Rhiannon.1726

The only raid bosses where I've seen the enrage in the last two or three years were Largos and Cardinal Sabir (with unexperienced players). It's also been ages since I've seen a training group doing updrafts at Gorseval. 99% of fails are due to other mistakes and not the timers. If anyone is actually afraid of the timer, they can start raiding with Cairn, as there is no real enrage mechanic. My suggestion to improve participation:Let us open the raid wings at any boss we've killed at least once, to get more flexibility if you don't have much time and just want to do your favourite bosses. Additionally with this possibility there could be a daily to kill a single boss with rewards (even if you've already killed this boss). I'm not a fan of easy mode raids as we already have different difficulty levels in raids:Easy: Mursaat, Escort, RiverDifficult: Dhuum, Largos, Qadim1Hard mode: some of the CMs(my own opinion, every other boss is "normal mode")

Your personal fractal level increases by one each time you complete a fractal scale equal to or greater than your personal level. You can also join other groups in the lfg instead of opening your own, e.g. the "daily" or "t1 rec" groups. As you need agony resistance above level 20, you should start with the lower ones. For joining a group, your personal fractal level doesn't matter, but you can only see groups in the t1 lfg as long as your level is below 25. I don't know the lfg in NA, but in EU you often see groups like "6, please help for legendary weapon". Maybe you find the right group for the fractal you need. Or you could help a group getting the right fractal done and the group will help you to get yours done.When the fractal you need is one of the dailies or the recomended one it shouldn't be difficult to find a group for it (at least in EU). If you join a "t1 daily + rec" group, it means the group is doing 4 fractals (3 daily + recomended). Maybe you even will like fractals. They give a nice income.

As far as I know low level fractals are enough for most collections. You don't have to be afraid of them and there is no need to do them solo. At least in EU it's not difficult to find a group for t1 fractals, especially when they are daily. There are also often groups who do the fractals for a collection. Groups with requirements in t1 and t2 are rare and can easily be avoided. When I do the t1 recomended daily, there are often new players with just around 2000 AP (achievement points), and some of them oviously don't know what to do, but that normaly isn't a problem. Often there is an experienced player in the group who is explaining the basic mechanics if necessary.

A DPS monitoring system is not required to complete a raid, but it helps a lot to understand why you fail a raid.So instead of failing again and again and getting angry at the scourge (because necros never do good dps), you just look at ArcDPS and realize that your scourge is quite good and your beloved tempest forgot to remove his wvw healing gear.

You don't need a tag to enter the Special Forces Training Area. You can make a squad without having a tag.

When you go to the golem and use the snowcrows buffs, boons and food and you have around 25k you are good to go. If you are close to 30k, you are already very good. You shouldn't have much less then 20k on the golem.

What people do you have in NA that you call everyone toxic?In EU I just open a squad (or join one without requirements) and Fraenir, Grothmar, Kodan and WoJ are done with just "hi" and "ty". I've never met any toxity in a squad. Right now (21:00 CET) strike lfg in EU: 7 listings with various strikes, only one with li requirement and one looking for certain professions.An in the raid lfg: 11 listings for raids, 2 of them training, 1 without special requirements. And 3 training squads are running in a discord of a training guild (RTI).

Many experienced raiders do a lot to bring new players to raids. There are dedicated guilds for raid trainings and training discords.Other guilds (like Snow Crows) put a lot of work into creating the best builds (includinig guides how to play them).An EU raid training guild (RTI) made lots of raidinig PoV videos:https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/gbx4ae/my_guild_prepared_a_massive_list_of_raiding_pov/. When I started raiding, there were no guides, no experienced leaders and hardly anyone had ascended equipment. It took us weeks to get Vale Guardian down. Nowadays in a wing 1 training VG should be dead and Gorseval as well. A wing 4 training often ends with bosses 1-3 killed. What else do people want? You can get everything very fast. You just have to join a guild or discord server. If that is still too much: open lfg, join a strike (Grothmar, Kodan, Fraenir) without requirements, ca. 5 min later you have your kill. PS: Sorry if my text sounds a bit harsh. I'm just annoyed that some people call everyone who raids toxic in general, while many raiders put a lot of work into helping newbies to get started.

The next time something like that happens, Anet should just give everybody who was online at least once in the last month a bonfire. So nobody has a reason to complain.(Except those who were online 32 days ago and those who think it is too less.)

How could you loose 150 gold when you didn't log in? If you did log in, you'll get a mount skin. And Anet wrote they're working on restoring everything that was lost due to the rollback. I'm not sure if giving 400 gems to every account would be good for the GW2 economy. There are 11 Mio accounts (though I don't know how active these accounts are). That would be a lot of gems flooding the market. A skin doesn't do as much damage to the economy as a currency like gems.

We (3-5 guildies) do WoJ regularly. On of us plays healbrand, the others dps (DH, bs, reaper, thief -> depending on who is online). In lfg we just write "1 heal + x dps. We never ask for a special profession or any kp or even experience. Sometimes there is one wipe, sometimes two, but in general we clear it without problems.

I've never met anyone who cared about how fast a strike mission is completed. We are 3-5 guildies doing strike missions quite often. Normaly we just write "Kodan" in lfg. Only for Whisper of Jormag we write "WoJ, 1 heal, x dps".We also sometimes have unexperienced guildies with us, who don't do much dps and there were never any complaints about it. Sometimes when there is a wipe at Whisper, someone leaves the squad, but that's the worst that ever happened.Sometimes we don't have much might or quickness and alacrity is extremly rare, as we don't care about group composition, but we still get gold most of the times. I've never seen any negative impact because of the scaled rewards.

