Hi guys, it appears that you took down the "Apply to Guild" button on the navigation bar...and it took me forever to figure out that you guys might be taking apps by posting a new thread directly on the forum. I'm friends with Spanky Floyd and I wanted to see if I could get in on this guild or something....soooo, uhhhh..here's my app (hopefully I remember what the questions were, I only wrote down my answers lol)!
Character name: Arsiss
Profession: Elementalist
Race: Sylvari
Q: What are you looking forward to the most in game? What aspects interest you?
A: I love both the PVP and PVE aspects of online gaming. In my previous MMO's, while I wouldn't call myself "hardcore" by any means, I was mostly in hardcore progression-oriented PVE guilds. In WoW I played a shadow priest and an unholy death knight for upwards of two years and my guild wound up being in the top 3 of our rather large server. I've also played Star Wars: The Old Republic for the past several months where I've done a great deal of progression raid healing (which I enjoyed much more than just dps'ing, because I love to be challenged and kept on my toes!).
I also have a large amount of experience in PVP battlegrounds -- when I played WoW, I had alts in a guild with Spanky and some of my other RL friends to do heavy twinking in the lvl 30-39 bracket (I played a feral druid, both dps and flag-carrying) and in the lvl 40-49 bracket (I played a frost/fire mage, burn-n-blink baby!). We'd often run up against a rival horde guild in our battlegroup and find ourselves in epic wars that could go on for hours. Some of my fondest memories in any game (console or PC) happened during a couple of 3+ hour-long Warsong Gulches, which we ensured weren't just killfests but both teams were actively trying to win...I loved it!
Anyways, I mostly "twinked" (rather than doing endgame pvp) because my "main" guild never really did heavy endgame pvp as a group/team, and as you guys know, if it isn't a guild run and if people aren't on Vent/TS/Mumble together, PVP generally turns into an everyone-for-himself shitshow where nobody tries to accomplish the objectives as a team. I HAAAAAATE that! It basically null-and-voids the best part of the mmo experience – working/strategizing with others to accomplish an epic goal.
Let's put it this way, however...despite the fact that I clearly used to concentrate on endgame raid/PVE content, from what I've seen of WvW/sPVP action in GW2 I'm actually now really looking forward to grabbing myself a piece of the high-level PVP pie as well!
TL;DR -- I'll do it all, and I’ll LIKE it haha
Q: What MMO experience do you have?
A: MMO's:
DC Universe Online - 2 months
WoW - 2.5 years
SWTOR - approximately 1 year
Online:
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare - 6 months
Call of Duty: Black Ops - 1 year
Gears of War 2 - 6 months
Halo series - 1 year
Unfortunately, WOW was really both my first MMO and my first RPG (other than the Zelda 64 games). All the other games I used to play online were FPS's.
After 2 years in WoW I started to realize that I didn't really like a lot of the guildies I raided with, and I wound up getting sort of burnt out on the whole “raid for 4-6 hours at least 4 nights a week” thing…I had a girlfriend (who is now my fiancée by the way, thanks for asking =D) demanding a bigger slice of my time, and you know how that is. Anyways, it was about 2 years ago that I quit WoW for good and pretty much swore off MMO’s altogether. I found myself at a loss for how to spend my free time, so I started to get pretty heavy into the console games and online FPS’s (see: COD, GoW, Halo). Eventually that, too, wore on me…so now I was really in a bind.
Enter Star Wars: The Old Republic. Advertised as a completely different alternative to WoW, I picked it up and was blown away by the questing process, the stories, and the layout of the game in general. I got to the level cap (50) and joined a progression raiding guild as a healer. Well, I’ve been sitting at the level cap for about 4 months now, and Bioware has yet to come out with challenging new content to keep me interested…and I’m still paying $15 every month to maintain a subscription to the game, despite the fact that game maintenance goes extremely slowly. So here I am, submitting what I’m sure is an obnoxiously long application to Arcanix because Spanky Floyd tells me y’all are a bunch of swell dudes/dudettes.
Q: What were your experiences in your previous guilds? What do you expect from Arcanix?
A: As I said before, I’ve been part of a variety of guilds – a twinking guild with my real life friends, a VERY casual raiding guild, a casual-ish progression raiding guild, and a more hardcore progression raiding guild. Being in the hardcore raiding scene for about a year showed me that the “hardcore” thing really isn’t my style…I’m more of a happy medium.
