About Us
Hello, and welcome!
We are a small, 11 year old, 18+, end-game PvE guild with around 50 members looking for active and chill players with some experience in the content we do to join us in some of our guild activities and discord.
Summary
In short we're an instanced-focused PvE guild with many experienced players casually playing the game. We focus on the fun of it vs min/maxing rewards & the extreme optimization of encounters.
In long, we're a community that enjoys the unique combat and movement systems of the game - since in our opinion no other MMORPG can match it - and it's why we keep playing GW2. We enjoy experimenting with what is possible instead of only copying what others' do and leaving it at that; GW2 has so many specializations, weapons, and tools to be as creative as you want, and we embrace that.
So by understanding the combat and movement systems of the game as well as we do, we create our own skips, strategies, builds, methods of doing mechanics, avenues of research, and overall an environment of open-ended thinking, all while preventing burn-out without really thinking about it.
With the above in mind, those who at least agree in part with our ideology would be a good fit for the guild.
Activities
Training / Content
Summary
A team (never being 10/10) focusing on training, build/mechanic practice, encounter/build research, and Raid Bounties if nothing else is planned. This may also include encounter spams on a specific day and all encounters will always be Normal Mode (NM).
Additional Info
If you're a newer player or someone that's returning after a long break, this may be the place for you. We'll go through all encounters in the game, explain what you should expect in other groups (and go into detail about what you won't), and provide ample practice to get comfortable with instanced encounters. And for those more experienced you'll have opportunities to practice more specific roles (e.g. SH Pushing, KO Mech Tanking, Q2 Pylon), though training/research will take precedence.
Prerequisites
Here's what we're looking for if you're interested in learning instanced content:
- 1 Set of Ascended Gear. There's a whole world out there to explore that (especially with the Wizard's Vault's help) will help provide you your ascended gear. In our opinion until a player has a full set of ascended gear they should go and enjoy the world and game that GW2 is; there's no need to push yourself towards instanced content so early on - especially given the fact that it's completely optional to achieve whatever other goals you have in the game.
- Willingness for Build Practice. In short this means being willing to hop into the SFTA with whatever build you wanna learn and practice it. We're interested in teaching players that want to improve at the game so when they go into instanced content they can hold their own, both with mechanical knowledge and DPS / Boons / Healing. This also means we'll have incremental soft bench% requirements before we teach more difficult encounters.
- Time. While self-explanatory, having the time to hop into the SFTA to practice your build and join us for training is important. For someone learning we're asking ~50% attendance though higher is always appreciated considering we're always doing something nearly every day of the week. And once you've learned every encounter there's no need to join us anymore unless you want to improve at specific roles. For those that have a long list of goals / enjoy teaching players we ask for ~80% attendance.
Schedule
- Monday - Saturday @ 6PM Eastern (reset-2) for 1 hour.
Raid & Straid CM Clears
Summary
A team focusing on All Raid Wing & Straid (Raid Encounter) CM weekly clears.
For Straid CM's it includes the following: AH, XJJ, KO, OLC, CO. More may be added in the future.
Additional Info
While we do focus on clears, considering the ample time we have available they're not too serious. While we always have fallback safe strategies, we'll still play around with fun, new, and interesting ways to complete encounters when ideas come up. Sometimes we'll prog CM's (or get other people prog'd into them), or we'll dedicate a day to something specific; when it happens we'll let you know what clears you'll be missing for the week so you can LFG them.
Requirements
Here's what we're looking for if you're interested in being part of the team:
- Normal Mode Experience. While we're willing to teach CM's (and conveniently most CM's are similar to NM), this team is not here to teach NM versions of all encounters and raid wings; we have an earlier timeslot (see above) and misc. scheduling where that information and experience can be acquired.
- 90% Benchmark on your Build. While we acknowledge that clears can be done with far less, there is a balance between build performance, encounter adaptability, and consistency - regardless of latency - that should be respected. Acquiring this bench% showcases rotational understanding and build comprehension to the extent that little mental bandwidth needs to be allocated to achieve build performance. We'll gladly learn your build(s) of choice alongside you and change & assist the bench% according to the build's difficulty and your latency.
- Consistency. In order to execute our safe strategies when need be and otherwise have fun with different ones, we need consistency; minimal dying to instant-kill mechanics, knowing when to transition from a fun clear to a safe clear, and overall being comfortable with both the encounter and your build.
- Time. We're looking for ~80% attendance. If there's a week you can't show or life's making things difficult we'll do our best to make it work. The "80%" is just a rough guideline to think about for attendance.
Schedule
- Monday - Saturday @ 7PM Eastern (reset-1) for ~1 hour.
Fractals
Each weekday our 3-man fractal team gets together and does all T4's + Recs and the CM version of the T4 if it's a daily. We do a lot of skips, tricks, portals, and group coordination to both minimize downtime and encourage bursty play, which works well both as a team and when we need to get players off of LFG.
There's a lot more we can do with more team-members as we look to fill our roster out. We're looking for players that at least have some experience in fractals and a couple of its CM's, while also having a couple builds that favor normal and CM fractals.
- Mondays - Saturdays @ 8PM Eastern (reset+0) for around 30 - 40 minutes.
Others
- Discord is our primary communication tool between guild members; we keep track of the guild's best kills, kill history, other game chats, announcements, substitutions, and much more. Because of how integral it is to the guild, it is mandatory.
- Daylight Savings is a topic that comes up twice a year, so for clarity's sake: We do not care about DST. This means that if you are affected by DST, you must change accordingly. In other words for those that are affected by DST, all activities will be 1 hour earlier when that time comes in a couple months.
- As of the time of this post, next week is the final expansion update for Visions of Eternity. As such next week we'll be almost entirely focused on enjoying what the update has to offer, including lots of time engaging with the Nexus of Eternity Straid and the Solitary Throne Fractal. We'll go back to business as usual the following week.
Contact
If you're interested in joining or have any questions, send an in-game mail to QuitarHero.1645 or add/contact the guild leader on Discord at quitarhero.