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[Expansion Hope] Guild Alliances

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Foghladha.2506

Greetings,

While a full fledge alliance system would be awesome, I’d like to see a way of grouping guild so that the following things can be accomplished.

Guild Pane > Alliance (Important for maintaining healthy Communities)

  • Display Allied Guilds
  • Add ability to chat via /alliance or /a with Allied Guilds
  • Display: Guild Emblem, Guild Name, Number of Online Representing Members, Number of Total Members, Guild Leader
  • Button to Add Guild to Allied Guilds, Right Click option to Remove Allied Guilds
  • Alliance Leader is the creator of the Alliance

A mere skeleton would open the door to more advancement of this system but Communication is key in an MMO and having the ability to join like minded guilds together in the form of a shared chat channel would be wonderful. From there you build a bigger system but we need a foundation. We needed this foundation 2 years ago.

Reply with a “+1 Like” to show your support.

Benjamin “Foghladha.2506” Foley
Founder, Gaiscioch Community [GSCH] | Gaiscioch Magazine | Twitch | YouTube | Twitter
Proud Resident of Mercenary Server Sanctum of Rall | 6 Year Extra-Life Charity Event Participant

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Guild Housing: Remembering Fallen Members

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Posted by: Foghladha.2506

Foghladha.2506

Greetings ArenaNet & Community,

I have a suggestion if it’s not already in the works. I would recommend that there be a way to place statues within a guild hall. Choose from each of the races and perhaps even classes.

As many of you know Gaiscioch suffered the loss of Roger “Oldroar” Rall before the game was even released. ArenaNet was kind enough to name Sanctum of Rall in his honor and place an NPC in game that shares his legend.

What many of you probably are unaware of is that we also have suffered the loss of two more very influential people in our community. Jexia.2406 passed away two weeks ago after fighting throat cancer for the past 2 years and last night we lost Frugster.3265. It would be wonderful if we can place statues within our halls to remember each of these members.

It would go the extra mile if we were able to have a plaque that we could customize to go with each statue. Allow people to enter it in a text field so that they could place messages on certain clickable placeable items.

Gaiscioch plans to build a memorial for these three members once HoT goes live. It would be wonderful if we were able to place statues for each of these members.

Benjamin “Foghladha.2506” Foley
Founder, Gaiscioch Community [GSCH] | Gaiscioch Magazine | Twitch | YouTube | Twitter
Proud Resident of Mercenary Server Sanctum of Rall | 6 Year Extra-Life Charity Event Participant

Re: Gaiscioch, Foghladha, & Sanctum of Rall

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Foghladha.2506

Greetings Everyone,
I wanted to bring something to light and get this out in the open. Over the past few weeks I’ve heard rumors circulating about various guilds and leaders leaving Sanctum of Rall.

Well yesterday I got a heart felt email from a member of the community saying they will miss me and they are very sad to see me go. I was told that they understand why i’m transferring to blackgate. A few weeks ago someone else told me that I was transferring to blackgate. Now IF I’m transferring to Blackgate, I can honestly tell you that I would know about it before all of you.

I’m not sure who’s spreading rumors about our leaders in WvW but if you hear someone is leaving Sanctum of Rall I implore you to please ask them and report who told you such a thing. I have heard many rumors over the past 3 weeks about other guild leaders or wvw leaders leaving the server or quitting all together. It’s becoming painfully apparent that someone out there is trying to stir the pot and get sanctum of rall to break. Several of the GSCH officers have been also told that they were leaving GSCH and transferring to another server.

GSCH & Sanctum of Rall
I hope by now, those of you who know us, know that if we are rank 1 on rank none the GSCH will be on Sanctum of Rall. If the day comes when Sanctum of Rall is no more and the server is closed, GSCH will not transfer, it too will go down with Sanctum of Rall. We fought for the tribute of Rall for over a year. From office visits, to mass cookie sending, to a massive letter writing campaign, we campaigned to have a tribute for our dear friend Roger.

Why in the world would you think a Guild who fought so hard and so long to have a server named after a friend would call it quits after 6 months? He was a hero to most of us, a legend to some of us, and his honor is more important to us than any rank, or rating, or loot we will ever find in this game. To question that is simply ridiculous.

The Gaiscioch [GSCH] will NOT be leaving Sanctum of Rall. Even if it falls to last place. Even if everyone else leaves the server and we are all thats left, we will still call Sanctum of Rall home. When Sanctum of Rall closes, Gaiscioch leaves Guild Wars 2. That’s how it is, that’s how it will be, we aren’t going anywhere. Period.

I hope all of you can find a hero that makes you stick by your choices to the extent of being willing to endure hell if it means that you honor their name. Through the good times and the bad we will stick by our choice and honor our brother Roger “Oldroar” Rall.

Foghladha & Sanctum of Rall
Simply put, I was here when the announcement that Sanctum of Rall would be a server in GW2 hit my mailbox just before beta. I will be here on the last day this server is online. Roger was like a father to me, and everything in Guild Wars 2 reminds me of him and what he taught me. To walk away from that would be walking away from his memory. It’s not something I will do unless forced.

If you want to test my integrity and perseverance, let it be known that in 1981 I like tigers. I was 3 years old and decided I wanted I wanted to be a Cinncinatti Bengal fan because they had tigers on their uniform. Today I am still a proud Cinncinnati Bengal fan. I grew up surrounded by 49er and Raider fans in the bay area and teased for my loyalty to “such a crappy team”. Winning and losing doesn’t matter to me, what matters is saying what you do, doing what you say, and sticking by your principles not only when it’s easy but most of all when it’s hard.

Bottom Line
Don’t believe the rumors.

Benjamin “Foghladha.2506” Foley
Founder, Gaiscioch Community [GSCH] | Gaiscioch Magazine | Twitch | YouTube | Twitter
Proud Resident of Mercenary Server Sanctum of Rall | 6 Year Extra-Life Charity Event Participant

Feedback/Questions: MegaServer

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Posted by: Foghladha.2506

Foghladha.2506

Greetings,
Many of you may know me as the leader of Gaiscioch [GSCH] a 13 year old gaming community who has spanned 4 games and now entering our 5th. I am also a man whose life was affected by Roger Oldroar Rall and organized a group of his friends and family to help influence ArenaNet to get a server named in his memory.

I understand the goals behind the MegaServer:

1. Avoid Server Closures / Mergers
The Megaserver concept pushes servers together so that they are 1 group of people sharing the same game world. This is a fantastic concept and from a PR perspective brilliant. Instead of the gaming press reporting about server closures and mergers (as you know they would) putting a negative tone on your product and usually causing a snowball effect, you can avoid all this by megaservering up.

2. Putting people in empty zones.
As the population has progressed and spread out, population in non-champ farm zones or Orr has dwindled. This system would allow everyone who IS playing in a zone that’s not as popular as it once was to have people to play with. This is a great concept.

3. Putting more opportunity to make new guild mates.
By pushing the community together guilds can have a much larger recruiting pool. However the problem then becomes how to get them to be able to play with you in WvW.

All of these concepts are great on paper however in application there are some things that you need to think about.

1. The Death of Server Communities.
By Megaservering if your server is not a 100% WvW dedicated place, such as Sanctum of Rall, your zones will be filled with foreigners, people who you have fought against for over a year and a half, who’s blood boils at the mere sight of you. We’ve all seen it, you’re in an overflow and someone starts up with the server bashing. This is going to be day in day out every day in Guild Wars 2 from this day forward. The bad blood is going to be spilled out all over our capital cities, our formerly friendly zones, and fill our chats.

