Guild Wars 2

Hello Deedra!, Some friends and I are reforming our raiding guild. We were quite successful when Raids first launched, but due to several factors we went on a bit of a hiatus for some time (blame Overwatch). We’re coming back now and interested in trialing as many people as possible, experience with raids wont be an issue, we’ll be judging people based on individual skill, we’re more interested in getting a strong foundation with people we enjoy to play with, than judging people based on accolades. That being said, we will expect a lot mechanically out of each player.

We have played with couples several times in the past, and have no problem with it. Easiest way to handle it is to treat both parties as individuals, often times in guilds leadership gets in awkward spots because communication gets muddied when couples are involved, as long as you both understand you’ll be treated as individuals, we wont have that problem.

I will post our standard recruitment spam below:

Synergy is a guild started by some friends with a goal to create a small community of friendly players. We aren’t interested in having 500 members where no one knows anyone else. We are currently playing Guild Wars 2 primarily on the Jade Quarry server.

For Guild Wars 2, we participate primarily in PvE with a focus on Raiding. Most of us have been gaming together since the days before Guild Wars 1 and continue to do so. Because of our long-standing community, you will find that it is an atmosphere where everyone knows each other and learns to play together like a well-oiled machine, hence the name Synergy.

Perks

*NA Servers

*Last Cannon achievement(https://youtu.be/pLHAKyH0qHk)

*Focus on Living Story/Raid achievements

*Chance to play with friendly players

*Active Discord

*Strong leadership with two PvE officers to back up the guild leader.

*Scheduled events including Dungeons such as high-end fractals and the like.

*Assistance with farming legendary items.

*LGBT friendly

*Level 63 Guild Hall and rising.

What we expect:

• 18 and up preferably

• Have a working Mic and Discord preferred

• Have a sense of humor and realize things may not always be PG13

• Attributes of a team player with a good attitude.

To join or if you have any questions feel free to PM or send in-game mail to one of our officers listed below.

Guild Leader and Officers:

• Aeromu.9134
• Cookiezz.5261

Hello Zalavaaris! Myself and some friends are returning to the game after a hiatus (blame Overwatch) and we’re looking to reform our raiding guild. The guild was quite successful at the launch of raiding, having several teams on full clear at one point. Going to take a bit of work to get back to that point, but if you’re interested in helping us reform, let me know! I’ll post the standard spam below.

Synergy is a guild started by some friends with a goal to create a small community of friendly players. We aren’t interested in having 500 members where no one knows anyone else. We are currently playing Guild Wars 2 primarily on the Jade Quarry server.

For Guild Wars 2, we participate primarily in PvE with a focus on Raiding. Most of us have been gaming together since the days before Guild Wars 1 and continue to do so. Because of our long-standing community, you will find that it is an atmosphere where everyone knows each other and learns to play together like a well-oiled machine, hence the name Synergy.

Perks

*NA Servers

*Last Cannon achievement(https://youtu.be/pLHAKyH0qHk)

*Focus on Living Story/Raid achievements

*Chance to play with friendly players

*Active Discord

*Strong leadership with two PvE officers to back up the guild leader.

*Scheduled events including Dungeons such as high-end fractals and the like.

*Assistance with farming legendary items.

*LGBT friendly

*Level 63 Guild Hall and rising.

What we expect:

• 18 and up preferably

• Have a working Mic and Discord preferred

• Have a sense of humor and realize things may not always be PG13

• Attributes of a team player with a good attitude.

To join or if you have any questions feel free to PM or send in-game mail to one of our officers listed below.

Guild Leader and Officers:

• Aeromu.9134
• Cookiezz.5261

These replies are super focussed on the meta, I also doubt condition mesmer will really ever be PvE meta, but I am curious how to properly play one in PvE (just for my own fun). Can we switch the topic over to that side of the fence? Just how to do it well instead of how viable it would be.

Guild missions tonight if anyone wants to join! Could be a good time to test drive the guild!

That’s a good question. However I ASSUME that they are added together before being applied, so your first example. As if you’re going to program something like that you would have a function to handle damage, and one of the first steps would be determining the modifiers, and they would be lumped together into one number (speaking very basically here, it’s a little more in depth than that lol)

I think you missed the sarcasm in my “how do you knows”. It’s just a fun little thing going on in LA, no need to get mad that it’s not challenging or that you got a pity reward lol.

He has the super minis, thats a good idea lol, he always complains about how annoying they are lol.

I like doing just the weapon because he will still have some damage, but it will just be a large chunk less, so it might take a moment to pick up on, all level 1’s will be immediately obvious I think. I want to experience the slow realization, because he’ll be in TS going “did they nerf reaper or something? I’m doing so much less damage now… What’s going on, let me go check the patch notes” etc.

The PvP amulet is a good idea, he is a set and forget style person so that one will take a while to pick up on I’m sure lol

How do you know the mad king didn’t say “organize your bank” hmm?

Or that one of his commands was “AFK in LA” hmm?

Seriously tho, who complains over something like this? lol.

