Guild Wars 2

About me:

I’ve got 3 lvl 80 toons: war, mes, ele. All have full zerk w/ scholars and 45 AR; in addition, ele has full celestial w/ boon duration and war full PVT w/ divinities. Frac lvls for each toon are: 49 on ele, 37 on war, 22 on mes.

War is axe/mace + GS, traited as 30/0/0/10/30 if I’m using Empower Allies, or 30/10/0/0/30 if someone else is already using it. Utilities are usually 1x banner, FGJ, OMM, and Warbanner.

Mes is sword/focus + GS, traited as 20/20/0/0/30 w/ clones on dodge + self-shatter, or 0/20/0/20/30 if I need focus reflects (in a frac 48, for example). In fracs I swap to mes if group needs to port through gate via pipe in dredge or port past the 2nd group of harpies in Unidentified. I can properly mes in CoF (too many mesmers have forgotten how to do it right, since people don’t farm p1 anymore) and CoE, and can time feedback for Lupi so he kills himself. Utilities are usually Sig of Insp, Feedback, TW.

Ele is usually scepter/dagger 30/10/10/20/0 w/ Lightning Hammer, although I often use d/d for greater AoE (eg. farming the add spawn from cart in dredge fractal). This is my main toon and the only one I have a commander pin and map comp on. I usually use it in CoE for Fiery Rush spam in corners. Utilities are usually Sig of Fire, Arcane Wave, Lightning Hammer, Fiery GS.

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Why I’m Looking For a Guild:

I’m tired of pug’ing dungeons for speed runs and getting 4x rangers/engis/necros, who usually refuse to ping gear, and when they do ping, they have knights or PVT or something similarly useless. Even when pug’ing groups w/ only guard/war/thief/mes/ele, most of the time the wars are running 5 signets or shout heals, and the eles are using staff and spamming lava font/fireball from way far away. It’s just so depressing that so many pugs do stupid stuff like that in what is supposed to be a speed run.

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What I’m Looking for in a Guild:

At the moment, I’m caught in a dilemma whenever I pug; I have 3 (equally bad) options.

1) I could not say a word and let the other players in my group screw up, and have CoF p1 take 15 mins instead of 6 or 7, or in Arah, wipe infinitely at Lupi when he should be going down in a minute or two.
2) I could assume my group knows what to do, then be very annoyed when someone messes up, and when I tell the person who messed up how to do it properly next time, have him say “stfu! I play however I want, noob!” and other ridiculous rage-y things to me.
3) Or I can micro-manage everything, telling everyone exactly what to do beforehand, but that’s really annoying because it’s so much typing, and most pugs don’t listen anyway and still screw up, or kick me for telling them how to play when they “want to play their way” (eg. screw up).

I need a guild where I don’t have to worry about what other people are doing, where /guild chat is not just another post on gw2lfg.com, where I’m confident that when I ask in /guild chat for members for speed runs I don’t get 5x signet or shout heal wars. Where in CoF p1 I don’t have to tell the mesmer to put feedback on the left turret and pull the 2 adds to the wall on top of the right turret, because the mes already knows to do this since he’s a pro.

I’m on JQ, but I can guest another server for guild missions if there’s a likely guild somewhere else. What I don’t want to do is pay over 100g for a server transfer (gold-gem exchange rates are crazy atm). It seems to me that the only reason to transfer would be to rep a different server in WvW, and I only do enough PvP and WvW for my dailies/monthly, so it wouldn’t make sense for me to change servers.

Please comment with the names of any guilds that might be what I’m looking for. Thanks in advance! =D

Hey, Anierna
Coldsnap (IX) Is a recently formed highly knowledgeable and experienced dungeon guild.

What you can expect from us:
Daily dungeon trains/Fractal 48’s
Experienced players with intimate knowledge of PvE aspects
Experienced dungeon runs with different more efficient tactics
Friendly community who work together well
(We’re also working towards Guild Missions, should be in another week or two)
We’re recruiting daily, and looking for players with the same attitude who are willing to clear dungeons daily for money.

We do have requirements however.
Excelled knowledge with your classes.
Excelled knowledge in dungeon boss mechanics.
TS3 Is a must, however you don’t need a mic.
The will to change your builds or classes to help suit our runs.
We also prefer you to have over 4K achievement points, but if you can prove yourself well enough, it’s not a true requirement.

We’re enforcing a rep rule as of now that needs you to rep at least 70% of the time, and you must rep whenever you tour with us, or run a dungeon with any guildies.
All new recruits will go through a trial period to test your skill and knowledge in dungeons, and with your class.

If you have any questions, or would like an invite, feel free to send a mail to any of the listed names:

Warzaw.2708
Design.6057
Nick.1740

I personally don’t see too many successful dungeon speed running guilds on NA server. Unless of course you want to restrict yourself to 1 or 2 choices where it’s the culture to take optimization and maximization to the extreme. For example, if you are comfortable of guilds not willing to take any other class the the best combination, and having you to run very specific builds, they’ll be perfect. Otherwise there are not a lot of guilds that I’m aware of where you can just lfg in the gchat and get very apt players. Honestly I think it’s far better to keep a list of players you find are competent and run with them regularly, especially since you aren’t willing to guild transfer at this point. At least that’s how I got into my current guild.