Guild Wars 2

Hello Sera,

I invite you to take a look at New Outriders. We’re a casual, family friendly, multi-MMO gaming community that has been around since 1992, and ironically enough was founded on The Shadow of Yserbius! We have a wide range of play styles ranging from very casual to those of us who enjoy raiding and T4 fractals and try to find that balance between competency and relaxed atmosphere you’ve described. We’ve taken a pause in raiding at the moment due to some absences and changing of the guard with the team, but we have a raid alliance with another guild and will definitely look to re-establish some regular raiding within NOR itself.

We have a nice range of ages and those who are younger tend to carry themselves with a maturity that blends well with the rest of the guild. As someone who has a college aged daughter in the guild, I wholeheartedly understand your interest in finding others in your stage of life. :-) It sounds to me like you would be a great fit. If you have any other questions about us, please feel free to reach out to me here or in game. Best wishes finding the right place to call home.

Greetings Sparrowhawk,

I think you would both be a great fit with us at New Outriders. We are a casual, family friendly, multi-mmo guild that has been around for decades and enjoy minimal drama in a friendly atmosphere. You’ll see in our recruitment post that we maintain a “PG” atmosphere in guild and voice chat because many of us have been there as parents.

We have a wide variety of playstyles within our casual requirements. We have people who like to login and do their own thing quietly, and others of us who enjoy doing things likeT4 fractal dailies and raids.

Best wishes finding the right place to call home, it really helps for getting full enjoyment out of the game.

Greetings, Salort.

I invite you to check us out at New Outriders. We’re a casual, family friendly, multi-MMO community that has been around for decades so we know and appreciate that kind of friendly, mature, and drama free atmosphere that you’re looking to find and foster. We welcome people from all play styles and may be a really nice fit for you.

If you have any additional questions about us, please don’t hesitate to reach out to me in game. Best wishes finding the right guild to call home.

Hi Skoll,

I welcome you to take a look at our recruitment post for New Outriders [NOR]. We’re on the small/medium size with a casual, family friendly atmosphere. We have weekly events for guild missions and fractals, though not dungeons specifically at the moment. We have a wide variety of play styles in our midst from very casual to progression raiding and all are welcome to play however they like to play. If you have any questions about us, feel free to reach out to me in game. Best wishes finding the right home.

NORnews April 23rd 2017 issue #048
Guild Wars 2 Branch Report

Hail*NOR/

The Guild Wars 2 branch offers its full 8-bit report this month after many trials and tribulations from the Super Adventure Box. Lots of jumping, bleeping, and booping took place and we extend a hearty congratulations to all who endured sinister toads and other platforming travails to earn new prizes, decorations, and achievements. We also managed to continue steady progress on guild hall upgrades, progression raiding, and planning for more activities to come.

NOR completed the “further exploration” upgrade and opened up even more space in the guild hall. Soon thereafter we also completed the final waypoint discount unlock so that all representing members can look forward to 15% discounts on their cost to waypoint. We are currently working on the “Workshop Restoration 2” upgrade, which has some steep requirements with elonian leather squares and linseed oil, so please take some time to contribute however you can. The officers have also begun drafting some guidelines for decorating the guild hall as we prepare to expand guild hall decorating privileges to a wider group of ranks. Stay tuned for more information!

The progression group enjoyed a successful month of raiding with several Vale Guardian kills as well as a couple of Gorseval take downs. We had one venture into the Escort mission and came very close but fell short with some ‘rocky’ pathfinding by Glenna. A small group also went in and took a first look at Cairn to get a feel for the fight. We will be opening up some training sessions in addition to our progression nights, so if you want to dip your toes into the raids with a more casual setting, this is an opportunity for you to do so. Anyone interested in raiding should also take a look at the helpful “raiding etiquette” post by Lady Zyera, as it really helps to make the best use of everyone’s time when ten people are all on the same page.

We look forward to what ArenaNet has in store for us with episode five of Living Story Three. It sounds like some major events are about to unfold as MIke O’Brien provided a quick update on its progress, “_We’re currently putting the finishing touches on episode five. It’s an important episode and we’re taking the time to get it right. I wanted to let you know that this episode will release closer to the three-month side of our two-to-three-month cadence. We’ll make the formal announcement when everything’s locked down. In the meantime, just hang tight a little while longer._”

Until then, we have plenty to do and more great people with whom to do it! We congratulate Crux, Cosmic, DawId, Flizle, xBlueKhaoz, and IieChigaimasu on their promotions to squire and welcome Orpheus, Bisonbear, Ultraviolet, Confuzing, Shaylock, and JellyCake as our newest recruits. Thank you all for your interest and dedication to NOR, we hope it’s your online family for years to come. Happy gaming to all!

