Guild Wars 2

Hello World!

Here’s the skinny, we’ve got a whole group of folks looking for a home, there’s about 12 of us and we’ve been playing MMO’s together for about 8 years. The problem is that now that we’re older, it’s harder to consistently get 5 people on for a few hours to do explorables or sPvP, due to real life, work schedules, and kids and what not.

About us – We have folks that are very competitive PvPers, folks that are hardcore PvE’ers, and folks that are just there for an entertaining conversation and a good time. We’re looking for a guild that can offer some or all of these. We’re all mature, good natured, and range from very talented players to El Benito.

What we’re looking for – Mature guild, not a massive guild where you never really know everyone, but something that will regularly have atleast 10 people on. Must be on Yak’s Bend, I know transfers are free, but I’m afraid we’d lose acquaintances we’ve made in the process. We prefer Vent for Voice chat, but we can vary on that. Must also, love puppies, cake, ice cream, raising ducks in your apartment, McDonald’s Coke, Fillet O’ Fish, Mario, zombie hunting, shooting, beatbox 2.0, a random get drunk and kill kitten night, purple pimp suit Charrs, dance parties and gaming.

Also, if your Guild name has anything to do with Game of Thrones, we’re not interested. Unless it’s Hodor, there’s always room for more HODOR.

We would also toy with the option of merging with another small guild out there, so let me know what you have.

-Choch aka Globals (80 Guardian Yak’s Bend)

I WANT TO MINDLESSLY FARM BADGES FOR EPIKZ ON EZY MODE LOL OMGQT. Really guys, it’s not that hard. Learn your class inside and out, learn the mechanics, learn the bosses and mobs.

Do not cry until you get your way and ruin this for those of us who are actually competent at what we play. Yes we still wipe, but that’s part of the learning process. Ask yourself this… Are you really doing everything you should be doing (blinds / dodges / LoS / speed buffs to get out of dodge / tossing heals / really and truly supporting your team) or do you run in there with a guardian and think he’ll tank and you just dps like crazy?

Ele’s and Guardians. Guardians seem pretty straightforward, until you see a good one doing all the roles they can possibly do.

I wasn’t a fan, luckily you should end up with more than enough skill points. My personal favorite tier 3 spell is “Hold the Line”

AC was a huge breath of fresh air for out group. Yes, it is difficult the first time thru, especially if you are used to the tank n spank type of raids. If everyone just DPS’s it will not be a successful run. Everyone needs to be very aware of their surroundings (insert note about crazy npc ranger damage here) and needs to be using all of their skills appropriately. Timing rezzes is crucial as well.

You will need to have a few of your group running supportive type classes “IE Guardian/Ele” and have them dropping heals and boons whenever they can. Blind build thiefs are particularly helpful.

A few tips learned from out 10+ runs.
Eir Stegalkin room 1 is pretty straight forward, he forecasts his melee hits.
“Ctrl + T” will mark a burn target (make sure you are focusing one on packs of 3, even if you only kill that one, you will only have 2 after you rez), party members can select the marked target by pressing “T”
Line of sight Ranger Mobs, and pushback/slow/cripple all but one.
Once you get a second waypoint, when a party member dies, do not waste time rezzing them, it’s faster, and less dangerous for them to waypoint and run back.
Master Ranger Nente – Assign 1 person to boulder duty, as he can be knocked down, assign 1 ranged class to kite wolves when he teleports to melee.
Ralena and Vassar – We found it easiest for me (Guardian) to tank Vassar, and separate him from Ralena, while the group focuses Ralena, whoever tanks seperate must be very good at staying alive.
Kasha Blackblood – Uses her pets to heal, burn them ASAP, she does massive ground targeted damage, avoid the red circles.
King Adelbern – Pretty straightforward, stay out of blue fire.

Hopefully this helps a little, happy dungeon crawling.

For the /roll In the meantime, we’ve been using the pick a random number between 1 and 10, I guess it works, I’m just surprised there isn’t a roll option.

As far as /follow, it has it’s ups and downs. It would be nice to have, but I also remember having 5-7 people on /follow while leading 40 mans. The follow-break suggested by Ceallach is a pretty good idea imo. The party only follow would also be welcome.

Thanks for all the input everyone.

Two things I cannot seem to figure out how to do ingame, and both are pretty necessary for our groups. Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction.

Follow – Ability to follow other players, for instance, my wife to put my character on follow and go afk.

Roll – Ability to random roll in chat. We do guild runs, and want to distribute unwanted gear to players that can use it, for instance we have 2 engi’s, and one coat, they would typically roll for it.

I’m sure A-Net didn’t overlook these, so if anyone knows how to perform them, please share.