Guild Wars 2

Greetings everyone,
We’ve all seen countless threads on the " I want better competition!" and “Help me I R Noob” subjects. Here’s a poke at something new…
Here’s a list of tips I’ve learned to stick with. Please feel free to share what you’ve learned works and doesn’t work in order to increase community awareness and overall better competition

Biggest one in my book;
Functioning as a team. This is where Rezzin’ n Stompin’ come into play. As well as communication. Nothing functions better than a group a gamers that communicate effectively during a fight and pull off the stomps/rezzes needed to secure a point.
This goes hand in hand with communication. I’ve run into the "I dont have vent/mumble/ts with others, as well as those who are just plain shy on a mic. Even more so, some people just dont know what to say.

How do we fix this problem?
Download one of those programs. I use vent as it seems like the majority of groups/guilds use it. But you’ll find larger Guilds that encompass other games run with TS3. Download a couple if you can. More the better. You’re already one step closer to winning when you have the whole group in a voice chat.
What does a Voice program do for you?
It allows the mid/back point to call inc, allows stomps/rezs to be coordinated, allows the party to know when the necro’s rez signet is on CD, or the Mes is dropping TW on mid…
It allows someone to call “stomping” so another knows to dps the downed or focus on another target.
It allows someone to call that they are about to drop, so they know who to rez immediately or which skill to ready for a quick fix.
It allows the team to know how many are engaging any given point at any time! For being a mid point bunker this is huge in my book. Even if you dont intend to support me while im engaged, let me know so i can start popping utilities I’d save for when You show up. If you call out how many you have at the back point or far point, I know I can pop certain skills without worrying about others joining the fray.

Next in my list is to at least play around with other classes. Even as a Bunker Guard or Condi Necro, I’ve ran on other classes to see what they’re weakness/strengths were. Even classes I hate. I did this because it was the easiest way to understand how to counteract them. I’m a better Guard because of it since I now know when to dodge certain attacks, like ele’s churning earth. Or since I know how long it takes a thief to engage after seeing him go stealth, i can better dodge his burst. Or throw up aegis to negate the initial hit. You learn so much by messing around with the other classes, you might even find a class that fits you better.

For Bunker Guardian tips….
1) Conditions are your worst enemy. Stacking runes of the soldier w/ Pure of Voice helps.
2) Shelter is by far your best heal. if you are caught by a surprise burst it will block the rest of it, and heal what you initially took.
3) Dodging is amazing. It negates all dmg for whatever hits you. Sigils of energy give more dodges and vigor procs from ur crits.
4) Youre not ment to be DPS, don’t overextend trying to kill a target. You are ment to waste your oppnents’ resources.
5) Test out Sword 2. Look where you can teleport on the different maps. Khylo is an obvious one, Temple has a few good ones as well.