Octopus Overlords GW2 Guild Thread

[Vorret]

Having played both game, GW2 is so different than GW1 that other than the location there's nothing in common there.

[Angnomander]

What are they going to do about the server full problem? Twice my guild would pick a server for a beta weekend and it would be Full before everyone could get in.

[ColdSteel]

What are they going to do about the server full problem?

They haven't announced how it's going to all work yet. They should release an official server list sometime before launch and I know there's a website that tracks which major guilds are rolling on which servers right here. Looking at that, some of the servers are already packed with guilds.

[Newcastle]

i pre-ordered. I should be in on the first day or so. So i'll help w/ cash for the guild startup.

[Arcanis]

i pre-ordered. I should be in on the first day or so. So i'll help w/ cash for the guild startup.

Pre-order or Pre-Purchase? Pre-order you get in on the 28th while pre-purchase you get in on the 25th. We should have the guild open for business by end of day the 25th or early 26th (if we are slacking )

[Newcastle]

i pre-ordered. I should be in on the first day or so. So i'll help w/ cash for the guild startup.

Pre-order or Pre-Purchase? Pre-order you get in on the 28th while pre-purchase you get in on the 25th. We should have the guild open for business by end of day the 25th or early 26th (if we are slacking )

geez...talk about splitting hairs

prepurchased...bought from the GW2 website directly.

[Newcastle]

so i assume this should be the thread we talk about our server selection. Am kind of confused since its also branched a bit in the GW2 thread as well.

Any news where the Wanderers are going to end up?

I realize we can bounce around servers, but it would be nice to have a solid group to jump in with. I know for me i'll be doin the WvW pvp thing...so hopefully we get on to a server where we can get in on that action (am actually a bit concerned that there will be some nasty queues to go in there, but that's also based on ignorance on how the whole WvW works).

from my lurking & stalking of various sites:
-I believe GWJ has decided on Northern Shiverspeaks.
-From what i see BF is set on Jade Quarry

Whats the latest skinny oh mighty miltonite?

[Newcastle]

Oh for the record also, I've decided to start w/ an Engineer and the race should be one of those mini cat thingies. Was either that or Elemental or Mesmer....Engineer looked interesting so it won out.

[Vorret]

I still don't know which class.
In the end it doesn't matter, I'll level all of them, but my first choice will be leveled with the GF so I'll have to stick with it to 80.

And yeah we need to figure out the server soon, less than a week to go!

[ColdSteel]

Any news where the Wanderers are going to end up?

I just checked the Wanderer forum and it's still being debated there. Hopefully the officers will decide in the next few days.

I played an Asura Elementalist a lot over the last 2 stress tests. I figured since I thought I hated the cutesy Asura, that would be safe enough, right? Well, their starting zone and city are just awesome and the Asura themselves are pretty cool after all. And I absolutely had a blast playing the Elementalist. I just am totally paralyzed about my profession and race choice to start. I have never had this sort of problem in any MMO before so I guess it's a credit to how attractive Anet has made everything. I suppose I'll have to fall back to ranger/human as my starting point.

[skystride]

Any news where the Wanderers are going to end up?

I just checked the Wanderer forum and it's still being debated there. Hopefully the officers will decide in the next few days.

Still keeping an eye on population. We will announce something for sure before it goes live.

[Arcanis]

I have 3 characters in mind so I'm creating them all off the bat so I can get the names I want and be able to fiddle with them as I please. So far I'm going Asuran Eng., Char Guardian, and Norn Ranger. Though I'm reconsidering the Eng. right now just because the Asuran's have awesome racial skills and Eng looses out on the toolbelt for those.

[miltonite]

I am still leaning towards Stormbluff Isle because according to this (http://www.gw2guilds.org/) site it looks to be moderately populated and a pretty good PvP population. This way if we are doing PvE there should be people around and there will also be people in WvW but not too many to where we are waiting in hour long queues just to get into WvW. Also the Anet team has said that they will put like servers against each other. With PvP population so there is not 1 super strong group rolling all the less populated servers. I figure the OO guild will be mostly PvE anyway with some dabbling in PvP.
Also the Siege Turtles (an alliance member from GW1) will be there. They were a pretty good group and I did a lot of the end game things with them. I would have never seen much of it if it were not for them. They are also pretty big into PvP.


I am not dead set on anything at the moment. If you feel strongly about a server speak up.

