Guilds may come and go but Knights of the Rose remains. 
Well, not everyone is transferring out of IoJ. As a member the largest guild on IoJ I can safely say we are staying. We may lose some members to other servers because of the population issues but this has been an issue for a while. Granted, we are a PvX guild and not a WvW guild but we’ve always had members playing in WvW since Beta; sometimes in very large numbers. One thing not mentioned was there was a lot of drama on IoJ about one month before HoT dropped and that most definitely affected WvW population. Just saying. Add to that the problem smaller guilds have where they to do a lot of farming outside of WvW to get gold for their guild halls, and all the other problems that have affected WvW since HoT dropped.
I don’t know what Anet can do at this point. It’s sad that they put in all this effort to make these new maps and the WvW populations just continue to drop. I don’t know about other servers but IoJ has always seem to issues with population. We move to higher tiers with lots of fighters in the field – one or two WvW guilds decide to leave and other players just follow, then we end up fighting in a tier where the population is now really outbalanced. Sigh.
That said there will still be some fighting for IoJ – maybe in very small numbers but we’ll be here. Some of won’t give up just yet. 
Maybe when then big WvW changes come IoJ will survive for another day and those who stayed won’t regret it.
We have a level 48Guild Hall. (as of this posting.
Returning or new to the game? We are family friendly and PvX (HoT, PvE, WvW, dungeons, fractals, guild missions, and PvP).
Contacts:
Misty Red Rose.9320
Merry.7290
We have a Guild Hall.
Returning or new to the game? We are family friendly and PvX (PvE, WvW, dungeons, fractals, guild missions, and PvP).
Contacts:
Misty Red Rose.9320
Merry.7290
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We still have room!
KoR is still recruiting! Returning players are welcome! New players are welcome! We have young and mature players. Yes, we are big, but we are not cliquish and most new members will agree it’s easy to get to know other players.
We are family friendly and PvX (PvE, WvW, dungeons, fractals, guild missions, and PvP).
Contacts:
Misty Red Rose.9320
Merry.7290
Zorric.5704
Oceanic: Nuclear Herring.9431
Thank you Anet. I just received my tickets today. (Gaile found those PMs after all. )
Cya you in San Francisco next weekend!
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Why I should get 2 of those tickets.
I’m local. I’ve been a fan of Guild Wars for about 7 years now. I came to GW2 with about 40 friends from GW1 and we started a guild in GW2. Same guild, same server and we’re at about 490 members now. Did I mention I’ve introduced GW to several of my family members?
To new and returning players, we’re always looking for a few more good and friendly players.
We still have room!
KoR is still recruiting! Returning players are welcome! New players are welcome! We have young and mature players. Yes, we are big, but we are not cliquish and most new members will agree it’s easy to get to know other players.
We are family friendly and PvX (PvE, WvW, dungeons, fractals, guild missions, and PvP).
Contacts:
Misty Red Rose.9320
Merry.7290
Zorric.5704
Oceanic: Nuclear Herring.9431
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Again…. I am aware that this is just a beta and there will be more.
I just don’t think you realize that this “demo” is actually just a repackaged Living Story.
If no expansion was announced, and the living world just continued on what do you think we would see?
I didn’t get to test the beta
, and though I see your concern let’s hope your wrong. Yes, we only get a new profession but if you tested the betas for gw 2 you’ll remember the only area we had access to at first was Queensdale.
I don’t think we would see things like profession evolution and everything that should go with that. If this is just a huge LS expansion then players will get through the content fairly fast and many will likely leave the game, including all those players who have been returning. No one wants that. Here’s to hoping your completing wrong.
While our guild may be big and we have been around for a while, we are not cliquish. The member base is generally a friendly bunch and you’ll find you can get to know other players fairly easily if you wish too.
Top Three Improvements for Guilds
• Guild Halls: For those of us who came from GW 1 and used our halls for guild activities, halls are sorely missed. You have the system in place: another rank in architecture to build the hall, another in economy for a merchant and so on.
o In GW 1 the actual hall cost about 7k to 20k platinum, but to stick a merchant in the hall would cost 100k platinum. Outfitting a hall to have everything you could find in Lion’s Arch cost around a million. The same system here would allow smaller guilds to get their halls, and work over time to fill them and keep them competitive with larger guilds.
o Concerns that no one would visit the cities are unfounded as most players who had full halls still used outposts. Also, building portals (via politics and influence) to the major cities from the guild hall would be very useful and keep cities active.
• Guild Calendar & mailing:
o It would be great for members to be able to able to open the guild panel and see what guild activities were upcoming. A calendar, even for the week would be very useful. Many of our members don’t notice the ‘message of the day’ since it is so tiny and small and you have to do a lot of scrolling.
o Please allow us to message more then two members at a time if possible. Gold spammers and trolls don’t use their guilds to message players so it’s not something that would be abused within a guild.
• GvG
o GvG would have it’s own ranks and would not have to take away from the pvp areas. Just keep it to GvG ranks and no loot. If loot and pvp rewards were kept to spvp players would continue to use them and the devs would continue to get their paychecks.
o We used the GvG a lot in GW 1 to scrimmage and fight against one another. We have a guild room in spvp but it doesn’t work at all the same way.
• Okay, I have a fourth and I’m only bringing it up because another poster brought up the brilliant idea of guild prisons. This could and would and benefit the community by removing trolls and gold sellers.
o Guild members would have an option to click on a name for someone trolling or trying to sell gold and ’capture’ them. It could take about 12 guild clicks to capture someone so it wouldn’t be abused. The captured player would be put into the guild prison for maybe 15 minutes and could not communicate with anyone during that time. This would really cut down on the spammers, trolls and annoying players.
Give me a tonic to shrink my head to normal again please, can see the joke but gets annoying running around for some longer especially with my ranger pet heads blocking half the screen.
I think this is part of the April Fool’s joke, lol.
I think it’s great! Reminds me of the stuff they used to do back in Guild Wars. I really enjoy it.
Glad to see the return of Guild Wars’ traditions/elements. Was really disappointed in the whole push to make everything so different in this game.
Now if only they could bring back story elements from Guild Wars…
Yes, I remember when everyone couldn’t wait to log is to see what was going to happen. Everyone in our Team Speak is having a blast and there’s much, much laughter. Great job Anet!
So far most upcoming changes are what players have been asking for since launch. Most players in our guild cannot wait for the new changes and are very happy about it. Account bound has been the way to go and now we’ll be getting it. (Sorry to those who bought the same legendary and/or expensive dyes, but that is a small %.)
Maybe after the big fix they can focus on the big things like a new expansion and guild halls. One can dream!
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$12.50 Charge for Convenience of Lions Arch
in Battle for Lion’s Arch - Aftermath
Posted by: Misty Red Rose.9320
I just wanted to say this has been a great update. If I use our guild as a measuring stick EfLA is a big hit. A lot of the LS content has been a disappointment as it’s too difficult, not fun and most often very stingy with the loot. Most members would do the LS content by themselves, get their achievements then not have anything to do with it. EfLA has gotten our guild members teaming up to do the content, talking about it and has even managed to pull players out of WvW, and actually having fun. It’s pretty much universally liked by everyone. A very rare thing in our large guild.
Please, more content like this.
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