Guild Wars 2

Elias.4028:

As a person that has been playing GW2 since launch, I highly disagree with the notion that HoT was “half done” when Anet released it. HoT brought into the game enough content worthy to have been called a full expansion. This said, here are three reasons why I think players are hating on the HoT expansion at the current time.

1. Raiding was not available at launch. I don’t think it would be a good idea to delay the entire expansion one month to have this bundled in with HoT at launch, but it is one of the core new game systems that really should have been ready to play.

2. Some of the content that was included in the expansion was simply not enjoyable to play. One example of this is the new WvW BL maps. Those new maps look like they took a lot of resources to complete, but the end product was not enjoyed by the WvW community. You can write an entire thread dedicated to why this is, technically is it much better than the old alpine map, yet it alienated the WvW community. Another example is the Dragons Stand map. An entire map dedicated to giving the community the elder dragon fight that wasn’t there with the Zhaitan fight. The last fight is awesome and really makes you feel in an epic encounter, but using an entire zone to get to that section makes the map one of the lease played for me personally.

3. This is the most important point of the three, the frequent content patches people enjoyed after the original GW2 launch simply hasn’t happened. HoT has been out for months now, why hasn’t the next phase of the living story started yet? I personally love doing it, and I’m sure other do as well. In fact, apart from balance patches and the raid encounter I already spoke about, there hasn’t been much new content added to the game. I understand that Anet split their resources 50/50 with live content and expansion work, but where is the live content?

Those are my three points on why people think HoT is lacking content, its not. The problem is the content that is there, some of it people do not enjoy doing, and this is a learning experience Anet need to take away from HoT. Also, the lack of content updates to HoT means people have been, for the last 6 months, been playing the same expansion content over and over. There was enough content in HoT to entertain players for a period of time until updates would carry the baton further. The problem at the moment is the content patches are not there and HoT is still holding the baton and is getting tired.

Look its fine to like the game, alot of people having been playing this game since original closed beta.. but what I wont accept is blind fandom. I also want to note, that you are also only listing the items you ‘think’ are what are peoples disappointment – based on your already rose coloured perspective.

Anyone, who has had a lot of experience with different MMO’s and subsequent expansions from said game and company can openly critique and justify why HoT was not worth its price tag (and also how months after, content was not fully fleshed out, rushed or now cancelled). In fact, it caused many players I know to full stop quit the game entirely (so in many cases, it was actually damaging to the larger game).

Its fine to be a fan of the series and of the company, I am also a fan, but its important to open your eyes and understand what HAS actually happened. Also when stating you ‘highly disagree’ you should of provided in full detail – WHY this is the case and why hundreds of valid arguments against your point of view are in-valid.

[Coin] properly returns to Guild Wars 2

After alot of thought, careful planning and good old pressure from vets, Inner Sanctum [Coin] is officially returning with the release of Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns to reclaim its spot as one of the premiere fighting guilds in the world. Many of its veterans from Guild Wars 2 and Wildstar have returned to our roster, giving us a stronger group of gamers than we have ever had – currently a balanced 23 with more returning on the horizon with an aim of a final roster of no more than 29.

Up until now, we have only been privately recruiting from our old core and people we know. We are now opening recruitment to a wider audience, to find the best possible gamers out there, that want to experience the highest levels of squad-play. We are also very happy to be back on our original home of Desolation.EU working with many guilds that is certainly creating a positive ‘blast from the past’ feel.

History

Inner Sanctum was first created in Guild Wars 2 in September 2012, though many of our members have been playing games together for years. All of our members have played MMO’s competitively at a hardcore level, both PvE and PvP. We are known for our unique team synergy, as well as developing our own meta, often influencing overall metagame. Inner Sanctum has experienced all four regional time zones within GW2 and has a high understanding of the game.

The guild is International and English speaking, with members coming from all over the world (literally speaking, we have one of the most diverse bases of people). Our approach is different to other hardcore guilds – whilst we maintain our attitude/focus to the highest levels, we only raid a set amount of days a week, but still achieve greatness. We believe this is evident in track record of our accomplishments as gamers and as a guild. Inner Sanctum is known for running small numbers against larger opponents and coming out victorious, thanks to placing so much emphasis on team play and high individual skill.

In Q1 of 2014, we decided to leave the game for Wildstar, as months without any substantial updates made GW2 boring and stale. The Guild remained dormant until recent expansion announcement piqued our interest. As of October 2015 we are back in Guild Wars 2. We plan to use the time until Heart of Thorns release to get back into shape.
** Despite us being away from the game, we have kept up on knowledge

Leadership

The Lead commander and leadership have 10+ years experience in leading online teams and guilds at the highest levels. They also have actively been involved with community management of servers in the past, such as Desolation EU and Blackgate NA (helping to win season one for Blackgate). Beatrix has trained many commanders and acted as a consultant for a number of guilds looking to develop. Most of the leadership team have been together for over two years now.

Sanctum Aims

We simply aim to be the best at what we do. Period. This guild is primarly focused on WvW/GvG, but we are also interested in clearing raids, SPvP and general fun outside of our main raids.

