The Countdown Begins! Things are heating up for Guild Wars 2 as we rapidly approach the reveal of the 3rd Expansion End of Dragons. So far we know that it will be taking us back to Cantha, the land of the Guild Wars Factions expansion for the original Guild Wars. You can expect to see some vibrant graphics coming soon because that region was one of the most beautiful in all of the Guild Wars universe.
May 28th, 2021 | Read More | 1,320 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
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The Icebrood Sage: Champions Finale - Judgment is Live! Braham Eirsson’s destiny is unfolding. When his arrow pierced Jormag’s fang, he shouldered his people’s quest for retribution against the dragon. He’s grown into a hero worthy of the prophecy—but fulfilling it may come at a price you’ve seen too many friends pay. As avatars of a hatred that spans millennia, what will become of the Elder Dragons’ mortal champions?
April 28th, 2021 | Read More | 1,310 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Foghladha Returns to WvW in April This month we'll be throwing WvW back into rotation twice a month. To kick off the month we'll host an Intro to WvW night in Edge of the Mists. Our second week we will hunt down mighty world bosses across Tyria. Our third week we head to the battlefield in WvW. Our fourth and final week we will celebrate the coming of May with a new player appreciation night hunting low-level world bosses.
March 29th, 2021 | Read More | 1,295 Reads | 2 Likes | 0 Comments
Exploring Tyria with Foghladha Returns to WvW this month This month we're looking to venture into a few new places. As we don't have the attendance to support Path of Fire bounties I have swapped it out in exchange for a monthly trip into WvW.
February 28th, 2021 | Read More | 1,318 Reads | 1 Likes | 0 Comments
Guild Wars 2 Adventures with Foghladha We've had a blast over the past few months exploring Tyria from top to bottom. This month we are going to throw a spin in by taking a trip to Edge of the Mists during our second week.
January 28th, 2021 | Read More | 1,359 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
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Guild Wars 2 Adventures Head to Jahai Bluffs this Month This month our Guild Wars 2 adventures will take us to Jahai Bluffs to face off with the Death-Branded Shatterer. In addition, we will be continuing our month World Boss Hunt, Legendary Bounty Hunt, and New Player Appreciation World Boss Hunt. Join us for a bunch of fun and laughter in Guild Wars 2 this January.
December 23rd, 2020 | Read More | 1,485 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Join Foghladha in Tyria This December We've had a lot of fun over the past two months rotating through some of the content available in Guild Wars 2. In December we're gonna put some exciting stuff in the mix including a massive new player gift-giving event on the 28th.
November 26th, 2020 | Read More | 1,714 Reads | 1 Likes | 2 Comments
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The Spooktacular Halloween Event is Back! For the next few weeks, you can collect candy corn, get your 20 slot bags and take part in an annual Guild Wars 2 tradition. The Shadow of the Mad King is an annual Halloween festival filled with ghoulish capers, spooky fights, and holiday fun! You can check out the full lineup of activities here.
October 23rd, 2020 | Read More | 1,124 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Guild Wars 2 End of Dragons Expansion Announced Not a whole lot is known about the third expansion and what it might bring to Guild Wars 2 but we do know it takes place in the long-awaited Cantha. So far all we have is this trailer to go on and a very colorful pallet. I will be sure to keep you in the loop as things develop.
September 29th, 2020 | Read More | 1,269 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Foghladha's Monthly Tyrian Adventure For the next month, I'm going full PvE on my weekly event. We will be cycling through World Bosses, Bounties, Special Zone Events, and New Player Welcoming events this month.
September 29th, 2020 | Read More | 1,069 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Gaiscioch Celebrates 8 Years in Guild Wars 2! It's crazy to think that Guild Wars 2 has been live for 8 years. This year ArenaNet has a wealth of rewards to give away for those characters created 8 years ago.
August 24th, 2020 | Read More | 1,083 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Part 4: The Icebrood Saga: Jormag Rising Blood Imperator Bangar Ruinbringer has led his Dominion followers to unthinkable ends in pursuit of victory. With all attempts at negotiation failed and a vicious new threat at hand, the charr civil war enters its deadliest phase yet and the ice dragon has taken notice.
July 21st, 2020 | Read More | 1,096 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Foghladha Exploration Event Heads to Drizzlewood Coast This month we will be spending time in the Icebrood Saga's Drizzlewood Coast experiencing this new form of zone event which is similar to WvW. This is a PvE version of WvW though it may be a good alternative to those who don't enjoy the PvP found in the borderlands.