Duke Windemere
*NOR/DK BL:GW2

Hello Soul Eater. I invite you to check out our recruitment post for New Outriders. We’re a casual, family friendly, multi-MMO guild that has been around since 1992. We have a pretty diverse player base from very casual to progression oriented, so people are welcome to play however they like so long as they maintain our policy to be helpful and friendly. We maintain a “PG atmosphere” in guild and voice chat. It sounds like you could be a nice fit with us and if you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me here or in game.

Welcome back and best wishes finding the right home.

Greetings Zeek,

You may fit right in with us at New Outriders so I welcome you to check out our recruitment post and send in an application if you think it’s a good fit. We’re primarily a casual guild but we also have people that play a lot and are experienced in raids and working on making our own static team. We don’t kick people from the guild for absences we only set them to inactive after a month of inactivity and then immediately return them to their former rank when they come back. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me in game. Good luck finding the right fit!

Hi there, Aladire, welcome back. I invite you to check out our recruitment post for New Outriders. We’re a mature, casual, family friendly, multi-MMO guild with a diversity of interests so I think you could be a nice fit with us. Guild repping is explained in this wiki section and we describe our expectations like this:

Members are expected to be active and represent NOR 80-90% of their time. We have no problems with people joining “specialty” guilds for certain aspects of the game like RP or WvW, but NOR should be your main guild. If you are looking for a community, rather than just some folks to hang out with on occasion, we may be the place for you!

If you have any questions about us, feel free to reach out to me in game. Best wishes in finding the right home.

Greetings Hudsonjd,

You sound like a great fit with us at New Outriders. We are a mature, casual, family friendly guild that has been around for 25 years, so we’ve had some success in maintaining a low drama atmosphere that adults like us appreciate. ;-)

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me in game or in any others ways outlined in that linked recruitment post. I will try to reach out to you in game tonight. Best wishes finding the right place to call home!

PS – I’ll try not to take it personally that you classify yourself at 32 as an older gamer and I outlive you by over a decade. :-p

Greetings Slapnchop, and welcome to GW2. Seeing that you enjoy MMOs overall, I invite you to checkout our recruitment thread for New Outriders [NOR]. We are a casual, family friendly guild that has been around since 1992, celebrating 25 years and still going! We try to enable people to play the content that they like to play whether it be super-casual or the more challenging raids and fractals. If you have any additional questions, feel free to contact me via the methods listed in the recruitment thread, or in game.

Best wishes finding the right place to call home.

Greetings, gamenut. I invite you to have a look at New Outriders. We’re a casual, family friendly, multi-MMO guild that has been around for decades. It’s definitely a place where you get to know each other individually and we’d be happy to have you. If you have any questions about us, don’t hesitate to reach out to me in game. Best wishes finding a home to help you get the most out of the game!

Hi Susan, I take it you are looking for a guild on a EU server then because that’s your local timezone?

Thanks for the shout out DKShang. Maybe funny looking will suffice here. :-p Then again we have Scone hanging out to provide the comic relief too. ;-)

Boonimal, feel free to take a look at that recruitment post for New Outriders and hit me up in game with any questions you might have. We’d be happy to have you along if you think we’re a good fit for you. Best wishes finding the right place to call home.

Greetings Exphio,

It sounds like we may be a good fit for you at New Outriders, so I welcome you to check out our recruitment post. We are a casual, family friendly, multi-MMO guild that has been around since 1992. We have a general ‘PG’ policy for our forums and VOIP and have enjoyed a drama free atmosphere with it. We absolutely welcome new players and are happy to help you get the most out of the game as we’re able. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to me in game or via any one of the ways listed in the recruitment post. Best wishes finding the right place to call home!

Greetings PrueBearXx, and happy Wintersday!

I invite you to check out the recruitment post for New Outriders. We are a mature, multi-MMO, family friendly guild that has been around since 1992. We’re happy to let people play however they prefer and don’t have any login requirements. Also, the friends you make here in the NOR branch of GW2 may very well be with you as you explore other games.

If you have any questions, feel free to reach me here or in game. Best wishes finding the right place to call home!

