Guild Wars 2

Vukorep.3081:

Instead of thinking of adding things from gw1 into gw2 (that have been mentioned for yeeears) why not just play gw1 instead?

I play gw1 almost just as much as gw2. In fact, i have a “daily” routine in gw2 that i can dash trough in a hour or two and then continue to play gw1 normaly.

I also wanted to post some rediculous (imo) suggestions that you mentioned here:

1) adding NPC heroes/henchmen that follow you and fight with you

Henchmen and heroes were needed in gw1 because the entire game required you to play in some sort of a party. Gw2 is a real mmo, go make friends and play around with them. I sure it would be more interesting and memorable if you adventure with a friend than with a NPC that attacks once per 5 seconds….

2) Hardcore mode for dungeons that makes the enemies higher lvl than you and use more abilities

This isnt “hard core” at all… everyone would still be doing the same thing. Full zerk, skip area, buff, stack in corner and ratatata at boss.

Except you would be glancing your strikes cause the enemy is higher lvl than you…

And why should there be a need of hard core mode in order to add new abilities to mobs and bosses? Isnt that needed anyways for the boring :attack once per 5 second, knock back, 1 bleed…cripple attacks mobs normally have ?

3) Vanquishing a personal instance of a world zone

What for!? what possible reward would you want to go for in order to do 100% map completion AGAIN,but this time you have to kill everything that moves…and do all the events i assume? even tequatl!?

Oh, you think having 5 party members would solve everything?

4) More gw1 skills/combat/trait system/attribute points, Dual classes system

gw2 has a completely different and very simple combat mechanics, and it is paired up with a even simpler gear/stats mechanic. Please deal with it.

Gw1 has a very complex skill /build system that often requires you to use it with other members of your party (people mostly solo in gw2 anyway…) You also use your planed and hand made party build against groups of mobs that also use those same skills.

What would you achieve if you had a even more complex and deeper build/combat mechanic from gw1 in gw2 if you are facing 1 ettin at a time (cause you rarely see groups of mobs in gw2) that can smash the ground for aoe, and hit his club for a frontal knock down every 10 seconds (with around 1-2 seconds charging up animation at which time you can just walk behind him or move away..or dodge it completely anyway)

Why the need of a more complex combat system if you are just going full zerker gear GS warrior that balls up what enemies he can find and just 100 blades them in 1 shot….

All gw2 can add from gw1 has been already added in one way or the other.(mostly done differently than in gw1…)

-Yearly BD presents for characters,you get either a unique tonic, or a random mini from the yearly pack
In gw2 everyone gets queen jenna for first year, for 2nd year they get a title and a cake rifle…

-Tonics that are cool to use ,and even tonics that transform you into a diferent character that you can play in combat

In gw2 most all tonics are for costume brawl,and since they remove your skills its not encuraged to be used outside towns..

-guild capes
We got guild armor and weapons that have a tiny guild emblem on them…i dont remember seeing those on anyone in my 2 years of playing

-guild halls
We got player home instances…that we visit for our city exploration and our daily node mining…..i know they also “evolve” and more npcs are added to the instance as you do events and story missions….but nobody rly seems to bother much with that….

-Content
Gw1 had expansions
gw2 has living story,which is fine by me. I get new content ,new updates,patches, changes,sometimes a new zone. But lets face it. LS will never make a impact as a expansion can…well..the “traditional” meaning of a expansion…

This is a pretty long post to basically just say “I disagree with everything in this thread.”

Wintersday Feedback:

1) Bell choir being laggy and buggy, also when you teleport out it sometimes automatically teleports you back in

2) JP was good, minus the stated fall-damage glitch

3) Loot was horrible. At least the consumables (candy canes) from gw1 that we got so many of were extremely useful. I also still use a lot of the consumables from halloween just for the MF boost. Overall, most of my wintersday loot was instantly trashed (or sold at 2c each). Although I have a lifetime supply of harvesting tools now which I guess is cool. Suggestion: Add a useful consumable (food or utility), even if we get it in massive quantities at least it will be something we can look at in our inventory in July and say “hey I’m glad I participated in wintersday because I still use these”

4) Just didn’t seem like there was much at all to do. We need some sort of dynamic events, or a nice finale or something. I don’t know, I just got bored really fast. I know it was a rehashed wintersday but overall I just feel it needs some more content.

