Hello PSDH!

After a successful Hide&Seek event we're going to organize an other guild event \o/ *yeey*

When: March 28th (Easter)
Time: 19:00GMT / 20:00CET

The past has told us that during holidays - like Easter - our numbers are always a bit lower, so instead of half-assing Teq and TT-Wurm and leaving you all in tears because you didn't get your greens and blues, we decided to organize a guild event for some laughs and banter.

The Event
Last event was Hide&Seek and this event is kinda like that. Since it's Easter we thought it be fun to do something related to that. First time comes to mind... searching for coloured eggs. But since we don't have egg decorations we're swapping them with coloured balloons

We've named this event: Balloon Trek

How it works
Me and Gem have gone around the guild hall and found some nice places were we can "hide" balloons. For each hiding spot we have thought of a cryptic text which should give you a (small) clue on where this balloon is hidden. Once you have found a balloon, you whisper the location of the balloon (+ decoration next to it) to either me or Gem and ff the answer is correct we will give you a letter which in the end will give you the final word.

Prizes
The first three who figure out the correct final answer will receive a "special" price Before the event we will announce the prizes.

Sign-up
We would like to know how many people are interested in participating in the event. Please let is us know by replying in this thread or sending me (MrDark.9634) an in-game whipser or mail.

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Play The Game
If you were unable to join yesterday - or just didn't knew this event existed - you can now play the game yourself, without the prices of course unless you get something for yourself We will leave the balloons in there locations for the next one or two weeks.

Below you will find 10 cryptic messages which describes where a balloon is located. With each balloon we placed a decoration to make sure you actually found the balloon and are not just guessing. After you have found a balloon with a decoration you will receive a letter which in the end makes an anagram.

Cryptic Messages
#1: Far in the north and deepest corner you'll find this floating piece of coloured happiness
White - Bookcase - U
#2: Far in the back this balloon is withstanding a force of nature
Green - Red Festival Umbrella - D
#3: We know our guilds lead 'office'r is hot but is he as hot as this balloon?
Orange - Holiday Wreath - E
#4: For our favourite explorer
Purple - Torch - O
#5: Could this balloon have been here since we first claimed our guildhall?
White - Basket - N
#6: Ini meeny miny mo ... which side I will pick you have to know..
Blue - Crate - R
#7: Guilded hollow? This safe bit of it is really golden but hands off Gem's case of rum!
Purple - Keg - R
#8: Arrrgh, matey, go swab the deck you scurvy bastard!
Fushia - Candle(s) - T
#9: There's got to be a way out of this forsaken place somewhere round Tarir
Yellow - Mushroom - A
#10: Bringing some colour in the grey and brown life our hard working slaves
Red - Jack-o-Lantern - N

If you have trouble finding all balloons and require some help, we have screenshots of all the balloon locations:
1: http://imgur.com/1KCtRjv
2: http://imgur.com/uIiCnrM
3: http://imgur.com/xEs4xxe
4: http://imgur.com/9pbpxE4
5: http://imgur.com/AO5Krq7
6: http://imgur.com/E1BByTc
7: http://imgur.com/6whuAuU
8: http://imgur.com/aCR7CMm
9: http://imgur.com/6grqzAx (Not the actual location, but near)
10: http://imgur.com/6grqzAx

Final Clue
Once you have found all 10 balloons, you may open the following final clue which should help you solve the anagram.
Take the letters you earned and add a touch of home. Mix them up to figure out this classy clue for your chance at glory.

Final Answer
So you think you have found the answer? Or are you cheating
Hint 1: Adding a touch of home refers to the Guild Hall, so G and H
Hint 2: Figure out this classy clue... it's not only a class, but also a rank in PSDH
Final Answer: And the final answer is..... Dragon Hunter[/b]

Myself, Nova en Gem spent some time last night decorating the Guild Hall. We got some very nice donations from guild members to help us with this, thank you so much we really appreciate it!

Here's the end result!

Hello and welcome to an other episode of raiding with Mr_Dark!

