Guild Wars 2

LameFox.6349:

Sao.7146:

SoS, SoR and TC are all “very high” server if you look the server list.

lol, true, I think last I looked literally every single NA server was either high or very high. I think that may be their categories being very broad though, or at least if the pops are that close to even (PVE included) I have no idea where all the players on some servers are hiding.

ANet has redefined their server population, there are now 6 Medium and 5 High Servers, as of yesterday.

Sure, you can say that SoS, SoR and TC are all “very high” servers, but they are all VERY different populations when it comes to WvW. SoR is currently the highest rating server, they have competed with the likes of BG, JQ etc for the better part of this year so any one who says “they have the same population” is delusional at best.

They fight a different fight than SoS or TC does, they fight on the battlefield AND in recruitment. SoS is happy where we were, just making the push into T3, but getting thrown in with the “big 6” after 2 straight weeks really sucks.

JJBigs.8456:

call it coincidence or RNG but when i use MF gear, i get a significant number more exotics/rares from chests than when i do it without. anyone else agree? im convinced im right, i already know the statement is that it doesnt, but my play expericnce has showed otherwise.

its kind of like in IRL when people find that 1 tiny loophole to a 100 page law (or code program like RNG). it may not be on the books as official that it works, but the people who are aware of it, use it and benefit

Out of all the instigator and queen karka chests, I got 1 exotic.. regular drops, 20+

Rackhir Tanelorn.9123:

I agree SoS has some great Guilds and make tough and tenacious opponents.

I hope you guys are successful in gaining a few NA Guilds to help balance out your Coverage!

We tried but you stole them!!

Le Rooster.8715:

Nah i quite like the current system, theirs something about sitting in a massive 100+ man teamspeak party with your server mates and all speculating on who you’re vsing once reset kicks in everybodies like ERMAGARD who are we vsing. Once you notice it’s Tarnished Coast and Fort Aspenwood everybody goes dead silent for like 1 minute. Then theirs the one guy who starts cracking up laughing and everybody follows suit and just starts laughing hysterically like “we’re screwed”. I like that =)

At least all of our teamspeaks sound the same….

We loaded into Red “oh cool it’s home BL!” hits B.. “oh crap we are in home BL..”

As someone who did his 77 clovers when ectos were 32s (took 371 ectos), 10 recipe is super cheap now.

10 ecto – 1.9g
10 coins – 3s

You can get 10 ectos from world events per day if you hit them all.

Wanze.8410:

Zaxares.5419:

This is why my plan at level 80 is as follows:

1. After buying any desired Temple armor with karma, convert all excess karma to Orrian Jewelry Boxes for coin, chances at Lodestones and Obsidian.
2. Use excess Obsidian/Ecto in Mystic Clover recipes for T6 mats.
3. Store the mats for use in an eventual Legendary, or sell the unneeded ones.

This way, I don’t have to rage every time the Mystic Clover recipe gives me T6 mats, and the Clovers will slowly build up over time.

I think its cheaper to buy obsidian shards directly with karma instead of getting them from the orrian boxes.

You can get (90%?) of your karma back so you only need to get 1 shard per 10 boxes you open. I did 44 chests yesterday and got 6 shards.

Avenge.1478:

This matchup is beginning to suck. When TC and SOS are out in force, its a ton of fun, sadly, SoR as a server just completely outmans those two and its impossible to get in passed the hour+ long queues.

ANet, I know switching it up is ‘hip and cool’ and whatever, but when you forcefully change matchups to boring meaningless ones between a stacked server and a non-stacked server(s), youre doing everybody who enjoys WvW on those servers a disservice.

Or you could unstack servers.. idk just a thought..

bleach.9074:

Instead of making the ratings more accurate, the new system has distorted the ratings even more.

IoJ is going to finish 3rd this week. DH is going to finish 1st this week. IoJ has lost to DH the last ten out of ten times, yet IoJ will end up with a higher rating after this week’s matches.

It is conceivable, given the current system, that IoJ will face tougher and tougher opponents, finishing 3rd each time, yet gain points. Meanwhile DH will face easier and easier opponents each time and bleed points.

The system is broken in so many ways that you will need to completely revamp the entire system or lose many players over boring blowouts.