Project Knighthood is a great guild, we have really enjoyed our alliance with them. :-) You are welcome to check us out too (see link in sig) if a multi-MMO, family friendly environment is attractive to you. Best wishes finding the right place to call home.

Greetings, KickzNGigglez.

DKShang pointed me over to your post and I welcome you to take a look at our recruitment post at New Outriders.

In the interest of full disclosure though, we are primarily a casual guild and while there are perhaps a half dozen or so of us that are interested in raids and T4 fractals, it’s not where the majority of our members are at right now. That same half-dozen or so is currently climbing the T3 ladder and not at the point where we are running T4s, and certainly not regularly. I think we’ll get there in time and we do have an alliance with Project Knighthood, so there is that. :-)

Anyway, best wishes finding the right place to call home and if you have any questions, feel free to contact me here or in game. Have fun!

NORnews Oct 24th 2016 issue #043
Guild Wars 2 Report

Hail *NOR/

Over the past two months, the Guild Wars 2 branch has been very busy with Living Story 3 updates being rolled out from ArenaNet, as well as making major Guild Hall expansions, revamping our scheduled events, recruiting and promoting, enjoying a Mad King Halloween, and successfully defeating the Vale Guardian. It’s been a real treat to experience a wide array of activities with NORbies new and old, and we look forward to even more to come!

ArenaNet released Rising Flames, the next installment of Living Story 3, and available free to all owners of the Heart of Thorns expansion. The content introduces more personal story, a new map with an epic jumping puzzle, a revamped Mistlock Observatory, additional achievements, and several tweaks and quality of life improvements. In October, the Mad King returned with his tricks and treats, daring us to assault his labyrinth and infiltrate his clock tower. NOR was up to the challenge and filled their sacks with much loot, frequently leading entire maps through his lair and gorging themselves on candy corn. We eagerly await the Winter Festival and next episode of the living story!

NOR has continued to show remarkable teamwork and dedication towards expanding our Guild Hall. While mixed with some bittersweet emotions, NOR completed its Guild Memorial. It’s a reminder of how NOR is about more than pixels on a screen and to treasure what we have together. We fondly remember all those who have made NOR an outstanding community for decades, both directly and indirectly. In addition to the memorial, we added and improved several harvesting nodes, completed the extensive upgrade to the Tavern, and witnessed our first scribe reaching level 400. Congratulations to Zyera and thank you for working hard at this accomplishment!

As we continue to grow and bring in additional recruits, we constantly review and make adjustments to our scheduled events as needed. We have introduced two new activities: Intro to Fractals and “Name Your PvE”. These are particularly aimed at recruits and/or people who are newer to the game for helping them to get integrated with NOR. We continue to run guild missions on Sunday nights and our Sunday afternoon SIEGE event. We also explored a second raid alliance, this time with Project Knighthood, and enjoyed a very successful first adventure with them, experiencing our raid first kill of the Vale Guardian.

The best part of the past two months has been the NORbies that help us to get the most from the game. We are thankful to Baron Cheese for stepping up into an officer role. He has been heavily involved from the first day he joined and a great asset to the guild. We also heartily welcome Diablo, Silent Storm, CDelzell, Irensaga, and Raprap as squires into NOR. We continue to seek more quality recruits searching for a home and look forward to expanding the family.

The Guild Wars 2 branch has an embarrassment of riches comprised of a wonderful community and frequent content drops from Arena Net. Time fails us to go into details about feeding cats, guild hall jumping puzzle shenanigans, dressing up for Halloween, and visions of flax seeds burned into our retinas. It’s a great time to be alive in Guild Wars 2 and we’re happy to help anyone interested to come and be a part of it. You can try it for free at any time. Happy gaming!

Duke Windemere
*NOR/DK BL:GW2

As one SWTOR transplant to another, welcome to Tyria! I wish you all much success here.

Greetings LovelyTulip, and welcome back to the game. Congrats on the new hardware. :-) I think you could be a really good fit with us at New Outriders, so I encourage you to take a look at our recruitment post. If you have any questions feel free to contact me here or in game. Best wishes finding a new group of friends to play with, it certainly makes the game a lot more fun.

Thank you for the invite, I will be in touch with someone soon. :-)

Greetings Genetix,

I invite you to check out New Outrider’s recruitment post. We’re a casual, family friendly, multi-MMO gaming guild that has been around since 1992. We like to have people who are looking for a home and interested in getting involved so it sounds like you could be a good fit for us. So give us a look and if you have any questions, feel free to hit me up in game. Best wishes in finding the right place to call home.

