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Posted by: Lilith Ajit.6173

Lilith Ajit.6173

I get more whispers asking me about my weapons, dyes, and armors than people needing dungeon teachers, but then that’s to be expected, being a God Tier Fashionista.

But when I get folks looking for help, I generally make them wait 30 minutes to make sure they actually want my help. Usually they do, and so far I’ve had good experiences. Some very lovely and spongey noobs.

Ps. Spongey meaning they soak up information, advice, and everything very well.

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Posted by: Mirsa.1628

Mirsa.1628

Mentor name: Haru W [IX]
Specialty: Warrior and ele.
Active dungeons: All dungeons of Tyria.
Availability: Varies, but I’m usually on during NA prime time (7-12pm EST). I can always arrange something with a student.
Communication: Teamspeak preferred
Message:

You must have a good attitude, be willing to listen, learn, and improve, and have the appropriate meta gear and traits. The optimal student will have a broad understanding of the dungeon (Youtube is a great resource); I will focus more on speed clear tactics. Lupi melee is the exception; while I do expect at least a general understanding, I will go step-by-step with each of the moves involved in the fight. I enjoy teaching others and putting in the appropriate effort; I just ask for the same amount of effort in return.

[GS] Gun Squad
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Posted by: J Eberle.9312

J Eberle.9312

Perhaps this should be placed on reddit somewhere, we’d have more exposure o-o

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Posted by: Cyrrin.1230

Cyrrin.1230

I’d like to add myself to this as well.

North America

Mentor name: Cyrrin.1230
Active dungeons: I can teach all paths for all dungeons except for Arah.
Availability: I’m eastern time and I usually log on around 7-8pm and play til midnight. I’m usually on late at night during the weekends as well.
Languages: English
Contact: In-Game Mail
Communication: Party chat or I can give you temp access to my guild mumble server
Message: I don’t run full berserker and I don’t specifically do speed runs. My guild likes to pretty much kill everything. If you want a speed run, let me know in advanced which path so I make sure I know the speed run tactics for it. Also so I include guild mates that run speed too. I’m not trying to teach the dungeon in the fastest way possible as much as I’m trying to teach people how to do the dungeon so they have a foundation of the paths that they can then build upon by skill level and eventually do the “current meta” builds and speed runs. I recognize not all players are capable of playing at full zerker caliber and these are the type of players I want to reach out to.

If you reach out to me I ask that you’re patient and mature. I’ll explain each path in detail to you so that actually learn the tactics of getting thru so that you can pass on the knowledge and help others too. Any level player and any class is OK by me.

I am decently experienced at and can give advice regarding Guardian, Thief, and Ele. I’ve also achieved the dungeon master and have ran each path of every dungeon multiple times. I’ve helped plenty of people get their dungeon master title as well.

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Posted by: Dolan.3071

Dolan.3071

Perhaps this should be placed on reddit somewhere, we’d have more exposure o-o

Might be worth a shot.
What few new players that come here get shunned away immediately, Reddit would have a better target audience.

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Posted by: Delmain.5167

Delmain.5167

By the ways, any teachers are bored with not getting students?

I’m not getting any students, sadly enough. I’ll still be waiting for potential students for AC, CoE, or Fractals though! Or for some elementalist tutoring.

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Posted by: Iris Ng.9845

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Perhaps this should be placed on reddit somewhere, we’d have more exposure o-o

Might be worth a shot.
What few new players that come here get shunned away immediately, Reddit would have a better target audience.

By all means, please do it.

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Posted by: Iris Ng.9845

Iris Ng.9845

Bump it up!

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Posted by: Zaxares.5419

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To be honest, I think the requirements of some mentors where “must be on voice comms” and/or “have meta/zerk gear” is scaring off potential students.

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Posted by: Iris Ng.9845

Iris Ng.9845

There are the best of both worlds, zerkers and non-zerkers.

TeamSpeak helps a great deal in instructions. The mentor can still fight and speak at the same time. I may set it as my requirement bc if someone contacts me, they have time to set their TS up. I know other mentors don’t really care.

“Raids are like fortune cookies. You eat the cookie and then read the paper scraps.”

- doranduck, 2016 on Lore in Raids

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Posted by: Dolan.3071

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I request Zerker because I want to teach, not carry
I even accept Rare tier which is what? 30s a piece? Even the most casual players have that much, and it’s really not a great deal worse than Exotic.

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Posted by: Taku.6352

Taku.6352

If only someone could pin this to the top.

winkwinknudgenudgepokepoke to the moderators.