When I was in the more closely-knit guilds, I found myself frequently just logging on to chat – if not in Vent, just in the /gchat window. We cried, we laughed, we squealed like little schoolgirls, but not necessarily in that order. The best part of being in a guild is the opportunity to make new friends with completely different life situations than you, and I feel like forming a chemistry with the people you tackle group challenges with is not only the best way to succeed, but it’s the best way to have fun. What’s life without friends, amirite?
Q: How did you hear about the guild?
A: How did I hear about the guild? Well, the same way I heard about GW2 itself – Spanky told me.
I was first apprised of how spectacular he thought the game was going to be, and how he thought I should quit SWTOR to play this game with him. He talked about how GW2 contained more action-based PVP, more team-oriented gameplay, and how it somehow got rid of the “holy trinity” of tank, heals, and dps. Needless to say, I was intrigued…how was this possible? How could they make a game like this balanced where all plate-wearers could heal themselves just the same as cloth-wearers? Could GW2 levelling top the immersive story experience that was SWTOR? How could a free-to-play game keep coming out with new content to make it worth paying $60 for?
I then started asking him more detailed questions to get some answers, and he got the sense that I was interested in picking the game up…he said that he wanted me to apply to Arcanix, and he showed me the Youtube video of you guys doing the synchronized swimming dive off of the bridge in Lion’s Arch or something. Freakin SOLD! That video was so beautiful it brought a tear to my eyes similar to Christian Bale when he listens to Beethoven for the first time in “Equilibrium”. Anyways, I’ve been playing the game now for about a week and I’m pretty sure I’m hooked. I’d now like to join a group of like-minded individuals, and you guys seem just crazy enough.
Q: What will you bring to Arcanix? And is Arcanix the only guild you'll join?
A: What I bring to the community is a sense of sarcastic humor….and that’s it. No, seriously, that’s it.
I kid, of course. All the MMO’s I’ve played I’ve wound up being pretty darn good at, whether I played in a healing role or a dps role. As I said before, whenever I grouped up on my DPS death knight I usually topped meters, and whenever I grouped on my healer, even though I was undergeared at first I often outhealed the other healer. I love working as a team, I love helping my team members doing whatever (be it leveling, farming crafting mats, instancing, pvp’ing, or even if sparing some change), and I love to chat with good people. I’m not a social butterfly in real life, but I have a tendency to have a lot of people adding me to friends lists in game. Hopefully you guys will too!
Of course Arcanix will be the only guild I join! I feel like if you spread your affections around to a bunch of separate guilds, you never really get a chance to know the people you raid/pvp with and you never develop any chemistry together. Group chemistry is pretty much the most important thing in any MMO in my mind (even more than gear, within reason)….so all my toons will (hopefully) be Arcanixians… Arcanixans… Arcanixites…whatever.
Q: Anything else you have to say for yourself?
A: First of all, I’m pretty much the biggest Patriots fan you ever want to meet (I’d say biggest Red Sox fan too, but being a Sox fan this year is pretty depressing…they suck.). I’m the guy who gets up and jumps around screaming, pumping my fist in the air during a close game. I have a tendency to have a semi-offensive sense of humor.
I’m currently a graduate student pursuing my PhD in chemical engineering from Northeastern University in Boston. I do a lot of research on permanent magnets, which are vital components of pretty much everything electronic, from motors to generators to military defense applications to computers to cell phones to…you get it. You know how a lot of times when people don’t know how something works, they say “Freakin magnets…” Well, I’d be the one to say “I GOT THAT BRO.”
I recently got engaged to a wonderful woman – I popped the question just on July 20th of this year. I designed a one-of-a-kind ring myself (you can see a picture of the ring the jeweler custom-built based on the design I drew him here https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/s720x720/179142_10151038094262290_149726661_n.jpg). She’d been expecting it for a while, so I was forced to completely surprise her with it on a day when she didn’t know she’d be seeing me. I had her parents lure her to a restaurant on a beach that has special significance to it for lunch, and I was waiting there…I brought out a bouquet of roses and asked the question with all the customers looking on. A couple of the waitresses cried….and frivolity was had by all.
In my spare time, I also run one of the biggest underground metal promotion communities in the world (don’t worry though, I’m not a Satanist or anything, and I’m not one of those metalheads who wears all black all the time). Just like helping out my teammates in game, one of my greatest joys in life is watching a band I promoted go on to succeed in the industry. THE END.