Just go talk to SoS, where we’ve been absolutely obliteration yet we are 100 glicko higher than when the “new math” was implemented…

Ipea.2974:

Hi, just an info post or foe thinking of moving again?

No ipea. FoE is not moving. Just an info post in case people didn’t see it.

You still playing guild wars?

tocos.7453:

You forgot FC we are medium too.

Taken care of that, sorry.

If anyone was looking to move, ANet has once against expanded the limits on server population.

Medium

• HoD
• IoJ
• Borlis Pass
• Eredon Terrace
• Devona’s Rest
• FC

High

• KA
• NSP
• Ehmry bay
• Maguuma
• SF
• SBI

All others Very High

Handin.4032:

Ross Biddle.2367:

OR

We play this out for a few weeks so, in the long run, we have a better game overall.

I remember when I was a kid I had to wait an entire year for my birthday. You kids these days expect your birthday to roll around every two weeks. Some things just take some time.

The issue is that for some servers, having week after week of having total blow outs for matches will make them leave. Your analogy and statement doesn’t fit here at all…. The problem is that while anet “waits” servers are having weeks of blow outs. If their “Several” more weeks is 3-4 weeks, then some servers, many in fact, will have over a MONTH of blow out matches. People who play WvW won’t want to log in every day to get farmed because the other server in the match up has many times their numbers 24/7.

Pretty much this.. On SoS we were very exciting to be FINALLY playing in T3, except what happens? We get thrown in WAY over our head with the #3 and #4 server, and then #1 and #4… just to get completely and absolutely demolished because we are now fighting against 5 months of Recruiting Wars..

Gaining this rating JUST because of a random roll DOES NOT reflect the server in any aspect and won’t over the long run. What happens when SoS KEEPS getting high rolls and KEEPS gaining rating? Are we going to be stuck with a 1800 rating with the same number of people we had at 1600?

If SoS gets stuck with another match-up like this, we should just boycott so we don’t gain rating points.

Dumb Woob.9415:

LilMcGinley.3890:

Math and RNG are the best fun destroyers ever.

Two points:

1) Don’t talk bad about math. Though I concdede that I am a bit odd for doing math in my free time for fun, I contend that everybody likes math; just those who think they don’t just haven’t realized it yet.

2) What would be less fun: total certainty or a lot of uncertainty? A very interesting question, since you claim that total certainty is the only thing that is not un-fun. Unless, of course, you mean some artifacts associated with the implementation of a pseudo-RNG in this game are un-fun (which you should say instead—words mean things after all).

Lol, RNG to the extent of this… is not fun. SoS had the same matchup as last week, except for a T2 server, we got a T1 server. SoS should NOT be playing these servers, plain and simple. Playing against these super stacked servers is pointless when you are outnumbered at least 5 to 1 during primetime.

This match-up is a joke… Sad part? SoS will STILL gain rating and STILL get put into match-ups like this.. thanks anet

Almost posted the exact same point but added it to Luvpie’s thread instead..

Math and RNG are the best fun destroyers ever.

There is 1 matchup that is not a blowout on Saturday morning. T4 (9vs10v11) is within 1k for 1st and 2nd and 4k 1st and 3rd.. NO other match-up is closer than 7k from 1st to 2nd, and with leads of 17k, 16k, 22k, 8k, 7k, 24k, 15k from 1st to 3rd. This week is pretty much over on Saturday.

I thought there was not going to be “match-ups out of our range”?

PS: NA of course

#.8 vs #14 vs #15… I’ve waited for a match up like this to see if the 2 lower servers combine forces and push the higher one.

#.3 vs #9 vs #10 – also looks interesting… That’s T1 vs T3 vs T4.

Should be a good week of matchups, can’t wait for NA reset tonight.

As a sylvari.. I’d kind of love to be a human.. trade?

Nickthemoonwolf.1485:

Arale.4207:

Nickthemoonwolf.1485:

I’d like to add that the person who trash talked me from shatter inc. also posted a fake LFG for me. Classy guild, they are.

1 persons actions do not represent a whole guild though. Sometimes, bad apples emerge and stray from what the guild actually does. I’d contact the leader first and let them know about it.

that just it though, shatter inc. has not posted on the forums, and unless one of the officers/leaders posts on the forums, the bad apple is currently the face of their entire guild to me, and one other person here.