Andraus.3874:

The hall of monuments portal stone. I’m not sure if this still happens but when you get them the only way to delete them had been to type out the entire name one at a time. It’s really annoying. You could fill his inventory with them lol. The vendor was in the cave in north lions arch. It costs nothing to buy them.

Oh that’s evil! I’ll have to test if they still take forever to delete. Do they stack? You could potentially just stack them all and delete, still a funny inconvenience.

Dahkeus.8243:

Hmm…first thing that comes to mind is messing with their dyes. You can dye their character pink or rainbow colored and it won’t cost them anything to change it back.

You could swap armor skins, but that would cost them transmute charges to change it back.

edit for the “long con”, you could buy a cheap low level weapon and then transmute it to look like their regular weapon. Unequip their regular weapon and put it in the bank. This will cost them 1-2 transmute charge (2h weapon vs 2 1h weapons), but that’s pretty negligible.

I thought about the dyes, was almost too easy / short term I guess. But that transmute idea? Golden. They main a reaper with sunrise at the moment, I can just skin sunrise onto some wimpy weapon, I love it. Can’t wait to hear them complaining at their lack of damage lol.

Thanks! I’ll leave the room open to other ideas hah

So, my roommate and I have gamed together for many years, and they’ve always had a habit of leaving their computer unattended, logged into whatever game we’re playing. Back in our WoW days I would periodically move their characters to strange places, make messages in their bag / bank with items, etc etc. However now we’re in a serious Guild Wars kick and I was wondering if anyone has any ideas for minor pranks I could play on my roommate.

Obviously, I don’t want to do anything that actually negatively affects them in any serious way (like deleting items for example), just want to have a good laugh.

I’m a pretty big fan of playing the “long con” so if it’s something that will take a while to notice / pay off, I’m super interested lol.

I hate to break this to you, but if you’re a smaller guild, you’re basically out of luck, I’m not going to type up my full experience again, it’s in another thread, second page in this forum. But basically, just for the first few buildings, it’s going to cost you thousands of gold worth of resources. Even a small guild of all very wealthy players is going to have a hard time even getting the first few upgrades, I doubt any small guilds are going to have even remotely enough income to do these upgrade in any reasonable amount of time (we’re talking several years for smaller guilds)

I hate to break this to you, but the first few buildings (which you need to even get anything out of your guild hall) are going to cost you FAR more than just doing the expedition. To be fair, it’s not gold cost, the items are all basically farmable, but if you add up gold cost for the items, for just the first 3 buildings base level (not including any upgrades) we’re talking multiple thousands of gold worth of materials.

Collaborating and building a guild hall is fun for sure, but this is just a MASSIVE sink. Even with medium size active guilds we’re talking about double digit gold contributions from every member, just for the first few buildings. Which lets be real, 80% of guild members in any guild are poor and not going to be able to contribute much anyways (I’m sure the intention was to have them handle the cheap resources, but the people who can donate the expensive resources can cover the cheap stuff just from their banks without noticing, so the poor guys can’t really help). Leaving the strain of finding the materials on the management of the guild. I know I have thousands of gold sure, but I wasn’t expecting to need to use it ALL on the first few upgrades.

EDIT: Don’t get me wrong, I didn’t want to be able to purchase the upgrades outright at all. But some of these items are things people would much rather sell to progress their personal characters, thousands of gold is alot to ask from your guildies. Even massive guilds are going to struggle with this, medium guilds are going to have to really scrape to make ends meet (just to get the lower tiers, I cant immagine how long it will take to max a guild, that 6-8 month mark or whatever they quoted doesnt seem possible, I’m thinking years), and small guilds are out of luck for sure, theres no way, even with one or two very wealthy members, you’re not going to be able to get the materials without going bankrupt. And even then you’ll only have a few upgrades.

The wallet drain is real. I have no idea how smaller guilds are going to cope with upgrading their halls.

My guild has ~150 members, mostly all active, and we’re struggling to get even the first upgrades out of the way (I ended up fronting a large portion of it with my personal wealth).

Throwing in time gated materials like charged crystals was a nice tough, pushes guilds to collaborate and spread the load. But using large gold sinks is just frustrating.

Hello! I THINK we’d be a good fit for you, I just have a couple questions / statements to make sure we line up, and to clarify on what you’re looking for.

When you’re talking hate speech, are you talking in the direct manor (like actually meaning it in a hateful way) or even sarcastically? I’m not going to lie, our TS can get questionable at times, but it’s 100% comedic / sarcastic. Basically just some harsh humor at times, nothing over the top. If you have a good sense of humor you’d be fine, but I know some people would prefer that some things just aren’t said regardless of the context / situation, and I would rather be upfront encase you are one of those people.

Definitely low drama, just a bunch of people joking and having a good time, can’t even recall anything recently that was really dramatic. And that first statement covers the hijynx thing I feel, we’re all about having a good time.

I don’t enjoy talking politics or religion when I’m gaming either, so that wouldn’t be a problem.

