Guild Wars 2

Just started playing GW2 again after a couple of years away from it. I haven’t got the latest expansion yet, but I do plan to eventually.

At the moment I’m just re-learning how to play my class (Engineer), and I’m casually doing some World Bosses and doing some dungeon runs to do that.

I’d like to join a friendly guild with a lot of members on my server that does a bit of everything, really. I mainly prefer to do PvE stuff like dungeons and World Bosses, I’ve never done a raid or fractal and doubt I’m even ready to tbh, but I do like to jump in WvW sometimes to mix it up a little.

I’m not interested in PvP however.

I just got back into the game, so would appreciate an easy-going local guild to help me out in remembering a few things and with learning what’s new and to get to know each other and have some fun.

Thanks for reading!

Just updating that so far we’ve had one application after I put this Guild Recruitment post up. We’re really in dire need of active dedicated members. Currently we only consist of four active members including the new addition we recently recruited.

I’d greatly appreciate more support if anyone can spare it. We don’t have a billion boring strict rules in our guild, we only ask that you represent us.

If anyone has any questions at all that they feel if answered would help them decide whether to join our guild or not, please don’t hesitate to contact me here on the thread or by mail in-game.

Thank you for reading.

How To Join

So you’re interested in joining our guild? That’s great! We’d be so happy to hear from you by sending mail to either:

Aarek
Akardion

We hope many of you will contact us and help us grow as a guild again. We look forward to playing with you all and helping each other out and supporting the guild. This time Fortis Ones will be able to sustain itself even if the Guild Leaders go away for unexpected breaks in the future due to what ever life commitment may of come up. Every single members will be able to recruit, and we hope to have new fresh Dominari Officer ranks to help the guild out by next month.

About Guild Bank Use

I’d like to take the time to quickly talk about our Guild Bank arrangements. I’m currently sorting out our bank to hold useful items for all members, so far I’ve stocked the bank with bountiful Dungeon Potions, more are on the way, but it states in the bank tab not to be greedy. Take only what you need, and we’d greatly appreciate members giving back to the bank when they can. Whether it’s coin or simply restocking potions that you’ve used before and would like to return the favour to help out future guild mates.

So far there are extra bags for lower leveled characters and two stacks of 250 potions. The ideal way to take the potions would be to drag the stack into your bag, then ALT drag the stack of 250 to an adjacent slot in your bag and take X amount you would need for your dungeon runs you’re about to do, then kindly return the remainder potions to the bank in the slot it was in when you took it so other guild members can do the same. Feel free to restock the potions yourself if you feel generous enough to do it when the officers/leaders have not had the time to do it themselves yet.

Your efforts to help the guild in this way will not go unnoticed and unrewarded since we will be monitoring the bank history carefully to make sure the guild bank is being used appropriately. Doing helpful services like this for the guild will be a sure way for you to eventually become a Dominari of Fortis Ones. An honourable title indeed, and one not given lightly.

Thank you for reading, and have a wonderful day/evening.

- Aarek, Regulus of Fortis Ones

Our current goal as a guild right now is to bolster back our numbers so we can earn more influence for the guild. We currently have 10 Guild Bounty Training tokens that we’d like to go through, but the lack of numbers is what is holding us back. Everyone’s mission in the guild currently is to go on a mass recruiting spree.

Please make sure to let the people you’re asking if they’d like to join our guild know that we only want people who will constantly represent us. As I’ve said, I cannot stress this enough, so if you do end up joining us and help us recruit more members, please make sure to let them know this extremely important detail.

I’ve created a Guild Text Ad that myself and the other Guild Leader uses for a macro on our keyboard to input in the Map Chat occasionally in some areas to help recruit potential players. If you have a keyboard that can use a macro, please feel free to use it and help us recruit new members while you’re in-game, the ad is as follows:

Fortis Ones [FO] (roughly Latin for “The Brave Ones”) are now recruiting anyone willing to dedicate themselves to a single guild to help it grow. If you’re interested, please /w or mail me.

If you use this and someone whispers you, before inviting them, again please let them know about the need of them to constantly represent us. Especially when they first accept the invitation and if they forget to actually click represent in the guild tab after joining us.

I’d also like to add that while we are serious about our guild, in how we want it to grow and become a great guild for any and all to be in, that doesn’t mean we’re not friendly. We’re an extremely friendly bunch of people who love a good laugh and random friendly fun banter in the guild chat. All we ask is that you act mature and polite to your guild mates. Common courtesy if you will.

