Well, it is an MMO that doesn't have a subscription fee, so that's a big plus for me.  Also the combat is definitely not your standard MMO combat since you can actually run around and dodge to avoid attacks.  Plus as has been said the world is much more dynamic and alive than in your standard MMO.

Guilds get stuff like emblems and weapons and armor that use the guild emblem, plus various buffs that are purchased using Influence.

Honestly, I didn't go into it expecting to play an mmo killer or a truly new take on the genre. GW2 is an mmo, and I expected it to play as one. I'm a minor mmo junky (from UO in '98 on), and the lack of a subscription simply makes this a cheaper fix for me. 

pacov.2958

tarnished coast.  forgot to post..

Ah, I'm Louist.1398 and on Tarnished myself. Feel free to add me.

I'll be on in about 30-40 min anyway...

Is there any chance we Stardockians could get a guild of our own running?  We're here, we have a place to chat, Carbon's got TeamSpeak for us, etc.

I'd like to see a new guild that encompasses most of us, preferably with a better name than Peterdumptruckians.

An FYI: guild Influence and PvP are server-based, so having us all on the same server levels up our guild faster, especially since PvP gives a ton of Influence for our guild.

I'm on the same boat with the stupid League GUILD name -  I enjoy the nonsensical aspect (and the prophesy of peter dump truck appearing to us all one day - I will likely eventually create an entire religion around peter).  Personally, I think the dumb name is far more interesting than coming up with rot like Terrabethian Dominion (or whatever horseshite that might sound "cool").  But then again, I am the mighty guild leader currently and gladly contributed to our WvWvW battles by cutting down trees and attacking coyotes.  The peterdumptruckians are less a guild and more of a cult.  I'll be passing out kool-aid later, ofc. 

I'd really like to hear wtf vlad is doing.  He was pretty hard core involved in guild wars before and I'm assuming he might already be a part of a guild.  Not sure if everyone would want to migrate to that (or if we'd be invited) or if we should just get our own thing going and assign a leader and officers and all that rot. 

Well, to clarify, its not a LoL name any more than pacov is a LoL name.  That's the name of a fellow that played Demigod and plays LoL with us from time to time.  He simply goes from game to game as peterdumptruck. 

re: stardock names - even the folks that run stardock wouldn't do that, so while i love the company and what they represent, I don't personally feel a need to throw the word Stardock into whatever we do.  I also love steak, but I don't identify myself that way... I suppose I don't vehemently oppose the concept, but at the same time, I'm pretty far from endorsing it.  Methinks the real problem is that you don't know peter. 

Allow me to introduce you.

Does anyone know if its possible to be a part of multiple guilds?  The wiki seems to imply that you can, but you only represent 1 guild at a give time.  Eg, I join 5 guilds, I choose to represent 1 specific guild at any given time (so that guild gets whatever exp, guild points or what have you).

Other variables - vlad is playing with a group of like 6 friends and they have formed a guild.  We could attempt to be absorbed into that, but I'm not sure if we'd be welcome to do that (or if we'd even care to for that matter).

If we stick with our own guild, everyone of our little crew here will be made into "officers."  You'll be able to recruit, etc.  Recruit if you like and don't do any of that spam invite nonsense (guild blahblahblah is recruiting).  I'd prefer to just play with pals, but am cool with welcoming new folks in.  You really don't need to do anything if you are an officer.  From talking with folks, it seems like people like having some sort of elevated title.  I intend to make this ridiculous by creating ranks like Lord Hussypants, etc, at some point

Other things - I think I'd end up setting up 1 or 2 nights a week where we have "guild nights."  This would be time where we'd all try to get together to do whatever.  We did this for our LoL nights and typically had pretty good turn outs.  On the LoL note, I'm sure before too long I'm going to start jonesing for LoL in the near future and start splitting up my time a little more between the 2 games.

Anyway, my current vote would be to keep the ridiculous guild name (peterdumptruckians) - eg my stance is that I'd like to keep that name.  We have one opposed to the silly name and one that likes it but really doesn't care all that much.  All we need at this point is to get karl and dax's opinion.  If the majority is cool with the dumb guild name, then we'll stick with that.  If the majority opposes, we'll start brain storming new names and create a brand new guild and get up and running using that.  HOPEFULLY we can sort this out over the next couple of days.  And remember, you can apparently be in multiple guilds.  I'll personally be spending my majority of my time in gw2 with either the peterdumptruckians or a new guild that we will create if the peterdumptruckian name gets downvoted.

Crafting. Ugh.

I finally surpassed 100 in both Armour and Weapon smithing. It's a chore. Even if you mine/log every ore/tree you come across as you play normally (and I mean EVERY one!), you will still fall way short of the lower tiered resources. I've spent an addition 6 hours JUST mining copper, in areas at least 15 levels below me, so that I can work my way up to iron items.

And I'm hardly alone here! When the market opened today, copper ore was selling at 27 cp. Iron ore, which is a level beyond copper and theoretically harder to come by? 6 cp. There's a huge demand for copper because a regular play through doesn't offer adequate amounts. (The nice side benefit, though is that I picked up a metric tonne of iron for dirt cheap.

Additionally, they've designed crafting around bottlenecks, meaning you can't continue gaining unless you have a selection of rather rare and expensive materials. There's the above mentioned copper bottleneck, but more specifically, there are the rare "blue" crafting component drops from creeps. I'm sitting on a few dozen spread across 6 or 7 varieties (each conferring a different stat bonus to crafted items). These items aren't merely there to add bonus stats, they are actually REQUIRED at certain skill levels in order to continue advancing, as there are no other recipes that will carry you over to the next tier of crafting. And having a few dozen of these is nothing, when each recipe requires 8 or more of these rare components.

And glancing at the market place, these items were either completely sold out, or going for exorbitant prices, as in multiple silver. For reference, at level 26, I was currently sitting on just under 40 silver, having spent money on nothing besides repairs and cheap salvage kits (for getting crafting materials out of junk items). I've since spent much of that on iron ore to get to my current level.

Le Sigh.