Unfortunately, I will have to withdraw from the tournament. Best of luck to everyone!

Threid (Assassin): Forum Name - Threid

Come what may on The Bastion, I'll miss playing with the best of Begeren Colony. I treasure the times we played together, and the knowledge and experience you shared. The only thing more disappointing than parting ways with such an exemplary core community of PvPers is the server-induced separation from longtime friends and allies. So, to those of you wishing us the best - right back at you.

Thank you for stepping in to clarify this for everyone. While some of us were fairly certain the policy forbid such behavior, there were a considerable number of us who took a more liberal interpretation. Now everyone should be clear on what is and is not allowed. I hope that the discussions that have taken place here regarding the ease of respeccing, the use of respec during warzones, and macro utility in general will be useful to staff in developing new features, or modifying old ones to be more player-friendly.

Sorry you've had trouble finding a good community. I may be able to recommend a few guilds to you (at least on the Republic side). I'd start by checking out the Well-Groomed Gamers. The Rep-side guild leader is Consular (not sure who the Imperial branch leader is), and you can check to see if anyone from the guild is online by checking /who for "Well-Groomed." There seems to be an excellent sense of community in the guild, and they've started running higher-level ops and have a few good PvPers as well. Consular is an excellent player who excels in both PvE and PvP, and he'd be more than willing to answer any questions you may have. Doomed Lemmings is another well-organized guild Republic-side with some quality players in it; you may want to check them out. Dead on Arrival and Infamous also have excellent players in them, but I'm not familiar with their recruitment/application requirements. As far as Imperial guilds go, Black Sun Rising is the only one I can recommend from my very limited knowledge (Sovereign, Revenge, Retaliation, and Grim Determination also house many recognizable players, but have stricter application requirements). If you run Republic-side, PM me your toon's name and I'll friend you. I've played a lot of PvE and PvP, and may be able to help you out with a few of your questions. I play during the evenings on Threid (shadow) and Glyn (sage) these days, if you want to friend me for some PvP sometime. I wish you the best of luck in your search for a good-fitting guild.

Words cannot express how exciting this thread is. I've been waiting on eggshells for "Servers Wealthiest Players 2013" ever since "Servers Wealthiest Players 2012" came out last year.

Threid / Ascension Strikes Back / Shadow Balance / 1918 DPS / No armor debuff

Players come to the Ilum PvP area with varied expectations and ideas for what WvW PvP should look like. The majority simply want to complete their quests to aid their reputation grind, and view the PvP aspect of the quests as an unfortunate component of the area. The ever-present lines are indicative of this attitude; the goal is to facilitate efficient completion of the quests by all players, regardless of faction or guild affiliation. A few players, many of them with experience in PvP or warzones (and frequently, the gear and skill that comes with such experience), will engage players of the other faction, and fewer will attack anything with a red nameplate, regardless of faction or guild affiliation. Most often, this competition occurs near the orb drop point, as it is the natural point of conflict for the area. Most often, this results in a lot of dead players from both schools of thought, thanks to exploding orb lines. At worst, the players who wished to avoid conflict feel preyed upon, either assuming their aggressors are heartless jerks, rampaging egotistically through Ilum, purposefully ruining their game experience. At best, they take the disturbance of the status quo as an accidental discourtesy and unfortunate waste of time. As a regular PvPer, (and especially as a stealth class that's good at 1v1) I've found it rather difficult to engage in PvP in Ilum without making someone angry. Attacking weaker players (even Imperials), especially when I am in a group, is neither enjoyable nor productive, for me or the player being attacked. Furthermore, my Shadow has no reason to randomly attack most members of the opposing faction on sight. For Threid the avatar and Threid the player, indiscriminate attacks are out of character. On the other hand, Threid will often walk up to the orb deposit area, past the line, and make his contribution to Science. Who knows what those dark-looking characters are doing fiddling with the complicated-looking Gree thing? Threid doesn't have time to wait in lines with sketchy looking Republicans and veiny-faced Imperials! The Republic needs him! And so, he'll brave a line segment of any length to ensure that the Gree receive the technology they need. If, however, there appears to be a significant gathering of threatening persons, he'll either wait to make his contribution at a less prohibitive time, or dive headfirst into whatever's waiting for him. Waiting in line to deposit an orb might be a very sensible, passive, status quo-preserving solution, but it is not Threid's solution. In any case, most of us aren't out there to ruin anyone's game experience. Yes, we may cause a bit of a stir around the pylon, and a few may interpret the Republic imperative to keep dangerous Gree technology out of undeserving hands, but we're all just trying to play the game in a way that's true to our characters and/or true to ourselves. If world PvP isn't your cup of tea I'm not going to make you drink it, but I'm not going to stop brewing in front of you; I won't kill you, or even harass you, but I won't let you cap orbs before me without a fight.

Sometimes, the quirky, impromptu events are the best ones. Thanks to everyone who came to climb the Ilum Dome!

Start by checking out the Imperial guilds listed in the server Recruitment thread. All of them have contact information for the GMs/Officers, and many have websites for you to check out as well. Hope you find a good one!

You can't beat Ilum; it uses lag hacks. Every time I try to fight it my FPS drops below 10. Can't believe BW hasn't banned it yet.

When it comes to Manka Cats, I would be cautious.

We've been over this; it's a Jedi Longkilt. #culturalheritage

Please bring back the old Phantom Chest! I would never have purchased it had it looked like it does now. It's fine to offer something that looks more like what was "advertised," but I bought it based off the preview, and it's unfair to roll it back to something else without allowing the option for us to keep what we had before.

Intra-guild ranked is great. I wish Ascension had enough players online to coordinate more ranked matches - iron sharpening iron and all that. I know enough of the Grim players to know that they wouldn't trade wins/losses. Losing on purpose just isn't in their nature, and most all of them are pretty geared up already anyway.