Guild Wars 2

Who is Marked Souls?

Marked Souls is a North American based online gaming community which was originally created in 2007 as a Guild Wars guild. Marked Souls is primarily a PvE guild. You can expect guild missions, Fractals, Dungeons, Raids, and map commanders.

Marked Souls is currently located on Jade Quarry but due to megaservers only members interested in the rare WvW guild outing are asked to be on the server.

What makes an ideal Marked Souls member?

An ideal recruit has a good sense of humor and enjoys playing with other guild members. We’re looking for members of any experience level that want to work with the guild to complete any and all content we face.

What can Marked Souls offer you?

• Great friendly people and a group of players that understand the value of support and encouragement.
• Experience and help! Members range from veteran players to enthusiastic newcomers and all in between.
• Mature community. Casual to semi-hardcore members.
• Discord server for voice and text chat. Members are online most of the day whether in game or not.
• No required activities – No donations of faction, items, or time are ever required.
• Representation Policy – Represent Marked Souls when you’re playing with Marked Souls.

How do you join Marked Souls?

You can join Marked Souls by replying to this post, messaging Kousei.5914 or Vivaer.8360 in game, or visiting www.markedsouls.com.

Who is Marked Souls?

Marked Souls is a North American based online gaming community which was originally created in 2007 as a Guild Wars guild. Marked Souls was a WvW based guild on GW2 release but now we’re shifting focus to PvE. You can expect guild missions, Fractals, Dungeons, Raids, and map commanders.

Marked Souls is currently located on Jade Quarry but due to megaservers only our members interested in the rare WvW guild outing are asked to be on the server.

What makes an ideal Marked Souls member?

An ideal recruit has a good sense of humor and enjoys playing with other guild members. We’re looking for members of any experience level that want to work with the guild to complete any and all content we face.

What can Marked Souls offer you?

• Great friendly people and a group of players that understand the value of support and encouragement.
• Experience and help! Members range from veteran players to enthusiastic newcomers and all in between.
• Semi-casual, mature community.
• Discord server for voice and text chat. Members are online most of the day whether in game or not.
• No required activities – No donations of faction, items, or time are ever required.
• Representation Policy – Represent Marked Souls when you’re playing with Marked Souls.

How do you join Marked Souls?

You can join Marked Souls by replying to this post, messaging Kousei.5914 or Vivaer.8360 in game, or visiting www.markedsouls.com.

My list would be:
Mystic Forge Stones
Legendary Insights
Petrified Wood
Blood Rubies
Chak eggs
Reclaimed Metal Plates
Golden Fractal Relics
Vision Crystals (all types)
Tenebrous/Shimmering Crystals
Doubloons (all types)
Scribing mats (lumber cores, Strategic Defense Map of the Mists, etc.)
+1 Agony Infusions
Amalgamated Gemstones

Who is Marked Souls?

Marked Souls is a North American based online gaming community which was originally created in 2007 as a Guild Wars guild. Marked Souls was a WvW based guild on GW2 release but now we’re shifting focus to PvE. You can expect guild missions, Fractals, Dungeons, Raids, and map commanders.

Marked Souls is currently located on Jade Quarry but due to megaservers only our members interested in the rare WvW guild outing are asked to be on the server.

What makes an ideal Marked Souls member?

An ideal recruit has a good sense of humor and enjoys playing with other guild members. We’re looking for members of any experience level that want to work with the guild to complete any and all content we face.

What can Marked Souls offer you?

• Great friendly people and a group of players that understand the value of support and encouragement.
• Experience and help! Members range from veteran players to enthusiastic newcomers and all in between.
• Semi-casual, mature community.
• Discord server for voice and text chat. Members are online most of the day whether in game or not.
• No required activities – No donations of faction, items, or time are ever required.
• Representation Policy – Represent Marked Souls when you’re playing with Marked Souls.

How do you join Marked Souls?

You can join Marked Souls by replying to this post, messaging Kousei.5914 or Vivaer.8360 in game, or visiting www.markedsouls.com.

thunderfall.8095:

I sent the application. If u could, plz tell me if I’m invited through this, cause unfortunately I can’t check my gw2 account for a few days. Ty for the reply

Yup. I tried sending an invite Tuesday night but it looks like you’ve maxed your number of guilds.

