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New Guild Hall Poll

Wed, 16 Aug 2017 01:46:00 GMT

Hello everyone,

With Path of Fire coming pretty soon, they have shown us a short preview of a new Guild Hall.

Guild Wars 2 - Path of Fire - Windswept Haven

We have had the Gilded Hollow since Heart of Thorns release and I think most of us would like to see a change. So I am putting up a poll to see if people do want to switch or keep the hall as is.

New Guild Hall Strawpoll

If we do switch, we would like to have everyone who wants to claim ownership of decorations they have added to the guild or crafted to make a list. This way we can keep track of how many are claimed and the rest will be for decorating the hall.

Since we will also need to go and claim the new hall after using 100 gold for the fee, I will be letting Optimus go and claim the new hall. He will be selecting his team of 9 to enter the hall since that is the best player # to scaling since we had major issues with 60-70 people.

Right now, only a few selected people can decorate in the Guild Hall. When we claim the new hall I am thinking for the first two weeks to allow anyone in the Guild the ability to decorate. Doing this will allow people to experience what decorating is like and possibly make some themes or ideas we can do to the hall. After the two weeks have ended we will restore all the decorations back to storage so those who own decorations can use theirs in their own areas.

In terms of our alliance with [BOLD], we originally allied with them so that we can have access to both Guild Halls. However, I have talked briefly to them and they said they will be switching to the new hall as well. This will not change our alliance however but if that does mean those who are in [BOLD] doesn't really need to use that guild slot anymore.

If I missed anything please leave a comment and I will add or change accordingly.

-Fus

Some Ground Rules

Sat, 13 May 2017 23:22:00 GMT

Due to some recent events over the past few months where we started running into issues where we didn't have any ground rules to follow or enforce when a member would do something wrong or enforce something ridiculous. So after chatting with the other Guild Leaders, we have come up with 4 basic rules to follow.

Conduct Rules:

Show Decorum in Guild Chat. Be respectful. Avoid excessive swearing. Remember, there is no tone in chat—things can be easily misconstrued.

Swearing is fine as long as it is not directed at a person. General swearing is fine since it is a way of expression. We do know there is an in-game censor to block out any swear words which work in all chat tabs. But even though that feature exists, we don't want the guild chat to be full of profanity. We do have some kids and even older adults playing the game so we want to re respectful as much as possible. Sometimes we do have people who are close friends with each other and so sometimes swearing might be directed at one or the other. As an General/Overwatch/Leader don't take action unless the other member is offended by it.
NO DRAMA. If a Leader asks you to do something, please listen. If there is any dispute between members, screenshot the chat & bring it to the Guild Leader — we will resolve it equitably & peacefully.

If you are a sarcastic or like to joke a lot, please show a sign that you are being sarcastic or joking. With text, we cannot tell what is sarcastic. Saying "jk" is enough to show you are joking about something.
No Spoilers for at least 1 week.

No Living World or Expansion spoilers. When an update hits do not talk about or discuss part of the story in Guild Chat for at least 1 week after initial release. Items from rewards, achievements, unlocks are fine since they are in the game and can be seen through game tabs.

TV shows, movies, etc are not enforced but please do not spoil a huge event like Game of Thrones cause not everyone has direct access to these content.
Decorations: Only use decorations you have made/bought/requested.

If you have decoration permission which is only for General Decor, Overwatch, and Guild Leaders, do not spawn/place decoration you do not own or have permission to use. Buy the decoration or order it from one of our Scribes;
- Ace
- Biscuit
- Kenage
- Makina
- Maxymus

First offense will be a warning

Second offense will be a demotion or probation

Third offense will be a judgment call

Fourth will be a kick without warning

Edit 1: Typo

Edit 2: Added Maxy to scribe list

Edit 3: Formatting

Fus is Quitting Guild Wars 2

Mon, 10 Oct 2016 05:49:00 GMT

Hi everyone,

As some of you might have noticed I haven't been playing the game much at all over the past 2-3 weeks.

Partly I landed a job I don't mind too much and hours are not friendly to your average 'stay up late' gamer so sleeping is a major priority for me.
I have started to lose interest in the game greatly. I understand now from a person who works where after you come home from work, you want to use that time to enjoy yourself. Guild Wars 2 is not enjoyment to me anymore cause of how the game changes have made it. Daily this, time gate that, 2-hour meta this, boss timer that. Yes, the new maps avoid those things but I don't have fun playing the new maps.
There are other games I rather be playing.
If I get angry it doesn't reflect well in guild chat so I wish to avoid it as much as possible.