2. Public Community Events
In addition think about events like the Great Tyrian Adventure where 150 people from all of the guilds on Sanctum of Rall pull together for a few events per week to play together and make some epic memories. In the new system all of the servers flood into instances of the zone. Getting those 150 people into the same 2 overflows will become increasingly more difficult. See the Lion’s Arch event for example. Getting into the same instance with 30 of your friends was impossible. Imagine trying to do that with 150+. The megaserver will prevent things like Great Tyrian Adventure from happening altogether. Imagine trying to talk 150 people into getting into the same map to complete as task. Can we say migraine?

Goodbye to Server Climate
The server climate we all have come to love over the years will now be gone. You’ll be mixed into all servers and the feeling of server pride will solely be one for WvW players. For the better part of the past 2 years I have been giving bags out to new players on Sanctum of Rall to thank them for calling us home. On April 15th that will no longer be feasible as every player in the game would also share that zone. There is no way for me to communicate just to the Sanctum of Rall players.

Server Communication
Before every WvW event I travel around and let people know where we’re going and encourage them, no matter the level, to come out and have some fun with us in WvW. I hit queensdale, divinity’s reach, vigil keep, and a few zones in Orr. Come April 15th I will no longer be able to do that as people will not be from Sanctum of Rall and will be unable to join us in WvW. With no way to communicate with your allies this will become an even more difficult feat for non-wvw focused servers to mobilize forces.

I see you objective and it is a valued one however I strongly feel that this is a bad move and will negatively affect the game in the coming months. You’re changing Server Community to Game Community and putting barriers in communication which will hurt those servers who have been struggling.

On top of that I’m pretty sure this is just the tip of the iceberg and soon WvW will be to follow. At which point there will be nothing left of the houses we built.

Please reconsider this option until you have some time to think about all the repercussions and the long term effect on communities.

Concerned,

Benjamin “Foghladha.2506” Foley
Founder, Gaiscioch Community [GSCH] | Gaiscioch Magazine | Twitch | YouTube | Twitter
Proud Resident of Mercenary Server Sanctum of Rall | 6 Year Extra-Life Charity Event Participant

Lost, Confused, New to Guild Wars 2?

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Posted by: Foghladha.2506

Foghladha.2506

Nope, don’t need to join any guild. Gaiscioch is a community focused guild that tries to help new players in games get started. We’ve been doing this since Dark Age of Camelot. We have a long history of this. We also host a whole range of inclusive events for everyone in the game. No rep, no guild, no requirements at all.

We are also the community that hosted the Great Tyrian Adventure where in all we gave away 10 Legendary Weapons to attendees who largely were not Gaiscioch members. We have given away thousands of items over the past 2 years and will continue to do so.

Just looking to help players get off the ground.

Benjamin “Foghladha.2506” Foley
Founder, Gaiscioch Community [GSCH] | Gaiscioch Magazine | Twitch | YouTube | Twitter
Proud Resident of Mercenary Server Sanctum of Rall | 6 Year Extra-Life Charity Event Participant

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Lost, Confused, New to Guild Wars 2?

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Foghladha.2506

If your looking for a reason why someone would do something like this I’ll tell you. Look at your replies. The world has become jaded. Surely good intentions don’t exist anymore.

A long time ago on my very first day in Dark Age of Camelot, my first MMORPG , I was alone, lost and confused and had no clue what to do or how to play. A fir blog Druid by the name Roac, who was not in any guild, sa me wondering around aimlessly and asked of I needed help. I said yes and he spent the next hour gearing me up, giving me some spending money and teaching me how to play. Why? Because he felt someone should. He did not do it to recruit me into a guild or for personal reasons he did it because he saw a person in need.

Kindness is a rare trait these days. I felt the need to create an entire community that walks the same path. Helps people in need, requires nothing of them and supports those in need regardless of the tag above their head.

I refuse to let kindness and compassion for our fellow man die by the wastes side and sit idlely by. Even if I’m the only one trying I will continue to try. If I remember the actions of 1 person 13 years ago, it shows you just the impact it can have on a person’s life whend you do that which others choose not to and help someone in their hour of need.

That is why for the past 2 years I have passed out welcome kits in Guild Wars 2. I typically frequent Queensdale and Metrica.

Benjamin “Foghladha.2506” Foley
Founder, Gaiscioch Community [GSCH] | Gaiscioch Magazine | Twitch | YouTube | Twitter
Proud Resident of Mercenary Server Sanctum of Rall | 6 Year Extra-Life Charity Event Participant

Feedback: New Accounts Can't WvW Till 18?

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Foghladha.2506

Greetings,
I don’t normally like to complain but I really think this needs to be adjusted. With the 19.99 sale I managed to get several new people to try the game so that they could experience WvW with us only to find none of them can WvW until 18. I don’t remember that being in the patch notes and I have confirmed that you can still WvW under 18 if you have another character on your account over 18.

What this does is force people to play a certain playstyle they might not enjoy for the first 18 levels. Guild Wars 2’s moto was Play how you want. This is not the case anymore as a Player can’t pick up and play GW2 solely for WvW. They are now being forced to PvE.

I highly recommend this change to be reversed as it deters players from getting hooked on the content they came for and forces them to play a way they don’t want to. I leveled each one of my 4 level 80’s in WvW alone, entered at level 2, had my commander tag by level 11. That was the experience I came here for. What personal story mission am I on? I still need to go to the tavern in Divinity’s Reach. Some of us don’t play GW2 for PvE. You should encourage that.

If I had these kind of forced gameplay mechanics in place it would be less likely I would have decided to come here.

Play How You Want…. Stay true to your credo ArenaNet

UPDATE
Here’s my suggestions ArenaNet:

  • Add right click “Destroy Siege” option when siege is selected to add a stack of “Burn Siege”. Upon getting 5 stacks of burn siege the siege weapon destroys itself. No CSR needed to prevent siege trolling.
  • Limit Trial Accounts to WvW after 18

With those 2 bullets I just cured the problem and kept the game friendly for everyone. Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Benjamin “Foghladha.2506” Foley
Founder, Gaiscioch Community [GSCH] | Gaiscioch Magazine | Twitch | YouTube | Twitter
Proud Resident of Mercenary Server Sanctum of Rall | 6 Year Extra-Life Charity Event Participant

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POLLS should not determine WVW's future!

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Foghladha.2506

Just because the poll doesn’t get the answer YOU want, doesn’t mean it doesn’t get the answer WE want. Your opinion differs from that of others. Polls do work, and they are actively pushing these polls in game to encourage people to vote.

I personally liked the desert borderland when we were Tier 6, and I LOVE the desert borderlands now that we’re Tier 2. Population made the world of difference on those maps. I miss them and can’t wait to be back in the desert. Just because I enjoy the Desert BL map doesn’t mean we should have ONLY the desert bl map. There are others that love the Alpine Map. I believe we should have a mix of both. Then everyone wins.

Benjamin “Foghladha.2506” Foley
Founder, Gaiscioch Community [GSCH] | Gaiscioch Magazine | Twitch | YouTube | Twitter
Proud Resident of Mercenary Server Sanctum of Rall | 6 Year Extra-Life Charity Event Participant

A Real Life Guild Wars 2 Cookbook

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Foghladha.2506

Greetings Everyone,
The Gaiscioch [GSCH] Family has included a 12-Page Real Life Adaptation of some of your favorite GW2 Recipes in it’s latest Gaiscioch Magazine.
Check out the Guild Wars 2 Cookbook!
http://gsch.info/mag-i7-p52
Enjoy!