5) Grawnk was great, took a couple of days but we got a pretty cool reward for it. Thank you very much for that!

6) Weapon Skins—Everything new is gem store, but drops or completing extensive events are SO much more fulfilling for me. Even if it was a tiny chance.

Ardenwolfe.8590:

Personally? No. Other than getting a daily for crafting done, or for crafting achievements, no the professions haven’t meant more than the difference between 1-5 points per armor or weapon. If you’re a min/maxer that may mean a lot to you. Otherwise, if you’re a casual, it don’t mean squat.

In fact, you can craft ascended gear through the Mystic Forge without crafting knowledge. Farming, coin purchases off the Trading Post, and laurels will do.

Here’s an example: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sclerite_Karka_Shell_

This isn’t true for armor and weapons . . . for now.

But, in the next patch, you’ll be able to choose an ascended piece of armor if you complete the last part of the Silverwastes achievement that includes the last two pieces.

To me, this opens a gateway to gain ascended armor and the like without crafting. So, I recommend you save your money and go the farming route instead.

But, as always, that’s just my humble opinion.

If he wants to do high level fractals he will need to craft ascended armor or weapons. Casual or not. Outside of that I pretty much agree with what you said.

Guild Halls, Capes, Build Templates, Alliance Battle sized pvp, HA, GvG (didn’t play it much but watched it a lot, which was awesome), hard mode dungeons with worthwhile loot, Named weapon drops off of specific monsters (I personally loved getting a weapon drop named after the monster i just killed), more dungeon specific loot that IS RNG (not just tokens), more useful skills (loved the large skill selection), elemental sword/IDS/eternal shield, Polymock, zaishen keys (or keys/lockpicks and chests in general. I was a chest mad man in GW1). Rollerbeetles

Ascendeds provides a pretty nice boost in stats if you have a full set. If you can only afford 1 piece and have other stuff to spend your gold on then it can be a little less practical. I would say definitely level your crafting up if you are looking for any sort of end-game progression (as that’s what ascended armor and weapons essentially provides). If you are a material hoarder like I am, you can also craft the ascended materials and just sell them on the TP if you have no interest in the equipment.

If you want to do high-level fractals at some point you will pretty much be forced to craft ascended equipment as well.

Guardian is my primary character and I have him in all ascended armor/trinkets and I found it worth it. It takes time but it gives you something to work for. You’ll want to get both armorsmithing and weaponsmithing to 500.

Actually, I have played games where you setup your own little shop. Most of the people in the shops were AFK. I would do this when I went to bed. It was fun to wake up in the morning and see what sold, and spamming from what I remember was at a minimum. I don’t think OP is referring to the GW1 style at all where you sit in spamadan with a WTS message copied, just pasting it every minute. Anyways, I did find player run bazaars pretty fun, but the TP works as well. It’ s just not as immersing, and of course you can see everyone’s prices at once.

Khisanth.2948:

Goose.8195:

I live in AZ and I agree, we could use some crystal desert time (or just the balmy maguuma jungle). It’s been chilly lately!

Hot deserts can be cold at night as well.

Oh I know! But I’ve never seen the CD with snow

I live in AZ and I agree, we could use some crystal desert time (or just the balmy maguuma jungle). It’s been chilly lately!

I do agree 100% with OP. I find most backpieces are really ugly. Exceptions that come to mind fervid/desert rose (although not very masculine on a big tough male character), Light of Dwayna, Lyssa is not bad, and Balthazar (which i just got 2 nights ago). Fractal back piece when you get it all charged up is pretty cool just because of the effects.

Yep, I hide backpieces most of the time as well. I wore my toymaker’s bag during wintersday. Usually I just reskin my backpiece to the obnoxious skins as a joke or when I’m trying to make my character as ugly as possible.