Rooster posts a lot. I don’t think someone saying “omg you trolled me in a video game” warrants any kind of “official statement” from a guild. Whoever this random person is is not the “face” of TS to anyone who knows them and certainly isn’t going to make any guild hate another.

Lots of guilds, including mine, have a very strict policy about posting on forums, we have certain people who do it and members are watched for what they say.

Pretty sure it’s account, just like all other meta events.

“Then hopefully (a big hope), skill lag may be reduced or eliminated and server resources combined due to there no longer being 9 separate tier battles.”

That is not why there is skill lag. Skill lag is created because of the amount of people and therefore, calculations, that need to be done in a short period of time. When you have 50 people using attacks against 50 other people, every attack bounces between the server and other people’s computer to compute the damage done etc.

More players in a BL actually creates MORE lag when big battles occur. Reducing the number of tiers does nothing to reduce lag.

combo breaker?

EDIT dangit.

tldr – everything everyone has said in WvW sub-forum for the past 3 months…

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/recruitment

Are you asking if they actually happen? Yes, they do.

Orbs will not be the same mechanic, for obvious reasons. It will be something like the Temple of Lightening, where you cap something, get the buff and will wear off over time or until enemy captures it from you.

This will make it more dynamic and not “bigger server get the buff all the time”.

“Orb teams” will become very important and smaller guilds/groups will be very important on a map, expanding their impact from supply camps/lines to overall bonuses for server.

Updates:
Added [FaTe] guild!
Added SoS server event!

Skynet.7201:

Dunno who decided to speak for [scam], but we are wvw, not pvx.

This list was derived from the Guild listing on gw2sos.com, I will make that change now.

Just got a ticket from my 12th farmed chest.. honestly I’d love to just give it away to someone or sell it but of course, that’d be too easy. I don’t even like the skins gw2firstworldproblem

Tuluum.9638:

LilMcGinley.3890:

It’s not even seeing the arrow, just remove the level indicator, it’s an easier fix. We know everyone is level 80 right? Why show it?

I think its not even a bad idea to remove the level 80 indicator and uparrow, and then replace it with WXP rank that both allies/foes are able to see. I am not sure that the enemy needs to know who is upleveled and who is not so clearly. I will purposely use low level armor skins on my characters, but they obviously know I am at least level 80 on those characters. Plus, I just like the looks of some of the armor better than most.

For enemy servers, its not like they cant guess the approximate rank by just looking at the title anyway, but it would make the data actually relevant to the game at hand and also allow allies to see each others rank. Like you say, we are all “technically” level 80, why not use the screen space for something that is more informative?

I like that idea..

And yea people, not everyone plays on their brother’s hand-me-down toaster of a computer.

ko killer.3692:

I think its safe to say that ORL is a WvW guild, we have practice nights just about every weekday as long as Drogan is free. Also we usually have 80% of our members in WvW at any given time. This is just my personal opinion

Haha! Make sure you tell at Errawen, she said y’all were PvX. I’ll make the changes, thanks for the update!

It’s Tuesday and…

9 is beating 8 and 11. 11 is beating 8 by 4k, losing to 9 by under 6k.

Even tho SBI is getting destroyed, they are still GAINING 35+ Glicko.

Only 3 Green servers gaining Glicko (Borlis Pass is at +.5).

I think Mil has the new rankings wrong with ET being #23 with a lower rating than FC.

EDIT: kind of excited for Reset.. wanna see who we play next

Merendel.7128:

LilMcGinley.3890:

even without the tag, you can tell based off armor.

Not always. I use the Hall of monuments skin in WvW partly because I like it but also because the enemy can not tell if my armor is exotic or blue. I know plenty of folks that have Xmuted lower tier skins just for looks on exotic gear. The skin of the armor is far less of a reliable indicator than the upleveld arrow.

With the amount of CoF/Cultural Armor in WvW, it’s pretty easy. I’ve yet to see someone with plain armor full exotics.

It’s not even seeing the arrow, just remove the level indicator, it’s an easier fix. We know everyone is level 80 right? Why show it?

Or don’t bring upleveled character to PvP based off a non-standard or ’uneven ground" format.

even without the tag, you can tell based off armor.