No, I'm not quitting indefinitely. I will be logging on here and there if something comes up so I'm not leaving for good. I just won't be forcing myself to login and do nothing and then logging off.

Because of this, I plan to step down as Guild Leader and want to find someone else to replace me. Yes I know we have Optimus and Makina already Guild Leaders but their role does not cover my roles. Optimus leads guild missions are is pretty much the face of GoDS. Makina takes care of things off game (website, Teamspeak, etc)

If you are a General rank or Overwatch rank and want to step up as Guild Leader and fill in my roles, here are some of the things I do;

Send mail to inactive members explaining why they are being removed and then kicking them from the guild. This is so that if the person does come back they will have a mail and a guild to return to if they play again.
Host Guild Missions. Optimus fills in for me for when I can't log on so your duty is to try your best to log onto guild mission night and run them. Optimus should be online every week to fill in for you if you cannot make it.
Solve guild issues. If theres an issue with a member, find a way to resolve it. My methods were never the best since I try to please both sides but it rarely works so you will need to be a good people person and a problem solver.
Deal with guild drama. Sometimes when a person is kicked, they'll come whispering asking why. If they are friendly when asking I would spend the time to explain but if they get hostile I just block and move on.
Admin the Guild Facebook group. We have 4 admins, 2 of which are inactive (Inquest and Flanzo) I pretty much monitor the group just to make sure nothing bad is posted and there isn't any fighting going on in the comments. Makina is also an Admin but he is also a busy person so hes not paying attention to Facebook all the time.
I didn't do much of this since Biscuit and Maxymus took care of it but assist on upgrading the guild upgrades. Find out what is needed, whats the best way to get whats needed and ask the guild for said needed items.
Host guild events and give out prizes. I have a bunch of donated items to be given away at guild events but I haven't found the time to host them.

If you are interested in being the new Guild Leader, leave a comment in the Facebook thread I created and I and the other Guild Leaders will decide who it should be.

One last reason why I'm quitting and posting now, I will be out of the country for about a month for the month of January so I won't be around anyways to do any of those things. I will be busy with work, then work on getting stuff ready for the trip.

GoDS 1v1 Guild Arena Tournament (Moved to Aug 20)

Mon, 08 Aug 2016 22:12:00 GMT

So we had a very very fun time last Saturday after GM's doing a 1v1 Guild Arena tournament so I want to see if anyone is interested in doing this every few weeks. We figured out a pretty good system and set of rules that is very in the vein of just having an all out good time for people participating and not participating in the tournament, so I think this is something we can start hosting and even reaching out beyond the guild for (reddit post etc.)

This Saturday we will have another Guild Arena tournament open to ANY Guild Wars player. I will personally put up 1g per person up to 8 players. If the amount of players go beyond 8 people I will put up 1.5g per person to a cap of 16 players. If we get between 16-32 players (32 max) I will put up 2g per participant. So that's, from me alone, 64g up for grabs.

No donation required, your very participation will increase the prize pool by a lot! I hope to see a lot of you guys there, they will begin as soon as Guild Missions are completed this Saturday. I hope you guys find this a great way to get a nice return on investment for all those materials I pestered you in to donating to the GH >:D

-The Flaky One

Message 'Waffle Biscuit' (Porco Rosso.2054) if you have any questions or would like to participate in the tournament.

Update: Biscuit can't host it Aug 13 so he will be moving it till next week Aug 20

Vote on what Guild Anthem we should use! [CLOSED]

Thu, 28 Jul 2016 02:15:00 GMT

VOTING HAS ENDED

Thanks for voting!

With the Living Story Season 3 update, Guilds got a new upgrade (which was supposed to be in the game when HoT released) to have guild anthems! We have 15 options to choose from.

Use this video to listen to what anthem options we have:

You can still listen to all anthems here

Results

Weekly Guild Events

Sun, 05 Jun 2016 00:26:00 GMT

So it has been a while since we as a guild has done some sort of major event that is not bound by the game. I have been getting many suggestions of guild event ideas which I think are easy to do without an official post by me or any of the guild leaders. Some examples are Shatterer achievement runs, Dragon Stand runs, mesmer jumping puzzle runs, etc. All of these I think the guild is capable of setting up without needed permission or a guild leader to host them. Anyone is free to try and run these event themselves and hopefully the guild joins in on them. I know our numbers have been slowly dwindling but the core players are still around which I think is plenty.