Edit: Oh and I would be completely for guild capes as back skins, had to throw that in there

WvW “big spender” has come up for me many times. If you can run around in EotM for a while to accumulate some tokens, you should have the amount necessary to complete this every time it pops up (25 tokens required).

As people mentioned before, if there is a “capture a point” for pvp try to get into a practice round that is just starting and go to the closest capture point when the match starts. Usually you will find that point is uncontested, if not it’s only a matter of time in the pvp match before you will get an uncontested point.

One other relatively easy one is killing the dolyak supply caravan in WvW, hang out around a supply camp until one spawns and you should be able to solo it while it’s walking to its destination.

I don’t think I’ve seen a day yet without “event completion” in a certain area as well. Usually there’s a vista, event completion, and some sort of gathering. Most days that should give you a relatively easy way to get the 3 required for the achievement points, even if completing 4 events in one area does take a little while.

A Mini Trahearne with dialogue so he can steal your glory no matter what you’re working on.

Mini Shadow Behemoth

Mini Glint

Behellagh.1468:

2. Don’t go cheap on the PSU.

I just wanted to further emphasize this point, as it can’t be understated and it’s often overlooked.

Also, I didn’t see if anyone mentioned the GTX 750 ti as a possible graphics card, but it’s decent bang for your buck at ~$150.

naiasonod.9265:

Goose.8195:

Drink beer while playing. That’s pretty much how I did all of map completion without it getting old.

I am reminded of the evening one of my guilds and I got a bunch of we older folks together one late Saturday night, all of us drinking whatever intoxicating libations we preferred, then went on a jumping puzzle spree because that seemed like the best idea ever.

Madness. Glorious madness.

^ This. And if you’re on TS3 it adds even more to the experience

I’ve enjoyed the Living Story season 2. I left the game because I disliked season 1 so much, but I’m really glad I came back for 2. I would like to see Season 3 knock our expectations out of the park though, even if that only means a LS update every month or 2. With some high-quality updates I will no doubt continue playing this game well into 2015 and beyond.

Drink beer while playing. That’s pretty much how I did all of map completion without it getting old.

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

AnniMira.2506:

Does the sigil work only when the weapon set is used? (most likely yes)

Does the sigil work only if the weapon is used? (1-handed, skills 1-3 and skills 4-5)

Does it matter if I place Force to sword and Accuracy to focus, or otherway?

Sigils only function when you are using that particular weapon set. The exception are those that build stacks. You can’t gain more stacks when not currently using that weapon, but the stacks themselves (and benefits) will persist.

Sigils will work on any skill, regardless of if it’s a weapon, utility, elite, or even generated by a Rune or another sigil! As such, there is no difference between having a sigil of strength on a sword and nullification on focus compared to a sword with nullification and a focus with strength.

Actually, if you are using many different weapon sets, you may want to stay consistent. Say you are planning on running force/accuracy. Put all of the force sigils on your main hand and all of your accuracy on your offhands (or vice versa). That way you don’t end up with a main and an offhand with the same sigil when messing with your weapon combinations.

Encountered some the other day in Ebonhawke. Walked right into a bedroom and there they were, but just talking in local chat. I just pretended like I walked into the wrong room and said something like “whoops, looks like I interrupted something” backed out of the room and left. I got a chuckle out of it, then went on with my day.

I have seen the /me ones before, and they were similar to what OP described, but I just clicked off of emotes to hide them. Kind of like what I do with normal map chat all the time.

Turns out the project they’ve been working on behind the scenes for the last year was a GIANT LS update with new races, classes, and starting areas and they were going to give it all to us just for logging in.

Then they read these threads and realized how dumb that would be so they put it in packaging, called it an expansion, and listed it for $49.99.

Jokes on us.

The price of extractors, and the fact you can’t just salvage back your upgrades (from wvw or karma armor) via in-game obtainable items is a joke. I remember when they first came out my whole guild was basically like “wtf? 1 use for 250 gems?” I could only see using one of these if you made a colossal mistake with an expensive infusion on a hard-to-replace item. Otherwise they are worthless.

