Fort Aspenwood – www.gw2hope.com
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[HOPE] has been around for almost 8 years, and for a long time lead the #1 Luxon Faction Alliance in GW1.
We reformed on July 9th as a Pure Hardcore World Vs World Guild. Our Goal is to add to the competition by forcing opponents to be at the top of their game when they face us in the Open Field, regardless of how much they may outnumber us, and to be a major player in the GvG Realm.
If you are looking for that “hardcore” WvW guild that is actually competitive and strives to improve, apply to join HOPE. If you want more than to be in just another average guild, look at joining us.
Too many times guilds take the approach “need more people!” after a defeat. You won’t find that in HOPE. We are a dedicated nightly World Vs World Guild that looks at more than just numbers to win on the field. We look at our group compositions, our builds, our communication, and strive to improve every time we go out on the field.
We are Elitists and absolutely want to be the best, so we do have high expectations of all members that choose to join us. At the same time, we recognize people make mistakes and that this is a game, so we aren’t pricks if you mess up, but we strive to be as effective as possible when we play. For us, becoming the best we can be, improving, and being competitive are what makes this game fun.
About [HOPE]:
What we offer:
Who we are recruiting:
Classes currently recruiting:
Accepting Applications from all: Guardians, Elementalists, Necromancers, Warriors, Engineers, Mesmers
(edited by Drigan.7382)
[HOPE] has been around for almost 8 years, and for a long time lead the #1 Luxon Faction Alliance in GW1.
We reformed on July 9th as a Pure World Vs World Guild. Our Goal is to add to the competition by forcing opponents to improve in the Open Field and to be a major player in the GvG Realm.
If you are looking for that “hardcore” WvW guild that is actually competitive and strives to improve, apply to join HOPE. If you want more than to be in just another average guild, look at joining us.
Too many times guilds take the approach “need more people!” after a defeat. You won’t find that in HOPE. We are a dedicated nightly World Vs World Guild that looks at more than just numbers to win on the field. We look at our group compositions, our builds, our communication, and strive to improve every time we go out on the field.
We are Elitists and absolutely want to be the best, so we do have high expectations of all members that choose to join us. At the same time, we recognize people make mistakes and that this is a game, so we aren’t pricks if you mess up, but we strive to be as effective as possible when we play. For us, becoming the best we can be, improving, and being competitive are what makes this game fun.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dNzI5P2w3No
About [HOPE]:
What we offer:
Who we are recruiting:
Classes currently heavily recruiting:
Accepting Applications from all: Guardians, Elementalists, Necromancers, Warriors, Engineers, Mesmers and will consider some applications from Rangers and Thieves
FA if you pull of second just remember you are still the first loser. :P Its gotta be embarrassing seeing a few of the forum guys from FA basically lapping at JQs feet asking for the win here. I know they do not represent FA as a whole but i’d be like yo brah you make us look like lil tuna footed panda wranglers man chill out.
Anyways, always love fighting JQ and FA.
DB is a lot different than it use to be, I think most of us can see that. For us in FA though, the past couple months have been a long road after fighting TC and DB who have both gotten a ton of transfers in guilds, while FA has received very few in comparison since January.
We’re a server that has always played for the fights because we don’t have DB’s SEA, or TC’s Euro/all around coverage, and we knew that. This week gave us a chance to really show what our server can still do, that we’re very stable, and very consistent despite any of those odds. We’ll see how it finishes, and thanks for guilds putting up a fight this week.
Fun night all the way around in both JQBL and DBBL. Started a little slow, but plenty of fights to have had around, especially with [Pro]. Good fights tonight!
Thanks for the fights on FABL tonight. It’s a shame a most fights had 2 guilds vs 2 guilds, but I know RAM and HOPE had a good time. Shout out to rB (you guys run a lot deeper now than back in May) and ALS, HzH and SF. Looking forward to the fights all week long.
Thank you JQ for the awesome match up this week. Ya’ll have been great to fight and i love your attitudes, but sadly enough your respectful and fun attitudes/banter just doesn’t make up for FA. Here’s to more weeks against JQ and fewer against FA.
lol I’m really not sure where this comes from. I would definitely not say FA has had a poor attitude or been disrespectful. If you think FA as a server has been, then you probably pay too much attention to one or two posts. That, or you get too upset when PvP happens in a PvP zone to a certain parade. That’s the only other explanation! Either way, HOPE had some great late nights with JQ and the TC groups we could find. See you next week probably, if not in a few hours for reset
Thank you everyone for the fights throughout the week! Pro, SG, KH, HzH…and even RATS. Hope you enjoyed fighting us as well
Sounds like you were following an inexperienced commander that didn’t know what to do or have the confidence to execute something like what you are describing. Needless to say there are plenty of commanders in TC that know what they are doing. Don’t blanket all of TC based off of one inexperienced commander. Everything rises and falls on leadership (Like Bay) that commander could end up being a very successful commander in the future and helping them to be one is of the utmost importance far above anything else. TC is far from the garbage you make it out to be and we didn’t make it to rank 4 overnight.
