Guild Wars 2

(1) You haven’t said if you’re NA or EU server.

(2) Call your team in LFG simply “Path 3”. Calling your team “First time everyone welcome” is likely to fill your entire group with new players.

(3) Choosing clerics stats for your trinkets is basically equivalent to having 358 less stat points (assuming lvl80 exotics). Healing power does not help you or your group in any meaningful way.

If you feel you still need a bit more survivability than full berserker, take Knights (Toughness/power/precision) or even Soldiers (Power/toughness/vitality). Switch these with berserker as you get better at avoiding damage.

Your group will have a much easier time with this part of CoF path 3 just by improving your overall damage output.

I got my title running with a few guys and posting “LFM DM title run, watching guide” so people knew what to expect.
And the truth is for most dungeons we got experienced people willing to give us a hand.

I can’t remember what dungeon it was (coe?) but I joined a group with the ad text “persistance required”. They were much better than I was expecting tbh. Need this one too, but I’m in eu so we can’t help each other.

I need PUs for CoF P2+3 every two days, watch the LFG 3-4 hours before reset

Finally finished master of arah and got around to trying this. Um, it is kittening awful. Like tafu awful. Why aren’t there more threads complaining about it? Then at least I could hope it could eventually be replaced with something a little more manageable like tafu was. Why so many threads about arah when this is way worse?

Tried asking in guild, everyone flat out refused except for one person who didn’t know what it was like. They will do arah but not this. Lfg is the same, only curious people will sign up and very quickly either leave or start yelling/swearing and then leave. Have yet to make it past the torches. Pleeeeeeease tell me that the tiny percentage of people who complained about the removal of tafu didn’t make anet scrap the plan of “fixing” other unpopular paths, cause I don’t know how else I’m going to get this done.

The only stupid part is the trap tunnel. Final boss is pretty fun.

the trap tunnel is pretty easy, even moreso if you have a thief since the bombs don’t blow up if you have a thief. even if you’re the only one who makes it you can go up (avoid the turrets and trash mobs) and solo the champion drake which is a very easy mob.

the torch part is also very easy. the window for activation is huge and the trash mobs aren’t hard to deal with.

I find the final boss annoying with his constant invuln and wave that doesn’t show up properly if you lag a lot. also, this path is a fairly long one, which is why most people avoid it.

Lol wtf how could anyone say P3 is any trouble at all?

Torches? Easy
A pushover champ? Easy
The defend event? Sometimes a hassle if your team has no DPS and that’s about it
Trap tunnel? Easy
Drake? Easy
End boss? Half of the fight is FAKing through his Invuln casting animations; utter trash, easy fight

It shocks me that this path isn’t run more; I by and far consider it faster than P2, with the exception that P2 is run more and so people have it learned. It people took the time to learn P3 I think it would catch on because it’s actually very short.

Ok, then next time you faceroll it invite me along. Not saying its impossible, I’m saying I tried for five hours and couldnt find 4 other people able and willing to get past the very first area. It was the same with swamp fractal at low levels during fractured. People give up after a few tries and you have to start over again with a new batch of people who have never tried it before.

Trouble in swamp?

Whoooooo-whey!

This thread just took an interesting turn.

Regardless, I don’t do P3 often because, as already iterated, and for no good reason, people just don’t like doing it.

That is to say, I will be quick to join an already forming/existing P3 run in the dungeon finder, or start my own when it is one of the only remaining paths for me to do on any given day, but I don’t like wasting my time sitting around and waiting for a 1/5 (me) CoF P3 to form. It just doesn’t take priority over AC, CoF(1-2), CoE, HotW, Arah, or SE, as those are all vastly more popular; I’d simply rather keep making money and just do a different path that I know will fill immediately than sit around not making money. So we are in the same boat (although for admittedly very different reasons).

It still isn’t hard, at all.

People don’t like doing it because it’s not fun and even if you know what to do, you’re unlikely to find other people who also know. At least in lfg.

I didn’t bother with swamp fractal (which I actually think is easier than this because the demand for coordination isn’t so high – only have to time picking up the orb in chat and not time killing the last monster AND THEN say go on lighting the touch) but I’d really like to get this. Only dungeon path I haven’t finished.

cof p3 is actually the best with one of the very few semi-legit boss fights in the whole game.

it’s also fast when people know what theyre doing

Got it finally. Decided to give lfg one more try. Got lucky with the torches in that I was alone with mine, but the npc was following me and tanked the last ooze so I could light it no problem. Took 3 min. The rest was… painless? Up to the last boss which I enjoyed. So happy to have it done with.

Then later that day some people from my guild decided to try it. When I went to bed they had already been in there for about two hours and were stuck on the bombs. I don’t know if they finished it, haven’t seen any of the people in that group since. Maybe they are still in there…

congrats on getting the path done, Lalocat. I enjoy p3, it’s like a special treat since no one ever wants to run it.