Now I’m going to leave a quick short summary bullet points below as a kind of TL;DR for anyone who just wants to quick basic information, however if you are really serious about joining our guild, I highly recommend you read everything I’ve written in this post to give yourself a better understanding on our guild.

TL;DR Summary

• Friendly social guild wanting more members to help grow and gain influence
• It is absolutely mandatory to always be representing our guild
• Absolutely fine for fun, cheerful funny guild banter in chat, but please be mature and respectful to all guild mates.
• When attempting to recruit others in our guild, make sure to tell them that they must be okay with always representing our guild and no other, if they cannot agree to this, then they do not fit in with the guild and you really shouldn’t invite them
  
  This was just a really short summary on what I’ve said in this post, and it doesn’t cover everything. If you find yourself being interested in our guild, I highly recommend you take the time to read this in its entirety.

Now let’s move on to the guild ranks.

Fortis Ones Guild Rank System

Guild Leader Ranks (unobtainable)

Regulus

The founder’s rank reserved for myself for being the one to create the guild in the game.

Tentus

The secondary Guild Leader rank reserved for my two close friends who helped start the guild with me many years ago back when GW2 first came out. The only difference from this rank and Regulus mechanically in the game is that only I can edit the guild’s ranks and emblem. But make no mistake, they are still considered fully fledged leaders of the guild.

Officer Rank

Dominari

This rank is reserved for those who have been in the guild for a while and have showed a lot of willingness and aptitude to really help the guild grow. You’ll be allowed to edit the message of the day and use stocked guild items. Your duties will include maintaining order within the guild resolving any grievances between fellow members calmly and peacefully while also making sure members are constantly representing the guild. You’ll also be able to claim forts in the name of our guild. Should you ever become a Dominari, we would appreciate that you take your newly found title fairly seriously acting like the appropriate officer when necessary. You will be a role model for the other members after all.

Standard Member Rank

Tiro

This is the default member rank. This isn’t considered a low rank at all, you are a fully fledged honoured member with access to our bank with helpful items and expected to always represent the guild. Your duty is to just play GW2 like your normally do, help gain us influence, get involved with the guild and help our fellow guildmates when you can. Do this and you can do nothing wrong, who knows you may be able to become a Dominari someday providing you want to. It is completely acceptable to just want to be a standard member helping the guild out without the responsibilities of being an officer by declining a promotion from us if we ever offer it to you for all your hard work in the guild.

And that’s the basics on how our ranking system works in the guild. If you compare it to our previous recruitment post we did a long time ago, things have changed pretty drastically. This is because we want all our members to be able to recruit new members without the need of higher ups to send someone an invite for them.

Introduction

We are Fortis Ones [FO], which is roughly translated from Latin to “The Brave Ones”. Fortis has several meanings which are brave, strong, powerful and courageous. Which is what we all aspire to be in our guild; thus the name “Fortis Ones”. We want our guild to be all about fun and true companionship. We want everyone to be comfortable around each other and help each other out when they can. Having people like that in a guild, is what truly makes a guild great.

Now before you consider joining our guild, you really have to have the same feeling on guilds we do. We do not believe in the ability to join more than one guild in GW2. We believe that when you join a guild, you should devote yourself to it and its people to help make it great and support it. If you have this mindset, you most likely are a perfect match for this guild.

We require all members to always be representing our guild, for what is the reason in joining our guild if you are not going to support us by representing and helping us gain valuable influence to help fully upgrade our guild? If you cannot constantly represent our guild, then our guild unfortunately isn’t for you, and we hope you can understand our reasoning for this.

If you are online and not representing our guild, the Guild Leaders and Officers are to contact you and let you know that you’re supposed to be representing us. If you stopped representing us on purpose for another guild, you’ll be given a warning reiterating that we only want loyal members who only wish to stay in our guild and help its people and support the guild. If you continue to stop representing us, we will sadly have to ask you to leave the guild, or have one last chance, but if you do it again, we’ll unfortunately have to remove you. This is why I cannot stress how important it is before you consider joining Fortis Ones, that you need to make sure you have the same mindset as us.

Later down the road if you find that you don’t want to be in our guild anymore, and would rather be in another or several at one time, we do not hold anything against you. As long as you stayed by us during your time in our guild, and you always represented and was pleasant, we’ll be sad to see you go, but we will accept your decision. There’s also nothing wrong with staying as simple friends after you leave the guild.

Now if you feel that you can fully commit yourself to us, please continue to read on and learn more about our guild to help you decide whether or not you should consider joining us. We would be very grateful to have you help us rebuild our guild.

