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qT posted their guesses on Reddit. That's a lot of commanders stuff for chronos

Hi everyone! I wanted to bring this topic back and see if anyone still has interest. Just yesterday more servers opened up. I guess the backpack rush is over and population is mostly back to normal. I've been playing WvW a good amount lately, and my husband and I have decided to switch servers at the relinking on August 25. I still like TC and hope to come back some day, but in my limited playtime it's not working for me right now. Anyways, I thought I'd put my plan out there and see if anyone else is interested. If we could get together 5ish people who are interested in playing regularly, we could start a "war snakes" havoc squad. Here's the tentative timeline: August 25: relink occurs Sometime before September 1: everyone moves to new server. If pips are important to you, get pips on your current server before you move because you won't be getting them on the new one until you've been on it for a full match. Match September 1-8: this match you won't get pips because you weren't on the server the entire match before. However we can still play. Match September 8-15: You start getting pips again. As far as servers go I was considering two choices: 1. Transfer to the highest ranked server we can and make it our new home (basically intend to stay). This would probably cost everyone 1800 gems as we'd move to a very high pop server. If the ranks and the open/full servers don't move around much right now this would be DB, but we could also consider SBI. 2. Transfer to the server linked to the highest server we can. Because it's a linked server, it's possible we'd want to move again at the next link. Right now that would be Devonas Rest (this is just an example, it probably won't be Devonas after relink). The good part about this is it would be cheap at only 500 gems, but we might want to move again in a two months (it's possible we won't though) and if we did, we'd loose a week of pips again. So if anyone is interested, meaning they want to do this, please reply and say which server option you prefer (1, 2, or another suggestion). When we discussed this before we had several votes for Darkhaven. We could consider that too after we see who their new link is.

Hello aspiring scribes of NPC! As of today, NPC has unlocked all the schematics you need to level to 400 the cheapest way according to gw2crafts.net, with one exception. That exception is we have unlocked Emergency WP instead of Gate Turrets. Please consider using Emergency WP to level instead. The difference in gold is 20 silver per craft (so approximately 5.6 gold total difference), and the turrets are awful in WvW. The only other thing is you may have to make guild arrow carts instead of ballistas (the price difference is coppers). Let me know if you have any questions! Happy scribing!

Hi everyone! Thanks again for your help upgrading the guild hall! We're doing awesome and, because of everyone's generous donations, we are only limited by aetherium. Guildies have been donating using one of three methods: depositing in the treasury, depositing in the guild bank, and direct mailing me mats/gold. No one has accused me of embezzling yet, but I though I'd clarify how I'm using everything. I like transparency, don't you? When we finish an upgrade and start working on the next, I post in the MOTD any materials we need that have not been deposited in the treasury or guild bank. I move any materials deposited in the guild bank that are intended for upgrading the hall right away. I then wait until we have enough aetherium for the upgrade. If no one has donated the needed materials into the treasury by that time, I use the gold people have mailed me to buy or make the needed materials. This is common with stuff that doesn't drop (like superior runes of holding) or stuff that only scribes can make (paper mostly). I'm not going to name names, but I want the gold donators to know that they shouldn't feel like we will be held up if they don't donate materials too. I like to give other guild members who don't want to donate gold but have mats they don't mind donating a chance to do so. The gold donations are our "fall back plan." Of course if you want to donate more, I won't stop you That's pretty much all I have to say. Feel free to leave any questions below. I hope everyone is happy with our progress. Oh yeah, one more thing! We finally have all of the stat boosting claiming auras unlocked, so feel free to claim stuff in WvW without worrying about other guilds having "better" buffs. The only one we don't have now is magic find which won't make a difference for defense or offense. See you in the Mists!

Oops should have left this here https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/6o8gs3/sc_deimos_824_left/ Lot of good ideas in there. Illustrates a few that Mold stated above. Warriors: looks like The SC warriors carry the banner with them if teleported. Seems like an easy thing to do to increase dps.

Since the WvW rewards update, I've returned to playing WvW a good amount of time per week. It is undeniable that my server Tarnished Coast is struggling right now. The server that I remember from 2 years ago that was full of commanders, guilds, and militia in almost all of the time zones (frequently queueing multiple maps) is gone, and TC is a very different place today. Luckily, I'm also a very different player than I was 2 years ago, and the combination of the two has allowed me to find new ways to enjoy WvW. In my previous WvW life, I was a zergling. I ran the build that I was told, I fulfilled the role I was assigned, and I stuck to the commander like white on rice. That was fun and it is one way you can play WvW (I still do this for around half of my WvW time). However, this time around, I'm getting a lot of satisfaction out of sentrying, defending, and havocing. A perfect example is yesterday afternoon. I zoned into TCBL and a commander and small group (not really Zerg size) was running around capping stuff. I joined them just as they took Hills, and I decided to make it my new home. I told the commander my intention (as a side note a sentry/defender who is in TS with a commander is worth at least 5 who aren't) and he told me "I haven't bothered to siege or defend Hills this afternoon because they keep flipping it." I said to him, "I understand, but that stops now." Over the next 2.5 hours I proceeded to siege the entire Keep, add useful improvement and tactics, and defend from enemy attacks. I'm especially proud of one of my counter attacks that slowed the enemy long enough allow reinforcements, including the commander and our Zerg, to arrive, saving Hills from certain disaster. Turns out one door trebuchet at an outer gate is worth at least 3 arrowcarts, especially when the enemy commander is too stupid to keep his Zerg away from your supply draining putrid cows. (For those who are interested we still own Hills and it's been 17 hours since I was there.) Over the past few weeks, I've noticed that if I make a tower or keep my new "home" help starts to materialize. As Hills started to upgrade, I got visits from roamers who captured the camps that send supplies to Hills, escorted yaks, and helped me refresh the boatload of siege weapons I had build for Hills's defense. Yes, when TC was strong I would never have taken on this role, mostly because it was already being done by others. However the new state of affairs has given me incentive to learn how to siege and defend towers and keeps, how to efficiently capture camps by myself or with just a few other people, how to keep myself alive when a thief tries to gank me (when will thieves learn that not all eles are squishy?!?!), and more. I really feel like my personal actions contribute to our score (a keep or even a tower saved from the enemy contributes a significant amount of points to the skirmish score). Yes, my former WvW commanders have contacted me and asked me if I'd like to transfer. Some have even offered to pay my transfer fee. But I'm torn. Server loyalty is a relic now with server linking and the large changes many servers including TC have undergone, and it would be nice to be on a "winning" server for those extra pips. On the other hand, I'm learning a ton and it feels like I'm making an actual impact. It's the classic struggle of intrinsic vs. extrinsic rewards, and I'm not sure whats going to win in the end. See you in the Mists! PS I'm going to get together the resources I've been using to learn about WvW life outside of the Zerg. I'll hopefully post them in the next entry.

