Guild Wars 2

Bump, we’ll be having our first guild mission this thursday!

Hello Chrineal!

If you are interested in much smaller guilds, then our guild may be fit for you. Syndicate Of The Shadows [SOS] is a new, family friendly, LGBTQA friendly guild. We currently only have 35 members, but we all try to enjoy the little things of the game.

Our only requirement is you have fun and to respect each other. We are mainly PvE and we accept all players from ALL servers! We also don’t mind if you are new to the game or not. We’ll try our best to help you out.

We usually log in during the evenings (reset time 7pm EST).

If you are interested, mail me in-game and I can get to you ASAP!

Bump bump bump for the weekend!

It’s Friday! And another bump for the day lol.

And another bump. We got about 5 awesome new people in just one night! Still recruiting

Aaaaand comes another bump! Successfully grab another friendly recruit and still looking for more! We currently have a total of 29 members at the moment. Small, but recently been very active in the evenings!

Awesome. We’ll be happy to hear from you soon!

Greetings fellow Tyrians!

Some background…

Syndicate of the Shadows[SOS] was made around the time the game came out. We used to be a pretty large guild consisting of 200-250 players. In 2013, most of us decided to join other games such as Everquest or ESO and the guild split.

In 2015, the guild was revived again when new and old members came together. After more than a year of fun, the same story as 2013 happened. We all slowly got busy with real life or got burnt out by the game.

And now some of us are back again!

What we are now & what our goals are

There’s only a handful of us that have returned. [SOS] currently consists of 73 members (as of April 4,2017). NOTE Most veteran guildies are still in the guild, but are away. That’s why the number may see a little high for a small guild.

We are a mature group of people who are accepting players who are veterans and new to the game. We are also LGBTQA friendly.

Our goals:

• 18+ Preferred (Being matured and respectful is all that really matters)
• Small, friendly, and helpful environment.
• Very casual, enjoy the game and have fun.
• No rep requirements at all.
• Absolutely no discrimination or bullying.
• We accept anyone from any server in NA (our home is Darkhaven)
• We believe in quality > quantity

It would be also be a plus if we could find people that loves to do fractals! It would also be great if people want to learn how to do fractals. We can help! We have some members that would love to do more fractals daily.

What do we do?

We are mostly PvE. There are few players that PvP as well. WvW never happens since we’re all in mixed servers.

We are a very casual group of people. We do things we think might be fun! That could be map meta events or fractals!

Sometimes we do our own thing and that’s okay!

What can we offer and what can you expect?

We’re a small guild so we can’t necessarily offer as much as the larger guilds. We have a level 37 Gilded Hollow with every potion available (20% gathering, 10% magic find, 10% map bouns, etc).

In terms of guild missions, we do not have a set date for them at the moment. Most of the time we just do them when most of us are on or we do them when someone needs the commendations. Guild commendations and weekly rewards are easily do-able with few people.

We can offer a place to make new friends! We want everyone to have fun and enjoy the little things in Tyria. If you need help with something, say dungeons, we are always welcomed to help!

Please expect a casual and a small tight-nit guild to be casual and tight-nit. We all have something going on in our lives whether it be school, work, family, or just having a life in general. I would advise to not expect a guild to be on 100% of the time and all day.

Otherwise, expect a friendly and close-nit atmosphere. We all try our best to get to know each other as friends rather than another gamer.

Any voice programs?

Yes! We just started using Discord.

Thanks for reading if you made it this far!
Please contact us if you think this guild could be a great fit for you!

Mail us a little about yourself and why you would like to join. We’ll contact you ASAP!

• Peureki.3647
• Malcheor.1407

Hello Athena!

Syndicate of the Shadows[SOS] is a very very small guild. We used to be pretty big when the game was released back in 2012 but we all decided to go on different paths and play different MMOs. Recently some of us have been in the same situation and you have now joined the game once again!

There are only about 23 of us, some veterans and some not. Some have other guilds and some stay with us. We are very friendly (no discrimination and LGBTQA friendly) and our goal is to recruit more people to enjoy the game with. We are PvE based and we’re probably not as active as you want. We usually log in around the evening time (because of work and school), but we’ll be glad to have you join us!

Oh yeah, our home is Darkhaven as well and we accept all servers

Send me a pm or message via mail in-game if you’re interested!
-Peureki

Bumping this up so it gets noticed more.

It’s kind of inconvenient to do PvE (mostly Silverwaste/Dungeons) because of how much longer it takes to sell something.

Paavotar.3971:

Yea, it would be way too much. Ice spike has a low cooldown and it would be in a same element as 2 water fields and an ice field. And like Blackbeard said its good this way when Staff has a lot of different fields and not that many blasts while daggers have a lot of blasts but only fire field.

Ice Spike may have a low cooldown but it acts the same way as Eruption, it takes 3 more seconds to actually do what it’s suppose to do. An ele could do Water 2 → Water 3 and Water 2 → Water 4 but it would take up massive amount of time. Especially with this meta, it’s not worth it for a Staff ele to sit in water just for the blasts because conditions and burst will knock them straight down by the time you can cast everything.

