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Tonight will be a blast. We have a Ts3 going guys, if anyone wants to scrimmage or get some training sessions in, let me know and we will work with Bas to set something up (you could be casted!). If you want to just tpvp, contact me as well! Both NA and EU are welcomed!!

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Combo Fields: Very underused, but could have great potential
If you want a full list of combos please click here: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Combo.

As a ranger, I often using healing spring and sword 1 for leap finisher heals and then GS 3 for another leap heal.

As a guardian I use symbol of wrath (GS 4) and then whirling wrath to get rid of conditions.

Try them out and coodrinate fields with your team to maximize combos!

The oldest combo field is the one that procs btw if combo fields overlap
I will test the limits of the combo field later today to see how many times you can use it per skill

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Had a blast last night with a team we put together! Don’t miss out on your daily dose of endorphins and join today! I will work personally with you to get the hang of things and get better as a player #beabettergamer #stoleitfromday9tv.

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Good idea. They should have a build in web-interface similar to the TP for news/stream links.

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Hi guys, wanted to bump this up for anyone interested who isn’t aware of it. GW2ESports and Academy of the Mists are collaborating on a TS3 and it is live! If you are tired of solo-q and/or want to meet cool peeps for some organized tpvp, please reach out to me for more information. Also if you have a team who just needs a TS3, please also PM me.

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I’ve been a part of this guild for a couple weeks now and want to chime in briefly on how impressed I am with it. I had been doing strictly solo que prior to joining, begrudgingly accepting the low ranking that comes with it so to avoid the “personalities” I’ve been used to in competitive play in other games, but the guild members I’ve been playing with most frequently are the exact sort of people I want to play with: civil, respectful, easy-going, extremely attractive.

So if anyone else has similar preferences in teammates, I recommend giving the guild a try.

:) #lovetheguildies

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Hey, I’ll send a PM or something to one of you guys in-game. I’d appreciate being a part of something like this. I’m not super knowledgeable about most classes, but I’m pretty much a genius* when it comes to engi’s, and what they can do in tPvP. That and I could use a group to queue with, I hate solo queueing soo much.

Not actually a genius*

Going to send you an invite now!

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I heard a rumor we even have a TS server somewhere…

Yes! The TS3 server is so useful for better team collaboration and is open to anyone who wants a great pug team. Lots of thanks to Android for renting one. I am working together with him as the server admin so feel free to suggest any channel setups you would like. I also encourage any consistent premade teams to use our TS3 and I can set up a channel specifically for your team.

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TS3 Server is now available! If you want to meet new people and pvp super organized, please consider joining AOTM! We aim to train, have fun, and participate in tournaments

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Academy of the Mists are always looking for more tpvpers! We are a no-rep guild so if you have any sort of PvE interest, you can still keep any pve related guilds as your primary. I am setting up a TS3 today or tomorrow and we will have a 24/7 lobby for people to party in. Let me know if you are interested!

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Common Misconception: Ranger F# skills
You can still use them when downed even though they are not in the GUI. So yes, you can interrupt with your #2 skill and then wolf fear and then command the wolf to knock down your opponent then switch pets to something else and so on and so forth. (OP imo)

Stop promoting broken mechanics that are likely to be a bug even.

Ah, sorry you feel that way :\. On the bright side, if more people use it and it becomes a popular recognized problem then Anet will nerf it! Or you can bring stability :x Thanks for your tips though! Didn’t think about the spectral walk or minion wurm teleport.

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Recognizing Mesmer Sound Effects to avoid Blurred Frenzy
When a mesmer blinks, they have a distinct sound effect (hard to describe but if you have a mesmer you will know what I mean!) If you dodge right when you hear the sound effect, more likely than not, you’ll be evading a blurred frenzy (and the immobolize that comes with the blink).

if you wait to hear illusionary leap’s swap then you’ve already been immobilized

Rangers is also an instant cast (at least from my experience) so you need to bait it out or use stability or a stunbreaker.