As most of you are aware, I have taken on the project of leading the charge to further upgrade our guild hall, starting with the War Room. Even though we might decide to get all of the upgrades in the end, I'm trying to prioritize the order we get them in a way that would benefit our current WvW players. In my mind the upgrades fall into two categories: useful and not useful. Useful is further subdivided into three categories: useful for everyone who can claim objectives ( anyone in NPC can do that as long as you are higher than a Green Mamba), useful to leveling scribes, and useful to leveled scribes [i.e., improvements and tactics that scribes could craft that are actually useful in WvW.]) As of right now, this is my priority list (please feel free to leave a comment if you would like to suggest a change): Invulnerable fortifications (for scribe leveling, also a useful tactic) Hardened gates (next few are useful when made by scribes for defending camps and towers when sentrying or havocing) Speedy dolyaks Iron guards Guild claiming: Stonemist castle (No, I don't think any of us are going to need to claim Stonemist anytime soon. However, this upgrade is a prerequisite for some other important upgrades.) Objective aura 7 vitality (Yeah! This will be a major milestone that provides all the important aura stat boosts when NPC claims something. If someone complains that they need the extra 20% magic find from the last aura to properly defend something, tell them to stfu.) Emergency wp (for scribe leveling, also a useful tactic) Watchtower (for scribe leveling, also a useful tactic) Chilling fog (useful tactic) Guild ballista Guild catapult Guild trebuchet Guild flame ram Guild siege golem Presence of the Keep (extremely useful improvement but can only be placed on keeps, hence the name) Dragon banner (useful banner, but banners got nerfed so hard they are not an important part of fights anymore. Nevertheless, they are fun to use and towers and keeps have a tactivator that can only be filled with a banner.) Assault roller (fun but it's either underused or useless. Seems like invulnerable dolyaks is a better tactic for a camp) Turtle banner (seems like people prefer centaur and dragon over this one) Hardened siege (useless in my opinion because the first thing people do is take down the cannons, mortars and oils and this doesn't do much to stop them. Plus, the other option for this slot is iron guards which gives the lord more health and armor so it's arguably better.) Sabotage depot (minimal usefulness in my mind. Has some niche applications.) Armored dolyaks (useless because speedy is better) Packed dolyaks (I've seen people use this but I still think speedy is better) Guild shield generator (this one is an outrageous amount of aetherium) Objective aura 8 magic find Airship defense (only useable at Stonemist) Cloaking waters (pretty useless, only useable at Stonemist) Turret gates (useless. In fact this is worse than useless-it's actually detrimental because it takes away the upgrade slot you could use for Presence of the Keep which is actually good. Please don't put this anywhere if you like your server.) We've made so much progress in the last weeks I'm really proud of us. I know the road ahead looks pretty intimidating, but this is a long term goal to be completed when people have extra mats they don't mind donating to the cause. Also, we still have access to the improvements and tactics that scribes make without unlocking them in the War Room. Anyone who has permission to spend claimable upgrades can use the ones deposited in our guild war chest. The majority of the ones in there right now come from choosing the Improvement and Tactic pack from Skirmish chests. This gives you a random tactic or improvement. Almost all of them are worth more than a gold, so it's actually one of the best options to choose from the skirmish chest-if you are going to use them for the benefit of your server and you don't need any of the other options. Thanks to everyone for all of your generous donations so far. Special shout out to Mold, Fred, Ser, Bone, Pyro, and Khani for their help! (I hope I didn't leave anyone out, I'm writing this at work so I can't look at who donated. I'm super sorry if I didn't mention you!). See you in the Mists! (Unless you're Oddgo. I suggest you avoid his "hugs" at all costs.)

Great tip! Thanks Khani. Reason = big sink: legendary armor + tiny faucet: drops from grawl, jotun, and risen brutes in zones level 40ish to 60ish.

How is it that this Cmaj guild can do this: But they can't do this: Seriously though, both videos are great. Highly recommended.

This made me laugh out loud. Ser-I'm disappointed you didn't let us have a glimpse of your inventory

Thanks Kintari! I never noticed that before.

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Nice! I'm going to have to try that one. Mostly I get strange looks when I mention gaming to people who don't know me well, assuming I say anything at all. I typically blame it on gender (most people don't expect a middle aged woman to wax eloquent on video games), but perhaps I'm just not being persuasive enough.

I found this article interesting (and affirming of my life choices) so I though I'd share. http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2017/06/20/533617105/why-you-should-play-video-games