That's most likely because Gunnar's Hold changed from "medium" to "very high" and many of the people you see playing are from there.

In the past it was the elite signet that caused this aura. After the recent changes in the tactics traitline it is now coming from there, probably from the minor trait "Marching Orders".

Weird, my experience is completely different:Before the linkings whenever there were two DE servers in a match up, they fought against each other while the international server was the lucky winner. There was and still is a lot of rivalry between the DE servers.

The problem of threads like this is that there is a huge variety of opinions how easy it should get. Just look at the strike mission. Nearly everyone is complaining that it is too easy. The OP said „Easy mode- reduced mechanics and dps check…”Let’s use this for Escort, MO and even Cairn:There is no relevant dps check (though I don’t know what happens at MO if you reach enrage) so you’d have to remove one mechanic (or make it less deadly) -> you’ll get an open world escort event or a dps golem with the difficulty level of the strike mission.Who would be happy about that?

It doesn't really matter to me what Jormag is, but calling Jormag "it" feels weird. The German voice is female and therefore Jormag will be a "she" for me.

I had the same problem and it took some time to find the solution:You have to have Filet of Sous-Vide Meat in your inventory.

The best way to start raiding is joining a guild that accepts beginners. If you don't want to join a guild you could join one of the training discords. You can get infos at https://snowcrows.com/raids/training/

If you have a free guild slot you could join the guild Raid Training Initiative [RTI] or the Crossroad's Inn Discord to get your missing bosses down.

I understand Stephane's sentence like: "..., it's about the language and the fact that it (=the language) won't be used during the next World Linking"

Everything (waypoints, poi, gear, dyes...) that is linked in chat appears in the language of your account and not in the language of the person linking it.

As the other thread is closed I add my thoughts here as well:I don't see that as a huge problem. For example on Riverside (DE), we had some international guilds/commanders on our server who sometimes also leaded the puplic zerg and that usually went quite well. Some of them also joined the German commanders as the fight commands (empower, bomb, fake push...) are mostly given in English. I've never heard anyone using the German word for "choke" (the German word would be too long to use in a fight^^).The English words "keep", "gate", "home border", "camp" and "EBG" are also regularly used in ts, so most people know them as well. There are 4 maps to play on, so it shouldn't be a problem to have an English lead on one map and a German/French/Spanish/Russian... lead on another. Especially for those who either don't feel comfortable to lead in English or those who just prefer to talk in their mother tongue. I don't know the French or Spanish "chat codes" for what is happening, but there isn't much difference between English and German:German: inc wt, 30+ Kodasch, 3 katas The names for some of the locations (wt=Westturm/west tower) may be confusing at first if servers use different words for it, but I think people will get used to the different terms soon. And if someone doesn't know how to say something in English I think there'll be someone to translate it.For example I don't know how "bay" and "hill" is called on the DBL in English. We use "Palast" (palace) and "Gruft" (vault, crypt). And since megaservers people playing on an EU server should be used to read different languages in chat.Ther are only some rare individuals left who still have a problem when the chat on a map or a guild advertisement isn't in English ("write in English you baguette/kitten... we have megaservers").You just can't help such narrow-minded people. (How can anybody have a problem with a written text in a foreign language? I'll never understand that.)__

I don't see that as a huge problem. For example on Riverside (DE), we had some international guilds/commanders on our server who sometimes also leaded the puplic zerg and that usually went quite well. Some of them also joined the German commanders as the fight commands (empower, bomb, fake push...) are mostly given in English. I've never heard anyone using the German word for "choke" (the German word would be too long to use in a fight^^).The English words "keep", "gate", "home border", "camp" and "EBG" are also regularly used in ts, so most people know them as well. There are 4 maps to play on, so it shouldn't be a problem to have an English lead on one map and a German/French/Spanish/Russian... lead on another. Especially for those who either don't feel comfortable to lead in English or those who just prefer to talk in their mother tongue. I don't know the French or Spanish "chat codes" for what is happening, but there isn't much difference between English and German:German: inc wt, 30+ Kodasch, 3 katas The names for some of the locations (wt=Westturm/west tower) may be confusing at first if servers use different words for it, but I think people will get used to the different terms soon. And if someone doesn't know how to say something in English I think there'll be someone to translate it.For example I don't know how "bay" and "hill" is called on the DBL in English. We use "Palast" (palace) and "Gruft" (vault, crypt). And since megaservers people playing on an EU server should be used to read different languages in chat.Ther are only some rare individuals left who still have a problem when the chat on a map or a guild advertisement isn't in English ("write in English you baguette/Nazi... we have megaservers").You just can't help such narrow-minded people. (How can anybody have a problem with a written text in a foreign language? I'll never understand that.)

More legendary equipment in WvW would be very nice. But sadly as soon as WvW gets anything shiny, the WvW forum will be flooded by WvWers complaining about the "pve noobs" invading WvW instead of welcoming the influx of new people. And the people who come for the shinies first but would maybe have started to like WvW will be driven away by the toxic behavior of some. Furthermore the pve forum will be flooded by complaints that they have to do WvW to get a legendary. If people would respect other playstyles and be more open about other game modes, maybe we would get something cool in WvW as well.