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Posted by: laharl.8435

laharl.8435

I only ask for exotics. Although meta builds and voice chat are preferred as they lead to better runs.

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Posted by: Delmain.5167

Delmain.5167

I don’t bother asking for exotics or specific builds, play how they want as long as they know the encounter and that’s what I’m trying to do, help them learn the dungeon. It’s faster with specific builds, exotics, or both, sure, but the moment someone can do AC Exploration is lvl 35, and anyone this level is not going to have an exotic or a particular build for quite some time.

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Posted by: laharl.8435

laharl.8435

I’m only mentoring Arah. It seems to be the easiest to carry new people in (assuming I’m playing decent…), but the extra dps really helps, especially for trash mobs.

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Posted by: Lilith Ajit.6173

Lilith Ajit.6173

I don’t have any gear requirements on mine because I don’t run full meta (I don’t want to be hypocritical). So I’ll take anyone into easier dungeons. And teach them how. I just don’t want anyone thinking I’d be good teaching them anything other than TA or CoE and such, lol.

#Lilith’saCasualRPNoob

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Posted by: Zaxares.5419

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Maybe I should hit you up for a TA run sometime, Lilith. I’ve done Forward, but not Up so far. (Done Aetherblade path, got all the achievements, NEVER GOING BACK IN THERE without a good reason.) You’re also on TC, which I am on!

Then again, I do like to have my dungeon runs to have a decent amount of fighting (I like killing stuff). So far my TA Forward groups have skipped the vast majority of enemies. It’s different from, say, CM or AC where even though some sections are skipped, there’s still portions where a good amount of slugging is required.

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Posted by: Ytlayol.5864

Ytlayol.5864

To be honest, I think the requirements of some mentors where “must be on voice comms” and/or “have meta/zerk gear” is scaring off potential students.

This pretty much. I’m pretty new to dungeons, so I browsed this forum and found this topic. I thought it be pretty cool to have a mentor but then I noticed the requirements for most of them and it made me feel like it would be a boot camp experience instead of just having fun.

If anyone wants to help out a level 80 newbie thief that isn’t in meta build or full exotics – you can message me or mail me in game. Only explorable mode I’ve done so far and completed is AC1. So any guidance would be appreciated.

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Posted by: maxinion.8396

maxinion.8396

To be honest, I think the requirements of some mentors where “must be on voice comms” and/or “have meta/zerk gear” is scaring off potential students.

This pretty much. I’m pretty new to dungeons, so I browsed this forum and found this topic. I thought it be pretty cool to have a mentor but then I noticed the requirements for most of them and it made me feel like it would be a boot camp experience instead of just having fun.

If anyone wants to help out a level 80 newbie thief that isn’t in meta build or full exotics – you can message me or mail me in game. Only explorable mode I’ve done so far and completed is AC1. So any guidance would be appreciated.

There definitely are folks in the list who will take you. Don’t expect them to reach out— take the initiative and read the list.

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Posted by: Lilith Ajit.6173

Lilith Ajit.6173

Yeah really, there’s no need to be afraid.

I’ll take some folks Friday if y’all wanna plan in doing some super long or fun time TA run.

I’ll bring my guardian.

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Posted by: Lilith Ajit.6173

Lilith Ajit.6173

Bumping this to top, make sure it doesn’t get buried.

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Posted by: Delmain.5167

Delmain.5167

Perhaps it should be warned that some dungeon paths will feel like a boot camp due to difficulty? (I really don’t know how I can teach AC P2’s boss fight without making it feel like a chore. Also there’s TA’s aetherblade path.)
As a side note, I need to adjust the time I am on a little.
Availability: Usually 4-8 P.M. server time, Tuesdays 8-10 P.M.

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Posted by: Anierna.6918

Anierna.6918

Aetherblade path is definitely a chore. Until you get one of the wep skins that sells for over a hundred gold, then it was all worth it. But that hardly ever happens.

AC p2’s boss fight is easy. Float/pull 3x oozes to a single machine, pull the boss, avoid his AoE until he becomes attackable, then kill him in under 10 secs. Not much to it.

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Posted by: laharl.8435

laharl.8435

They probably aren’t going to kill him in 10 seconds with sub 80’s and they’ll have to fill multiple traps.