Thieves, Eles, Mesmers do not have any cc in their downed state.

it doesn’t matter what direction you dodge

ranger’s thunderclap has an identical cast time and character animation to that of the guardian’s wave of light

thief and ele can CC with cripple and immobilize respectively

Thanks for the correction! Will update. And I’ll reword cc into interrupts for thieves/eles/mesmers. I might need to test out the mesmer thing however to be sure.

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Guards is an instant cast, so by the time you see the animation, you will be knocked back—you have to bait it out or have stability or a stun breaker.

No it’s not. You can reliably react to the animation.

Oh, so there is a window? Okay, I’ll update it.

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Downed State Interrupts you can react to
If you see a warrior raise his hand up for a split second, dodge backwards to avoid the knock down.

If you see a engineer raise his hand up for a split second, dodge backwards to avoid the pull cc.

If a necro puts his hand out and you start seeing a green aura building up, dodge backwards to avoid the fear cc.

Guards have a faster interrupt cast, so you have to dodge immediately when you see the hand go up. I usually guestimate when they’ll use it and bait it out since my reaction time is subpar.

Rangers have a faster interrupt cast similar to guard, so you would need to dodge immediately as the hand goes up. Same thing with guard, I usually guestimate when they’ll use it and bait it out since my reaction time is subpar. ALSO, the ranger’s interrupt skill is an aoe!—so if you and your buddy are stomping a ranger, it’s better for whoever is targeted to back out so if he does use his interrupt skill on them, only they will be hit.

Thieves, Eles, Mesmers do not have any interrupt skills in their downed state.

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Recognizing Mesmer Sound Effects to avoid Blurred Frenzy
When a mesmer blinks, they have a distinct sound effect (hard to describe but if you have a mesmer you will know what I mean!) If you dodge right when you hear the sound effect, more likely than not, you’ll be evading a blurred frenzy (and the immobolize that comes with the blink).

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Wow, the sheer amount of volume in signups is incredible. There are some slight adjustments that will need to be made. We will be working closely with the Academy of the Mists and Android of gw2esports Guild to get everything put together.

We should probably google doc this information on all players.

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Hello, I’m rank 37 at the moment, interested in the EU part of your organization. Already added you and Emon hoping to talk to you soon take care.

Awesome, If Emon doesn’t beat me to it, I’ll add you when I get off work.

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True, as long as it’s in the queue tho :P

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Things to know: Engi Condition Immune Trait
If you are facing an engineer and get a lot of ‘Immune’ messages that means that have traited to be immune to conditions when they hit 25% hp. This means conditions cannot be applied during this hp range—however, any conditions applied before then will still linger. If you are condition based fighter, try to figure out a way to do direct damage during this time and not spam conditions otherwise the engineer will normally stall long enough to regain it’s health.

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Things to knows: Necro DS Stomp counter
If you are one of those professions that can interrupt a stomp and you are facing a necro who tries to DS stomp you. Without even scouting whether he has stability on Death Shroud or not, time your interrupt for the last moment of the stomp animation. It could save your life (Death Shroud stability doesn’t last the whole stomp animation).

This depends on the amount of boon duration the Necro has. If the Necro has 20 into death magic (20% boon duration) which is not uncommon, stability will last the entire duration (barring random server lag/de-syncing).

IMO, generally speaking, it is safer to CC the Necro ASAP to prevent them getting into stomping range to begin with, since they need to be in stomping range before activating death shroud.

Great point, I didn’t consider this.

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Resubmit to pvp forums, they should be able to help more.

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Count me in. If you don’t remember me I was in the first SOAC all necro tPvP team. I was already trying to get folks involved in a similar project (see the Academy of the Mists posts). There are a fair number of people engaged in AotM that would likely have interest. I will talk it up and try to get some kind of collaboration going. Might make sense to merge the efforts at some point. More people doing this can’t hurt.

