Guild Wars 2

Still recruiting! Looking for more skilled individuals for our WvW team.

Now is the time to transfer if you’ve been thinking about joining a proud community of players and guilds!

Thank you Pre.

Hey cawtx, thanks for reaching out.

We don’t really talk too much about our team builds outside of the guild. With that said, a good starting point for any aspiring Revenant would be to check out the “meta” builds on Metabattle.

Feel free to reach out with any questions or if you’re interested in joining Revel.

Hey Vincent, thanks for reaching out!

Vincent Von Demetri.1450:

What is your total membership size?

We have 110 members on our roster currently.

Vincent Von Demetri.1450:

What is the typical activity within your guild on a daily basis?

On Monday, Wednesday, and Friday it’s our WvW raid. Tuesdays are our PvP nights. Every other night is various PvE activities (dungeons, fractals, etc.) not necessarily in any scheduled basis. Missions are run on Sunday, though.

Separate from that, we have a PvE raid group that runs on their own schedule which overlaps with some of the wider guild activities (WvW and the like).

Vincent Von Demetri.1450:

What sort of activities does your guild participate in currently?

I think that’s answered in the last question, but we pretty much offer everything in some capacity, we’re actually looking to add more dedicated fractal progression in the near future and we also run special events every so often (more casual/social type things like Cards Against Humanity night, etc.)

Vincent Von Demetri.1450:

Have any of your recruiting policies changed since this was listed?

Our post is completely up to date and you can check out our website as well. There are a few things we’re looking at in regard to rep and home server but it’s too soon to talk about any changes on that front.

I’m not sure which server you and your friends are on, if it’s still Yak’s Bend/Crystal Desert then you will need to transfer to Blackgate when it opens, but you can absolutely still apply and join to try us out while on another server.

I hope that answers everything, if you have any other questions feel free to reply or reach me in-game!

Still looking for more great players to join us, especially WvW players to fill out our composition!

Usually within a day or so. Sorry for any delay, our recruitment officer is temporarily away until tomorrow so I’m handling everything myself right now.

Yeah, that wasn’t always the case, but ArenaNet has kept things pretty locked down since they partnered the servers up. In a few weeks when they change the pairings, there’s a chance that will change but no guarantees. You definitely seemed like a solid fit for us so I hate to see you look elsewhere, but I completely understand why. Best of luck to you!

Hi Ominous! I don’t believe our recruitment officer was on yesterday, I will ping her and if she can’t get to it today I will handle it this evening.

We’re looking for more great individuals to join our ranks!

Hey Valento, thanks for your interest!

To answer your questions:

1.) Yes, excluding bank guilds (if you’ve been playing long enough to enjoy that luxury). Occasionally, exceptions have been made but we are looking to be your primary community of players in GW2.

2.) Yes, but isn’t necessary at the start of your trial period. We want you to be sure you love us first. Certainly, WvW is the primary motivation for this requirement, but we understand some people aren’t into WvW and are primarily looking to PvE or PvP. We’ve been a Blackgate-only guild since head-start and have become well-known and respected within the server community. We also prefer that those who don’t normally WvW with us at least have the opportunity to do so from time-to-time, as opposed to never being able to.

3.) I’m assuming you’re referring to PvE raiding here (it’s also used to describe WvW) but the answer applies to both. We take grouping on the more serious side and push to have a general composition of professions and builds. Each PvE raid group may vary a bit in their atmosphere, goals, and composition (some groups run more days than others, for instance,) but the end goal is always progression within a reasonable pace. Only our more dedicated PvE players join our raid groups. For WvW, you’d be hard-pressed to find another PvX guild that commits to WvW as much as we do. We’re out there for two raids, sometimes three a week (and more during seasons). I think we bring a good balance of playing for fights and for score, which keeps people motivated and having fun.

4.) For PvE, that depends on the group. The third group we’re forming will not be raiding on the weekend (at least from what I understand). Only our first group does that which is currently full I believe. For WvW, we run reset once or twice every month (which used to be Friday, currently Saturday, now going back to Friday again this week.)

