Please please please collab with the wasp more, I am wheezing from laughter

Don't deploy a merchant on the jumping puzzle chest.

Always refer to the Labyrinthine Horror as Steve. 🙂

GW2, where jumping and how frantically you do it around a person can mean allsorts: Thank you, this way to something interesting, hi friend, fight me, dont fight me"

My personal unwritten rule number one is. "Rezz a stranger when you see them laying around in the open world." If they are afk you at least did your basic good deed and it's their problem now. Everybody else usually is super thankful about it and might consider rezzing other strangers when they encounter them too. Therefore increasing the overall wholesomeness of the GW2 community even further. As for my second rule, don't be a dick.

My fav unwritten rule from back in the old dailies' time: If the wvw veteran is daily, the people waiting there are off limits. Attack them, and you will be jumped by 2 servers, while your allies will just stand there.

Starting a jump wave in the racing waiting area is the best thing every. Just watching 15 beetles, raptors or jackals bouncing in time is so good.

“Don’t be shy to ask for help with content because chances are someone else needs it too” Sooo much this. I play on NA server in pacific time zone, and am often on late at night when it’s somewhat quiet compared to peak hours. I’ve been working on Season of the Dragon to get my legendary amulet and only needed the Jade Maw meta event to finish Bloodstone Fen. Problem is, the bosses are pretty tough and the map seemed dead. Well, I asked in map chat and turns out another player needed it too. They threw on a commander tag and we managed to complete the whole meta with a ragtag group of 6 or 7 people. I was playing a DPS daredevil and even I was throwing down shadow refuge to help cover downed players and help revive before going all the way dead. It felt like a genuine accomplishment when we beat it and it might not even have happened if I hadn’t simply asked in map chat.

-thank people when they drop food/buffs The jumping thing is hilarious to me. In this game many people will be about as friendly and helpful as they can possibly be... without typing in chat. They'll say "hi", "thanks for the rez", or "yipee! we killed that boss!" without typing anything. It's the perfect game for people who can't decide if they're introverts or extroverts.

A few months ago i was idling in DR, someone sent me mail with 5 gold and two minis, praising my fashion. Life advice for mesmers: if you stop dodging you're dead!

Teapot once said, and I've repeated this myself; if you are dps and someone goes down, and you don't immediately press F, you're trolling.

for wvw the advice "never use basic siege blueprints" is wrong. basic shield gen blueprint doesn't share a cooldown with superior/guild shield gen, meaning one person can operate two shield gens to have double the shield time. also flame ram has a skill that gives 50% damage reduc for 10 seconds to 50 people, which is massive in a zerg so building that in certain situations is important. basic siege can also be used as a cheap way to block the screen. for example say you have climbed up a jumping puzzle-like area and you're catapulting a tower from there, and the enemies want to climb up to fight you. by dropping siege on the edge of a jump, it becomes much harder for them to know where the edge is causing them to fall. lastly you can use basic siege to psychologically mess with the enemy, for example you can stall an enemy zerg who is clearing out the siege in inner by throwing more siege right in front of them, and surprisingly they will just keep following the trail of siege you throw for a long time almost like you're dropping bits of cheese in front of a mouse. after around 5-10 siege they will realize you're trolling them, then go attack the lord. at that point you can drop the real siege you're trying to build like a catapult, and they won't react to it because they think you're just throwing random siege still.

When you are doing a jumping puzzle around other players, remember to turn off mini pets, ranger pets, mechs, wings, and other distracting effects that make it hard for other players to see where to go.

Another pro-tip with respawning in metas-if you have access to the jade bot waypoint mastery, set it up before a meta starts! That way you can respawn faster into the fray if it's safe (depending on the meta). Also make sure to always picnic during the Auric Basin meta. It's just a trial of passage. And do the Can-"Can You Not?" throughout the entirety of the Heart of Thorns (thanks for that Noxxi).

The last one about asking for help, I 100% agree with that one. I needed help with this bounty that I had to beat to get my Griffon, and I asked for help. This random person actually got the whole map to help me out.

2:50 I would say that's a relic of the time when the Game was completely new and everyone was coming from gw1. We we're SO Happy that we could finally jump that most did this all the time Just because we could. Dann coming from GW1 that was an actual selling point

When someone mentions Pocket Raptors, start going ballistic

Imagine logging in for the first time and there is 100 random people just standing there lol.

