Nag

Thanks for your interest, but this event ended the weekend before last

Great guide! I've actually not done much anything of this collection, so this will come in handy. For anyone interested, the cheapest way to get your starting Dark Energies would be to make some relatively cheap Ascended Heavy Armor - typically, Magi's (Hronk's) is cheap, so something like Hronk's Warfists tends to be a safe bet. If you want to check for yourselves, GW2Efficiency has a nice, always-up-to-date list of the cheapest Ascendeds. Typically we're talking somewhere in the area of 50g per Dark Energy. If you want to be a bit more extravagant you can craft Ascended Weapons that you just want for the skin and salvage those, but that feels a bit luxurious. On a semi-related note, the best way to unlock all the Ascended Weapon skins (if you're so inclined) would be to just craft each weapon type once and then statswap through all the different color types.

A salute to all you who helped me clear the true endgame, both veterans and newbies. You know who you are. For those interested - your journey starts at Teku Nuhoch. I can say no more.

I threw in some updates with regards to the second raid wing, Salvation Pass. Also, the Adrenal Mushroom mastery is no longer necessary - ANet removed most of the Adrenal Mushrooms from the raid, and instead made it so that all your cooldowns reset when you wipe, which I think is a pretty cool move by them.

Boo! (Heh, now I pretended to be useful but don't actually have to do any work. Plan successful )

If you need a completely impartial person to give feedback to, I'm a good choice, seeing as I'm horrible at social stuff & remembering names and have no idea who 95% of our commanders even are, despite being one myself. #justNagbeinguseful

And that concludes the event! Despite no groups actually getting kills, I would cautiously call this a pretty great success. A lot of people got to see the raid for the first time, or practice roles and classes they weren't familiar with. There was significant, constant improvement from everyone I was grouped with, and going by feedback from the other group leaders, it seemed like this was the case for everyone. There were several tries that got to last phase and/or survived until hard enrage, which is quite an achievement for raids comprised almost entirely of beginners. So - thank you for everyone who joined! I hope you learned a lot, had fun, and got to see for yourself if raids is something worth getting into or not. Hopefully, now that more people have seen it, we will have more people interested in joining or making their own raid groups. Remember, practice makes perfect! As a side note, I also hope that these runs demonstrated why "meta" builds, who often were disregarded as "elitist" or such before, are actually very nice tools to enable you to complete raids that require a lot of personal and group-wide performance. Fortunately, a lot of the most "meta" builds are also really fun to play! \o/ As for the future, I know that next week is a no-go for me, so we'll have to see what the future brings. While I cannot guarantee anything on my schedule, I will keep you updated if I can free up enough time to organize a second event. tl;dr: Thanks for coming. Proud of y'all.

As for other events, the current answer is that "We would like that, but we're not sure if we can make the time currently." Stay tuned.

Erk, didn't spot that in your post. My bad. Show up on TS today too, though, if someone doesn't show we'll make it a priority to get you in.

Haha, that one is indeed rather easy, if nice. I won't take the glory away (and I don't have any great places to hide anyways... that aren't impossible to find, at least!), but I'll give the hint that those who do the Guild Treks regularly may know where this is

It would be lovely if you could show in the TeamSpeak tomorrow, then, and we'll sort out who's there and who can do what.

Thank you for coming and making the stuff awesome! I don't know if we will be able to repeat the event - I, too, hope that we can - but it will depend on my future schedule, as well as that of others. Stay tuned, I guess. On that note, there's still tomorrow's raids, and one of our PS Warriors had to back out. That means we would very much want one volunteer who can play PS Warrior for the raids starting tomorrow (Sunday) at 12:00 CET! It would be greatly appreciated.

An update: It was pointed out to me that I had forgotten to include Eis Lue Mirage in the schedule. I was able to re-arrange it so that they're in Raid 1 today (Saturday). Apologies to Dausen; you were originally scheduled to run Condi Warrior on both days, but I had to move you to Sunday only. I hope I can be forgiven. If anyone finds any other mess-ups, don't be shy, tell me and I'll do my best.

It's the Raid Organizer's sorrow - they can try their best to make things work, but they can't make everything perfect. I had to make some tough choices, and those that "get to do two days" are generally those that were strictly needed to fill certain roles that we had too few people signing up as (healers, condis etc.). As a reminder, mailing me 100 gold will not help. (To anyone wondering: It is a joke. Please do not mail me 100 gold even as a joke, I'd be flagged as a gold buyer)

Okay, final raid setups posted. ...I did it. EVERYONE got in (with the exception of zrangon, sorry, by the time you had posted the raid schedule was 100% done). EVERYONE. However, remember that it is still very possible that there will be people who cannot show at the last moment, so if you're in only the Sunday raid, feel free to come hang out before the Saturday raid to see if a spot suddenly opens, and vice versa. It's 100% possible that I've screwed something up - forgotten someone, put someone on a day they didn't want to raid on, put someone on a class they don't have etc. Please give me any such feedback as fast as possible, so I can try to fix it. If your name isn't there, that is just because I forgot you (because I am silly), so please correct me. Also, some people are in both Saturday and Sunday raids. There is always a reason for this, and I assure you these reasons are always very fair and thought-through and all that. No, it is not because someone mailed me 100 gold, that does not work. If you are set up on both days though, but don't want to (or can't), please tell me that as soon as possible too. We will meet up in the Group Channels -> Group 1 room on the OpenCommunity TeamSpeak (ts.gw2oc.com if you don't already have it, but of course you have it!). Please try to meet up 15 minutes before the event starts <3 Apart from that, remember, this is a training run, so you need patience and good attitude. You may not get a kill at all. There may be many wipes. However, there'll be Fun and Learning. Hope to see you all there!