Check out Marked Souls [MkS]. We have a recruitment post here on the forums:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/community/lookingfor/Marked-Souls-recruiting-PvE-players-NA/

thunderfall.8095:

Both sound good, however,kousie, do you guys use ts or discord. I’d prefer discord if I can.

Discord all the way!

Check out Marked Souls [MkS]. We have a recruitment post here on the forums:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/community/lookingfor/Marked-Souls-recruiting-PvE-players-NA/first#post6291257

Who is Marked Souls?

Marked Souls is a North American based online gaming community which was originally created in 2007 as a Guild Wars guild. Marked Souls was a WvW based guild on GW2 release but now we’re shifting focus to PvE. You can expect guild missions, Fractals, Dungeons, Raids, and map commanders.

Marked Souls is currently located on Jade Quarry but due to megaservers only our members interested in the rare WvW guild outing are asked to be on the server.

What makes an ideal Marked Souls member?

An ideal recruit has a good sense of humor and enjoys playing with other guild members. We’re looking for members of any experience level that want to work with the guild to complete any and all content we face.

What can Marked Souls offer you?

• Great friendly people and a group of players that understand the value of support and encouragement.
• Experience and help! Members range from veteran players to enthusiastic newcomers and all in between.
• Semi-casual, mature community.
• Discord server for voice and text chat. Members are online most of the day whether in game or not.
• No required activities – No donations of faction, items, or time are ever required.
• Representation Policy – Represent Marked Souls when you’re playing with Marked Souls.

How do you join Marked Souls?

You can join Marked Souls by replying to this post, messaging Kousei.5914 or Vivaer.8360 in game, or visiting www.markedsouls.com.

Anyone else excited about Raids this week?

Who is Marked Souls?

Marked Souls is a North American based online gaming community which was originally created in 2007 as a Guild Wars guild. We’re an ambitious group with extremely friendly and active members. Marked Souls achieves its goals through teamwork. Our members play as a team to overcome any obstacle in their way. We encourage our members to group whenever possible even if it’s questing with lower level players to help them catch up (if you’re free of course).

Marked Souls is currently located on Jade Quarry but due to megaservers only our members interested in WvW are asked to be on the server. Events include weekly guild missions, Fractals, Raids, WvW, and PvP.

What makes an ideal Marked Souls member?

An ideal recruit has a good sense of humor, enjoys playing with other guild members, and strives to become a better player. In Marked Souls, participation in the community counts for a lot more than your current skill at the game. We have experienced players willing to work with players that feels they need help in a specific area (game mode, class, etc.).

What can Marked Souls offer you?

• Great friendly people and a group of players that understand the value of support and encouragement.
• Experience and help! Members range from veteran players to enthusiastic newcomers and all in between.
• Semi-casual, mature community.
• As a PvX guild, we have guild events for all aspects of the games we play.
• Discord server for voice and text chat. Members are online most of the day whether in game or not.
• No required activities – No donations of faction, items, or time are ever required.

How do you join Marked Souls?

You can join Marked Souls by replying to this post, messaging me on reddit, messaging Kousei.5914 in game, or visiting www.markedsouls.com.

Your guild name and tag:
Marked Souls [MkS]

Your guild’s preferred gameplay choices: Are you PvE or PvP all the way? Do you have a focus on WvW? Are most of you fractal focused? Or are you a “do it all” sort of guild?” Describe that in your post.:
PvX. Dungeons, Fractals, sPvP, WvW Havoc

Your home world and, if you wish, your guild’s preferred language:
Jade Quarry – English speaking

Times you are particularly active, such as guild events, meetings, new character runs, PvP practices, etc.:
We’re mostly on during NA evenings.

Guild leader in-game contact info or a link to your guild’s website or forums:
Kousei.5914 for in game
www.markedsouls.com

Other info you’d like to include:
We’re a small-medium casual guild that likes to do things together and cooperatively. Some of us have been together since our 2007 formation in GW1.

I’ve had the same problem. I created a character within 5 minutes of head-start starting (my guardian). I log into him. Nothing. I log into my necro (created after) and she had mail… So confused…

Guild mate of mine had the same happen. First toon didn’t get mail but 2nd and 3rd did.