In this episode I'm looking to form a "dedicated" raid team to clear the Spirit Vale raiding wing. Hopefully this will allow us to run with the same group of players every time so we don't have to look for a new player when someone has to leave. For those who won't or can't make it on the team, no worries; I will still be running PUG raids with PSDH and Enigma members

When do I plan on raiding:
I'm only available during the weekdays so:

• Monday - After Teq/TT Wurm/TD
• Tuesday evening
• Wednesday - After Teq/TT Wurm/TD
• Thursday evening

We won't be raiding every evening, once we have a full team we can discuss the next raid date and time.

Team
Mr_Dark, pizzapunt, Sabetha, Kevorkian, Kaelik Wau, Vryce, Ashinor, Zevvy, Nendagor

Tank:
* Mr_Dark - Darkward - Berserker
Ashinor - Jynorä - Warrior

Healer:
* Vryce - Cazarhil - Druid
Kaelik Wau - Revenant Sekk - Revenant

Condi:
* Sabetha - Shalashia - Reaper
* Zevvy - Zevvy - Engineer/Scrapper
* Nendagor - Nendagor - Engineer
Ashinor - Sharrar - Elementalist

Heralds:
* Ashinor - Ashïron
- OPEN SLOT

Chronomancer:
* pizzapunt - Ardi Veftvohl

DPS:
* Kevorkian - Baroness Regret - Warrior
* Kaelik Wau - Kealik Wau - Warrior
Ashinor - Ashinor - Warrior
Nendagor  - Nendragen - Warrior

If you're interested in filling one of the spots, feel free to post a reply with your character name, profession and the role you'd like to fulfil.

Written guide by Dulfy
http://dulfy.net/2015/11/20/gw2-vale-guardian-raid-boss-guide/

Video guide by DnT

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Last night we got together 10 players and tried the first raid wing. After about 4 hours of dying we had to stop because it was getting late.
Thanks everyone who joined, hope you had as much fun as I did

Party Composition
Over the evening we had about 5 or 6 different group compositions because people had to leave. One thing we did notice is that we did a lot more damage when we had 2 Druids in the group.

Over the evening we have had the following classes:
1 x Warrior / Berserker (Semi-Tank, PvT armor, Zerk weapons)
1 x Berserker
2 x Chronomancer
3 x Reaper
2 x Druid
1 x Tempest
2 x Guardian / Dragonhunter

Maybe someone else remembers the composition we had on the final attempt.

Mini-Bosses
It's possible to swap traits and weapons between bosses, just make sure everyone is out of combat.

Blue Guardian
Green magic circles will spawn on the ground, you must have at least 4 (non-downed) players in it, otherwise it will do massive AoE damage which is likely to wipe the group. Call it out when you see a circle.

Before you can damage this boss you will have to strip his boons; Mesmers and Necromancers are especially good for this. When the boons are stripped just full DPS.

Skills/Traits/Utilities that can remove boons: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Boon#Related_skills

Red Guardian
This guy can only be damaged by using condition damage (TT-Wurm husks on steroids). He will also spawn seekers which do AoE damage, use knock backs to keep them away from the group.

Green Guardian
No strategy, just full DPS. Every few seconds he will spawn blue circles on the ground which will do damage and teleport you away from the boss.

Final Boss (Vale Guardian)
The Vale Guardian is a combination of the Blue, Red and Green guardians.

Note: In our attempts we only came in phase 3 and had it down to about 70% health

Before you get in the arena split up in 3 groups; DPS, Condi and Boon strip. This is needed for when the boss splits back into the 3 guardians (Phase 2).

Aggro: The boss will aggro on the first person who hits it! We've learned this the hard way and have had glass zerker have aggro on the boss
So when you step into the arena, let the tank go in first and do some damage first. After that the rest can move in.

Arena: When the boss fight starts a wall will appear around the arena which makes it impossible for players to get out, but also to get in.
Before we entered the arena we did a ready check to see if everyone was still there. After the ready check we stepped into the arena, just on the edge so we didn't aggro the boss. Once we were all in the arena I moved in to aggro the boss.