Amadan.9451:

elder dragons are things for expansions i guess, not for monthly content

Sadly, I agree.

I feel that most people, at lease the vocal minority, are already looking forward to an expansion. New lands to discover, new skins, new stat combos, new meta events, expansion on lore are items we just don’t get currently. Even the PvP is stale.

I know I’m looking for one already.

Hickeroar.9734:

LilMcGinley.3890:

Hickeroar.9734:

LilMcGinley.3890:

Hickeroar.9734:

4. I would agree with this. Map design needs a major overhaul. They’re not balanced properly at all, and everything is far too close together.

I’ve noticed this a lot more lately. Take EB for example: you have 2 paths to take to push into another color’s territory. Two.. Two.. Two… Next to Stonemist or thru the NPCs (dredge/orges/hyleks)..

Where is my vase array of tunnels and mountain passes?! Blow up a zerg by adding MORE ways to travel around the map, more ways to move around = more places you need scouts.

I’m even OK with that….but consider Mends/Anz/Speld. Just look at the map and see how unfairly these locations are stacked against red. The Yak trek from Speld to those towers is incredibly long and filled with tons of enemy NPC interaction.

And Hills vs Bay? Bay is a cinch. Hills is pretty much impossible to take when occupied.

Supply in your third needs to be centrally located and distributed outwardly to your towers, not inwardly from satellite camps. This is exactly backwards from how it works in “real” warfare. Camps should be worth 10 points, and be as defensible as a tower.

My God I hate being Red.. SoS is red this week after ET was red for what seemed like ever… I can not STAND that layout. Mendons/Anz/Speld needs half that kitten lake cut off and Spel moved in. At least make the closer camps to towers give less supply, further more.

FoE does “Supply Camp Alamo” at random times, basically 3-4 AC/2-3 Ballista and see how many people we take on before over-run… and it’s tons more fun than laying siege to a tower. I’d LOVE to see more defensible camps, making supply actually worth it. Capping a camp shouldn’t just be “ok zerg we need supply lets steamroll 3 camps real quick”.

Idk just rambling on… I like your train of thought tho.

EP sort-of does the same thing as FoE… We run to North-Camp on an enemy BL as a group of around 20-25, kill the Super to pop the ring, and DON’T take the camp, then we see how long we can survive. Last one standing wins. We call it “Zombies.” It’s super fun, and it’s also training/drilling on our zerg tactics.

I think we need a date night on FA Bl tonight…

Hickeroar.9734:

LilMcGinley.3890:

Hickeroar.9734:

4. I would agree with this. Map design needs a major overhaul. They’re not balanced properly at all, and everything is far too close together.

I’ve noticed this a lot more lately. Take EB for example: you have 2 paths to take to push into another color’s territory. Two.. Two.. Two… Next to Stonemist or thru the NPCs (dredge/orges/hyleks)..

Where is my vase array of tunnels and mountain passes?! Blow up a zerg by adding MORE ways to travel around the map, more ways to move around = more places you need scouts.

I’m even OK with that….but consider Mends/Anz/Speld. Just look at the map and see how unfairly these locations are stacked against red. The Yak trek from Speld to those towers is incredibly long and filled with tons of enemy NPC interaction.

And Hills vs Bay? Bay is a cinch. Hills is pretty much impossible to take when occupied.

Supply in your third needs to be centrally located and distributed outwardly to your towers, not inwardly from satellite camps. This is exactly backwards from how it works in “real” warfare. Camps should be worth 10 points, and be as defensible as a tower.

My God I hate being Red.. SoS is red this week after ET was red for what seemed like ever… I can not STAND that layout. Mendons/Anz/Speld needs half that kitten lake cut off and Spel moved in. At least make the closer camps to towers give less supply, further more.

FoE does “Supply Camp Alamo” at random times, basically 3-4 AC/2-3 Ballista and see how many people we take on before over-run… and it’s tons more fun than laying siege to a tower. I’d LOVE to see more defensible camps, making supply actually worth it. Capping a camp shouldn’t just be “ok zerg we need supply lets steamroll 3 camps real quick”.

Idk just rambling on… I like your train of thought tho.

Hickeroar.9734:

4. I would agree with this. Map design needs a major overhaul. They’re not balanced properly at all, and everything is far too close together.