We are always hopping in ad-hoc dungeons and fractals, and that will only get stronger with HoT as more people get back into the game more and more. We picked up a good chunk of players from the F2P event, so we’ve gotten pretty good at teaching new players and getting people up to speed quickly.

I realize now I skipped your first point, we aren’t a speed run guild, and we don’t force a meta, we do dungeons and fractals with whatever people want to play, and we often change things up, or do something different to challenge ourselves or just do something in the name of fun. For example, in most of our fractal and dungeon runs we are all actively trying to get each other killed at all times. Really livens things up lol.

We are VERY excited about our guild hall (voting ends tonight as to which one we will be using), and have several people lined up that are specifically interested in decorating (for both the main area, and specifically for Arena decorations). If POSSIBLE we want to try to do our expedition Saturday (day after launch) however it depends on how much work we need to do to unlock the areas and resources needed. I know a post was just made that said it wouldn’t be immediately doable just because of areas you need to explore (and I assume masteries you will need, as I bet gliding if nothing else will be needed). Basically Friday night we’ll take a look at how many people have what we need to do the expedition and make the final decision whether or not we’ll do it Saturday. That being said, we will likely repeat it a number of times to make sure everyone gets a chance to experience it.

We can hop in TS or in game some time so we can answer more of each others questions if you’d like, hope to hear from you soon!

Also, heres our general guild recruitment information for an overview.

Hello Anowyyn.2304! I think we’d be a strong fit if you’re interested in a more PvE focused guild. We have players that do sPvP quite often, but WvW isn’t really something we do at the moment (primarily due to the lack of a strong WvW commander). We’re mostly on Jade Quarry, so transferring would likely be out of the question as well (due to the impossibility of finding JQ actually open).

We’re a mature guild, I think our youngest member is ~19, and we didn’t even realize how young he was until he let it slip in TS. I’d guess that we average out to about 25 as far as age goes, I obviously don’t keep a tally lol. We average about 35-45 people online most nights (surely to go up tomorrow with HoT, we have a large chunk of members who pop on periodically lately just to say hi, waiting for the expansion), with around 15+ in TS around the same times.

We can get rather vulgar at times, very blunt, and no strangers to just sitting around bullkittenting and having a good time. Last night we were joking about taking shots every time the GW servers crash tomorrow, we decided against it because we didn’t want to get anyone killed, but we’re definitely down for some drunken gaming is what I’m getting at.

I’d love to get together in game or on TS soon to answer each others questions, expect a message from myself or someone else in the guild when you’re next online, or shoot me a message on here and we can setup a time to talk. Hope to hear from you soon!

I’ll tack on our guild recruitment info here for an overview.

Hello krklapp.2896! I think we’d be a solid fit, we do our guild missions on Wednesdays around 8PM EST, which you mentioned being one of your “mostly” days off, we also do make up days depending on who missed and what times work for them. Otherwise we’re PvE focused and have multiple groups at any given time doing any number of PvE things.

We’ve been averaging around 35-45 people online as of late, but that number will increase tomorrow with the expansion. Should be plenty of opportunities to get you involved in some dungeons / fractals / etc.

Hope to here from you soon! I’ll post our general guild recruitment information at the bottom of this post.

goose.1682:

cookiezz Im interested in your guild for my group have a question for you.

what time zone are you events set in?
how many active members do you have? days dont matter just active through out the week.

We are primarily EST, however we have members in many time zones.

Per night we average about 35-45 members online lately, however that typically shifts per day, and will likely increase a chunk tomorrow with HoT. We have ~150 members total in the guild, and we do have an activity policy where we remove members who haven’t been online for an extended period of time (with a mail offering an invite when they return of course). So that 150 is relatively active members who log on at least periodically, and I can assume will become much more active with HoT.

Hello goose.1682! We currently do our guild missions on Wednesdays, however I plan to do makeup days as well, and those are typically more ad-hoc (basically I get with the people that missed Wednesdays and figure out a good time for them to have a makeup day). What that means is, if you guys are mostly active on Thursdays we could simply do missions on both days.

We are definitely active on Thursdays, with multiple groups doing multiple activities, so that wouldn’t be a problem otherwise.

The core group of the guild has been playing together for many years, through many games, so we can definitely sympathize there. We have that at our core and don’t want to hit a point where we lose that sense of community and grow to a point where we’re just a numbers game.

Overall I think we’d be a very strong fit, if you’d like we can get together on TS or in game and answer each others questions more directly. Hope to hear from you soon!

Shokunin.3675:

@cookiezz , i talked with Aeroumu in your ts, and we seemed great for each other, but unfortunatly we are not willing to dissolve the SM name to merge into synergy due to sentimentaility and the tenure of our members and guild. Doors remain open tho for us sending a wvw commander possibly to get you guys out of the high teir wvw blobs! Expect to see me in game possibly in the future

Understandable! Sorry I wasn’t online to get in on the conversation, best of luck on your hunt!