Hazing a commander is the worst possible thing you can do and while people do it that commander receives zero positive feedback making absolutely sure that they learn little to nothing.
Your right and I apologize to the other commanders, I shouldn’t have made a blanket statement. And the commander prior to the bay attack was doing well, it’s just frustrating when you try to help them and get ignored.
Being a commander myself, it is very difficult to manage the massive amount of information being relayed to you. It is quite possible that the commander simply did not notice your message and may not have intentionally ignored you at all.
I know He heard me in vent, but I guess he was just overwhelmed with the siege. I’ll try and stress the importance of changing strat more clearly and constructively next time.
That cmmdr only popped his tag because there was nobody else available. We (RE) tried to help him as best as we could in that situation. I understand your frustrations, but, in the end, we lost Bay to repeated pushes by JQ. Though, it’s worth pointing out it took them over 3 hours to do so.
Yea he did well, and I was surprised at how long it took JQ to take Bay from us. I did manage to pull one of (RE) commanders aside and show him where I was trying to get everyone to hit the Trebs just now. I thanked him for listening and I hope the spot helps with defending bay in the future.
Yeah I was the commander at this time when he mentioned to me. I’ll keep it noted thanks for PM. I am new to commanding and my inexperience shows with the way I handled JQ’s pushes in our garrison but I enjoy it anyway. Thanks for the great fights JQ! Seeing your groups can really get intimidating to someone new to commanding! Hopefully I can learn more and be more effective in the future.
To be fair Tytania [RE] (the pin?) was fighting [SG] and [HzH] lead by myself and Wok for Hzh. So she was fighting two of the oldest T1 guilds lead by two of the oldest most experienced T1 commanders backed up by solid core of their guild each. The TC pin tried to wipe siege a couple times and did so twice open field, but TC couldn’t hold the field to get our trebs in the back before wiping to two very experienced guild groups.
TC did choke us with bags and bodies most of the night as well as (wtf FA does by constantly AJing us on that map lol). But the pins had to or we would have rolled over your entire map. As it was you pretty much just lost bay and the NW at times while holding some garri pushes. So it would seem your pins did a good job and held the map down. I’m not sure more could be expected of them.
Great job rookie pin imho!
Salute from [SG] we’ll be rampaging around the Coast again tomorrow night!
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Sorry for backcapping bay while you were up North in and around Garri HzH and SG. It was definitely worth the fights we got at the South Bay gate though! Cavalon HOPE had some fun with you old Kurzicks
And KH, we’ll definitely admit we had more then you tonight in FABL with all the militia. If it makes you feel better, we weren’t intentionally leading a group that size for our fights with you at the time.
TSL is having a great time on the FA borderlands tonight. Great fights JQ!
If you stay there longer, we’ll see you in a bit. Repeat of last week’s reset shall we?
Fun fights for a Thursday night tonight in SoS BL and EB. HOPE thanks you all for the welcome back to the WvW scene.
It sounds more like you’re upset that PvP happened in a PvP zone…see JP Grieving QQ threads.
Had a lot of good fights on FA BL tonight! Tons of fun for all of us I’m sure.
And Saiyr HOPE/GODS were not on the map. Atleast while I was commanding which was only like an hour. (the hour after we got bay)
Oh, I didn’t join WvW until near the end and there were three large FA groups that moved independently of each other. I mean, I guess that in itself was pretty impressive, but all of that to take out a rag tag group of us is, well…silly. But if we were still the only organized guild on the map, I bet it still would have worked in your favor.
Sorry for grouping around the other guilds tonight, normally we’d be out by ourselves, but tonight was the second night, after last night, that we’ve been back in WvW in a little over two months. Gave us a good chance to kick some of the dust off and get use to everything again. If we’re matched up in the next couple weeks, we’ll be happy to give you fights in an even setting.
Yeahh, matchups with even coverage are hard to come by, was nice to have a Tier 2 for so long that everyone could compete in.
