Guild Wars 2

We are completing our transition over to the Isle of Janthir server! We look forward to new allies, new opponents and new adventure!

Even though we appreciate all of the hard work that Titan Alliance accomplished, it’s great to finally approach the game in a more fun-focused manner. If you’re looking to join a guild that focuses on fun and community while still remaining competitive when it comes to PvP, consider The Royal Guard today.

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Hey Kam,

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Hello Amy,

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Shiraki are you absolutely against the idea of transferring to another NA server?

If not, please check your PM.

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Hello TeeNine,

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Hello Obligated,

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Unfortunately TA is no more. We have retired with a 30-0 undefeated record and TRG was a prime component of the Alliance’s NA primetime borderland force.

We’ve also been doing some restructuring ourselves and have found that GW2 is best enjoyed when you play for FUN! With that being said, if you’re looking for a competitive PvP organization that focuses on community and having fun – there is no better guild out there than The Royal Guard!

Check us out today!

We are still openly recruiting for WvW likeminded players. If you enjoy a competitive pvp atmosphere that still retains its fun – then please consider and check out TRG!

This really sucks for eles in WvW where we have the lowest health pool.

So many jumps others can make you end up dying from.

It’s rather pathetic.

Really surprised we kill Zhaitan in some dungeon with 4 other people, but it takes dozens working together outside to kill lieutenants….

Personally, I just feel that the game does a poor job presenting the dragons. I feel the lore surrounding them could be done in a much better way.

Who are the dragons?
Where do they come from?
What do they want?
They have a cycle of rebirth and hibernation, why haven’t we heard of them before?
How does The Great Dwarf and his fight against The Great Destroyer fit into this?
What is the connection between the gods and the dragons? They built Arah on top of Zhaitan – how could they not know? How come NO ONE in the game asks this very obvious question?
What is the connection between Sylvari and the dragons?

It just seems rather poor to me. I mean, let’s contrast GW Nightfall story to this game. In Nightfall, we learnt who Abbadon was, his motivations, his history, the history of his minions, his power levels (being able to defeat 2 other fellow gods by himself), his connections and relationships with other gods (there was an amazing dialogue between lieutenants of Abaddon & Menzies showcasing their mutual distaste of one another but willingness to work together to achieve their separate goals), and his endgame.

In GW2, what do we know about these dragons? They’re big, they’re bad….so what? They might eat magic? Yeah…ok…so, what? We know next to nothing about their backstory, their motivations, their connections to previously established characters, nothing. This creates a lack of focus, cohesion and interest in the world going on around you.

While I personally feel that the Elder Dragons was a mistake, I personally would have preferred fighting Dhuum or Menzies. Hopefully in the next upcoming expansion, they really work to make lore a forefront priority in their design.

It’s not overly complicated no, but we do try and ensure that our applicants are of a level of quality similar to our own. We are trying to build a brand when it comes to TRG, a brand name for skills in PvP that we’d like to cross over to other games in the future.

We will ask you a few questions on your app, and depending on the strength of your application and how you answer, we’ll either invite you to play with us during a few of our Fight Nights or a TS interview. See how we run, get to know us – see if we’re a good fit for you and vice versa.

I will contact you in-game, but also check your PM.

Please check your PM.

Thanks for the kind words Camben!

We’re still openly recruiting for all classes. If you’re looking for a top notch WvW community, consider TRG. If you’re tired of running in a nameless pug, consider TRG. If you want to be a part of an undefeated server and top tier alliance – consider The Royal Guard!

I’d also like to mention that the queue times for HoD have decreased so we are interested in applicants from other servers as well.

Grim West.3194:

Eclipses, what did you expect? That everyone would be happy to work so hard during their playtime to only see all of their efforts be worthless because of HoD’s nite crew imbalance? Get real.

If people thought HoD was winning because of superior PvP tactics then most would just work harder at defeating you. But you are not winning because of superior skill. The players know it and you know it.

This has happened time and time again in PvP mmos. The herd masses to one side and zergs everyone else into oblivion, then the game dies. GW2 is just following the same old worn path.

No, it’s not and this is the defeatist attitude I was talking about. You know how much gold my guild sunk into objectives just to have a SBI or Fist of the Empire (ET) zerg come and wipe it out?

