PC Format Forum's Guild Wars Guild

Long Time No Post

2006-05-28T07:45:00.000+01:00

Well it's been a while since I posted an update, mainly because I've returned to work after 12 months maternity leave and what a shock to the system that was!

So, in the time that I've been getting back into work Guild Wars: Factions has been released and some of the Guild have even finished it! I have one Factions character at the moment, a Ele/Mes (my fave char combination) that is level 11 and still on the starter isle. I have however taken my Tyrian Ele/Mes level 20 over to Cantha and she is currently at the point where she needs to choose a Faction to side with.

There is a poll on the PCFormat Forum for you all to place your vote for either Luxon/Kurzick. Once the poll has been up long enough, or there is a clear winner then the Guild will join a faction and the fun will begin!

Get voting!!

Roffles the Bear

2006-03-05T08:16:00.000Z

The PC Format Forumites have taken on a delightful little bear named Roffles. We intend to send him on the trip of a lifetime and send him to spend a week with as many different forumites as possible.

Keep up to date with where he is at the moment!
http://roffles.blogspot.com/

Citrius Spies

2006-03-03T18:36:00.000Z

Wondering what your industrious leader gets up to when others are not about? Well Citrius here sees all! Xyra teamed up with me to help me do some Sorrow's Furnace missions. It ended up with us leaving the group because they were never going to get out of Deldrimor War Camp, but that didn't stop Xyra pulling! Here you can see her getting a show from a friendly warrior in his underwear! Not to be outdone Xyra flexed her muscles right back at him!

Profile On: Mandy Skull Smasha

2006-03-01T16:35:00.000Z

Main Character: Mandy Skull Smasha - Warrior/Monk, Farmer of Wurms/Griff's/Mino's/Troll's Etc.
Current Level: 20 700K + exp
Other Characters:

Baron Balsam Lev 20 Monk/W Smiter Farmer
Lord Dark Brude Lev 20 Nec/Mes Blood Spike Farmer
Darkstone Of Pain Lev 20 Ele/Mes Air Spike or Air/Earth yep u guessed it Farmer

Hours Played: Mandy Skull Smasha 438 Hr's 21 min's over the last 6 month's. Across all characters I have played for 1,159 Hr's & 24 min's
Position within Guild: Guild Officer
Real Name: Kul
When I'm not playing Guild Wars: I'm at work or being a dad to my 3 year old son & husband to my beautiful wife.
Hobbies: Games of course ! Also I attend an Air rifle & pistol club on Tuesday night's & try to defend my title as the club champ,nothing special tho were only a small band of select ppl. Also enjoy listening to music & watching dvd's if I get time.

New Cape!

2006-02-25T21:05:00.000Z

Due to the number of people making comment about the cape design for the Guild it was decided to put democracy to the test and change the cape by having a competition to decide what design we would change to.

Guild members were asked to go to the Guild Embler and design a cape, take a screenshot and email it to the Guild address. After the designs were submitted a poll was created on the PCFormat Forum and it ran for a week. At the end of the week there was a clear cut winner and the change was made in time for the Guild meet tonight.

Cape Design:
Guild Members showing off their new cape!

Announcement: GvG Teams

2006-02-08T19:49:00.000Z

Hello.
To improve the overall enjoyment of those who are interested in the GvG part of our beloved game, we've decided to make some teams of set people/characters builds. This will mean that when you play GvG you will have a set team to play and you will know your role within that team. Because you will play with the same people you will hopefully improve and get a better game experience a lot quicker.

This doesn't mean that you can't have an impromptu GvG session or that you have to always play with the same people, but it will get you familiar with team builds and tactics.

If you do want to play more GvG it is important that you come to the Guild Hall on Saturday 11th February so that we can talk professions, builds and tactics.

See you then!

IRC Channel now up and running!

2006-01-25T01:11:00.000Z

Just a quick post to let you know we now have an IRC channel up and running - Guild members can drop in at any time and chat about anything that takes your fancy! If you already have an irc client, the details are as follows:

Server: irc.nws-irc.co.uk
Channel: #PCFFGuild

If you don't have an IRC client but fancy dropping in for a chat anyway, don't worry - I've set up an online Java client for you! Point your browser at http://pcffguild.no-ip.org/. You'll be asked to run a java application - click Run (it's perfectly safe), and you should find yourself connected straight through to the channel.

If for any reason you can't get the java client working, either send me an email or PM me on PCFF and I'll take a look for you. Enjoy!

Profile On: Raistin the Black

2006-01-24T19:03:00.000Z

Main Character: Raistin the Black - Elementalist/Ranger, Fire based.
Current Level: 20 200K + exp
Other Characters: Sturm Spellbane - Warrior/Ranger (Lvl 9) : Arathorn Aragorn - Ranger/Undecided (Lvl 7, pre-seering) : Raistin Blackeye, Elementalist/Ranger (PvP character)
Hours Played: Raistin the Black ( 91hours 52minutes): Sturm Spellbane (13 Hours 19 minutes) : Arathorn Aragorn (21 hours 10minutes)
Position within Guild: Guild Officer
Real Name: Asa
When I'm not playing Guild Wars: Normally I am playing dad to Taylor 6, Zak 2 and Ruby 4 months. I work as a Maintenance Technician repairing CNC machines, they are just big mechano sets. I really need to grow up 
Hobbies; Rugby, Dungeons and Dragons (Dice version) and Powerballing.

