Guild Wars 2

Joined a group a little while ago. Newbie who wanted to go through Arah p1 without rushing through everything, thought I’d join because why the hell not. Everything up to ooze had been cleared (maybe they soloed or the party rq?), and then we killed the ooze. Tried killing the champions but it just wasn’t happening so after they wiped i just went ooc and ignored them. People tried running to entities, the newbie couldn’t make it so I helped them clear the four risen elites near the ooze (2x hunter, 1x ele, 1x mage, ez pz). We did entities, we did tar. Did Lupicus, they died so I ended up soloing phase 3 on my smegsmer. Cleared the whole path of risen elites afterwards up to the drakes/gorillas/spiders (ran through those), didn’t bother with korga, killed the jotun.

1. no boss was stacked besides tar
2. no bosses were melted in seconds
3. no questions asked about builds/gear
4. one person got a little annoyed nobody admitted to being new but we told them it was a no req group so it’s not fair to be berating people for that and they have to play content to learn it
5. it was no 3 hour marathon, ooze, tar, lupicus, jotun all done on first attempt, I had to reset entities once because they died and I had 0 dps because my class sucked and phantasms didn’t work, there was no constant waiting for people to make skips really either.

And guess what:

The group filled up pretty darn quick.

So if you actually make any sort of effort, you can get a no gear check, no stack, no experience requirement group. If you’re all new, you should probably expect a lot of pain depending on the dungeon, but most likely you’ll get a decent player joining who doesn’t want to see the party fail.

Just wanted to throw this out there – I know groups like these exist but I’ve never joined them, and it was actually an interesting change of pace clearing some of the mobs, though not something I’d get in to a habit of.

Seriously, thanks for sharing that. These are the kinds of PUGs I usually get, and it’s really not that bad.

If the people complaining about not being able to find a party would put some effort into it, they could be out there having a lot of fun, instead of stewing and raging in here….