Guild Wars 2

For those who don’t know:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Modus_Sceleris

This fighters’ guild was introduced back in 2012 October and haven’t expanded anyhow. I’ve lately came across two of them (Veeland and Orma) and thought that these fights were pretty cool. The whole guild isn’t popular because there are no achievements associated with them as far as I know and event locations aren’t clear, same like spawns. It’s more spontanous, I’ve accidently come across mentioned members while exploring. Orma was the one especially funny – There were many players running around her, disguised as a Quaggan’s merchant and nobody cared.
I was curious, because her cart was apparently “suspicious”.

The thing is, as far as I can tell the members of Modus Sceleris use various, cool abilities in combinations, have phases even and don’t just stand there like dumb NPCs, they acutually move and (hint, hint!) seem to avoid AoE! 1v1 fights with them are pretty nice and I got one rare from each chest, so they’re also worthwhile.

I’d like to know what is the Guild’s purpose, if any? They had been added before the LS started and I wonder if there were/are any further plans associated with them or not? Still lurking the maps to find others, I want to beat them all 1v1 ^^

Cheers

I’ve encountered the guild in Lornar’s pass and in Fireheart Rise but did not realize there were others to find! I enjoyed the fights with them and thought they were an interesting addition to the game. I never thought to check the Wiki and now have. Very interesting and I hope we see some more of them.

Wiki says: The name Modus Sceleris is a Latin phrase that translates to “Way of Crime.”
I would love to know their back story. Maybe that could be included in some of the interactions with them at some point. I will make a point of seeking out the others now. Good find.

As for the “Way of Crime” – as far as I remember, Orma’s cart was stolen from someone trading with Inquest. It’s written under the cart. After beating her, she also mentions joining them, and the character disagrees, so they’re probably a band of very dangerous criminals, skilled in combat and ambushing/challanging adventurers.

Sadly, I can’t say much about the other one, since the event had already begun by the time I got there. But the Necromancer managed to down two 80 lvl players – Warrior and Guardian so they ain’t easy faceroll. He also had a type of two phases – in first he was applying conditions and some attacks, in another shapeshifting (?) into a bunch of rats. Cool fight. Will try to duel him once more if I find him.

That necro is messed up, I only met him once while getting world completion and the transforming into a horde of rats freaked me out so much just ran off.

I would have liked to see them appear in more maps, similar to the Skritt Burglar. They could have had their own little side-story where we foil their shenanigans more than once, turning them into a little mini rival guild at odds with our characters. (We also should have ended up teaming up with them at one point in Orr, maybe, where we develop grudging respect for each other.)

I’m personally very interested in their corelations with the Sinister Triad (aka Bandits etc. formed into triad in Brisban). They do have some sort of codex I believe and sound very elitist.

As for Vaal – the “transformation” looks pretty kitten cool and I wonder why more NPCs like those aren’t in game.

Type of “underground” guild I’d really like to have an option to join.

I think Anet largely considered MS a failure as “nobody paid attention to them”. However, they were quietly added as part of a larger update and barely mentioned in the patch notes, which is a shame. I would love to see them developed more.

They were an attempt to introduce more events and then deemed a failure because no one knew about them. To my knowledge it is one of the reasons more events weren’t added to zones.

As has been said, they were actually a good start at bringing fresh events and ideas to the zones. It was a shame they weren’t destined to be expanded upon.

I feel like these particular DEs were created to be 1/2vMob and pretty rare.

They add a lot of depth to exploration. Now if they had some unique items, not only skins, but more like minipets, dye, tonic or such they would’ve been swarmed.

One solution to prevent zerging them would be to actually make separate queues to fight them.

Let’s say, there’s 1v1 tournament with them. Total of 3 tries. They would duel one after another and spawn the chest afterwards for everyone attending, but with greatly increased reward to the person who won the duel.

Would be nice to see more of them, they were certainly more interesting than a certain Invasive Weed the Living Story spent the most of a year on…

I remember Modus Sceleris being touted as “guild events”, and an anti-guild of sorts: Something to mirror player-made guilds in game ecology. On that bases, I get the feeling MS was a precursor to Guild Bounties. and has been forgotten about with the launch of that system.