Personally, and please don’t hate me for this, but I already think that it’s kind of lame you can swap a character in last second to get all of the credit for what a different character actually completed. I’d rather see invisible checkpoints that your character has to “pass through” added into the dungeon in order to get full credit at the end to prevent dungeon swapping. But that’s just me.

I know we have tomes and whatnot already that make leveling super easy that kind of shoot down the concept I’ve mentioned but, idk, dungeon swapping just has never felt right to me. I’ve personally never swapped characters at the end of a dungeon for the XP.

Wow this thread got horribly off-topic. Quit being kittens to each other.

I am on board with more modern looking pistols. Aether is one of my favorite skins simply because it does look like a classic revolver with an added touch of..well, aether-ness!

Ayrilana.1396:

The trait system we have now likely would have been more widely accepted had they introduced it at launch instead of almost two years later. It’s very similar to how skills were achieved in GW1.

It’s similar, yes, but it’s not very similar. In GW1 you could rush to level 20 in a matter of hours thanks to Cantha. Once at level 20 you’re ready to take on every single zone, capping elites as you please. It takes much more time to level to 80 in GW2, where you are finally ready to take on everything.

Also, in GW1 you were only capping ONE SKILL. Traits affect all aspects of your combat, so this would be more like you having to unlock various levels of swordsmanship or strength in GW1, not just 1 elite skill.

I’ve yet to chime in on this topic that I do feel strongly about.

I will simply say, please revert the trait system. I really love this game and want to keep playing, but leveling alts hasn’t been fun since the system was added. Honestly, it’s so bad that had I not had any 80s prior to the update I may have quit already. This is because of all 4 of Wolfheart’s bullet points above.

I have not finished leveling a single newly created alt to 80 since the update all those months ago. I have 6 80s prior to the update.

apocalyps.7106:

@ OP then the world as we know it is over, time to get to work on real life things

I really hope that you said this just to fit your username in perfectly.

Lishtenbird.2814:

In this particular case, it was removing the freedom of getting 5-8 AP given for playing almost any thing in the game and replacing it by a requirement of doing 3 specific tasks for 10 AP.

I only didn’t mention the laurel, mystic coin, etc. because you specifically said AP.

Lishtenbird.2814:

Subdue.5479:

It seems to me that you people complaining have simply become set in your ways, and are opposed to the change because “We had it before.” “We had it before” is not the same as “It was better for everyone before.”

I consider “we had it before” to be a valid concern. If you had it before and now you don’t, that is to be perceived as removal of freedom. In this particular case, it was removing the freedom of getting 5-8 AP given for playing almost any thing in the game and replacing it by a requirement of doing 3 specific tasks for 10 AP.

The old system really wasn’t freedom though. It is only perceived as “freedom” because of the play-style of many of the forum posters. If you have no interest in resurrecting people, harvesting, etc. then the old system was still forcing you to go out of your norm to do something for achievement points. The new system also forces you to go out of your norm, but in my opinion, feel it takes a lot less time to do so. There were many days where I played for an hour or so and looked and my dailies that I had left and just said “screw it, don’t feel like doing the rest” and gave up on the day. If they were truly a gimme, then in an hour of playtime you’d think they’d be accomplished without a problem.

Subdue.5479:

When did “Play as you want,” come to mean “Have every reward for doing anything or nothing at all?”

What is intrinsically wrong with being required to go out of your way to complete optional achievements for optional rewards?

How is complaining about the dailies in their current for any different from complaining that you can’t get Arah armor by harvesting plants in Ascalon?

It seems to me that you people complaining have simply become set in your ways, and are opposed to the change because “We had it before.” “We had it before” is not the same as “It was better for everyone before.”

I agree with you, and I actually think that if we had the system that we do now in the past and it was updated to the old system that we just got away from, there would be just as long of a thread about how hard it is to get dailies.

laokoko.7403:

Vayne.8563:

Not even close. As many have pointed out, other games come out with content faster with smaller staffs, so it’s not logical to think that this larger staff couldn’t produce content faster.

