Guild Wars 2

Very Innovative Players [VIP] is looking to recruit hardcore raiders.

We’re looking for a specific subset of players- likeminded individuals who:

• Invest their own time and practice in raids because they want to be the best. As such they have an acute sense of raid mechanics and DPS rotations.

• Because of their enormous time investment, they can play many classes at an unwavering high mechanical skill level.

• Have no problem running raids again even after they’ve cleared for the week. When they’re bored, the first thing they consider doing is some sort of raid. They may even have secondary accounts they also complete raids on each week.

• Can give their complete and undivided attention to the task at hand in guild raids. Just because you’re playing a daredevil does not mean you have the right to pay less attention to what is going on than the chronomancers or druids in the group. If you are easily distracted or cannot focus enough that you miss mechanics, this is not the guild for you.

• Are interested in researching solutions for raids and strategizing new ways to accomplish things.

As such it is necessary to describe what [VIP] is not and is not looking for:

• We are mature, and we are not egomaniacs. Please note that this is the first point in this section- do not let the elitist tone of this recruitment thread fool you. We are obviously trying to recruit good players but we also want to recruit friendly, decent human beings. We do not believe the two are mutually exclusive. The goal of our guild is to complete clean, consistent, quick, and stress/drama free raids. Everyone in a raid should be able to have a laugh and engage in casual/fun conversation while flawlessly executing their jobs. We cannot emphasize this enough, and toxic personalities are quickly removed from the guild. As such, if you are any of the following, you need not apply:
  • Inclined to bigoted, racist, prejudiced, misogynistic, homophobic, xenophobic, etc (but not limited to) views.
  • Easily offended.
  • Unable to engage in intelligent and mature conversation.
  • Fail to realize that differing points of view are absolutely acceptable.
  • Unable to take constructive criticism.
  • Need to praised constantly.
  • Unable to accept that you are a small part of a larger group effort.
  • Inclined to yelling during guild raids.

• We are 100% focused on raids. People in the guild may participate in other game modes such as (and most likely) daily T4 fractals, and they are free to do so, but you should not join the guild with the intent of completing non-raid content. We are a raid guild and you won’t have much value to us unless you can fill slots in guild raids.

• We are uninterested in teaching raid mechanics. You will be expected to have vast knowledge of each raid encounter and you should be able to respond quickly and appropriately when mechanics need to be dealt with in raids.
  ***We are however happy to teach team strategy as we are in some cases guaranteed to do things differently than pugs and other guilds.

• We will not teach you how to play your class. You will be expected to be effective and to fall within an acceptable range of the optimal DPS of any class you play.

• Guild raids are not training raids. If you want to try a new build, or run any sort of experiment, do it in a pug, on your own time. Wasting your guild members’ time because of your selfishness will not be tolerated.
  ***The exception to this is guild raids that were clearly formed with the intent of testing raids/carrying out research.
  ***Additionally, you may not rep [VIP] while practicing in a pug where you’re unsure of how well you will perform. We take our brand very seriously and your misactions in pug raids reflect badly on our guild.

What we offer as a guild:

• Tight-knit community of extremely knowledgeable, competent and friendly guild members.

• Scheduled guild raids throughout the week:
  • Monday, 3:30 am EST (UTC/GMT-5) [Raid reset]
  • Monday, 7:00/8:00 pm EST (UTC/GMT-5) [Daily reset =/+ 1hr, varies]
  • Thursday, 8:00 pm EST (UTC/GMT-5) [Daily reset + 1hr]
    ***Additional unscheduled raids scattered throughout the week.

• TeamSpeak server where all guild members have permissions to move any guests who join so that anyone has the power to organize a run; with additional (and unique) raid bot software so that mute/micless guild members can effectively make calls and command a squad.

• Max level (which means all associated benefits, buffs, gathering nodes, arena, etc) and beautifully no-expense-spared decorated guild hall. (See the proof , and more proof .)

• Many members with maxed home instances that are happy to share if gathering is part of your daily routine.

• Daily and automated PvP server so you can quickly finish your dailies.

• As a guild that carries out a large amount of experiments and research, we have a lot of “trade secrets” related to raids and other areas of the game. Think it can’t be done? We’re happily up to the challenge.

• We do not enforce a 100% rep policy. We find such policies archaic and pointless, especially since multi-guild chat is now a thing.

• We do not enforce a login or attendance policy. The game gets boring, and people take breaks. We understand and that’s perfectly fine. We do not remove people from the guild for not being online for a certain amount of days. Additionally, guild raids are for the individual player and not for the guild- meaning we won’t force you to join guild raids if you happen to be online, but you probably should join for your own personal benefit.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS (to apply):

• TeamSpeak 3 (mic preferred, but optional).

• You must have killed all raid bosses.

