Guild Wars 2

That is sad to hear. As others have said, either make your own lfg. Or tell the group that you’re new and you would like to watch the cutscene and could they wait for you. If you’re making your own lfg. Make it clear that cutscenes will be included. Some just don’t read and join, making a complete idiot out of themselves in the process. Ignore them.

General rule of thumb. Always keep communication up in dungeons. Make it clear where you are unsure. This prevents all sorts of grief that comes with joining a PUG.

lordkrall.7241:

It is not available in game at this time. Season 1 takes place after the Personal Story.
It might become available for purchase in the future, but as of right now it is not, simply due to the fact that it was not developed with replayability in mind.

^ This pretty much.

More like unwittingly. Marshal T ain’t no bad guy and he ain’t no glory hog.

Hey all peeeps!!!

I started a thread with the intention of helping out small / start up guilds awhile back in the players helping players sub-forum. It did fairly well at first, but then it kind of got lost in the forum. And with little input, its more or less a dead thread. Rather than necro a dead post. Why not put the info where it should matter and be more effective. Here in this sub-forum. The tips might be out-dated. So to all the other guild leaders / officers feel free to throw in your advice / tips.
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I know that most players have a dream of creating a successful guild in GW. Like most, I also had this dream. And started this journey of creating my “dream” guild. So off I went making the coolest sounding guild name and tag.

Little did I realise just how tough it really is. Unfortunate to say, I met with abysmal failure. My guild is no longer around. And I’m not the only one that has gone through this, many smaller guilds face this on a consistent basis. After reading some of the recruitment post, and realising where I went wrong.

I thought I’d give a few tips as to what they can do to help their guild grow. I can’t guarantee that it will bring new members flocking to the guild. But I do hope it can give some help to the smaller guilds.

Tips:

• Observe : as to how some of the other guilds write their recruitment post up. This being the language and structure. Then write/re-write your guild recruitment post. Put in as much detail as you can about the guild like; what your guild is about and what it plans to do, what server is it on etc. Many smaller guilds neglect doing this. And are easily passed over by potential members. Remember you are selling your guild to potential members. This follows on to my next tip.

• Format : format your recruitment post. Use sub headings, bold, italic, underlines, paragraphs, bullet points etc. Make your recruitment post as neat and attractive as possible. You want to attract their attention. Your recruitment post is like your resume/CV. Handing in a very badly written resume/CV won’t get you a job.

• Guild site : Quite a few new guilds aren’t without a guild site. Think of setting one up. The most used ones are guild portal, shivtr or enjin. Use the one you think is best. And incorporate it in to your recruitment post. And keep the site active as well. After a while think of getting VOIP.

Now comes the hardest part of all. Actually attracting new members.

• Forum : You will be spending a lot of time looking at the looking for guild section of forum quite a bit. Copy and paste your recruitment post. If it’s a long one, then make a digestible version of your recruitment post. By digestible, I mean a shorten version of your recruitment post. High-lightening only the key elements of your guild. The other way is to make a small comment and then link it back to your recruitment post.

• In-game advertisement : Whilst you’re playing the game, you should advertise in-game via game chat. This allows any players that do not frequent the forums to know about your guild. Give a small description of your guild. Guest on other servers as well (spend some time there as well, if any do show interest). Avoid spamming map chat. Players do not take spamming lightly.

• Other sites: You could try other sites like Reddit, just copy and paste your recruitment post. You’ll be surprised by just how many players frequent reddit.

The biggest flaw is : all new guilds don’t advertise themselves properly. How will any potential members know you’re out there. You could be the best fit for them, and they’ll pass you by because you didn’t let yourself be known to them. Numbers in a guild also play a factor as to any potential members not wanting to give your guild ago. You need to convince them that it is worth their time to come to your guild. It just takes more effort, that’s all. Remember all the mid to large guilds went through this phase.

Whatever happens keep trying and don’t give up!!!. Keep banging on doors and eventually people will answer.

GOOD LUCK!!

Try this thread I made awhile back. It hasn’t been updated in a while. But it still has some tips that can be useful. Best of luck.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/players/Tips-on-new-start-up-guilds/first#post3724796

BlackEros.9780:

Now, not only am I still getting the crash, I am getting it each and EVERY single time I leave a party which I did not previously have… so, yeah, now it is worse than ever !

Same here, got the crashes after the patch.

<- Same issue here. Just about to leave group and then crashes. With same message.

Same problem. Chat messages are wiped if I switch chat windows & wp. Not sure what other bugs are lurking for me. As I’ve haven’t come across them (yet). But hopefully a solution comes to sort out these bugs.

Orpheal.8263:

The whole thing around the Revenenant remembers me basically being inspired/stolen from the Anime Fate Stay Night/ Fate Zero, where summoned manifestations of legendary heroes battle against each other.

the most famous known main role summon there is called Saber and is a manifestation of the legendary “King Arthur”.

Just to correct you on something there Orpheal. Saber is the class name that the legendary hero falls in, whilst “king arthur” is the person that was called up. Confused, welcome to Nasuverse.

