Story Mode, and more importantly Explore Mode

[ralimar]

Hey all, just a reminder this is a casual guild. Not to say we do not have talent here, I think we have loads. It is to say whether the person is burnt out on serious gaming, or just a casual player, or family, wife, kids, hubby stuff time crunch affects most of our officers, and if all that does not school does . So Here is what I am thinking of, and what needs to be done so we can get down to some serious badge/token looting.

I made this thread to see what members are wanting (the biggest key) to do PVE Explore mode for all dungeons. An what can you reasonably commit to. So we need to hear from our members who is wanting to commit the time, repair bills and such to unlock them, and who like me has to do it for all toons .

With that in mind I will go first. I am able to definitely commit to 2 runs a month, weekends only for me. For as long as people want to grind em, 3 or 4 or 5 hours even. I ran one with crow, Morg, Zepher, and another an we got a wing out of the three done, took about 4 hours.

As far as story mode goes, I can do that once a week, some weeks more but again going with what i can honestly commit to as a minimum here. Now once all of our membership agrees. It will give Logga, Dan, myself, Jester, and others a way to see who is interested, form groups and start knocking em down Smoke and Fire style.

[crbell]

I love running dungeons and would love to start running them on a regular basis to knock them all down and learn all the tricks to get them to be smooth runs. I am available most evenings and weekends with advance notice.

[ralimar]

Come on people We should be able to at least run two groups a month even just once a month . Were are my posters?

[theactualkarly]

I am able to run on weekends. Not allowed to play during school nights after neglecting my chores to complete Twilight Arbor. I just hit 60 and am looking to do Sorrow's Embrace sometime soon and I haven't even looked into explorer mode

[daetrin]

I can make twice a month on weekends for 4 hours as long as it is planned ahead of time. Love running dungeons and figuring out how to complete them without wipes. Really enjoying that they are not simple runs. I expect as more of us get up to 80 and have full traits things will smooth out quite a bit.

[kassats]

Best comment so far. Get to 80 for full traits after we tweak them out and go run them then.

[snipps]

I'm flexible. During the weeks I'm on 3-4 hours a night longer on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Usually around 7 est. On the weekends nights are best but I can commit to a run if I know ahead of time so I can plan.

[gamermom]

I'm still new to the dungeons but am game to run them twice a month. Weekend nights work the best for me.

[Drittunge]

Hey Ral, I am always game for dungeons and would really like to do some explore modes. Unfortunately, I can't plan too much in advance due to a pretty jumpy schedule with the kids and travelling to see family. I'm usually free for an extended period most weekends on Fri and Sat, but only after 8:30pm EST. If I'm on one of these nights and an dungeon is on, count me in!

[ch4rliehorse]

Pretty much any time that I'm on I'm good to go on a dungeon run. But it might be easier if we coordinate the runs in threads specific to which dungeon/event we want to do so it's easier for people to find.

[sawmark]

I would be available once a week (just hit 80); I would just have to know the day in advance

what is the difference between story and explore?

[kassats]

story= fun and exciting
explore= mad and frustrating

No seriously, its just a way harder longer version. Lots of dying and expensive as well but nice to complete since u are rewarded in tons of stuff u cant use lol

[Loggahead]

I am definitely interested in doing all the dungeons in both story and exploreable mode. Weekends will be my best times to do this. My schedule doesn't allow me to get on until around 8pm CST on Friday and Saturdays.

[jade]

I love dungoens too! with that said- i do alot of tutoring after school during the week, so i dont get on those nights until 8 or later. But during the weekend i can devote alot of time to dungeons and figuring them out. Or on those days we dont have school I will be on all day! I am defiantly up for working out explorer modes- i think we made good progress the other day, and can refine those pulls to get even better

seems like a lot of pulls were tag, retreat, and kill

[southeryn]

I'm still working my way up to the thirties but would love to join any dungeon groups once I get there. I am on randomly in the evenings but I can probably commit to at least sat nights.

[ralimar]

Please look for new threads tonight so it is known what I plan to do and so anyone can come. I ask 3 things for any run. 1) Have fun, if a repair bill is ANY issue for you, stick to story mode only and do them once a month or so. 2) Be on vent, I am no longer going to do explore mode with anyone who does not and can not use vent, I simply am not going to make 4 people repair for one. Story mode I am flexible with . 3) Anyone who is not willing to do the work ( this is for explore mode only) That means, look at videos, read about the fight, so you come in with basic skills and understanding.

For ALL my Casual Players:

Please know as a Officer and as a player my FAVORITE part of playing ANY MMO is to take you and allow you to see the storyline of the game, the lore, and have fun, get to know your guild mates, and feel wanted and valued . It is my promise if it takes me months that each and every one of you out there who see this or read this will KNOW you will see content if you wish to, and can be on weekends. New Threads for Story Mode, New Threads for Explore Mode/ New Threads for Pet Taming and Puzzle Jumping to be made tonight or more likely tomorrow.

To Any and All Officers an members able and wanting to do these very same ideas during the week please do . Anytime members and officers take it upon themselves to make runs, or any activity WVW or a night of PVP set for certain day a week, or month it will only make this guild more fun for all. I as a member and officer here am going to stick to just these 3 things. 1) Story Dungeon Runs 2) Explore Dungeon runs 3) Pet Taming&Puzzle Jumping Sundays.

Thanks to all of you who read it and posted. New Threads tonight or tomorrow be watching for it.

Fade to black,
Michael

[goshe]

Would love to join in and do some story mode/exploration mode PVE on a regular basis, I was in the process of finally hitting 50 this week when my ISP decided to shoot craps and now I literally can't even connect and I've been told that I have approximately an 11 day wait to get a tech out to my house, ugh!

[ch4rliehorse]

Explorable mode has now been patched to where you get 60 tokens for completing a a dungeon path the first time for a day but if you do the same path again that same day you only get 20 tokens. I guess this is to encourage diversity with the different paths. So if you wanted to do Ascalonian Catacombs explorable, you could only do it three times (3 different paths) each day for 180 tokens total and then only 20 for each path after that. Kind of disappointing but I also see the point. Just thought I'd let you all know so no one has to find out the hard way.