New Outriders have recently updated their scheduled events. We are still actively recruiting so if we sound like the right guild for you, please consider filling out our online application

Tues@9pm EST: Beginner Fractals – aimed at helping people new to fractals but also open to doing higher tiers depending on group comps.

Thurs@9pm EST: “Name your PvE” – here we try and give the people with the least amount of group PvE experience an opportunity to suggest something we can go and help accomplish together. Could be anything from dungeons to fractals to hero point runs, to elusive achievements.

Fri/Sat@9pm EST: Raid Alliance – we have been working with Æternal Senate [AETH] to field a raiding team on these nights, alternating which guild gets priority.

Sun@1:30pm EST: S.I.E.G.E – a silly acronym for an event that seeks to put together group content at a time that is friendly across multiple time zones from Europe to Pacific NA. We usually run dungeons or fractals but keep it open for suggestions.

Sun@9:30pm EST: Guild Missions – bounties, treks, puzzles, and races! If we’re capped on guild favor, we still run whatever we can for personal rewards to build up our stock of guild commendations.

Hey DKShang,

Just wanted to poke my head back in here and let you know that I’ve sent you an in game mail. While our first attempt at a raid alliance has been fruitful, we’re still having trouble maintaining an expansive enough pool of members to raid as regularly as we would like. If you’re still looking for additional members, I’d like to chat sometime!

Hello Tharinock,

I invite you to look at our recruitment post for New Outriders. We’re a casual, family friendly, multi-MMO guild with a wide mix of playstyles, including people who like to challenge themselves with the hardest content and we’re about to start raids so it’s a nice time to join if you like the idea of beginning with a guild that is going in fresh. We run guild missions every Monday night at 9pm EST. If you have any other questions, feel free to reach out to me in game or through the forums here.

Best wishes finding the right guild to get the most enjoyment from GW2!

Hello Ari,

I invite you to check out our recruitment post for New Outriders. We’re a casual, family friendly guild that has been around since 1992 throughout several MMOs. Most of our scheduled, weekly events occur at 9pm EST so that seems to line up pretty well with your timezone, and you need not fear about being kicked out for prolonged absences. If you have any questions about us, feel free to contact me in game or via the forums here.

Best wishes finding the right place to call home.

Hello DKShang,

Good luck with this! We were in a very similar position and I reached out to what looked like a guild of kindred spirit and we’re just finishing up all the details now of how it will work. If for some reason it doesn’t due to mismatching schedules or whatever, I will get in contact with you. I’ll add you to my friends list and let you know if we’re ever looking to expand our alliance. Best wishes!

NORnews Aug. 21st, 2016 issue #042 – Guild Wars 2 Branch

Hail*NOR/

The Guild Wars 2 branch has enjoyed a month of gobbling up new content, working together to complete achievements, and continuing renovations at the Guild Hall. The world of Tyria continues to unfold with strange and ominous events as experienced during Living Season 3, the appearance of Bloodstone Creatures, and possibly the sightings of ghostly anomalies throughout the land, but in truth we just suspect that Zyera is going crazy.

We have continued running weekly events for guild missions, dungeons, and an assortment of activities for our Sunday afternoon gatherings. We’ve seen a lot of great collaboration between guild members for obtaining difficult to get Tyrian mastery points from fractals and the diving goggles achievement. We continue to plan for raiding, and have reached out to a like-minded guild to form a raiding alliance. Details are still be worked out, so stay tuned for more updates!

After successfully upgrading our market and guild decorations trader, we are setting our sights on the Guild Memorial. This will be a really nice way to honor fallen NOR members and their loved ones. Please keep an eye on the message of the day from the Guild Panel to see how you can help. We congratulate Valikk on his well deserved promotion to Count; Mango, Fana, Aranhawk, and Elyon on their promotions to Knight; and our newest squire Cheese! We appreciate all the contributions they have made to NOR.

The upcoming months continue to present a lot of new and entertaining opportunities in GW2. ArenaNet will be celebrating their four year anniversary, so keep an eye out for sales at the gem store for any goodies you’ve been waiting to pick-up. If you have been thinking about trying out Guild Wars 2, now is terrific time to do so and you can always try it for free. Happy gaming!

Greetings Shandalar,

I invite you to come check us out at New Outriders. We’re a mature, family friendly MMO guild that has been around since 1992 and in the last five months or so we re-launched our Guild Wars 2 branch and have been enjoying ourselves a lot. While we don’t have absolute minimum age requirements, the average is in the area you are looking for and those younger than that carry themselves in a mature fashion.