Well that was one way to find out GW2 forums checks for redirects… Fixed the website links.

Markedsouls.com will redirect you to our hosted address but I fixed the links above to link straight to the hosted site.

I still don’t see why people are surprised by this… Anyone that knows GW’s history was not expecting a character slot. EotN, the only true expansion in GW history, did not add a character slot. Even after owning Prophecies, Factions, Nightfall, and EotN, you still had to purchase character slots to have one of every class. This entire thing is being blown up due to player entitlement…

I’ve started one for my own purposes but I don’t have a problem splitting off the API Wrapper pieces and dropping them on CodePlex if I can get some help maintaining it.

luwe.1496:

For Kaineng under your time zone I would suggest looking at markedsouls.com or rethesis.com.

Thanks for the thought!

I’m assuming Rethesis [RE] got the mention due to their size and they do a lot in WvW for Kaineng because of it. We (Marked Souls [MkS]) probably got mentioned because all we run in WvW is small (5-15 man) coordinated groups. We’re a smaller guild but we make up for it in WvW with build and team coordination. If you played GW1 and did any GvG/HA, you’ll be used to the team build discussions, target calling/switching, etc.

You can check out our site (www.markedsouls.com). You can whisper or mail me in game. You can even ask some of the JQ commanders that moved from SBI (our original server) about us. A few will probably remember our havoc/small group play

Whatever you choose I hope you find a great guild for both you and your girlfriend.

New youtube channel with our new recruiting video: http://www.youtube.com/markedsoulsguild

We’re looking for small to medium sized guilds on Kaineng in the US time zones slots to ally/work closely with. The goal is to get a smaller guilds into cooperative and organized units in WvW. The group of guilds we worked with in Aion had great success in the Abyss and we think WvW fits the model perfectly. It lets small-medium guilds retain their identity while giving them a way to be competitive in open world PvP.

If you’re interested, contact me in-game or at our website www.markedsouls.com.

Come join us for the guild mission fun!

Our Facebook page has our Guild Wintersday Screenshot: https://www.facebook.com/MarkedSouls

We are currently recruiting WvW and PvE players.

We want to thank our members for the kind words so far and to thank you we’ve got you a shout out on Tales of Tyria: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzj6m-qq3PQ

Still recruiting WvW and PvE players!!!

Apologies to anyone that had problems accessing our website since our last post. New website upgrades were under construction. They’re done now

Recruiting PvE and WvW players!

Ahh you can show enemy names and player names in the options. The only option that I would like is a particle effect selector: All Effects, My Effects, My Party’s Effects, My Squad’s Effects, My Guild’s Effects, etc. Then if I turn it off just give me the red and white circles on the ground.

+1000 to this suggestion. It would help sooo much.

This may be a crazy suggestion but here goes…

We were having some discussions about WvW on our guild forums and an idea popped up. Why not use one of the great NPC races that are in the game and make them a real threat in WvW. Allow them to take camps, towers, etc. just like the player characters like the Balaur in Aion. In our opinion, it would help with the PvDoor that’s going on in some servers and maybe help with the night capping a bit.

More footage on our YouTube channel and a new recruiting focus on WvW players. Don’t worry if you’re a PvE player. No players that fit in with our community will be turned away.

YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/markedsoulsmks

I use both. I play Scepter/Focus and Sword/Shield as my swaps in WvW.

6 Soldier Runes here as well. In PvE it’s great to be able to bring Battle Presence and in WvW it’s nice to remove 2 conditions w/ 1 shout.

Save Yourselves was broken to begin with. It shouldn’t even give you boons if you don’t draw any conditions and the length of said boons should be dependent on the number of conditions drawn. I don’t think they should have split PvE and PvP at all though.

As for retaliation, I love how many people are complaining that ANET is nerfing their obviously broken builds. You never were supposed to be able to keep up the boon 100% of the time. ANET made the mistake of introducing some Guardian changes late in BWE’s and they didn’t catch all of these so they’re fixing them now.

cannons.8109:

Guardians will never be viable at 1,200 range in PVP, and this is intentional. The latest patch proved this by giving the mesmer scepter a 33% projectile speed buff that wasn’t even asked for by the mesmer community. meanwhile, guardians have been QQing forever about our scepter projectile speed, and it will never change. I think you should adjust your expectations and move on b/c we were not meant to be a ranged class in PVP. and yes, WOW at 900 range would be OP.