Raid Times
Mandatory Raids

• Sunday / Monday / Tuesday: 6.45-10.00pm BST
• Wednesday (once/twice month – or sometime sunday/saturday)]: 6.45-10.00pm BST
  * Inner Sanctum has a track record of doing extremely well on a lower number of raid days. We prefer quality over quantity

Optional

• [pve raid clear for gear] Saturday: Anytime

Recruitment

Classes we are currently interested in:

• 1 Necromancer (Reaper)
• 1 Ranger (Druid)
• 1 Mesmer (Chrono)
• 1 Elementalist (Tempest)
  If you have natural gamer skill, we will consider class rerolls

Requirements

• We will only interview people who are at least 18 years old. Please whisper darkened.4076 if interested (if not online, send an in-game mail)
• We do not ask you to complete written applications – but will ask you to a voice interview + want to see gameplay.
• You must be able to to use voice communication, working microphone and be an outstanding gamer.
• Don’t go down, don’t be a kittening rallybot
• Be able to theory craft with your main profession
• Don’t take the kitten with AFK’s – we raid 3 days a week with a hardcore attitude
• Have/Be working towards best possible gear setup for your main job in gvg/wvw squad

Saiyan.1704:

Darkened.4076:

Saiyan.1704:

Darkened.4076:

Ghotistyx.6942:

Procession of Blades is already 25s with access to 20% reduced cooldown. How fast does it need to be?

Doesn’t matter how low the CD is – The trap is crap. No whirl finisher and the 10x damage will kill you from retal. Could be useful for PVE but I doubt it, better skills to take in that slot regardless.

It’s no different than Whirling Wrath on GS with the exception that it does 10x hits instead of 14 (including projectiles). The trap finalizes quicker and proc on itself, enabling you to use another skill during its effect.

It can be very strong on condi builds utilizing SJ and PR traits. The previous beta trap versions were not crap, just subpar for what you were sacrificing to use them.

What’s crap is Spirit Weapons. Tbh, AI shouldn’t even exist in this game.

The difference being that WW(a whirl finisher) is a weapon 2 ability and this t©rap takes up a utility slot, when there are at least 6 more viable options both spvp and wvw wise.

Your statement makes no sense whatsoever. Subpar means its crap, because ‘Subpar’ isn’t going to get used. I also have no idea why you think its acceptable to compare ‘Spirit Weapons’ to ‘Traps’ in this instance.

1. They are not even close in the same mechanic.
2. SW can be ignored since pretty much everything else has a use.
3. Traps make up the elite specs utilities they need to do far more.

Dumb arguments are dumb. At least we agree however outside of the discussion of traps that spirit weapons are in fact worthless. These should have had a proper remake years ago.

You’re sayings it’s crap, even if they excessively lowered the cd’s on them. I’m saying it can be good given the necessary buffs to Traps. From my previous BWE experiences, traps performed better than Spirit Weapons. That’s why I said Spirit weapons were crap and Traps are subpar.

I shouldn’t have to explain myself but there you go mister.

The trap you brought up in your original comment and viewpoint was ‘Procession of Blades.’ (Yes I also mention two other traps, which also need greatly improving in the original post, but that’s not the point under discussion at the moment).

My point in relation to your original comment and the trap being ‘crap’ is stated above; with my original point still standing. There are much better options to take, regardless of CD of the Utility Skill or Damage it wields (unless the damage was completely off chart in power build).

The difference once again; that spirit weapons are part of the core class utilities and the traps are the main Dragon Hunter Utilities, which is why many have referenced a number of the traps being crap/rubbish/needs improvement, whatever language you feel comfortable in using. I agree with you that spirit weapons are rubbish, as are their functionality, but a ‘mobile mechanic’ can not be referenced or compared to a ‘planted mechanic’ when talking about the skills viability. Especially in the context of the elite specializations tree spending ‘traits’ towards the trap set of utilities. You do need to explain yourself, this is a forum where people share their views, opinions and ideas (where we can agree or disagree), not a mind-readers cult kitten. Lets agree to disagree, thanks.

Devs please read the feedback thread that was created that you wanted us to use - Finally, I would prefer no response, them take time and come back with something decent than give a quick response that says kitten all.

Saiyan.1704:

Darkened.4076:

Ghotistyx.6942:

Procession of Blades is already 25s with access to 20% reduced cooldown. How fast does it need to be?

Doesn’t matter how low the CD is – The trap is crap. No whirl finisher and the 10x damage will kill you from retal. Could be useful for PVE but I doubt it, better skills to take in that slot regardless.

It’s no different than Whirling Wrath on GS with the exception that it does 10x hits instead of 14 (including projectiles). The trap finalizes quicker and proc on itself, enabling you to use another skill during its effect.

It can be very strong on condi builds utilizing SJ and PR traits. The previous beta trap versions were not crap, just subpar for what you were sacrificing to use them.

What’s crap is Spirit Weapons. Tbh, AI shouldn’t even exist in this game.

The difference being that WW(a whirl finisher) is a weapon 2 ability and this t©rap takes up a utility slot, when there are at least 6 more viable options both spvp and wvw wise.

Your statement makes no sense whatsoever. Subpar means its crap, because ‘Subpar’ isn’t going to get used. I also have no idea why you think its acceptable to compare ‘Spirit Weapons’ to ‘Traps’ in this instance.

1. They are not even close in the same mechanic.
2. SW can be ignored since pretty much everything else has a use.
3. Traps make up the elite specs utilities they need to do far more.

Dumb arguments are dumb. At least we agree however outside of the discussion of traps that spirit weapons are in fact worthless. These should have had a proper remake years ago.