This depends on the guild. If it is small and new (or just small),100% repping will encourage growth both in terms of members and influence. Whilst the more older and bigger guilds, they don’t need 100% repping as much. As they’ve already established themselves. With shed load of influence, they can afford to have the odd few members not repping. So in essence I see it, that is should be encouraged to rep the guild if it is small, but as it grows, it shouldn’t be enforced as much. With bigger and established guilds it matters little.

- Trahearne is the character that everyone loves
- Logan isn’t a chicken after all
- PUGS actually know their paths in dungeons
- Brahms has a brain to use
- CM is the most hardest dungeon to run

Ardenwolfe.8590:

Take that with a grain of salt. Last time I quoted a bunch of developers, they turned around and did the opposite of what they said they weren’t doing.

So, again, grain of salt.

Actually, the quotes neither denied nor confirmed anything (at the time) – silence was golden. However you read in to it, as if they weren’t doing anything. And refutted many who were saying that they were. Took quotes and stated that they weren’t doing anything, despite them neither confirming nor denying it.

You’d want to post here:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/community/lookingfor

Best of luck in finding a guild.

Whiteside ridge

/Marshal T.

Travis the Terrible.4739:

New speech or not, I demand his head on a pike outside of black citadel.

As a charr player (and fan) who likes marshal T, I object to this!!.

Marshal T, marshal T, marshal T, marshal T!!!.
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Now that my fanboy chant for marshal T is over. Yeah, the original was abit…dull. It didn’t arouse any kind of emotion. And this was a speech designed to inspire the pact against the dragon. And leading in to war. If it has been modified, then is that a bad thing?.

This old thread again. NPE has a faster levelling experince from 1-15. Then levelling becomes normal as before. Traits is getting an over-haul (again).

Well the OP says the NPE is dumbing down the player base. But forgets that a small (very small) minority of the exisitng players, are struggling with the LS bosses. And are asking for it to be nerfed. What does that say about them then OP?. And here is the kicker, they’ve been playing much longer, before the NPE was ever dreamt up.

Forget Cantha. By going with the LS, the next place to visit is the Crystal desert. As it points to it various times.

In a nutshell, you aren’t happy with the way the game is – as you’ve stated for the most part it is sub-standard (in certain areas). As it doesn’t live up to your expectation. And you see that the devs aren’t going to be addressing the issues any time, so this in turn has put you off the game from playing or spending any required time on it. But you are living in some hope that the new expansion will address these issues of yours. So in the mean time, you will be looking at other games, that do meet your expectation.
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If that’s how you feel, then that is your right to feel that way. Best of luck in finding other game(s) that will meet your expectation. Some folks on here (who have declared their intensions of leaving publicly) have gone on to other games. I generally don’t see them post on here that often anymore.

Scarlet wasn’t a bad villian. Would have been better if you she was written a bit better.

Marshal T, will set all you sylvari haters free. Marshal T is the one and only real hero, alongside our PC.

Test.8734:

Sure. Just show me where have I said that there would not be an expansion.

Show me where you said that they are working on an expansion.

Aenesthesia.1697:

miserable defeat? boy, i never cared about an expansion, but i’ve never denied there was one in the works, but you’ve got issues.

Besides, when you see that the expansion is nothing more than a living story a bit beefed up, then the other guys are going to come laughing at you.

Sounds like your the one with the issues. If you were on the fence, how does that apply to you?. Unless you were the naysayers. And by the way, most x-pac are like LS – things that continue with the story. And ‘abit beefed up’, wow that is an understatement. This confirms you have an issue – of being proven wrong. But instead of admiting and eating humble pie. You refuse and say ‘ha this is just another LS’.

Pockets.3201:

There is no right to gloat. It is never a good thing. People need to get over this garbage instead of wasting time being smug about who was wrong about what. It is nether constructive nor a good thing for the community.

So if A-net announced anything else besides an x-pac, what do you think it would led to. The exact opposite; threads of “where are the ones that said there was an x-pac”. You think they won’t be gloating. Neither is people who whine, complain and QQ. But yet they are a part of the community.

Vayne.8563:

But there are people who said straight out that Anet didn’t have people working on anything in the background and that there’d be no expansion.

I doubt many of them are going to post here to admit they were dead wrong.

+1

slamfunction.7462:

Still here. I wasn’t anti-expansion, i was anti-ANet not telling us anything and not giving us any hope that things would change.

That being said, this is a very bright day indeed, and i think all GW2 fans, including myself, are very happy and joyous with this news.

Now, time to start throwing money at these people(ANet). They deserve it.

The point was, people like yourself disbelieved and took whatever moment to point out just how foolish like the OP was, for saying that there was an x-pac on the horizon. I think they’ve earned the right to gloat as their faith and belief was rewarded. Whilst humble pie is needed for the dis-believers.

Charr.

/15 chars

eekzie.5640:

There’s definitely upsides the living story brought, but also some things that were very lacking. I just hope it didn’t cost them too many resources.