IGN: Eumaeos Romanus (main) and various others
Main Profession: Necromancer
Alternate Professions: working on Thief and Guardian, but not happy with them yet
Account name: Myrmidian Eudoros.4671
Practice Availablity: Therein lies the problem. My times are erratic as I work full time with varying hours. Most days I am on early am (0500 EST)
Current PvP rank (Not Leaderboard): Knocking on the door to 40 (39), 247 tPvP wins since ladder started recording
Level of Desire: Do not have sufficient time resource to make a “Pro” team, but I love the competition and don’t mind helping newer players learn. I just want to play at the highest level I can with like-minded players.
NA or EU: NA

Also, if you don’t already have a VOIP server, then consider using the Academy of the Mists channel on C3. I know a lot of people will have to DL the C3, but it is free, and for a collection of players like this it is nice, because you can have a lobby area and anyone can create subchannels for their specific team to eliminate cross-talk during matches. It is a reasonably lite program with all the basic functionality that you could need, and the price is right.

I am all for working together. I will send you a pm. Android, you, and I need to get together and see if we can merge everything!

I am setting up a TS3 server for the Academy as well so we’ll have even more TS3 space to coordinate things. Also, I bought the domain gw2mists.com. I am designing some key features that we could use as tpvpers for grouping/tournies. If you have anything that you’d particularly want, let me know. First inititiave is creating a simple public chat system for people to talk in as opposed to going to threads 24/7 and whispering.

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Things you wish you knew, but it’s easy to forget/use to your advantage: Respawn timer
Respawn timer resets every 20 seconds. So if you die at 8:00, then you have to wait 20 seconds, as opposed to 7:41 where it’d be 1 second. You can technically get pro at this and make kill on enemies near the 20 second marker, but it’s easy to get caught up in battle.

This isn’t true anymore unless you’re playing a custom server with respawn set for waves. The default in tourney queue is a set amount of time, though it was waves at one point early on.

Ah, thanks for the correction. Will edit above.

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Hi Guys,

I represent the NA region of the Academy of the Mists and would like invite anyone to use our free TS3 server that will be set up either today or tomorrow. I am new to TS3, but following some guides, it should be able to support 100+ people (not in the same channel of course—go make your own room! :P).

This will be a first come first serve basis due to my first trial run with TS3. If you have a team that needs TS3 PM me or post below and I’ll contact you with the details soon. This is open to anybody as long as the server supports it but will be done on a request basis at the moment until I figure out more details on TS3 user limits. I will create a Lobby for NA and EU, so join the lobby to meet new people and possibly get a group going on!

Not sure if I’ve said it yet, but yes, it will be free!

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Looking into installing a TS3 server today! If you want to use a free TS3 server, please contact me and I can set up a room for your team. If you would like to become a part of the Academy, please PM me. You do not need to be a part of the guild to use our TS3 server, just an interest in tpvp. Happy Wednesday!

Both NA and EU are welcomed!

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Tech: Death Shroud Stomp & Res
To DS Stomp, hit F1 and then your stomp key right after (as if you were rolling from key to key)—It has to be really quick in order for it to register and you will know if you pulled it off if you see the stomping animation.

To DS Res, do the same thing on a downed ally. You will pop DS and res. This helps in tanking enemies who spam aoes or like to focus on you while you res.

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Tech: Thief ShadowStep Stomp
This one is pretty fun, and there are quite a few ways to do this.

Using ShadowStep Utility: Start the stomp, shadowstep as far as you can away from your opponent (behind him is always good) and then return when you are midway dropping down to get a stomp. This is especially good against Guardians. If you are facing another thief, you would save your shadowstep until he teleports.

Using Sword & Infiltraitor’s Signet: Use sword #2 to shadowstep to your opponent and start the stomp. Return using sword #2 again and then use the signet to shadowstep back to your opponent.

Using Sword & Steal: Use sword #2 and start the stomp and then sword #2 again to return to your original location. Then use steal to blink to your opponent to pull off the stomp.