We have about a half-dozen people who are raid ready and interested in doing them. We’ve just recently started talks with another like-minded guild about forming a raid alliance to increase the pool of available roles. We’ve raided in other games so have a good idea on how to go about it and expect to be starting soon. Most of our events start around 9pm EST and we have a Sunday afternoon one as well.

I think overall you would be a nice fit with us. The only thing that may be hard is that we don’t have a lot of people who have played the game as long as you, so most of us are not yet doing tier 4 fractals, but we do have a handful that run tier 3s and are working their way up.

I would encourage you to take a look at our recruitment thread and see what you think. If you have any other questions, feel free to reach out to me here or in game. Good luck finding the right guild for you, sorry to hear about your previous one.

Tired of playing the game solo or always relying on LFG, and rather yearning for a home? Read the overview for New Outriders in this thread and send in your application today. We’re still highly interested in adding more like-minded members to our fun and drama-free group. We look forward to playing with you.

Greetings Cheese!

Nice introduction, thanks for taking the time to post that. It sounds like you would be a great fit with us at New Outriders. We’ve been doing MMOs since 1992 and have a solid history for maintaining a mature, drama free, family friendly environment. I would say your age is close to our guild average and your experienced but relaxed playstyle would fit in great.

If you have a moment, take a look at our recruitment thread and see if it sounds good to you. Our scheduled events are typically around 9pm EST, so your typical availability seems to mesh well with our peak population time. If you have any questions, feel free to hit me up in game and I’ll keep an eye out for you. Hope to hear from you, and best wishes finding the right place to call home!

NORnews July 24th 2016 issue #041 – Guild Wars 2 Branch

Hail*NOR/

While the heat of summer may be encouraging some of us to slow down and take it easy, it certainly hasn’t impeded ArenaNet’s support for Guild Wars 2, and our NOR branch has continued to grow right alongside of it. Since the May newsletter, we have graduated from our provisional status and re-affirmed ourselves as a full Duchy. After a series of little teaser events popping up from maintenance patches, ArenaNet have officially launched Living Season 3 to begin on July 26th!

We have continued to make steady progress with Guild Hall upgrades, working our way up to level 20! The dueling Arena is completed and we have added a very useful Guild Portal, several types of resource nodes, and a magic find boost to the tavern. We have upgraded several other areas and added decorations. We will continue to chip away at additional upgrades and post the current list of items needed in the “Message of the Day” from the guild panel, as well as posting on the forums. Please take a moment now and then to see how you might contribute. As we move into the higher level upgrades the demands also increase, so distributing the load will certainly help a lot.

We have revised our weekly event schedule, which now reserves time for Guild Missions on Monday, Dungeons on Wednesday, Raiding on Friday, and a Sunday afternoon “S.I.E.G.E” that changes focus on a rotating basis. Sign-ups are posted in the events sub-forum, which is a great place to reserve your spot and/or suggest any specific things you would like to do during an event. While we’re still short of having ten people who are willing and able to raid on a regular basis, we have added a time slot to reserve it. We will consider filling in empty slots with pickup groups if we have around 7 or more NORbies, otherwise we will look at doing some other kind of challenging end-game content on those nights, such as Arah explorer paths or Twilight Arbor Aetherblade. If you are interested in raiding, please take a look at our Raiding Requirements and Group Composition discussions and let us know. We’re happy to help people get ready if they are interested and willing to put in the time.

New content is on the way with Living Season 3, starting July 26th! ArenaNet will be starting episodic releases with new personal stories, a fractal, the return of a revised PvP map called Revenge of the Capricorn, and several other changes that should make for exciting times ahead. The LS3 story will pick up where Heart of Thorns ended, and they have discounted the game by 50% for the week of July 20th through the 27th. If you have not purchased the expansion yet, this is a perfect time to upgrade your account as it comes with some great content in itself, and will also permanently unlock your ability to play LS3 for free so long as you login during the time it is active. For more details on Living Season 3, check out Dulfy’s summary, which includes a link to a very spoiler heavy trailer – so fair warning!

The near future is looking bright for Guild Wars 2 and we’re thankful to have everyone in NOR to help us enjoy it. If you have been thinking about trying it out, now is terrific time to do so and you can always try it for free. Happy gaming!