I’ve noticed this a lot more lately. Take EB for example: you have 2 paths to take to push into another color’s territory. Two.. Two.. Two… Next to Stonemist or thru the NPCs (dredge/orges/hyleks)..

Where is my vase array of tunnels and mountain passes?! Blow up a zerg by adding MORE ways to travel around the map, more ways to move around = more places you need scouts.

Seigfried.5938:

If those are all the WvW guilds we have, then SoS has one helluva militia!

Yes and no. Those are the guilds that have a defined interest in WvW, most of the PvX guilds will partake in WvW nightly, but don’t say they are a WvW focused guild. TS/FEAR/FAP are just some of the PvX guilds that have legit WvW presence and are out all the time.

And yes, the SoS militia is very strong… better than some PvP guilds I’ve seen.

Fror.2163:

Well, the fact that it was readable was sarcasm.

I don’t care about standardization of this topic at all. I’d say the more original one topic name is, the best it is. I’d accept standardization only if Anet created all those topics along with the reset.

Also, a personal preference: use long server names.

Ha! I wish they would…

Fror.2163:

No no no…

The ISO standard says YYYY-MM-DD. Also, the standard for pixels is “0x<red><green><blue>” or “#<red><green><blue>” we should use both together.

Example for the first “tiers” of Europe:
EU 2013-05-31 0xERVSJS (or #ERVSJS)
EU 2013-05-31 0xSRDEKO (or #SRDEKO)
EU 2013-05-31 0xBBARAM (or #BBARAM)

See? Totally readable. Standards are good!

Do we really need the year? We all know its 2013

Put / between the servers and I vote yes.

NA 05-31 JQ/SoR/BG – 1/2/3
NA 05-31 ET/SF/HoD – 24/19/23

I like the ranking too

Server Events

FESTIVAL OF TYRIA!

When: July 20th, 2013 – 5pm PST (Server time)
Where: Divinity’s Reach – Sea of Sorrows Server
Everyone welcome!

These are dark and troubling times for Tyrians; Dragons, Risen, The Mist Wars and domestic unrest plague all nations. But all hope is not lost; Tyrians everywhere are persevering through these dark times. In an effort to celebrate the unity of Tyria, Queen Jennah has opened the gates of Divinity’s Reach to all who can attend for The Festival of Tyria, a celebration of the resilience and strength of all Tyrians. Though, among the festival goers, a sinister seed grows and the Queens life may be at stake…

With the festivities across the city, the Seraph and Shining Blade are stretched thin keeping order amongst the mirthful festival goers. They turn to the brave and cunning heroes of Tyria to help them protect the Queen and foil this disturbing plot against her life. Who or whom could be behind it…

Festival Events

Queen Jennah has asked multiple volunteers to host games and contests across the city! Prizes donated the Divinity’s Reach Event Committee will be handed out to the winners!

Test your knowledge of Tyria and its history with Tyrian Trivia!

How’s your aim? Try your luck with Human Darts – Grenth’s favorite game.

Think you know all the nooks and cranny’s of Divinity’s Reach? See if you can locate our sly and stealthy royal volunteers in Divinity’s Reach Hide N’ Seek!

Can you outwit the cunning (and extremely dashing) Sionn Frost in Sionn Says?!

Not to be outshined by their felines, enter yourself in Divinity’s Reach Fanciest Human Contest for a chance to be titled “Fanciest Human!”

Get your snooper nose on, and try your luck with the Queensdale Scavenger Hunt!

Schedule of Events

TBA very soon!

Can you figure out who the villain is?

PAXA is good people. They want to kill people and do a dang good job at it. Run with these guys and you won’t be disappointed.

Aurust.8961:

LethalxKiller.3571:

Aurust.8961:

Blackelk.3784:

Eviator.9746:

I’m on DB. I wasn’t there. But Dekar is only telling his side of a multi-sided story. If you believe what he said without question, you are naive. I’m sure what Dekar said is factual, but it’s also incomplete.