It’s at 75%, which after buffs puts you at ~110%, you can easily drop the zerker earrings and probably switch to 100 power 70 ferocity food. This puts you at like ~68% crit, but you’ll be over 100% with banners and spotter.

you can also get back to 70% with swapping your armor to precision infusions, I’m assuming you don’t have all mighty ones and this is speculation so its not a big change.

Or if you’re set on that gear and stats, just switch to power ferocity food to utilize the power and ferocity more than the crit you’ll be wasting.

Hello Slethik! I want to say that there are a couple members in my guild in NYC, but I can’t be certain, not something I typically ask haha. We’re sitting at around 150 members, and most of us are EST, so there’s a good chance I suppose.

Are you interested in specific areas? As we are primarily PvE focussed. We are definitely on the mature end (we have someone in the guild who’s 19 and we always give him kitten for being the youngin), and we have a very active TS where we all bullkitten and have a good time. Not quite the same as getting together and having a drink, but I like to think its the closest thing on the digital end, haha.

If you’re interested we can get together on TS or in game sometime (or on here if that’s easier) and talk a bit about the guild and confirm that its a solid fit, hope to hear from you soon!

Synergy (my guild) is sitting at about 150 members. We average about 40 members on per night, which is definitely still within that range where you recognize everyone in guild chat and have the sense of community. The one thing we primarily lack however, is a WvW presence, it’s something I’ve been looking for for a while now. I’m wondering if we can’t work something out here. We have a very strong PvE focus, with multiple raid teams raiding multiple nights (EST primarily). We are actually on the hunt at the moment for some additional raid leaders to prepare for the HoT bump to ensure all of our members get a chance to raid.

I know you mentioned you’re looking for another small guild for a merger, but I’m hoping you and your friends will be up to discuss a larger scale merger. I have no intention of getting much larger (we want to keep the member count under 200 at all times), keeping a guild on the small to medium end is crucial, we don’t want to be one of those guilds that just has massive numbers but you have no idea who you’re looking at when you open your guild panel. We are very tight knit and I honestly know everyone in the guild. We also have a very strong TS presence for our size (10-30+ people depending on time of day).

If nothing else I’d like to get together to talk on TS (or some other VOIP) about it to see where our heads are at.

I’ll throw our general guild spam below for a general overview. Hope to hear from you soon!

Hello! We’d love to help you out over here in Synergy, we have a section of new players we picked up with the F2P launch, so we’ve gotten pretty good at getting people up to speed. Might be a little slow helping you out in the next couple weeks as most of our vets will be busy fighting back Mordremoth, but we can definitely point you in the right direction in guild chat if nothing else!

Hello ren yon.4679 we’re a medium sized guild, focused primarily on PvE at the moment, however myself and a fair number of our members do actively jump into sPvP. We’re looking to get more involved in sPvP come HoT so I think there wouldn’t be a problem there. We currently don’t do much WvW, just via not really having and active commander that wants to jump in there. But is something we would like to do down the road.

We aren’t particularly interested in being a massive guild where no one knows anyone else, but we do sit at around 150 to 200 members, with 30-50 online easily during the hours you mentioned. We also regularly have 20+ people in our TS.

Let me know if you have any questions or want to schedule some time to talk on TS. Thanks!

Synergy is a guild started by some friends with a goal to create a small community of friendly players. We aren’t interested in having 500 members where no one knows anyone else. We are currently playing Guild Wars 2 primarily on the Jade Quarry server.

For Guild Wars 2, we participate both PvE and organized PvP in both WvWvW and structured PvP. Most of us have been gaming together since the days before Guild Wars 1 and continue to do so. Because of our long standing community, you will find that it is an atmosphere where everyone knows each other and learns to play well as a well oiled machine, hence the name Synergy.

•Focus on Living Story achievements
•Three dedicated teams for Raiding
•Chance to play with friendly players
•Structured PvP teams
•Active TeamSpeak
•Strong leadership with two PvE officers and two PvP officers to back up our two leaders.
•Scheduled events including Dungeons, high end fractals and the like.
•Assistance with farming legendary items.
•LGBT friendly
•NA server
•Our own guild podcast located at https://youtu.be/GbmafSdD0YU

For direct information on our raid teams visit – http://synergygw2.enjin.com/forum/m/5983136/viewthread/24232573-raid-team-one-expectations-schedule-roster/post/last#last

•Officer positions available for:

PvE – with a focus on dungeons/raids
WvW – need experienced commanders

What we expect
•18 and up preferably
•Have a working Mic and TeamSpeak preferred
•Have a sense of humor but realize things may not always be PG13
•Attributes of a team player with a good attitude.

Feel free to check out our website : http://synergygw2.enjin.com

We have an application for our raid teams however to join you don’t have to fill this out. See below.

To join or if you have any questions feel free to PM myself or one of our officers listed below.

Guild Leaders and Officers :
•Aeromu.9134
•Cookiezz.5261
•Archdruidess.5143

TheFrighteningFrenchFry.3275:

Bacon.1835:

Nineaxis.1826:

Take the current mesmer meta build. Replace your least favorite trait line with Chronomancer 3/3/3.