A day in the life of: Clace

2006-01-21T11:02:00.000Z

Ever wondered what the other Guild members get up to online? Clace has taken a few screen shots of him for you to nose at!

Clace and Raiden have a chat by the fire with PvP characters!

Damn scorpions! (Featuring Clace's self confessed awesome sword!)

"WE WANT YOU!" Clace joins the army and volunteers to recruit soldiers.

Profile On: Summer of Spring

2006-01-17T19:12:00.000Z

Main Character: Summer of Spring
Current Level: 10 and 37% of the way to lvl 11
Hours Played: 17 hours and 6 minutes in last 27 days

Side Character: Winter of Autumn
Current Level: 11 and 57% of the way to lvl 12
Hours Played: 18 hours and 32 minutes in last 3 days)

Position within Guild: Member
Real Name: Summer
When I'm not playing Guild Wars: Atm doing nothing :P in september im starting school again :)

Be careful...

2006-01-08T02:41:00.000Z

...you'll have someone's eye out!

I kitted Lucy out with the Tormentors armour tonight - as you can see, it's a tad pointy...

Guild Wars does Christmas!

2005-12-23T18:25:00.000Z

Here are some images of the Christmas additions the lovely people at ArenaNet have given us!

I wonder which pressie is mine :D

Xyra fighting the Gretch

Xyra and Freezie fighting the Humbugs.

Christmas Festivities

2005-12-21T11:07:00.000Z

Well Christmas is almost upon us and thankfully I am ready and organised this year. It's going to be my baby's first Christmas so I'm pretty excited, even if she won't have a clue what's going on!

With this in mind I probably won't be around much over the holidays, and I expect some of you will be the same which is why I have suggested a Christmas Guild Meet for the 28th December at the Hall at 8pm GMT. We can wish each other merry Christmas and then get our arses kicked in GvG or HoH or whatever takes your fancy!

But if I don't see you over the holidays I'd like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. I'd also like to thank you all for your contribution to the Guild. I am more than delighted with the way things are going and how friendly and helpful everyone is. Remember it's you who make the guild, so if you like it, you can thank yourselves!!

Ventrillo Details

2005-12-15T22:00:00.000Z

The details for the Ventrilo software:
Server: voice2.fps.net Port: 3694 password: sneeze
Download from site: http://www.ventrilo.com/download.php

Profile On: Hell Disciple

2005-12-10T19:08:00.000Z

Main Character: Hell Disciple, Monk/Warrior lvl 20-around 700k xp
Other Characters: Hell Arrows ranger/warrior lvl 5 and Hell On A Rampage,Warrior/Monk lvl 20
Hours Played: Hell Disciple 159 hours and 18 minutes over past 2 months. across all chars 422 hours and 1 minute over past 6 months
Position within the Guild: Officer
Real name: Marko
When I'm not playing guild wars: I go to highschool, play my guitar and go out with my friends. I also download music, concerts and games and try to sell them to my pals.

Announcement: PvP Workshop

2005-12-05T11:42:00.000Z

Over the next few weeks, Citrius Arachnid will be running some PvP workshops which will help members to venture into the PvP world and practice their skills. All guild members are welcome to join in whether they have played any PvP before or not. Experienced members are also welcome to join in and pass along hints and tips.

Profile On: Citrius Arachnid

2005-12-02T15:12:00.000Z

Main Character: Cirtius Arachnid, Warrior/Necromancer
Current Level: 20 (and am 24% on my way to earning my next skill point)
Other Characters: Anaemic Fiend (Necromancer/Mesmer, PvP)
Hours Played: Citrius Arachnid (169 hours 37 mins over the past 4 months); across all characters (173 hours 12 mins)
Position within Guild: Guild Officer
Real Name: David
When I'm not playing Guild Wars: I work as a nightshift MCR Engineer which keeps me off Guild Wars most evenings. An MCR Engineer is a person who supervises and makes transmissions using satellites and fibre optics, in case you are curious. I am a game-a-holic and between myself and my girlfriend Lisa (who I live with) we own 4 consoles and 1 PC! Otherwise I am generally moderating the PCF Forum like the others here, or socialising with my friends. I am an ambitious wannabe film director too, so do spend plenty of time down the cinema when there is something worth watching.

Magazine Coverage

2005-12-02T12:36:00.000Z

There is a distinct possibility that our Guild may gain some coverage in our name sake magazine. David C (aka Citrius/Limey) emailed James Carey the mag's Games Editor about the possibility of getting the Guild mentioned and his response was very positive. It seems that they were already looking at broadening the coverage that they give to MMOs and that it is very likely we'll be able to have some sort of Guild Profile within the magazine which is great news as this would be great for recruitment, so watch this space and I'll let you know how things progress!