Benjamin “Foghladha.2506” Foley
Founder, Gaiscioch Community [GSCH] | Gaiscioch Magazine | Twitch | YouTube | Twitter
Proud Resident of Mercenary Server Sanctum of Rall | 6 Year Extra-Life Charity Event Participant

WvW needs megaserver tech like EOTM

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Posted by: Foghladha.2506

Foghladha.2506

No please. The day the make WvW megaserver is the day I retire from this game. Not all players want a giant blobfest. I prefer the small scale multi-front warfare.

Benjamin “Foghladha.2506” Foley
Founder, Gaiscioch Community [GSCH] | Gaiscioch Magazine | Twitch | YouTube | Twitter
Proud Resident of Mercenary Server Sanctum of Rall | 6 Year Extra-Life Charity Event Participant

[NA] Sanctum of Rall - Play, Laugh, Kill!

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Foghladha.2506

The Sanctum of Rall Community
The Sanctum of Rall Server is home to the most epic adventures available in Guild Wars 2. Named after the fallen hero Roger “Oldroar” Rall, Sanctum of Rall is a community-oriented server with a rich, vibrant history. Join today to be part of a truly epic social gaming experience.

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About the Sanctum of Rall
The Sanctum of Rall server is home to many of the largest and most well known public community event based guilds in Guild Wars 2. The server community is devoted to building a fun and friendly environment for all walks of life and playstyle preferences.

Even before its launch the server was born by friendship and unity. Through the course of our time here on Sanctum of Rall we hope to give a platform for creating friendships, memories, and a community like no other.

Sanctum of Rall has been through several seasons, each one bringing new faces and ushering old friends to newfound shores. We’ve had our competitive streak and rose to the top where we sat in the top position for 8 weeks.

While the journey to first place wore a lot of people thin we began to see that the more competitive we became the more stress and frustration filled our server. By the end of the first wvw season our empire would fall, and with it came our first exodus. A valuable lesson came with this that we should never allow scores to get between our brothers in arms. Our server shed it’s truly competitive shell and began to form a tighter bond among its people.

The second season trapped our community in a tier it could not compete with and by the time it ended, the remaining few who held onto the days of old were pushed from our shores.

Today we are reminded of where we began. We did not begin on top. We were not the best there was. We didn’t come to Sanctum of Rall because it was the most competitive atmosphere . We came here to honor a man who put his best foot forward and genuinely cared about the people he led. Where unity and friendship trumped victory. Where the real victory was in the adventures you shared with newfound friends. Sanctum of Rall isn’t about winning and losing, it’s about celebrating the little victories life brings us and sharing those moments with the ones we hold dear.

Sanctum of Rall is a living testament to the kindness in all of us that shines bright in the darkest time. It’s about standing for something when nobody else will. While our days at the top may have passed, our days of kinship and brotherhood illuminate the path of our future.

If you’re looking for a competitive server you may be disappointed here but if you’re looking for a family to share epic battles, memorable adventures, a good laugh and a low stress environment look no further. We may not have the coverage to be a major contender on the battlefield but every time the Sanctum of Rall family rides into battle we leave our mark on our foes and the minds of our comrades. There is no greater victory than winning the battle you should have lost. Those are the battles we fight every day. Every day a new opportunity for an epic memory to share with those we hold closest.

Others Have A Name, We Have A Legend!

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Benjamin “Foghladha.2506” Foley
Founder, Gaiscioch Community [GSCH] | Gaiscioch Magazine | Twitch | YouTube | Twitter
Proud Resident of Mercenary Server Sanctum of Rall | 6 Year Extra-Life Charity Event Participant

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Game Updates: Guild World Events, Megaservers, WvW

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Foghladha.2506

I originally posted this in the last Megaserver thread. Since then I have seen megaserver in all its wonder and feel it’s much worse than I thought. Please see this additional post describing the issues we face. This patch essentially Killed any chance of ever hosting a public community event in Guild Wars 2.

Megaserver = Megamess for Guild Missions
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/guilds/missions/Megaserver-Megamess-for-Guild-Missions/first#post3924070


ORIGINAL POST—-

Greetings,
Many of you may know me as the leader of Gaiscioch [GSCH] a 13 year old gaming community who has spanned 4 games and now entering our 5th. I am also a man whose life was affected by Roger Oldroar Rall and organized a group of his friends and family to help influence ArenaNet to get a server named in his memory.

I understand the goals behind the MegaServer:

1. Avoid Server Closures / Mergers
The Megaserver concept pushes servers together so that they are 1 group of people sharing the same game world. This is a fantastic concept and from a PR perspective brilliant. Instead of the gaming press reporting about server closures and mergers (as you know they would) putting a negative tone on your product and usually causing a snowball effect, you can avoid all this by megaservering up.
2. Putting people in empty zones.
As the population has progressed and spread out, population in non-champ farm zones or Orr has dwindled. This system would allow everyone who IS playing in a zone that’s not as popular as it once was to have people to play with. This is a great concept.
3. Putting more opportunity to make new guild mates.

By pushing the community together guilds can have a much larger recruiting pool. However the problem then becomes how to get them to be able to play with you in WvW.

All of these concepts are great on paper however in application there are some things that you need to think about.

1. The Death of Server Communities.
By Megaservering if your server is not a 100% WvW dedicated place, such as Sanctum of Rall, your zones will be filled with foreigners, people who you have fought against for over a year and a half, who’s blood boils at the mere sight of you. We’ve all seen it, you’re in an overflow and someone starts up with the server bashing. This is going to be day in day out every day in Guild Wars 2 from this day forward. The bad blood is going to be spilled out all over our capital cities, our formerly friendly zones, and fill our chats.

2. Public Community Events
In addition think about events like the Great Tyrian Adventure where 150 people from all of the guilds on Sanctum of Rall pull together for a few events per week to play together and make some epic memories. In the new system all of the servers flood into instances of the zone. Getting those 150 people into the same 2 overflows will become increasingly more difficult. See the Lion’s Arch event for example. Getting into the same instance with 30 of your friends was impossible. Imagine trying to do that with 150+. The megaserver will prevent things like Great Tyrian Adventure from happening altogether. Imagine trying to talk 150 people into getting into the same map to complete as task. Can we say migraine?
Goodbye to Server Climate
The server climate we all have come to love over the years will now be gone. You’ll be mixed into all servers and the feeling of server pride will solely be one for WvW players. For the better part of the past 2 years I have been giving bags out to new players on Sanctum of Rall to thank them for calling us home. On April 15th that will no longer be feasible as every player in the game would also share that zone. There is no way for me to communicate just to the Sanctum of Rall players.

Server Communication
Before every WvW event I travel around and let people know where we’re going and encourage them, no matter the level, to come out and have some fun with us in WvW. I hit queensdale, divinity’s reach, vigil keep, and a few zones in Orr. Come April 15th I will no longer be able to do that as people will not be from Sanctum of Rall and will be unable to join us in WvW. With no way to communicate with your allies this will become an even more difficult feat for non-wvw focused servers to mobilize forces.

