Guild Wars 2

Hello! I’m looking for a guild, preferably JQ based. I am on pretty much every night (9/10pm PST-2am PST) and sometimes during the day as well for shorter period of time (just to run some fractals). I’m looking for a relatively chill guild that still participates in raids, fracs, HoT events, etc.. I have a strange schedule because I am taking care of my daughter throughout the day, so I only have nighttime to play pretty much.

My main is a Chrono, full ascended and pretty much meta (except for one or two Leadership runes which I’m working on). I have all other classes at 80 (except Warr), and most of them are close to full ascended and meta. The class I feel most comfortable with aside from Chrono would be Herald, Condi Engi, or Guard.

I briefly stopped playing after Spirit Vale came out and only recently returned. I am experienced in Spirit Vale but still catching up/researching the other two wings. Fast learner, experienced with fractals and dungeons. Most interested in a guild willing to chill and play with me, perhaps teach me some mechanics or help me refresh my memory. I have TS3, can Discord as well. Just want a guild without tense emotions or a very rigid expectation/schedule.

Thanks for reading! Have a great day.

- Kim

bumping again. have gotten some mail, but would always appreciate more!

bumpin’ it up.

Hey guys! I’m looking for a pretty active, fun, medium-sized guild on Jade Quarry.

I was in TTS for a while, but their guild mission times were pretty inconsistent and hard to work in with my schedule, and I feel like I barely talked to anyone in my few months in it.

I play daily, usually in the evenings and nights (6pm PST onward to as late as 2am PST). I run fractals every day pretty much (up to scale 39 currently). I run dungeons a bit too, and EOTM/WvW a lot. Missions would be great to have weekly, but it wasn’t really that organized with TTS.

I have 4 (almost 5) max lvls, main being a Mesmer. Also have a Guard, Ele, and Engineer. Currently leveling Thief. I have TS, willing to full rep, and I’m over 18. Just looking for a fun, active guild to run fracs/dungeons/WvW with and possibly some missions.

Thanks for taking the time to read and have a good day!

LOL Somebody is salty. Sucks you couldn’t get one yet, but seriously dude… If everyone could buy their way into it that’d by WAY worse. It’s not at all a fair way if you could buy into it. I’m a poor college kid and can’t afford to be buying that stuff. But I do love their content and I farmed and I got it after like 5 or 6 days. You don’t have some claim over it more than anyone else farming in that zone, and you don’t deserve it any more than anyone spending time farming in the zone. It’s completely RNG. Any “bad luck” you think your account is associated with is not real. It’s completely randomized.

It’s beginning to irritate me how entitled people feel when they don’t get it. I’ve seen SO many posts like “Lemme buy a portal pls” or “High seasoned veterans and people with lots of AP should get in automatically.” It’s ridiculous. SOME of those seasoned veterans will get in. And a lot won’t. And some newer players with different experiences will get in. And a lot won’t. It’s just a beta dude. Calm down.

I am constantly checking as well. But I think they are only going to email us once the beta is going to start. Make sure you’re subscribed to the newsletter, and we’ll just have to be patient.

FrostyBou.5491:

Amnesiak.8619:

But you do realize you CHOSE to do that. You CHOSE to spend that time in there, farming away, full well knowing that there was a great chance you wouldn’t get the portal. It sucks you didn’t get one, but surely it can’t be entirely surprising.

Correct, but that doesn’t negate the fact that after farming, those who had bad luck feel considerably worse than if they had simply missed the opportunity via a random draw from the mailing list. The current drop system for the beta invites also breeds the strife and hurt that many are posting about both here and on other forums.

Well that bad feeling though is the known risk you take by spending all that time farming. :/ Yeah it sucks, but who knows how many other beta tests they’ll have and how they’ll let people in. Just because they used this tactic one time doesn’t mean it’ll be the only way they do it for the rest of the tests (if there are more). And honestly I don’t understand all this “strife” and “hurt.” I spent a week in SW farming multiple hours a day, knowing that I could not get it. I didn’t get it after four days of pretty much no-lifing it. But what I DID get was an insane amount of T6 mats, karma, gold, etc. from all that farming. And after I stopped trying so hard and just let the events run their course, I got a portal the next day. It’s a GAME. It’s a small portion of the expansion that some people will get to test. It’s really not that big of a deal. If people are “hurt” by this I don’t understand. Sure being frustrated is understandable. But hurt? Like… seems a bit of an overreaction to a very small thing that you won’t remember down the road of this game.

FrostyBou.5491:

I really hope that Anet does not do a beta invite system this way again.

Here’s my reason: The level of frustration that you get farming for hours to try and get the drop and not getting it is much worse than the annoyance of rng if the invites were taken from the mailing list. Especially when there’s reports of people getting it within 5 min of entering silverwastes, getting multiple portals, or even getting it after 15 hours of farming. I’d much rather know that rng just wasn’t in my favor from a pool of possible invitees rather than having to spend hours and hours trying for it and then having rng still not be in my favor.