Ghotistyx.6942:

Procession of Blades is already 25s with access to 20% reduced cooldown. How fast does it need to be?

Doesn’t matter how low the CD is – The trap is crap. No whirl finisher and the 10x damage will kill you from retal. Could be useful for PVE but I doubt it, better skills to take in that slot regardless.

Asmodal.6489:

hi Darkened,

just wanted to point out that some of your issues are already addressed but they did not make it in this BWE

Darkened.4076:

• Invisible: They need to be invisible. Maybe visible for 2-3 seconds and then disappear from enemy site.

This actually is already the case. Enemies can just see the animation of you putting them down. nothing else.

Darkened.4076:

• Piercing Light: Bleeding is kinda meh. Would much prefer a daze/stun/chill some kind of control over a bleed effect. CDR is great.

bleed will be removed. 1 sec daze will come.

Darkened.4076:

• Hunters Fortification: I thought this was a joke for a grandmaster trait. So under powered…. Even if by some miracle you were able to chain this with resets, it would still be crap. Maybe this should be another interesting trap trait, that further develops traps? Its in the name.

This trait was changed to cure a condition whenever you block and you recieve 10% less damage with no conditions on you.

Thank you – edited re information into original post.

Kicast.1459:

There is one positive point on dh:
Guardian is the only profession (maybe with ele) that can already play today the build it will use after hot. As a result we will be much better prepared to rule the world ;-)

/joke off

Tempest is alot stronger than people are aware of (shouts do need some work though/Overloading weaving needs some tweeks/Some other tweeks needed). I wrecked face on the Tempest when playing it – great fun. Many do not know how to play/use it effectively within group settings at the moment. Why would they? It takes time.

Hello There Arenanet,

First off, I would like to start by saying bravo on what you have added to the game. I am mostly writing from a WvW perspective. This feedback also comes out of discussion with others. I have tons of experience playing a Guardian having commanded/played it since very early in the games life span. I will use Tempest as a cross reference on class sometimes, as this was the only other specialisation I got to play properly during this weekend of beta.

Virtues

The biggest overall issues here imo are as followed:

• Cooldown Time: Simply put, the CD’s on all three virtues are simply farrrrrrrrrr too long… (and I really mean that). Tempest for example, get some AMAZING abilities on overload, that can also be traited for a low CD. We don’t need to be the same, but there needs to be a CD reduction.
• Uses: They need to provide some further uses

Pros:

• Animations: Generally pretty ‘kool looking.’ F1/F2 look great (spirit chains/wings are fantastic ideas), but F3 needs some work.

Abilities:

• F1 Spear of Justice: This need either a lower CD and/or should have an additional effect for the tether lasting full duration on a target. I would suggest 1/2 second immobilize
• F2 Wings of Resolve: MUCH lower CD. The major issue for a DH right now is movement and ability to re-position, which every range character HAS to have. I don’t see a re-positional tool making it into the LB itself at this stage, so it will likely needs to be on F2. Please for the love of god, don’t tell me we have MI or JI as they do not fill this role effectively. Honestly I would have a bit less healing for more movement on this skill. It also needs a longer range. Were leaping with wings… This is not a standard leap… Also the healing is not even a big deal anyway. Other classes can bring the same amount of healing, if not a lot more.
• F3 Shield of Courage: Right now with how long this CD is, its never worth using. It’s animation is also very lack luster. I personally think this ability should be about channeling spirit energy, which pulses and gives buffs/utilities to allies as well as providing an area of denial – It should ‘really do something special.’ Right now, it doesn’t.

Longbow

• Puncture Shot: The are some issues with the projectile bounce connecting to targets it should. Also the number of bounces on this should be increased by min 1 (which would bring it line with cleave on hitting 3 targets). This shot should really be about ‘ricochet’ – Its extremely lackluster at the moment.
• True Shot: God where to start with this one… First off, I don’t mind the root element, IF and IF being the keyword here, it brings something truly special to the table and this cannot just be about high damage. Yes it should have high damage, but it needs to have something big in addition. The animation also needs a TON of work. Why is this shot not got its own animation? Its literally just an arrow.. (unless I just didn’t look hard enough?) Can it not be a shot of spirit energy or something even remotely interesting to see? You have one of the most interesting creative concepts to create animations for (range, guardian, spirit energy, angel links) and you give us a normal shot?
• Deflecting Shot: Just fix ability to shot 360 and great ability. Great animation. Good sound.
• Symbol of Energy: Increase speed of symbol landing please – otherwise great symbol, please don’t change the fire proc.
• Hunters Ward: Ok lets break this ability down into two parts. The start and 4 pulse damage and animation. This had the ability to be a simply amazing animation… You could have done SO much with this. I imagined the Guardian channeling energy through the bow of a Dragon or their own ‘soul energy’ which falls from the sky in the select area, followed by a hand/talk gesture from the character that creates the 2nd part of the skill, final damage and wards. Considering alot of other classes animations look great – this skill DESERVES a hell of alot of work. The ‘fence wards’ are great and are a fantastic concept, but the start to end is crap. Sorry but it is. Its just lazy to have used the ranger animation…. Also I would suggest changing the 4 pulse to no direct damage and have on effect. Either boon rip (lower pulses) or something else. Final damage and ward I really like, it creates a skill and timing bracket to use effectively.

