Guild Wars 2

Hi, i don’t know if this mentoring guild is still active, but i’d like to give it a try. I enjoy PvE a lot, and I used to run dungeons a lot, before the well known patch that killed the gold revenue. The only dungeons that i’ve never managed to beat is Arah, ‘cause i was so scared to be harrassed for my incompetence I never joined an LFG group. SO if the stuff in here is still active, i’d really enjoy some mentorship about the paths of Arah, considering that noone runs dungeons these days and LFG is completely empty. I’d also like some mentorship for high level fractals, it’s about a month andf a half i run sub 40 lvl fractals and i’m enjoying it.

I’m on EU (Seafarer’s Rest). Thank you!

My gf is playing a Necro, as her 1rst character :c

I don’t mind copypasting, just I need to understand why am I doing that. Not mindless “Imma copy this build because it’s written on metagear dot soop dot net and wreck everything”, but understanding why it is best. I’m surely a “power player”, but the most annoying kind: the one that ask for questions

It’s a pity thought that tank build has no uses, i like being immortal, tank everything and stuff, but i understand that tank/dps/healer is not a thing in GW2. And it’s fine by me. If it wasn’t different than the usual I would not be playing it.

But I am going too much OT :P

Thank you again for your replies and cya around!

@Acojte: You could try, but you’ll never beat toxicity the MOBAs community I come from :P (That’s why i’m so surprised of all the kindness I’m finding in here, I come from a place where the most common sentence is “get on my lvl, l2p”). And I’m very happy to see it. I love MOBA, I hate the people playing it.

Pretty much understood your explanations, I’m helping myself with the wiki while reading. Considering that our group has not that composition (and we have yet to reach lvl cap with our 1rst characters) i’ll look for something else when the time will come.

@oxtred: First of all, expect my friend request soon :P Also I really enjoy the idea that I should adapt to the game, not the opposite. I come from the whiny MOBAs community, wich has (best bad words censorship ever, the word used in here before the edit did became “kittened”, lol) me off various times with the opposite (fix champion/hero X, “putheredevelopernamehere” please) . And I really enjoyed reading all of your “grumbling” (I’m prone to that too), because it was really educational for someone like me that is taking his first steps into the game.

@Taylin: Already noticed that this is a fantastic community. I feel like a baby when gifted tons fo candies right now. Surely I’ll take a look into those sites in the future.

@Satenia I’ll add you soon surely. I’ll surely take insipration from other people’s build shared on the net, even if I do really wanna understand the mechanics of the game, so mindless “copy-pasting” a build it really doesn’t suit me. I prefer more “reading, understanding then copypasting”.

Thank you so much for all of your replies

Well, I’d never thought this community was so nice to newbies. Thank you very much, dlonie. Talking about how I want to enjoy dungeons and PvE in general (casual way a.k.a “testing water” or in a serious way) I think it’s a mix of both. I would really like to run efficiently dungeons in the future, but I feel like that I should be testing if “the water is warm”, for now.

The problem about joining mentoring guild is that I play with a group of friends of mine (included my girlfriend) and I am the only english speaker within all of them. So, after being the student, I should become a “teacher” later, for them. Pretty stressful if you ask me.

I think I’ll need some time to think about it.

P.S: I’ve reached lvl 70 in the meantime, I’m not 35 anymore xD

P.P.S: Following your suggestion, if anyone wants to give me a little demonstration of “proper dungeon delving” I play on EU, Whiteside Ridge. It doesn’t hurt to try.

P.P.P.S: Is there a meta here in GW2, dlonie? In your post you mentioned “Ice Bow meta”, wich i presume involves the elementalist’s conjured weapon. I’m asking because, reading around, I’ve seen almost everyone posting something like “Mix-Maxing is for other games, GW2 is different”; “Stop with your Classic MMOs stereotypes” etc.

You mean this thread? https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/New-to-Dungeons-and-want-to-learn/page/3#post4944590 or this one? https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Dungeon-Mentors-Noob

I’m thinking about asking for a mentoring session in the future if thats the case.

Thank you very much for your kind answer. I will follow your suggestion and try to improve mechanically in group events and other stuff and taking all traits before trying to beat the dungeon again. Maybe, when I’m more experienced, with another pg, i might try to face it again in the early game

Experienced players of GW2, a real noob needs your assistance (or your opinion to be precise).

I’m not gonna lie: i suck at MMOs. This is the first one i ever played, for various reasons. I regret not playing them earlier, cause i LOVE this game.

Now, talking about my issue: me and my friends are really struggling against the “explorable mode” of the 1st dungeon available, the one at lvl 35. The thing is: to my really noobish eyes, it seems that I (we) lack the equipment to face such an hard task to do. The other option is that we lack the skill to do that. Now, the big deal: does unlocking all traits and lvl 80 equip make the difference in this game mode or it’s just that I suck? Just to understand if it is worth keep trying or if I should wait level cap and better equipment in order to beat it.

Thank you for your answers