We want to pride ourselves in being an honest and friendly social guild, which doesn’t just do one activity in GW2. We want our members to do everything from PvP to WvW, to running Dungeons and slaying World Bosses. Even help each other do Story Missions if you’re stuck or participate in guild activities and special events on GW2 together.

We also don’t care if you’re a low level or completely new to GW2, we want every one! If you’re new and a low level, you can help the guild grow while you also grow yourself as a player. You’ll find yourself growing alongside the guild which will make Guild Wars 2 an even more fantastic experience than it already is for you. Bear in mind after returning to GW2 from a break, we’re also learning some of the new mechanics that’s changed since we last played ourselves. But we’re already getting used to everything again.

Greetings,

note that there is a TL;DR bulletpoints towards the end of the post, but I highly recommend you read this in its entirety in your own time if you’re serious about joining our guild

Firstly I would like to thank you for taking an interest in our guild.

Now Fortis Ones is a pretty old guild, it was actually founded by myself during the early access launch for pre-purchasing Guild Wars 2 many years ago. Unfortunately the three Guild Leaders had to take a long break due to real-life commitments.

This isn’t the first time we’ve had to do this, in fact this is the third time we’ve returned. And this time we hope to truly make our guild great by recruiting many different people from many different backgrounds to help our guild grow again.

You can find our original guild recruitment page here . We had many people mail myself and the other leaders after doing this and our guild did pretty well back then. We hope the same will happen again this time round.

The reason I linked our old guild recruitment page is to give you more potential information about us (if you want to learn more) and to help prove my claim on how old our guild is.

However please bear in mind that the way our guild is going to operate is a little different now. Before; we had several different ranks that were pretty much all the same and were designed to help give a “feel” of “leveling” up in the guild from how long you’ve been in the guild for and constantly representing us.

This time round, there is still going to be the two different Guild Leader ranks that are unobtainable. But instead of several different normal member ranks with two different officer ranks, there will instead be one guild rank for a normal member and one guild rank for an officer in the guild.

Now before we get into the details about the guild, here is our guild introduction:

Guild Requirement
Now that you’ve seen our ranks and have a rough idea how they work, you need to know what we require of you. All that was ask is for you to always constantly represent us. Continue to do this and earn us influence, and you’ll fly by to the fully fledged rank of Novitium in no time. However if you are caught not representing us, you will be given a warning. If you do not represent us after being told, you risk being ranked down by one. If you continue to keep not representing us, then we will have to remove you sadly since we only want loyal dedicated members who want a social friendly guild, but also want to help make that very guild great at the same time.

If you join our guild and not represent us, what is the point in being in our guild? We only want members who will always represent us and remain loyal to one guild. So please, if you cannot keep to these standards, then please do not request to join.

We are a very friendly social guild that do many different activities together, be it dungeons, WvW, PvP or just chilling and chatting in guild chat having a laugh. We always help our members, so if you find yourself stuck on a quest, jumping puzzle or whichever, just say something in the guild chat and if no one is busy doing something currently, we’ll be sure to help out. That is the kind of guild we strive to be. But we can only do that by having loyal friendly members who want to help make the guild as great as possible and at the same time be in a great friendly guild.

Short Summary

• Always represent us
• Be friendly
• Help guildmates out
• Participate in guild events
• Help make the guild better
• Socialise

You can also mail me or the other leaders in-game if you would like to join. Just send a mail to either of these names:

• Aarek
• Akardion
• Asher Rose

If you have any questions feel free to ask. We look forward to hearing from all of you.

Hello and thank you for giving us some of your time taking an interest in our guild by clicking on this thread! I seriously recommend reading all of this to make 100% sure you’re right for this guild. If you can’t be bothered, at least read the short summary I included near the bottom.

Fortis Ones was founded as soon as I was able to log into GW2 and create my character on the first day of the early release only to those who pre-purchased the game. We were growing at a good steady pace but then the guild leaders decided to take a break from playing for a while, and when we came back several months later, the guild was dead.

But we’ve come back from our break and we’re slowly rebuilding the guild again!

Name Meaning -
Fortis Ones is roughly translated from Latin to “The Brave Ones”. For that is what we are. Fortis has several meanings which are Brave, Strong, Powerful & Courageous. We strive to be all of these meaning therefore we are Fortis Ones.