May 26th, 2020 | Read More | 1,145 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
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Taking on Heart of Thorns in May In preparation for the next expansion, we have been rotating into the wonderful world of PvE every other week. This month we will finish up the Heart of Thorns zones, gathering as many mastery points and hero points as possible while seeking out some of the fun meta events that spawn in the region.
April 23rd, 2020 | Read More | 1,151 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
New Expansion Inc! The first hints of a new expansion dropped this month and it's hinting at Cantha! We should hear more later this year about Guild Wars 2's third expansion and possibly even get a glimpse at the future of the Guild Wars universe. In the meantime, the latest chapter of the Icebrood Saga has dropped and Foghladha will be running a few events to help people complete this chapter.
March 27th, 2020 | Read More | 1,071 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Could Scrying Pool Make Their Return? ArenaNet teased the next big update to Guild Wars 2 at PAX East this week. In their Visions of the Past: Steel and Fire preview trailer you can catch a glimpse at what appears to be a Scrying Pool. These pools were made famous in the Eye of the North and Heart of the North expansions in the original Guild Wars as a way for players to see past events and play missions they've already completed. While the original Scrying Pool can be found in Guild Wars 2 in the Hall of Monuments it has largely been untouched in the story. With this little tease, we can assume the next step forward is a vision of the past! See what I did there :D.
February 28th, 2020 | Read More | 1,179 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Massive New Balance Patch Has Landed The Call to Glory: February 2020 Competitive Update has landed. This month we've seen a wealth of new changes added to the game including Swiss Tournaments, Mini-Seasons, New Warlord’s Armor Set, Guildrider Warclaw Skin Reward Track, Bonus Rewards Event and the Major Balance Update. Be sure to head over to the official site to learn more.
February 28th, 2020 | Read More | 1,157 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Shadow In The Ice Launches January 28th Rytlock and Crecia have fallen out of contact, and now it seems Braham is striking out on his own to find them. This is the worst moment for your allies to isolate themselves. Touch base with Jhavi at Jora’s Keep and learn what she knows.
January 26th, 2020 | Read More | 1,129 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
New Event Lineup This year I've decided to change things up with my weekly event. For the past couple of years, my events have largely been focused on WvW and quite honestly it's becoming a chore to login and play WvW every week. I thought this year we could use a bit of spice in the lineup. As you guys know I have no legendaries, no world completion, no roller Beetle or Griffin or Skychunk as Kitty would say. There's so much of this game I have yet to explore and it's high time I step out of WvW and explore some of the other areas this wonderful game has to offer. In addition, I'm moving my Guild Wars 2 event back to Monday nights at 6 PM PT as it seems I had a better turnout there. So here's the new format of my event series for each month.
December 27th, 2019 | Read More | 1,257 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Guild Hall Moved to Gilded Hollow After a lot of thinking, I finally made the call to move our Guild Hall to the Gilded Hollow. While the last one we used was spacious and beautiful in its own way, it was a bit of a ride to get to anything useful so our members spent a lot of time traveling around the map to get to the core functions.
November 26th, 2019 | Read More | 1,168 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Season 5 Episode 1: Whisper in the Dark is Live! An urgent message from Almorra Soulkeeper summons you deeper into the Far Shiverpeaks, where you and your allies must stand together against the storm. But the howling wind can make any light flicker, and the cold eats at every heart. In this desolation, the voice that rings truest is the one inside you.
November 26th, 2019 | Read More | 1,121 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
New WvW Matchup Places SOR & Tarnished Coast as Allies In an interesting turn of events, we have been paired with Tarnished Coast once again. The last time we were paired we had a grand ol time and we can only hope the same will be true this time. What we do know is we can be more reliant on scouting reports that we could on our past matchup. Be sure to come on out Wednesdays at 6PM PT for some WvW action with Foghladha.
October 28th, 2019 | Read More | 1,123 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Build Templates Make Their Way Into Guild Wars 2 One of the fan favorite features of the original Guild Wars game was the ability to create and share builds with friends directly in game. On October 29th Build Templates finally arrive in Guild Wars 2. Be sure to take a look at this awesome new feature at: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/learn-all-about-build-and-equipment-templates/
October 28th, 2019 | Read More | 1,124 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
The Icebrood Saga Kicked off on September 17th ArenaNet's new take on expansions kicked off last month with the launch of the Icebrood Saga prologue. They've moved toward releasing expansion sized content via their new sagas for free instead of gating the population behind paywalls.