Let me know if you have any other questions!

@Noob Saibot,

Unfortunately, not so much. We have several EU players if I recall, but their availability typically aligns with our NA prime events. We don’t schedule events outside of the 8pm – 12am EST (UTC-5) window.

Thanks for your interest!

+1 for Friday by far. Would prefer 8pm EST but will take 9pm. 10pm is too late.

Thanks for the shout out, love working with you guys!

Hi Jourdelune, thanks for your interest!

If you only do sPVP without touching other content, I’m not sure what you would get out of a PvX guild like Revel. You’d probably be best served in a pure PvP guild and/or team.

We do require 100% rep (bank guilds are always fine, sometimes we can make exceptions but not to 60%-worth). Maintaining a healthy community of members who play together frequently has always been a priority for us. We do require everyone to be on Blackgate at the moment as well.

Let me know if you have any other questions.

Thanks for applying. I believe our recruitment officer already got to your app at this point and reached out.

Yeah, thanks for trying to make me stay up all night commanding! Definitely needed that caffeine this morning.

Thanks eureeka! <3

/wave

Hey Chris.

Thanks Chris. <3

Revel is a WvW-focused PvX guild, established at the launch of Guild Wars 2 over four years ago. We’re currently recruiting active, dedicated, self-motivated players with a competitive drive that will make a solid contribution to our team.

Overview:

Server — Blackgate (NA)
Prime Time — 7:00pm – 1:00am EST/EDT
VoIP — TeamSpeak
Age — Minimum 18+, most are 21+
Website — http://www.revelguild.com/

Many guilds identify as PvX. In practice, most of these guilds base their presence almost entirely in PvE. Our approach is different. We are primarily focused on a competitive WvW environment (fights and PPT) but also participate in PvE and PvP activities together.

World vs. World:

• Three scheduled raids per week with senior commanders (4+ years experience)
• Regardless of experience, everyone is welcome as long as you bring a great attitude, are open to constructive criticism, and will adapt to group needs (guild builds, gearing, etc.)
• We regularly form small ops/havoc groups on off-nights
• Current class needs: Guardians, Revenants, and Elementalists

Player vs. Environment:

• Daily fractal/dungeon groups (we mostly run high tier, but have members willing to assist others in progression)
• We have experienced leadership that can help you learn how to properly defeat content. As with anything, it’s on you to learn and improve, but we will do our best to get you up to speed if you’re new!

Structured PvP:

• Occasional training nights for those looking to get their feet wet and learn from the best in guild
• Highly experienced players that participate in ranked play during seasons

Our Community:

• Active, mature, and friendly members
• Private TeamSpeak
• Website with Team Builds & Helpful Guides
• Scheduled events
• Weekly Guild Missions & Raffles
• Knowledgeable players and veteran leadership
• Core part of server (Member of Blackgate War Council)

We’ve been a staple of the Blackgate community since day one and have no plans to relocate. Although we require you to be on Blackgate, it is not necessary for the beginning of your trial and can transfer once you’re sure you love us!

Although we do run things across all game modes, it should be noted we are currently emphasizing recruitment only for those who have a more dedicated interest in WvW.

Member Expectations:

• Be 18 years or older
• Reside on Blackgate (by end of trial)
• Utilize TeamSpeak often; required for WvW/grouped events (must have microphone)
• Represent us exclusively (bank/personal guilds are always fine)
• Be respectful and courteous to everyone, but especially those in the guild
• Regularly participate in scheduled guild events
• Be an active, committed, long-term member

Joining Us:

If all of the above sounds like a good fit for you, head on over to our website (http://www.revelguild.com/) and fill out an application on the Apply page. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact our recruitment officer Khalessi (Khalessi.5086) in-game.

I see you put in an app, Emarixa. Hope our schedule will work out well for you after all.

Hey Devastator! Our recruitment officer should be taking a look at your app this evening. Thanks for your patience!