Traps

What I love generally about the Traps (elite and a few of the utilities) is there ‘anti push play.’ This is really great to see this added. Also 3 traps are very unique – but…

• Test of Faith: Needs a rework… its just bad and doesn’t do enough compared to other classes abilities.
• Purification: I see no reason to use this ever. Shelter is in a good place and better, signet brings additional passive and timely burst healing (if you kitten up the trap or they just run past it) and RTL brings loads to the group.
• Lights Judgement: THANK YOU! for bringing anti stealth/assassin play. Finally… but the duration of not re stealthing needs to be increased by at least 1 more second for this trap to be used (3?).
• Thrown: Ok these traps are made of light/spirit energy? – so why the hell can I not prepare them from range (600-750?!!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!)
• Invisible: Edit: This is already in place. Although I still think all traps should be unblockable, would bring them inline with ranger traps.
  
  Traits

Tier 1

• Piercing Light: Edit: 1 sec Daze is coming, I personally think this should be 2 seconds, since your only ever going to be using (currently) max 3 traps. CDR is great.
• Zealots Aggression: Damage needs to be upped to 10% min
• Soaring Devastation: Should also remove ALL movement impairment affects – maybe also increase range traveled?

Tier 2

• Defenders Dogma: Imo get rid of this, and build in a bit more movement for the Guardian – its in the name. Movement is defense in this game.
• Bulwark: Please remove this… UNLESS you improve F3 in some way above – then fine.

Tier 3

• Hunters Fortification: Edit: ‘This trait was changed to cure a condition whenever you block and you recieve 10% less damage with no conditions on you.’ Ok this is a better step, I think the 10% less damage with no conditions on you is basically pointless, considering it will be negated by – almost every ability these days.
• Big Game Hunter: Maybe should further develop the use of all virtues, since they change for DH. Really boring atm.

I’m sorry if this comes across as alot of negative feedback, the DH right now is imo in the worse spot of any of the specializations (after discussions with people) and runs the risk of not being used at all in certain settings.

I’m not saying the suggestions above are the right suggestions, they just came from what I experienced when playing it over the beta. Its on the right track to be a great class and bring something new, but defo needs the most work out of the others imo.

These are only my opinions. Thank you for taking the time to read. Appreciate the chance to give feedback in the development of the profession.
Edited re information on updates.

Bumping,

1 Necromancer
1 Warrior
1 Engineer

All applicants should be exceptional – As always if your profession is not listed, but you feel you have the skill to own a spot, please put an application in. Final Spots.

Bumping,

1 Necromancer
1 Warrior
1 Engineer

All applicants should be exceptional – As always if your profession is not listed, but you feel you have the skill to own a spot, please put an application in. Final Spots.

Bumping,

1 Necromancer
1 Mesmer
1 Engineer

All applicants should be exceptional – As always if your profession is not listed, but you feel you have the skill to own a spot, please put an application in. Final Spots.

Bumping,

1 Necromancer
1 Mesmer
1 Engineer

All applicants should be exceptional – As always if your profession is not listed, but you feel you have the skill to own a spot, please put an application in. Final Spots.

Bumping,

1 Ranger or Necromancer (This is not a troll recruitment, we really are recruiting a Ranger)
1 Mesmer
1 Engineer

All applicants should be exceptional – As always if your profession is not listed, but you feel you have the skill to own a spot, please put an application in.

Bumping,

1 Ranger or Necromancer (This is not a troll recruitment, we really are recruiting a Ranger)
1 Mesmer
1 Engineer

All applicants should be exceptional – As always if your profession is not listed, but you feel you have the skill to own a spot, please put an application in.

Bumping,

1 Ranger (This is not a troll recruitment, we really are recruiting a Ranger)
1 Guardian
1 Engineer
1 Necromancer

All applicants should be exceptional – As always if your profession is not listed, but you feel you have the skill to own a spot, please put an application in.

Bumping,

1 Ranger (This is not a troll recruitment, we really are recruiting a Ranger)
1 Guardian
1 Engineer
1 Necromancer

All applicants should be exceptional – As always if your profession is not listed, but you feel you have the skill to own a spot, please put an application in.

The main things that need to be addressed in this stream are:

> Critical Damage: I really hope Anet Devs understand HOW this is different across three(four) different game types. Please consider the effects on all of them, not just the one you’ve turned your attention too. I think Dev’s need to accept that players will fine other ways of speed running dungeons. Critical damage in WvW is fine. SPvP from the sounds of it needs a small buff, since all i hear about these days is the condition meta over there.
> Please leave sigil stacking alone in WvW, but open up more options for sigils general instead of the constant cross internal cd.
> Please talk about the elephant in the room, which is rangers in WvW.
> Maybe take some time just talking about your current view on SPVP, PVE and WvW.

In effect this is actually what I’m most concerned about – Anet has a history of focusing on one game-type (trying to balance things – sometimes they do, sometimes they don’t get it right) – but It almost always effects the other game-types negatively – I think you need to be really careful here, consider the effects across the whole game (which I’m sure/hopefully you have done) and make it very clear to people so there isn’t a massive freak out.

