Guild Wars 2

This posting is broken into two sections due to character limit restrictions. Please see link below for the original as well as some comments from our members.

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(Updated May 30th)

Summary

Xunlai Heroic Service Agents are seeking players that value community but also have a strong focus and ability in end game content such as raids and fractals. We are a 12 year running guild with a solid record of recruiting people that are active, committed to our community, and foster the talent to tackle the most difficult content Anet has put forward.

Since the release of raids XHSA has developed on a content focus that is almost exclusively focused on raids, high end fractals, and any difficult high end content the game puts forward. While our focus has become more refined on end game, we still hold community and the quality of our membership as our primary goal.

We are most active in the evening in American Time zones. XHSA keeps our roster capped at 200 members as to be small enough to foster environment where people become friends and to be large enough to be able to tackle any challenge that the content presents. We take pride in having standards in our recruitment to ensure, when anyone enters the guild, that they will find a roster of active, committed, and skilled players to enjoy their Guild Wars 2 experience with.

Why join XHSA over other guilds

What XHSA offers is a quality, active, and long lasting guild experience that is unlike your common “pack the roster with as many bodies as possible” guilds. Very few guilds have been around and long as us and have our level of commitment to quality. Our guild has been around for over a decade because of our focus on people and community while being able to attract and produce the talent to conquer any challenge that arises in content.

Not only will you find players capable of comfortably completing challenging content on a regular basis. Here you will also find a welcoming community to enjoy your gaming experience with. One that has taken some time to know you, even before we have sent an invite.

We don’t believe in spam recruiting, blind invites, or throwing cookie cutter recruitment messages at people’s posts. We get to know you as a person and learn your interests before taking you on to ensure we can offer you a quality experience. People will know who you are and ready to receive when you join because the entire guild views and chooses applicants. You will find that our standards and ideals translate in the quality of our members and the activity of our community.

Many people here were complete strangers when they joined and have formed lasting friendships with players they have overcome the most difficult content the game has to offer with. We want that for every member that joins us and do our best to help you become successful as a player.

What does quality mean to XHSA

Let it be said, we realize XHSA might not be for everyone as we adhere to our standards of quality pretty harshly and not everyone can provide the level of commitment to the guild we ask. We have about 50 people apply to XHSA monthly and accept under 20% of those applicants. Below are some of the things we look for in our members

Firstly, members here at XHSA firstly must be able to participate at a end game level. We have found recruiting people that can not, often get left behind and quit the game. The vast majority of members are expected to have 150 AR on one character, most will have multiple. Those that are raiders should have at least some experience and have multiple roles they can fill to be included in our experienced raiding pool that includes full clear static teams and raid achievement runs.

Second, members recruited to XHSA hold the idea and concept of community highly in their priorities. XHSA is the main guild and home to all of it’s members and represent it in a manner that reflects that. Members that are looking to get socially involved in a community are usually ones that also have high participation and activity. We do not retain people on our roster that do not, as we feel they would reflect poorly on the quality of our membership and discourage others from committing to the community.

Third, while we might sound serious in our focus and our commitment to community, we never forget this is a video game. Members are fun loving people and respectful people. While we joke around and poke fun at people we do not tolerate raging or comments intended demean and insult others personally. People here are social, respectful, and light hearted. Most importantly all know that we play this game to have fun and unwind from reality for a few hours.

Raids

While we do not consider ourselves a raiding guild but a community guild, raids where most of our member’s content focus is. We maintain an pool of raiders that meet certain experience and dps requirements from which our static teams are coordinated as well as raid achievement and challenge mote runs. Meeting these requirements is not a requirement of guild membership. We will accept newer raiders and offer advice on builds, rotations, and tactics until they become proficient enough to be included in this pool.

Our experienced raiding pool is somewhere in the neighborhood of 40+ active raiders. We rarely have to look outside the guild on any given day to fill a run. While there may or may not be static spots available at the time of recruitment there are usually plenty of opportunities to fill in for absences or impromptu requests throughout the week.