PS: This application probably gave me carpal tunnel.
Character name: Arsiss
Profession: Elementalist
Race: Sylvari
Q: What are you looking forward to the most in game? What aspects interest you?
A: I love both the PVP and PVE aspects of online gaming. In my previous MMO's, while I wouldn't call myself "hardcore" by any means, I was mostly in hardcore progression-oriented PVE guilds. In WoW I played a shadow priest and an unholy death knight for upwards of two years and my guild wound up being in the top 3 of our rather large server. I've also played Star Wars: The Old Republic for the past several months where I've done a great deal of progression raid healing (which I enjoyed much more than just dps'ing, because I love to be challenged and kept on my toes!).
I also have a large amount of experience in PVP battlegrounds -- when I played WoW, I had alts in a guild with Spanky and some of my other RL friends to do heavy twinking in the lvl 30-39 bracket (I played a feral druid, both dps and flag-carrying) and in the lvl 40-49 bracket (I played a frost/fire mage, burn-n-blink baby!). We'd often run up against a rival horde guild in our battlegroup and find ourselves in epic wars that could go on for hours. Some of my fondest memories in any game (console or PC) happened during a couple of 3+ hour-long Warsong Gulches, which we ensured weren't just killfests but both teams were actively trying to win...I loved it!
Anyways, I mostly "twinked" (rather than doing endgame pvp) because my "main" guild never really did heavy endgame pvp as a group/team, and as you guys know, if it isn't a guild run and if people aren't on Vent/TS/Mumble together, PVP generally turns into an everyone-for-himself shitshow where nobody tries to accomplish the objectives as a team. I HAAAAAATE that! It basically null-and-voids the best part of the mmo experience – working/strategizing with others to accomplish an epic goal.
Let's put it this way, however...despite the fact that I clearly used to concentrate on endgame raid/PVE content, from what I've seen of WvW/sPVP action in GW2 I'm actually now really looking forward to grabbing myself a piece of the high-level PVP pie as well!
TL;DR -- I'll do it all, and I’ll LIKE it haha
Q: What MMO experience do you have?
A: MMO's:
DC Universe Online - 2 months
WoW - 2.5 years
SWTOR - approximately 1 year
Online:
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare - 6 months
Call of Duty: Black Ops - 1 year
Gears of War 2 - 6 months
Halo series - 1 year
Unfortunately, WOW was really both my first MMO and my first RPG (other than the Zelda 64 games). All the other games I used to play online were FPS's.
After 2 years in WoW I started to realize that I didn't really like a lot of the guildies I raided with, and I wound up getting sort of burnt out on the whole “raid for 4-6 hours at least 4 nights a week” thing…I had a girlfriend (who is now my fiancée by the way, thanks for asking =D) demanding a bigger slice of my time, and you know how that is. Anyways, it was about 2 years ago that I quit WoW for good and pretty much swore off MMO’s altogether. I found myself at a loss for how to spend my free time, so I started to get pretty heavy into the console games and online FPS’s (see: COD, GoW, Halo). Eventually that, too, wore on me…so now I was really in a bind.
Enter Star Wars: The Old Republic. Advertised as a completely different alternative to WoW, I picked it up and was blown away by the questing process, the stories, and the layout of the game in general. I got to the level cap (50) and joined a progression raiding guild as a healer. Well, I’ve been sitting at the level cap for about 4 months now, and Bioware has yet to come out with challenging new content to keep me interested…and I’m still paying $15 every month to maintain a subscription to the game, despite the fact that game maintenance goes extremely slowly. So here I am, submitting what I’m sure is an obnoxiously long application to Arcanix because Spanky Floyd tells me y’all are a bunch of swell dudes/dudettes.
Q: What were your experiences in your previous guilds? What do you expect from Arcanix?
A: As I said before, I’ve been part of a variety of guilds – a twinking guild with my real life friends, a VERY casual raiding guild, a casual-ish progression raiding guild, and a more hardcore progression raiding guild. Being in the hardcore raiding scene for about a year showed me that the “hardcore” thing really isn’t my style…I’m more of a happy medium.