Either they’re working on something more ambitious or another project altogether, but 300 people for the content they’ve given us doesn’t really mesh. That’s why some people are expected something big.

Did you start saying those things last year?

Just saying it.

You do realize 1 year have passed.

Keep in mind, they did say a large part of their resources was consumed by the China release. I think with that out of the way that players will naturally expect more updates here in the upcoming year (whether that is right or wrong of us to do).

Lishtenbird.2814:

Goose.8195:

I am not sure of the point of your post, whether you are agreeing with me or just telling me something that you think I didn’t know already.

Well, on these forums, you never know… Sometimes people don’t even read past the first sentence, and you have to repeat things in a personal quote /shrug

Since you did know it, let’s say I am agreeing with you and elaborating

That’s fair. Yea I remember first entering that instance with a couple of guildies and one of the first things we all said was “Wow I hope this somehow gets turned into a dungeon or fractal.” So we could be in a beautiful zone, and of course reap rewards each time

Lishtenbird.2814:

Goose.8195:

I really hope Glint’s Lair comes back in some form of a dungeon or a fractal. It was just too beautiful of an area to be a one-time deal.

Not exactly a “one-time deal”, you can still do it, but there’s simply little point to do it in terms of comfort and rewards. If it was a fractal/dungeon, there would be much more incentive in going there and enjoying the already created content.

I am not sure of the point of your post, whether you are agreeing with me or just telling me something that you think I didn’t know already.

We have so many elder dragons left to encounter too! I really hope we get to meet them all in the upcoming year.

Ardenwolfe.8590:

That analogy was horrible. We’re not talking something even remotely close to that. We’re talking about something that will take years to create, develop, test and polish. Not something done over a handshake, bidding wars, and a contract.

This circular reasoning and plausible denial is ridiculous.

Can we get a developer here to confirm or deny that an expansion is in the works for the coming year? Or is Living Story, as stated from the three sources, what we will see more of?

Quite frankly, I’m more inclined to people the people working on the projects than players hoping it will happen to prove some teary-eyed point on a message board.

But, to be fair, I will not be saying ‘I told you so’ to anyone. I would love to see an expansion too, but all sources point to that not happening anytime soon.

Again, sorry.

I think you grossly underestimate the amount of content a team like Anet can put out in a year. And we aren’t talking they said there would be no release yesterday, and who are you to say there won’t be a giant “living story” update at the end of season 2 that’s released like all of the rest of the content for the past year? Then they wouldn’t be lying about not giving us an expansion, and not needing it to pay the bills…they’d be giving it to us for free.

Do I actually think there will be a traditional expansion? Idk, I’m really not sure, but I guarantee you there is a large amount of content in the pipeline. If there isn’t then they simply don’t want our business anymore.

Beef jerky. So I have a snack while playing GW2.

I really hope Glint’s Lair comes back in some form of a dungeon or a fractal. It was just too beautiful of an area to be a one-time deal.

Ardenwolfe.8590:

Vayne.8563:

So you can say we have no proof. I can say you have no proof.

Which is why it’s called speculation. lol

Three separate people working for Arena Net, the president, the lead content designer, and the game director all said within the last year or so, and I quote, “There are no plans for an expansion in the near future,” or words that effect.

And you want to call that . . . speculation?

How many times does a NFL (or any sports team or organization) team say “so and so is not going to be traded” and then the next day he’s gone to another team. Same thing here, why would a company reveal its strategy to the whole world when they’ve been so hush-hush on everything else

How about we all stop talking down to each other with “proof” that one thing or another is going to happen. Unless you are on the development team, you really have no idea what they are working on. Maybe they are playing semantics too. Maybe it won’t be a traditional “expansion” and they label what they’ve been working on something entirely different. (i.e. a large “living story”) update. There’s really no point in arguing all of this purely speculative nonsense.

The topic is “what if there is no expansion.” Not “prove to me that there won’t be an expansion.” Remember Factions and Nightfall? Both released in the same year.

To actually address the topic, if there isn’t a large influx of new content released in the next year whether it is by expansion or DLC or whatever it may be, I will likely get bored and stop playing.

