Guild Wars 2

For several encounters in multiple dungeons, one of the most effective tactics is the Stack and Smack.

By stacking together in certain areas, a party can use line of sight to force all enemies, both ranged and melee into one close group thus allowing damage to hit them all and kill them quickly. Additionally, by staying together, it is easier for allies to revive each other, share agro and maximize blinds, blocks, shields, reflects, etc.

I have noticed that the problem here is the term stack. So for those confused, let me clarify:

A stack is in one spot like a stack of coins. A pile is close together but not necessarily on top of each other. When someone says “Stack here” they don’t mean near here, around here, or way over there. They mean stack here, on this one spot, not any other spot.

I hope this helps.

Everyone in this forum knows that. Post in PHP or GD or spam it in map chat in game. You’s just preachin’ to the choir here, boy!

Hey, he’s at least thinking in the right direction.

He is slowly turning to the dark side …

Should mentioned that stacking isnt an exploit. However in some cases an exploit involves stacking. Lots people seem to get a bit mixed up with exploits and stacking.

“A stack is in one spot like a stack of coins. A pile is close together but not necessarily on top of each other. When someone says “Stack here” they don’t mean near here, around here, or way over there. They mean stack here, on this one spot, not any other spot.

I hope this helps."

The purpose of the stack is keep the mobs in a kill zone for maximum dps. It is not the purpose of the stack to group all the characters within the high damage aoe attacks from enemies. It is perfectly good play for squishy classes to break off from the stack as long the mobs remain in the kill zone.

Ah yes stacking. The bane of fun.

Lucky.9421:

Ah yes stacking. The bane of fun.

Mom said it’s my turn to use condition builds in dungeons today!

Emanuel.9781:

Mom said it’s my turn to use condition builds in dungeons today!

I was playing a zerker for like a year, but I just changed to Pvt Hammer out of spite.

I hope you are happy.

Hammer is awesome, keep up with the fun.

I mean it.

I like stacking. Makes things fun.

But my favorite stack is a stack of Oreos.

Or a fat stack of cash

Or I guess stacks of fine t6 mats.
unfortunately cash doesn’t stack all that high :x

stacks on stacks on stacks on stacks

By the way, that thread is still going. Oh god, I might have done CoE and AC like 2000 times each, what kind of exploiter am I?
… let me stack some cookies in my stomach to forget the misery.
Can’t type at this time.

I sometimes stack in game when but it can be
Hard sometimes because the bosses
Attack and my face just
Takes the damage. But without clerics gear,
Everytime I get hit I die to the melee
Attacks. In order to remedy
This problem, I change my
Skills and gear before every boss
Encounter to accommodate the team.

Oh please I beg you do not make atse’s posting style a trend

Stop!

Hammer time

Tree.3916:

I sometimes stack in game when but it can be
Hard sometimes because the bosses
Attack and my face just
Takes the damage. But without clerics gear,
Everytime I get hit I die to the melee
Attacks. In order to remedy
This problem, I change my
Skills and gear before every boss
Encounter to accommodate the team.

you are missing the weird
punctuation spaces .

and , i use sentinal gere . try it out .

You probably PUG all the time. Must of had some really bad experience’s if you post kitten like this. LOL. Anyways if you want a real tip just run full zerk

Zelyhn.8069:

Oh please I beg you do not make atse’s posting style a trend

WHY DO YOU SHOUT YOUR BUILD IN MY FACE SILLY YOU
Dat signature.

GUYS, GUYS! We’ve been doing it wrong this whole time…

deSade.9437:

Zelyhn.8069:

Oh please I beg you do not make atse’s posting style a trend

WHY DO YOU SHOUT YOUR BUILD IN MY FACE SILLY YOU
Dat signature.

I’m a more powerful Sith lord than you are
My master has taught me the way to great powers

I shall destroy the wicked dictatorship of elitists…
… when I’m done abusing that build, I was so sick of LH you can’t imagine.
All hail the pizza lord. Mushrooms.