I see you objective and it is a valued one however I strongly feel that this is a bad move and will negatively affect the game in the coming months. You’re changing Server Community to Game Community and putting barriers in communication which will hurt those servers who have been struggling.

On top of that I’m pretty sure this is just the tip of the iceberg and soon WvW will be to follow. At which point there will be nothing left of the houses we built.
Please reconsider this option until you have some time to think about all the repercussions and the long term effect on communities.

Concerned,

Benjamin “Foghladha.2506” Foley
Founder, Gaiscioch Community [GSCH] | Gaiscioch Magazine | Twitch | YouTube | Twitter
Proud Resident of Mercenary Server Sanctum of Rall | 6 Year Extra-Life Charity Event Participant

First Person Camera - Pretty please!

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Posted by: Foghladha.2506

Foghladha.2506

Can we pretty please have our first person camera back. We had it in Beta and I have been looking forward to it’s return since launch. It’s very very very difficult to make fan made videos with my backside hogging up the entire camera. I really would like to be able to make some wonderful fan made movies in the Guild Wars 2 engine but need that first person camera so that I can film them. Can’t do it without.

Thanks!

Benjamin “Foghladha.2506” Foley
Founder, Gaiscioch Community [GSCH] | Gaiscioch Magazine | Twitch | YouTube | Twitter
Proud Resident of Mercenary Server Sanctum of Rall | 6 Year Extra-Life Charity Event Participant

Guild Housing: Remembering Fallen Members

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Posted by: Foghladha.2506

Foghladha.2506

The personal attachment it would create for people would keep them playing regardless of where the game goes. From a business standpoint I would think this would be a golden opportunity to create that personal attachment all games seek to create. I know for Gaiscioch we have made it known that we will not leave GW2 until Sanctum of Rall is taken offline. No matter what happens to the game we will be keeping a chapter here because of that personal attachment to the name. This would create that feeling on a much larger scale.

Benjamin “Foghladha.2506” Foley
Founder, Gaiscioch Community [GSCH] | Gaiscioch Magazine | Twitch | YouTube | Twitter
Proud Resident of Mercenary Server Sanctum of Rall | 6 Year Extra-Life Charity Event Participant

Lost, Confused, New to Guild Wars 2?

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Posted by: Foghladha.2506

Foghladha.2506

The only thing I am “Looking For” is new players to help get started. I’m not trying to recruit for a Server or a Guild. Just simply stating that my Guild is offering welcome kits to new players looking for help.

“Players Helping Players” What else is this forum about if not to help one another?

Benjamin “Foghladha.2506” Foley
Founder, Gaiscioch Community [GSCH] | Gaiscioch Magazine | Twitch | YouTube | Twitter
Proud Resident of Mercenary Server Sanctum of Rall | 6 Year Extra-Life Charity Event Participant

Commander’s Compendium account bound

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Posted by: Foghladha.2506

Foghladha.2506

I really wish there was some kind of warning about this change. I have 5 of them sitting in my bank as prizes for the ExtraLife Event coming up this fall. None of which can be given to anyone now. So not only did I promise something I can not deliver now but I’m stuck with 5 books that I can not use. I am left with 1 simple question.

Why? Why was this change necessary?

See:
World vs. World

  • Updated the Commander’s Compendium inventory item to be account bound.
Benjamin “Foghladha.2506” Foley
Founder, Gaiscioch Community [GSCH] | Gaiscioch Magazine | Twitch | YouTube | Twitter
Proud Resident of Mercenary Server Sanctum of Rall | 6 Year Extra-Life Charity Event Participant

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Real Life Guild Wars 2 Cookbook

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Posted by: Foghladha.2506

Foghladha.2506

Greetings Everyone,
The Gaiscioch [GSCH] Family has included a 12-Page Real Life Adaptation of some of your favorite GW2 Recipes in it’s latest Gaiscioch Magazine.

Check out the Guild Wars 2 Cookbook!
http://gsch.info/mag-i7-p52

Enjoy!

Benjamin “Foghladha.2506” Foley
Founder, Gaiscioch Community [GSCH] | Gaiscioch Magazine | Twitch | YouTube | Twitter
Proud Resident of Mercenary Server Sanctum of Rall | 6 Year Extra-Life Charity Event Participant

Ideas for other WvW "special events?"

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Posted by: Foghladha.2506

Foghladha.2506

I’d like to have a special event where every time you change maps you turn into a different animal and gain the attacks of that animal. So if you turned into a panther you’d have the skills the Panther has. And everyone on the map is a different animal. Zoo Wars!

Or! It would be awesome if we had a special event where Yak’s ran 125% the speed of a human. And Keeps upgraded twice as fast. Call it Digging In!.

I still would love to see a mode where the longer a realm owns a keep the higher the pot is in the rewards. If you take a keep that has been owned for days it rewards you exotics and what not. Like a daily chest popup bounty for keeps that have been owned a certain amount of time. Say like add tiers. So T1 is 1 Hour, 2 3 Hours, 3 6-hours 4 12-hours 5 24 hours 6 48 hours, etc. So a T6 would reward you with some pretty sweet gear. Alternatively, make the defensive ticks increase as well for each hour the keeps remain in your control. So defenders that successfully defend get some sweet loot and exp too.

Benjamin “Foghladha.2506” Foley
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Forum Search Feature Workaround

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Foghladha.2506

Hey Everyone,
The search feature has been broken for several months now and I know some of you would like to find topics here. So I will share my work around that seems to work pretty well.

1. Go to http://www.google.com/
2. In the search box type “[SEARCH PHRASE] site:forum-en.guildwars2.com”
3. Click Search Tools and narrow your search to what you want to see.

Google does a pretty good job of indexing these forums so it’s likely you’ll find what your looking for there. Enjoy!

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Tier 1: BG/JQ/SoR 05/10/2013

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The problem with chest thumping and bragging is that sooner or later everyone falls. The more arrogant the more likely demise is near. Being on SOR I have seen a lot of top tier servers on their way down. Every single one followed the same course. They all got over confident, they all got beat by a weaker foe, they all began infighting, and lastly they all migrated to new servers. This has been the course of many servers before and will be the course of many servers to fall.

People ask me why I’m always gunning for Blackgate, why I’ll give the order to let the JQ live so that we can smash the Blackgate instead. It’s because over the past countless weeks blackgate makes it a point to stroke their egos and say how wonderful they are compared to everyone else. They taunt, they talk trash, they push down others so they can feel better about themselves. Yet as soon as anyone defeats them they claim it being unfair or someone cheated or they’re the underdogs.

I have a simple philosophy: “He who talks the most crap, deserves a boot in their mouth to quiet their tongue.”

Arrogance is the easiest weakness to exploit. It’s also the most destructive when put to fire.

SOR: I hope we learn from those which we have passed on this crusade from #17 to Tier 1. Learn from IoJ, ET, HoD, SBI, and SoS. Being a champion isn’t about being able to win. It’s about being able to lose and learn from loss. To unite when things get tough. If we let our ego’s get in the way we will follow the same fate as those that have fallen. Every week is a new week, every foe is the greatest foe this game has to offer. Never let your guard down, and never fight each other. Stand strong and learn from our defeats so that we may better prepare for tomorrow.

P.S. SOR: Taking first place this week really would be a heck of a way to wish Roger “Oldroar” Rall happy birthday. (5/14). He may be gone but his legend lives on in all of us. Let’s make it happen

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Tequatl - Wow Crazy requirements

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Posted by: Foghladha.2506

Foghladha.2506

Let me make this simple.