When I was in the more closely-knit guilds, I found myself frequently just logging on to chat – if not in Vent, just in the /gchat window. We cried, we laughed, we squealed like little schoolgirls, but not necessarily in that order. The best part of being in a guild is the opportunity to make new friends with completely different life situations than you, and I feel like forming a chemistry with the people you tackle group challenges with is not only the best way to succeed, but it’s the best way to have fun. What’s life without friends, amirite?
Q: How did you hear about the guild?
A: How did I hear about the guild? Well, the same way I heard about GW2 itself – Spanky told me.
I was first apprised of how spectacular he thought the game was going to be, and how he thought I should quit SWTOR to play this game with him. He talked about how GW2 contained more action-based PVP, more team-oriented gameplay, and how it somehow got rid of the “holy trinity” of tank, heals, and dps. Needless to say, I was intrigued…how was this possible? How could they make a game like this balanced where all plate-wearers could heal themselves just the same as cloth-wearers? Could GW2 levelling top the immersive story experience that was SWTOR? How could a free-to-play game keep coming out with new content to make it worth paying $60 for?
I then started asking him more detailed questions to get some answers, and he got the sense that I was interested in picking the game up…he said that he wanted me to apply to Arcanix, and he showed me the Youtube video of you guys doing the synchronized swimming dive off of the bridge in Lion’s Arch or something. Freakin SOLD! That video was so beautiful it brought a tear to my eyes similar to Christian Bale when he listens to Beethoven for the first time in “Equilibrium”. Anyways, I’ve been playing the game now for about a week and I’m pretty sure I’m hooked. I’d now like to join a group of like-minded individuals, and you guys seem just crazy enough.
Q: What will you bring to Arcanix? And is Arcanix the only guild you'll join?
A: What I bring to the community is a sense of sarcastic humor….and that’s it. No, seriously, that’s it.
I kid, of course. All the MMO’s I’ve played I’ve wound up being pretty darn good at, whether I played in a healing role or a dps role. As I said before, whenever I grouped up on my DPS death knight I usually topped meters, and whenever I grouped on my healer, even though I was undergeared at first I often outhealed the other healer. I love working as a team, I love helping my team members doing whatever (be it leveling, farming crafting mats, instancing, pvp’ing, or even if sparing some change), and I love to chat with good people. I’m not a social butterfly in real life, but I have a tendency to have a lot of people adding me to friends lists in game. Hopefully you guys will too!
Of course Arcanix will be the only guild I join! I feel like if you spread your affections around to a bunch of separate guilds, you never really get a chance to know the people you raid/pvp with and you never develop any chemistry together. Group chemistry is pretty much the most important thing in any MMO in my mind (even more than gear, within reason)….so all my toons will (hopefully) be Arcanixians… Arcanixans… Arcanixites…whatever.
Q: Anything else you have to say for yourself?
A: First of all, I’m pretty much the biggest Patriots fan you ever want to meet (I’d say biggest Red Sox fan too, but being a Sox fan this year is pretty depressing…they suck.). I’m the guy who gets up and jumps around screaming, pumping my fist in the air during a close game. I have a tendency to have a semi-offensive sense of humor.
I’m currently a graduate student pursuing my PhD in chemical engineering from Northeastern University in Boston. I do a lot of research on permanent magnets, which are vital components of pretty much everything electronic, from motors to generators to military defense applications to computers to cell phones to…you get it. You know how a lot of times when people don’t know how something works, they say “Freakin magnets…” Well, I’d be the one to say “I GOT THAT BRO.”
I recently got engaged to a wonderful woman – I popped the question just on July 20th of this year. I designed a one-of-a-kind ring myself (you can see a picture of the ring the jeweler custom-built based on the design I drew him here https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/s720x720/179142_10151038094262290_149726661_n.jpg). She’d been expecting it for a while, so I was forced to completely surprise her with it on a day when she didn’t know she’d be seeing me. I had her parents lure her to a restaurant on a beach that has special significance to it for lunch, and I was waiting there…I brought out a bouquet of roses and asked the question with all the customers looking on. A couple of the waitresses cried….and frivolity was had by all.
In my spare time, I also run one of the biggest underground metal promotion communities in the world (don’t worry though, I’m not a Satanist or anything, and I’m not one of those metalheads who wears all black all the time). Just like helping out my teammates in game, one of my greatest joys in life is watching a band I promoted go on to succeed in the industry. THE END.
PS: This application probably gave me carpal tunnel.