New HoT meta.

Wonder if the armor stats will stay assassin’s

Depends. If your running a night time dungeon run night and force if not run force and accuracy and thus beserkers.

That and the first raid boss didn’t have reflectable projectiles (even tho it did clearly have projectiles). Swaying me even further into 100% zerker territory.

From my understanding Assassin’s was better because reflects can crit, and use our crit stats to determine if they do crit.

Moving into Raids with HoT we didn’t see any reflectable abilities on that first boss (I think they may have been spooked by what we’ve done to Lupicus), so I’ve personally switched my stats to zerker, since the damage difference was close enough that it was basically a “what do you have / what can you craft” situation already, the raids have tipped me into the zerker court.

Hello Olivia.4280!

I think Synergy is the place for you. We’ve got several new members that we are actively helping get ascended and into fractals and dungeons. We’re planning on staying “medium” sized, lately we’ve been averaging about 30-40 members online (with ~150 members total), so there’s always something going on, but we’re not too big that you don’t recognize everyone and feel a sense of community.

We’re also absolutely LGBT friendly, it’s actually one of the things we push in our main recruitment information.

We focus on PvE with some smaller groups venturing mostly into sPvP, we don’t have a WvW commander right now so that’s not something you’ll see happening very often in the guild. As such, the server isn’t really an issue with the megaserver for PvE.

Here is the main recruitment information I typically put on posts, gives you an overall idea of the guild and what we have to offer. Reply here, PM me, find me / anyone in the post below for more information. Hope to hear from you soon!

Also, Sorrows Edge isn’t a server, did you mean Sorrows Furnace or Sea of Sorrows? Not that it matters, as PvE has the megaserver.

Hello! My guild has multiple raid teams and we’re still looking to add more. We’re absolutely planning to be competitive with most of our members coming from very competitive raiding backgrouns. Shoot me a message on here or in game and we can answer each others questions.

Synergy is a guild started by some friends with a goal to create a small community of friendly players. We aren’t interested in having 500 members where no one knows anyone else. We are currently playing Guild Wars 2 primarily on the Jade Quarry server.

For Guild Wars 2, we participate both PvE and organized PvP in both WvWvW and structured PvP. Most of us have been gaming together since the days before Guild Wars 1 and continue to do so. Because of our long standing community, you will find that it is an atmosphere where everyone knows each other and learns to play well as a well oiled machine, hence the name Synergy.

•Focus on Living Story achievements
•Two dedicated teams for Raiding
•Chance to play with friendly players
•Structured PvP teams
•Active TeamSpeak
•Strong leadership with two PvE officers and two PvP officers to back up our leader.
•Scheduled events including Dungeons such as high end fractals and the like.
•Assistance with farming legendary items.
•LGBT friendly
•NA server
•Our own guild podcast located at https://youtu.be/GbmafSdD0YU

For direct information on our raid teams visit – http://synergygw2.enjin.com/forum/m/5983136/viewthread/24232573-raid-team-one-expectations-schedule-roster/post/last#last

•Officer positions available for:

PvE – with a focus on dungeons/raids
WvW – need experienced commanders

What we expect
•18 and up preferably
•Have a working Mic and TeamSpeak preferred
•Have a sense of humor but realize things may not always be PG13
•Attributes of a team player with a good attitude.

Feel free to check out our website : http://synergygw2.enjin.com

We have an application for our raid teams however to join you don’t have to fill this out. See below.

To join or if you have any questions feel free to PM myself or one of our officers listed below.

Guild Leader and Officers :
•Aeromu.9134
•Cookiezz.5261
•Archdruidess.5143

I am. so happy. I cannot contain myself.

I should probably put my pants back on.

Before my boss sees me.

Sure! Shoot me a whisper when you see me in game and we can put something together (or I’ll contact you if I see you first, of course)

Sorry I haven’t gotten to you sooner, been a bit busy pre HoT so I haven’t been as active in these forums.

My guild is currently looking for raiders (as well as a 4th raid leader actually, as your post mentions your qualifications). We’re definitely pushing to be very serious, many of us are ex WoW / other game raiders who raided very competitively, and we plan to bring that same enthusiasm to GW2 raiding.

I also raided top 50 WoW (often times top 25), so I imagine a VOIP interview would yield more than a bunch of questions on the forums. If that’s something you’re interested in we can get together tonight / this week sometime on TS and go from there.

I’ll also post my standard guild recruitment spam in a spoiler below:

We have 3 teams at the moment, and are currently looking for a 4th raid leader to pick up a 4th team (as demand is that high). What days are you interested in raiding? Our 3 teams don’t have much overlap, and the 4th team doesn’t have a leader yet, meaning we likely have a slot somewhere that falls in with your time availability.

Hello! My guild sits at around 150 members at the moment, and we don’t plan to breach 200. May seem like alot, but we’ve found that number to be the sweat spot where you still recognize everyone in the guild, but have enough going on that there’s always something to do.