Hello Runesire, and welcome back! Sounds like you would be a good fit with us at New Outriders. We are a mature, family friendly multi-MMO guild and we warmly welcome new players to join with us. I encourage you to check out our recruitment post and see if it sounds like a good fit. We’re looking forward to LS3 and happy to share in the excitement with more players. Feel free to reach out to me in game with any questions and good luck finding the right place to call home!

We’re excited about the content coming for the LS3 update! We’re helping any people who are looking to finish up their Heart of Thorns story and expecting to make our first run into Forsaken Thicken soon. We have regularly scheduled activities and enjoy running other pickup runs for fractals and other grouped content. Our current schedule is as follows:

Monday, 9pm EST – Guild Missions
Wednesday, 9pm EST – Dungeons
Friday, 9pm EST – Raid Team
Sunday, 1:30pm EST – SIEGE (group content that changes focus from week to week between fractals, dungeons, guild or meta events, etc.)

If you’re looking for a small to medium sized guild with friendly and mature players, check us out!

Greetings Lavender,

I invite you to take a look at our recruitment post for New Outriders. We are a casual, family-friendly, multi-MMO guild that has been around since 1992, so we have a long history of maintaining a mature and pleasantly drama free environment.

We re-launched the GW2 branch a few months ago so we’re on the smaller side but steadily growing, with our focus being on the right people and not size for the sake of it. We’re also just putting together our raid team now and have about 6-8 dedicated people ready to go. It would be nice to get additional like-minded people to join in on the fun.

Feel free to reach out to me with additional questions either in game or using the means laid out in the recruitment thread. Best wishes finding the right fit to call home!

Greetings wolfieblitz,

While New Outriders does not have a strict age requirement, we are a casual, family friendly guild that has been around since 1992, and therefore have a mature player base with an average age pretty close to your target. I exceed it easily. At the very least we expect behavior where adults would be comfortable playing.

We’re part of a multi-MMO guild that re-launched about 3 or 4 months ago, so we have a lot of people still enjoying a broad range of content. We are small to medium sized at the moment (most players on SoR, but it varies) and have regular events scheduled for guild missions, dungeons, and will be heading into raids within the next week or so. People are running tier 1 and 2 fractals pretty much on a nightly basis. If you would like to learn more about us, check out our recruitment thread, or feel free to reach out to me in game. Good luck finding the right home!

New Outriders is still recruiting and enjoying steady growth. We had some fun runs with Ruined City of Arah the past week, we’re pushing into higher level fractals, and we have laid out our raiding requirements as we prepare to make our first foray into it.

If you’re looking for a place to call home where you can experience a wide variety of content at your own pace, with friendly, mature, and supportive players, give us a look and consider filling out an application!

Happy Father’s day to all the dads out there! If you’re looking for a drama free and family friendly place to spend your time in Guild Wars 2, give us a look!

Last night we finished building the arena in the Gilded Hollow guild hall! We continue to enjoy slow and steady growth here and looking forward to venturing into the Forsaken Thicket before long. If you’re looking for a stable, friendly home, read more about us in the first post of the thread.

Hello WinterCatalyst,

I invite you to take a look at our recruitment thread at New Outriders. We are a small to medium sized guild but the people who play a lot and get involved all know each other well. We’re just starting to get organized for raids so it’s on the imminent horizon for us. Best wishes finding the right place to call home.

Greetings Kaedian, and welcome back to the game. You may be a good fit with New Outriders. We are a casual, mature, family-friendly guild that has been around since 1992 and re-launched our GW2 branch a few months ago after several of us became disillusioned with the MMO we had been playing for several years and really liked what GW2 had to offer. We’re really enjoying it and steadily growing with people from a variety of play styles and time in the game.

I think many of us share your “casually serious” goals. We believe in informing people on the current meta and encouraging them to find a suitable role within it for grouped content, but we won’t be obnoxious or elitist about it. We encourage people to play the way that they want to play, while also balancing that with an honest understanding that some content (i.e., raids) drives a particular meta and we’ll select from people who can satisfy those metrics first. In short, we aim to be successful at whatever we do but won’t compromise on the pillars of our Guild principles to do it – 1) Have fun! 2) Help each other. 3) Cooperate as team. 4) Service to the greater good, group and guild.

Good luck finding the right place to call home!

Greetings ICY,

We’re just getting organized for raiding at the moment, seeing what roles we have and at what gearing levels. We’re probably a few weeks off yet but would certainly welcome people interested in getting aboard early assuming that they fit in with the culture we have here otherwise.