I miss bodyblocking from GW1. Stacking looks stupid. ANet should at least put some mechanics to punish it.

Rieselle.5079:

I miss bodyblocking from GW1. Stacking looks stupid. ANet should at least put some mechanics to punish it.

There are mechanics to punish it. The thing is that mobs don’t have the time to use them before they die if you stack and DPS correctly. With some exceptions in Arah where you can still potentially wipe if you get wrecked by some illusionist…

Before you say ‘well, then mobs shoulds have more hp’, or ‘then players should deal less damage’ or ‘then make them hit faster’, you got to realize that whenever you make suggestions to punish speedrunners, you’re hurting casuals and PUGs 4 times harder with whatever hurdle you put in the way.

As for bodyblocking coming back, with the LoS mechanic, it still wouldn’t do much. Bodyblocking worked really well in GW1 because you had tanks that could use those mechanics to ball up foes really effectively. In DoA by pull-throughs and in UW/FoW by using wall tricks. In GW2 with the lack of tanks, no one is seriously going to use that technique because just LoS’ing and stacking is equally efficient and it doesn’t require you to sacrifice a team member to be ‘tanky’.

ANet is mostly worried if you’re trying to squeeze an inch in on them.

Rieselle.5079:

I miss bodyblocking from GW1. Stacking looks stupid. ANet should at least put some mechanics to punish it.

Riiiight, and I find it stupid that a PVT fem norn in the t3 thong armour can be tankier than a zerker human in t3 cultural heavy.

THEY SHOULD TOTALLY PUNISH USING PVT WITH LIGHTER LOOKING ARMOURS

And this is why I despise the average player mentality in this game. “I don’t like it, so get rid please”. I don’t like non-power based, non-offensive gear in PvE but I don’t go round asking for it to be removed, even though it should.

Rieselle.5079:

I miss bodyblocking from GW1. Stacking looks stupid. ANet should at least put some mechanics to punish it.

Main reason i don’t do wvw even though open pvp is my favorite thing in every mmo since 1995. I took for granted this game was going to have this.

Rieselle.5079:

I miss bodyblocking from GW1. Stacking looks stupid. ANet should at least put some mechanics to punish it.

With bodyblocking the zerg events would be impossible to do. Imagine a crowded Lions Arch, you won’t be able to walk around because you will be bumping on everyone.

Casmurro.9046:

Rieselle.5079:

I miss bodyblocking from GW1. Stacking looks stupid. ANet should at least put some mechanics to punish it.

With bodyblocking the zerg events would be impossible to do. Imagine a crowded Lions Arch, you won’t be able to walk around because you will be bumping on everyone.

body blocking turns off in many games while out of combat. It only turns on when you are in combat.

Mesket.5728:

Casmurro.9046:

Rieselle.5079:

I miss bodyblocking from GW1. Stacking looks stupid. ANet should at least put some mechanics to punish it.

With bodyblocking the zerg events would be impossible to do. Imagine a crowded Lions Arch, you won’t be able to walk around because you will be bumping on everyone.

body blocking turns off in many games while out of combat. It only turns on when you are in combat.

Not to mention, body blocking only worked against enemy players/foes in GW1, so this would be a non-issue in GW2.

I mean, even if it didn’t, what developer in their right mind would implement a body-block system in cities?…

Bright.9160:

Mesket.5728:

Casmurro.9046:

Rieselle.5079:

I miss bodyblocking from GW1. Stacking looks stupid. ANet should at least put some mechanics to punish it.

With bodyblocking the zerg events would be impossible to do. Imagine a crowded Lions Arch, you won’t be able to walk around because you will be bumping on everyone.

body blocking turns off in many games while out of combat. It only turns on when you are in combat.

Not to mention, body blocking only worked against enemy players/foes in GW1, so this would be a non-issue in GW2.

I mean, even if it didn’t, what developer in their right mind would implement a body-block system in cities?…

A realistic one!

/wave @ bright
Ethics waves at bright. Atse body blocks bright. Wave absorbed.