Asuka Shikinami.5462:

0) Warrior sustain.
- Healing signet + adrenal health HPS is too high for a passive that cannot be interrupted and poison has less effect on than other heals (requires perma poison rather than carefully timed poison burst)
- Zerker stance too long for perfect immunity, either reduce length or lower immunity to %. (Jonathan we discussed this ages ago…)

You may or may not play a warrior – but this is written as someone who faces a warrior – not plays one full time. As someone who mains warrior and understands it within WvW to a very high level, the healing signets ‘use’ is its own balancing. If you ‘use’ healing signet, you are totally without healing for 20 seconds unless traited or a healing field presents itself (and lets face it, if your forced into using it the chances of you going down are dramatically increased). As for adrenal health – unless your really low, you should be spending the bars on the burst skills within this environment. Zerker stance is used by warriors who build into DPS builds and therefore need the immunity – its on a long enough cooldown. Both can be countered, so both are balanced. You might have been talking about SPVP here, but I don’t want a ‘fix’ there, breaking the ability somewhere else (unless they go down the road of keeping it separate).

Asuka Shikinami.5462:

1) Warrior mobility. Mainly for wvw, warriors can escape anything with little risk in some weaponsets due to how their gap closers can be used to bridge distance without a target. Bring these in line with other gap closers and lower the movement spam. Having warriors in heavy armor outpace thieves is just wrong.

Last time I checked, the most common build on a warrior in this environment was Sword/Warhorn | Hammer. That doesn’t give them more mobility than a thief. They need the gap closer’s to get in and out of battle, they are mainly (and should be) a melee class in this environment. Can be countered by correct use of immobilize (which is still broken if you know who to use it) – totally fine.

Asuka Shikinami.5462:

6) Something needs to be done about ele base health/survivability. The ratio and dependency on having to build defensively when other classes don’t require it is just too far off atm.

They might need a buff in SPvP, but in WvW elementalists are fine as long as they are built correctly and take the right tools. People need to learn to understand that in different game types you take different roles as a class.

Asuka Shikinami.5462:

8) Can you like give rangers a bone or something so they don’t spam how bad they are in every thread? Maybe a tsun cat pet or something to distract them?

First piece of sense you have spoken in your entire thread. Rangers need a serious fix for WvW (not going to talk about other modes since your primarily talking about WvW within your post – or at least it appears that way). Their pets need a drastic reduction to AOE damage they take (like 90% reduction) and maybe a small direct damage reduction. Then arena-net needs to decide what role they actually want them to fill and fix that one role first.

Asuka Shikinami.5462:

10) WVW guard stacks too strong - well mainly the guard defense ones. Getting +250 vit (2500 health) is a huge boost to many builds, especally for glass classes. This needs to be toned down – what about splitting it like the offense stacks to 25 vit, 25 toughness per stack? (Even then it should be less but this is a start)
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Nope, stacks are fine. Everyone has access to them, yes its a stat inflation, but its a stat inflation for everyone (since everyone can get access to it). Damage builds can some more health so they are more ‘tanky’, melee can drop a small amount of health if they wish for a little more damage. Stacks arn’t used in anything that matters (GvG) – so this is fine.

Bumping

1 Ranger with high skill cap and ability to be flexible
1 Guardian
1 Warrior
1 Necromancer

All applicants should be exceptional – As always if your profession is not listed, but you feel you have the skill to own a spot, please put an application in.

Bumping

1 Ranger with high skill cap and ability to be flexible
1 Guardian
1 Warrior
1 Necromancer

All applicants should be exceptional – As always if your profession is not listed, but you feel you have the skill to own a spot, please put an application in.

Bumping

1 Ranger with high skill cap and ability to be flexible
1 Guardian
1 Warrior
2 Necromancers

All applicants should be exceptional

Bumping

1 Ranger with high skill cap and ability to be flexible
1 Guardian
1 Warrior
2 Necromancers

All applicants should be exceptional

Weli.4568:

oblivious.8074:

Weli.4568:

Lol. Im talkin bout blobs cause most of your guild ive come across run together handholding hard

have it your way. we all blob and run around super glued to each other in a gigantic mega blob with 99 warriors 99 guardians ,1 ele, 1 necro and 1 mes. when we engage the other server’s mega blob (same composition) half the people on both sides crash out of the game then its just up to the people with a “tolerable” slideshow experience to spam 1 to victory with the occasional water field/necro well/veil etc.. to break the monotony.

Dude, don’t get me wrong. I enjoy the challenge bigger sized enemy brings. And of course it’s not just blobbing but we’ve had some tough luck I guess while runnin our guild events. Gandara has some nice guilds I agree who run alone but my last memory is from sunday at outer bay when Yarr, Coin + some other guild came at us pretty much at the same time and it’s cool since can’t always go at the enemy taking turns and hand holding happens every once in a while. But like I said I don’t mind since it brings more challenge. :P

AR on the other hand. Only CoN pretty much this far has come at us pretty much alone while BLAK always with the zone blob. All those condis god kitten . The meta is just too wack at the moment.

But again more challenge is more fun to me, so bring it on

Happy new year yall! and don’t forget yer firetwerks! http://youtu.be/EMPDaCPxqcU?t=8s

7 [Coin] members on an X-mas break does not count as the guild coming at you. For the record, you wiped the AR blob spawn camping you because we came into the back of them, purposely focusing AR. Happy new year. Please learn to understand context – only then will you get better.

Bumping

1 Ranger with high skill cap and ability to be flexible
1 Guardian
1 Warrior
1 Engineer
2 Necromancers

All applicants should be exceptional

Bumping

1 Ranger with high skill cap and ability to be flexible
1 Guardian
1 Warrior
1 Engineer
2 Necromancers

All applicants should be exceptional.

