Guild Wars 2

Hi.
I’m playing guardian, and i’ve been trying to get into a group for any boss.
I’ve read tactics for all w1 bosses, i got enough gear for VG for sure.

I’ve tried to look into LFG, but nobody wants a guardian/dh, and everyone wants someone with experience(“some li”).
I’ve tried several (3) training guilds, but after a couple of wipes people started to leave and the group pretty much died. The times after this people didn’t show up, and the group never got assembled.
Typical scenario for these training groups.

I’ve raided hardcore in WoW, and as far as i can see bosses are way more simple in gw2, yet it’s so much harder to even start raiding in this game.

Can you guys give me some tips on this, or maybe someone here runs a guild (or knows someone who does) that welcomes people who want to start raiding?
As much as i don’t like the LFG tendencies in WoW, at least there a newbee can kill a couple of bosses even if he has no exp.
Here, it’s just impossible.

I’m on Desolation EU, and Janthir is on US?

Not sure how megaservers work, but i think i won’t be able to join you guys, though i’d be more than willing.

Yes! Blood dks FTW!
And as far as i can see, there aren’t many guilds that make the emphasis on raiding, it’s mostly guilds which do a bit of this and a bit of that, and the guilds which actually have a more or less serious approach on raiding, they need experienced people, mostly with multiple geared alts, so i would have to pug a lot first.
And trying to pug isn’t my thing also, been there done that in WoW, wasted a lot of time trying to get into a pug when gearing my alts, then after 1-2 wipes everyone left, and had to wait again. Rinse and repeat. And don’t even get me started on the ridiculous pug requirements.
A very boring process, but needed to get into a raiding guild, i guess.
This is a dilemma for most new players that want to get into raiding, and don’t have friends that would help them with it.
Really don’t want to go through this again.

Oh well… chest farming it is

Ok, thank you all for your feedback, i’ll try to find a raiding guild, let’s see what happens

Experienced mythic WoW raider LF a EU guild to start raiding with, since im done killing stuff in that game.
Did not raid in gw2 yet, stopped playing one week into HoT.
My main is guardian, got zerker – exo armor, rest ascended, some cleric gear and PTV gear set. Also have a 80 thief with exo/asc assassin gear.
Can reroll anything, will take some time though.

Can play mostly every evening except Satruday, starting with 6:30 PM CEST.
But effectively will raid 2-3 days a week, got a very busy job.

All-in-all, a bit weird, unexpected and off-putting. Especially considering how much i don’t like being a glass cannon.
Where does a guardian excel in raids? Everywhere i looked people need other classes, for dps and healing as well.
Is this class so weak atm, that i should consider rerolling in order to be competitive?

Hi.
I’m an experienced WoW raider, and all i ever did was tank. I love getting beaten, it seems.
My GW2 main was always a guardian. I loved the amount of utility a guard could bring, and just how hard it was to die wearing PTV.

I haven’t been playing since HoT launch, don’t have the expac yet, and i don’t know whether i should buy it, since my favorite pass-time – dungeons, are now less profitable to run, and as consequence – it’s a lot harder to find a group for them.

But since HoT now has raids, i wonder
0) can guardians tank at all? Didn’t see a tanking spec on the metabattle website for guards.
1) is tanking hard? If you can compare to WoW tanking – that would be cool
2) is tanking fun? For WoW tanking – there was personal cd management, raid/save cd management (know when to ask for one), boss positioning, AoE aggro management, taunting off the other tank in time (encounters usually require more than 1 tank) and overall knowing the time when a boss does what (well there’s DBM for that too). What does a tank do in GW2 raids? It wasn’t easy being a good tank, and i loved it.
3) How long does a full clear take for average guilds that manage to do a full clear? How many days a week, hours a day does it take to do that?
4) how hard is it to find a raid spot for a tank (in my case, with no prior experience in gw2 raiding) ? Should i even bother getting the rest of my PTV ascended gear (or whatever is now the tanking stat meta) just to then wait hours upon hours until someone invites me?

Just look at WoW LFR.
It has disincentivized casual players to progress to higher difficulties. They’ve seen LFR (which is an afk-fest), they’ve seen the story, the end-game, they’ve done it all, so why try harder?
Blizz has even removed good tier gear from LFR, and people still go there, faceroll that, and forget about the raid.
I say there shouldn’t be an easy mode, haven’t played the gw2 raids yet, but as far as i can see they’re much easier than most mythic encounters (and fewer) in WoW’s current raid dungeon.
The player HAS to make effort in order to get cool stuff, kill the baddest bad guys in this bad*ss instance and show it all off.
So plz no, pretty plz

Good day.
I’ve recently leveled a thief, i also have a 80 guardian that i’ve been playing for a while, so i’m familiar with most dungeons.
The thing that bothers me, is how do i provide almost 24/7 stealth for the group when skipping many mobs, like in caudecus ?
I am trying to chain shadow refuge with smoke screen+cluster bombs, but the latter gives me 8 sec stealth at most ( and sometimes doesn’t give stealth at all for some reason), and i have to spam the bombs a lot, while i’ve seen thieves used smoke screen without spamming much and giving ~12 sec of invis to the party (not sr).
Maybe you can give me some tips on how to chain it properly, i tried to look for videos that showcase exactly this, but couldn’t find any.
Thank you in advance.