You know how many times we upgraded and reupgraded and supply escorted our Garrison only to realize when we woke up it traded hands throughout the night so all that hard work was lost?

Do you think we stopped logging in? Do you think we retreated to PvE? Do you think we gave up? NO. This whole nightcapping crying is nonsense. The real reason why you both are losing is sitting right in front of your faces but there’s so many excuses and worthless rationalizations coming out of your mouths that you simply cannot see it.

Seriously, I implore both servers to not give up, there is a lot of week left. Anything can happen. We’ve proved it. Twice, actually.

Alright guys, here’s some real talk. I’m not speaking as a leader in Titan, I’m not speaking as a guild leader. I’m going to speak as a PvP’er.

HoD is not unbeatable. This weekend proved that. It proved, that if anything, we are as susceptible to 2v1’s, to fantastic planning, great organization and willpower as much as any server. It proved that even Titans could fall.

What really frustrates me and makes me shake my head is WHERE is this defeatist attitude coming from? I mean, honestly – how can you call yourself an honest-to-god PvP’er and all you do is complain and make excuses? That is not what top tier players do. That is not what top tier pvp’ers do. Complaining, making excuses, refusing to strengthen their weaknesses and then asking Arenanet to do so for them is not the recipe for success.

The real difference right now between HoD and the other “top tier” servers right now? It is not the Oceanics, because you both have those, Resonance & Evil/War Machine. The difference is the defeatist attitudes that your servers share in juxtaposition to the winning attitude on HoD. I am not trolling, I’m not being elitist, I’m being honest.

If HoD and Titan Alliance had the same mindset many of you are posting with now, we would have given up at the start of Saturday morning. We would have saw the gap of points as unassailable, we would have retreated to PvE, we would have blamed double teaming; in short: we would have defeated ourselves. I find it absolutely mind boggling that we have 2 servers that have seen a definitive 3rd place contender RISE from tens of thousands of points behind and instead of using this as proof that a rally, ANY rally from ANY position, is possible and reclaiming their position; they instead give up… Are you only fair weather fighters? Where is your server pride?!

My God men – WHY are you giving up, so early? There’s tonight and Wednesday and Thursday and Friday until 7pm EST. If anything, HoD has shown you what’s possible! That anything in WvW is possible! Fight! Persevere! Don’t give in! For far too long I have sat and watched this community make excuse after excuse after excuse for their failure:

- We can’t get our guys in, let’s transfer
- We believe 24 hour matches are a joke, let’s farm PvE
- Nightcapping, guess we should give up
- We were double teaming, but we really weren’t so the whole 2v1 system is flawed
- The other server has no life, unemployed, skilless idiots so they can play all night
- The other server has ALL of the Oceanics ( completely discounting the ones on their server or on servers like SoS or IoJ) so it’s not fair
- Hours long queues a few weeks ago made my server lose
- Instant queues make my server lose now

This is all rather pathetic. Grabs your balls guys, tuck them back in your tighty-whiteys and bring it. And if you lose, bring it again. And if you lose again? Bring it again. If you lose again? Bring more, then bring it again. THAT is what WvWvW PvP is all about and THAT is what I expect from the Top Tier.

NapalmITM.6170:

You didn’t honestly think we were going to give up after the weekend, did you?

You know….I think they did.

We haven’t even hit out second wind yet. This isn’t over.

Hello Flinch,

Please check your PM if you’re still looking for guilds.

Home World: Henge of Denravi
Guild Name: The Royal Guard
Guild Website: http://theroyalguardclan.enjin.com/home
In-Game Contact: Eclipses or Drasis
Focus: WvW! PvP!
Quick Notes:

The Royal Guard is a WvW PvP oriented and focused clan. We sought to be and have become one of the major guilds on our server, fighting tirelessly for HoD and the Titan Alliance, which we are a part of. TRG is extremely active in promoting our server to the top of the charts, with 3x weekly “Fight Nights”.

We are looking for even more individuals passionate about WvW to join our awesome and thriving community. While Fight Nights are the only mandatory time you are required to be in WvW, it is not the only time we partake in it. TRG offers highly competitive, highly organized play, so if you’re tired of running around in mindless zergs and want to elevate your level of play: TRG can provide!