This. The scepter is already incredibly powerful if used correctly in WvW and PvE. QQ’n guardians want their class to be able to do everything that all the other class can and that just won’t happen.

While I think the Save Yourselves change could have actually fixed a broken skill (only give boons when conditions are stripped and length dependent on number of conditions), I think that this update buffed Guardians more than anything else.

I’m with the group that says this is a troll post, bad at game, or trying to play guardian as a warrior…

The boons on Save Yourselves are supposed to balance out the fact that you’re taking on the conditions of nearby allies. Simple fix. Change the skill so that you only get boons if you rip off conditions instead of unconditionally AND make the length of the boons tied to the number of conditions you draw. Done and fixed. It would then work as intended. No need for split…

tldr: I agree. The split was not needed. It could have been fixed w/o split.

You can do all of them on one character so I don’t see this as too much of a “what’s the best” issue. I did level armorsmithing while I was leveling though. Crafting myself new armor every 5 levels made it really easy to level the craft. If you’re gathering a lot, you won’t have to spend much money either.

I don’t know why the scepter gets so much hate. I do quite a lot of damage with my scepter. It’s an excellent kiting weapon. I do wish a few mechanical things about it would be changed but the damage isn’t one of them. Now if people said we couldn’t do long range AoE damage, I’d agree with them. But for single target damage scepter is fine.

Guardian isn’t as active as some classes because it’s based around support and defense but it’s a solid class in every environment.

For painless PvE leveling (dungeons you’ll want a few different weapon sets available), you’ll want mace+shield and hammer. The hammer is our go to weapon for control and it’ll give you some time to attack without fear of being hit by something else. It’ll take awhile to figure out all the combos you can pull off between skills 3, 4, and 5 but once you do you’ll never go back. The following example works extremely well when fighting multiple foes. Switch to a foe you’re not focusing on and use skill #4 to knock them back and then skill #3 to keep them further back for a bit. When skill #3 wears off, use skill #5 to give yourself a few more seconds of freedom to focus down your main target.

The Mace+Shield set is go to defensive set. If you get yourself into too much trouble, switch off to this and then pop Mace #3 (let it block and fire off) and then Shield #5. That combo should give you some breathing room to use Mace #2 and regen a little. By the time, they get back to you your Mace #3 should be well on it’s way to recharging and you’ll have at least one of your dodges back.

Wall of Reflection isn’t a weaponset but it’s something that doesn’t leave my bar in PvE. I put 10 points into Virtues just for the ability to ground target it. It’s an amazing skill to have in any situation. It really only comes off my bar in dungeons where I know there are no projectile enemies coming up.

Balanced builds are way better in this game hands down so you’ll have to balance out the zeal power with toughness/vitality gear anyway. Why not just switch it around and go for a more versatile build like 0/10/0/30/30 or 0/0/30/30/10 and then just make up for the damage stats with power/prec gear? That way you can play any weapon you want.

The guardian is a support and defensive class and as such won’t have much in the way of what you call “active” play. The guardian has a lot of what I would call active play. The guardian forces the player to have a lot of battlefield awareness to know not only when and how to use each skill but also how to setup the use of said skill. That also means you can’t just spam them on recharge.

I want you to ask yourself one question honestly. If the guardian didn’t have the greatsword, would you still be playing it? I say this because after reading all of the GS nerf QQ threads I wish ANET never would have given the guardian a greatsword. It’s obvious from some of the responses from both you and a lot of other GS players that it’s diluted what the class really is and has done more to confuse players than anything else. I honestly believe that if the guardian didn’t have the GS there would be a massive amount of guardians currently QQ’n that would have never picked a guardian to begin with. The GS is a great weapon for the guardian in certain situations but most of those situations come in solo play or some form of PvP. The fact that the guardian’s game play style doesn’t appeal to so many has them trying to use the GS in areas outside of those where it’s most effective.

I’ve said it before many times on this forum but I’ll say it again. Pick a class in which you like the overall game play of the class. That means with almost all of the weapon sets of said class because this game forces you to choose the best weapon for the situation. You’ll be hindering yourself and your teammates if you try and play the weapon set that you want to of the time instead of what works best in the situation.