[HOPE] is a WvW guild on FA, for 8 months we’ve been very quiet on the forums, but I wanted to share this about who we are. Enjoy and comments are welcome of course.
We haven’t been out there in force this match up, but here’s a video I just put together from the past couple months in Tier 2 (for anyone interested).
A compilation from the last few months in Tier 2. Shout out to the guilds that kept coming back and have kept us coming back.
[HOPE] – Fort Aspenwood – Tier 2 Action (TC, KN, DB)
OUR PRAYERS HAVE BEEN ANSWERED FINALLY!
Did they take away Keep/Tower upgrades too!?
Really…
Did someone just ask that?
LOL. It makes no difference if you lower the dmg against other siege when you cannot operate said siege because of AC dmg. What a joke. Many developers make the mistake of pushing players too hard in a direction they feel is where the game should be heading. Just gonna keep losing WvW players with this kitten.
Devon, does Anet realize how many PvP/WvW players it’s losing? The AC update should have been reversed by day 3 or never implemented to begin with. Anet has made this game more and more stale for the WvW guilds that keep going out there.
If Anet wants to stop fighting a losing battle it has to realize the direction it wants WvW to go in wont work. The next update needs to go away from slow paced/long haul grind gameplay. I appreciate that Anet wanted to bring a tortoise mentality to WvW, but you will see more and more guilds fall out of GW2 if you continue to push the grind.
As a guild our WvW approach has changed a LOT over the last week. In a lot of ways we are revamping everything, from our movements, our structures, our tactics, our builds/gear, and mentalities as a whole.
While HOPE is a PvX guild, I want to make sure that doesn’t give people the impression that we’re just PvE’rs that WvW. Our WvW Core is made up of very competitive hardcore WvWers that sometimes rarely touch dungeons and are still level 1 in fractals. We’re out there everyday, competing to be the best we can, and working to constantly improve.
Check us out! www.gw2hope.com/apply
Some TC and FA guilds are moving to Blackgates.
lol
Thanks back at ya [Agg], was some fun impromptu rounds!
Percentage of points based on population? Suddenly coverage is a much much smaller aspect of the game, and a lot more depends on actual skill with those numbers!
Good post. All of it.
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Had some fun uncharacteristic fights for a Thursday night on TCBL! (and a few on FABL)
The one North of TC’s NW Tower was awesome. Lasted like 10 minutes and you (TC) had two coordinated groups rollling there and almost sandwiched us a few times in the fight, good stuff.
Any guilds for a GvG tonight? 15v15 or 20v20?
Our schedule just opened up, unfortunately! Whisper me in game!
I used to play with KO (In the alliance) when I played GW1 – they are a really fun bunch =)
Oh the good old days, luxons ftw
Is X Knock Out X still the leader of KO? I think KO was in our alliance like 4 years ago at Zos when we weren’t owning Cavalon
Always crazy good fights in KNBL. That 3 way at our spawn was laggy, but it played out well.
Hahaha that had to have been the single most ridiculous series of fights I’ve ever been a part of. Was like 100v100v100 (maybe 80 per side) but it was cool to see we were all just kicking back having fun and not worrying about sneaking around and taking something else. Kudos to all involved there.
Had to switch to FA BL Hills otherwise we would have loved to keep duking it out, even if it was 1111111 or someone would go mist form for 30 sec because of the lag haha
Good night of WvW. Shame we had to cut our time short at TC’s NW Tower though!
Last time i watched a GvG against [HOPE] and [CERN] cern won and the VK wiped them so nope
At least get your facts straight. The only “wiping” that got done was in a completely fair GvG. HOPE won 2-1 vs CERN, and would have continued more rounds but VK wanted in on the action too, so CERN fought them for a few rounds.
If you’re talking about what happened at the very end, it was just for fun and lols to end the night of good fights. I’m pretty sure there was mutual respect between all 3 guilds. Again…here are the videos 100% fair:
HOPE vs CERN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Pwvfo3mR-gU
VK vs CERN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDVcteKf5U0
You know, next week, we should all agree to hold our sections of each map, and dedicate the night to open field with our guild groups. It wouldn’t really change the outcome that much after all.
Just setting the record straight. All good, friend.
I seem to recall one of our guilds (I forget which exactly) GvGing [HOPE] last week. They won. [VK] then proceeded to slaughter them with a zerg ball. Was that you guys?