I wouldn’t mind seeing this, or if it was at least in a frequent rotation.

One thing I have noticed since the new rollout though, and IDK if it’s just my imagination or if anyone else has also noticed…but with no daily reviver, have you guys noticed that you don’t get revived as often? Just curious, could just be I was unlucky the last few days with the people around me.

Can’t tell if this is purely a troll thread..or if this OP is serious. Hoping it’s the former.

Rok.2963:

we should be enjoying doing dailies together, even when one partner is a veteran and the other is a new comer who should feel welcome.

Although this point you have is still true. You’d be able to help with their dailies but you wouldn’t get credit.

The new system is based on the highest level character in your account. If you only have lowbies you will not get the same dailies as someone with a level 80.

I’m sorry, I couldn’t get past the part in your post where you called them quests. Quests? Really now? They’re not quests. They’re stupid pet tricks. Standing on top of a building in the Black Citadel isn’t a quest. Cutting down a few trees isn’t a quest. Crafting something useless isn’t a quest. The very notion is laughable.

Quest: a search or pursuit made in order to find or obtain something (i.e. find a vista, get reward)

Doesn’t matter how “epic” the quest sounds to you, if you want to play semantics then there’s the dictionary definition. What I do take out of your post is the implication that you’d like more, which I’d agree with. More quests in the traditional sense for a daily reward would be a welcome addition in my book.

The new dailies are what dailies should have been from the beginning! Additional quests that you can go out of your way to do AND YOU GET REWARDED gasp

I’ve seen so many arguments “well I don’t play that way” “well I have to go out of my way to do this (too restrictive)” “OMG I get rewarded for logging in? Travesty!”

“I don’t play that way.” It’s literally a quest to get a reward. If you don’t want the reward, don’t do the quest. Guess what? I’m not a big fan of JPs, and I don’t do WvW that often, but I wanted the monthly reward for doing them, so I would do them.

“I have to go out of my way to get a daily now.” You have to go out of your way to get a quest reward? Oh what a pity. I have to go to Arah to get Arah tokens. I don’t really care to be in Arah, but if I want the tokens that’s where I have to go. This is how quests in every single questing game I’ve ever played work. Go out of your way to complete a quest and get rewarded for doing so.

“I get rewarded for logging in? So this is login wars 2?” So if you are complaining about this, but you want the old system back…doesn’t that kind of make you a hypocrite? With the old system you did generally get the daily 5 completed just doing whatever you would do in a normal day (i.e. quests, gathering, etc.). You didn’t have to go out of your way to complete quests. Now you do, and you’re also given a thank you for logging in that day. I can’t really see the downside.

And AP hunters are mad pretty much solely because everyone can keep up with them on AP relatively easy from dailies now. There aren’t 12 tasks that can actually take some time to complete each day. If this is why you think the system is broken then you should probably get over yourself.

The bottom line is that dailies are quests that (kind of) change each day, and you can go out of your way to do them. I don’t think I’ve spent more than 15 minutes doing dailies a single day yet, which is great because then I can go back to doing whatever it is I wanted to do knowing I got the max AP for that day along with some additional rewards that I didn’t get before.

What other games are out there where you don’t have to go out of your way to complete a quest? Now I’m not completely defending the new daily system, as I think tweaks could be made to make it more creative, or more unique daily quests, without jam-packing a few select maps, but c’mon people. You’re complaining about a MMO giving you a quest reward.

The only thing I find frustrating in this jp is the fall glitch after the the popping presents. Otherwise it’s a matter of practicing your camera angle and always moving. Having to stop because a snowflake is respawning is what throws my timing off most and then I fall to my death.

Bernie.8674:

Ayrilana.1396:

Randomize achievements across players so not everyone has the same ones.

I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, it alleviates the crowding in zones, but on the other it discourages organized guild groups from knocking out their dailies together.

Although I have never done dailies with guildies, you do bring up a good point.

OP, good thread and I do like your suggestions.

Hey everyone! We are still recruiting, new people and old! Shoot me an in-game mail if you’re interested in joining.

