Guild Wars 2

Not sure where the suggested “BG hates pugs” attitude comes from – I’ve been a pug on BG since the start and haven’t had any negative experiences. I hop on at random times, follow whatever commander is tagged up, and (usually) get on the TS channel. I don’t even talk on TS because, well, I’m a pug and I don’t know anyone, but it seems like a community of friendly people to me. BG commanders and guilds are very open to anyone and everyone following in my experience. Map-wide invite messages to the TS channel are sent regularly at peak times and I get invites to squads almost immediately. Even just recently, there were a bunch of open sessions for any new/inexperienced commanders to get some practice in a stress-free, “It’s OK to make mistakes” environment. It was actually really cool to be a part of that.
I’m a thief main, with no guild, a fairly low WvW level, that doesn’t use a mic, plays at random hours, and isn’t even that good. Not sure it gets much more PUG than that, but I feel welcome on the server.

I don’t hate YB. I don’t hate JQ. I don’t care what the PPT score is if there’s no prize for winning. I play for fun and try to contribute as much as possible as a single person to whatever group I’m with. If I’m not having fun, I play a different game for a while.

I do mostly hate the desert BL’s+changes to WvW and I do hate certain experienceslike nearly winning a 2v1 at an enemy camp, only to be swarmed by 10 people that throw siege sites on my corpse while spamming /laugh, /sit, and /cry emotes like I should feel bad for not having friends to back me up.
I deal with it because WvW used to be amazing and I know it can be again.

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I’d be interested in trying if/when my schedule allows it. Full ascended zerk (no staff).
No experience in raids yet.