The LS composed of 20 members, whilst the rest of the team were likey put on the x-pac group.

Test.8734:

Per the NCSoft quarterly report, the sales in China have been less than they expected. Together with the continuous loss in profit, and the inclusion of strategies that free to play games employ to keep players logging in no matter what (such as the reward system for merely logging in the game), it’s easy to see that ArenaNet is becoming desperate.

It’s little suprise to see an expansion. It’s probably ArenaNet’s last bet. It’s still worth noticing, though, that we are getting this now because the other strategies have failed.

Sounds like an excuse for being wrong.

Guild halls was a given. Not so surprised that it has come this quick. As some pointed out, it pretty much was coming. Whilst others argued that it wasn’t set in stone, which is understandable.

dragonkain.3984:

No tengu? Well, no point for me to return to this game then.

As your signature states, having common sense to leave is the best thing to do. There are other MMO’ that do have new races to play.

Vayne.8563:

Many of us told them so. Nothing else really made sense.

Wonder how many will eat humble pie and denounce calling you a white knight Vayne.

Chances are they won’t turn up and apologise to those that did believe. As someone else said, they would rather moan than admit. Personally does the community need these type of people in their midst??. Since the community prides itself on being helpful, tolerant and understanding. If anything, they undermine the community by having this type of attitude.

I think the actuall quote was: “an expansion is not off the table”. In other words, the idea of having an expansion was not considered nor rejected.

Everything else sounds like a moan, because your opinon on them having / showing no evidence of them giving an expansion. So you want to save what face you have by coming up with this.

Zera Allimatti.2541:

It’s Ellen Kiel.

A possiblity.

So marshal T can be in two places at once. At least he ain’t spoiling the story for anyone….

‘I hear by…’ No can’t do it.

/144 chars

Calling it. Sylvari are now the equivalence to the Blood elves. In the GW universe.

Well, the newest living story has given some confirmation to a theory that was posted on the forums for a while now. The season 2 ending had the most amazing art used. With a trailer to boot, which has the fanbase excited over. Keep your eyes and ears open for 24th Jan, two of the head studio are going to PAX for a major annoucement. The game got some new armour skin. A new boss in silver wastes. Which is inspired from the marionette fight. All that without giving any spoilers away.

Naus the Gobbo.5172:

I found a picture of the faces we can choose from.

…Er….pretty polly?. Just sayin’.

Ok I Did It.2854:

1 of our team tried it solo and could not do it, he said the lights went out before he could get them all done, and he had 4 to do solo, I didn’t try this solo so I don’t know if there is a different mechanic at play.

Luck, grit, patience, dodge and swift. 5 things I used to beat the boss. Can’t say if this is applicable to others.

Blude.6812:

4th attempt—-screw it. Just spamming damage at you at a riduclous rate. and then you have to do more than once. Annoying—-and EVERY build/race profession should have the exact same chnace of winning—having stabilty (or whatever) should not give a specific build an advantage.

Did the final boss without any stability. Yeah it took a lot longer, but I still managed to beat it. And this with my engi – solo. So it’s doable.

Forgotten Legend.9281:

at the moment… i’m too angry to be able to give constructive feedback… but for starters, this dragon fight is way too complicated and way too reliant on professional level reflexes to be considered enjoyable. i thought this game was designed for general entertainment for the masses, not just professional athletes only.

Seriously??. I managed to beat it, and believe me I struggled quite a lot whilst soloing all 8 episodes. This episode came with ‘fewer’ headaches for me – in comparison to the other 7. If anything it was frustrating. But once you can get the mechanics down, its pretty straightforward. This is the reason why a lot of things get nerfed and people complain about lack of ‘challenging’ content. Have a friend / guildie to help you out.

He just cooking pancakes.

Caithe or Wynn were chosen to be the vessel for the pale tree.

This old chestnut on NPE….

DiogoSilva.7089:

FFXIV:ARR does both. It is getting its first expansion before GW2, and we’re talking about a game which was released long after GW2.

FFXIV is a older game than GW2 (initial release date was like in 2010). The fact is that game had to be re-done from scratch, as it was just a complete shamble of a mmo. So yes, development time was spent on it much longer and they took on board as to what most other MMO’ were offering. As a way for apologising to the user base for launching such a shoddy game in the first place. They listen to the players and communicate with them. But in all, they have done really well within their first year of re-launching.
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As for this post. Another expansion thread.

Would help to tell people as to which server you are on.

oxtred.7658:

Look the NPE changes. The new player experience made traits a real pain to unlock, low level areas got dumbed down, and class mechanics are available at higher levels, for instance you can’t use earth attunement before level 22 or so as an ele.

Traits was earlier and NPE is a recent change. Why the hell do people lump the two together. And have zero understanding of the NPE. Other than saying it’s tedious. Other than levelling up faster from 1-15. And then goes back to normal 20+. Low levels are exactly that; low. But if you want to spend time hanging around low level areas, knock yourself out.