Let me know if you’re interested, I’ll put our guild recruitment information in a spoiler at the end of this, you can find a couple other individuals that you can contact in game for further information, or just reply here and I’ll get to it as soon as I can. Hope to hear from you!

I mean, it’s not really that hard, and you’re claiming that you don’t like the guilds you’ve found because they have little action. Yet you’re not willing to step into the LF forums because they look crazy? It’s just advertisement posts. Write up a post about yourself, explain what you’re looking for, plenty of ambitious guild leaders for large, medium, and small guilds will reply and give you their pitch. Then you can go into a VOIP room and ask them the questions you’re worried about, even try them out for a few nights. If you’re looking for a solid raiding guild, it’s not just going to fall into your lap, you’re going to need to do some leg work.

Any LFGuild system will look just like the LF system now, because there is no competitive guild listing, especially not for raids considering they don’t exist yet. You’re going to need to read some post, and god forbid, post yourself, in the LF forum. Anyone can write a guild recruitment website or tool but it’s going to be flooded just like the LF forums are now, and to be honest, those forums are pretty well maintained, just have a large number of posts.

Once raids come out and people are posting about their kills it will be easier to find a raid guild, for now you’re going to need to ask the right questions and play with some people.

The raid leader situation is mostly under control now, but we can always use more people that are interested!

We still have slots open on the teams roster as well, if you’re interested in raiding in HoT you’re going to need an organized group, get a head start and join Synergy today!

We have 4 raid teams now with solid raid leaders (ranging from hardcore progression to a more casual first come first serve raid environment). Still have room on the rosters, contact us if you’re interested!

We are also always looking for active players for other PvE / PvP content, raiding is our current focus, but that’s not the only thing we’re recruiting for.

Let me know if you have any questions!

Hello Rexivus.3794! My guild is recruiting and I think we’d be a great fit!

We are no strangers to speed running and partake occasionally (primarily for farming purposes), however in the day to day just playing having a good time, we prefer to go about dungeons and fractals as they were intended. Tends to be a more enjoyable experience in my opinion.

We plan to have a strong raid presence in HoT, we have two raid teams that are ready to go, and are seeking two more raid leaders to expand into a third and fourth team. The fourth team is admittedly ambitious however we do not want to be in a situation where any of our members need to sit out on a raid night, we want everyone to be able to experience it at the very least.

We currently have 142 members in the guild, with roughly 10-20 members online at almost any hour, with many more on in peek hours (most of us are in EST as well). We have no intentions of getting too much larger than this, 200 is a pretty good number, anything over that and we feel it starts to get too disconnected.

I’m on at the moment in game, and in our TS, if you have any questions or just want to talk about the guild. Hope to hear from you soon!

Hello! This is something I’ve noticed on my laptop running windows 10 (i7 4700 HQ, NVIDIA 840M, 16 GB RAM).

I’ll be playing GW2 (really just standing in lions arch in guild chat lol), and go to tab out and I get a blue screen. I do have it currently set to fullscreen, haven’t tried switching it to windowed fullscreen.

I’ve been able to recreate it by alt tabbing out once, which works, then going back into the game, and trying to alt tab again. The screen will go black, freeze here and there, flash a couple times, then I get a blue screen with a VIDEO_TDR_FAILURE

I BELIEVE the fix is here http://www.vmwareandme.com/2015/07/solved-windows-10-bsod-with-Video-TDR-Failure-igdkmd64.sys.html#.VhgNaflVhBc (havent tried it yet as I’m still at work and some things came up) but I figured I would report it encase someone else was having this issue, or if the above doesn’t resolve it tonight when I get a chance to test it.

deSade.9437:

Leodon.1564:

GW2 is a game made for casuals so that any random group of people can join together and beat content. Content is made with this in mind and doesn’t require people to be running only the most optimal builds to beat it and I prefer it stay that way. Having a DPS meter encourages elitism and I’m guilty of this myself when I played WoW.

Hnggghh-ugh… gaaaaaah. Gllllgglglglgl.

That’s pretty much what I thought when I read this. It clearly is stated by anet themselves that “any random group of people can join together and beat content” in raids, right? That’s exactly what they said, right? how they hyped raids?
NO. YOU HEARD IT WRONG.

Please keep this conversation civil, there is no need to freak out on someone. We all clearly have conflicting opinions on this topic, we’re getting nowhere just screaming at each other. This conversation has been very productive so far between multiple people, lets not turn it into a flame fest.

@Leodon.1564 the point deSade.9437 is trying to make is that ANet has stated numerous times that raids are NOT going to be pugable (or not intended to be pugable). Thus leaving it up to the individual players to find a group of friends that they can enjoy content with.

I would envision this tool posting after a boss encounter, sortof like how at the end of a PvP match it gives you a board of statistics. That would keep the tool in the raids, where constructed groups will be playing, and leave the pug situations alone.

Leodon.1564:

Blaeys.3102:

As many are noting, we have years of anecdotal evidence from other games showing that, while some would use them to improve the game, the vocal majority would just use them as a tool to incite drama, encourage exclusionary behavior, and put people down. I realize some of that happens already, but it isnt something Anet should support in any way.