Ummm sorry? CERN did GvG HOPE two weeks ago, three rounds of 15v15. CERN won one match, HOPE won two, (2-1). It was for fun and nothing that serious (hence neither side gloated about winning) and HOPE didn’t use any type of group compositions, we just through together what we had. Check your facts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Pwvfo3mR-gU
Good lord man, reading comprehension. I ASKED IF THAT GUILD WAS [CERN]. I DID NOT SAY IT WAS [CERN]. Check your eyesight.
CERN is the only guild HOPE has GvG’ed, so maybe you should change that because “YOU DID SAY HOPE”. Check your typing.
I seem to recall one of our guilds (I forget which exactly) GvGing [HOPE] last week. They won. [VK] then proceeded to slaughter them with a zerg ball. Was that you guys?
Ummm sorry? CERN did GvG HOPE two weeks ago, three rounds of 15v15. CERN won one match, HOPE won two, (2-1). It was for fun and nothing that serious (hence neither side gloated about winning) and HOPE didn’t use any type of group compositions, we just through together what we had. Check your facts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Pwvfo3mR-gU
EDIT: We only did three rounds so VK could get a chance to GvG them as well. I would have been happy to continue otherwise. The GvG between CERN and VK was completely fair, too.
Something I never mentioned – if you are from a different server but interested in joining HOPE, you should still apply! We would be happy to work with you to best join our guild if you are the type of member we are looking for!
Ahhh I would love to see some maps like Kaanai Canyon, Etnaran Keys, Saltspray Beach, Grenz, and Ancestral Lands!
+10000 for everyone who recognizes these
Good fight between FA and Kain at Bluebriar tonight in TC BL. <33
Haha wish we would run into you guys more. I did feel bad after the first two fights cause had there been even numbers I think you would have won; not a fan of relying on numbers at all. You got the jump on us each time, but after you bunkered down with ballistas and hit briar with trebs I didn’t feel so bad. Good fights.
Score and map update.
TCBL is quite a beautiful shade there! I’m sure I can speak for all of FA in TCBL tonight that we had a lot of fun defending the swiss cheese bay and the fights that followed all night.
You guys are solid, much respect.
Totally buttravaged by the stuff that happened in the SE quarter of the map, though. Seriously. 5-man groups just nonstop ganking and gunning for Greenwater. Made me want to tear my hair out.
lol I can definitely understand that. just saw the video of it, AoN was definitely out doing their thing tonight
lol TC i’m not sure I’ve ever experienced the type of open field siege wars we had tonight in KN. For what its worth, we held that ruins bridge for a least two point ticks! Between us, I think we used some great strategerie; especially your open field treb at lake haha
Overall not a whole lot of fighting tonight though – didn’t get to see much KN after the first 45 minutes. I feel like the quality of the fights were much better between all servers two or three weeks ago. Now half the time its just giant standoffs, unfortunately.
Wow T1 guilds…it’s all about the excuses…
thats us fighting VK vindigo knights.
If you are interested in a GvG
pm J E R I C O
In fairness to that video, there were only 2 discernable [VK] nametags in that. The first was a pet and the other was its ranger. The rest were all WZ or another guild.
PS – sorry for invading your thread t8ers
Yarrr! A bunch o’ ye lasses need ‘ta check ye pants. Ye panties be ’n o’ mighty great knot.
I can’t ever read a single thing you write
Convenant, I couldn’t agree with you more!
I have two possible crazy fixes that could work (obviously nothings perfect, but its a start)
Anet needs to come up with a debuff on groups larger than 40 or so. The debuff could be a percentage debuff on all stats and attributes. If there are 60 people, that is 50% more people then the max of 40, so all stats on all 60 people are scaled back by 50% including siege damage. (something like that)
The other would be a buff activated by roaming in groups less then 10-20 that gives a bonus of some type. Double WXP, or 10% increase to all stats, 35% increase in supply efficiency.
There are so many ways Anet could add a debuff or aura buff (Siegerazer for example does both – counts players in an area, and also applies an aura buff) to discourage zerging.
Doing something like that would not even change the game much! True guild groups that like to run in groups of 30 get to continue building on what they do and the tactics they use without any huge adjustments, while people can no longer steamroll people because of sheer numbers.
If you haven’t already, just check out our website to see the type of guild we are!
We’re looking for WvW members who really LOVE the fights! Do it all WvW – contribute to the ppt and live for the fights! We look for the good fights, not the zergalicious steamroll! If that sounds like you, apply now! http://www.gw2hope.com/apply
Ruq – I didn’t mean anything I said as an insult, and I can understand why you took it that way, so I apologize for that, and I know it looks like I popped my thoughts into something I had no part in, but most of what I said is meant in a general case, not meant to single out TC or DIS by any means cause the past few weeks we’ve loved it when we see you on the field.