"If the Commander Jumps of a Cliff, the squad follows" Oh yes, i remember tagging up for Drizzlewood once, i went a little bit off way just to get a PoI that i missed and half of the squad followed me xD (Also 0:34 A Music Guild tries Legendary Temple of Febe coming soon :D ? )

With the new fashion inspect I love doing metas and just inspecting everyone and then picking a "winner" and whispering them that they got the best drip in the squad. :D

Actually after 300 hours I need a video like this since I'm starting to do a lot, A LOT of content that is not just story

The real unwritten rule is to completely ignore map chat and say chat when doing unfamiliar content and completely ignore it

Players always have to respond to „Thats quality armor“

Commanders don't get any practical benefits for leading a squad in pve. Say thank you when they work hard to make sure everyone suceeds! If you have a ton of gold you can even mail them a few as a tip, although no commander will ever expect that.

Oh I remember one day when the Steam launch happened and a group of vets were waiting in Queensdale. This one newer player came up to us and asked what was going on, why were there so many people gathered. This guild group of 3 people approached them and all said in caps "WE'RE HERE TO HELP YOU NEW PLAYER!! WELCOME!!" All they responded with was "umm..." and then the four of them ran off together. It was hilarious to see. I really hope it gave a good first impression for that player as to the kind of community GW2 has. They came on a bit strong, but from a humor's standpoint, but their hearts were in the right spot.

I dunno if this counts as a rule or just not being rude. DO NOT afk at events or areas where events may spawn. The event scaling in gw2 is atrocious, probably 100% per player. It is especially bad at farming points, so yeah, people who go to specific locations to grab specific things, please be adequate and gtfo when you're done. I've seen 83lvl elites at first Pact outpost event because of the mama wywern farmers way too many times by now... Also, do leave the party/squad when you leave the game, don't just alt+f4. The system considers you might just get disconnected and keeps your dead body in so you literally force people to kick it.

I don't get wasps on the mouse pad, just a cat who wants to play or sleep right there. And he's taken years to be overtly open, so I dont want to discourage it much.

Throwing in a "+role" in /d chat when joining (+dps, +aheal, +qdps, etc...) and -role when leaving is sooo helpful, but when I'm commanding a pug strike I have to constantly remind people joining to state what role they are.

Dont listen to Lara, always gimme stuff

If someone dropped food, banners and utlity items. Link them on map for everyone to have the effects. Especially on WvW and preparing for Meta or World boss event.

The rez vs down thing is SO important, because of how gw2 event difficulty scales, which is proportional to the amount of players in the event's zone. When you are dead, you cannot contribute at all to an event, and because you take a long time bringing back to life, you also prevent others players who are rezing you from contributing to the event. So, you are keeping the difficulty higher, making it harder for everyone AND making things less effective. And even of you are successfully rezed, you will not be at full life, amd will have broken armor, making you less effective. Now other players might start dying too, and it spirals down quite fast sometimes. When you wp back, you will be full health, am will also let's you use consumables you would have a harder time using during the event, and most often than not, it'll be next to an anvil or a blacksmith, letting you repair your armor. Always help someone in a downed state. But fully dead people should always wp and come back. If you don't change map, you will get your credit anyway.

Normal siege, or as I often call it, *Walmart Siege*; only use Superior or Guild siege please. 🤣🤣 Also, jumping up and down in front of someone is also the universal sign of "Hello!! Happy to see you!". 🥰🥰

Best GW2 content creator! She really plays this game.

If you join someone's group just so you can TP to Friend to get to where they are (such as at the treasure chest at the end of a jumping puzzle) remember to tip them,

Great video! I agree with the "slash bow" for dueling in WvW and also never attack a WvW player in frog form or snowball!

My squad had a few "who stole the damn fgs" moments last clear, conjure stealing is definitely still relevant!

My Unwritten Rule: * Having 24-30 characters, 1 for each race, armor class and gender (Females of Charr and Asura share same armor as their male counterpart). * Having each pieces of armor being different from each other, meaning no pieces share the same set. All unique. * If one of my characters is using a piece, then no one else of my characters uses that piece, unless it looks different with their gender counterpart. Example being Carapace, Winged, etc.

6:50 Oh god yes. I run dagger mirage because there's never enough CC, but even with my build I can only shave off about half of Sorrow's breakbar on my own before it locks again. Come on people, _one player_ should _not_ be 95% of the CC in the Convergence. No matter _what_ their build is.

