So I’m having a little problem right now with LFG and people claiming to be zerker. I do start my own LFGs, I’m in a hardcore WvW guild so I have no choice but to pug it , speed run guilds don’t appeal to me as I need to learn and thirst for knowledge along the way and I find running in pugs I tend to pick something up along the way, however small and I know there are like minded people out there who pug becasue I’ve met some great guys running meta builds with great advice during my runs. 5 random people all running meta builds and having a perfect run in a 50 Frac is defintely a nice buzz.
I’m far from a pro but I know meta builds make perfect sense, after being 100% hardcore WvW for a year in full PTV/soldier I’ve made an effort to read great guides like Obals, Sandys and Nikes and researched the meta builds to find one to suit me and found I am really enjoying the nice clean runs when everyone runs the meta, particularly in level 50 Fracs. It’s so different from 4 PTV Guardians taking 2 hours to clear a fractal which I used to do every day, now I have to actually learn my skills, blinds, blocks to stay on my feet – and it’s fun. If I kept falling over like in the first week of my change 3 months ago, I’d just get back up again and work out what I was doing wrong, watch the combat log, what attack needs to blocked or blinded, exact tells to dodge and worked hard to see all the telegraphs in preparation for higher fractals where everything will be a 1 shot so there’s no point to full PTV – you still have all the skills you need with zerker. I love the zerker meta, it means you actually have to use skill to stay alive instead of facetanking and it’s definitly more enjoyable for me to feel that bit of pressure in a game or theres no point to play.
I read here to avoid asking about APs and class and that “gear check” was the most acceptable way to filter to attract a like minded group – however it took 21 people before we found a “zerker” for CoF last night, by that time we’d 4 manned both paths and waited at the last boss to “give” the path to the first suitable person who passed the gear check. We’d got 2 warriors, an ele and a guardian so certainly not an undesirable group to join. I know CoF is probably a bad example due to the crowd it attracts but it’s getting to be the same story for fractals now. What did we get in response to “P1&2, zerker please – gear check”, I wrote some down in the end, hell I’d have taken someone in greens at that stage if it was zerker.
Runes of Melandru on PTV
full PTV armour with scholar & all knights accessories,
Runes of the Centaur
Runes of Speed
3 people who refused to show gear at all and typed why should they, (not sure why they joined a “gear check group”)
The usual 5 people who just sat there not typing a word at all ever,
Guardian running Battle Presence and Strength in numbers,
zerker armour with Dolyak runes
Full PTV with runes of Divinity (quoting Dead DPS is no DPS and telling us noobs to enjoy)
zerker armour with runes of Earth and healing power accesories.
Superior runes of the Fighter
Runes of alturism on knights
I wonder if people who say “zerk only” in LFG without a gear check REALLY know what they are getting.
So my questions are, what is actually classed as zerker and acceptable, what is an acceptable LFG to try and find a like minded group? Is gear check a waste of time because of the amount of time it takes you probably could have completed the dungeon already with a full settlers or PTV group?