99.9% of the content in Guild Wars 2 is Easy Mode

For over a year now those of us that like a challenge have not found it in Guild Wars 2. Since this patch .1% of the content in Guild Wars 2 actually is designed for us that like a challenge.

If you don’t want challenge you have 2 options. 1: Play the rest of the content in Guild Wars 2, or 2: Play FreeRealms. That might be more your speed.

It’s about time that we have a HARD dragon to kill. The fact he died in the first day actually means he’s not only killable but he might be too easy. I spent 2 years trying to kill the Glimmerking in DAOC before we finally killed him. A hard fight is a remembered fight.

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The Death of Sanctum of Rall

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Wildstar? Really? We got back every player that left for WS a week after they left and they even brought more people with them when they came back. Wildstar was a flashfire of epic proportions. Not even Star Wars had that quick of a turnaround. It was like “Hey guys lets go swimming! Oh snap thats freaking cold I’m outta here” Some returned the very next day.

The thing that really drives me crazy is this line " (all major guilds) ". This alone has been the bane of Sanctum of Rall’s existence since the “Major Guilds” arrived on the shores of Sanctum of Rall. They preach a united community but if you’re not on the WvW map 24/7 you’re not a major guild. Then you get alienated and pushed out and asked to stay off the map while the Major Guilds go and do all the work. Then when fit hits the shan who’s to blame? The lesser guilds for not helping.

Let’s look at the facts. Right before season 1, IRON went back home leaving a gap in our coverage. I loved IRON, those guys were stand up people and a ton of fun to fight along side. I get that, this was a major hit to our community right before S1 kicked off. What happened next, truly was messed up and you can blame wildstar or gaiscioch or whoever you like but that does not change the teamspeak meeting that decided our fate. If we didn’t throw a match to drop out of T1 FEAR was going to leave SOR. If we did throw a match CHOO was going to leave SOR. Lets see. Lose a 500 person guild or lose a 500 person guild. Good choices here and the rest of SOR just had to take whatever fate was delt out. You can dance around it all you like but in the end that doesn’t change the fact that FEAR left because we wouldn’t throw a match, causing us to drop to Tier 2 where CHOO TW and so many others chose to split as well. In the end we lost everything and it sure as hell wasn’t because of Wildstar or a guild that you all asked to stay off the field before thursday.

Sanctum of Rall is right where it needs to be now. We dropped all the way to the bottom. Bled out every single player that held onto that “All Major Guilds” or “WvW Guilds” mentality. What we have left is the TRUE nature of SOR. Good, Honest, Caring people who join together night after night regardless of the guild tag above their head and work together to crawl out of this hole we were dumped in. Now anywhere we go from here is on Us. The REAL SOR.

I give a huge shout out to all of Sanctum of Rall: FoW, WF, NICE, Aco, EG, WR, SoR, SIN, Hope, EVIL, LEM, ECTO, TID, PPP, POTE, ESC, CWAR, UO, FBB, Ale, ISA, ecto, TRS, FoF, OCX, PH, GSCH, and sooooo many others that join us out there night after night for some fun in WvW. Anywhere we go from here is on us. We’ve got a fresh canvas and we know how to paint it red.

We may be down, but we certainly ain’t out.

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Megaserver = Megamess for Guild Missions

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Last night I tried to run Sanctum of Rall’s community guild missions event which runs every Thu @ 6PM and Sat @ 11PM PDT (Server Time). I was hopeful about the mega server after it stated that people are prioritized on Mega Servers.

1. Friends
2. Guilds Paired Together
3. Servers
4. Mixed from other servers.

This concept on paper looked like if we group up first in a common ground (WvW) we could get everyone into SORC (Sanctum of Rall Community Events) Then head back to the PvE area to complete the guild missions. Usually these runs are an hour for all 4 mission types that yield rewards.

Last night however was a disaster. The above diagram doesn’t work at all. We had people who were repping SORC in 6 different versions of snowden drifts. The timberline falls challenge we spent 30 minutes just taxing people to the right instance only to find another guild kicked it off while we were trying to get organized. For the Bounty there was 4 other guilds there trying to dogpile him and the creature died before most of us could even get there.

At the end of the day we spent an hour and 45 minutes on the run and couldn’t even complete the puzzle due to the bug where the torches didn’t light. This megaserver has turned running missions to near impossible. Guilds are fighting over who goes first and it’s next to impossible to get everyone on the same version of the map. The prioritizing doesn’t work at all and the whole thing is quickly becoming more trouble than it’s worth.

This was my fear in the beginning when I posted about this patch. Things like the Great Tyrian Adventure (http://sanctumofrall.com/gta) will now be utter chaos and pretty close to impossible to run smoothly.

Please fix the system to get guilded folks together. Or at least give us the ability to select what version of the world we can join like Guild Wars 1. Coordinating larger numbers in PvE is now almost impossible.

Benjamin “Foghladha.2506” Foley
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[Feedback] The Orphan Servers

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Hey Everyone,

While server pairing is great and it’s nice to see some life in WvW. The prospect of constantly changing allies really makes life hard for the little guys.

I’ll be honest. Right now I (on Sanctum of Rall), feel like an Orphan. We got placed in an awesome foster home (Dragonbrand), however the day will come when we’re sent back into the system and shoved into a new foster home. What happens if we end up with an Abusive foster parent? Who are we as a server at this point? Every time the matchup changes we end up having to go to new voice coms, new server websites, make new friends and allies, and right about the time we feel like we belong, wham there we go again back into the system.

You’re leaving us but 1 choice to jump to a bigger server if we don’t want to be passed around like an orphan. It’s not a very uplifting thought. We just grew fond of the people were allied with and I know personally if I get paired up with some of these top servers, it will kill my desire to wvw at all.

I hope that moving forward there is a better alternative, because those of us on the bottom 12, really feel disconnected and discarded. Having to uproot everything every few months is going to get old really quick.

Benjamin “Foghladha.2506” Foley
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Sanctum of Rall - More FUN beyond Borders!

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Foghladha.2506

Insane… I resemble that remark. Wonderful summary of the community and way of life here on SOR. Thanks for putting this all together.

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Get rid of Desert BL

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Posted by: Foghladha.2506

Foghladha.2506

No thank you. If you dont like it stay off it. I love it.

Benjamin “Foghladha.2506” Foley
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Scoring Discussion

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Posted by: Foghladha.2506

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Been pondering some ideas to help improve the dynamic in WvW and help some of the servers that lack coverage and the ability to compete be able to stay in the game through the end of the match. Thus keeping the top dog busy and the battlefield active. This would also help keep scores closer throughout the week keeping people in the fight.

My proposal breaks apart matchups into different perks for each place.

Removing Cross Swords
1st place should have no swords
2nd place should have a 30 second delay on swords
3rd place should show swords instantly.

Build Timers
1st place Upgrades build 50% slower
2nd place Upgrades build at normal speed
3rd place Upgrades 50% faster

NPC’s
1st Place NPC’s have 25% less HP
2nd place NPC’s are normal
3rd Place NPC’s have 25% more HP

Siege
1st Place: Siege Weapons Cost 10 Supply More to Build
2nd Place: No Effect
3rd Place: Siege Weapons Cost 10 Supply Less to Build

By creating these tiered buffs you would make it so the underdog would have more of a shot of staying competitive to the end. I don’t know anyone that enjoys playing a blowout match. It would be better to keep things close.

