Guild Wars 2

Greetings,

We are an 8-month old establishment that aims to gather interested and prospective raiders in Guild Wars 2. We respect the diverse experience of our members in the three raid wings. As a result, our objectives are not only to provide a friendly casual hub for pick-up squads, but also mechanical training to individuals who wish to advance further inside Forsaken Thicket.

Currently, our non-rep guild has one static group with several satellite members actively in various time zone. With the conclusion of the first raid, we are planning to build up the second static group. Thus, we would like to offer this opportunity to new raid leaders and members – and also extend the invitations to interested raid initiates.

By joining [FF], you are not required to have prior experience in any of the raid wings. As previously stated, we have experienced members to help out with training, and therefore, patience, dedication and cooperation are most valued. However, if you’re an experienced raider only looking for specific weekly clears, we have a simple evaluation system to aid with grouping. General members are ranked by their clear accomplishment: Spirit Wing (Spirit Vale), Salvation Wing (Salvation Pass) and Faithful Wing (Stronghold of the Faithful). Dedicated members of a static group will have their own title – for example the current One-Shot Club and Slubby Seconds. Last but not least, Wing Leaders are recognized accordingly and provided with privilege.

So, if you have read up to this point and are still interested in our guild, why not give it a try? Please send me an in- game mail stating briefly about yourself and your raiding experience, I’ll be sure to send you a reply promptly.

Happy raiding, and look forwards to see you all!

Demonstration of our boss kills:

Xera: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq9QJjy3frQ

Keep Construct: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Zp0Bc87Qgg

Slothasor (Slippery Slubling): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh2MxR5zzoU

Gorseval (No Updraft): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4VPgNcpv6c

Sabetha (Last Canon): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VOfrdRcsWg

Matthias: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dljBKobF9js

Trio Bandit – Prison Camp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRLL-rZZVEk

Vale Guardian: https://youtu.be/vMhA5BBfl9A

Now we have accepted new members to join our ranks, here are a few Frequently Asked Questions.

APPLICATION PROCESS
a. I have asked for a guild invite in my previous mail but I haven’t received any. How come?
- A fundamental part of our recruitment process is to learn about our prospective members. Thus, I require new applicants to write briefly about themselves. Anything, but not all inclusive, from general mechanical skills to past raiding experience, your expertise (i.e. your main class(es) and role(s)), motivation (i.e. learning, clearing, or having fun with a few friends), and limitation (i.e. high ping, infrequent or irregular playing schedule, cardiovascular diseases or any types of inhibiting ailments). Even disclosing your personal quirks is greatly welcome

RAID BEGINNERS
1. I’m new to raid but eager to learn. I have an X class geared up based on metabattle.com. How do I start jumping into the raid?
- It’s great that you have done your homework by prepping your character ready to raid, but Hold On! Let’s check our list first:

• Do you have at least exotic armor, weapons and trinkets with the right stats and sigils? If you cannot afford a full meta stats set, what is your choice of substitute?
• If you play a (zerker) DPS class, have you attained at least ascended weapons and trinkets, or do you plan to? (Hint: you should :])

• Now, you’re only about 20% ready. Have you watched the video about the boss encounter with your class PoV yet? Or have you read any written guides? (Hint: dulfy.com is a popular source for an easy-access and up-to-date raid guides AND class guides).

• Great! That’s about 60% done. The next challenge is to join a training run within our guild. Have you talked to the guild leaders or any raid leaders about your wish to learn a specific boss encounter yet? We don’t have any fixed schedules for training, but most of our leaders are willing to open their time up for it. Depending on the boss difficulty, we don’t clear everything in one go – so expect about 1-2 boss kill within the time budget.

• If you’re still with us and have raked in your first-hand kill of almost all the bosses, you’re 90% close to becoming a “certified” raider. The last step would be trying to finish clearing all the wings and get as many practice outside the training run as you can. Not as discouraging as it may sound, pugging with different groups in fact gives yourself the most well rounded criticism about your raid ability and helps build your confidence and flexibility.

2. I don’t have a mic and/or I’m too shy for voicecom. Is it gonna be a big factor on my raid?
- Absolutely yes and even more so when you’re learning all the mechanics. With our voicecom you will listen to the extra cues and callings provided by our raid leads. It will help you focus on executing a task better. As long as you have a working speaker or headset, joining our Discord channel during the raid is mandatory. You can use browsing website for Discord – even though it’s highly recommended to download their client to easily save our server. If you prefer to use chat channel for communication, expect that they may be not noticed or responded immediately during the run.

3. I really hate playing the meta build, but I’m told to gear up a character with meta build for raid. What do you suggest?
- Tough question, Little Anakin! I think you need to question yourself first whether you are really motivated to do raids. If you really really want to raid then playing meta is a bitter pill to take. In my opinion, meta build is the easiest way to gain optimal results for a harder tuned content like raids. However, if you are confident to put extra effort in your own build to complete the task, I’m sure you will be given the chance to prove yourself in our guild. Be on top of your game or play the meta.

4. How does FF training run work?
- Welcome, new fawns. You are eager to train but have zero experience? Chances are FF will NOT take your hands step-by-step in a progression group through weeks. You will be dragged along (if not, carried) in a semi-experienced group of 4-5 hardcore members, 4-5 relatively new and at most 1-2 completely clueless raiders. Even so, you will be given plenty of pointers and expected to learn your roles and rotation by heart swiftly.

- Our raid leaders prioritize to give training to the latest and/or most difficult boss encounters, naming Xera, Keep Construct, Matthias and Sabetha. They are the most time consuming for their complicated mechanics and DPS requirement. Even if you have not completed any wings yet, you are welcome to sign up. However, in my own opinion, you should at least down Gorseval before any of these mentioned bosses.