Bumping, we are recruiting the following:

1 Ranger – must have high skill cap and ability to be flexible
1 Engineer
1 Guardian
1 Warrior
2 Necromancers
1 Thief

Bumping and looking for the following:

1 Ranger will high skill cap and the ability to be flexible
1 Guardian
1 Warrior
1 Engineer
2 Necromancers
1 Thief

Please be aware we are back in EU now.

Roy Cronacher.1576:

sielfiel.4692:

Roy Cronacher.1576:

Awesome video! It’s been fun playing on Blackgate these last few weeks. =)

are you shazbawt? :P

Nope, I’ve been playing my warrior ‘Roy C’.

Ah so you are the reason that ‘HAMMMERRRSTUNNNN’ is getting nerfed today. That makes total sense now.

On a separate note, I don’t tend to come on these forums much these days due to the excessive amount of trolling people feel the need to do. However, alot of the ‘facts’ that have been thrown around about EU timezone, Coin, ZDs, HB, RK, Iron (was GD mentioned?) and even the timezone before are actually incorrect for the most part. Please refrain from writing things as ‘fact’, when they are in fact, your opinionated view on the situation. Something important to note though, that all the guilds listed and not listed within both time zones, on all three servers mentioned have had an impact and done their part.

Every server has had its internal drama’s throughout the season, some were able to work through it, and others were not. This is a personal opinion and doesn’t reflect my guild or server that I am currently dedicated too, but people know that I don’t accept excuses. When a situation or goal doesn’t pan out the way you want it too, look at the problems, break them down, learn from them and move on. Then next time, ensure the same problems don’t arise again. This is one of the only ways to improve as a player, team, guild, community and server. An excuse is merely a deflection from the real issue, and its unfair to use it as an offense against others. BG won this season with the resources that were allowed by the game type and used them accordingly.

This brings me onto my final point. There is someone on the server, who I feel has not had the praise that they deserve. Though this phase does not do this person justice, they have literally gone above and beyond to ensure that everything works out and runs smoothly. They put all aspects of the community before their own personal agenda and I know have sacrificed countless upon countless hours behind the scenes to guarantee its success.

Chocpudding, having played 12+ years in this game type, you really are one of the best community leaders I have ever come across in ANY guild/alliance/community based game/mmo. Yes this was everyone’s victory on BG, but this was also your victory.

JaredKincade.9761:

Nice fights in SORBL just now.

Think of all those bags you didn’t get of each others. I’d be sad if I was in your zerg.

We got plenty though

How could you let both on them into bay jared! – all jokes aside, I encourage the 1v2. Makes everything more interesting. Thank you for the fights this evening.

Bumping the previous post applies for one more week

Bumping, the previous post applies for one more week.

Inner Sanctum [Coin] is looking to GvG anyone from TC towards the end of the week. Prefer 20v20 platform. Don’t care about buffs. Message me in-game to arrange for some decent fights.

Important Update:

We have opened recruitment for ALL professions for a short period to see what players are around.

// B

Important Update:

We have opened recruitment for ALL professions for a short period of time to see what players are around.

// B

Updating recruitment:

1 Necromancer
1 Guardian
1 Engineer
1 Thief

Looking for exceptional players only. Please ensure your application reflects this.

P.s Thank you for the kind words Ins, but we have more than enough to keep us busy

Updating Recruitment:

1 Necromancer
1 Guardian
1 Engineer
1 Thief

Looking for exceptional players only. Please ensure your application reflects this.

Bumping,

Looking for some amazing Necromancers!

Bumping,

Looking for some amazing Necromancers!

Updating Recruitment:

2 Necromancers
1 Guardian
1 Engineer

We are always on the look out for exceptional players.

Updating recruitment:

2 Necromancers
1 Guardian
1 Engineer

We are always on the look out for exceptional players. – Yes we are on BG now.

With all of these points in mind, the fact that I had been seriously ill and was exhausted when I was told to rest. I told Wrex that I was quitting the game and left the Guild. My IRL friends had seen the negative effect and had pushed me to do this. Tbh at this point, I didn’t really want to explain any of the points above for lots of reasons – I knew myself and Wrex were exhausted and didn’t want to put further pressure on her with these points. I know that Wrex, Offski and Seth work hard for their guild (as alot of GM’s do) and didn’t want to say these comments before leaving for obvious reasons. Wrex and Offski had done alot of me on Desolation and vice/versa further down the road, so Didn’t want to break our friendship. Finally, with the IRL push, it just came down to being the best option. Upon reflection, I should have explained it more thoroughly to Wrex or Offski, but tbh with everything that was going on, it was simple too hard to do.

After taking a break on a casual level within the Game, I decided that it was time to re-form Coin and my old team since I had missed them alot and knew that was the place that was best for me.

I want to make it clear that I am not bashing IRON here or any of its members. This is my explanation of what happened so this BS can stop. IRON is great at what they do, but so is Coin. Play the game and stop this pointless kitten on the forums which we are ALL guilty of. Any more personal insults will be reported. I will not be responding to this thread further or any jib made around this topic. Also, these negative discussions on the forum can easily pull people in to do the same. It was never COIN’s intention to do so and wont from this point on. I hope this post clears things up for those that felt the need for clarification. If not, please save your breath. I hope we can start with a clean slate with the reset and enjoy the game.