Also I’m not sure about Water 2 → Water 5. Either you have to time it SUPER perfectly or ice spike falls down right before Water 5 is done casting. Water 5 has a longish cast time.

Frenk.5917:

Peureki.3647:

You really have to time everything perfectly to get two effects of blast in water fields or fire fields.

Not really. Water #2, Fire #2, dodge roll into the firefield while in earth. There’s even time for Fire #3 to maximize DPS.

Also, the simple fact that you can Water #2 —-> Water #3 without needing to switch to other attunements would be extremely powerful. You could potentially blast three times into Water #5.

To be clear: I’d like for this to happen, but I believe we have to think about the consequences.

Mmmm very true. But that still has to be timed right unless you have 6 traits in fire for XI and 6 traits in Arcana for XI. Then it becomes relatively easy to combo with but that’s a lot of traits to use.

I get what you’re saying and I agree it’s powerful. For example a staff ele can easily get some major heals if they use Earth 2 + Water 2 + Water 3 + Arcane Wave. Or some major might Earth 2 + Water 2 + Fire 2 + Arcane Wave.

Another OP example can be getting Frost Armor with at least 2 traits in Earth for V. Same combo but replace the field with Water 4. 43% less damage for a long period of time. These cases and the one you’ve shown above are the best case scenarios.

Frenk.5917:

Chaith.8256:

Frenk.5917:

It would be the ultimate pointholder.

Imagine a D/D Celestial Elementalist.
Now give him 1200 range, massive AoE pressure, and more healing.

It’d be insane.

I’m all for it.

Honestly man I think staff needs to have telegraphs drastically reduced on Earth 2, Water 2, and Air 2.

I do agree, but keep in mind that (speaking about SPVP), giving Water #2 a blast finisher may cause huge problems, given the amount of fire/water fields an ele can provide.

^True but it’s still not going to be equal as D/D or S/D in terms of heals or might. They both have super quick ways to gain massive amounts of heals and might with their blast finishers. Their skills barely have any cast time and the effect is instant. Staff eles still have to wait 1 second to cast Earth 2 (+ 3 more seconds to take into effect), 1 second to cast Water 2 (+ 3 more seconds), and finally some field. You really have to time everything perfectly to get two effects of blast in water fields or fire fields.

In a pvp sense, everybody knows that staff eles lack a little bit of everything compared to other eles such as D/D or S/F. I believe making Ice Spike a blast finisher will help the class fill those missing spot that it’s been lacking.

For example, Eruption + Ice Spike can be used to gain more might or more heals or more of whatever field it’s going to land on. Every other weapon set of Eles besides Staff has more than one blast finisher. It seems a bit off that staff eles only have one blast finisher yet they can make the most fields.

I don’t think this would change the power of this class drastically as you would have to time everything quickly if you wanted to do a Eruption+Ice Spike + (some field) combo. You would also have to be close to the blast and that already gives staff eles disadvantages in combat. It would still help the class and be more versatile.

Plus, it looks like a blast finisher anyway… :P

I main staff ele and what I have to say is..just move out of the aoe or kill the person casting it. Making it stop all together halfway through is just nonsense for the staff ele because our slow auto attacks and lava font can only do so much in fire. If meteor shower stopped after cast, that gives you a few meteors in 3 seconds? That’s TERRIBLE results. That’d make you an open target right there.

Take the opportunity to kill the caster. Since neither the ranger or ele can move while casting for about 3 seconds, use that time to burst them down.

Or..do the same thing when someone is about to stomp an ally, INTERRUPT them. Stomping and life transferring should be the same as it is. Sorry that you got interrupted but there’s a reason why Stability exist.

Hello people from the forums,

I guess you can say I’m a bit of a veteran. I’ve played ever since release and was very experienced with the game back then. I’ve created and been a guild leader of a fairly medium casual guild called Syndicate of the Shadows [SOS] (if you heard of us, awesome!) lol. Haven’t played in about a year and a half because of college and got hacked so I may not be familiar with the new stuff going on.

I’ll admit I’m a very picky person when it comes to joining guilds because I tend to not like guild that demand so much out of me. That’s why I’m interested in joining a guild that’s laid back and casual. I’m interested in PVP, PVE, and WvW. I’ll probably be online every now and then because of college (just a heads up). I also would prefer if it was at least a medium size guild.

Peureki – The Grim Reaper Ele! muwhahah :P

Combination of Arah, TA, HOTW, and SE gear.

[KOS] is fairly new and a medium size guild (80 members)! We are recruiting any active players to do WvW, sPvP, and PvE! We aim to be and hopefully be a great big community!
At the moment we currently use Raidcall, a free voice chat program.

If you are interested in joining, whisper me or add me in game!
-Peureki

..and yes i know its suppose to be sight. Couldn’t use it so site will do since it just means killing at a certain place. ;P