Hey there! I will be getting to your app today, thanks for applying.

For Blackgate:

http://gw2blackgate.com/

Hey there!

Definitely shoot me a whisper in-game and we’ll get you back in.

Yep! Just whisper me.

Not unless you do plan on joining us. It sounds like you haven’t started playing yet. I certainly wouldn’t ask you to wait until Blackgate opened up, but there is a transfer cost (1800 gems) associated with moving servers once you’ve created your characters. The good news is that transferring does move all of your characters. Alternatively, you can delete all characters and get a free server transfer as well but that’s completely up to you.

Hey crose!

It’s very possible you would be able to get on Blackgate! It does open up for transfers fairly often, but briefly, so you have to keep a look out and be ready to transfer as soon as it shows it’s available. You’re also welcome to app and join us during your recruit period still being on another server; you’d just need to transfer before you become a full member.

Hi Enus! Unfortunately, we aren’t able to ease the cost of transferring servers. However, there’s no need to transfer immediately when you first join, so you can get a good handle on whether we’re the right fit for you beforehand. Let me know if you have any other questions!

Hey there!

We usually try to contribute and participate in every possible way in regard to WvW. That means everything from scouting, blood lust, and and camp flipping up to and including the big map fights.

On most scheduled nights we’ll field anywhere from 10-20 and our ideal group size is ~20 for medium-sized field fighting. It’s small enough that it isn’t considered a “zerg” and individual skill can still shine but large enough that we can be effective in nearly every situation that’s thrown at us.

By default, we run together as a guild group and not with a tag or other commander/guild. That is our preferred style. We will group up with another tag if it makes sense (outnumbered) or if we don’t have enough to run a separate force to compliment a map commander for the larger fights. Typically, we will tag up when the map doesn’t have a commander already or if map conditions call for it.

We balance our emphasis between PPT and looking for fights. Most of the time, I look at it as we get fights because we’re playing for PPT.

Let me know if you have any other questions!

@pho: The exception to 100% rep is for bank guilds and the like. If you have influence that you’ve been holding onto you’re more than welcome to use it for a bank guild if you’d like (we have no shortage of influence). Also to be clear, we don’t consider ourselves “hardcore”, although we are very focused when it comes down to WvW and tPvP. It’s a good mix of a laid back atmosphere but putting on our serious faces when needed. Put in an app and let’s talk if you’re still interested.

@Blade: Thanks for the shout-out! Love you guys!

Revel [REV] is currently recruiting NA players (Semi-Casual PvX/WvW)

Keeralah.3140:

Fun fights over in Mag Bl, REV. We need to organize some fights some time.

Would definitely be down for that. Thanks for the fights, it was great finding a similarly-sized group out there tonight.

Personally, I think the downtime is irrelevant. Score-wise, SoR was ahead when WvW went down and obviously still ahead when it came back up. Did it give us less time to “catch up”? Maybe, but that’s because no one could get in there. Who cares?

I’m still going to be out there tonight, pushing just as hard as always and having a great time doing so. See you all out on the field!

Just wanted to say thanks for all the fun this past weekend. REV has been having a blast out on the field. Much respect to TC for putting up a good fight and JQ for really making us work hard to keep up.

I believe there was an update at some point since release that refreshed default weapon/trait assignments for each profession to make them a bit more effective/relevant. I imagine this will happen again at some point during the year considering all of the balance changes made.

I don’t really see a problem with the pricing. 1600 gems is only a start-up fee. After which, an equivalent of $9 USD per month in gems to upkeep that arena. Not only that, but your guild/team can help support it and others who enjoy playing in it.

It’d be nice to see the upkeep amount be a bit less, but there needs to be some kind of barrier, or everyone is going to have an arena. This keeps less serious/committed players from having one “just to have one”.

With that said, gem requirement means real money or gold. For those who invest a lot in the TP or PvE/WvW a lot, conversion is a viable option. If you’re strictly a sPvP player, you are fairly limited and I think for most, it means pulling out your wallet. In that regard, I see room for improvement/more options.

