Guild Wars 2

Hi,

I have been running 5 mans in pugs for a while now, most of them are just brutal massacres and high repair bills.

Now I have managed to get a small guild going with some friends and we want to run 5 mans as a team.

However from what I have seen you can not just go in there with just any 5 class/builds.

What type of makeup and builds do we need to reduce the pain of getting 1 shotted by trash mobs.

Thanks!!

Izzy’s holy trinity, 5 guardians. Every class Izzy plays gets uber buffs (See:Dervish) and classes he doesn’t like get nerfs (See:Paragon).

I ever thought they told us that every group of five players can master the dungeons. So you don’t have to build a specific group.. BUT in our first try for AC storymode we were thief, mesmer, elementalist, necro and engineer. Four people from our guild and one random (the engineer).
That FAILED!
Our second try was thief, mesmer, elementalist, guardian and ranger, which worked out quite good. It also was very hard, but doable. In this try we also needed TS and everyone was from our guild.

I wish we could play with every team, but I am not sure if that really works out how it is intended to do..

It is possible to do dungeons with more of the same class and succeed, I’ve run dungeons with 4 warriors and a ranger. the main issues are:
- you need well rounded characters
- you need to talk strategy before going in.
- some form of communication tool other than typing makes it so much easier.
- player skill is a major factor even if you have a well rounded character.
- don’t just spec direct damage bring in at least one condition heavy character.