You forgot about the most important unwritten rule:

Worth noting jumping might be so popular because you couldnt jump in gw1? Also unwritten rule number 1! - if you see downed person, ress them. How could you forget, it is staple of gw2. Might be even reason why people are so friendly and helping, since you are so grateful someone ressed you.

yo this is so well edited and funny, it really shows the love behind making it

"Don't be shy to ask for help with content". Yeah! I can't count how many times [Wing]ies helped someone kill Corrupted Facet to unlock griffon!

A love your videos Lara! I just started the game a couple weeks ago. I'm learning so much from you!. But the think I still really struggle a lot is in how to use the map! OMG it is so big and when events are happening, or the story ask me to go to a specific location I really don't know how to use it efficiently jajajaja. Usually when I discover the point where the rare beast appear or things like that, the event is already over! Maaaaaaaybe you have one video explaining how to use the map, like in all your other guides and just happened I didn't find it!?, if not, it will be amazing for disoriented people like me if you create one :)

I just crafted my 4th legendary Binding of Ipos three days ago. It took me 4 years (maybe more), since I played way less than I used to. This time... I didn't ping my material nor my legendary after crafting it. I felt empty. Don't do the same mistake guys ! Celebrate that thing !

Really good video, Lara! Bit of a different style of video but I think you've nailed it, your sense of humour really shines through! :D

I'm with u on TeamBraham! 😂😂😂😂 just a couple of days ago someone whispered me complimenting my fashion, totally made my day.

I don't know if this is as relevant since the chance to the Dailies, but if you're chasing events in a zone announce when you find one and link the closest Waypoint. Most likely there are others looking for events, too.

Always leave an aviator box after Tarir completed And say "r u stuck stepp Drakkar" on Bjora Marches

can you imagine if they added the ArenaNet fence that is in lion's arch into that unofficial dueling area in WvW? 5:34 maybe one day🙇

One unwritten rule i didn't see- when on your skyscale, do not hover over other players. Go max height or use another mount.

3:48 on Drakkar Lake, we call this "doing the Baba" 😂 It's named after one of our most active commanders, Baba Jetu of the guild DORN, who has a bit of a reputation to do this ^^

When you get to that one instance of Auric Basin where there's not enough people for the Octovine to make the meta trivial, you lead the meta with as little as 8 people until you break in to the city all this while helping on three sides at once.

CC one is good, but. I will say in some instances you need to know when to hold CC example is the Tangled Depth meta boss since they move around a lot, Sunqua Peak CM since you can wait till the 5th attack to pump out more damage and possibly skip a phase, and some instances with bosses in Strikes or Fractals where CCing when they're about to phase can bug out the encounter or overlap mechanics.

Really enjoyed this. Thank you. Loved the vodeo style as well.

remember to cc keep construct at 3% hp, your squad will be happy

I agree with the legendary crafting brag xD

Timestamp 4:36 is just gold.

"Rules are ment to be broken!" -deadpool

Never attack someone in a "Choya" tonic in WvW. They are being friendly even while on enemy server.

Thank you for the smile! This video is really giving me the motivation to get my computer fixed so I can play the game again :)

That was the Cutest "Praise Joko!" I have ever heard. Love it!

small correction, the pots ALWAYS make a big difference and should be considered mandatory t3 and upwards

You can't do the Meta AB without shouting PICNIC at least once.

Helping noobs - Save them if needed, but don't go all out on whatever they're fighting. They're in the spawn areas to learn and it's good for their egos to get the kill.

The anounce your role one made me stand up of my chair and scream YES!! lmao The amount of times someone left my group witouth telling, and then i franticaly try and guess whats missing cuz im bad at tracking it all by heart xD

Only started doing fractals recently, but if you join a fractal group, be prepared to accept the ready check thing and not afk for 1 minute before and after every fractal please. The time adds up and you're wasting 4 other people's time.

During Octovine meta in Tarir always remember to PANIC!

Necros in GW2 are Tyria's Goths/Punks/Moshers: we look scary but we're nice people! We just think we can fix Scarlet Briar (by taking her to a Metal Legion concert).

Ohhh I didn't know about the WvW dueling spot, I was really confused when I saw people doing that, and tried to assist them. I didn't realize I was being rude.