Using Steal vs. Thief/Mesmer: If the mesmer cloaks early but reappears too far or if the thief chooses an unindentifiable location to teleport. Using steal can lockdown on them as long as you have them targetted so you can finish the stomp on them.

Using Infiltrator’s Signet: Same effect as using steal.

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Not sure if anyone would like to help in terms of science…but there are certain utilities for professions (to my knowledge guardian/warrior) that allow you to use land utilities without a water cd and water utilities without a land cd.

Guardian water utilities #2 & #3. If you use those water skill utilities, you won’t have a cd on your land #2 & #3 allowing guardians to summon things such as spirit weapons and keeping all their land utilities without being ‘punished’.

Warrior land elite. If you use the land elite, you can still use the water elite even if the land elite is on cd.

ArenaNet, please consider this on your next to-do list for bug fixes

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Tech: Guardian Spirit Weapon glitch
If your land utilities #2 & #3 are off cd and you are in water, you can summon spirit weapons placed in those slots without putting your land utilities on cd. So if you are on temple of silent storm or capricorn, make sure to take a dip before engaging in battle so you’ll have 2 spirit weapons and all of your land utilities! (shield & hammer suggested)

This is a clear exploit and a fast route to getting reported. I don’t recommend it. And you are referring to Temple of the Silent Storm (no water on spirit watch).

Hm, good call. I guess I’ll start a bug thread on it.

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Tech: Guardian Spirit Weapon glitch
If your land utilities #2 & #3 are off cd and you are in water, you can summon spirit weapons placed in those slots without putting your land utilities on cd. So if you are on temple of silent storm or capricorn, make sure to take a dip before engaging in battle so you’ll have 2 spirit weapons and all of your land utilities! (shield & hammer suggested)

edit: Exploit, do not use

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Foefire: Healing the Lord
Pretty much all ally-type heals work on the lord, even tome of courage. So if you know your lord is gonna get spiked down, whip out that tome and get that full heal channeled while your teammates make their way towards capping, killing enemy lord, or coming to help.

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Things to knows: Necro DS Stomp counter
If you are one of those professions that can interrupt a stomp and you are facing a necro who tries to DS stomp you. Without even scouting whether he has stability on Death Shroud or not, time your interrupt for the last moment of the stomp animation. It could save your life (Death Shroud stability doesn’t last the whole stomp animation).

edit: This assumes the necro doesn’t have any boon duration increase. Otherwise consider interrupting them before they are in range of a stomp.

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Common Misconception: Ranger F# skills
You can still use them when downed even though they are not in the GUI. So yes, you can interrupt with your #2 skill and then wolf fear and then command the wolf to knock down your opponent then switch pets to something else and so on and so forth. (OP imo)

As a Ranger I am downed by some players in one to two shots – I don’t find the downed abilities OP at all.

haha true true.

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Things you wish you knew, but it’s easy to forget/use to your advantage: Respawn timer
Respawn timer resets every 20 seconds. So if you die at 8:00, then you have to wait 20 seconds, as opposed to 7:41 where it’d be 1 second. You can technically get pro at this and make kill on enemies near the 20 second marker, but it’s easy to get caught up in battle.

For tPvP, it’s a set time now, not in waves.

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Things you wish you knew: Treb shots on Khylo
It takes approximately 3 seconds after you hear incoming for the treb to land. You cannot block treb shots—make sure you dodge them or take down that darn annoying trebber!

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Things I wish I knew: Warrior Vengeance Invulnerability
If you are downed as a warrior, popping vengeance will give you a short time of invulnerability. Use it to stomp a player instead of just dpsing him unless they are the thieves/mesmers/eles (hopefully you have sweet revenge traited).

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Thing I wish I knew: Auto-Target Toggle
Want to RTL/Swoosh/Leap away from enemies instead of towards them? Turn off auto-target and from now on, click away from the enemy to de-target them and leap away! Get used to calling targets and hitting ‘t’ or the target button to lock on your enemy if you turn auto-target off.