Hamartia.3421:

Bloodlust is worth about 10% damage fully stacked if you’re in mostly zerker gear, so I’m personally thinking about swapping back to straight 5% damage because the payout doesn’t seem worth how often it is not providing ANY significant boost.

In my opinion, it’s still worth it considering you can swap to a weapon with force after you get your stacks for even more damage; there’s usually enough mobs in dungeons/fractals to quickly get your stacks.

With that said, I currently run Sigil of Battle on Staff.

Just to throw this into the mix: Sigil of Battle on Scepter and Sigil of Bloodlust for off-hand Dagger/swap to off-hand Dagger with Sigil of Force at max stacks is quite nice, as long as you’re constantly attunement swapping. Might stacks are such a large source of damage.

I’ve been contemplating using Sigil of Fire more often, but I would only suggest it when you’re dealing with a lot of mobs clumped up together.

Revel is a WvW-focused PvX guild, established at the launch of Guild Wars 2 over four years ago. We’re currently recruiting active, dedicated, self-motivated players with a competitive drive that will make a solid contribution to our team.

Overview:

Server — Blackgate (NA)
Prime Time — 7:00pm – 1:00am EST/EDT
VoIP — TeamSpeak
Community Center — Discord
Age — Minimum 18+, most are 21+
Website — http://www.revelguild.com/

Many guilds identify as PvX. In practice, most of these guilds base their presence almost entirely in PvE. Our approach is different. We are primarily focused on a competitive WvW environment (fights and PPT) but also participate in PvE and PvP activities together.

World vs. World:

• Three scheduled raids per week
• Regardless of experience, everyone is welcome as long as you bring a great attitude, are open to constructive criticism, and will adapt to group needs (guild builds, gearing, etc.)
• We regularly form small ops/havoc groups on off-nights
• Current class needs: Guardians, Revenants, Necromancers, Warriors, Mesmers, and Elementalists

Player vs. Environment:

• Daily fractal/dungeon groups (we mostly run high tier, but have members willing to assist others in progression)
• We have experienced leadership that can help you learn how to properly defeat content. As with anything, it’s on you to learn and improve, but we will do our best to get you up to speed if you’re new!

Structured PvP:

• Occasional training nights for those looking to get their feet wet and learn from the best in guild
• Highly experienced players that participate in ranked play during seasons

Our Community:

• Active, mature, and friendly members
• Private TeamSpeak
• Website with Team Builds & Helpful Guides
• Scheduled events
• Weekly Guild Missions & Raffles
• Knowledgeable players and veteran leadership
• Core part of server (Member of Blackgate War Council)

We’ve been a staple of the Blackgate community since day one and have no plans to relocate. Although we require you to be on Blackgate, it is not necessary for the beginning of your trial and can transfer once you’re sure you love us!

Although we do run things across all game modes, it should be noted we are currently emphasizing recruitment only for those who have a more dedicated interest in WvW.

Member Expectations:

• Be 18 years or older
• Reside on Blackgate (by end of trial)
• Utilize TeamSpeak often; required for WvW/grouped events (must have microphone)
• Represent us exclusively (bank/personal guilds are always fine)
• Be respectful and courteous to everyone, but especially those in the guild
• Regularly participate in scheduled guild events
• Be an active, committed, long-term member

Joining Us:

If all of the above sounds like a good fit for you, head on over to our website (http://www.revelguild.com/) and fill out an application on the Apply page. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us in-game, via Lorx.8507 or thatmaskedman.4508.

We have a strong focus on recruitment for WvW right now, so if WvW is an important part of GW2 to you, check us out!

Revel [REV], an established semi-casual PvX guild, is currently recruiting active, dedicated, and self-motivated players who foster an interest in all areas of the game including PvE, WvW, and Structured PvP.