As useful as the information might be, the positives simply do not outweigh the negatives.

I’d agree with this also.

While I would want to have it mainly so I can tweak my own performance and build. I would also use it to see how others are performing and would form negative opinions about under performing individuals. Its human nature and thus serves as a divisive tool. Currently, if a group under performs you shrug it off since you can’t really pinpoint who the weak links are and in the end you benefit from it by having less stress.

GW2 is a game made for casuals so that any random group of people can join together and beat content. Content is made with this in mind and doesn’t require people to be running only the most optimal builds to beat it and I prefer it stay that way. Having a DPS meter encourages elitism and I’m guilty of this myself when I played WoW.

While my previous post is against this line of argument, what if we compromised and just made the tool show our own personal performance (how you used your skills, your own damage, etc etc). The community could then post benchmarks online and you could use those to tune your play.

Of course raid leaders could request that you share that information, but then it is YOUR choice to share it. That gives you the player more control over how the data is used. Then it just comes back to finding a group of players that you get along with and would be comfortable sharing that information.

I’d also like to point out that the intention of raids was to be mostly guild groups. Or simply not random pugs. DPS meters typically cause drama in LFR and other PUG situations, raids are intended to be pre constructed groups. If you are having this much toxicity in your group, please send me an in game mail and I’ll put you with some adults in a situation where you can have fun and grow with each other. The people who are going to use a tool like this for ill will are people you don’t want to be playing with anyways.

phys.7689:

To all the people talking about how something could be used smartly and in a nice way.

Too bad, when you design any solution to a problem, you always must consider the ramifications of the wrong use, as well as what the most common uses would be.

For example, group based loot, and rolling on loot. Excellent when used well by a nice group of players.
Horrible implications when used by the masses, or used incorrectly.

The old kick system, horrible when used incorrectly.

Would not be a good idea to support dps meters

The biggest problem here (IMO) with this argument, is that the thing people are scared of with DPS meters, is players pointing the finger at the bottom of the list and calling them out as the source of the problem.

Well guess what, thats already going to happen, its just with the current system the bottom of the list isn’t getting called out, its the Engineer NOT running the condi spec (even tho they could very will be bringing the same amount of utility with different specs to the raid, or at least enough utility to down the boss).

I want to stop calling it a DPS meter because thats not what I want, I just want logging , I don’t even really want it to be in game, I would just like it to be a combat log that gets saved to disc that we can comb AFTER a fight to determine what went wrong.

Regardless, the only thing this logging gives us is the ability to better identify the problem and fix it. With the way things are now we have to make assumptions and are going to make the wrong call. With the data I could look at the fight and go “well would you look at that, the Engineer is doing fine, the problem was actually the mesmer because they aren’t utilizing XYZ”.

Blaeys.3102:

While I still believe that even the most savvy leader can be misled by numbers in a meter, I at least partially agree with you and with dlonie’s post above yours regarding smart usage. Unfortunately, anyone who has ever raided in any MMO with these tools knows that this isnt the approach the majority of groups will take.

And, that is when these tools become the bile-inducing toxic generators we all know they can be.

It comes back to my original question – is access to these tools, which require a sophisticated understanding of the game to use properly in the first place – and which can still provide misleading data, worth the toxicity that they historically have created in other games?

I say they are not. I realize and respect that you disagree with that.

As a side note – as much as we are disagreeing, I think this has been a healthy discussion and a good use of forum space on both sides.

I was going to post about how civil this has been as well, bravo team!

I feel like we are over dramatizing how volatile the DPS meters have been in other games. I think we’re putting too much blame on the tool and not enough blame simply on the community involved. This community has always been above that, even our most vile players are basically the standard for other MMOs.

And lets stop beating around the bush, when we talk about other games with DPS meters we’re mostly talking about WoW, I’ve played other MMOs with DPS meters and did not experience the same negativity and toxicity I’ve experienced in that game. And if I’m being honest, the DPS meter was almost never the source of the toxicity, it was just a bad person / player that was the source, the DPS meters just occasionally came up because it’s something people like to point the finger at.

I’ve been in many situations (even in WoW, all my guilds never had a problem with the DPS meters and used them correctly, and I raided top 25 US for the majority of my WoW career) where the DPS meters have helped WAY more than they’ve caused any problems. This game has done an AMAZING job of promoting a friendly community and user base. It’s been shown time and time again that respectful people are capable of utilizing the data correctly, we aren’t the WoW community, and a DPS meter isn’t going to turn all of us into some toxic pool of kittens.

I know that my raid would benefit DRASTICALLY from having some good data to help us form strategies and analyze our mistakes. I already have to pay attention to insane particle effects stacked ontop of each other to try to discern if my players are doing the correct rotations, giving me that data will only allow me to do it more efficiently and better mold my players into more skilled players.

