Guild Wars 2

Summary

XHSA is looking to continue increase it’s raiding base as we are approaching the new raid wing. We are most focused on finding members needing training and looking for a main community guild to raid with regularly. However, we are always willing to accept experienced raiders as well so long they are also looking for a community to join. New or experienced we invite you to become part of our guild, learn and grow with us, and even make some friends to raid with regularly. (This posting is targeted towards raids, if you want to view more general info about the guild please see this post.)

Thanks to the edition of new leaders we have increased our runs to 7-9 runs a week starting at reset with full clears for both wings at the beginning of the week, while the rest of the week is reserved for training where clears can still happen for intermediate groups. Raids are on a scheduled rotation basis where members are notified approx. 3 days before they are expected to raid to confirm their attendance. You are expected to be able to raid for about 2-3 hours. We will do our best to rotate people to get everyone experienced, people that can play multiple roles will probably see more raid time than people with a single role.

Please Note. We DO NOT consider ourselves an alt raiding guild. It is our priority to build a large raiding base within our community with players that are active in our community. While we are open to take in just about any open-minded player for raiding. We are presently not interested in players that are looking just for a raid group, do not have an interest in being a part of our community, or having a guild to be loosely affiliated with to be used to catch a few raid runs.

Minimum Requirements

As we are looking to bring new people in, we do have to have these players be able to fit into a team comp, be flexible, and open to input. As well as a willingness to be active contributor in our guild as we are looking to build up our raiding community.

• We are a NA guild, must be in a NA server.
• Discord is a must.
• Availability at server reset. (8pm EDT is raid start time)
• Roster sign-up after being recruited, we will need info to schedule you.
• Abide by the raiding policies listed on our clan page on our sponsor’s website.
• Willingness to join our community and meet our quality member standards. (Those can be viewed on our membership philosophy post).
• If being trained, One ore more geared class and build from MetaBattle in at-least Ascended Trinkets, Weapons are highly preferred as well.
• The use of correct top tier foods and utility provided at your own expense.

We do have a metric on our raid roster that measures your role and build flexibility. Having a single role makes it very difficult to schedule you as the team has to be built around you and you will see less runs. While we will accept single role players, you will get the most out of this guild by having more builds and roles you can fill.

Guild Raid Philosophy & History

Training new players for raids is defiantly not the meta and it is rarely seen, especially when pugging. I thought I would provide a bit of background so entering members can know what kind of environment they are walking into. XHSA has gone from a hard line core group who’s focus was to clear the raid as quickly as possible to a philosophy that makes training new people a priority and to broaden the raiding base over multiple well trained people instead of just dedicated teams.

During the first month of raids, we had 6-8 in a core group that were well trained and arrived at a point of downing at-least 2 bosses in a raid night, that group dissipated quickly for various game and life reasons. We were hard pressed to replace these people. The remaining 3 people of our original team decided this is not a problem that we should allow to come about again. We realized we were going to have to change the way we did things. We decided as a guild our focus was going to have to be bringing people into the fold and building them up as apposed to just making a single team to pass the raid in one night every week and just taking back ups as that team needed them.

This is when we started the training initiative seeking players that had been displaced by raids that were more than skilled and equipped to handle them but could not find their way into groups. We realized that there was alot of untapped talent out there that the guild can turn into mutual benefit for both us and these players.

Presently, over two months after we started this initiative, we have a raid roster of about 50 people and have had no issue getting full guild runs every day of every week since we started. The more experienced people can clear Spirit Vale in 45 minutes, Salvation Pass is coming around to having the same effectiveness. We do not have dedicated teams and because of this have players that are very diversified in the roles they are experienced in, making filling raid groups a non-issue even when they are not scheduled. This also allow us to be flexible taking many different people for raids instead of the same 10 people on the same night every week.

We don’t need teams, these raids do not require the traditional approach so many are used to when you have a base of players experienced in multiple roles. Having someone not able to show up does not hurt our ability to run that night. We are very happy with where we ended up and have built a base of loyal and skilled members for raiding.

How training has gone so far

We have had wild success with training. Many of our members that came to us at the beginning brand new have downed cleared Spirit Vale raid bosses at-least once and diversified their roles to allow for flexibility for training new raiders with not so many roles. Our main focus if presently training for Salvation Pass, but there is at-least one or two training runs going on for Spirit Vale a week.

More players of different experience come in every week, and we do our best to expand to accommodate them. It does not take long for motivated players to get into the swing of things, some even find themselves in leadership roles. Usually, once a new player gets their build, we can usually take a small group of people with zero experience with Vale Guardian to downing him within an hour or two to allow them to unlock their mastery for the other bosses. The more motivated players get multiple builds to see more runs and eventually weekly full clears. How much progress a player gets with us in raids is only limited by their own motivation and personal investment in how far they are willing to go.

We have become highly effective in training new people so long as they are willing to take advice and work to better their skills and rotations. We feel that almost anyone can become a raider no matter how casual as long as they have a night they can be on a few hours and the mentality that allows them run a build they are not familiar with and change their gear if necessary.

How To Join

The best way to get a hold of me is in-game.

Those that are interested can mail me in-game on Mireles Lore.5942. Your mail should include what meta builds that meet our standards are ready, a brief statement of your experience, and indication of your understanding of our quality member standards.

As a leader I do not send blind invites and I will be looking to speak with you a little bit and make sure you are online to be properly introduced. Add me to your F-List and PM me if I do not PM you first.

If you have mailed me and see me online. I get very busy after I make an attempt to contact you shortly after I log on. I have likely read your mail and keep it on hand for reference. Please PM me to talk about getting you invited/questions answered.

You may also comment on this posting with any questions you might have.

Recruited 3 last night looking for about 7 more.