Overview:

Region — All North American time zones
Server — Blackgate (NA)
Prime Time — 7:00pm – 1:00am EST/EDT
VoIP — TeamSpeak
Age — Minimum 18+, most are 21+
Website — http://www.revelguild.com/

To put it simply, we maintain a strong focus encompassing all of PvE, WvW, and Structured PvP. We do everything and we do it well while having fun. One of our main goals is to provide a focused and fun experience where we actually make a difference on our server without being hardcore or having a pressured atmosphere.

Do you mostly enjoy WvW? Our goal is to be a force to be reckoned with out on the battlefield. Open field engagements, tower/keep sieges and defenses. We don’t want to be a large, zergy presence, we want to be a strong, coordinated presence. If you are looking for small to medium group engagements with advanced tactics, strategy, and builds, but yet still laid back, you definitely want to run with us.

And how about PvE? High level fractals, explorable dungeons, living story, and dragons, even? We have Dungeon Masters and players of all experience levels wanting to run all of this engaging content daily.

We’re also working on building up a solid tournament team for Structured PvP and we regularly have members running hot-join as well. Not a pro at sPvP? Not a problem, we have scheduled nights to help you get used to playing in a more competitive environment.

To be clear, we believe in quality over quantity when it comes to our members. As such, new recruits are subject to an interview before receiving an invite to the guild. Blackgate is our first and only home since the game’s launch. We’re established, organized, and committed to the enjoyment of each and every one of our members.

Check out our promo video as well as another “fun with Revel” video to give you a small taste of the atmosphere and fun that we have here!

Ideal Members:

1. Want to have fun. We do not treat this game as a job. What it comes down to is that this game is about having fun and enjoying yourself, no matter what level you play at.
2. Are self-motivated. You should always be willing to better and improve yourself. You should want to learn everything about the professions you play and apply it as a situation calls. You’re not afraid to ask for help or guidance, but are not so needy as to expect everyone to teach you everything.
3. Demonstrate maturity and respect. Nearly everyone is 21+ with a couple 18+. Don’t like drama? Neither do we. Anything promoting a negative atmosphere is not tolerated.
4. Bring experience, not their ego. Elitists and those boasting about how much better they are than others need not join. We have many skilled players with hardcore/semi-hardcore backgrounds, but we don’t need to rub it in. We want members who promote a healthy atmosphere and are willing to help each other out, be a team player, and be able to listen and give/take constructive feedback.
5. Have a working microphone. We use TeamSpeak. We are very social and expect new members to involve themselves and get to know us. You are not required to always be on, though. Many of us don’t work long days just to have ourselves bound by headphones all night.

Joining Us:

If all of the above sounds like a good fit for you, head on over to our website (http://www.revelguild.com/), check out the About page to read more and fill out an application on the Recruitment page. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me in-game (ExCode.6370) or send a PM.

Esoteric.5490:

So, forum warriors, what if I told you all of the reasons that you love SoR are the same reasons that I love Blackgate, the same reasons I have been there since launch, and the same reasons that I and my guild come out to fight every day? What if I told you that we take donations from guildies in order to help guilds who can’t get all their players over? What if I told you that yes, we absolutely play more hours to offset our coverage because we care about handing off good maps and helping out our other time zones? What if I told you that this is a game and the character assassination of Blackgate is pretty old hat?

Come on guys, grow up a little. The week might be lost, it might not. You can hate Blackgate all you want, but at the end of the day we are just as resilient as you. We’ve been to Tier 4 and battled back. Guilds have moved here for our community and helped us rise through the ranks. How is that any different from your server? I understand the notion of trash talking opponents, but flat out wishing the death of the only servers that give you competition is pretty lame. Maybe we should make a god tier where you can run around in your maps all by yourself while JQ, BG, and DB enjoy a friendly, competitive match since you are so out of our league?

Let’s cut the crap here. There have been good fights, but the persistent chest thumping is pretty disgusting. Go ahead and try and hold me responsible for chest thumping. Go through my post history. You will find none. Maybe you could all follow my example and say, “good game, good fights, /salute” instead of posting about wanting to get +600 and having no comprehension of how unhealthy that really is for the game.

