. Recruitment for raiding may open up again later; however, we are almost to our 15 core + subs goal for the Phase II of [XP].

Keep in mind the following:
- We are a North American guild spanning across the PST to EST play times. Being able to interact with our members off-raid times is crucial to membership in our guild.
- We accept both new and veteran players willing and capable of self assessing where one needs improvement
- We want to know YOU in your application and kitten how much thought you put into joining us
- Trying to impress us won’t necessarily help, if not hurt your chances of acceptance
- Group applications need a separate forum account and application for each person
- We are filling up quickly…

When you get your teams, what times do you plan on starting your raids? How long do you intend to raid and on what nights? Seems like a good thing you’re setting into motion. Just need more info.

All of that info is on our website. Short answer though… M-F 8 to 11p EST… But not everybody raids everyday.

I know a lot of people are waiting interest to see if we start raiding. Unfortunately, how we are approaching this, we will be closing recruitment very shortly after we start full teams.

I encourage you to read our literature on our forums about our philosophy… It was too much to post here at once.

http://theexpedition.proboards.com