One thing many have to realize is that DB doesn’t have the experience in T1 and T2 to coordinate guilds and tactics. Until reaching T2, the standard strategy is good enough:

• follow the blue triangle
• pay attention to swords on the map
• if you don’t follow the blue triangle tell map chat what you see

The above strategy, plus our ridiculously large SEA presence, got us into T2, at which point a bunch of new, large, experienced guilds joined DB. The new guilds, hoping to make us competitive in T2 and maybe T1, wanted to change things, make DB more organized. It’s a wonderful idea, but it’s difficult to pull off when the non-transfers are used to doing things a different way. The original guilds have been adjusting to the new way of doing things under the prospects of better performance. Most have adapted quite well. Some individuals have not.

Is it so unusual that there is some resistance? Online gaming is full of people with big egos. Big egos don’t budge. It’s clear to me now that any server with strict and structured internal organization is going to end up with drama. Dekar’s experience is a manifestation of that.

To the original DB guilds: Let’s keep DB drama-free, like it used to be.
To the new DB guilds: Thanks for coming to DB, but if it’s not a good fit, good luck on whatever server you transfer to.
To trolls from other servers: I have erased what I was going to say here several times because I don’t want to be reported. Suffice it to say, mind your own business, be a man, and stop fanning the flames.

Than please stop fanning the flames yourself this thread has nothing to do with DB or [RE] even coming to DB, as DB guilds made it clear they don’t want them. So please take this back to the DB forums and stop derailing a guilds recruitment thread its overall too much kitten going on here. When this should be about helping [RE] find a new home.

Its a clever ploy to come here and fan the flames, so JQ posters can come in and play the forum white knights. Then RE will see how awesome and level headed JQ is and transfer there….. Except we all know they will go to BG

I hope your not being sarcastic cause I look pretty good in white. :P

Believe me, I want them to come to JQ for the sake of a healthy wvw…… I don’t want to see another guild consumed into oblivion by the Blackhole.

Im gonna call it now folks!

RE goes to SOS, DB falls apart because of server drama, they all move to SOS to take advantage of their oceanic coverage to form Bandwagon of Sorrow…..

In all seriousness, i believe SOS would be the best fit atm for a NA guild.

As a once large guild now a smaller, more compact killing machine that just transferred to SoS, you are correct. We love it here. With the heavy ocx coverage SoS provides, what we work hard and earn during our prime-time we know is going to be taken care of over night. Not to mention, even when outmanned, our NA coverage is fantastic at communication, scouting and defense.

Like I told everyone this week in EB.. We are outnumbered, not outmanned.

FoE RECRUITMENT VIDEO

Join a Real Gaming Community
FoE – Fist of the Empire

Our Player Base Includes:
(but is not limited to)

• Irritating, nerve grating military types
• Condescending, self righteous officer types
• Masochistic, PvP addicted serial killer types
• Self loathing, questionable hygiene pve types
• Fringe dwelling, socially inept crazy types
• Needy, flirtatious, attention kitten chick types

Even with all those drawbacks Fist of the Empire (FoE) has managed to take their highly entertaining drama into numerous games over the past 10+ years. At the moment, we are actively annoying our opposing players, and a few of our allies, in Guild Wars 2. We have an intricate organizational structure that lets us feel a sense of control in a world gone mad. We acknowledge the efforts of our members and reward and promote them based on their endeavors; should they fail in game or at life we are swift with harsh judgments and reprisals.

If you’ve made it this far into this post you clearly want to march in on our kitten parade. Our preference is that you be legal (18+) so we avoid any sticky situations with statutory own. We are currently looking to add more crazies to our ranks, and YOU would fit in nicely, especially if you can have as much of a sense of humor about yourself as we do about ourselves. Everyone is welcome to apply, however we are seeking players that are guild focused, professional in their gaming, and enjoy rolling the other servers face whenever possible.

These are the facts:

Named Guild of the Month by Beckett MMO Magazine
Guild Age: 10+ years
Players: 200+ active over multiple games
Server: Sea of Sorrows
Website: http://www.fistoftheempire.com
VoIP: Teamspeak 3 (required)
Founded on military principles by RL Officers
Highly organized group of “Good Dudes”
Professional: Guild writers have been published & paid (Beckett MMO Magazine, MMORPG.COM, Guildnetwork.net)
Fame: FoE has been featured in numerous industry publications and sites – Star Wars fanfest 04 1st place, Star Wars Insider, PC Gamer, Stratics WoW, Beckett MMO Mag etc. to name a few
PvP: Yes please! We are a PvP guild!
PvE: Get your loots to dominate on the field
Daily events in game, Weekly FoE Community events, RL rewards for loyal guildies,(free games, gamecards, etc) and our annual get drunk-get together, FoE Fest!