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Common Misconception: Ranger F# skills
You can still use them when downed even though they are not in the GUI. So yes, you can interrupt with your #2 skill and then wolf fear and then command the wolf to knock down your opponent then switch pets to something else and so on and so forth. (OP imo)

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Just wanted to create a thread to give tips to help those new to PvP.

This could include techniques, things you wish you knew, common misconceptions, etc.

I’ll start with something I learned recently.

Tech: Fake-Out Stomp vs. Mesmers
If you down a mesmer, you can fake-out a stomp (aka start stomp => hit back to cancel or whatever you use to cancel the stomp => restart the stomp) to bait out the mesmer’s downed cloak/short teleportation skill (skill 2). If you pull it off, most of the time the mesmer will appear within stomping distance and you’ll pull off the stomp. If you have shadowstep or a blink-type move, that’s even better. This could potentially save you a lot of time fighting against downed mesmers.

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I’ll check out the guide! But I guess you can use steal during the stomp (super cool). I wonder if there is any timing to avoid the ranger’s lightning interrupt.

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Thanks guys! How do you do it with steal? :x I am new to stealing so haven’t really tested if it breaks animations.

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ArcTheFallen.7682

Can someone list me all the ways to use this against all the profession downed state? Just wanted to get better at using this tech. :O

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The best Thief players

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Posted by: ArcTheFallen.7682

ArcTheFallen.7682

I’m Jumper’s #1 fan due to his brilliance at the SOAC Thieves vs Guardians consolation match.

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Looking for a Casual PVX guild

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Posted by: ArcTheFallen.7682

ArcTheFallen.7682

Hey! If you are willing to transfer to SBI for WvW, or don’t mind guesting for PvE—Valor Zeal is always welcoming new members and aiding them in whatever area they need. Our leader Rising Dusk is a great commander for WvW and all of our members run dungeons dailies including weekly guild missions. For more information, check out our thread!

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/guilds/guilds/VZ-Valor-Zeal-PvE-WvW-Recruiting-on-SBI/page/2#post2024197

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[Feedback] Custom Arenas and Observer Mode

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Posted by: ArcTheFallen.7682

ArcTheFallen.7682

If you get nauseous from the follow cam, try using free-cam. This allows you to disconnect the camera from your targets facing direction by using left-mouse.

It’d be better if it was a real free-camera that can roam/re-target people if need be

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A guy who thinks too much

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Posted by: ArcTheFallen.7682

ArcTheFallen.7682

The only thing I see is a lot of those problems come from a PvE design philosophy. This game is pretty obviously designed for PvE first.

Yeah, that’s what I came to start thinking.
I kinda just looked for any way that Anet could have thought their choices were good ideas though.
Casual PvP + tons of PvE patches…

A real tragedy… I was dying for this to be a good game.
One of the most sad parts though is that most vocal memers of the community seem to think streaming and better shoutcasting matches to ‘show people it can be fun’ will suddenly fix GW2…
I mean, that might make slight sense if GW2 had like no population out of beta… but it had an outrageously high one… that it lost in a few months time… to no competition…

People don’t care for the game, it needs massive player pressure on the devs for large gameplay tweaks or its instanced PvP is just going to keep faltering.

I think the idea is that there’s only so much you can do in a certain amount of time. Having a more dedicated PvP Team would be a lot better. I am not sure how big their current development team is, but if it’s as small as it sounds, the amount of the stuff they’ve churned out thus far is understandable.

When I claim that in order for pvp to take off we need shoutcasting/casting and major support for these initiatives, I don’t mean that that’s the only thing we need in order to get the pvp realm of gw2 going. I mean, of course we need the developers to fix a lot of issues and introduce more reliable/defined content. However, I don’t doubt their ability to listen/read these forums. Shouting out ‘dying’ or ‘spvp is fail’ can bring attention to developers—sure. But it’s not going to change anything if they already acknowledge the decline of pvp. What needs to be done is support for whatever works now, and then constructive criticism on how to improve the system in future patches.