Now for the real point of this post. Bacon Cupcaxe has kindly donated a bunch of items to give away at guild events. I have also added a few items myself.

Starting next week (Saturday June 11) we will start doing guild events where we can give some of these items away. I do not want to post what the planned events are in case some events don't appeal to some so I hope they would show up and attempt what the event might be. It will be one event per week starting approximately 15 minutes after guild mission ends.

Some ideas I have for events:

Hide and Seek - I will hide somewhere on a map while everyone else tries to find where I am located and stand where I am standing.
Jumping Puzzle Race - I will pick a jumping puzzle and wait at the end and see who can reach the end first. No mesmer portals allowed.
Gliding Challenge - In the guild hall we can place a decoration down and have people glide from a starting position on the map, glide and try to land on said decoration. Could be at the top of a tiny flag pole.
Map Race - Starting from an entrance of a map and run to the exit of the map. Using what ever class/items/tools you think will help you will be open. (No waypoints allowed)
Race to the top of the Guild Hall - Since I have built a 'jumping puzzle' to the top of the hall, I want to see who can climb it the quickest. Plus the view at the top of the hall is amazing for those who haven't been there yet.

If you have any other guild event ideas, please let me know.

Some events might be in a HoT map so some events might be for expansion owners only.

That is it for now,

-Fus

Daily achievement widget is active!

Thu, 19 May 2016 01:13:00 GMT

Hello everyone!

So I have been working on adding some more useful information to the side bar and have just finished the Daily Achievement widget! (hooray!)

The widget is a listing of the current dailies. It displays them based on category and level requirement. All level 80 dailies are listed at the top of each category, and all sub-level 80 dailies are listed at the bottom of each category with a hollowed out bullet point.

You can click on a category to expand that category and collapse your previous category (to reduce clutter the widget operates as an accordion).

Note that you might notice that some dailies won't show up in the widget. I am investigating this. For whatever reason the achievement ID reported by ArenaNet's Daily Achievements API is being reported as invalid by the Achievement API. For now I just hide those errors which may result in some achievements not appearing on occasion. This mostly seems to happen with some of the jumping puzzle dailies.

Hope everyone enjoys!

~Makina

Raid Reminder [Updated 4/24/2016]

Fri, 22 Apr 2016 17:48:00 GMT

Hey all!

So now that the SAB festival is concluded, we will be starting our raid schedule again in full force.

A reminder that the time slots that we will be running are:

Friday at 5 PM PDT - 9 PM PDT
Sunday at 5 PM PDT - 9 PM PDT

Please be online at these times if you wish to join. We will be calling out in guild chat several minutes beforehand to get people into squads, and will also be on TeamSpeak, which you should be prepared to join.

~Makina

Update 4/24/2016: Since Saturday and Sundays have generally been having problems having enough numbers at their current time slots, we are going to try moving them so that all of the times are around reset (3pm-7pm PDT). This means we are dropping the Saturday raid runs since that would conflict with guild missions. I have updated the new weekly raid times above as well as in the guild message of the day.

Edit: Raid times are now 5pm-9pm

-Fus

New website is live!

Sat, 09 Apr 2016 22:05:00 GMT

Hey all,

So after a long and difficult redevelopment process, I have finally completed the rewrite of the website. bells and whistles.

Why?

You might notice that not a lot appears to have changed, and that's because the bulk of the rework was done on the back-end. I won't get into the details of what all that entailed, but essentially the old system that the website was built on was a bear to maintain, difficult to test, and prevented me from updating the site regularly. The new system is a lot more self-contained, and significantly easier to test, debug, and deploy.

In the migration, I was unable to migrate user accounts to the new system. As such, I have only migrated features that do not require user authentication to utilize, and have opened up features that previously would have only been visible after logging in.

New features

Event timers: Event timers now contain the HoT map meta-events.
WvWvW status widget: Now displays income for individual maps as bar graphs below the pie graph.
WvWvW status widget: Currently displayed match can be changed by clicking the "change match" link. This is temporary and will not persist between page loads.

Removed features

Without user access, a lot of user-related features have been removed for now. None of the backing data has been removed, and the new website has a mechanism to access that data if need be.