Starscream.7803:

Darkened.4076:

spanky.4630:

Darkened.4076:

This is what happens when you try and reason with an IRON child. I implore everyone from this point to ignore them and tell them that there are no chicken nuggets here.

Don’t worry, we will all get through this together – with belief.

I wonder if your wonderful guild know why you emo cried rage quit from Iron Beatrix ? And you have the nerve to call us childish

They know the truth, yes. There are no chicken nuggets here. Go home.

Is the answer that beatrix emo left because he couldn’t get general rank in IRON so jumped back to deso?

You are right to Beatrice. There are no chicken nuggets here, just a bunch of chickens lead by some one who has runner in their name. IRONy.

First of all, its Beatrix, not Beatrice. Second, since you and alot IRON’s members have been so hell-bent on pushing this in-correct point – let me enlighten you as to what really happened. Apologizes to three people about this, I hoped not to never need to talk about this here, but clearly due to the ignorance of some people continuing to be-smirch my name and my Guilds name with in-correct information – it cannot be helped. Let me first point out:

> Any conversations around this subject were always between myself and Wrex
> An attempt to go quietly and not hurt anyone’s feelings or kitten anyone off. Upon reflection I should have just said the truth and walked, but hey everyone learns and apparently trying to spare someone’s feelings at the time wasn’t worth the effort.

Since most people know, I don’t have an issue discussing the following points here. Coin and IRON used to have a close working relationship back on Desolation and had alot of intra guild friendships. Myself, Wrex, Offski and Seth would often discuss all things guild related between all of us. Both guilds worked really well together and would often hold the map on own their own throughout the week even during prime-time. When the famous AC patch hit, both guilds took a 1-2 week hiatus from the game whilst waiting for the clearly broken AC mechanic to be fixed. During this time, I fell seriously ill and lost contact with everyone on both sides – it took me a month to ‘recover’ and I was still recovering when I came back after this point. Coin members had gone off to do different things, as I would expect them to do. I also didn’t know how to approach them, I mean how do you approach someone after that time who respected you and say – ‘oh hi guys and back – btw I was really Ill.’

Not knowing how to fully approach the situation, I approached Wrex because she had given me so much help in the past (which I will always be grateful for, regardless of current circumstances). I explained what had happened to me, and I was curious about what NA was really like and asked her if I could sit in IRON for a bit whilst I explore NA and sort my stuff out. Within a week I picked up commanding and brought recruitment up within the guild. The commanding part was especially important because there was only Wrex at the time who was doing it due to holidays, so we ended up sharing the load throughout two weeks. By the end of the two weeks both myself and Wrex were exhausted – I am aware that we are used to pulling long hours, but Wrex hadn’t had a break and prior to this I was ill (and was still ill) as previously mentioned.

Throughout this time, I got to see the good and bad points about the guild (every guild has them), but for me the bad points ended up being the winner. Whilst I really liked most of the members and the jokes, it became clear that if you were liked more, you could get away with more. For me, I have always demanded the same standard of everyone regardless of who they are – double standards are not my thing. Whilst Wrex works really hard for her guild (I really do know how hard you work on it), leadership wouldn’t properly communicate with each other or decisions would be made about something out of the blue. Lower down there were also too many chiefs in general doing one job, which just causes chaos. Whilst some people are happy with this kinda thing, I’m someone who likes to really think out all aspects of the point before moving into something and have a clear defined structure with roles in place. Finally, myself and Seth had always had an interesting friendship and I felt as if our ‘working’ relationship was unstable at best and I knew we would end up clashing alot and it wouldn’t have been healthy for me or the guild in general. I was also missing Coin at this point, alot.

Axle.5182:

No it still don’t make sense SOR do not play for points but play for fights? your mixing SOR up with BG me thinks either that or your being sarcastic lol

Yeah thanks for the bags too i managed to make up my K/D ratio from attempting to charge blob groups earlier in the evening with a group of 5 by sitting on the mortar what a force multiplier like shooting fish in a barrel

Kirito.8796:

I wish IRON would stop wiping COIN, I prefer to have more than 1 fps whilst playing.

inb4 COIN call up HB and RK to respond to this post

Biebertrix from BelieveGate approves the IRONY of this thread.

Wolbryne.4037:

scanz.4536:

spanky.4630:

[IRON] is always striving to improve and so should everyone else . as for size we run 35-40 max tagless and in our primetime we try our best just to run as iron but we are not into telling people to stop following us . Any guild that tells people to stop following has no class imho

Oh come on, at the start of the evening on Sunday you were well over 40 people and quite obviously trolling us. It was not until later in the evening when I believe you split your forces and a group went to another border that you were 35-40, then the fights actually became enjoyable. Either way, looking forward to clashing with you again soon.

Wolbryne.4037:

Smokee.1754:

Wolbryne.4037:

about the blob thing, you’re at least twice our numbers every time we face you. we’re usually never more than 30-35 iron in wvw at any given time.

So, what you are saying is that Coin runs 60-70+?

last night, it was probably more than that. it was a full map blob. AND hb ran alongside with them a few times. the rubberbanding caused was hilarious

Can you not read?
“Monday is an off day for the guild, hence the community commanding”
There is only circa 35 people on the [Coin] roster and on average 25 online for a raid night.

can’t YOU read? Biebertrix had every person on the map on him minus HB. coin and not coin. on top of that his überblob ran alongside with HB several times. good times, many bags for us. Sure we had to retreat a few times when you basically had one player covering every pixel on our screens, but you never really wiped us. Most of the time we managed to decimate your numbers enough for you to back off.
as I said, we got so much loot that we broke our salvage-o-matic’s

Nobody gives a kitten – play the kitten game.

