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my name's Grav, and I enjoy WvW. As an experiment, I'd like to offer my services as a WvW commander/trainer for your PvE guild.
Perhaps your guild has been curious about WvW but never had anyone to show you the ropes. Perhaps you tried it once yourself, found and followed a random commander who turned out to be pretty bad and got you all killed for no good reason and it put you off as a result. Well, I can't promise you that I won't get you killed, but at least it will usually be for a pretty good reason when it happens.
Here's what I propose on my part:
I will make myself available for WvW activities during Saturday evenings server time (not Fridays since reset nights are a bit chaotic at the best of times, and not Sundays since I work Sundays). I will temporarily join your guild, and take the group into a borderland map and we will wreak some havoc together, the precise details of which would depend on the size of the group and how frisky it's feeling.
What your guild would do:
Use voice comms such as Teamspeak/Ventrilo/Mumble. If you have your own server, then I will happily join it. If not, then we can use Ehmry Bay's TS server. Voice comms is something I must insist on; it makes my job so much easier than having to stop and type all the time, and you guys get the info so much more quickly. Hopefully this isn't an issue as I imagine most dedicated PvE guilds use voice comms of some description for dungeons, fractals etc anyway.
Why am I doing this?
For a few reasons. Lately, some of us regular WvWers have observed that our "pug" population has at times been - how shall I put this - something of a liability for our collective performance as a server. But in my view there's a difference between ignorance and stupidity: the former can be remedied with education, the second occurs despite having being educated. My aim is to simply do what I can to educate those who are willing to learn. And I'm not in a WvW guild of my own (for timezone reasons more than anything else), so I'm not splitting any existing loyalties.
My credentials
- I have approx 15,000 WvW kills to date. This is not a lot to some, but generally I play for greater match objectives other than kills, such as defending a tower for example. The kills to me are just a happy byproduct of that activity.
- I may not belong to a WvW guild, but that doesn't mean I'm not capable of working with others and making a difference in my own way. A few random endorsements:
- I'm an active contributor to this forum. Among other things, I wrote this thread on homeland camp defense which seems to have been well received.
- I helped organise the establishment of Ehmry Bay's TS server soon after launch. Also I have a weird accent if you're not from New Zealand.
In summary:
I don't claim to know everything; I have my strengths and my weaknesses. But if I can help improve things by passing on what I do know, then I'm prepared to give it a go if you are.
If you're interested on behalf of your guild, send me an ingame mail or /whisper to Grav.3568 and we'll see what we can arrange.