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Posted by: design.6057

design.6057

Mentor name: Seven Truths [IX]
Specialty: Everything outside of Rangers, Engineers and Necromancers
Active dungeons: All Dungeons and Fractals
Availability: Varies from day to day, as a student I never have a definite schedule. However, I am online far too often to be proud of it, and you’ll be able to find me all around the 24 hour clock. NA Timezone Preferred.
Communication: Teamspeak 3 required, with microphone – Server is provided

Message:
I am a guild leader, and a student. Between running a guild and university commitments, I hope you understand that I may not be able to get back to everyone who seeks my help. However, I am enthusiastic to teach people who are mature, respectful and truly are willing to learn and improve. The chosen candidates will have demonstrated that they are open-minded and willing to change as much as is necessary. With that said, you are here for me as much as I am here for you, and I will make sure that you get to the position that you want to achieve.

Sorrow Night / Seven Truths

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Posted by: Iris Ng.9845

Iris Ng.9845

Should I made two categories: Meta and Non-meta for our Mentor list.

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Posted by: franco.2645

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I can attest to the patience and helpfulness of laharl, Iris, Nikaido, and their friends. They have patiently guided (or carried) me through Arah paths, while tolerating my consistent failure to reflect Lupicus’ frenzied blast. They are genuinely friendly people, and my experience of running dungeons with them is among the best memories I’ve had in this game. Many thanks to them!

Meanwhile, I’ll continue to make efforts to improve myself – especially reading animations, timing myself, and getting my reflects right. Yesterday I joined a p3 run with some new people and finished the run with them in 1.5 hours! Not noteworthy by any stretch, but much better than my first ever Arah run months ago that never went past Lupicus. Even though I had to dedicate myself to grub killing in phase 1, we only wiped at Lupicus once. Laharl will probably be disappointed to hear that I did the noobish thing of staying in range during phase 3…

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Posted by: Iris Ng.9845

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Aww… dear Franco, I’m so proud of you. That’s quite a feat for defeating Lupi. I have never passed phase 3 without planting myself on the ground.

“Raids are like fortune cookies. You eat the cookie and then read the paper scraps.”

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Posted by: franco.2645

franco.2645

Thanks Iris Also it feels great to see a picture of me dead in the funniest player fails thread, heehee.

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Posted by: laharl.8435

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Thanks for the kind words franco, and of course I’m not disappointed! I’m glad to hear your pugging experience is getting better. Meleeing in phase 3 can be very dangerous in a pug. Sadly, it’s often easier if the pugs die for phase 3. You can do some lupi melee training with us sometime, we generally reset him numerous times so everyone can get some good practice in.

I ended up being too tired to play last night, so I was thinking p4 tonight.

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Posted by: franco.2645

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Thanks Laharl, I’ll be happy to do melee training some time, though I most likely will be terrible. One thing I am unsure about is the use of phantasms in phase 3: their movements do cause Lupicus to bubble, and it almost downed a warrior friend of mine when he dodged into a bubble while meleeing. I am guessing I would need to avoid using them when everyone is in melee.

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Posted by: laharl.8435

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That tends to happen in phase 3 with mesmer. I’m pretty terrible with mesmer myself. I’m sure we can get a guest pro mesmer to come along and give tips.

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Posted by: Tree.3916

Tree.3916

Pro mesmer dankies

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Posted by: Silberfisch.3046

Silberfisch.3046

I honestly can’t understand why this thread has not become a sticky yet.

If you happen to stumble across any typos,
you may keep them to rear new and interesting variants in your basement.

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Posted by: Lilith Ajit.6173

Lilith Ajit.6173

I honestly can’t understand why this thread has not become a sticky yet.

I actually think it might be a bad thing but only because the first sticky up there (the one that essentially serves the same purpose except is very self centered and relies on only 2 mentors) the authors of that appear to me to be very … Well, not interested in any one else doing the same thing. When they posted to my sticky it seemed more like they were condescending to me, and I bet if this became a sticky they would request a merge.

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Posted by: Iris Ng.9845

Iris Ng.9845

Bump it up for more exposure

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Posted by: Zulrin.3286

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It would be awesome if you guys could form a NA and EU guild and make two ranks (Mentor and Member).

People needing mentoring could be invited, look for whoever is online and send a /w.

Maybe the “Message of the Day” could contain who can mentor which path?

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Posted by: Lilith Ajit.6173

Lilith Ajit.6173

It would be awesome if you guys could form a NA and EU guild and make two ranks (Mentor and Member).

People needing mentoring could be invited, look for whoever is online and send a /w.

Maybe the “Message of the Day” could contain who can mentor which path?

This is a good idea, but it would depend on these mentors having An open guild slot.

Anyway, it would work nicely if it was one guild. You’d have a leader from NA and EU, then EU mentor And NA mentor, then member status. (Could even delegate these as NA or EU).

I say 1 guild because I’d love to occasionally GChat with all of the sexy folks here.

