Guild Wars 2

Before you read the tips, you should read this first to get an overall feel as to who the run works.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/10G-HR-CoF-Path-1-Farming-Guide/first

Scootabuser’s video
http://youtu.be/EvJOP3mtRGM

My LFG thief video (because I’m the PUG player, and I’m not 100% glass cannon weapon user. – Valkyrie + PVT + 1 or 2 mixed ascended items, sigil of Air and force)

My thief build is 30/30/0/0/10, but 25/30/0/0/10 might be better at extra burst for heartseeker. I used 10% chance to go into quickness trait, but it might better to trait initiative regen from activating signets for extra heartseeker.

It just so happens I met a nice warrior who took out his longbow and cast

Tip 1: Getting 25 stacks of might with Combustive shot

• http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Combustive_Shot
• http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Arcing_Arrow

Combine with my thief’s

• http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Cluster_Bomb (Remember to use only 2 times at most, since you gain 10% extra damage over 6 init)

As well as adding in

• http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Category:Banner_skills

You can fill up your stacks of might to 25 at start of gate, slave driver, gate controller and boss.

Tip 2: Shadow shooting your way to the boss

After you’re done with gate controller, stop before the line where cutscene activates, and try to shoot as far as possible (maybe anet one day will nerf it or something? Hope not, I rather like the idea of setting up all the combos right in front of the boss), so that you run directly to the boss. I imagine that players with Teamspeak will inform the thief they are reaching in 2-3 seconds so the thief can stop watching the video and start preparing.

If you watch the video, you can see I was late in stopping the video.

My video runthrough

1) Prepares 25 stacks of might (with warrior’s combustive shot) with signet of inspiration (thereafter SOI) from mesmer at initial gate.
2) My thief attacks left turret, allies attack enemies. (Activates haste, Mug, CnD, Stab, attack, heartseeker below 50% at turret, switch to right turret if enemies are still alive)
3) Warrior prepares combustive shot at slave driver, everyone casts banners, for great justice, and I cast two cluster bombs. (Remember to use on my mark, if you see the video the slave driver didn’t start off with full vulnerability) Casts thieves guild. Heart seeker at 35% hp (cast signet).
4) Complete acolytes as usual.
5) Warrior casts combustive shot, gets a few extra stacks of might, mesmer casts SOI, 25 stacks of might, and warrior leaves a strength of banner before the gate controller.
6) Shadow shot your way through, prepare for boss.
7) Do your rotations, dodge crystals, shockwave (depends on your mesmer skills) and fire AOE (or cleanse it with healing and backstab, for full scholar runes benefit), heartseeker below 25% hp (with signet).

Finally, there are definitely faster runs than this video. This is not a competition, just a demonstration of certain tips.

Nikaido.3457:

I stopped watching the video as soon as I saw your explanation for pushing the slave driver against the wall. It’s not to make 100b easier it’s to benefit from the full dps of a whirlwind. And it’s better to use focus pull and have everyone already hugging the wall before the fight starts because he can leap on people who aren’t in melee range which can waste a cc and thus have him put defiant and not on a wall for the duration of the fight.

I think you have a problem reading properly… That’s —- > scootabuser’s < —- video, and my current name here is LoneWolfie, completely different letters. My video has not been edited at all.

Trying to get a warrior to use his bow f1 is about as easy as getting blood from a stone. They are so ignorant and afraid of that skill that I was literly kicked from a cof run b/c I asked one of the warriors to drop his f1 so I could give the team 25 might. Their reasoning for why it was such a horrible idea? Apparently them equiping bow would drop team dps too much. It’s funny b/c they just avoided the fact that they could use the built up adrenaline from past fights and use healing surge to fill it back up again OR they could just swap back on axe/mace after dropping the field/before combat. Alas, pugs will remain ignorant but never lose their all-knowing attitude until strife makes another vid (needs 4 wars though) showing that fire+blast=good.

randomfightfan.4091:

OR they could just swap back on axe/mace after dropping the field/before combat.

Nono, swap the lbow with the gsword, looking for your offhand weapon sucks with a large inventory >.<

but yeah, if you want to rely on combo fields ur gonna need to be running an organized team, pugs will rarely work well with effort requiring setups. Also if you’re using SOI anyway, you didn’t accomplish what you want to with the thief sbow as 4 warriors + SOI = 24 might without using the firefield

Player Character.9467:

randomfightfan.4091:

OR they could just swap back on axe/mace after dropping the field/before combat.

Nono, swap the lbow with the gsword, looking for your offhand weapon sucks with a large inventory >.<

but yeah, if you want to rely on combo fields ur gonna need to be running an organized team, pugs will rarely work well with effort requiring setups. Also if you’re using SOI anyway, you didn’t accomplish what you want to with the thief sbow as 4 warriors + SOI = 24 might without using the firefield

IF all 4 warriors brought out their lbow, used 3, and 3 banners were dropped (along with fgj), then they’d just barely beat out thieves IF the thieves restricted themselves to only using 2 clusters (which would still result in 25 might with a mesmer). If they wanted to shoot 1 or 2 more times, 25 might could easily be achieved without a mes. Whole point is that it doesn’t matter which set up you use, they both will achieve the same thing and kill stupidly fast. The pt with a few thieves will probably kill a little faster than the warriors but the full warrior pt won’t have to turn their brains on while cof 1ing.

1 thing with thieves though, use thieves guild over hounds (if you’re human). Cast them after 1st blast from effigy and they’ll be ready again by the time you get to slave driver. If you also use ambush trap, you’ll have 3 thieves on the field. If you’re lucky and get 2 melee thieves, you are doing the dps of roughly 2 warriors IF they don’t get aoed down (likely the boss will be dead before then).

Edited topic to make it clearer.

Funny, how the majority of PvE-Players have absolutely no clue about combo-fields and claiming themselves as good players. Good tips for beginners though.

randomfightfan.4091:

Trying to get a warrior to use his bow f1 is about as easy as getting blood from a stone. They are so ignorant and afraid of that skill that I was literly kicked from a cof run b/c I asked one of the warriors to drop his f1 so I could give the team 25 might. Their reasoning for why it was such a horrible idea? Apparently them equiping bow would drop team dps too much. It’s funny b/c they just avoided the fact that they could use the built up adrenaline from past fights and use healing surge to fill it back up again OR they could just swap back on axe/mace after dropping the field/before combat. Alas, pugs will remain ignorant but never lose their all-knowing attitude until strife makes another vid (needs 4 wars though) showing that fire+blast=good.

Yeah, pretty much. They’d probably watch part of your video then stop at the first slightly incorrect fact, negating the opportunity to learn something new out of pure arrogance.