Anet really can’t do anything about this. They can’t stop people from killing the process…

Lumines.3916:

People QQing about guards probably havent had a lot of hands on time extensively with other classes and thus don’t know any better.

I think this has a little to do with it. I actually think that a lot of the guardians QQ’n would find another class that fits them better as a main if they played through all the classes. For example, all of the people QQ’n that the guardian can’t do the same damage as a warrior. So what… The classes have different play styles. A warrior cannot do the amount of party support/defense that a guardian can. If you want offense, roll a warrior…

Relentliss.2170:

evilcherry.1327:

@op and a lot of posters in the forum

I just don’t see this as a problem.

I see it as a big problem. With several weapon sets ONE should at least offer a dynamic and fun playstyle. The Guardian’s weapons skills should be as fun to use as any other classes. Only by constantly swapping mele weapons, and I would much prefer to have a ranged weapon in as my alternate, can we experience the same exciting gameplay as every other class can without swapping.

I swap a lot and have dynamic and fun play on my guardian. Like the poster a few posts up says. The guardian isn’t for everyone. Players need to stop looking for a class based on typical archetypes and actually play all of the classes before they choose one to main. If you find other classes much more dynamic and fun, then maybe one of those other classes is the one you should be playing. Why is this so hard for people to figure out and why do they get so annoyed when players tell them this? It’s the simple truth that the game is designed so that each class has a different play style. Pick the one you like to play not the one that matches the archetype you liked playing the most in other games.

Velkyn.9285:

Well, I think you’re looking at this with a PvE mindset. In PvE, many of the skills I listed are used reactively to mobs’ telegraphed attacks. And many skills that are Controlling in PvP are simply oh kitten! buttons in PvE. The mob doesn’t care that you triggered Shield of Absorption, or Shield of Wrath, or even Wall of Reflection. It just keeps attacking you, and those abilities lose much of their Control aspects. But a human player’s response to those abilities is often very different — they change what they’re going to do, hence those abilities are Control.

That aside, you’ve kind of proved my point I think. You don’t use those abilities proactively because the cooldowns are too high. You save them until you know they will be of extreme use. I bet you spend a lot of time with those abilities off cooldown because you can’t risk having them on cooldown when you really want them. I know I do. The cooldowns are so huge as to discourage using those abilities. I think that’s a symptom of bad design.

You’re seriously confused on what Control is and what Support is. Shield of Absorption, Shield of Wrath, and Wall of Reflection are all support skills not control skill… And they lose none of those support capabilities in sPvP or WvW if you know what you’re doing.

I actually play sPvP and WvW more than PvE. The cool downs are fine as they are. In WvW and sPvP, the fights are so fast paced that you’re going to be on cool down more than off cool down because you’ll find a situation to use them. If you’re scared to use your skills, you’re not good enough or not confident enough in your skills as a player yet and you’re also probably not playing with a good enough team.

Velkyn.9285:

Guardians have lots of Control abilities. Staff #5, Focus #5, Shield #5, Hammer #5, and our Symbols just to list a few off the top of my head. These abilities all direct our opponent to do things — these are not REACTIONS to the opponent, they are PROACTIVE abilities that cause the opponent to do certain things. I’d have to review all the abilities between Warrior and Guardian, but a cursory glance would suggest to me the opposite — Guardians are CONTROLLERS, and Warriors are SUPPORTERS/ENABLERS. I think this poster doesn’t really understand what is Support, and what is Control.

You can be a controller or supporter with both long CD/strong effect skills, and low CD/weak effect skills. A great profession would have a healthy mix of both. Guardians have too many of the former, and not enough of the latter.

Cooldown and Effect Power are components of the Skill formula that are involved in balancing skills. A.Net certainly can, and must, adjust these so Guardians become more interactive.

Every skill you listed can’t be used proactively. They’re too crucial, have too high CD, and don’t last long enough to be used proactively. The entirety of the guardian is based around knowing how to react to situations with the correct CDs. Being able to predict when something is going to happen because you figured the game out doesn’t make the skill use proactive either. It just means you’re prepared to react faster when the game throws something at you. Warrior banners are a proactive skill.