My post isn’t to pump up FA or HOPE at all; I’ll be the first to admit last night was not a great night for HOPE. I’m just disappointed how often everyone (FA included) is relying on numbers now – not saying DIS does, at all – but there were a lot of times we could have had some fun fights with you guys at the ruins but it always seemed like you would only come out if another guild was with you.
I have to remind myself of how different our mentalities are I suppose. I feel dirty when we wipe a group if we have more people because it feels like a cheap win. The most fun we have is when we find the good fights. From a ppt game you played it smart by not engaging if there was any uncertainty.
I forgot how different we look at wvw. Just wish there were more guilds that looked for the good fights instead of the steamroll.
All trolling aside, because it seems that’s what BT truly enjoys doing on the forums, you claiming that your strategy is the only reason for your success isn’t true. I will not take away from the fact that I was impressed at times last night with some of your tactics, but you had a clear 20-30 person numbers advantage in almost every fight.
It makes things easier when your can field 60-80 from one guild.
INCOMING: WALL OF TEXT
As rarely as I post in the forums here, there is no chance I can let that pass by. Are you SERIOUS? [HOPE] started the night with about 35. Around 5 didn’t make it in, and during our first fight in garrison around 5 disconnected. At no point after the first 30 minutes did we have more then 25.
Every. Single. Time. We’d find a guild group from TC, either CYN, DIS, TSL, or ESP they would either waypoint away (I understand why CYN did, kudos to you guys), or you would wait until one of your other guilds would run in with you.
Not once did one of your guilds actually try to take on our 20 man group. It was a constant ‘wait here for the other guilds’ or ‘run away until the other guilds can come back us up’.
All of you guilds out there that harp on, “open field, open field” well I think thats bullkitten. But wait – RISE and PINK have mad skills and that’s why they win right?
Here’s an example of their “mad skills”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNkk_Wt-pFw
I’m sure they didn’t have a numbers advantage there right? My god, they must be hella good at timing their 1 skill to get it to go off with the amount of skill lag a group like that brings.
I watched some of those vale fights you had with BT. Yeah I won’t take that way from you, BT had a big group with 10 Shh Hammers and a group of FIST. Total – they probably had around 50. You had DIS, TSL, ESP, AND CYN there at times and easily YOU had the numbers advantage. I’ll agree 50 is a lot too, but there is no way you can say you had a short straw with your guilds there too. Not a chance.
For the most part, we stay quiet as a guild. But I’m sick of this bullkitten about people claiming their guild is so skilled, bragging about when they wiped so and so, and yes I’m talking about every side. AWESOME! You rolled over someone and pressed 1. Congratulations on getting your 70 people to catch their 70 people off guard. I’m sure its a blast.
Maybe last night half of [BT] wasn’t culling for you guys? Or maybe for myself so I couldn’t see? Wait, I think they fixed that.
WvW has always been a long term coverage and numbers game, but all the guilds out there that combine and run in groups of 40+ are the reason WvW is turning into a short term numbers game too.
Tier 2, for a few weeks we did great and not having these zergs with the entire map for the most part, but now you all have apparent fetishes for skill lag and low fps.
HOPE is out there every night at 9:30 EST. If you are sick of server wide zergs and want good fights then whisper me anytime and we’ll go to the same map and do some actually good WvW. Not this server wide 100 man freeze tag bullkitten.
You will not find us running in a huge 1-1-1-1-1-1 zerg. Ever.
For anyone not able to get into WvW yet, here’s what you’re missing out on! This is World Vs World now. (Minus the 1fps, zero skills reliably working, and the phenomenal tactics of course!!)
http://assets.enjin.com/wall_embed_images/1364352965_gw249.jpg
https://dviw3bl0enbyw.cloudfront.net/uploads/forum_attachment/file/57660/gw031.jpg
Ahhh! I forgot to mention! Don’t let transfering servers be an obstacle or keep you from applying! If you are hesitant to apply because you are from another server, talk to us and we can see what we can work out about helping you with the transfer costs
[HOPE] – http://www.gw2hope.com/ -APPLICANTS WELCOME!
Recruiting ACTIVE and HARDCORE World Vs World Players!
– Heavily recruiting to expand our Coverage and Core World Vs World Groups
– Apply at: http://www.gw2hope.com/apply
– Contacts: Drigan Prime – Drigan.7382, visit our website, or email us at: spiritoffaith.hope@gmail.com
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