I wish to be part of this movement as a mentor for EU \o/
Mentor name: Knives Chau.4863
Class specialisation: Necromancer, Mesmer, Elementalist
Active dungeons: AC, TA (forward or up, not aether), SE, CoE, Arah
(preferably 1 and 4, not as a mentor but I’d love to tag along with a
group to support the mentor)
Availability: CET+1, late evenings/nights on weekdays and irregularly on
weekends
Contact: Rarely on the forums, a /w or message in game will do.
Communication: party chat, voice chat is possible too if desired.
Message:
I don’t require any specific stat set/armor rarity/spec/level80, but an open mind
to consider possible improvements in armor/utility/weapon choice. I can adjust to all playstyles(kill everything/selective skipping/skip all and stack/no-stack strats) if the group can agree on one. I can give reasonable amounts of advice on all classes except for Ranger, and more detailed in all light armor classes. I tend to over-explain certain encounters, so clear times on teaching runs might be slightly longer than you’d expect.
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Guardian Skill: [Wall of Text]
[spoiler]I’ve been on/off gw2 since launch, and been running dungeons for about as long. My first few dungeon runs were in a set group of people with zero clue, figuring stuff out was great fun. But now that there’s a common meta-approach to almost every dungeon path/encounter, the ‘playground’ for newbies without a consistent group is pretty rough, and it pains me every time when a 250p AP guy joins my AC pugs and gets kicked without further comment. Every now and then I do teaching runs
myself, so why not apply here?
I myself am proud owner of the earned Dungeon Master title, with a ton of Hobby Dungeoneering slapped on top. I frequently run everything except CM and HotW, pugged Arah daily over the course of two weeks once (just mentioning this to showcase my patience and the mental scars eyetwitch) and am currently starting to attempt solo Arahs (first failed run last night \o/). I have played all classes to 80 before, ran dungeons on the heavies/lights/thief and feel the most comfortable and entertained with the three light classes. I do absolutely and positively suck at heavies, but have acquired a decent understanding on how they should theoretically work in my feeble attempts to educate myself over them (and my current solo-Arah project on my warrior). While I have zerk or assassin gear on all of my toons and run on that at all times, I never join “gearcheck” groups and leave them if people force me to ping my stuff (usually after complaining and eventually pinging the desired stuff), because that – in my experience – is the trademark of copy/paste stack zerks who fall apart and collapse whenever more than spamming 1+2 is required. Or maybe I just have a problem with showing people my underwear.
I’m running a d/wh + a/f deathly perception necro, simply because it feels more robust for those pug situations where things don’t go according to plan. I know necromancer’s said to be the best PvE and dungeon class in the universe, but in a non-competitive, non-speedrunning-record setting the class can do okay for how fun it is. Currently building up a sinister necro for soloing Arah.
My mesmer was my first toon in gw2 and after going through pretty much all builds conceivable (including a healing support mantra spammer! …it was a sad day.) I arrived at a fairly custom phantasm-focused s/s + s/f (+s/p) zerker. Another full assassin “Brazil” meta mesmer on the sideline. Both highly enjoyable.
My ‘mentalist is a s/d d/f (staff) EA zerker permafury-donnator, also slightly off-meta but EA really makes the class for me. I switch to a meta glass-hammer when there’s another fury-buffing ele in the group, but EA remains the reason why my heart belongs to this class. Actually haven’t been on it as frequently anymore after the death of FGS (Rest in RIP), though.
My warrior is a pure berserker 6/5/0/0/3 with strength runes for maximum solo prowess (as suggested by – yet again – the wonderful Brazil), but I’m only just starting to enjoy the class, so yeah, wouldn’t exactly be confident in calling myself a decent warrior thus far.
Guard…let’s not talk about guard. I know when to pop WoR, but that’s about it.
I’d like to apply for a ‘job’ as a general dungeon mentor who can give decent in-depth advice for the light classes in both meta and relaxed dungeon scenarios. Possibly going beyond that and into Arah at some point in the far future. Special mention here, I don’t do fractals.
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tl;dr
-Has too many character slots
-Is decently knowledgeable at necro, mes and ele
-Likes long walks on the beach
-Doesn’t understand why the spoiler function isn’t working
-Would like to mentor general dungeoning
feeling like im missing a huge part of the game.