The Unwritten Rules of Guild Wars 2 

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.

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

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.

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"

Always refer to the Labyrinthine Horror as Steve. 🙂

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.

Y'all complimenting people on their fashion is so amazing and important I'm serious. Lately if I really love someones look I've been sending a gold or two along with a short message of what I liked about it in the mail and I always ALWAYS get at least a short thank you back. Sometimes you'll for real genuinely make someones day, I've gotten so many nice replies it makes me so happy every single time. My favorite interaction to date though was seeing someone rocking THE most big, bright, and colorful charr I could imagine and somehow pulling it off without it being overbearing or hard to look at. I sent them some gold and a comment praising their use of color and they sent back a nice thank you with the message "enjoy friendship leeks" and 250 leeks that will stay in my mail box forever.

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.

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

-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.

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.

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.

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

When someone mentions Pocket Raptors, start going ballistic

Players always have to respond to „Thats quality armor“

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

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).

Dont listen to Lara, always gimme stuff

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).

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.

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

Another WvW unwritten rule: if people are camping at the veteran spawn, just be nice and only attack the Warg or whatever it is they're waiting for.

"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 ? )

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.

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

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.

Im whispering every single one that has the Facet of prisms and boundless light title because its such an amazing feat and shows real dedication and lots of gold but anyone who can do the JPs and events over and over again for every single variant is the true Chad of GW2

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

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

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.

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.

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

“Don’t pull them all” is a common unwritten rule for whole the genre.

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.

You forgot about the most important unwritten rule:

My Unwritten rule is if you see a player, new player especially with no Mastery Points by their name in a Low-Level Zone doing a Hero Point, give them some Boons and assist, but don't attack the HP Miniboss until you see the player about to die so that they can get a feel for the combat, if they do die then sweep the HP Boss and revive them so they get the point and maybe give them some tips, most importantly /bow and wish them goodluck!

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

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.

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

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.

Best GW2 content creator! She really plays this game.

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

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

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

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,

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

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.

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!". 🥰🥰

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.

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🙇

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.

I just started playing and I don't know what most of these are but I enjoyed watching

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.

As a noob and hearing about DPS and Healer. That just makes me chuckle. There's no dps, healer or tank. It's a healing dps, tanking damage dealer, tanking healer and dps with extra steps. But hearing the roles I just image a single class. We need a DPS- Firebrand F1 "Hi". We need a tank- Firebrand F3 "Hola". We need a healer- Firebrand F2 "Bonjour". So many classes can just instantly switch and be any role. Revenant can just switch legends to the centaur and dragon if Herald and you got a support. Or dwarf of not Herald. But I'm just scared to death over being social. Just being invited to a party makes my heart race and a friend request is an anxiety attack. So when I got 3 guild invites I panicked. I will never loose my PTSD from reading one guild description over their rules of being on very long, report absences period and such. I am NOT committed to a god damn schedule or any kind of expectations to a game I casually play on and off. It's like playing casual TF2 and suddenly they tell you to wake up early in the morning for a rep on their strategy for a ranked leader board season. I still keep getting this one guild invite every time I login that I keep having to press ignore. Why is it popping up every time?!

Always say thank you after you finished fractal, dungeon or raid with your group

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.

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 ^^

Normal siege blueprints have their uses. Superior blueprints cost more supply and guild blueprints tend to be expensive. Normal blueprints are useful for small groups that would require an extra supply run if they used superior, as decoys, or to throw on top of a dead foe to prevent them from seeing what's going on.

Do not attack frog tonic'd players in WvW - THIS IS A WAR CRIME

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

"dodge is optional" instruction was unclear! my daredevil was so squishy i died early 🤣

When GW2 started, dying at large meta events and respawning would keep you from getting rewards until you got back within meta range. You better believe I still have PTSD from losing that loot and stay dead until rezzed to this day.

At 50 Sec... don't be a Leeroy Jenkins!

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.

Genuinely one of the most helpful guides for gw2 lol

If someone uses their chair, you must form a tea party lmao

"we're nice to eachother." "people in this game tend to be really friendly." you really weren't kidding when you said "i am not much of a pvp player myself" xD

"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!

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

I'm definitely guilty of forgetting to use Food/Utilities in Fractal CMs.

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 😜

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.

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

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..

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

One mistake beginners always make because of bad UX: don't join another squad if you're already in one, else you may merge the squads together, something you almost never have a reason to.

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.

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.

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 died at the hate Braham's part XD, I've always hated him but never expected it to be an unwritten rule hahahah

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.

Never put down that Airplane box !!! EVER

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 !

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 :)

Used to respect duelers in WvW, but they didn't respect back, would always kill me when passing, even if I did not fight back, they would also pick the tail of every group that passed, so me and my guild make sure to shoo then away as we pass.

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 :)

The amount of people who'd be in jail because they didn't jump with me would be insane..... And I've only played for 60 hours!

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

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

What about, players in PVP who are ready but dont click the READY button and make everyone wait out the timer to begin the match. When people do that, I target them the entire match.

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........

The sixth elder dragons will always be bubbles.

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

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

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

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).

Timestamp 4:36 is just gold.

During Octovine meta in Tarir always remember to PANIC!

DON'T put annoying stuff you can click like merchants, food, aviator box and so on, on chests or workstations or other important things everyone else wants to click on.