Hello Tanker,

You should give The Royal Guard a look. Check and see if we meet with your time availabilities as well as what you’re looking for in a guild. We are primarily WvW, but we are instituting Dungeon Nights and similar activities.

You can read more about us here:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/guilds/guilds/The-Royal-Guard-NA-WvW-Henge-of-Denravi-Fight-Nights/first#post236460

The Royal Guard

Website: http://theroyalguardclan.enjin.com/home
VOIP: Teamspeak 3
Members: 45+ members Currently (Quality > Quantity)
Recruitment: Open for all Professions

Who:

- We are a WvW PvP oriented and focused clan. We sought to be and became one of the major guilds on our previous server HoD as a member of the undefeated 30-0 Titan Alliance. TRG will be extremely active in promoting our new server to the top of the charts, with 3x weekly “Fight Nights”.

What:

Our goal in Guild Wars 2 is simple: to be one of THE guilds our server thinks of when it comes to WvW PvP. We are looking to accomplish this in a number of ways:

- Fight Nights: Akin to other guilds’ ‘raid nights’, we will be sponsoring nights wherein which everyone in the guild is going to be in The Mists fighting to bring our server glory.

- Highly organized, competitive play: During Fight Nights and non Fight Nights, we’ll be organizing the guild into teams based on necessities and responding to our enemies’ strengths and weaknesses. If you have a passion for WvW and are tired of running around in mindless zergs that lack organization and accomplish nothing, TRG promises you an elevation to your level of play.

- Fun: TRG’s members have a passion for PvP and WvW pvp in particular. With this being said, we understand that the best way to play GW2 is one that focuses on having FUN with one’s friends online. While we still remain coordinated and organized, don’t be surprised to hear us cracking jokes and bonding while we destroy other servers in WvW!

- sPvP & tPvP: Once the tourny system is up and running the way is should, we will also be selecting our BEST pvp’ers to rep TRG for competitive ranked instanced pvp!

When:

We are an NA EST guild and our standard ‘Fight Nights’ are Sunday, Wednesday and Thurs from 8:00pm-11pm.

We are also creating Guild Events for GW2 ala our Dungeon Mondays or Drunken Keg Brawl. In addition, in the future we’re also going to be creating Game Nights for games outside of GW2, for games like League, Starcraft, Borderlands, Team Fortress, Minecraft and others. This is to ensure that we are a thriving, active gaming community and maintain our interest in GW2 for the long haul.

Why:

Why should you consider joining TRG? Foremost, TRG is going to be a guild that relies on strategy, superior play and the quality of our members rather than seeking to be another “zerg” guild.

We are a clan that is built on the values of hard work, teamwork, communication, strategy and just pure skill. We are a clan that seeks to build a community with its members and go on to make an impact on any game that we enter.

We put our money where our mouth is. We have a website and forums, teamspeak, dedicated and active leadership, we are a part of one of the best WvW Alliances in the game: Titan and maybe most important of all: our members. We have some of the best, friendliest, funniest most awesome members who make TRG not only a competitive PvP community but also one where you can have FUN!

In short: We are a fun, competitive, community oriented World PvP focused clan that caters to all types of playerstyles. Also, as we are a clan – if you are accepted and come to enjoy your fellow members and TRG as a whole, we invite you to stay with us and maintain your bonds as we expand into other games in the future.

How:

Feel free to apply through our website and our own forums: http://theroyalguardclan.enjin.com/home

- The High Council and TRG members will review your application and we will ask any necessary questions on an app-by-app basis.
- If we feel like you could potentially be a good fit with us, we will invite you to a Teamspeak interview or out for a few of our Fight Nights to just get a better feel and see how you play.

Quick Facts:

• Highly competitive Open World PvP focused
• Fight Nights: Mandatory World PvP guild nights 3x a week
• Competitive instanced PvP
• Open recruitment for all professions
• Community oriented, recruiting all player types, non-elitist
• A previous member of the 30-0 undefeated Titan Alliance
• Min. age is 16

Defektive.7283:

Pro tip:

Set your target with Control-T

Target the set target, with T.