September 27th, 2019 | Read More | 1,140 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
LWS5 To Be Announced at PAX West Don’t forget—there’s a special announcement event less than two weeks away on August 30 at 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time (UTC-7)! Join us in person at the Moore Theatre in Seattle before PAX West opens, or catch the whole stream on our official Twitch, YouTube, and Facebook channels. The countdown will begin after our anniversary livestream.
August 25th, 2019 | Read More | 1,070 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Alas, the Beat Must Drop. ClubGaiscioch is Retiring Through the Fall. Over the past couple of months due to my Daughter being in town and me missing a few weeks, the population has declined to non-existent. Out of the past 8 weeks, we've only managed to run successfully twice. The last time I ran it we didn't even have enough to post for participation until later in the event. This is largely due to the chaotic schedule I've had and the lack of consistency in the event.
July 30th, 2019 | Read More | 992 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
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Living World Season 5 Getting Closer ArenaNet aka NCSoft West announced that on August 30th at PAX West it will announce the next installment of the living story.
July 30th, 2019 | Read More | 1,011 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
New Matchup Brings Same Alliance Looks like we managed to keep Yak's Bend as an Ally for another 8 weeks. Least we know what to expect. Hopefully, by PAX West we might hear of something new coming to WvW in the lines of the proposed alliance system of 2018. In the meantime we continue to inch toward those legendary armor sets.
June 30th, 2019 | Read More | 1,067 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Living World Season 4 Finale If you haven't checked it out yet, be sure to check out the final part of season 4. Many are praising the conclusion and are anticipating the kickoff of season 5. With this chapter comes the skyscale mount which I must warn you is an adventure in itself to acquire.
May 28th, 2019 | Read More | 1,117 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Massive Balance Patch Hits Guild Wars 2 If you've played GW2 over the past 7 years you've seen these a lot. New patches introduce crazy overpowered builds then a sweeping balance patch comes out to regulate them. This patch changed some of the core functionality of how skills work and interact with each other. I can not encourage you enough to read over these patch notes carefully to understand how your class most likely changed and what it means to group composition.
April 30th, 2019 | Read More | 1,156 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Sanctum of Rall Joins Yaks Bend for the Next 8 Weeks The new server matchup is out and we're linked with Yaks Bend. The past 8 weeks was pretty rough and I feel bad for any native Fort Aspenwood players that have to endure the constant trolling and fake calls on a permanent basis. I really don't know how they place so highly with a community hell bent on sabotaging itself. Fortunately for us, we only had to deal with it for 8 weeks. Now we get a new set of allies to head into battle with.
April 30th, 2019 | Read More | 1,001 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Warclaw Pounces onto the Battlefield This past month ArenaNet launched their first WvW mount called the Warclaw. It is a catlike mount that has the ability to pull down doors using supply and detect hostile invaders. Bri has written a wonderful guide on how to unlock the Warclaw. All you need is the Path of Fire expansion to get started. Join Foghladha on the battlefield Monday Nights or Saturday Late Night for our mixed troops WvW sessions where we organize into foot soldiers and cavalry for optimal movement on the battlefield.
March 29th, 2019 | Read More | 1,145 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Our Heart Breaks for ArenaNet Last month also was a terrible month for ArenaNet as they suffered a massive layoff. While their active Guild Wars 2 team was minimally affected, their R&D teams were scrapped and the projects they were developing were sidelined. To show our support and love for the ArenaNet team, we rallied for a nice send off which Briseadh managed to write a nice tribute article about. While things like this usually put a bad taste in people’s mouths about a game, we are hopeful that it will continue to move forward and grow.
March 29th, 2019 | Read More | 1,063 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
The WvW Mount: Warclaw It has been delayed a week due to the layoffs but it is still planned to make an appearance on March 5th. This mount will allow you to use supply to tug on a door making everyone have their own personal siege weapon. This will mean that door protection will actually be useful again as Catapults will likely decline in usage. This new cat mount will be available to all Path of Fire owners. Learn more about this mount on the official site.