Since this thread has gotten so long I guess I’ll chime in with my opinion.

I like the new daily system. I get a special “thanks” for logging in, then a set of optional quests pop up basically saying “hey if you want to go do these quests, we’ll give you another reward.” If I don’t like how the quests look I say “nah, not today, these look boring.” So far, I’ve found the quests to be pretty easy, and have done even more than the required 3 for the little prize you get specific to the quest you complete. A little extra xp in PvP for PvPing? Yes please! The AP is nice, although I’m not an accomplished AP hunter, but thus far the quests have been super easy and faster to complete than any daily I ever did before the update. To me, that’s even better because if I really am concerned about accomplishing something I don’t want to do for AP, and it literally takes 10 minutes to finish, then I can go back to doing the other AP related questing faster.

A guildie asked who wanted to form a toypocalypse group just yesterday. I told him we couldn’t anymore because of the new changes. He was just like “what, really?” So I don’t think too many people are super happy about it. One solution would have been the option to join with randoms, or join as a team, though that may have been harder to execute.

I think what rapthorne is saying is that he does acknowledge that berserker’s is the most efficient way to play, and he plays this way because he wants to be an efficient player. He wasn’t asking for the condescending remarks that it’s his choice on how to play. I’m pretty sure everyone in these forums knows that it’s our choice on how to play a video game.

I do think it would be neat to see what would come of a smarter AI system like you mentioned rapthorne, but like Andred said, once people figure out how to beat that the most efficient way everyone will flock to those stats and we’ll have ourselves another “meta.”

We are still looking for new members! Pm me in game or mail me @ Goose.8195.

Big and Beautiful Norns [BBN] is a relatively new guild looking for more people to get to know! We have been around since about September, but many of us have been playing since launch. We have 90+ members, and we are interested in recruiting more people who actually want to get to know us! (I only say it like that because we aren’t interested in people bouncing guild to guild trying to leach guild missions and playing by themselves the whole time).

We are still working on getting everything unlocked, but we are just about there (only a couple of guild missions to go). Our primary focus is on PVE and getting to know our members. This is a MMO, so we feel socializing with each other should be a big part of it! We have no requirements, and we don’t ask you to rep 100% of the time. We understand that people have personal guilds, and may have other interests, and we won’t hold that against you. There does, however, need to be at least 50% representation. If you are just a name sitting in our guild and none of us get to know you or play with you then there isn’t a point to you being here.

The Basics

USA Sanctum of Rall based guild: With the mega-server this isn’t super important, but if you do want to WvW with us, you’ll have to be on SoR.

Teamspeak 3: It’s important for us to get to know each other! Most people who join and never come on TS3 with us leave the guild thinking that we are a quiet guild. This isn’t the case! We just do most of our communication through teamspeak, so if you really want to get to know us, you’ll have to be willing to hop on and at least listen. If you don’t you may feel left out.

Fractals and Dungeons: We love doing fractals and dungeons. We don’t require you to run a certain build, or bring certain skills (but we will help you with your build if you ask). This is a relaxed, casual guild, and most things can be completed in a reasonable amount of time without having to run the meta. All we ask is that you listen in TS while we are doing these! We try to do dungeons and fractals as often as possible, and to keep things going smoothly, we at least need you in TS to listen if nothing else.

When are we on? Most of us are college students or work full-time. Our active times are by far in the evenings and on the weekends. (we have members from all USA time-zones, as well as a few Aussies). If you are active during the day, you may find our guild is a lonely place. I try and let all new members know this so that their expectations aren’t that we are a 24/7 guild. As much as I wish we were, we simply are not.

If you only have a few nights a week, or don’t want to be required to log a certain amount of hours then we may be the guild for you. This is an adult-only guild, and we often have colorful language or humor that isn’t necessarily “family friendly.” Oh, and I suppose I should mention, that despite our guild name, we do welcome all races! (yes, even Asurans).

If you have any other questions PLEASE, pm or mail me in-game at Goose.8195. I look forward to hearing from you all!