Guild Wars 2

Hey everyone. So I’m kind of stuck in the game in the sense that I’m not sure what I should be doing anymore. I’ve seen almost all the content, got fully geared in ascendeds on 4 characters, got a few legendaries, and all I’m left with to try is raids. However, I find myself having some major issues with the raiding scene of GW2. Issues such as elitism (people only wanting exp players), extreme meta changes to keep up with, and anxiety. I’ve tried joining “learning groups” for raids, but all of them that I have joined have never downed a single boss, so I’m not sure I should keep trying with them. To be clear, this is not to say “Raids are unplayable, Anet plz fix”, I’m just saying this stuff to illustrate why I personally can not thrive in the raiding scene right now.

Any suggestions to help me get over my raiding issues or things I can do outside of raids?

Looking forward to reading your thoughts!

Side Note – I do read guides and watch videos on how to down the raid bosses before I take them on, but I’m not sure if it’s enough for me to join an “exp” group.

Take a break from PvE, and dip your toes into some PvP/WvW?

Sounds like you need to join a raid premade/static or a raiding guild. PUG learning groups won’t get you much mileage simply because raids are designed to be the most challenging and difficult pve content- you don’t have a good chance of clearing bosses in a PUG group where most of the members are still learning and don’t have a good understanding of the boss mechanics.

PUG learning groups are sort of a never ending loop that gets you nowhere. You’ll join one where most members are inexperienced and presumably will not be able to kill a single boss. Then when the group disbands, you’ll join another learning PUG the following week where most members are inexperienced, and you won’t beat a single boss again. And that cycle will continue over and over again. A premade/static or guild raid group (even if members are inexperienced), guarantees that your raid members will actually learn and retain the knowledge relevant to raids.

Thanks for the advice everyone! I’ll try a little of all of it!