Guild Wars 2

Just captured our Guild Hall tonight with a group of 8! Also finished a run of all Guild Missions tonight. Was a great turnout and would love to have more people join us as we continue to grow!

Attempted our first Guild Hall capture on Sunday and got within 5% of beating the boss before an unfortunate event had him reset to 75% with just over 50 seconds left! While we didn’t capture it, we had a lot of fun learning the event with everyone. We will be attempting it again this week as well as starting to tackle harder guild missions as we recruit more people!

Would love to see some new faces around the guild! Drop me mail or an ingame whisper if I have to be on if you are interested!

Original posted has been updated.

Knights of the Ash [KOTA] [NA]

Home World: Sanctum of Rall
Primetime: Weekdays in early evening to late night & weekends
In-Game Contact: Either via mail or direction message – Geilnor.3541
Preferred Language: English

We do NOT require 100% representing.

Small Backstory
This guild was made on day one when Guild Wars 2 was released. At first, it’s purpose was to house a few close friends but after that, we decided to expand. We grew to about 60 players with around 15 – 20 active at any one time. I ended up quitting the game for about a year and so we disbanded the guild and I kept it around just in case. With the newest expansion many of us have started playing and we long for that same small community we had built.

What’s our focus?
Short Answer? PvX.
Long Answer? We love to do a bit of everything. WvW, SPvP, Dungeons, Fractals, Open World content, you name it! Most of our players like to do whatever. whenever. You’ll find that many of us have day jobs so we mostly log in during the early evening and weekends.

Who are we looking for?
Well, casual players just like us! We might be the guild for you if…

• You log in mostly during the early evening/late night or weekends
• You don’t have the time for a large guild and are just looking for something small
• You like a variety of content in Guild Wars 2 and don’t mind what you are doing
• You are looking for a small community of just casual players

What about raids? Will you be attempting those?
Absolutely. While we are casual guild, we do have a few players that have been playing the game since day 1 and are very experienced in their classes. When raids become available we will be making a team (or teams) to tackle those with a bit more dedication. If you are an experienced player and don’t want to a massive guild we could be a new home for you as well.

Knights of the Ash [KOTA] [NA]

Home World: Sanctum of Rall
Prime Time: Weekdays in early evening to late night & weekends
In-Game Contact: Either via mail or direction message – Geilnor.3541
Preferred Language: English

We do NOT require 100% representing.

Small Backstory
This guild was made on day one when Guild Wars 2 was released. At first, it’s purpose was to house a few close friends but after that, we decided to expand. We grew to about 60 players with around 15 – 20 active at any one time. I ended up quitting the game for about a year and so we disbanded the guild and I kept it around just in case. With the newest expansion many of us have started playing and we long for that same small community we had built.

What’s our focus?
PvX. We love to do a bit of everything. WvW, SPvP, Guild Missions, Dungeons, Fractals, Open World content, you name it! Most of our players like to do whatever, whenever.

Who are we looking for?
Casual players just like us! We might be the guild for you if…

• You log in mostly during the early evening/late night or weekends
• You like a variety of content in Guild Wars 2 and don’t mind what you are doing
• You are looking for a small community of casual players

What about raids? Will you be attempting those?
Absolutely. While we are casual guild, we do have a few players that have been playing the game since day 1 and are very experienced. When raids become available we will be making a team (or teams) to tackle those with a bit more dedication. If you are an experienced player and don’t want a massive guild we could be a new home for you as well.

Seems’s to have gotten lost in the posts, does anyone have any input on the matter?

After some SPVP temperature readings show 78 degrees lowet and peaking at around 89 degrees. During that GPU temperature peaked at 78 Degrees but mostly stuck around 65 degrees.

Also I went into nVidia Control Panel and switched GW2.exe to work off High Performance and in the past few games the screen hasn’t locked up. Here’s hoping for the best.

If anyone has any suggestions however please feel free to post.

Just downloaded RealTemp 3.70 to check CPU and GPU temperatures.
While IDLE in-game CPU Cores seem to vary from 65 Lowest to 75 Highest.
While IDLE in-game GPU seems to be around 50 – 52 degrees.

I will try some PVP with this one and check temperatures in another 10 mins.

Hey guys, hopefully someone here can help me with my problem. I’ll try to make this quick.

Problem:
When my girlfriend plays GW2 she finds that the screen will completely lock up for about 1 – 4 or 5 seconds. Most of the time its very short locks that last anywhere between .5 to 2 seconds. Most of the time the audio also continues to play through, but during the larger screen locks the audio cuts off.

Laptop Specs:
Operating System: Windows 8 64-bit
GPU: nVidia GeForce 660M
Drivers: GeForce 320.49 (Latest according to their website)
Processor: i7-3630QM @ 2.4GHz (8 CPUs)
RAM: 8GB

I personally thought it might have something to do with the graphics card but the computer used to run the game fine a few months ago when we used to play all the time. Since we started playing again this issue came up. Not personally I don’t think it’s so bad as much as it is annoying. She also has very thin patience and that doesn’t help! :P Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Our member count just hit 55 earlier today! We are starting to see more guild activity peaking about 12 – 15 players in the afternoon/evening. We are making some great progress in recruitment and expansion and are hoping to find more great players to add to our growing community!

Wow! Very impressive! I remember doing Lupicus the first time. Now to see this? xD

We have officially hit 50 members now and hopefully will continue to grow!

Tier 5 Politics is now being built, and we are beginning to save Influence for some much needed WvW upgrades

Posting an update to the guild status.
Member Count: 45
Peaked at 14 online this evening! Making some nice progress!

Upgrade to Tier 5 politics is shy of 3k away.
All information has been reflected above.