Phase 1
The Value Guardian will do all attacks from the 3 mini-bosses at the same time; Green magic circle, Blue teleports and Red AoE balls.
When you see a green circle appearing: Call it out right away!. It will wipe the group if there are not at least 4 players in the green circle before channelling ends.

To make phase 1 a bit easier and not have the green magic circles spawn all over the arena, the tank should get the boss to the side of the arena. The green circles spawn in relation do the boss location, so when the boss is against the wall the circles will only appear on one half of the arena.

Green circles must have #1 priority! Even above picking up downed players, because if you don't have at least 4 (non-downed) players in the circle the whole group will wipe.

Phase 2
When the boss is down to about 75% health it will split into Green, Blue and Red Guardian again. Before it does that you have a short period of time to move to the correct pillar which was assigned to your group (what I talked about at the start). You will receive an icon above your head which should correspond with the colour of the guardian you're killing. If you go to another colour guardian (eg, you have green and go to red), you will receive more damage.

Just kill the guardians using their own mechanism, once their health is 0% a break bar will appear. When all break bars are gone the 3 guardians will merge back into the Vale Guardian.

Phase 3
The Vale Guardian will come back again and it's basically the same as phase 1, but harder. The main difference is that parts of the floor will now light up and do damage over time to everyone who's on that floor part. It's essential to kite the boss around away from the floor part which active.

Phase 4
Similar to phase 2 but harder. Make sure to get to your pillar on time.

Phase 5
Similar to phase 3, but now 2 parts of the floor light up.
Your tank will have to time when he/she pulls the boss towards the next floor part, otherwise you might end up with a green circle on an active floor.

This is were we wiped and called it a day. Hopefully more updates soon

Update 19/11
Last night we got it down to around 25% health and went in phase 5. With all the different attacks going on it's good to have dedicated callers for green and blue circles.

List of past and future upgrades to the Guild Hall. Just to make sure we keep all upgrading in sync with what we need. Plus it's a good place to discuss upgrades

Don't forget to harvest the five daily nodes at the workshop and pick a boost at the tavern.

Spreadsheet with all upgrades:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pX5tM9-QcJ4fgLASDGFafp4DbJpZRc60DP1SKAULuig/edit?usp=sharing

Below you see a list of pending upgrades with the items we're missing:

Workshop Restoration 2
- Vial of Linseed Oil (Flax Seed)
- Elonian Leather Square (Gated, 1/day)

Tavern Restoration 2
- Elder Wood Plank
- Empty Keg (Flax Seed)
- Glass Mug (Coarse Sand)

In case you've been living under a rock, Heart of Thorns expansion is dropping upcoming Friday. Because of this we might want to change our schedule for the next 2 weeks and do HoT / Halloween related events.

As always, we leave the choice up to you!

• Keep the regular Teq/Wurm schedule
• Change the schedule to do HoT / Halloween events

After two weeks we will make a new definitive schedule which will include the new HoT events and possible raid night.

UPDATE
You have spoken and so we'll be claiming Gilded Hollow as our guild hall on Sunday, October 25th.

We will start at 13:00 (UTC) / 14:00 (+1GMT). Please be on Teamspeak at least 15 minutes before we begin!

Note: Time will be set 1 hour back for most of Europe and the UK

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This time you may vote for two things at the same time!

1. When we go and claim our guild hall
Sunday we have more time because we can start in the afternoon and keep trying if we fail.
Monday we might have more players online because people might have things to do in the weekend.

2. Which guild hall type we're going to claim
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Lost_Precipice
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Gilded_Hollow

New information about the Guild Halls from the live stream can be found on Dulfy
http://dulfy.net/2015/09/29/gw2-guild-week-day-one-livestream-notes/
http://dulfy.net/2015/09/30/gw2-guild-week-day-two-livestream-notes/
http://dulfy.net/2015/10/01/gw2-guild-week-day-three-livestream-notes/

Today I got a package from Poland in the mail. Specifically a package from our own Merula!!

I guess you can say that these drinks were made for me 



Thank you Merula. Once I get back from my holiday I'll make sure to drink them and report back