Guild Ranks
Now I’d like to share important information on how our guild works. Firstly there is no single guild leader, but three of them. All of our guild ranks are in latin and some actually mean pretty much the same thing but we wanted to add a variety of ranks to the guild where players could “level up” so to speak within the guild by simply being in it for a certain period of time and constantly representing us.

So first, I’ll tell you the ranks of the guild:

The two Guild Leader ranks are:

• Regulus
• Tentus
  These ranks cannot be obtained.

The two higher ranks that can only be obtained through hard work, loyalty and dedication to the guild are:

• Optimus
• Dominari

Now that’s the ranks where you have to do a lot of work for the guild in order to achieve. The following ranks you can easily gain simply by being in the guild for a certain period of time and constantly representing the guild:

• Novitium -
  This is the highest rank anyone can achieve by just being in the guild and constantly representing. It is where you’re considered a fully fledged member. You’ve finally been in the guild for 2 weeks and have been constantly representing us. You can now make a name for yourself and eventually become one of the higher ranks (if you so choose) by proving your loyalty and dedication for the guild. However you can turn down promotions if you just want to stick to being a fully fledged loyal member.

• Noviti -
  This rank is given to members who have been in the guild for 1 week while constantly representing us. You are almost considered a trustworthy loyal member.

• Tironis -
  This rank is a member’s first step into the guild on being accepted as a member after representing us for 3 days. You can now display our guild emblem and have full access to the helpful items guild bank tab.

• Tiro -
  Tiro is latin for Recruit, since this is what you are. All members are Tiro at first for 3 days. Once you have been representing our guild for 3 days, you can become Tironis. Since this is your test period, you cannot display our emblem nor access our guild bank.

I’m not sure if this has already been said before but if it has and we still don’t have it, I would like an explanation if possible please as to why we don’t have it yet since it’s already been said.

I have a pretty interesting guild name that I get questioned about a lot from new members and I’d really appreciate having a special tab where I could put all sorts of various information without a ridiculously short character limit like mail messages and the message of the day has.

Just an area where I could write up what each rank’s duties are, what the guild is all about and perhaps even rules and guidelines of the guild etc.

This “Information Tab” would be a great addition and very helpful to me so instead of explaining a bunch of things to new members, I could direct them to the guild information tab where they can read for a minute and find out easily.

Thank you for reading

Thanks guys, I’m just deleting them and ignoring because I can sign in perfectly fine on my account and play whereas the emails said it’s “locked” so it must be fake.

Hello everyone, I’m using an authenticator on my account and I’ve checked my account security and it says I only have my two IP addresses accessed to this account which is from my computer and my laptop, so no one hasn’t logged into my account from a different place other than my laptop and pc, but I keep getting loads of these GW2 Support emails and I’m too worried to click on the links they tell me to click on in case it’s a scam pretending to be ArenaNet.

The first email I got was this:
Account Security Alert: ArenaNet
noreply@guildwars2.com;
Greetings!

Due to an unusual change in your access pattern, the Guild Wars 2 account under this email address has been locked. This can be caused by logging in from a new location, but it may also signal an attempt to compromise your account. If you feel that your account’s security is at risk, please follow the steps below.

Step 1: Verify Your Account Ownership

Click on the link below to verify your e-mail address of the Guild Wars 2 account:

(And then here is a link telling me to click it to sort it out)

I have several of these emails also:

Guild Wars 2 Support
noreply@guildwars2.com;
Greetings!

It will be ongoing for further investigation by ArenaNet’s employees.

We are concerned about whether your account has been stolen. In order to guarantee the legitimacy of your account, click the link below.

Once your account authentication has been completed, we will check your account and let you know what we can do for you.

Need help or have questions about your account? Visit our support site: http://support.guildwars2.com/.

The Guild Wars 2 Team

Are these emails legit? I don’t see any reason for me to have any emails like these since I even checked security on this website and the only two IP addresses accessing my account are both my laptop and pc, so I’m really concerned.

Thank you for reading

Hello everyone,

I see people with legendary weapons and I know they have to create them themselves or purchase them at a very high price in order to attain, but I want to know how people figure out what legendary weapon they are going for and how they know what they need and what they have to do in order to get the items to create it.

Can someone point me in the right direction on where I can find out what legendary weapons there are and how to create? I want to work towards creating my own legendary but I have no idea how to make one or what one I want. All I know is that I favour dual wielding pistols so I want two legendary pistols if there are any for me to create.

I know it’s not easy but while I’m 100%-ing the world and doing all the dungeons, I want a goal to work towards in creating my weapons.

Thank you for reading