Forums: These weren't visited often and have been cut for the time being.
Screenshot galleries: These weren't visited often and have been cut for the time being.
Event tracker: These stored data server-side related to a user, so they can't be used at the moment.
TeamSpeak widget: The detailed list of users as well as the server password have been removed since the widget is now visible anonymously.

Upcoming features

Tyria live map: I still need to migrate this, but there should be no limitations to doing so.
Guild calendar: I want to set up a new calendar system with a simple feed that can be displayed directly on the sidebar. This should also have a way to be exported into members' personal calendar apps.
GW2 API integration: I have some ideas for allowing deeper integration with the GW2 API (similar to gw2efficiency).

I think that about covers where we are right now. Hit me up in game if you have any questions!

~Makina

Raid Schedule

Sat, 12 Mar 2016 21:29:00 GMT

Hey all!

So some of us were discussing that we should set up a schedule for raids! I know several people have mentioned and asked in the guild before whether or not we would be doing them, so we're going to try to set up a weekly schedule for people to work on them.

As such, we need to decide what times would work best for the majority of interested players. If you are interested in raiding, please fill out the doodle I've created here. Just enter your character name and check any 2-hour blocks that would generally work for you on a weekly basis. I will keep this doodle open until Wednesday at 5pm PST (server reset).

You do not have to worry about being fully geared up in ascended to sign up for this. While gear will be important in the raids, exotics will be fine and we won't know what specific stats or builds we should be running until we're all there to discuss what we have available and what roles people are interested in playing. ^.^

The only expectation we have for people who sign up is that they be willing to set aside the time.

Once we have an idea of how many people are interested and what times they have available, we will pick one or two 4-hour blocks of time and publish a raid schedule on the guild calendar.

Thanks, Makina

UPDATE: So far 23 people have signed up for the raid and the time slots that we will be running are:

Friday at 3 PM PDT - 7 PM PDT
Saturday at 11 A.M. PDT - 3 PM PDT
Sunday at 11 A.M. PDT - 3 PM PDT

Unfortunately these times do not work for everybody, but we will be discussing whether or not we'll be using a set raid time or using a scheduler for every week to determine the best time. If you are available during these times please show up on one of these days, but I recommend showing up for two for more experience with the raid.

Make Up Mission Solution

Wed, 16 Dec 2015 20:18:00 GMT

Since I never got many people to step up to host make up missions and its tough to get people to join for make up missions,

I have decided to allow Alpha Team members and higher the ability to start guild missions when they please.

During Sunday and the weekdays I will give Alpha Team ranks and higher permission to start missions. This allows those members to do easy missions solo or with a small group on their own time.

How it works:

Race(Rush): Can be solo'd by crossing the finish line to receive your commendation.
Bounty(Easy): Can be done with a 5-man group since easy bounty is well... easy.
Trek: Can be solo'd by finding one location and claiming it.

Starting today (Dec 16, 2015) I will give those permissions out. I will disable them on Saturdays for our regular guild missions.

Note: If you have completed "make up missions" during the weekday and are available on Saturday, please come and help out at regular mission time. The more people we have at missions the easier it is to complete.

-Fus

Guild Hall Claimed! (Video Added)

Sun, 25 Oct 2015 21:39:00 GMT

We finally have a Guild Hall that we can all hang out! Gilded Hollow was the voted winner for our guild and with a meeting we had a week before HoT release, we can have our halls set on a rotation. Every few months we can change the halls so everyone can experience both halls.

We do have an alliance with some of our guildies who have a fully upgraded guild that will be claiming Lost Precipice. If you would like to join the other guild so you can have access to both halls (YOU MUST BE ALPHA TEAM OR HIGHER TO JOIN), send in-game mail to Me (TripleT.6571), Gryn (Gryn.6310), or TempusV (TempusV.8730) for a guild invite to Circle of Legends [BOLD] and ask for an invite into BOLD.

Now I must apologize for what happened during the claiming event. I really really wanted everyone there knowing the event will scale up but I didn't think it would scale up to that insane levels of difficulty. It wouldn't be a guild claiming event if we only had a small elite group go in and claim it themselves. You don't know how bad I felt having to ask everyone to leave the instance while only a selected few got to stay.

I did however record my point of view of the claiming event and Kenage streamed his point of view. Over the next few days I'll be getting all that footage edited and uploaded for everyone to see.

Again, I am sorry for having to remove everyone from the claiming event after we spent 2 hours in there trying our best but the scaling got the better of us.