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Posted by: Zulrin.3286

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This is a good idea, but it would depend on these mentors having An open guild slot.

Anyway, it would work nicely if it was one guild. You’d have a leader from NA and EU, then EU mentor And NA mentor, then member status. (Could even delegate these as NA or EU).

I say 1 guild because I’d love to occasionally GChat with all of the sexy folks here.

Assuming they have an open guild slot, this would be great. Then you can make a new post with a list of people to /w or mail for an invite and (hopefully) get it sticked. I can see something like this being extremely useful.

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Posted by: Iris Ng.9845

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I would love to make that guild, asap, and I want to know if our mentors have an open guild slot.

“Raids are like fortune cookies. You eat the cookie and then read the paper scraps.”

- doranduck, 2016 on Lore in Raids

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Posted by: laharl.8435

laharl.8435

I’m in 5 guilds at the moment, but I’m sure I can drop something. I’ll do so when I log on tonight.

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Posted by: Lilith Ajit.6173

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Ditto. I can create it if no one else does, but I think since we are all on did servers it doesn’t much matter.

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Posted by: Anierna.6918

Anierna.6918

I can open up a guild slot. Send me an invite tonight plz, Iris. You’re maintaining this thread, so I think it would make the most sense if you maintained this new mentor/mentoree (is that even a word?) guild as well.

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Posted by: Nodo.6907

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Great thread and is perfect for a player like me. I’m one of those on again off again GW2 players. I came back to the game 3 months ago and finally feel like it’s beginning to sync in with me and I am enjoying it all very much.

The one thing I do not do, currently, is dungeons. I’ve done CoF 1 and 3, HoTW 1, AC 1 and 3 but that is it. I consider myself an extra in these runs but I had a friend of mine lead me through them. However, that doesn’t really help control the other 3 people who get on the team…so needless to say I just gave up on dungeoning since I wasn’t really learning anything in them other than where to place my portal. What do I want to learn you wonder? Things you can’t learn in the open world dynamic events such as the importance of stacking might, best combos to use and small explanation of why(like not placing light field while might stacking), and which builds to use, etc.

Am I an elitest? Far from it but in any game I’ve played before I’ve always been min/maxed and on top of my game. In GW2, however, I don’t quite feel there yet. I find it more difficult to see ones full potential out in the open world (unless soloing champs and oddities of the sorts) vs an instanced group setting. Sure, in open world, I can play how I want and who even notices but in an instanced setting it becomes more apparent.

I have steered clear of dungeons as I see them as extra content that I don’t care if I do or not because I enjoy a lot of other aspects to this game. However, I do feel like I am neutering myself and experience by not doing them.

I wanted to post here because I was contacted by someone here at random about dungeons and it led me to this post. What you all have here or are trying to form here, is awesome for the dungeon community. You see the same thing popping up with guilds like TTS, TxS, and Att where they come together with an understanding that we all want the same thing, to win.

Sometimes this means altering your play style and builds to build synergy with the other classes on your team. I find this extremely fun and worth anyone’s time as it helps to better your own performance all around. Everyone is entitled to play how you want but when playing with others I think it is important to work together as was intended.

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Posted by: Zulrin.3286

Zulrin.3286

I love it when a plan comes together!

I would like an invite too. As a normal member at first, but eventually would be happy to mentor too.

I would suggest that representation not be mandatory though, as I would be mainly representing my own guild. But at least everyone could see the roster.

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Posted by: Lilith Ajit.6173

Lilith Ajit.6173

I love it when a plan comes together!

I would like an invite too. As a normal member at first, but eventually would be happy to mentor too.

I would suggest that representation not be mandatory though, as I would be mainly representing my own guild. But at least everyone could see the roster.

I completely agree.

I’ll rep it while mentoring. And when people wanna chit chat.
Edit: Iris, can I have my own rank as NA Fashion Queen? XD

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Posted by: Iris Ng.9845

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HAHAHA… sure… Lilith. You’re our one and only Fashion Queen.

I’ll make the guild as soon as I return from my appointment. Any ideas on the name?

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Posted by: Lilith Ajit.6173

Lilith Ajit.6173

Could be simple: Dungeon Mentors [DM]

Could be fun: Trying to Teach [TtT]

Could be better: Scumbag Elitist Mentors [Noob]

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Posted by: Lilith Ajit.6173

Lilith Ajit.6173

God fix this forum bug, already.. 99 posts ugggh

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Posted by: Quickfoot Katana.8642

Quickfoot Katana.8642

If anyone wishes to contact me please send a mail as I’m forbidden to PM on forum.

name sugestion: We Teach How We Want [DM]

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