Benjamin “Foghladha.2506” Foley
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World Linking Beta

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Oh I may have to log on tonight just to read the map chat… oh the egos of some of the server leaders and guilds who “run things” on their server getting paired up with past enemies or just other leaders….. The outright culture clashes are going to be phenomenally entertaining…. “Get off my map Scrub!, half my guild is in que”, “No you get off!” etc……

And I foresee Transfer Wars 2 on the horizon.

I know that all too well. for the first year of this game we were told to stay out of WvW until thursday. lol. Not going back to that anymore. If someone doesn’t like it they can suck on a tick tak. I’m playing bloody WvW regardless what they say. I came to this game to play WvW and it’s really the only part I enjoy.

Benjamin “Foghladha.2506” Foley
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any way to

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Posted by: Foghladha.2506

Foghladha.2506

Slagfest, the trick I use is to work on getting hits on everything that’s attacking you. If you can kill the lowest health opponent you’ll be born again which should give you time to pop your heal or make a quick getaway. Depending on your class a quick knockback can make the world of difference. Later you will find this is a blessing more than a curse.

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The Tuatha Extended Alliance of Sanctum of Rall

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Sorry to burst your bubble Adaneshade . Passes cookies does that help In all seriousness I’ve seen quite a few old school DAOC groups giving GW2 a rebirth. I wouldn’t be surprised if you find some old friends out there. It’s always good to run across people you met so long ago. That’s why we all MMO isn’t it. For the community and comradery. We still have a young lady that played with us in DAOC that was in her 70’s back in 2003 and shes still gaming with us today. There’s kids playing with us that I remember when they were born. What we strive to create is long lasting friendships that bleed over from game to game and sometimes even into the otherworld they call real life. If it wasn’t for the community aspect of MMO’s I wouldn’t play them at all.

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Guild Recruitment Video Opportunity

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Here’s Gaiscioch’s Video Gaile.
https://youtu.be/bhx4dMRV6Lg

As a note: I have received written permission from Ivan Torrent to use his song Human Legacy in this video and it will be cleared by Adrev by End of Day. I can provide you with the letter if need be. Ivan is a dear friend of the Gaiscioch.

Enjoy!

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Lost, Confused, New to Guild Wars 2?

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Greetings Vanillexhope,
I will send you a private message about us. This post isn’t meant to be a recruitment avenue. I want to avoid turning it into one.

Benjamin “Foghladha.2506” Foley
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Jan 18-25 SoR-TC-SBI

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Posted by: Foghladha.2506

Foghladha.2506

Noting the image below, I can note that Choo actively utilizes the community server for their community led battles, but I have honestly never seen GSCH, FV, PSY, and many other guild tags in the TS server. I am going to make an educated guess and say that it is more than likely that this group of SoR invaders in the image had no verbal communication other than through their respective guilds.

I think we do just fine the way that we currently operate. I relay messages across chat just fine. Some GSCH will use TS but I will not require it. There’s a whole lot of foul language and explicit talk there and many of our crew has young kids that play with us. I don’t want them getting an epic new vocabulary while we’re trying to have a good time.

One other thing you need to think about is that Sanctum of Rall is the official home of the largest Christian Gaming Alliance in MMO’s today. They were here at the birth of this server and still make a large part of our community. If we are turned off by the language I’m certain they are as well. We use RaidCall because there’s a more mature and respectful policy in place that doesn’t allow for vulgarities to run rampant. We provide a child safe environment 24/7.

IF the TS server held a similar policy in place and we could bring our children and friends with us and not be exposed to constant vulgarities, trolling, and insults we would consider using it. But I’m not going to subject my friends, family, or comrades to that. Until then I will continue doing what I can to relay messages and let those GSCH that are willing to sit in TS to continue to sit in TS and relay.

Benjamin “Foghladha.2506” Foley
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Lost, Confused, New to Guild Wars 2?

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Foghladha.2506

Thanks. I was stuck between ranger and thief, because both of them have a play style that I like. As a matter a fact when I took one of the surveys it stated that the character that mostly fits me is charr ranger. Even though it wouldn’t be a bed choice, I don’t really like their area. It feels like I’m back in uniform from what I’ve seen so far. Any other suggestions for the race choice? I don’t know maybe it is because I was a warrior of the Blood leagen. So would you suggest to go what I like or what actually really fits my personality?

I find the best bet is to go with what you love. When the game launched Engineers sucked. Now they are one of the best classes in the game. Warriors at launch we’re op, and now they are on par with the rest. If you base your judgement on how a class plays now you will be disappointed when change comes on the horizon. If you play a class because you love it no matter what comes you’ll enjoy your class. The key is to play something and learn what works best for the way you play.

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[NA] Sanctum of Rall - Play, Laugh, Kill!

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The Sanctum of Rall Legend
This server is not just an ordinary server. It is named after a player by the name Roger “Oldroar” Rall who suddenly passed away in his den late one evening. His passion in his last remaining years was Guild Wars 2. From researching the game through gaming websites to encouraging the founder of the Gaiscioch to make contact with ArenaNet, Oldroar took a passion for this game toting it to be the spiritual successor to Dark Age of Camelot and Warhammer Online.

Just weeks after his passing, Foghladha finally made contact at PAX Prime 2011 with Martin Kerstein, ArenaNet’s Head of Community. Foghladha and the Gaiscioch began on a quest to have Roger immortalized by getting a server named after him. After months of building up contacts and forging a relationship with ArenaNet the Gaiscioch amassed a “CookieZerg” in an attempt to get the idea across to ArenaNet and make their name known. Thousands of sugary treats made their way from all around the globe to ArenaNet’s Bellevue, Washington offices.

Time passed and relations continued and on July 10th, the Gaiscioch made one final attempt by sending out a Call to Arms to all past and present members and community members to write ArenaNet sharing their stories of Roger with them. Seven days later a notice arrived in Foghladha’s mailbox that there would be a server named “Sanctum of Rall”. This news sent a tidal wave through the gaming industry hitting the far corners of the MMO scene. It was reported on by blogs, gaming sites, newspapers, and even magazines around the world.

Who Is Roger “Oldroar” Rall?
For those that played Warhammer Online on Badlands or Phoenix Throne, or called Faeblight home in the early months of RIFT’s existence, Oldroar was a voice you could not ignore. He lead armies into battle, created hundreds of memories for any that followed and held family values higher than any man we had ever encountered. He was a role model, a hero, an inspiration to many.

His legacy lives on through all of us. Whether you were his ally or his foe, you knew his calm stature in battle. Last September, our hero passed on leaving his wife Karen, and several thousand virtual children and grand children behind. His passing was not easy for any of us. It was sudden and unexpected.

In his final months with us he spoke of the pastures green in Guild Wars 2. He proclaimed it was the natural successor of DAOC and Warhammer Online and that it would finally be the home we’ve been searching for all along. He spent much of his time researching Guild Wars 2, posting video’s and articles of the games progress and speaking with the eldership on forming a branch within this title. He was the inspiration that made us first contact ArenaNet about Guild Wars 2 and from that has built a lasting relationship between the Gaiscioch Family and the Developers of Guild Wars 2.