It is important to note that XHSA DOES NOT offer raid training. There was a time XHSA was very big in the training scene and later realized that three leaders were the only thing holding our raiding program together. Once they could not run 3-5 times a week, people would just not raid without them, and did not have the proficiency one would expect. We found that training was not effective in producing raiders that were driven to expand and improve on their own nor motivated to do anything else other than show up for clears already set up for them. As a result we quickly changed out outlook on raids and started to value people’s motivations to step up their game.

So one might ask, if I am new to raiding, how does one get involved in raiding with XHSA?

It is XHSA’s belief that what makes a great raider is a player that has the motivation to be independent in their progress and self driven to improve. We find that our best raiders were those that were bold enough to seek out and raid at any opportunity. Also, were self driven to do what was necessary to become proficient in their chosen roles. Most of the time this means pugging and joining runs that might not be such a sure thing to get a leg up. We are happy to share our knowledge with you, but it will be up to you to gain experience.

The guild does offer casual runs on Fridays focused towards people that do not meet our experienced requirements or those that would like to practice new roles. These should not be considered training as you will be expected to know the mechanics of the encounter already. These runs are meant to supplement people seeking out experience through other means such as pugging and are usually used to run the more difficult encounters.

While the quantity of players entering our pool might be lower than training we find that the quality of raiders this philosophy has produced for the guild is second to none. Once you are experienced enough to join our pool we are happy to offer counseling on your rotation to ensure you can make the DPS benchmark, if needed, and include you in our experienced pool.

For more information on how we run raids please see the raid page on our website.
http://xunlaiheroes.wixsite.com/xhsa/raids

Fractals

Tier 4 Daily Fractals is probably the most ran content the guild does. There are always multiple groups going around reset and often include nightmare challenge mote. You will almost always find a full guild group to run this content effectively in the evenings. We are pretty much accepting all classes and builds so long as you have the required AR.

Living Story

The living story updates are often highly anticipated content in our guild. It would be very easy to find members to discuss an experience the content with as it releases.

Guild Hall and Missions

XHSA has a max level guild hall in the Lost Precipice. Our Guild missions are currently every Friday at 9PM Eastern US. If members are online at that time we ask you to join us and mingle with the guild.

I would like to be a part of XHSA. How do I join?

It is highly encouraged that you glance over our recruitment posting on our website and any other information that interests you.

http://xunlaiheroes.wixsite.com/xhsa/recruitment

There is a short application that gathers basic information about you to ensure we can offer you a quality experience and if you wish, can leave a little information about yourself. I will contact you via in-game mail if we are looking to recruit you to discuss any concerns either of us may have and to properly welcome you.

Unfortunately, I can not issue a reply to everyone, we get far to many applications for that. However, I encourage people to contact me after they apply to ask questions or inquire about the status of their application, in game, on Mireles Lore.5942. It usually takes a day or two for an application to be reviewed by enough guild members to issue a decision.

Thank you for your time. I look forward to meeting all that are interested.

We are still seeking out active, social, and end game ready players. Space is becoming limited but encourage end game ready players to apply raiders or not.

We are still looking to fill some static slots with qualified players for Saturday. Not required for guild membership, but mention it on your application if you have interest.

hello Mioreles Lore, I’m interested in joining the guild if its as active as you say so and actually have players constantly doing fractal/ Raids.

I’m a returning player however i just completed My Lws3/Hot Story, and currently onto Finishing Lws2.

What i currently have is a Almost Fully decked out Ranger/Druid with ascended Gear/Weapon. I’m 1 ascended weapon away from being Complete(unless you count under water weapons as well). I haven’t done raids as of yet but I’m currently planning on doing that Once i complete lws2 fully.

If i can join ya’ll see how the guild is please throw me an invite/msg. Thank you in advance.

Zoopop,

You would have the submit an application using the website linked above. Applications are reviewed by the entire guild, after a certain amount of members approve it, then an invite can be sent.

Looking foward to your application.

-Mireles