Guild Wars 2

Hi!

The title says it all, pretty much. I am part of a group of raiders, rather casual mind you, who raid every Sunday at 18:00 CET. And I do mean casual – we only raid once a week and we haven’t beat the Vale Guardian yet. Almost though! We’ve got him to 5th phase, but we’re lacking proper DPS to outrun the enrage timer.
Currently, our team composition looks like this:

1 Necro Tank
1 Phalanx warrior
1 Druid
1 Condi/support Engineer
1 Reaper
1 Chronomancer
1 Condi necro
1 DPS/CC Warrior
1 Boon Herald

We’re missing that 2nd Phalanx Warrior to ensure that everyone has constant 25 stacks Might, though. We have TS, and we like to think that we’re quite well organized for a casual group. We do what we can to help each other out in their gear and such, have a Skype group to keep everyone updated, and are generally a very friendly bunch.

Thank you for reading! Happy raiding!

Why dont you make your DPS/CC warrior switch to phalanx? Or 1 of your 3 necros swap to a phalanx warrior. Then you have more flexibility in finding a 10th person.

But if you are struggling now on VG. Then you are all going to have to be more open to changing your builds and composition if you want to beat Gorseval and so on in the future. Raids arent something you can just play whatever you like and expect to win.

Good luck anyway.

Hmm.. I could lend a hand. Is your team open to improvement? If so I could tweak your stuff and train some of your key classes to be more effective and score some easy kills for you on the first 2 bosses(I’ll need 2-5 hours for the whole team).
I’ve got 80+ kills each on VG + Gorseval. (Boredom runs ftw)

To both of you: yes, we are very much open for improvement. We’ve been trying to construct a somewhat sensible team composition, but we are slowly having to face the fact that our initial construction might not have been the best. We’re looking into switching some of our guys to Phalanx warriors, but it ain’t exactly cheap getting all the runes and whatnot.

ThyShadowPaladin, could you perhaps elaborate a little on that?

With your current team setup, you can just change 2-3 classes and probably overhaul most of the teams gear(if you haven’t done so already) at the cost of 15-30g per player and achieve more than satisfactory results.
Just get w/ me in-game and bring your team, a few hours is all it should take to make a fully-geared, well-trained, safe and effective team (Player skill varies but minimizing/reducing risk of fail is what I love doing & am good at.)

BTW you’re NA / EU cause im NA

Hey there – I’d like to join your group if you are on NA (I’m an EU player but I play on a NA server because most my friends from GW1 were NA, so…. yeah). The time you do your raiding is impeccable for me, I live in a CET+1 timezone.

My main is a warrior and I usually run PS, I have full ascended gear, Strength runes etc.

However, I have not touched raids since HoT hit, simply did not have the time for it. I’m not sure if this would be a problem, I’m a fast learner.

Let me know what you think. Cheers!

Friend of OP, he is on EU servers.

spoj.9672:

Why dont you make your DPS/CC warrior switch to phalanx? Or 1 of your 3 necros swap to a phalanx warrior. Then you have more flexibility in finding a 10th person.

But if you are struggling now on VG. Then you are all going to have to be more open to changing your builds and composition if you want to beat Gorseval and so on in the future. Raids arent something you can just play whatever you like and expect to win.

Good luck anyway.

Actually they can beat the bosses in whatever setup. What OP is describing tells me that his real challange is that his raidmembers may not be properly geared, dont do proper rotation, and possibly eat to much damage/can connect better. But thats okay.

Well either way they need to change something. Going for a second phalanx is certainly the right move. As full group might will make a huge difference. Having 3 necros is wasteful on anything other than Sabetha since they are too selfish. So yeah sure they can probably do it with that comp. But they would need to up their game to that of top tier players and make sure builds/gear is up to a high standard. Switching a few classes to create a more ideal composition basically does the same thing with a bit more room for mistakes.