A wise woman once said that a man’s legacy is not held in what he owned at his time of death. Cars, boats, houses, all the money in the world instantly evaporates upon your exit from this life. None of it matters. Your Legacy is held within the people you impact in your lifetime. The lives you save, the lives you change, and the lives you bring to this world. Roger has changed many of us. His legacy did not die when he left this world. He passed it on to us, trusting that we would pass it on to generations to come. It began as a little wave and has rippled through all of us. It is now up to us, to make his legacy known and pass it on to others.

Learn more about Roger “Oldroar” Rall at:
http://www.sanctumofrall.com/about/legend.html

Last known recording of Oldroar’s Voice:
http://youtu.be/2Uu1-rDP8vg

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[NA] Sanctum of Rall - Play, Laugh, Kill!

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Features of Sanctum of Rall
The Sanctum of Rall offers many unique features that no other server chooses to offer. We take pride in our server and the legacy of our namesake and provide new players with guidance and a helpful hand. This server is special to us and we’d like to make it special for you too.

Features:

  • Commander On Deck: This system allows commanders to display their success on the battlefield through monitoring PPT while their on the field. Participants can claim participation to be added to the weekly raffle and compete on the leaderboards.
  • Leaderboards: Making use of the Commander On Deck system this provides commanders with a visual ladder of top performers on the server and provides them with a competitive edge to their normal routine. Both Commanders and Participants have their own leaderboard.
  • Badges, Statistics & Awards: Every registered member begins to earn badges, awards, and collect statistics on their profile page. Players can also receive Commendations and comments from their peers for excellent display of leadership.
  • Versatile Event System: This detailed scheduling tool allows you to organize your event’s listing details, requirements, and allows players to RSVP, add the event to their calendars with iCal, JSON, and XML support, and features Twitch connectivity.
  • Event Livestream Showcase: Players who livestream their events can plug their stream directly into the SanctumofRall.com site to gain homepage exposure for their livestream.
  • Customizable Guild Pages: Every registered guild can have their own customizable profile page including a general overview of their guild, a recruitment message, roster, and toggle options to help them recruit new players looking for a guild.
  • Realm Rewards: These bonus raffle rewards are awarded for earning higher scores in WvW. Each week as our points rise so do the rewards. There are 5 tiers of rewards available which can be unlocked based on the servers performance. Once unlocked, these reward raffles take place at Friday Reset, with a WvW participant chosen at random.
  • Raffles: We offer weekly and monthly raffles for WvW Commanders, WvW Participants, New members to the community, and active members of the community.
  • Inclusive Weekly Community Events: Each week SOR Community Events [SORC] hosts 3 Guild Missions events and 3 Tequatl events for everyone who was not able to make their own guilds event. This allows everyone a chance to earn guild commendations and ascended gear.
  • Annual Charity Events: Every year the Sanctum of Rall participates in several charity events including: Pink Day in LA, Extra Life Charity Event, and we support breast cancer awareness in October by going pink.
  • Community Teamspeak Server: We welcome all players of Sanctum of Rall to join the community Teamspeak server and participate in events and WvW with other members of the community.
  • Weekly Reset Meetings: A fun and friendly gathering each week on Teamspeak to discuss what we did on the battlefield the week prior, share new strategies, and plan the next weeks focus of attack. These meetings are open to all.
  • A Deeply Invested Core Community: The majority of the people who call Sanctum of Rall home have been here since day one, rose to first place, and sank to last place together. We are here not because we want to win but because Sanctum of Rall has a special meaning to us. It is a personal investment and commitment we feel that keeps us here regardless of the situation on the battlefield.

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Lost, Confused, New to Guild Wars 2?

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Foghladha.2506

Forgot to mention how to turn Rare (Yellow) items into gold. You can list them on the TP. You can either quick sell for less money or your can use match the lowest price (right column) and then reduce the price by 1 copper to become the lowest price. This will typically sell in less than a day. Same trick works for materials.

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[NA] Sanctum of Rall - Play, Laugh, Kill!

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Sanctum of Rall WvW
Since launch, Sanctum of Rall has been on a roller coaster of population surges and departures. We have been in first place and last place. As players flooded to our server to ride the wave up, the core encouraged and supported the new arrivals. As they began to depart our server we wished them well on their adventures.

Today the core of Sanctum of Rall is alive and well. Sanctum of Rall is best known for it’s hospitality. We hold inclusive events open to all, giveaway epic loot just for calling Sanctum of Rall home, and give commanders recognition for their war efforts. Players here are more committed to one another and the purpose of our server than most servers. For us it’s not about winning and losing, it’s about kinship and honoring a fallen brother.

What you can expect on Sanctum of Rall is a lot of heart, and a lot of friendly faces. We fight as hard as we can, when we can and at the end of the day regardless of what the scoreboard says people walk away happy and satisfied. We understand we are outnumbered and do not have the coverage to amass a competitive front.

But just as we climbed from rank 17 at launch to rank 1 a year later, the tides can change in a moments notice. It only takes a few people to see the potential and enjoy the lifestyle to change the tide and send us back up the rankings once again. For now we work on making every person count and maximize our performance for the few we have.

Whether we’re tier one or tier none, Sanctum of Rall is relentless in it’s pursuit to create epic memories and lasting friendships. Join a community that loves, appreciates, and rewards you for your efforts. Become the star of the show rather than an extra in a crowd. On Sanctum of Rall every single player makes a difference and is appreciated for their efforts. Become part of the legend, and forge a story of your own.

Who Should Join?

  • Players looking to make a difference
  • Small Scale Warfare Specialists
  • Ambitious Commanders Looking to Be Appreciated
  • Livestream & YouTube Creators – Plug your streams into your event, for front page exposure.
  • Casual Players looking for fun times in WvW without the stress
  • Guilds who want to work with others to create positive results
  • Players & Guilds looking for a change of scenery
  • Performance Players – Lots of targets of opportunity

See us in action

Sanctum of Rall Community Events
SOR Community Events [SORC] runs several Community Guild Missions and Tequatl events each week for players who are unable to attend their own guilds event. [SORC] is a temporary events guild only used to organize community events and is open to players of all Servers.

Schedule

  • Oceanic Prime SORC Missions & Tequatl: Saturdays @ 11PM PST (Foghladha.2506)
  • US Prime SORC Missions & Tequatl: Wednesday @ 4:30PM PST (Foghladha.2506)
  • Tequatl 2 for 1 BBQ Monday & Wednesday @ 11PM PST (Soren.9316)

To Participate Send Foghladha.2506 (Missions) or Soren.9316 (Tequatl) a tell 15 minutes before the event for a temporary [SORC] invite.

Sanctum of Rall is NOT the server for everyone, it is the HOME for many.

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Benjamin “Foghladha.2506” Foley
Founder, Gaiscioch Community [GSCH] | Gaiscioch Magazine | Twitch | YouTube | Twitter
Proud Resident of Mercenary Server Sanctum of Rall | 6 Year Extra-Life Charity Event Participant

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The Death of Sanctum of Rall

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XTD: We chose RaidCall over TS for 1 simple reason. You guys were jerks in TS. I will not support a voice comm for a server where Jerks run the show and people are allowed to throw insults like candy on halloween.

After you left I started making an attempt to get TeamSpeak on track with a more friendly environment and Xivor and Scriptko went above and beyond to make that happen. Yet GSCH still did not use TS primarily for 1 simple reason. They did not want off server people coming to our teamspeak. I run events open to everyone regardless of their server and this would not allow us to continue doing so.

