The thread is now a year old, I’ve had a few requests, but not much as back then, megaservers didn’t quite exist yet.
Now that everyone is smooshed together in the same maps, it’s no longer necessary to guest unless something guild related is happening. I could recreate a new thread, but I don’t really see the point since the general topic hasn’t changed.
Under the new system:
1. You can request for help with any content whenever you need, just add me to your list and whisper when necessary. This can take the form of a question where the help you get is an answer, or it can take the form of going to you and physically completing something. Say, a champion. I am not capable of soloing any of the Krait Witches, Tequatl, Triple Wurm, the Melandru event chain or the Balthazar event chain. Everything else in PvE is not a problem. WvW I cannot help unless we’re on the same world. And regardless of who else is in your party or how they’re geared, I should be able to complete any dungeon left you leave in any state as long as the other people are still playing. My limit for most dungeons is 3-man or 4-man in afk cases, though specific dungeons may be uncompletable for game mechanic reasons (e.g. CoFp1 with one AFK in brazier phase).
2. Unlike one year ago I’ve now mastered every single class and every single crafting discipline, and can now help with any class or profession-specific questions as well. This includes creating builds. Note that different classes are good at different things, so certain things are impossible – I cannot create a condition guardian for you that can ever come close to matching a condition thief, let alone a ranger or necromancer – but I can create the best possible condition build possible for a guardian if necessary. Or the best way to use a sceptre-torch/staff direct damage mesmer in terms of traits/utilities, even if it will never match a mesmer build with a sword in it for direct damage. ‘Play how you want’ will rarely yield the ‘max efficiency approach’, but it’s possible to preserve what you like in a given playstyle while improving the results somewhat.
3. Starting this Feature Patch (which consolidates all guilds across worlds), any new player can also ask for an invite, and I can add you to my guild to buff your Magic Find. Depending on how many people use this, gathering, karma or xp buffs may also be activated – I’ve already unlocked all of these features in the guild. This: 1. helps in asking/answering questions as cc is easier to use than whispers, and 2. gives buffs to everyone involved. Full representation not required and you can leave if you find another community you’d rather be with, this is merely to buff you for free until you find such a guild you want to attach yourself to more permanently.
4. I will not be granting requests for any direct financial help because this kind of thing almost always ends up being abused by players who don’t actually need it. This doesn’t mean that I won’t necessarily give it on my own accord to people who actually need it (because at the moment there’s nothing I need that I don’t already have), but it does mean that begging for gold will get you nothing.
The basic idea is the same as a year ago. Ask and you’ll receive, for free, as long as I’m not otherwise engaged with someone else in the game.
I doubt I’m the only one willing to do this, but I don’t see any other threads in the forum offering, so other veterans who are willing to help newer players may wish to chime in here so people know who to approach.
My signature contains links to all of the builds I’m personally using. They’re all optimised for very specific purposes and are generally speaking not ‘meta’, but all are roles that ‘only that class can do’, in which they have atypically good performance. They’re updated as I change the builds over time in response to patches.
Writes name down Ok, got it. TTYS, I hope.