When joining a group for instance content, always make sure your playing style aligns with those you are playing with. Everything else is toxic. If you're looking to clear content as fast as possible but join a group that might be inexperienced, you are not allowed to complain about them wasting time, wiping, doing an achievement, or watching cutscenes in a dungeon. In a group with medium experience, you shouldn't expect super fast clears but you should also focus on the clear itself and not take detours. If you are inexperienced, you should not ever expect an experienced group to carry, explain or teach you. Wanna play a weird build? Ask the group if it's fine with that if it'll affect them (like not bringing stability on certain fights and letting others take care of it). Just always communicate if you know things might not be quite clear, you and everyone else will be happier for it.

if braham has zero fans i am dead. mans was like 18 when his mom died in front of him bro i don't blame him at all for acting how he did in season 3. also it's kinda fun having an "ally" who doesn't fawn all over you the whole time

Also tip your commanders after good run, so they buy some drink and relax. :p Tip if you ported to someone at the end of jumping puzzle (through lfg).

4:20 What I learned from playing strikes: Everyone has a baby, and that baby will just happen to wake up directly after we finish IBS5 Everyone always gets visitors directly after IBS5 Everyone's boss always calls directly after IBS5 Same for Recs in fractals.

GW2 players often go out of their way to be helpful, but there's also a fantastic GW2 wiki. If you have a specific question that requires a long answer, try to find it there before asking for an explanation in map chat.

One thing I wish that was an unwritten rule is that if you have no experience on a Strike CM in the "experienced" category and you fuck up then keeping you is toxic as that makes way more people have a bad experience than keeping you in to avoid you having a bad experience. A lot of the things people think are toxic are toxic just in a different way than they imagine. Sating their narcissistic ego over the experience of eight other people is toxic.

as a new player i will keep all these things in mind 😊 this game is so fun!!

if you full die during a meta, WAYPOINT

If you are going to pick up an ele's conjures in instances content, rub it in over voice comms, and then immediately drop it without casting anything.

we were just so damn excited welcoming steam noobs 😆😆

The jumping rule also applies to WvW enemy players :)

Is your guild on NA or EU? just asking because maybe I will join it if you ever want more players. your videos are very useful too, thanks. i was gone from the game for many years but I am thinking about returning to it soon.

One time i had to run away from a raid cuz we got an earthquake warning... And one other time due to a fire alarm triggering lol

spamming emergency waypoint on chat in wvw

0:55 I WAS THERE (and then I was down shortly after xD)

To tp back when you are fully-dead, is polite and very important because meta-bosses scale with players, even dead ones. If you're fully dead, you make lives of everyone else more difficult and expect them to rez you, on top. Also, yeah, don't nuke the treasure mushrooms. Announce they're up and hit them 5-6 times with your #1 skill..

Unwritten rule: During Dragonstorm, players are deleted for getting too close to Primordus/Jormag during the gliding phase, it happens quick

@LARANITY : PVE BLEH !

"DONT YOU DARE USE MY CONJURE" but..but..but FIRE BIGSWORD GO SWOOSH! sry i cant help it : (

The rule where you don't pick up the weapon of ele's is difficult since your ele is being in downstate all the time so you press f constantly 😜

about the 1v1 fights in WvW I'd say: don't assume someone wants 1v1 in WvW just cause they're alone... most of us are in WvW for the "world" part, for the big group fights. if i wanted 1v1 i'd do PvP. if I'm alone I'm probably just going back to my comander cause I died, leave me alone.

What did Braham do before that? Oh yeah, got a good character fridge for wasted character development and ANet gave him a new character with each LW season he was in before finally finding a good one in IBS that allowed for actual growth that he should have had many years prior! It was away too late at this point and he was just a waste of coming space that could have been used for something better.´, and we might have been able to avoid a good character being fridged.

Link to the mouse vs wasp video?

Thank you!

To be honest some of the stuff you pointed out made me... emotional. Am I broken? Did I get to attached to the game? 😭

Couldnt agree more with Tiffy, i hate when they do full reaper rotation on a treasure mushroom! >:c

What do you main in guild wars 2

Do not expect the game to teach you how to play the game. Fortunately, there's an extensive wiki.

6:05 Achchchcually 🤓, I've started to take Lightning Hammer as Catalyst if we need CC and I make sure to let my team know I will be dropping one and tell them to use 3 and 5 for CC. It actually worked and we gained extra CC in Aetherblade Hideout. Sorry I realised I kinda spammed the comments...

The guy who said dodging is optional doesnt deserve a good healer that guy deserve to be in downstate 24/7.

And then there's the Rule that's summarizes the Essence of the Game: No matter WHICH char/profession you FINALLY get finished to your preferences, rest assured, ANET WILL NERF IT!!!!! (over 17 chars so far :() LOL :) It Appears that HIZEN was right when he proclaimed the ONLY exception to this Rule- Anet ALWAYS protects one or more flavors of Guardian. Someone in AUTHORITY "has a Thing" for that class........