How to Apply:
Simply go to http://www.fistoftheempire.com, Click recruitment on the main page, and follow the directions. Do it correctly, and you’ll be drinking the “FoE Kool-aid” and shaving your head with us in no time!

Should you have questions, comments, essays, warrants, or DNA samples to submit to us, please feel free to contact us at leadership@fistoftheempire.com

We now return you to your regularly scheduled forum trolling.

Disclaimer: If you happen to be in FoE and you’re reading this post thinking ‘they can’t possibly be talking about me’ ? Yes, we are talking about YOU.**

Note to Mod: I am aware we have another topic, let that one die in peace please. This is our up-to-date and current recruitment thread. Thank you.

Guild Spotlight
Reserved for SoS’s Guild Spotlight – where we give you greater insight on one of our awesome guilds every week

Guilds of SoS
Lists are organized by primary (although not always sole) focus and timezone.

PvX Guilds
North American

• [ftp] Feelthepain
• [PoW] Pröphets of Wär
• [Purr] Kittens with Claws
• [RED] Awakened to Redemption

SEA

• [CCTV] Choo Choo Train Volution

Oceanic

• [BEAR] Fifty Shades of Bear
• [HLX] Helix
• [TS] Team Shatter
• [Vekk] The Eternäl Alchemy
• [Yaar] Mutineers

International

• [AoA] Alliance of Audens
• [DPS] Digital Pimp Slap
• [ENVY] The Pack You Envy
• [EXG] Extravagance
• [Fang] Emerald Fang
• [FAP] Fatal Precision
• [FEAR] Cant We All Just Get Along
• [FLUF] Fluffly Demons
• [GC] Gura Clan
• [Nite] Lurk In Absolute Darkness
• [Nyaa] Kitten Commandos
• [SOS] Sea of Sorrows Alliance
• [SoV] Swords of Villanousity
  Thirteen year old, mature, democratic gaming guild with a strong focus on individual development
• [TC] Tyrian Continuum
• [VII] Society Obscure

WvW-focused Guilds
NA

• [ORL] Order of the Righteous Legion
• [LeeT] Elite Ones
• [FoE] Fist of the Empire
• [scam] Cursed Shore Travel Agency
• [FaTe] Hand of Fate

Oceanic

• [MGWC] Magilla Guerrilla Warfare Club

International

• [GotM] Gods of the Mists

All Guilds have representation on our community website, www.gw2sos.com, if you seek more information on one of these guilds, please visit our website

Sea of Sorrows has traveled a long road up to this point. We’ve had multiple matches with close calls as we climbed the WvW ladder to the very top rung. And then we fell right back down again, to no less than precisely where we began.

Six months has changed a lot. New tactics, new experiences and new faces – not least from now being able to see who you are actually fighting half the time. Through it all, Sea of Sorrows has found new resolve, stronger and bolder than ever before. You may have struck us down, but because of that we have become more powerful than you could have ever imagined.

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We will not bore you to tears with the minutia – instead, we shall show you our resolve and focus. Here is a picture of our battle-hardened leaders plotting the downfall of our enemies:
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Here too is a picture of our crack troops waging war and laying waste to our foes:
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Yes, that is correct. We have embraced the idea that WvW is actually supposed to be enjoyable, not just a second occupation. Long gone are the days of needing to stay on for another two hours because you’re behind on ppt and you have that coverage gap. Roll on the days when you spend another four hours in there anyway just because it was actually good fun and the “I’ll go to bed after we flip this next tower” strategy just didn’t work.

Sea of Sorrows has even embraced those which other “community-focused” worlds pushed to the side: Those who are inclined to PvE, those indecisive PvX folk, and even the rare and endanger PvP species. They are ALL welcome into our community. We do not believe in “All calls” or “gear checks” anymore. We have created a community that is accepting to any and all players.

It is because of this community foundation, that we are doing quite well in T4. So whats the problem then? Well, we’re doing a little bit too well. Realistically, we’re facing a situation where, at best, we are going to bounce between T3 and T4 – being too strong for one, but not strong enough for the other. At worst, we just end up with rather lengthy stays in T3. We don’t really mind winning or not, but if we’re going to be thrust up a tier, we’d at least like to be competitive to ensure an enjoyable fight between the worlds.

