Guild Wars 2

Boss Patterns:
Queen Bee Dogs have only two attacks, and both have obvious windups; circle strafe her while poking with the stick, and just strafe away if she starts flying upwards: it means she’s going to spin attack. If she leans back to windup her bees, take advantage of it if she’s facing your ally, and attack her while she’s vulnerable.

Zone 1 Cage
It’s a bug, but if you stand on the grassy ledge two steps below the entrance to the cage platform and autorun forward, you can hit the cage without the laser being able to hit you. It’s not much considering how easy that fight is, but in conjunction with autoattack, you can go eat something and just watch the cage get taken down.

King Toad
Watch King Toad’s eyes; if he glances left, run to the end of the right lilypad (not the center, you can still get hit there), and vice versa. Knowing where the ripples come from make dodging easy. The only time you need to retreat is when he uses his belly flop (unless you have two endurance bars handy and/or are feeling good). Staying on the three big lilypads allows you to stay under him at all times, and afford plenty of time to pick up a jewel when he’s looking around (signal for opening his mouth) and throw it in. No need to keep running back and forth and grabbing a shard while dodging his attacks (especially because I solo with a lot of lag). If you do miss the throw and aren’t under him when he does his tongue sweep, try dodging to the right immediately after he starts to croak-roar (after he closes his mouth). I find I’ve never failed to dodge it going from the left end of the center lilypad to the right end of it.

If you’re a cheapskate, or just don’t know about Shortcut Wurm, you can get a free candle in Zone 2. In time this may actually be a bigger secret than Shortcut Wurm…

And yes, even if you don’t think you need them, activate the Shortcut Mushrooms. You will fall down eventually.

Do remember you need to ctrl-right click the attack at the start of every level. I occasionally end up just having to spam 1 with one hand full of pizza at the honeycomb or cart stages.

Note that it’s possible to go in with less than five despite there being five piano keys. Just stand on the blinking ones! Soloing is actually faster, afaik; King Toad takes only 3 jewels to kill solo. However, it’s less fun alone.

Bump Join to show your affiliation! You don’t need to represent all the time, just whenever you’re helping other races out, or want to show off your membership in this noble cause!

Of course, if the guild ever gets big enough to be recognized on a global stage, that’ll be awesome

Home World: Gandara
Guild Name: Society for Lesser Races
Guild Website: None at the moment!
In-Game Contact: Sentrovasi.1982
Focus: PvX, light RP.
Quick Notes: New guild! New players are especially welcome! As long as you have a passion for protecting the lesser races of Tyria and are willing to take things less seriously, feel free to apply. And when I say new, I mean twenty-minutes-ago new. Come join in and grow a guild, help decide how we grow and everything!

Out of character, I basically had the idea of creating a guild that would actually be a believable society in Tyria and growing it from there. I haven’t much of an idea where to take it but I’m sure everyone can agree that most of the lesser races in Tyria are pretty cool; I personally love Quaggans for being more intelligent than they let on, Ogres for being remarkably caring of their animals beneath their stoic facade, Skritt for having a ton of sass, Dredge for being largely well-meaning and very much communist kitten Dredge Disaggregators!), Kodan for being among the most amiable and honorable races (more so than the Norn, anyway), the Hylek because they’re quite adorable when you look beyond their violence, the Grawl because at their very heart they’re just struggling to survive, and well I suppose the Krait aren’t all too bad either.

With this guild I don’t expect any serious roleplaying or trying not to hurt lesser races to your own detriment, but it’s a kind of thing you join because your character maybe sorta agrees with its core values and you think it might be fun parading it around a bit. We can make shows of denouncing opposing factions for mistreating their Quaggan helpers in WvW or goad our own people to help them find pearls, or go as a guild around Tyria just doing any dynamic event involving lesser races and causing people to wonder what just happened. Really all this is here so that one day months or maybe years from now I can look back and see that in the history of Tyria an unlikely group of activists for lesser races made it into the history books together with other guilds with awe-inspiring names that don’t actually amount to anything practical (no offense to other guilds! Well not much anyway!).

Personally I mostly do PvE with a little bit of sPvP, but have never gotten into WvW simply because I feel quite alone and lost most of the time. Perhaps if enough people are there to get alone and lost with though it will be an adventure

I mean, really, has no one else considered that if Tyria were reality there’d be guilds like these as well? I did a search for anything on lesser races and nothing turned up. Lesser races need our help! Send me a message and let’s get to it guys.

Hey, I’m here to advertise a pressing problem among Guilds of Tyria; no one’s really recognizing the big issues. We’ve been given a great power here, and yet we don’t see enough people coming together to fix the right problems!

To this effect, I’ve set up the Society for the Protection of the Rights of Lesser Races of Tyria, otherwise known as the Society for Lesser Races. As a guild, our main aims are to protect the lesser races of Tyria: from the popular Quaggan, Skritt, Kodan to even the less popular ones such as the Ogres or Dredge.

That is, of course, not to say that we should condone all of these races’ behaviour. The Krait threatening Quaggan cities ought to be stopped, as should unsanctioned attacks of the Centaurs. Yet we should temper these rebuttals, and not wantonly intrude upon their lands and kill them. As major races, the onus is on us to lead by example.

More so, we should help those of their race who would show signs of change; there have been rumours of a rebellion of Dredge in the Bore Lynch that might bear investigating, and the peaceful Hylek that live in the swamps should be given every bit of support we can offer.

As a guild that was created a mere twenty minutes ago, I don’t know what can be promised, or indeed the direction to be taken. Evidently we will be very much into the PvE side of things, so that we might better be able to fulfill our duties to the lesser races at large, but I hope to see a bunch of individuals with a passion for the protection of lesser races growing as a guild and being able to do what everyone wants.

It will evidently become important as time goes on to take part in bigger events as well to get our message out, but at this point I can make no promises beyond the fact that I hope to create a guild people can be proud of, and a fun one for all involved in the creation of a better Tyria for all races.