Dark Night.5601:

How many are usually on during prime time?

Sorry for the late response, just saw your post now. During the afternoon because our population isn’t to high (43 Members currently) we don’t have to many players online. Currently we have 6. Later in the evening it tends to pick up to around 12+. I’ve seen 16 at one point. Usually this is because the age group in our guild seems to be around 18 + so most of us, if not all, have classes to attend or a job during the afternoon.

What server are you on?

Through a busy schedule I’ve managed to do a bit more recruiting. We now sit at 40 members and still actively seeking more people to dungeons and WvW/PVP with!

Thanks for the replies guys. I will definitely set the priority to high in task manager. As for the laptop issue I currently do have a Desktop that I game on, however I live with my girlfriend and she needs the portability as do I, so we figured we’d pitch in to pick up a laptop that would still run games at an enjoyable speed.

One other question. How do I make sure that the processor is running at the 3.4ghz? I believe I read somewhere that it only does that when put under strain. I’m assuming that’s means its some sort of automatic option that I can change as well?

As for the core parking. I think I’ll pass on that just because of the heating issues. Any more heat on this baby and I think it might just melt

Just to add, I ran GW2 after updating drivers and noticed a BIG improvement.

Resoution: 1080p
Animation: High
Anti-Aliasing: FXAA
Environment: High
LOD Distance: High
Reflections: All
Textures: High
Render Sampling: Native
Shadows: High
Shaders: Medium
Post Processing: High
Best Texture Filtering: Checked
Depth Blur: Checked
High-Res Character Textures: Checked
Vertical Sync: Checked

Current FPS running around LA off Overflow: 20 – 30 (Mostly in the high 20’s).

If anyone has any suggestions as to any more improvements that I can do I would greatly appreciate it.

Again, thanks in advance!

First off let me start with I’m using a laptop.
Specifically Lenovo Y580

Specs
OS: Windows 8 64-bit
Processor: Intel Core i7-3630QM @ 2.4Ghz
Ram: 8gb
GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 660M 2GB Dedicated

I’ve updated my nvidia drivers to Version: 310.90. To the best of my knowledge that’s the latest drivers without going beta?

I also went into NVIDIA Control Panel and selected “High-Performance NVIDIA Processor” under Guild Wars 2 to make sure that it does run off the Intel HD 4000.

Are there any suggestions as to optimization. I slightly tech savvy but never really got around to messing with GPU settings too much. Don’t hold back if you have positive suggestions. I would greatly appreciate any help to make the game run as great as possible.

Please no flaming/trolling/“ERMHAGERD HE HAS A LAPTOP ERRRR”

Thanks in advance!

Knights of the Ash [KotA] Now Recruiting
Last Updated: 02/03/2013

Guild’s Current Status
Member Count
Our current member count as of 02/03/2013 sits at 55.

Guild Upgrades

• Politics: Level 5
• Guild Armorer/Weapons/Emblem all upgraded
• Art of War: Level 2 (Being worked on)
• Economy: Level 4
• Architecture: Level 3
• Guild Workshop/Stash (50 Slot) upgraded

Consumable upgrades are built such as 15% Karma for 24 Hours, 20% Dungeon Influence for 24 hours etc. Guild Banners have also been built such as Karma and Magic Find. These consumables will become more available when the guild begins to grow allowing more influence intake to have continuous flow of upgrades.

Who are we looking for?

Just about anyone is qualified to join Knights of the Ash. We do prefer people who are 18 yrs or older just to keep a decent maturity level but from time to time we do accept the youngins. To expand:

• All races/professions/levels are welcome
• No experience needed, we accept noobies as well as veterans
• People who like to socialize and use RaidCall
• Laid back chill casual gamers / we do accept the semi hardcore and hardcore players as well. I myself have clocked 750 + hours so far.
• People who will represent ATLEAST 90% of the time

What do we do?

Dungeons
We like to experience all sorts of content in Guild Wars 2. Most of the time we like to do dungeon runs with other guild mates. As a guild we have successfully completed all paths of every dungeon up to and including all Arah paths! As a result some of our guild mates now boast a new Dungeon Master title! Dungeons are done almost every day with guild mates.

SPvP / WvWvW
I, love to SPvP. I just recently got into and I love it. Its thrilling and exciting and heart racing combat to me, especially as an Ele. (SO MANY SPELLS). I convinced quite a few of my guild mates to participate in SPvP with me as well and they loved it. So in short, yes, from time to time we SPvP. Its always fun to go against your guild mates and test your abilities. As for WvWvW we often participate in defending and assisting our server. We’ve been stuck in 4th (NA) place for so long I’d love to see some progress. We always try to run in our groups disturbing near-by Supply Camps or just in general causing problems. At times we also will join the zerg train if they are making some progress.

General PvE
When I say General PvE I mean things like jumping puzzles, fighting dragons, or just doing fun events around the world. Anything that doesn’t fall into PvP or PvE (Dungeons) we also like to do. From time to time you’ll find us asking if anyone wants to go find all the diving points or complete all the jump puzzles. (Almost done myself) :P

How do we communicate?

We use Raid Call. A simple Google: “RaidCall” will get you the latest version that we use. It is similar to Ventrillo however servers are set-up for free and have fairly large capacities. It also has a nifty chat feature right in the client without having to click anything extra. Our server info (RaidID), will be given upon joining the guild. You’ll see it in the GMOTD (Guild Message of the Day).

How do I get an invite?

Simple. If I or one of the two officers is online simply whisper them saying you saw our post on gw2guild.org or the Guild Wars 2 forums and are interested in joining. If you any further questions feel free to ask them. If none of us are on at the time, simply send us in game mail and you will soon see a guild invite pending.

We hope to see you guys soon!