The next phase of the Guild Hall which is upgrading it. Press 'G', top right is Enter Guild Hall button. As soon as you spawn, there will be an NPC that shows you all the items we require to upgrade the next parts of the hall. Find out what materials are required to craft some of those items since those items are extremely expensive right now so we can use all the donations we can get to craft the items we need to upgrade. Donate any Guild Hall upgrade materials into the Guild Stash, (top bank slot) and we'll have people crafting and upgrading the hall with those materials. If you would like to donate gold to help buy some of those materials, deposit that into the stash as well.

Thank you everyone who showed up and tried their best!

-Fus

Guild Hall Expedition Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o53J-M7Qxgk

Guild Hall Meeting Conclusion (Oct 17)

Tue, 20 Oct 2015 23:42:00 GMT

As some of you are aware, I had a General+ rank meeting on Saturday on the day we cancelled missions. Now I will tell you the outcome of that meeting.

So the meeting was about the possibility of a Guild Alliance. Yes, I know, alliances usually don't end well having to possible drama between them. But this isn't with another large guild, its just an alliance with one of our guild member's dormant guilds which is fully upgraded, just not being used.

My idea is we can claim our hall from which ever wins the vote, then we can use the other guild as our other hall. That way we have access to both halls so everyone is happy. But in the meeting everyone came up with many concerns to consider.

It can split up our members since we'll be hanging out in two different halls.
We will have to manage our resources and maintain two guilds and guild halls.
If there ever happens to be a falling in between the two guilds than we lose the other hall which isn't ours.

Some options we came up with is:

We focus on our hall first when it comes to upgrades and maintaining so we understand how halls fully work before we start focusing on the other.
We set our hall on a rotation every x months. (This will reset all decoration and 100g cost for every swap)

The final decision from the meeting is we should set our hall on a rotation. We will start off with the winning vote and then a few months down the road if people want to donate to change halls we can.

However, because the other guild leaders are ready and totally up to the idea, I won't leave them hanging. We will keep ours on rotation but we can also use their hall if we want to craft the other set of armor/weapons or even just to explore the other hall.

If you would like to join the other guild so you can have access to both halls (YOU MUST BE ALPHA TEAM OR HIGHER TO JOIN), send in-game mail to Me (TripleT.6571), Gryn (Gryn.6310), or TempusV (TempusV.8730) for a guild invite to Circle of Legends [BOLD] and ask for an invite into BOLD.

Welcome new players!

Tue, 01 Sep 2015 19:22:00 GMT

If you are a new player and found our website, welcome to our guild website and welcome to the game.

I am the current active Guild Leader of Guild of Divine Soldiers [GoDS] and we are always open to recruit new and veteran players to our guild. You can read a little about us here: http://gomgods.com/node/11

We are a mainly focused PvE guild (dungeons, fractals, world bosses, etc) but we have members who also do WvW and sPvP.

If you would like to join us and do WvW as well, we are mostly based in Gate of Madness server but that shouldn't stop you if you are on a different server.

Below are some information how the guild operates and times of guild events.

All Guild Hall personal upgrades have been unlocked so everything is +10% buff (exp, karma, magicfind etc). Current Guild Hall level is 36+

Guild missions & events (karka queen/other + bounty + challenge + puzzle + rush + trek) Saturday 1am UTC (that's 8 p.m. Eastern Time, 5 p.m. Pacific) (1 hour after daily reset)

Represent Rule: 50% rep or higher to be able to rank up within the guild.

Send me a whisper or in-game mail at (Fus Ro Doh or TripleT.6571)

EDIT: If you are a F2P player, best way to contact me is to add me to your contact list (y) then come to the map I am in, usually Divinity's Reach, then send me a whisper.

Some other members that you can try to contact as well to join:

Optimus Prime Time (NA)
Bacon Cupcaxe (OCE)
Tanith.5264 (NA)

April Fools 2015 - Do The Airplane (Featured on Kotaku!)

Wed, 01 Apr 2015 16:59:00 GMT

This year ArenaNet gave us Airplane mode as their April Fools joke. You have your arms straight out and make VROOOOM noises. With postprocessing on, it turns it into an old style film. We hosted a little guild event trying to do as many silly things as possible. Thanks to all that joined, here is a video I made from the footage.

EDIT: We are featured on Kotaku!

http://kotaku.com/every-guild-wars-2-character-is-an-airplane-today-vroo-1695067795