Now if you ever lose target, just hit T again.

Irregardless, you’re still having to retarget. Many times I drop target ingame for no reason at all, i.e. they didn’t stealth, it just drops.

Hopefully this gets fixed soon.

Rainsfords.7419:

Even if the thief had 3 orbs and the OP was a level 2 in WvW, there’s no excuse for having a class have a single ability that requires no set up do almost double a classes natural HP pool. None.

This. If gear meant so much in WvW – then what is the use of upscaling? Nothing justifies this kind of disgusting damage (with ONE ability press).

Nothing.

Why do we have a kittenton of bugged traits and abilities?

Speak softly and carry a big stick.

They must figure out a way to gift influence to guilds who transfer. Giving them a one time tome of influence that will enable them to get the vast majority of their upgrades back. This is easy to imPlement and would go a long way to getting guilds to solve this issue for themselves.

mcl.9240:

“I got bored of our own match up in blackgate, so I went ahead and switched to other servers to see how they were doing.”

…and then you proceed to complain about free server transfers.

He went from an overpopulated server to an underpopulated server. Your point is…?

@Scribbles

Why are you preferring a “lack” of rewards when the rewards proposed here are only for WINNING? Thus only those who contribute to a server’s WIN over another would receive such rewards.

Think before you post people.

Why do Ele’s teleport work only horizontally and not vertically and is impossible to use to pass gaps or scale locations vs shortbow, portal, mesmer teleport or engie jump?

uhh….Why not?

EVERY other class gets one. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve died in WvW due to misjudging a fall. Why don’t eles have what seems to be a staple WvW trait for every other class?

Wow, this is a GREAT idea. It’s a perfect way for servers losing to feel like they have a fighting chance. Higher level servers will still actually FIGHT to get to the orb, FIGHT for a place to rest it and FIGHT to defend it for the awesome buff. Lower pop servers or those facing huge oceanic presence get more health, healing and damage to better defend with less people.

Kudos to you man. I support this Idea 100%.

Bunzy is the same fool from the BWE’s saying all the same crap about how ele’s were fine and players were bad.

I was incorrect. The message it gives is that: Your guild has not given you permissions to do this. I am the guild leader, the one who started it ingame. Can this get fixed?

Henge of Denravi
The Royal Guard guild

Eclipses, Drasis Guild leaders

For quite a few days now we have been unable to claim locations for our guild in WvW. When I try to access guild services offered through NPCs it gives the message: “You are not part of a guild.” Same with the claiming of locations.

Can this get fixed soon?

I find it highly ironic that a RANGER is able to call down lightning and interrupt nearby foes but an elementalist isn’t.

Many of the abilities on staff air are either situational, lacking in damage or do no damage at all. #2 is channeled and without a crit is lacklustre. The auto attack hits very poorly.

The blowback does absolutely no damage, compared to other knockbacks in the game. While #4 is nice to stop anti-kite, it can hardly count as a form of combat mobility when WvW and sPvP is considered. Very quick, long range movement abilities are considered mobility: RTL, or shortbow teleport. Not swiftness.

Lillian you get an A for effort but it falls apart upon closer scrutiny. So what burning damage lasts after we are downed? Poison is one of the longest lasting conditions and that sure lasts after we down other classes. You’re also forgetting that many classes run with some form of condition removal.

Mist form refunds 50% of hp in downed state but takes ~5 seconds to become available. Plenty of time for them to kill you within that time frame. Plenty.

Earth grip has very situational uses. That doesn’t make it good.

In short: needs to do what it actually says it does. Mist form needs to also protect against condition damage.

Also, since eles are OBVIOUSLY the black sheep of classes and they lack things that are standard in every other class: trait synergy, mist form needs to block 100% of fall damage. As someone said in another thread: who knew mist could break its legs?

If we aren’t eligible for a fall damage trait for whatever stupid reason, make Mist form give TOTAL invulnerability as it should. This class needs far more work than this, but it’d be a good start.

Just a few from the Elementalist:

Lava Tomb: Create a lava font when downed (once every 30 seconds) – SOOO GOOD! Just what we wanted.