Guardians are support characters so the get a little control but Warriors have much better control capabilities. They have a lot more ways to immobilize, cripple, knock down, daze, stun, etc. foes. Look at a Hammer and Mace/Shield combination for the Warrior for example. Guardians get next to nothing compared to the CC that Warriors get.

Fildydarie.1496:

The reason that guardians have longer cooldowns is because they have more support-oriented skills. Support often comes in the form of reacting to the situation to redirect it to a more favorable course, but dictating the flow of battle (control) is what a warrior does.

If you can’t use your skills, you can’t play control.
If you can use support skills too often, you’re probably OP.

I see this as more of an apple-orange comparison than anything else.

This. You don’t have to read any more or post any more. This guy (or gal) gets the guardian as a class.

Ganzo.5079:

So if they nerf the hammer(i dont use it cuz i think its boring, but its really OP) we go on dungens with bare hand right?

If you think GS and Hammer are the only 2 viable weaponsets a Guardian has, you’re definitely in the “find a new class” group.

Ganzo.5079:

Dear eveningstar, you think is a good thing, well, i don’t think so.
If a player overreact, well it’s his problem, but if a “community” overreact, maybe there is real a problem, yeah there are always ppl like you that play the class and accept changes (even really bad and unnecessary changes like the last one), but this doesn’t mean that people always are overreacting.

Im still playing my guardian, it’s my main and a love him, i have a warrior 80 ad a mesmer, but they are not guardians, so i dont play them very often.
But after the patch i stopped to do dungeons, because it’s not funny like before, when im on GS now its only a long autoattack (leap of faith have no sinergy, and its not so usefull for DG run, and please dont tell me to change weapons, this really make me MAD) i do other things for now, like complete maps and complete jumping puzzle.

I’m fine with what you call the entire community overreacting. If you’re playing a class for only one weaponset then you’re playing the wrong class. You should be playing a class in which the play style appeals to you across multiple weapon sets. All this QQ’n about the greatsword change has only told me that there are too many guardians that would probably be much happier on other classes anyway. Maybe this will give them the chance to find that class.

I’m against stats and titles. Players will begin focusing more on them than actually helping their server win. Just like with the current 100% map completion title currently. And if they’re only getting people like this into WvW with these titles and cosmetics, then they might as well not add them. They’re not giving players a reason to actually play WvW. They only give people incentives to complete their titles or up their stats. And no offense but players like this shouldn’t be encouraged to queue up. I’d rather that slot be saved for my guildie or ally that actually wants to help us win.

The badge system in place already allows players buy armor and weapons skins in WvW. ANET could easily release new armor, weapons, etc. at these vendors or all new vendors while also forcing players to actually play WvW to get the skins.

WasAGuest.4973:

The question I am not seeing that should be being discussed is:

Do WvW players really want PvE players filling up the queue and then sitting in safe areas waiting for their PoIs, SP and Vistas to open up while they are not helping? I believe an issue like this came up when Factions first came out – players afking during matches. PvEers simply said “Then don’t make me do this.”

I see the logic behind the 100% (and have gotten my 100%), but personally, I would much rather have players that want to WvW in there rather than PvE only players that don’t contribute.

This is something that all involved players should consider. PvE only players aren’t going to be bait for easy kills; they are only going to fill the queue (especially when the free transfers are gone) and do nothing but wait or find “safe” routes to farm nodes/mobs while they wait.

This is my problem with it. IMO, there should not be anyone in WvW that isn’t furthering their servers cause.

The maps are only boring if they’re silent. I’ve never had a boring time in WvW. There’s always too much going on to get bored.

I’m with mcl on this one. While WvW needs work, I don’t think cosmetic items, titles, etc. will fix it. They’ll only serve to hurt it. They need to get the core issues fixed before they do anything else just to appease the “I wanna show off” crowd.

- Squads should be basic game functionality. The squad leaders should get a new icon above his/her head and on map that only squad members can see. This will let guilds use this in both WvW and PvE easily.
- The commander tag (the blue tag that’s visible to everyone on map) needs to be a WvW only thing that can only be bought with a WvW currency.
- Camp/Tower/Keep upgrades should cost WvW currency not cash.

And I won’t get into all of the scoring and technical issues in place now…