Pandabro.8743:

Blaeys.3102:

I started high end progression level raiding in 2006 – and leading those 10 and 25 man raids around 2008. In most cases, when I was raiding as a DPS, I topped the dps charts or came very close (but never linked those charts in chat).

I can say with 100% confidence that, in that time, almost nothing – not even shared loot tables – provided the level of drama and hate in a group as dps meters. Even when groups downed bosses easily, someone always felt the need to call out the lower numbers in the group. It is just the nature of many MMO players to hunt down and belittle those they feel aren’t pulling their weight (even when they are).

Would DPS meters be useful? Sure. Are they worth the drama and hate? Definitely not.

So how do you see it going when a guild cannot get a boss down because of an enrage?

In my opinion the drama and hate will be no less, it’ll just be less informed. Wiping is frustrating enough as it is and blame will come down on someone, it way less likely that the person(s) causing the wipes will get blamed if we don’t have tools too gauge performance. It’ll come down on those who play a “sub optimal” build or those playing “inferior” classes, even though we’ll have no idea if those people are actually doing their job or not. It’ll be entirely speculation.

The lack of damage meters won’t cure toxicity in a highly competitive environment where you have multiple people working towards a goal. It WILL let good raid leaders make informed decisions about how to address issues though.

This. Only change I’d make is its not 100% about a “damage meter” its about statistics and reporting on the encounter (abilities used, buffs, conditions, etc).

If I have one mesmer putting out twice the alacrity, while running the same build as the other mesmer, while only losing a marginal amount of DPS personally (for a gain to the 5 people gaining alacrity). I can start looking into what the second mesmer is doing wrong (first place to look would be what abilities are they both using, and how often). That would help me make an informed decision and give constructive feedback to my raider. Instead I’m just going to assume they’re both playing correctly because they’re playing the correct spec, and blame the damage loss (due to less alacrity in this example) on the thief running the home brew build.

DISCLAIMER: The above paragraph was just a stitched together example, please no one come at me about it being two mesmers and a thief, or the specifics of the example (pitting two people against each other for example), was just used to make a point, lol.

We are in need of additional raid leaders to expand into even more raid groups. We have a large amount of interest in the guild for raiding and experienced guild leaders can be hard to come by in Guild Wars.

Let us know if you’re interested!

We’re interested in additional raid leaders for some additional raid teams, due to large demand for raiding. Let us know if you’re interested!

Hello! The guild I’m recruiting for sounds like a perfect fit! We regularly have dungeon and fractals runs going (typically multiple) and most of our players are in the EST time zone as well. We have a strong TS presence, averaging around 15 people on our TS in a given night in different channels doing different things.

We aren’t a giant guild by any means, and don’t intend to grow too large, we just have an active player base that tends to be on nightly.

Let me know if you have any questions!

Zaroua.2714:

While a DPS tool would be useful for pugs groups to see who’s grossly underperforming, a good raid leader would be able to weed out the bad players before inviting them in the first place by having them link their gear, asking them questions about their skill priority and rotations and having them link drops off of the bosses to show that they’ve killed them multiple times before.

What you’re saying there is all speculatory tho. If we had some form of statistics to PROVE that XYZ spec was 10% / 20% / XX% better than ZYX build (especially on a per encounter basis), then it would be better. However all we can do is speculate that this build is better. From a raid leader point of view, I’m going to want my raiders in the most optimal (theory-crafted) builds and specs, however there is no way to know that my rangers custom build is any amount better or worse for this encounter than the cookie cutter build at the moment (aside from game experience, which im not saying either partys are lacking of course). If we had some form of logging or statistics we could look at after the fight and say “Wow that build isn’t that bad afterall” that would be immensely valuable. Instead we’re in a situation where everyone will be expected to run the cookie cutter build in fear of being called out for it on a wipe.

Lets use this beta weekend as an example. We KNOW for a fact engineers were the BEST for the condition damage and what they were doing in that raid, but by how much? We can make guesses and crunch some numbers, but there is literally no way to know how crucial it was that they were engineers. Would a raid have lost 2% damage running something else? 10%? 30%? There is no way to tell, hell we can’t even count how many conditions we’re put out, let alone the damage.

Again, as I’ve said previously in this thread, I don’t really care about a DPS meter. I just want post fight statistics. I would much rather see percentage of skill usage, uptime on buffs and conditions, their sources, the stacks, etc etc. Raw DPS is a useful statistic sure, but I could care less if I had the other information. And I also don’t need it in real time, because I would rather not have my raiders staring at the DPS meters during fights making poor decisions because that hundred blades would net them some extra DPS, but instead they get caught in a seeker and we have to scramble to pick them up.

Players will find out how to optimally do encounters, just look at the stack mentality in dungeons and fractals. Hell look at the BWE3, in 5 hours people had already figured out how to exploit the fight. Giving us logging and statistics simply gives players the ability to better understand their class and the fights so that they can tweak their builds better to bring what they need to the table. It doesn’t take alot of thought to bring 4 condi engineers to a fight that needs conditions. But if I had the tools I would definitely look for a more exciting alternative.