We don’t have a strict rep policy right now, but it’s our intention (and the usual scenario) that people make us their primary home. Most people who rep other guilds do so for special or temporary purposes (scribing guilds, etc.).

Thanks for your interest.

Yesterday the GW2 branch of NOR held its second guild meeting since its relaunch a few months ago. We spent some time doing promotions, talking about our near term goals for the guild, having some giveaways, and then knocking out four of the weekly guild missions! If we sound like the type of guild you would enjoy, feel free to message me here, in game, or just go ahead and fill out the online application today.

Promotions

• Nimue – Baroness
• Fana – Squire
• Aran – Squire
• Ernie – Squire

Giveaways
Congrats to Alaer and Aran for their black lion keys and to Fana on her dye pack from the gem store! We also had a nice Balthazar Hammer Skin, but we decided to save that for a special NORbie that couldn’t be present due to illness.

Announcements and Planning

1. We will continue recruiting, mostly through reddit and the ArenaNet forums and by word of mouth.
2. We will also be looking to appoint one more officer whose playstyle lends itself to high end PvE end game. We’ll be looking for someone knowledgeable in gearing, a wide range of class builds, etc.
3. We will continue to work on expanding the guild hall. Please take a look at the “Message of the Day” from the guild panel to see how you can contribute. Many hands make the work light!
4. We will continue running our weekly events. If there is something else you would like to see the guild do, let an officer know or feel free to coordinate one yourself!
5. We want to raid! We will be putting together a forum to help us organize who is available with which classes and at what level of gear they currently have. We’ll also work on figuring out the best time of the week to get together for it.
6. Forums! If you’re here, that’s great! We would like to remind people to visit the forums on a weekly basis to stay informed on current goals and to help organize events.
7. A general reminder that as we grow, we will continue to support a diverse set of play styles. This has gone very smoothly for us so far and we hope to keep it that way! We can all do our part by communicating our interests clearly when organizing group content. For example, “Looking to do a fast paced run through Crucible of Eternity explorer mode path”, “Looking to do a slow paced, casual story run of Twilight Arbor”, “Looking to do some fractals requiring agony resistance of 20 or less”, etc.

Guild Missions
We successfully ran the following guild missions, giving us a nice boost in guild favor and 5 guild commendations to each person that participated in every event!

• Bounty Mission (easy) – Poobadoo
• Guild Race (easy) – Devourer Burrow
• Guild Trek (medium) – Found 15 random locations in the allotted time.
• Guild Race (hard) – Bear Lope

It was really great to see NORbies support each other and make sure everyone finished a race or got credit during the events. It was a wonderful team effort, thanks to all for making it a fun time!

NOR is still actively recruiting. Curious what we’re up to? You can check it out in our latest monthly newsletter or just read what’s been happening in our Guild Wars 2 branch below:

NORnews May 22nd 2016 issue #040

Hail*NOR/

It’s hard to believe that only one month has passed since the last newsletter as we have seen a lot of changes to both the game and the NOR branch, and all very positive! The HUGE spring quarterly update introduced sweeping changes to various rewards, the Heart of Thorns map meta, WvW, and several other quality of life improvements. As many people have delightfully observed, “Every part of the game is relevant again.”

NOR has been very busy doing whatever it takes to expand the Gilded Hollow guild hall, to the point that many of us saw little tiny flax plants when closing our eyes at night. Since initially claiming it last month, we have added the Tavern, the Mine, the Workshop, the Market, and are on the cusp of completing the first step towards the Arena. Several additional upgrades have provided the guild with numerous perks. The scribing station at the workshop allows you to access both your personal bank and material storage. We have added guild swiftness to the hall to make your errands go faster, and there is a free XP or Karma boost available at the tavern. We have a repair anvil, guild bank, and merchant all right near the entry waypoint to help process your loot! Please keep an eye on the forums and the guild panel message to see what we’re working on and what resources are needed for the next expansion.

Speaking of forums, please take some time to visit them regularly! We get a lot of questions about end-game gearing (especially fractal infusions), and guild hall expansion requirements – many of which are covered in the Guild Wars 2 area of the NOR forums. So if you don’t do so already, please check them out. Some specific threads of interest would be our GW2 Event Schedule, End Game Gearing Guide, Guild Hall Subforum, and of course Post pictures of your characters!