Guild Meet Up 22/11/05

2005-11-23T19:31:00.000Z

At first I wasn't sure if a mid-week meet would be sucessful but how wrong could I be! All together 15 people out of the 19 online came along to the Guild Hall which was a fantastic result! Some decided to play some GvG with two losses (against Nugos Clan and Sansvictoires Sansd) and one win (against Soldiers of Friends). The others chatted around the fire and did some joint missions.

The time and date of the next meeting are to be arranged so keep an eye out for the annoucement! Look forward to seeing more of you next time! :D

Profile On: Lucy Larstick

2005-11-23T18:08:00.000Z

Main Character: Lucy Larstick, Necromancer/Mesmer
Current Level: 15 (48% on way to complete next level)
Other Characters: Leaf Itout (Ranger, pre-searing), Thumpin Eadache (Warrior, pre-searing), Kornonn Thekobb (Necromancer, PvP)
Hours Played: Lucy Larstick (76 hours over 49 days) ; across all characters (85 hours 56 minutes)
Position within Guild: Guild Officer
Real Name: David
When I'm not playing Guild Wars: I work for an office furniture dealership as an Admin Co-Ordinator (I shuffle paper from one side of my desk to the other), although once in a blue moon I'm allowed out on site to help assemble the furniture (I even have my own Stanley knife and screwdriver!) Out of hours, you'll more than likely find me moderating on the PC Format Forum - otherwise I'll be chatting on IRC, drumming, or supporting bands you've never heard of at local gigs!

Beach Party!

2005-11-22T01:18:00.000Z

Lucy Larstick arrived at Lions Arch tonight to find a beach party taking place... Stripping down to her underwear, she joined in an impromptu air-band display (she's 5th from the left, playing drums!)

Profile On: Oaken Sheild

2005-11-20T21:43:00.000Z

Main Character: Oaken Sheild , Monk/(I change Oaken's second profession all the time)
Current Level: 20 (1.5 million xp)
Other Characters: Obsidian Sheild , warrior/Monk (Lv 20) : Psycho Sheild, Mesmer/warrior (Lv 11) : Im No Healer Monk, Monk/ele (PvP character)
Hours Played: Oaken Sheild (415 hours 58 minutes): Obsidian Sheild (234 Hours 12 minutes) : Psycho Sheild (102 hours 34 minutes) : Ectoplasmic Sheild (76 hours 34 minutes) (Deleted Character Lv20 Necromancer) : Storm Sheild (265 hours 23 minutes) (Deleted Character Lv20 Ranger)
Position within Guild: Guild Officer
Real Name: Thomas
When I'm not playing Guild Wars: normally playing Counter strike Source with my clan PWN that keeps me quite busy.

Profile On: Xyra Nidal

2005-11-17T08:21:00.000Z

Hello, this is an idea of mine which I hope will help everyone to get to know their fellow Guild members. It's just a little summary of who we are in and out of the game. Over the next few weeks I hope to get a profile from all the Officers and through into the members. If you'd like to submit your profile I'll need an image of your main character and the info like the profile below emailed to the guild address (link on the right).

Main Character: Xyra Nidal, Elementalist/Mesmer
Current Level: 18, 28% on way to next level
Hours Played: 56 Hours, 28 minutes over 21 days; across all characters 72 hours 22 days
Position within Guild: Guild Leader
Real Name: Becky
When I'm not playing Guild Wars: I'm a mum to Lucy who is five and a half months old and I've been married to Chris for just over a year and a half. I am currently on maternity leave from my job as an Applications Specialist for Quality Assurance systems, (which sounds much more exciting than it is!) and I'm due to go back in April. I'm also a moderator on the PC Format Forum which keeps me busy along with doing up our house and looking after Lucy.

Announcement: Guild Meet

2005-11-17T08:10:00.000Z

The next Guild Meet is set for Saturday 19th November at 8pm GMT.
All are welcome and will get a chance for some GvG.

Don't worry if you can't make it, there will be another meet on Tuesday 22nd November, also at 8pm GMT.

Come along, and even if you've never played GvG or PvP before, it'll be a fun way to try! Remember the GvG and PvP guides are linked on the right.

See you at the Hall!

First Guild Meet 12/11/05

2005-11-12T20:19:00.000Z

Well we had a Guild Meet at 7pm and enough people came along that we were able to do some GvG! Unfortunatly we lost and decided that next time we need to have thought about it a bit more. You'll see a link to a helpful post on GvG by Oaken, on the PCFF on the right.
Above are some pictures of the meet. If you weren't there this time, come along to the next one!

The Guild Hall

2005-11-12T10:00:00.000Z

The Guild Hall is purchased so Oaken has a look around!
Come and have a look yourself, we're meeting there at 7:00PM tonight (Sat 12 Nov). Don't know how to get there? Open your Guild tab ( G ) and click the "Guild Hall" button at the top right.

Can you Dance?

2005-11-12T09:29:00.000Z

Lucy Larstick showing off her Michael Jackson moves!

Welcome to PCFF GWG!

2005-11-12T08:56:00.000Z

Hello and welcome to the PCFF Guild for Guild Wars! This is where images and links will be posted for information. All communication will be made at forum.pcformat.co.uk