• You must have the following classes:
  • Utility:
    • Druid (magis)
    • Chronomancer (100% boon duration) ***Tanking is a bonus and optional, we’re just looking for quickness bots.
  • DPS (Condi):
    • Ranger
  • DPS (Power) (have at least 1 of the following):
    • Tempest
    • DD
    • DH

• The following classes are optional but will only help your application:
  • Utility:
    • PS (condi, not power)
    • Druid (condi)
  • DPS (Condi):
    • Engineer
    • Mesmer
    • Reaper

• The above class requirements must also meet these individual requirements:
  • Must be in full ascended gear (that means weapons, armor, and trinkets).
  • Gear must be equipped with the relevant meta sigils and runes (infusions are optional but will impress us).
  • Each character must have its own set of gear. Swapping gear between characters will not be allowed.
  • You must be able to play the class effectively and willing to reroll when asked.
  • We use max food in guild raids with no exceptions, and you must have max food available for use on each class. When we say “max food”, for example, think Toxic Sharpening Stones instead of Superior Sharpening Stones .

The above are quite literally the minimum that we will accept from applicants. If you apply and are far off from these requirements, your application will most likely be declined. We encourage anyone whose application is declined to gear your characters appropriately and/or attain more experience, then reapply.

Our minimum requirements are much steeper than most other guilds and will remain as such, as [VIP] believes in quality, not quantity.

APPLICATION AND TRIAL PROCESS:

To apply, either reply to this thread with your intent of doing so and we will contact you in game, send an email to apply@gw2vip.com , or whisper any of the following people in game:

• Power.2957
• eris.9654
• Ruthless.6521
• Oolong.1386
• IParagoNI.6458

Before we invite you to the guild, we will expect and perform the following checks (in order):

• We will ask for a full-permissions API key to verify that you meet our minimum requirements.
  ***Alternatively, we will accept a gw2efficiency.com link with shared characters. Be sure to put your legendary insights in one the characters’ inventories.

• If you meet our minimum requirements, you will be invited to join our TeamSpeak server and a quiz will be administered on raid mechanics. (The quiz is simple, but absolutely necessary. It very easily weeds out people who don’t know raid mechanics. If you’re as knowledgeable as you think you are about raid mechanics, the quiz should be quick and effortless.)

• If you pass the quiz with at least 90% accuracy you will be taken to the Special Forces Training Area and expected to show us your best DPS on condi ranger and one of your power DPS classes. We’ll also test your class knowledge by discussing these classes’ optimal DPS rotations.

• If you pass the DPS checks, we will invite you to the guild.

UPDATE: Due to the large volume of applicants we are no longer following up with applications on the same day. We are instead reviewing them in bulk, once a month.

If you wish to find people as competent as you to play with, [VIP] may be the guild for you.

We look forward to meeting any prospective applicants

If anyone has any questions or concerns feel free to reply to this thread with them.

Reserved.

/15chars

Hi im interested on a trial with you guys, u can check my characters here: https://gw2efficiency.com/account/characters/Razzy.8650 could you post the raid times?

Hey Razzy,

We really liked your characters (though your tempest isn’t shared on gw2efficiency, so please fix that). I’ll whisper you in game when I see you online.

As it stands right now our raid times are:

• Monday, 2:30 am EST (UTC/GMT-5) [Raid reset]
• Monday, 7:00/8:00 pm EST (UTC/GMT-5) [Daily reset/1hr after daily reset, varies]
• Tuesday, 8:00 pm EST (UTC/GMT-5) [1hr after daily reset]

We additionally have a lot of unscheduled raids scattered throughout the week, because people get bored and/or want to do raids on alt accounts.

I’ve updated the main recruitment thread to reflect these times as well.

Hey i shared the elementalist now.

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New way apply added. Applications can now be sent to apply@gw2vip.com .

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Just out of curiosity, what is considered “acceptable range” for Staff Tempest DPS?

-At least- 36k.
All buffs, Large hitbox

https://gw2efficiency.com/account/characters/Ezirium.8109

Looking to join a community like this, hope this lives up to par.

Ezirium.8109:

https://gw2efficiency.com/account/characters/Ezirium.8109

Looking to join a community like this, hope this lives up to par.

It doesn’t appear you’ve configured sharing properly. We can’t see anything.

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so the tempest is a must, RIP dream.

Due to the large volume of applicants we are no longer following up with applications on the same day. We are instead reviewing them in bulk, once a week.

If you don’t hear back from us and a week hasn’t passed, chances are we haven’t reviewed the newest applications yet.

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Still recruiting?

I received a message on reddit by Chris to come check out the website. This was a couple of weeks ago though.

https://gw2efficiency.com/account/characters/Eddie Mo.7169

GW2E doesn’t show all my armor though so I can list it out:

PS – Condi, Strength, and Extra Scholar set (used to be on rev)
Druid – Magi, Condi
Temp – Berserker set
Mesmer – Varying Commanders and Berserker’s pieces to make up 100% Boon Duration.
Rev – Exo Berserker set, can use the extra Scholar set.

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Sent you guys a gw2efficiency a couple of days ago through game. Did you get a chance to review it yet? I’ll put the link here just in case

https://gw2efficiency.com/account/characters/BrillsDark.7641