Over the next month, we will continue to run our weekly events for dungeons, fractals, and the Sunday SIEGE event. We’ve already begun more frequent guild missions in order to provide favor towards the guild hall, but also because the personal rewards are very useful for purchasing valuable items like Ascended accessories! As we continue to gear up and become more proficient with the harder content, we will definitely be looking forward to trying out the Forsaken Thicket raid as well. ArenaNet have introduced some interesting new achievements over the past couple of weeks with the Unidentified Lodestone and Bandit Bounty events. These seem to be precursors to the Living Season 3 content that is expected to be out later this year. There is a lot of exciting content for NOR to tackle for the foreseeable future!

With all that lies ahead, we’re happy to enjoy it with a growing group of great people. We welcome Burnedd, Dasaybz, Razirya, Elyon, Dr. Frankenheket, and Marcack as our latest squires. We also saw the return of Knight Alaer and former NOR recruit Armstrong to the GW2 branch. We have many new recruits checking out NOR for the first time and seeing what makes us great: Koviana, Ruzz, Dragung, Kaya, Xyain, Ormazd, CrazyChipmunk, Fanaira, ViVi, Mangageek, and Aramlug. We send you all a warm welcome and hope you enjoy the game to its fullest with us.

There are a lot of exciting things on the horizon for the Guild Wars 2 branch. We’re looking forward to exploring it together and welcome anyone else who wants to come along with us! Guild Wars 2 has a generous free to play model so it’s easy to jump in and get a taste of the game.

It feels like we have really hit our stride recently with boss zergs, dungeon and fractal runs, and PvP groups getting together on a daily basis. We just unlocked the PvE mission slot for guild missions and look forward to running them.

Are you a friendly, mature player looking for a growing but stable guild with a diverse set of interests? Check out our recruitment post at the top of this thread and if we sound like a good match for you, fill out our online application today!

Hello Ormaz

It’s possible that New Outriders has what you’re looking for so I’d encourage you to take a look at our recruitment post and see what you think.

We’ve been around for a few months now and have mostly a mix of returning but rusty veterans like yourself and newer players, but a few people who have been playing for a long time too. A month or two ago we conquered the Gilded Hollow guild hall and since then we have already managed to reach level 10, so we have some nice amenities already but will be running a lot more guild missions as we continue to expand. In fact, we’re currently working on purchasing the PvE mission slot, which will help open up more opportunities soon.

We still have quite a number of people running dungeons, fractals, and HoT meta to obtain their full mastery tracks. We’ll be very interested to do raids after we’ve tackled the earlier content and have a sufficiently geared and capable group. It’s all still fresh for us, and we’d love to have more friendly and mature players to enjoy the ride with us. Most of our organized events start at 9pm EST (except our Sunday 1:30pm event).

Feel free to get in contact with me about any other questions you might have. I’ll keep an eye out for you in game. Best wishes finding the right place to call home!

Hello Dragung

It’s possible that New Outriders has what you’re looking for so I’d encourage you to take a look at our recruitment post and see what you think. Most of our organized events start at 9pm EST (except our Sunday 1:30pm event), so that might be a bit later than you wanted, but we certainly do things together outside of those official events. I’m usually on at or before 8pm EST myself, as are several others.

We’re on Sanctum of Rall but have several people from other servers playing regularly with us, including one of our officers. We still have yet to dive into WvW for the most part, so it would probably be a while before the server difference really mattered.

Feel free to get in contact with me about any other questions you might have. I’ll keep an eye out for you in game. Best wishes finding the right place to call home!

Hello emd!

I would encourage you to check out our recruitment post for New Outriders. Your use of the word ‘family’ to refer to a guild caught my eye and I think we may be a good fit for you. We’ve had quite a few returning players such as yourself, as well as plenty of newer players to the game. This means the content is still really fresh for us, so we offer the feeling of a newer guild while having the support and organization of long time MMO veterans. Check us out and see if it sounds like the right fit for you. Good luck finding the right home!

Hello Gerakis,

I would encourage you to check out the recruitment post for New Outriders. We’ve had quite a few returning players such as yourself, and we offer the feeling of a newer guild while having the support and organization of long time MMO veterans. Check us out and see if it sounds like the right fit for you. Good luck finding the right home!

NOR has been busy expanding its Gilded Hallows guild hall and now offers 3% XP boost and is just 2 kegs shy of the karma boost. Even as a smaller guild we have some dedicated and active members who are working hard to outfit our home. Want to be a part of it? Fill out our online application today!

Excellent, I really appreciate it when you guys make yourselves available for these. Good luck with the update!