I believe in working as a team with the developers. Give them the feedback. Try to make do with what we have, etc. I know our list of ‘broken’ mechanics outlists some games, but some players make it an effort to account for that.

Broken Ranger Lick Wounds underwater – Never use Capricorn as a map til it’s balanced
Broken mobility of other classes when running orb – Never use Spirit Watch til it’s balanced

I’m sure if it comes down to literally broken moves, organized tourney goers can come up with a ban-list which happens often in fighting games (which don’t get updates) and some mmorpg pvp (such as Dragon Nest).

I do support the ongoing criticisms and what needs to be done. But providing constructive, well-written and statiscally proven feedback is much much different than going on a strike.

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how to start run lvl 10 Fotm?

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Posted by: ArcTheFallen.7682

ArcTheFallen.7682

The cheapest way to get AR is farm pristine relics for a ring and get a versatile infusion.

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[NA][EU][tpvp] Academy of the Mists

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ArcTheFallen.7682

Hello fellow players!

My name is Sky Avalon, and I lead the NA region of the guild Academy of the Mists.

INTRO
Academy of the Mists is an initiative to gather players from all servers and regions who are interested in getting competitive in tpvp into one central location.

ABOUT US
We are a no-rep guild, so you get to keep the benefits of your primary guilds while joining. Everyone in the guild acknowledges the beauty of a organized, consistent group. Even if our team synergy is a bit off at first, our members will always stay strong. We learn and get better. We compete. And we have fun.

REQUIREMENTS
Academy of the Mists has a home for anyone, both casual and competitive. If you are looking for a super serious team, I can refer you to the GW2 Esports Subreddit Guild which I also admin. But if you want to hop into a tpvp match and have some good competitive games and learn to become a better gamer without having to deal with too much commitment, AOTM will be a better option.

HOW AOTM WORKS
The system we currently have in place is a pick-up group style, but you will begin to recognize the names and playstyles the more you play with them. If you see someone online, shoot them a whisper or put your status to LFG so the guild members see it.

We have also a TS3 server as well with rooms for NA and EU and we collaborate directly with the GW2Esports Subreddit Guild so they’ll be also available to party with. Feel free to join open channels to party up/meet people.

NA AND EU
As mentioned above, this invite is for both NA and EU players. Emon leads the EU region, but I will always take up more leaders in either region to keep things organized.

CONTACT
If you are interested, please post below, PM me via forums, send me in-game mail, or whisper me in-game.

Emon – Emon.1863 – EU
Sky – ArcTheFallen.7682 – NA

I look forward to meeting Tyria’s finest soon!

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Looking for tPvp Guild

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Posted by: ArcTheFallen.7682

ArcTheFallen.7682

Hi,

Thief since launch looking for a guild that forms premades for tPvP free tournaments. I’m only rank R13, so not looking for anything super hardcore or anything, just something better than solo queuing, lol.

I have vent/TS/mumble also.

Thanks

Hey Malkavian!

I lead the guild “Academy of the Mists [AOTM]” and we are a no-rep guild aimed to gather players who like forming tpvp parties often. What this basically means is you can still keep up with all your cool friends in other guilds and still be able to create an organized tpvp party. I am getting a TS3 server soon for the guild and aim to mass promote once that goes live. The goal is to have many players to party with to win, but also gain new friends to have fun with at the same time. No application necessary, just send me a PM or whisper if you want to try it out!

-Sky Avalon

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Why there is no 1v1

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Posted by: ArcTheFallen.7682

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Yeah 2vs2…go try shout bunker guardian+full bunker ele team…take all the time you need….

2vs2..lol

Time limit and if you reach that, then more dmg dealt = win.. would get rid of full bunkers

So basically, you want thieves to win? haha because aside from bunkers, the annoying ppl to deal with are the people who can disengage at will.

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