But you do realize you CHOSE to do that. You CHOSE to spend that time in there, farming away, full well knowing that there was a great chance you wouldn’t get the portal. It sucks you didn’t get one, but surely it can’t be entirely surprising.

timmyf.1490:

Amnesiak.8619:

Don’t get kittened if you don’t get one, surely you considered this (not getting one) to be an option, and yet you kept farming.

Hi. You don’t know me and many of your assumptions about me are false. For one, I decided that I’d rather not be in the beta than have to farm SW for dozens of hours just to have a small chance at a portal.

Based on the complaints I’m hearing from my guild members, I made the right decision.

In the end, there are a variety of ways they could have handled the process. I think an in-game method is better than the “newsletter only” method, but those were not the only two options. I’ve suggested alternatives here, but just to lay it out for you…

• Based on some marker of personal achievement
• Random chance based on logging in (tied to log-in rewards)
• Random drop from all zones, including PvE, WvW, and PvP reward tracks
• Portals tradeable on Trading Post
• Some combination of the above

I’m not complaining that I didn’t get a portal because I didn’t attempt to get a portal. I’m complaining that the criteria for getting one, while perhaps slightly improved from the newsletter method, leave a lot of players out and made a lot of other players play content they dislike for a chance.

I read your original post, I know you personally didn’t farm for it. But you were talking and representing the opinions of many who did the farming, which is why I referred to those people as “you.” It’s easier to refer to them as “you” rather than saying “People who don’t like this system…,” and you agreed and shared many of the opinions of those people.

You don’t know their future plans. Maybe they will implement these other ways within time— what bothers me about people complaining like this is (1) they feel they “deserve” it based on seniority or AP or something, when having a large breadth of players from various backgrounds and experience in the game is vastly superior to just seasoned veterans, and (2) they act like they know what Anet’s next move is. They don’t know if this will be the last beta test, they don’t know how/if the next process will be off of AP or daily log-ins or what. It’s entirely possible. I disagree that they should be tradeable, because then you get a HUGE amount of people paying their way into beta, when beta access should be something people strive for. I also disagree that it should be available for all zones (the reward tracks are fine), because having it an exclusive 80 zone pretty much dictates the masses testing the beta aren’t completely new to the game and have at least achieved SOMETHING (hitting 80), albeit a small achievement in terms of this MMO.

Honestly I think the people who didn’t get one are salty, and sure, I would be disappointed; but I surely wouldn’t be writing up why it’s unfair because (1) it doesn’t change anything. They’re gonna do what they’re gonna do, and (2) it really isn’t “unfair.” You (those people farming without the beta, not YOU specifically) spent the time farming and doing events, all while knowing that there was a strong possibility of not getting it. And yet you still did it. And I guarantee that even if you left beta-less, you didn’t leave empty-handed. The events still gave you a lot of mats, exotics, salvageables, karma, etc..

timmyf.1490:

Ranatoa.4869:

2. Anet should prioritize x group of players The problem with this is obvious, there is more than one group of players in any game and they need that variety to test. No one group is better qualified to beta test.

Then why are they prioritizing players with the time/willpower to farm DT/SW? If you want the test group to be fair and cover all groups, add a small chance for portal drops to appear with daily log-in rewards.

Ranatoa.4869:

3. In game RNG is different from the mailing list RNG It is not. Everyone who didn’t get an invite then complained too.

Of course it’s different. Mailing List RNG doesn’t compel players to spend dozens of hours farming one particular zone in hopes of getting lucky.

You can say these players made the choice to farm and I’d wholeheartedly agree, but it’s nonsense to claim they are the same thing. One requires only luck, the other requires both luck and perhaps a substantial time commitment.

Dude what your saying, in my opinion, makes no sense.

This is just ONE way they are giving people a chance to get into Beta. They said there will be other ways, including the newsletter.

They are prioritizing DT/SW players probably because that content is most related to the upcoming expansion, it is full of max level players that have at least hit 80 and gone through the very basics of the game. I firmly believe Anet wants some sort of variety in this test. They don’t want ONLY seasoned veterans playing it— they want opinions and chances open to newer players, too. I don’t understand why you seem to think just because you heard about GW2 earlier than some other people you deserve any better. For all you know, there could be a player that’s only owned the game a quarter of the time you have, but has invested just as much time as you, or is playing in a completely different style than you and has different interests. In fact, I’m sure there are players like that.

As for the farming, players who opt in or CHOOSE to farm KNOW beforehand that it is RNG and luck-based, andyet they still complain when they don’t get what they want. Dude. It’s based on LUCK. The newsletter was extremely similar; it was just a pool of people who filled out something quickly and had the chance to get in. They’re still doing that. But now people are getting thirsty for beta portals and investing wayyyy too much time into it. It’s ridiculous. Don’t get kittened if you don’t get one, surely you considered this (not getting one) to be an option, and yet you kept farming.

I got mine after farming for a few days. I’d checked out tons of suggestions on where to go, what to do. I spent days doing dolyaks, breach, VW, DT runs, etc.. Wound up getting mine off of a devourer I randomly decided to kill in between events. Things just happen. It’s RNG.

MAYBE they’ll implement some “seniority” beta later in the future, but that’s not what this beta entrance was about. People need to chillll.