[Newcastle]

that sounds as good a spot miltonite. Would be nice if the sister sites and us all kind of fell on 1 spot for PVP purposes...but am kind of doubting that happening. For me I know i'll be PVPing a decent clip, so hopefully that will be a good server to hop on to. Also the fact that you have a semi alliance there is also good as well.

I do think a med. pop is the way to go, especially the way it seems JQ seems to be drawing a ton of people...and that can only lead to queues and such.

[Jag]

Anet said they are probably going to allow some server xfers after launch, but my guess is the overpopulated ones will still be locked out.

[hepcat]

Hot damn, I'd all but forgotten that GW2 starts up for us pre-purchasers this weekend! Time to stock up on brewskis and pretzels for an all nighter saturday.

[ColdSteel]

Well, it looks like the Wanderers have picked Ehmry Bay.

[Ibby]

Well, it looks like I'm in. Even though I've not played one minute of Guild Wars, I'm in.

After watching a bunch of videos, I purchased, installed, patched and even got to play for an hour today during this likely last stress test.

I'm fucking IN!

[miltonite]

I am fine with making the OO guild home Ehmry Bay as well. Is there anyone that disagrees? I think we should make this a poll now that we have a almost definite server. Still a moderate pop server and I like the wanderers more than the siege turtles anyway, I have played GW1 with many more wanderers than ST guys.

[YellowKing]

I'm fine with it. Let's GO!

I tried this out on my work laptop today and it runs like a champ. Business trip not gonna slow this mutha down!

[Koz]

I'm likely getting this as well, though I think I'll be playing on Northern Shiverpeaks with the GWJ crew.

[Vorret]

Fine with it

[ColdSteel]

I'm fine with Ehmry Bay, as well. The Wanderer's are cool guys. Exciting times.

[Newcastle]

Sounds great. I'll be starting at some point this weekend, so i can help w/ the cash early on for guild formation.

[miltonite]

Well the wiki is saying the guild should only cost 1 silver. That should be rather easily obtained. I plan to stay up for launch and create the guild before I go to sleep. I will make Arcanis an officer and have him start sending invites as soon as characters start getting made. If I cannot make him an officer then I will add people when I get home.

I think we should also start a list of ANet account names so we have a list of who needs to be sent an invite.
Mine is: Miltonite.9140

2 lists is unnecessary, full list on P1.

[ColdSteel]

My Account Name is: Shadowjack.6972


Also, I just noticed that there are actually two "Octopus" images we could could use for the OO guild emblem. So which one looks the best to you guys? I actually kind of like the first one better. More OO like, I think. It screams "overlords of the deep" to me.

This one?

Or this one?

[Vorret]

2nd one imo

[Vorret]

2 invites for me and my gf as we'll be out of town till sunday evening

Vorret.7821
Angel.9567

[miltonite]

Well it looks like we are going to need 600 guild influence in the beginning. 100 to make a guild emblem and then 500 for an armorer contract so we can all look pretty with the Octopus on out armor.

The guild gains 2 for every event or personal story mission, 5 per individual PvP victory, 10 for an accepted guild invite and 10 for each member online during an attendance check (wiki does not say what this is)

I am personally fond of the second one, but I like both. I am thinking either black on red or light blue on white for the colors but don't really care that much.

[ColdSteel]

It sounds like we have our first guild goals. It should be fun and not take long. We'll have close to 100 influence right off the bat from the people that join and the other 500 shouldn't take us long from just playing the game normally.

It sounds like the second emblem may be the popular choice and I like it just fine so we can plan to go with that absent any other comments on it. Note that for the colors on the first one you can change the color of the tentacles and eyes to a different color than the body. On the second one, the octopus can only be one color but the trident can be another color. The background color is the third color choice.

I always think that black/red combos look great. I tried it in the emblem creator for the second one and it looked really washed out but that's probably not how it actually appears in-game. We'll have to wait and see what the actual in-game tool preview looks like.

[Toe]

Axepeak.9406

[YellowKing]

YellowKing.4928. I like the second logo better as well.

[Arcanis]

ArchangelArcanis.8576

[Covenant72]

Covenant.9260

I like the 2nd better as well.

[hepcat]

William.6937

Should I uninstall the beta client and grab an updated, official release client when it becomes available? Or just update what I have before Saturday?

[miltonite]

The beta client is the same as the official release client, just with updates.

[hepcat]

Excellent, thanks!

[RLMullen]

Roakaar.2814

[Tareeq]

Tareeq.4562

[miltonite]

This is what I came up with after playing with the emblem creator. Someone with a little more design sense might want to Play with it and find something aesthetically pleasing.


http://botorubattalion.com/emblemCreator