- For other easier encounters, we do have catch-up (kill) runs for VG, Gorseval, Slothasor, Trio and Escort advertised throughout the week. Despite not advertised as training runs, they are easy enough to accommodate inexperienced fawns and we welcome all guild members to join for training or helping out.

- Almost all of our training runs occur around server reset time (NA evening), after Monday and during the weekend (NA afternoon and evening).

5. I’m learning the mechanics at a turtle’s speed so I’m afraid of dragging people down even on easiest bosses. Where can I sign up for a slow run with people like me?
- Hmm, it’s tricky. Time is a precious resource for everyone, so it’s difficult to ask for helpers to spend hours on a supposedly slow run. We may not even have enough interest to fill a group. However, some of our core members DO have their main/side guilds which provides very basic training to raids in their respective guilds. If there is specific request, I could give out my reference. If there are enough interests, our raid leaders could arrange for an occasional basic training.

EXPERIENCED RAIDERS
i. When does FF usually do raids?
- There are three types of concurring runs in the guild. Firstly, the static groups will have their own schedules. If you are invited to a static group, check with your raid leader(s). Secondly, the guild also function as a raiding hub so you can expect random “LFxM – boss – experienced class(es)” at anytime. If you’re more of a pugging person, keep an eye out for those calls – they are filled fast. Last but not least, there are training runs: one of our noted raid leaders will usually plan their training run one day in advance and post a notice in our guild message board. To get into a training run, check the guild message regularly and book your slot.

ii. How do guild ranks and promotion work in FF?
- As previously stated in our introduction, we want to promote a pleasant, engaging and satisfying casual raiding experience. Our values emphasize more on the teamwork and grouping experience than personal skills. Thus, our ranks reflect the wing clear experience of our members to facilitate a quick and easy “group-up-and-play”. Members are promoted by clearing each wing successfully and successively. It also means members who clear the latest wing are also expected to have finished the earlier wings for advancement.

iii. I can evaluate myself as a decent players with vast experience in raiding. I have raided for years in many MMO games and killed all the bosses in GW2 raiding. I have multiple full ascended classes and frequently lead successful pug runs. How do I make the most of my experience in FF?
- So you are a new success awaiting to be discovered! To make your transition into our guild as smooth as possible, let’s go over a few things:

• Expectation: Sometimes our guild ad is misinterpreted and lots of times, your expectation and our expectation are not quite aligned and we ought to meet half way somewhere. We are casual but have an asenal of skilled players in our guilds so our expectation of good players is high but expectation of average players is non-existent. We expect our kill runs to be on point with mechanics/DPS and our training run to be informative and educational. We do not take pride in being a hardcore, elite guild but in being a tolerant and communicative guild.

• Elitism: We consider good players as valuable assets and we constantly encourage members to improve their mechanical skills upon challenges. Even within an established group there is always room to improve. Thus, remember to approach and deliver criticisms with gentle words and an open mind. We have generous tolerance towards elitist behaviors. We don’t go out of our ways to kick people off the guild/run for it but we are not shy of reprimanding the person.

• Community: We made the best experience from interacting with other members in the guild. So play with us, talk to us, sing to us and make new buddies. The more you are bonding with our community, the better your raiding experience. The best outcome that I sincerely hope is for you to be a part of a static group experience.

iv. I have cleared all bosses comfortably weekly but recently started a new class for raiding. What is there to expect?
- Apart from the usual gear and build check, please let the raid leader know that you are playing a class that you’re not normally comfortable with. Go over your rotations with other noted players experienced with your new class. It’s okay to make mistakes and you may have to take a few blames for a certain failure but try to stay focused and positive. Besides, it’s a good idea to join one of our training runs to practice your off class as our expectation in a kill run is usually a lot higher.

Heads-up!

Forsaken Forest [FF] is closing recruitment on July 17 (1 week from this post). We have received many applicants and it’s about time for us to focus on training to ensure that everyone will end up on equal ground in the near future. Until next week, we are still open to all applicants regardless of raiding experience, as long as there is a clear indication of your motivation and dedication to be a positive asset of our team (read: team players).

Our second static group has been filled but still looking for promising subs. Our guild will open recruitment again once there is a plan for the third static group.

Thank you very much for your consideration!

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Reminder: public recruitment is closing soon!

Hi, I am interested to join FF as my raid guild. However i am an alpha of my own guild, if that is okay.
I am a not bad player, cleared up to gorseval few times, done tons of dungeons and FOTM 100, only managed to go up to ruby league in pvp.
I am a raid oriented player, so one of the main thing why i play an MMO is the raids, dungeons and something like those.
I am friendly guy, not salty, not elitist hehe, and willing to assist others in learning.
Currently my raid ready classes are PS war, DH dps, Viper engi, and Chronotank ( havent tanked gorseval yet ). What i mean by raid ready is full ascended.
I played since game launch, with over 1,300 hours under my belt.
Home server is Jade Quarry.
I am from Indonesia ( South East Asia )
Username is Kagemusha.9518

Look forward hearing from you guys soon.
Cheers.

I’m interested. I’ve downed VG a few times but never got past that.

I play late PST which is usually pretty dead.

Only class I have ready (mostly) is PS Berserker, missing shoulders/gloves/boots.

Hey guys, sorry for late reply. Could you send me an in game mail instead? Thank you!

Hey guys,

Our recruitment closes today, a little sooner than planned due to an overwhelming amount of applications. Since our staffs and schedules are very limited, we cannot welcome any more new raiders. We thank you for your interest and sincerely wish you good luck on your quest for a new raiding guild. Take care!