Guild Wars 2

Hey guys!
Gasmic here! I’m the leader of Gasm! ?
I decided to take this moment to make my formal introduction to the GW2 Forums! Big shout-out to my guildies and my alliance mates!
I’ll be joining you guys on the forums more often now, putting in my two cents here and there. I have been following the forums for a while, but I refrained from doing so because I’ve noticed that almost everyone who has posted there has been flamed.
I, being someone who does not handle flaming very well, attempted to delay it as much as I can, but now I believe it’s time for me to come forth. Many people might know me as the emblem-less commander (I’m saving up, believe me) giving orders, kitten around, and pretty much just helping people get into WvW and having a good time.
I have a few things to say to Devona’s Rest and the other servers we have matched up with. Right now it seems that we are going to win this round, and we will be bumped up soon, and I would just like to say that I adore the rivalry between Kaineng and Ferg and us. I am going to miss competing with them greatly.

I have noticed on the forums that multiple people have found issues with PRO joining us. Let me try to address this topic as delicately as I can.
I see where they are coming from; the people who appose PRO joining us. Being a leader in Devona’s Rest when we were at the bottom of the bottom, seeing the server when we just had one commander running around the map, we have developed a kind of attachment to our server. We had weeks in which we weren’t even visible on the “Pie of Points” for days on end! The couple of weeks before PRO joined us, Devona was heading on up; we had become a lot more structured and the slim traces of organization was showing up. We went from having no control of anything to being able to hold our own borderlands for almost the entire week. In short, we were watching the server grow.
We’re all RPG players so I’m sure you will be able to relate with the following example:
Imagine Devon starts up a new game. He levels up a bit, and loves every moment of it. He hits level 5 and starts developing a great attachment to his character. He plays longer and puts more time, effort, and love into this character and watches it grow stronger. Suddenly due to some glitch, he automatically gets maxed level and maxed gear. He’s completely robbed of the journey of watching the character grow, and he feels a little overwhelmed.
I believe this is what Devona’s Rest, and in some part me as well, is facing. We were hoping of watching our server move its way up the ranks due to collective efforts of the people that we had around us. It makes our achievements feel kind of “cheap.”
On the other side, having PRO around is kind of a blessing. I believe that with their ADDED influence, we will be able to turn the morale of the server around.
In my conclusion about this topic, I humbly welcome PRO and I look forward to coordinating with them later on. To the leader of PRO, Phizyn (I hope that was spelled right) I would like to welcome you and your guild personally from Gasm. If you need anything, feel free to ask us. I would also like to say that no matter what I say, people are still going to… errr well I guess the best phrase for this situation would be “Hater’s gonna hate.” It will take some time integrating into Devona’s , we are a small server and your merge has provided new faces, ideas, and thoughts to us, but after a little while, PRO will be considered a guild which was with Devona “From it’s early days.” I have already forbidden my guildies from talking trash about your guild for what it’s worth.
Now to continue, I would like to see a bit more collaboration from the different commander on each map. There are times when I see 3-4 commanders on the map, all doing different things, doing things which are counterproductive. If they were communicating with each other, their combined efforts would be very effective.
I would also like for the people in Devona’s Rest to learn World Vs World and its mechanics better. I have seen multiple people build up a treb right in front of the gates of a tower… that’s really not going to do anything. I make it my point to keep all of my guildies well informed on everything WvW related. I have written multiple guides on our guild forums to make sure they are as useful as possible.
Now enough of the bad, I would like to point out some of the good things about our server!

I would just like to say good job to my guild [GASM] who have had a bunch of fun these past few weeks in WvW.
Special shoutout to Team Ice-Cream Sandwich for finding out what happens if you run into the opponent’s base and avoid the Legendary Heroes. ( You get teleported back out and destroyed by the Heroes.)
Kota The Strong (leader of FWAE) does an amazing job defending our home server.
Kaputz (Leader of GANK) has awesome resolve and I believe that he will be one of the people who will bring this guild over the top.
Props to iSpy and Rave from the other server for showing up wherever we don’t want them to be.
Shout-out to Marcellus for having me learn about the blocking feature in GW2 because of his strange obsession with the quaggans in the lake. “THE kittenKKINGG QUAGGANS GUYYYSS!”
I love Devona’s Rest so much, GASM is not going to leave anytime in the near future.
See you around!
May I have the honor of beating you down in the battlefield!
~Gasmic

PS. Sorry for the long post, I had a lot to say ?