Guild Wars 2

Having trouble finding a guild that doesn’t require 100% rep to earn Guild Commendations.

Our goal is to only earn 2 guild accomodations per week we aren’t worried about the guild merit.

I’m planning with my IRL friend to just farm up the money to buy the influence ( we have nothing in art of war currently but are efficient at farming gold) for up to Art of War 5 then Guild Bounty.

Will it be possible to find and duo some of the bounties? The idea we currently have is that we will que up Tier 3 bounties to have more targets to select from identify the easiest target of the bunch then try and find it and duo it down with in the time limit.

If this is to hard we could possibly try to pug a few in the actual map or pick some up prestarting in Lion’s Arch. Both of us are fairly hardcore capable players and have access to all class with gear.

This is just a plan and we have no experience in how this will turn out. Does anyone have any feedback please on if we will get stopped at any point in this plan or have a better idea of how to go about doing things in our strategy? Things we are missing that are going to cause major problems etc? Thanks for your help in advance.

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We arn’t trying to rambo it or anything, we have just been missing weekly accomodations due to guilds having random scheduling and requiring 100% rep to not get kicked, we will definitely attempt to pug in Lion’s Arch and in map.

One last question: we’re looking at around 100g for the influence in total? There arn’t other things I’m missing?

2 sounds low…especially with the time limit, and you gotta search for them as well as fighting a champion mob. I would say a group of 5 is more than enough for 1 target (They do sclae as more people join)

Different strategy? Well you could join a Public Guild, there are a few who host bounties and dont require any reps. For NA its Commendation[GC] in Tarnshed Coast for EU look here

Two might be possible but that will depend a long on luck for finding the target in time. When we first unlocked bounties we actually tried one with 2 people and we got Sotzz. We lucked out and found him in the 4th barrel. We almost killed him with two Guardians using heal spec.

I wasn’t even familiar with playing Guardian!

2 sounds very slim. Some of the bosses need special tactics and I would say 5 people is the bare minimum.

You can probably do it if you choose from the six and take the easiest one. Also, from what I’ve seen people will usually come and help if you call it out in map chat. It’s gonna cost you a ton of gold for the influence though.

Have you considered allowing people to rep your guild just during the bounties?

From what I’ve heard on these boards, an extremely well gear group of around x6 people who know the fights and have group coordination should be able to take down many of the Guild Bounty targets. With that in mind, I’m really doubting that x2 people could do it. However you could always ask people in zone chat in your target zone (or Lion’s Arch) for assistance.

One of the guilds on my FC server actually has a PUG rank for these events. The member ranking is simply called Guild Bounty and has pretty much no permission settings. This guild will invite PUG players to their guild, have them temporarily Represent with the hosting guild (in order to give the PUG player the Guild tokens), and the PUG members can switch back to their standard guild after the PUG event is over. (Every so often, the hosting guild will purge off their PUG members if they’re tight on membership space. However the membership upgrades are extremely cheap and asking for a one time membership donation of the 50 silver from the bonus Guild token chest really isn’t unheard of. But then again, you can also just re-invite them back to their old PUG rank at a later date when they join you again.)

No, the two of you can’t realistically solo these mobs. But if you offer to take along some PUG members, you should do fine. It will help yourselves out and it will also benefit your server.

Barzmon.1320:

Different strategy? Well you could join a Public Guild, there are a few who host bounties and dont require any reps. For NA its Commendation[GC] in Tarnshed Coast for EU look here

If only I could find one on my server (Darkhaven)…
Really want to start getting some commendations, but am not really looking for a guild right now (I might in the future though).

Wiser with Age.3714:

No, the two of you can’t realistically solo these mobs. But if you offer to take along some PUG members, you should do fine. It will help yourselves out and it will also benefit your server.

PUGs really might be a good choice, but if you really want to just duo there are some bosses that I believe could work. Poobadoo has a very short path, making him easy to find, and he doesn’t have incredibly nasty tactics. He could probably be two-manned. The one that just walks the inner portion of Ebonhawke — can’t remember her name right now — could probably be two-manned. If you do your research beforehand, know the tactics and the paths of 3 or 4 bosses then chances are good one of those will be on your T3 bounty.

skullmount.1758:

Barzmon.1320:

Different strategy? Well you could join a Public Guild, there are a few who host bounties and dont require any reps. For NA its Commendation[GC] in Tarnshed Coast for EU look here

If only I could find one on my server (Darkhaven)…
Really want to start getting some commendations, but am not really looking for a guild right now (I might in the future though).

Bounties work for people who are guesting to a server, so if you find a guild that is willing to allow you to participate with them it doesn’t matter what server they are on. Just guest over, represent the guild, and get your hits in.

Only if you’re Chuck Norris and your friend is Chuck Norris’ evil twin…

Aye.8392:

skullmount.1758:

Barzmon.1320:

Different strategy? Well you could join a Public Guild, there are a few who host bounties and dont require any reps. For NA its Commendation[GC] in Tarnshed Coast for EU look here

If only I could find one on my server (Darkhaven)…
Really want to start getting some commendations, but am not really looking for a guild right now (I might in the future though).

Bounties work for people who are guesting to a server, so if you find a guild that is willing to allow you to participate with them it doesn’t matter what server they are on. Just guest over, represent the guild, and get your hits in.

Thats true. I forgot about guesting and being part of a guild on another server. I’ve never tried guesting (let alone switching servers). Guess it might be time to try.

Thanks for the replies everyone, very helpful! We will definitely attempt to pug a few or eventually find some willing to go on a regular schedule who are in the same boat as us. The total influence cost will be around 100g correct? with 1.5-2 months build time?

Stego.3148:

Thanks for the replies everyone, very helpful! We will definitely attempt to pug a few or eventually find some willing to go on a regular schedule who are in the same boat as us. The total influence cost will be around 100g correct? with 1.5-2 months build time?

If you have nothing in Art of War right now it will take 133g and 2w 4d 16h then another 60s and 12 hours to build the bounty mission that you can activate. The time can be reduced by as much as you want if you are willing to throw more money at it.

Even some of the longer paths should be doable with 2 people but it depends on class. I just timed myself running the path for Komali last Sunday in preparation for our next mission. It took around 17 minutes with permanent swiftness and some pauses to check maps. With a bit of practice that could probably be reduced to 15 so in theory 7 minutes to search for it with two people and another 7 to kill it. It takes our group of 5/6 people around 3 minutes each. You might even have a minute to spare if it scales that way!