Guild Wars 2: The first 2 weeks.

It's been about 2 weeks since the release of the greatest game ever. My guild is doing great. We have a little over 30 members now. If you'd like to join you can visit our website http://tyrianartistry.shivtr.com/ and apply.

There has been some shakiness in the launch of Guild Wars 2. I'd have to say it's probably the sloppiest launch I've ever been a part of. Other games had queues at launch where you couldn't even play though so I guess I'd take the bugs over not getting to play. GW2's overflow servers were great since I seemed to have picked one of the most populated servers. I already stopped getting sent to overflow servers in most zones and in the ones I do it's usually only minutes before I am tossed back to my home server.

One of the issues they had over the past 2 weeks was the Trade Post being offline for the majority of the first week and 1/2 which made it frustrating to make money and prevented any sort of economy from starting. It has been up for the past few days with only brief periods of down time.

The game has been restarted for patches several times but has had very little down time for maintenance. Forums were also down for the first week of the game. The wiki was down the first few days as well which was a hard thing for players because we're all noobs around here.

Guilds and Parties have had some hiccups too. In guilds there has been everything from invites not being able to be sent or accepted, entire guilds or individual guild features being invisible to some members, and guild upgrades and ranks being un-editable by the guild masters and officers. Party features have had some issues too. The feature to join other players in your party wasn't working when people were on different overflow servers.

And of course there were hackers and phishing and all that good stuff. So I'm sure the GW2 employees kept Advil in business over the past couple weeks with all the headaches they've had to deal with.

Most features are fixed now and they're starting to patch some fixes to class abilities, quests, and little things.

They did a great job keeping people informed of issues and fixes via reddit, wiki and the official site. I haven't been too affected by the problems the past couple weeks and have been having an amazing time in game. I hope you all get to try GW2 soon.

Guild Wars 2 Guild

I decided to start a Guild Wars 2 branch of the guild I ran in Rift. Here's a little about the guild and where to sign up to join me.

[Tyrian Artistry] is a Guild Wars 2 guild on the Jade Quarry server. TA was started back during the headstart of Rift as Telaran Artistry. It was a very popular guild on the Faeblight server that ran roleplaying events like craft fairs and story telling nights. I left Rift about a year ago and so left TA, but after waiting 5 years for the release of GW2 I wanted to start TA up again and bring the artistry to Tyria. Tyrian Artistry will not necessarily be a role playing guild but after feeling out the community in GW2 we may hold similar events to the ones we held in Rift.
Ages 18+, adult language and topics may be used in guild chat.

This is a very casual guild and we have players of all styles. Some who log in for several hours every day and others who only log in for a few hours each week.

All play styles are welcome. This is a great guild for soloers who just want to take their time, quest, and discover all Tyria has to offer without pressure while meeting new friends.

We are a zero tolerance guild. This means be nice or you are no longer welcome. Derogatory statements towards another player, joking or serious, are not tolerated. We welcome all genders, races and sexual preferences and never discriminate and do not allow any of our guild members to be disrespected or disrespect each other.

I hope you will join our quest in making Tyria a more beautiful place to live, work, and kill bad guys. Please visit http://tyrianartistry.shivtr.com/ to join us.