After Season 3, they dropped that mandate and allowed me to invite anyone and everyone into the Community Events channel of our TS. Since then GSCH has been 100% supportive of using TS for all Community Events and WvW.

Simple: Don’t be a jerk, and people might want to hang out with you.

P.S. The SOR Teamspeak is using a 400 person license donated by a Gaiscioch member. Hows that for irony.

Benjamin “Foghladha.2506” Foley
Founder, Gaiscioch Community [GSCH] | Gaiscioch Magazine | Twitch | YouTube | Twitter
Proud Resident of Mercenary Server Sanctum of Rall | 6 Year Extra-Life Charity Event Participant

[NA] Sanctum of Rall - Play, Laugh, Kill!

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Active Members of The Sanctum of Rall Community

Joining Sanctum of Rall
Sanctum of Rall is actively looking for new players and guilds who seek a friendly environment to share epic adventures in WvW. Whether you have an hour a week to spend or a hundred hours a week to spend all are welcome and appreciated. On Sanctum of Rall our focus is on player satisfaction and building lasting friendships.

If you are a player or guild that would like a drama-resistantTM community. Please visit our community website to receive more information about registering for this website, listing your guild, and an invitation to join us for one of our weekly teamspeak gatherings.

Request more information at:
http://www.sanctumofrall.com/about/join.html

Get Social With Us

Homepage
Event’s Calendar
Twitter
Facebook
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Benjamin “Foghladha.2506” Foley
Founder, Gaiscioch Community [GSCH] | Gaiscioch Magazine | Twitch | YouTube | Twitter
Proud Resident of Mercenary Server Sanctum of Rall | 6 Year Extra-Life Charity Event Participant

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Lost, Confused, New to Guild Wars 2?

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Foghladha.2506

So you are still doing this? I bought the game when it first came out but only got to like level 50 before I completely forgot about it. Now I picked it back up and got my self a first 80. Sure would appreciate any help

Well unfortunately what I’m giving I don’t think you’ll need at level 80. It’s all stuff aimed at level 20’s or under. Not very useful otherwise. If you have any questions for me I’d be glad to answer!

Benjamin “Foghladha.2506” Foley
Founder, Gaiscioch Community [GSCH] | Gaiscioch Magazine | Twitch | YouTube | Twitter
Proud Resident of Mercenary Server Sanctum of Rall | 6 Year Extra-Life Charity Event Participant

The Tuatha Extended Alliance of Sanctum of Rall

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Foghladha.2506

We’re on Sanctum of Rall which was named after a Tuatha Member Roger “Oldroar” Rall who passed away while waiting for this game to go live.

Benjamin “Foghladha.2506” Foley
Founder, Gaiscioch Community [GSCH] | Gaiscioch Magazine | Twitch | YouTube | Twitter
Proud Resident of Mercenary Server Sanctum of Rall | 6 Year Extra-Life Charity Event Participant

Lost, Confused, New to Guild Wars 2?

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Just doing my rounds Welcome new people!

Benjamin “Foghladha.2506” Foley
Founder, Gaiscioch Community [GSCH] | Gaiscioch Magazine | Twitch | YouTube | Twitter
Proud Resident of Mercenary Server Sanctum of Rall | 6 Year Extra-Life Charity Event Participant

6/7 SoR/ TC/ SoS

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Thanks to TSYM and GSCH For coming out and parading with the DOLYies tonight Pies and tonics for all!

Good fun tonight on SOR. Asked people to leave the doylak train alone or join them in their caravan tonight. Fighting an unarmed foe just doesn’t feel honorable. Had some fun with TC instead.

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Benjamin “Foghladha.2506” Foley
Founder, Gaiscioch Community [GSCH] | Gaiscioch Magazine | Twitch | YouTube | Twitter
Proud Resident of Mercenary Server Sanctum of Rall | 6 Year Extra-Life Charity Event Participant

Locked first-person view for screenshots

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Foghladha.2506

Yes please. I really NEED a first person view for videos and screenshots. Im so tired of my backside having to be in every video.

Benjamin “Foghladha.2506” Foley
Founder, Gaiscioch Community [GSCH] | Gaiscioch Magazine | Twitch | YouTube | Twitter
Proud Resident of Mercenary Server Sanctum of Rall | 6 Year Extra-Life Charity Event Participant

Remove Transformation Tonics

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I once chased a blackgate off a cliff as a princess. They just shouldn’t have skills. I say leave the tonics take away the skills.

Benjamin “Foghladha.2506” Foley
Founder, Gaiscioch Community [GSCH] | Gaiscioch Magazine | Twitch | YouTube | Twitter
Proud Resident of Mercenary Server Sanctum of Rall | 6 Year Extra-Life Charity Event Participant

22/12 BG - SoR - TC

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wtb less ego and more sportmanship. Maybe then we can see a post longer than 4 pages before it gets locked.

TC we have a few vocal minority that taint the name of SoR pretty good but they do not speak for all of us on SoR. A large part of the community is actually very nice, friendly, and a good sport. Don’t let the few trolls and egos bother you there’s plenty of us kind hearted folk to enjoy mature conversation with. I personally am glad to see you all in Tier 2 and look forward to seeing you here in the future. It was great fighting you all on SoR Borderlands early this morning. Welcome!

Benjamin “Foghladha.2506” Foley
Founder, Gaiscioch Community [GSCH] | Gaiscioch Magazine | Twitch | YouTube | Twitter
Proud Resident of Mercenary Server Sanctum of Rall | 6 Year Extra-Life Charity Event Participant

The New Grenth, OP as you can get.

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I personally love this new fight. I’m sooooo tired of just being able to zerg over these fights. Bout time they throw some necessary intellegence into these fights. You don’t remember the fights that weren’t challenging. I can tell you however about the first time we killed Cuuldurach the Glimmer King after wiping on him for several years before Nimue finally slayed him. I can tell you about the fight when we downed Asha Catari in the middle of meridian. Memorable experiences come with over the top challenge. If you guys think this fight is op then play the other 99.9% of the content in this game and leave the challenging fights to those that eat sleep and breath challenge! Well done ArenaNet Well Done!

Benjamin “Foghladha.2506” Foley
Founder, Gaiscioch Community [GSCH] | Gaiscioch Magazine | Twitch | YouTube | Twitter
Proud Resident of Mercenary Server Sanctum of Rall | 6 Year Extra-Life Charity Event Participant

When will server pairings be announced?

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I will be out in WvW tonight representing SOR. Whoever we get paired up with let’s Party! Will be nice to see some action once again!

Benjamin “Foghladha.2506” Foley
Founder, Gaiscioch Community [GSCH] | Gaiscioch Magazine | Twitch | YouTube | Twitter
Proud Resident of Mercenary Server Sanctum of Rall | 6 Year Extra-Life Charity Event Participant

[BUG] Bounties Do Not Downlevel

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Posted by: Foghladha.2506

Foghladha.2506

Notice this today in Frostgorge.

Devious Teesa in Frostgorge stays level 80 in all areas of the map. However my level 80 along with the rest of the guild downscales to 74 in some parts. 74 vs level 80 who is bolstered because of the 10 of us fighting her becomes impossible to kill in the allocated time.

Benjamin “Foghladha.2506” Foley
Founder, Gaiscioch Community [GSCH] | Gaiscioch Magazine | Twitch | YouTube | Twitter
Proud Resident of Mercenary Server Sanctum of Rall | 6 Year Extra-Life Charity Event Participant