February 27th, 2019 | Read More | 1,100 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Allied with Fort Aspenwood The new pairing has brought us back to Fort Aspenwood. This time the landscape seems much different from the last and there seems to be a bit of a toxicity problem now plaguing the once friendly server. Our first Siege War was plagued with trolling, the lack of support, and overall douchebaggery. I'm really hoping its a fluke and it's not like this all the time. We did have a fun ClubGaiscioch night, but again we couldn't rely on anyone but the SOR folk to join in the fight. Several times we called for help and every time it fell on deaf ears. This 8 weeks is likely to be trying but we'll get through it just like we always have. Sometimes being a Merc can be fun, other times it can be a pain. Let's do our best to keep our open and friendly tone and who knows we might even bring a couple of gems with us when we get re-paired. Keep being awesome people, the few remaining good souls on FA need us.
February 27th, 2019 | Read More | 1,117 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
February Guild Hall Upgrade Quest This month we are making a hard push to grow the 3 core room guild halls. We are working toward having all Crafting Materials up to Tier 5 and unlock all of the Auras for WvW objectives. This is quite a massive undertaking and will require a whole lot of help from the community. This month we will be focusing on Unlocking the WvW Auras. If you can check your banks and see if any of these you can help us with it would be a tremendous step forward. Send all donations to Foghladha.2506 for donation credit.
January 28th, 2019 | Read More | 1,136 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Great Tyrian Adventure Season 5 We've got 4 weeks left in the fifth season of the Great Tyrian Adventure chapter one. Which means you still have time to earn a Legendary weapon! Join us Saturdays at 12PM PT in game or on stream for your chance to win one of our many prizes. Each week we'll be raffling off some items and awarding grand prize raffle tickets which can be used for epic prizes.
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Great Tyrian Adventure Kicks Off Saturday January 19th Don't miss Season 5 Chapter 1 as it kicks off in January 2019 and will cover the new zones that came with the Living Story Season 4. Chapter 1 will include 6 weeks with a finale raffle at the conclusion of the 6th week. We will be awarding 1 lucky participant with a Legendary Prize which will allow them to choose one of the Legendary weapons from our Prize vault. In addition there will be a wealth of other prizes up for grabs. Head over to https://www.greattyrianadventure.com/ for more information and to sign up.
December 30th, 2018 | Read More | 997 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
New Guild Wars 2 Recruitment Video Coming Soon I am working to create each of our chapters a community highlight video to entice people to join. I may need some help filming some of the scenes as I need footage of Raiding, Dungeons, and Fractals as well as getting some setting shots with some actors. I'll be putting a special event on the calendar for filming these things.
November 28th, 2018 | Read More | 1,206 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Great Tyrian Adventure Kicks Off in January I've got some great news to share! We've completed the construction on the Three Legendaries we will be adding to the Raffle giveaway for the Great Tyrian Adventure. This has allowed us to green light the adventure to launch in January. I am currently hard at work preparing the site for the new season and will throw together a trailer this month. Tentatively, we're looking at starting on Thursday Jan 17th however, I need to get the preparations made so we can have a successful kickoff. But rest assured January is our target date.
November 28th, 2018 | Read More | 987 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Fractal Console Complete After months of seeing dancing holograms in our Guild Hall, our fractal runners have finally done it. They've raised the obscene number of fractal relics required to create the Fractal Console. This mysterious device allows for such craziness as making our Guild Hall low gravity. It's right next to where you port into the guild hall, so feel free to take it for a spin.
November 28th, 2018 | Read More | 1,106 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Great Tyrian Adventure Progress Report We're making some headway on our quest to complete the last 2 legendaries. GmaFog has volunteered to assemble them and we're in the final stretch. I've placed the event on the calendar for January and that is my tentative hope that we can pull that deadline off. Here's our updated list of materials that we need.
October 29th, 2018 | Read More | 1,060 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
A Star To Guide Us Launched The next chapter in the living world made its way to Guild Wars 2 bringing with it a new zone filled with some more group content including another dragon! It's very shimmery :D. Here's a quick rundown of what came with this part of the living world.
September 26th, 2018 | Read More | 1,062 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Sanctum of Rall Returns to Tier 1 Briefly This past week with a #5 rank we managed to get tossed into Tier 1 to see how we stack up. It has been a hard fight and we are behind a bit but not the blowout we expected. I am confident that Tier 2 will be where we will call home with the occasional trip to Tier 1. This is the best possible place we can be. Tier 2 fights are fun and competitive and the trip to Tier 1 every few weeks will keep us humble, make us appreciate the victories where we can get them. It also keeps the toxic nightmare that is tier 1 to a minimum which is good for all of our mental health. Be sure to head over to: https://www.sanctumofrall.com/ and get connected with the community.
September 26th, 2018 | Read More | 1,123 Reads | 0 Likes | 0 Comments