Well said, Riven. I love Blackgate just as much as everyone else loves their servers. Keep it positive, guys!

Does anyone know when the weekly merit cap resets for a guild? Also, is there a similar account based commendation cap (daily, weekly, etc.?)

Below Victor’s Lodge in TC BLs. I’m not there at the moment, I assume it’s still going on.

I’m going to miss SoR and TC for sure. I hope to be battling again with you guys sometime.

My only regret is we aren’t getting a go against SBI (at least yet). It would seem every time in the past we went against SBI we were never able to best them. One day!

Maybe I was mistaken, but the language in the suggestion of a saved outfit feature included “It’s fast enough to make out-of-combat weapon changing a snap, but doesn’t break their current style at all”… so it is out of combat weapon switching (which you can already do, you just have to open up inventory and/or Hero panel) which is what I was referring to.

I completely agree that simply giving us immediate weapon switching ability in-combat would break our balance, we’re just trying to look at other alternatives to make things a bit easier. A saved-outfit feature would be warm welcomed, but out of combat only of course. Then I could also change my armor even quicker if I wanted.

Edit: Didn’t see the response above me. Thanks.

Kasaeva.4691:

IVeracityI.8936:

I think an easier solution to this would be a sort of saved-outfit feature where you could equip different armor/weapon sets at the touch of a button. It’s fast enough to make out-of-combat weapon changing a snap, but doesn’t break their current style at all.

Plus it’d just be handy all around, for those with different armor/weapon sets that they switch through more than just the standard. (IE a S/A+Rifle Warr who occasionally uses Longbow. Or anyone with a MF set.)

This. Exactly. Although, I still think it would be easier to just put the alternate weapon slot in and lock it to only out of combat at least for the time being. Half of it’s already done. Something already set up and saved so that I can store 2 weapons sets and switch between them just by hitting a button only out of combat. We can already do that, this change only means we don’t have to open the character panel or bag panel to do it. If you want to restrict it to only pve, that’s perfectly fine too. I can understand why some might feel that such an option in pvp could cause an imbalance, particularly when abused. In my opinion, PvE is the only place we need it.

I wouldn’t be opposed to this because it’d be allowing you to do something you’re already allowed to do (out of combat weapon switching), just a little bit quicker. It’s still annoying to have to run out of combat to intentionally change the weapon, which as I said in my last post is extremely frustrating in WvW, but it would be a nice feature. Personally, I don’t want weapon switching so I have 20 more abilities to use. I want weapon switching because I don’t want to use the weapon I’m switching from anymore. But I know it would be terrible for balance.

This probably sounds a little clumsy, but what about a pre-weapon switch cooldown when not attacking (but you could still be tagged as in-combat). For example, X number of seconds after using your last “skill” before you can switch. This way, you can’t chain all your abilities with one weapon immediately following using all of your abilities from another weapon. That would probably alleviate most if not all of the unfair advantage. The issue here is the timer can’t be too long, otherwise you might as well just run out of combat, but not too short… sounds like there may not be a perfect solution here.

I would greatly appreciate in-combat weapon switching. If for no other reason — WvW. I run D/D unless I am attacking/defending towers/keeps. There is nothing more annoying than having to run away from the fight to get out out of combat just so I can change weapons and be more useful.

At the same time, this kind of changes the entire profession because suddenly you have access to an additional 20 abilities on the fly which could more or less throw Elementalists out of balance.

What I think would be useful (including some of the above suggestions):

- Last login date
- Be able to edit the MOTD rather than have to start over. Mostly because I put website and VoIP info here in addition to a “real” MOTD. I hate to retype or copy/paste from another file. I’d care less if (next suggestion)
- Separate guild information tab/box of some sort to display VoIP info, website address, etc.
- MOTD output to user’s chat window when logged in
- Treasure Trove/Deep Cave should have separate permissions
- Be able to hover over anyone’s name and see all of their character names. Sometimes I forget who someone is when they’re offline by their account name.