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After I first got the mount, I hated it. It felt useless, way too slow to respond; almost felt like I should hear a loud “BEEP BEEP!” when I was backing up. I logged out of the game for an hour. I’m back on playing, and now I’m running around on the map on the mount without stopping. I can make turns and hit those long jumps with ease now. It’s smooth. Now I’m loving it. Give it time.
I see a lot of posts by people about the troubles they’ve had, or are having, in trying to learn how to raid. I know how you feel. I thought that I’d share how I got into raiding to maybe give some folks some ideas of where and how to start. I’m not saying this is ideal, but it’s how I did it.
I started raiding in March 2017. I had absolutely no experience. Like a lot of people in my guild, I did not want to deal with the “toxic raid community” that we’d heard about, but I figured if I wanted to learn to swim, I had to wade in with the sharks. First, I went on the GW2 forums under the raids and class sections to see what classes I should use that would more than likely not get me insta-booted. Ranger is my favorite class, I was already using a condi Ranger build, so I went with what I knew well. Doing this is where I first learned about the Quantify guild (http://qtfy.eu/). Remember this site. Bookmark it. If you want to raid, use the builds this guild recommends. They know their stuff.
I then spent the time in game to equip my Ranger with the ascended gear that QT recommended. I farmed the newer areas (bloodstone fen, lake doric, etc) to get the ascended trinkets, and since I already had ascended armor, I mystic forge’d it into vipers.
The QT site also has the rotations for getting the most damage from the various builds. I read and watched video for condi ranger, then practiced at the golem in the aerodome.
Once I felt that I had that down, I went onto the GW2 forums under LFG to look for training guilds. I found several postings that specifically said that they took players new to raids and were willing to teach. I left some posts and messages with the people posting. I made sure to let them know that I was new to raids, what type of toon I could bring, and what gear I had. And I didn’t lie about it.
I had several guilds tell me no in various ways (including 1 that said a condi ranger wasn’t very viable. This makes me laugh now). I finally hit on a guild that said they were not a training guild, but that was willing to teach, so long as I was willing to learn & show improvement. I talked with 1 of the guild leaders on discord about it and they decided to give me a shot.
That was back in March 2017. Right now I am still a part of that same raid guild, a member of a static team that raids twice a week. We can get 6-8 kills a week, and are constantly working on expanding that number. I currently have switched from condi ranger to healer druid for my group. At this time I have 82 LI and I’m almost done envoy armor I for legendary armor.
Getting into raiding can be done if you really want it, but you’re going to have to put in some effort. Plain and simple. In the 3 months I’ve been raiding, I have learned that the meta builds and roles exist for a reason. They’re the best chance a random group of 10 people have to succeed. We have people that use non-meta builds, myself included. But that’s on a team that raids on a set schedule every week with the same people (mostly). Anyway, my main point is this: raiding can definitely be done, but you’re gonna need to do some homework. Period. I happen to feel it’s worth it, because raiding has seriously tightened up my game.
Hi all. I’m a veteran GW player, but new to raids & I’d like to learn. I’ve tried VG a couple of times, but with no success so far. I main a condi ranger in almost full ascended viper’s ; I do have a toon of every other class but my gear on them may not be optimal. If you have any open spots & don’t mind teaching some I would definitely be interested. Thanks