Returning member guild application Q: What brought you to our website? A: Friends Mhaer and Luwa. Mhaer let me know that OSD was going to have a big presence in GW2 and the combat and PVP seemed really interesting. I have played for a few months in your guild and I enjoyed the atmosphere and the people. Q: This recruitment process requires that we get to know you a little bit. Please tell us a little about yourself. A: I am a French-Canadian living in North California. Q: All members are expected to uphold respectful conduct when communicating with other players and guildmates. This applies to in-game situations, our website and on guild/GW2 related websites and message boards. Intolerance for others based upon religion / sexuality / gender / ethnicity / etc. is not welcome. We are a guild of HONOR and INTEGRITY, and we reflect that in all public forums. The general rule of thumb is to treat people how you would like to be treated in return. How do you feel about this? A: This is how I approach my life in general. You can judge my previous post on the AOC channels. Q: In-Game Guild Status - Guild Wars 2 will allow characters to switch between multiple guilds as they wish while playing the game. The OSD Division Leadership Council within the Guild Wars 2 game expect that you will focus your time and energy towards this guild alone and will keep your characters as members of the OSD. Therefore it is an expectation that you will be 'representing' the Order of the Silver Dragons at all times while playing in-game as a member of this community. With that said, there might be a feasible reason why an ‘alt’ character or an RP character should be in another guild. Special cases and requests will be handled on an individual basis. What are your thoughts on this? A: I agree with this. Q: Ventrilo is a communications tool that allows our membership to experience the full effect of being in a community-based gaming guild. If you feel alone in game and you don't feel that much is going on, or felt the scheduled event experience was lacking or not working as intended... it might just be because you aren't using the communications tools available to you.VENTRILO use will be 'Strongly Encouraged' for all players to actively use while performing normal game activities whenever you are playing in GW2. Even though it is not a requirement, it should be strongly considered for usage as a communications tool that allows our membership to experience the full effect of being in a community-based gaming guild. VENTRILO use can, and no doubt will be 'Mandatory' during organized guild events, such as Dynamic Content runs and meta-events/dungeons, WvW, sPvP, group or team meetings, as well as other types of scheduled events if the event coordinator advises of such. You don't have to speak if you don't want to, so long as you are on to listen to other members that might need help or guidance. With that said, we have several dedicated Vent rooms that allow you to sit quietly in peace if you so wish. All public discussion areas such as public vent channels are PG-13. Are you okay with our Ventrilo policies? A: I am OK with them Q: If you are accepted as a member of our guild, you will automatically be placed at our 'New Member' position within the game. Please be mindful that this is not a single-player RPG game, but a multi-wing online gaming community. You will be expected to communicate, interact and support your fellow guildies, as well as ensure that you follow our Charter of Excellence at all times. In order to show your allegiance or loyalty to our community, we will ask that you perform certain 'Community Quests' that give you the opportunity to communicate, interact and generally become a member of our community (don't worry, they are enjoyable tasks that allows you to get involved with our player-base). Once these 'Guild Quests' are resolved, you will be raised one rank level in-game which allows you to access all the benefits of our guild. Are you okay with this? A: I am OK with this Q: We have found that guild members have a better gaming experience if they use the forums and the events calender. This allows you to get game information and join guildies in events as your real life time permits. Do you intend on being active on our website forums and events calendar? A: I get most of my information from Forums. I have a tendancy to post lest than I read. However I have a good track record on showing up for guild events. Q: Once you learn how, we would like you to create events or RSVP for other scheduled events as your real life schedule permits. What are your thoughts on this? A: Yes Q: Have you been playing MMO's for a while, or are you just getting started? A: I played a little of AOC (I was a member of OSD at that point). I played WOW since 2006 and had a lot of fun raiding for TBC, WOLK and a little for Cata. The character can be found here: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/characte...lestara/simple Q: We expect all members to submit and update their characters in our Guild Wars 2 sub-forum 'Character Roster' (character name, class, level, possibly build, etc.). Are you okay with this? After reading the above content, why do you think it might be important? A: I really enjoyed doing this when I was playing AOC Q: What kind of character do you typically play? Tell us about your main character you envision, and please list any alts that you know you will be bringing into the guild as well. A: I had a tendancy to play healer-type character in MMO. In GW2, I am thinking of playing many of the professions and I will bring some in the guild at creation Q: What type of playstyle do you enjoy the most? A: I like more the support playstyle, but I have rottated arround all playtstyle at one point or another. Q: If you violate any rules defined within the gaming EULA, you will face disciplinary action up to and including removal from this community. Do you understand, and agree with this rule? A: I understand and I agree. Q: What time of day do you typically play? How often? A: It is sporadic especially since I am on the west-coast. I tend to play 2-3 hours per day Q: Are you affiliated with any other guilds? A: No Q: How do you think you can best help this community? How can this community best help you? A: I usually offer support to people that ask for help. The community could best help me if there are people willing to group up and play events (I find what happened to guilds in wow is absolutly insane) Q: OSD is generally a "casual, do it all" guild, meaning we welcome players from all playstyles and don't limit our focus to one playstyle in particular. We welcome PvPers, PvEers, Roleplayers, Crafters, etc. For example, while we may offer weekly raids, we are not a hardcore raiding guild that requires you to raid 5 or 6 nights a week. We also do not consider any one playstyle to be more important than another, all members of OSD are equal. For example, a hardcore PvPer will never be considered "more valuable" to the guild than a casual Roleplayer would be. Are you okay with this? Any additional thoughts on this topic? A: I am OK with this. I do not have any additional thoughts on this subject Q: With the previous question in mind...We will never force you to participate in any activity or event that falls outside your playstyle of choice. However, from time to time you may be asked to help the guild out if we are short a particular class, or just need to fill up an empty group spot. Are you okay with this? Any additional thoughts on this topic? A: I am OK with this. I do not have any additional thoughts on this subject Q: We do ask that you stay active on the guild website as much as possible. We don't expect anybody to become a forum junkie by any means. But we do expect our members to cast their votes on any polls we put up, give input in any posts we make asking for opinions, as well as chime in with your thoughts when other members open discussions. What are your thoughts on this? A: As long as I am an active player of GW2 and will participate Q: What previous experience, if any, do you have with the original Guild Wars? A: I do not. I downloaded the demo and played for maybe one hour about two years ago Let the community chime in at this point. There might be a few questions. Here's a good opportunity to get to know us. We have some folks that post an intro and are never to be heard from again. This is a good indication to us that this player is not very forum active...not what we want!! So, we encourage you to keep tabs on your intro post in case a member has a question or comment for you. Or if you have any questions for us, feel free to post them up, and we will answer them as best we can.
Welcome back! Please make sure that you have reviewed our Charter of Excellence as we have policies and community expectations that are somewhat different than ones that you would have followed for our Age of Conan division.
Welcome back Caergarr ^^ I'm also a french canadian! Where do you come from? I'm looking forward to see you ingame ^^
Thanks everyone! Really looking forward to see you all in game. Satoka, I was born in Montreal, but grew up in Laval. What region are you from?
That's great! Born in Montreal as well! Grew up in Aylmer, little city that is now part of Gatineau. I say I live in Ottawa (I am there more than half the week with school and bf that lives there) but I am still living in Aylmer.
