DaphnisElhalyn

Absolutely epic post! Thank you for this!

Thanks for this @RaVem! If this ever takes off, count me in. I will read online about support builds. I'm traveling now and in a different time zone, so it's hard for me to join people anyway, but I'll be home in a week or so.

9 hours ago, RaVem said:

do you have a preferred class/build

My main is a chronomancer (mesmer), but I'd actually enjoy improving my skills with a different class. I'd love to play a support/heals role for example, but I'm not sure where to begin (water ele, druid?). Anyway, I have 80 toons in every class, so I can play whatever the guild needs of me. 

Thanks for this discussion! I have nothing to add to the content here.  

But I am the type of guild member who has done the zerg thing to death and now faces a choice of either boredom (and quitting WvW) vs. improving myself (and continuing in WvW). In short, if an initiative like this is to be sustainable within the guild, I think it will need people like me as its "soldiers." I thought I'd share some constructive thoughts about that.

I read this thread because I want something like this. But there are a couple of hurdles. One is that people like me will have to learn our roles and learn to execute--that can be difficult and can take time. The other is psychological: it is intimidating to learn something new and to have others depend on you, etc. Maybe it's easier, some will think, to work on an achievement, a legendary, whatever. I am sometimes guilty of this.

But I want to relate a story. Back in Wrath of the Lich King, my WoW guild needed a healer and my main was a shammy. I was dealing below average DPS and not contributing much to our heroics, but we were a social guild  so it was no problem. But I knew I wasn't contributing much and it wasn't a great feeling. A guild leader took me aside one evening in Dalaran and asked if I'd be willing to switch to heals. That night, he taught me how to be a Resto shammy. We then ran some 5-man instances until I got the hang of it. I did my part by reading online how to spec, rotations, boss mechanics--I never did any original theorycrafting, but I learned the job and over time adapted to metas and all that.. Over the next three years I gradually became the primary heals in our guild, and I had SO much fun. But I was never an elite player--I just learned my role and did it as best I could, gradually improving over time. It was fun for me and I also felt like I was contributing.

If we could do something like that for WvW in RoH, I think you could lead many of us over the two hurdles I mentioned earlier.