Axle.5182:

Wolbryne.4037:

Lol bg’s new blob commander beatrix getting so kitten over constantly getting wiped that he has to pull an entire map blob to lag out the entire eb and cause massive rubberbanding. hilarious. his agenda to get revenge on us after he emoed out has gone down the drain. he’s getting smashed in 1v1’s. he’s getting smashed in 2v1’s. and now this map v 25 ? lol you’re funny dude. the level of hurt butt that dude displays is epic. keep up the good(?) work. we’re getting so much loot that we have to stop and empty our bags ever 10 minutes lol

Havoc squad reinforcements en-route looks like we got ourselves a blob convoy to de-rail

Pret, sorry yourself and IRON got pushed off the map of EB tonight mate (community event tonight). We actually film all our Guild raids (that are closed), so the propaganda your trying to spread that were getting ‘smashed’ isn’t going to fly. Please don’t go down that road, you guys are better than that (I hope?). Sorry didn’t lose my stacks tonight, we did trade wipes back and worth on Sunday I will agree, but then again at our first few clashes you blobbed, used spies to know exactly where we were and generally display un-sportsmanship behavior. We actually came here because EU was stale, not for you, sorry

Anyway enjoying the fights, keep them coming. Really interesting week so far. Props to all the guilds on BG working hard.

P.S Axle Afterlife is a real guild? Thought you guys just specialized in propaganda posting? Are you giving lessons to Pret? (P.S Axle I still <3 you)

#shotsfired
#zerokittensgiven
#inb4 someone try’s to counter argue

Updated post to better reflect the Guild.

we are looking for:

2 Necromancers
1 Warrior
1 Guardian
2 Engineers

Updated the post to better reflect the guild.

We are looking for:

2 Necromancers
1 Warrior
1 Guardian
2 Engineers

// Beatrix

Preacher.9018:

Appology for what? Standing up there and watching? Its his right, as it is of every other player. He does not violate any rules by that or “grief” you. In fact, he had all right to actively interfere (attack other players, bring mobs there, set traps etc) – as any other players. GvGers are not given exclusive rights and protections and only able to hold the events because people let them.

In fact, if you actually would contact other side and tell them to kill this specific player interferring with you: that would be a clear rule violation.

From an actual harm standpoint: indeed, this even most likely did not matter.
From the legal standpoint: the Dev actually had all rights to punish you for abusing game mechanics (farming XP, as neglectable it were), conspiring to influence match result and “leeching” – its actually in a rules. He did nothing of that so even there you have nothing to complaint.

So whats the whole fuss about? Since some player DARED to interfere with your holy GvG by standing there, and that player happened to be a Dev? (as if having a tag automatically made him untouchable).

He had absolutely no obligations to your side, used exact same rights as any other player could and recived trown insults and personal attacks there and now through forums and making his details public.

Please… Please just stop. You are embarrassing yourself and the SFR community. This isn’t about violation of rules or some random interrupting – anyone who has played gvg at the correct level understands that this can happen and can deal with it in the appropriate manner.

It is actually about what he said, furthermore – it was about what he said as an employee of the company who produced the product within a certain context. The fact is, whilst I think the overhaul to the maps was great for WvW, the buff has destroyed alot of community driven content that gave the game alot more depth and further competition that can actually be measured outside of coverage wars 2. Whether Anet or the community as a whole want to admit it or not, this has alienated a large proportion of the GW2 WvW playerbase (especially a large percentage of its good guilds and players). If these players and guilds leave the game entirely, it will actually effect WvW negatively on a massive scale. So yea, people will be touchy about it. There be even more touchy about it when an employee of said company basically turns round and further kittens on the ideal. This is abuse. It is basically kicking a community to death when their already down.

Finally, recently one of my members went to a GW2 conference in London this week and actually asked an Anet employee about PvP content and more specifically GvG’s. His response was ’it’s something were trying to find the best solution too, were listening’ (I’m paraphrasing here, but you can watch the video yourself about 28 minutes). Clearly even within the company itself there is indecision about this or the guy is just blow smoke up our kitten at this point.

London GW2 Conference

Mance.5640:

ballymun.3986:

SG has flipped BG’s garri when JQ’s stacked TZ overwhelms BG’s, and most of BG are asleep, we also ran around facerubbing doors to make ourselves look really good so our SEA guilds wouldn’t quit the server

Well done. What a guy !

Lol the two times SG did flip BG garri (I don’t know if we did last night as well) were at 3pm pst Sunday afternoon and 5pm pst Monday afternoon.

Sunday’s flip was awesome, props to GD, that was the first time we had worked with them. Monday was a classic SG ninja. I don’t believe EU and EST are “JQ’s stacked time zones” but I appreciate your effort on the troll attempt!

Shame this couldn’t go on all week. Ah well…

Thanks for the fights GD+randoms+few NS/AGG – We had alot of fun. It was a shame you guys couldn’t stay on the map though guessing there was a structure to defend because you left half way through the evening.

Still have massive respect for how disciplined your melee line is. See you through the week