Burning Fire: Cleansing Flame, Signet of Fire, Conjure Flame, and Conjure Fiery Greatsword inflict 3 seconds of burning – EXCEPT THEY ALREADY CAUSE BURNING ON ACTIVATION.

Vital Striking: Deal 10% more damage while health is above 90% – How long are you going to stay at >90% health?

There are so many more. So many that discourage attunement dancing. Fail traits for eles. I could go on and on.

Ghyst.8671:

I suspect this will get reported and your idea shutdown as it would destroy the games economy. Best of luck though

Why? Let this bloc try and control the economy if they want. More power to them.

I’m assuming you guys are still reading the posts here and are taking suggestions and reading concerns and criticisms. First, let me tell you that WvW is awesome. Secondly let me tell you that you guys royally screwed up increasing world population caps amidst huge WvW queue problems. What sense did it make to increase the world caps and cram more people in per server (and thus increasing those world’s queue times) vs. locking down specific worlds and only allowing new characters to be made on lower populated worlds? Free transfers have remained open for far too long and only exacerbated this issue.

Here are the steps you need to take to begin to rectify this issue:

1. Lock down free transfers immediately to high population servers. Their server queue times are already outrageous and adding more fuel to the fire isn’t going to help.

2. Increase the gem cost of transfers. As it stands it is way too easy to obtain this amount of gems through gold and while locking down free transfers will help, the barrier to entry is still too low.

3. Offer incentives to guilds and players to transfer from their overpopulated server to lower populated servers. Right now guilds are not interested in transferring, primarily because of their potentially lost upgrades. You need to play this smart: tier the incentives based on the size of the guild, to ensure that it stays relevant and enticing no matter the size.

- Guild leader gets a Tome of Influence corresponding to the guilds’ size. This will ensure they are able to quickly get their most crucial/important upgrades back and not punished for fixing an issue Anet made worse. This item can be gotten through the Black Lion company after a transfer.

A. Guilds ranging from 10-25 members are eligible for a 75k tome.
B. Guilds ranging from 25-50 members are eligible for a 150k tome.
C. Guilds ranging from 50-100 members are eligible for a 200k tome etc.

These are base #s that can be adjusted to your metrics.

- Deposit of gold once their guild bank upgrade is returned. This needs to be relative to the size of the guild. Guilds could use this as they see fit, either to jumpstart their WvW progress or as per diem to their members for transferring with them. Once again, this item could be gotten through the Black Lion trading once a transfer happened.

- Offer a title. I don’t really go for this type of stuff, but more casual guilds with casual players are likely to. It doesn’t hurt right?

4. Include a WvW lockout upon transfer like you said you were going to do. I remember reading that upon transferring worlds, a 7 day lockout from WvW was going to be installed so as to discourage world hoppers. This needs to happen asap.

5. Fix the queue bug, allow us to see queue times and work faster. You guys are the ones who underestimated your WvW popularity (which should have been hard to do). You guys are the ones who have consistently increased World Caps w/o raising WvW caps. You guys are the ones who have kept free server transfers up and running 3+ weeks into the game. My guys are remarkable in the sense that while this issue is extremely discouraging, they keep logging on and waiting in queues and being great guild members. However, I can see attrition happening to guilds on a universal scale if you guys don’t move quickly. Waiting for hours is not fun. Logging on after a hard days work or classes and wanting to play with your guild but instead watching your allotted playtime slowly diminish while having nothing to show for it is not fun. Having 50 guys online raring to go in WvW but only able to get 9 or 15 in sucks and there isn’t any nicer way to say it.

Fix it and fix it fast.

Please do not transfer to Henge. There are far too many people here. The WvW queues are also insane, sometimes lasting 5 hours or more.

Do yourself a favor and play on a competitive world that lacks outrageous queues, like SBI, SoS, Devona and others.

I should add that all 3 guilds are apart of the Titan Alliance that currently resides on HoD.

Why hello there.

Here are a few of the best oceanic guilds on HoD. Feel free to browse any of them. Hopefully one of them fit you best.

http://www.darknessiseverywhere.enjin.com/

http://www.elite-pvpers.net/home

http://www.trf-guild.com/