We would like to field more active WvWers across all prime-times (NA, SEA and EU); ideally bringing in guilds who enjoy all aspects of GW2 and are happy to support the server community. We would like to be cautious here, taking on smaller numbers in known coverage gaps, perhaps underestimating the numbers that we might require to create a balanced tier, but we consider underestimating how many are required to create a competitive match more favorable than bringing in too many. In our eyes a competitive match isn’t being able to win in every timezone, it’s each world having their own strength(s) and being able to avoid being completely dominated outside of that. We are not necessarily aiming to win.

We are also in no particular rush. We would prefer that interested players and guilds take the time to get to know our community and be sure that we’re the right world for them to call home.

For some specifics, here is what we have to offer

+ Community Teamspeak
+ Community website (gw2sos.com) with an active event calendar. All guilds are welcome to post events!
+ Weekly WvW meetings to discuss strategy
+ General Community Meetings held every other week
+ Strong Oceanic base (we truly still do have the best Oceanics out there!)
+ Lack of Laggy Zergs! (And Queues)!
+ Active cooperation between guilds!
+ High Value for Small Ops!
+ Strong PvE community (both NA & SEA) – Working on Legendary? Come grind with us! Need a temple open? Our PvE Commanders open temples on a regular basis to help people get their karma gear.
+ Multiple guilds on SoS work together weekly to do T3 bounties – meaning guilds who are smaller, or more WvW focused can still get in on the action without needing to do much organizing themselves!
+ Most of all – a family type community where people help each other and reach across the boundaries of guilds to all players in SoS.

If you are interested in learning more please feel free to contact Luvpie (NA) at themeraldfang@gmail.com, Arakeem (EU) at charon@villanousity.com, or Rooster (SEA) at LeRooster.sos@gmail.com.

I will leave you with a video featuring some of the sexy ladies of SoS being mischievous!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrIAuld62Gc

LameFox.6349:

^or they’re seeing if they can bait you into coming closer to it.

Sad part is we do and we kill them right outside their portal… I just wish my bags wouldn’t run

Hadan.2841:

LilMcGinley.3890:

I feel so proud to be a part of SoS again. This ENTIRE weekend we were constantly outmanned in EB, even then we had quick reactions, amazing defense and even a little zerg bustin’!

Who said roaming is dead?! 5 man FoE roaming team had a blast last night running back and forth in the south of EB, running into groups much larger than us (fight for danelon was awesome!).

I do love the people who will /dance on our corpse after a 5v20, you guys must be so proud!

Roaming is never dead in high tiers as so many say. Yes theres def more zerging then roaming but we find our small scales each and every night and love it. I think every1 does tht /dance stuff lol. I knw last week when it was DB/TC our 5 man would kite 20-40 TC/DB for a good 5mins around the south side of the map. If they did manage to get us tht one time as a grp they would spam /laugh when in reality we were laughing at them for sending that many to get us and taking that long to kill us

I see your point.

Last night, in FA BL (fighting TC though)TC brought 15 people to kill 3 and STILL took them a while, even while I was dying I was spamming /laugh because it took so many people to kill us. And /laugh after you run away from even numbers into your T3 keep with cannons and 3 Arrows carts means you are bad.

I wish I could send messages to other players and set up an even fight in the open field.

LetoII.3782:

When you stack up and buff before a fight, you not only waste half the buff duration but also give your opponent time to reposition. We love seeing pre-buffers, count to six then enjoy easy mode with opponents stuff on cool down.

That is the best time to push into a group… in the lower tiers they “ok, lets stack up, fire field” take at least 12-15 seconds to do it, rather than doing it on the run. A bad stack is a good bag delivery system.

I feel so proud to be a part of SoS again. This ENTIRE weekend we were constantly outmanned in EB, even then we had quick reactions, amazing defense and even a little zerg bustin’!

Who said roaming is dead?! 5 man FoE roaming team had a blast last night running back and forth in the south of EB, running into groups much larger than us (fight for danelon was awesome!).

I do love the people who will /dance on our corpse after a 5v20, you guys must be so proud!