Guild Wars 2

dps too high probably so it skipped

Minigrump.4961:

weird question here. about 3 days ago my group of friends (people that rarely do PvE content) did a level 1 fractal for the daily. When we got the grawl fractal, and got to the shaman, the shaman bugged and only did the bubble phase once. anyone know why this happened?

Someone probably applied Chill to him. The bubble skill has a cool down, and if you have good DPS and perma chill, you can have him only bubble once even at 49/50. Should be much easier at level 1 due to the lower health pool.

J Eberle.9312:

Nike is head illuminati.
I am the grandmaster mind brain of the vocal and toxic minority.
Colesy is lady mahariel.
Lindbur is an elitist jaguar.

this woman gets it

also hi guys just came off week suspension

:)

A week of vacation for what? O_O

So, GemFX… Anyone have any tips on getting it to run on Windows 8.1?

Updated my c++/.net stuff, still getting a message that it’s unable to load sweetfx/gemfx in my logfile and I can’t get the game to load while I have it set up (have to delete the .dlls).

Tried finding info on it but no luck so far.

I wanna make my dungeons look even prettier.

Came back to general discussion ready to argue again but they closed the gear inspect thread!

Thanks Miku for the support though!

Nevets Crimsonwing.5271:

Came back to general discussion ready to argue again but they closed the gear inspect thread!

Thanks Miku for the support though!

(y)

Not a single one of them gave any substantial argument to claim why that feature shouldn’t be implemented. It was really annoying to read tbh.

Dum question time!

If I have both superior sigil of elemental slaying and powerfull potion of elemental slaying, will they stack and give me +20%dmg?

Ya but I’m pretty sure it’s multiplicative so 1.1*1.1 if that makes any sense

Jerus.4350:

So, GemFX… Anyone have any tips on getting it to run on Windows 8.1?

Updated my c++/.net stuff, still getting a message that it’s unable to load sweetfx/gemfx in my logfile and I can’t get the game to load while I have it set up (have to delete the .dlls).

Tried finding info on it but no luck so far.

I wanna make my dungeons look even prettier.

You’ll need to have all the stuff in the bin folder unless you launch the game without patch ui.

Well, I learned something new about my preferences yesterday: I realized that I actually prefer to run dungeons with mediocre players that are nice and friendly, instead of with good players that don’t communicate at all and treat you like an npc.

Not a single word in chat all through the run, and not so much as a “bye” before kicking me out of the group once the run was finished … never thought I’d be upset by that so much, but I guess I play this game to play with people. If I wanted no communication I could just as well go back to single player games …

Rasimir.6239:

Well, I learned something new about my preferences yesterday: I realized that I actually prefer to run dungeons with mediocre players that are nice and friendly, instead of with good players that don’t communicate at all and treat you like an npc.

Not a single word in chat all through the run, and not so much as a “bye” before kicking me out of the group once the run was finished … never thought I’d be upset by that so much, but I guess I play this game to play with people. If I wanted no communication I could just as well go back to single player games …

<.<

Rasimir.6239:

Well, I learned something new about my preferences yesterday: I realized that I actually prefer to run dungeons with mediocre players that are nice and friendly, instead of with good players that don’t communicate at all and treat you like an npc.

Not a single word in chat all through the run, and not so much as a “bye” before kicking me out of the group once the run was finished … never thought I’d be upset by that so much, but I guess I play this game to play with people. If I wanted no communication I could just as well go back to single player games …

I sort of agree (though I guess it would be ideal for it to be super nice good players). One time I had a really awesome fractal 50 pug. You know, the kind with 0 wipes, really smooth, super quick. Every time I tried to initiate conversation or a little bit of levity, I was met with silence. That made me feel pretty awkward, since I’m used to a much more social group and run. I don’t know if I’d wish for a significantly longer run in exchange for more social players but I can say it wasn’t as fun for me.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/How-is-3-5-people-to-kick-still-in-the-game/first#post4800637

I wonder if we’re ever going to get any kind of straight talk about the kick threshold change that appeared in the patch notes but never put in the game, and then stealth removed from the patch notes.

Or am I just crazy for expecting such basic communication?

Zui.9245:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/How-is-3-5-people-to-kick-still-in-the-game/first#post4800637

I wonder if we’re ever going to get any kind of straight talk about the kick threshold change that appeared in the patch notes but never put in the game, and then stealth removed from the patch notes.

Or am I just crazy for expecting such basic communication?

Nothing to see here, nothing to see here.

We are listening to your feedback

Dub.1273:

Jerus.4350:

So, GemFX… Anyone have any tips on getting it to run on Windows 8.1?

Updated my c++/.net stuff, still getting a message that it’s unable to load sweetfx/gemfx in my logfile and I can’t get the game to load while I have it set up (have to delete the .dlls).

Tried finding info on it but no luck so far.

I wanna make my dungeons look even prettier.

You’ll need to have all the stuff in the bin folder unless you launch the game without patch ui.

Yeah, did that, simply won’t load the game (launcher loads up runs the patch but then simply doesn’t load the game up when I hit “play”).

Actually just tried again, and got a different message. Now it said " [06:55:07] Preparing FXAA…
[06:55:07] Unable to load FXAA Shader"

I changed it to no FXAA in configurator, and got the old message. " [06:57:06] Unable to load SweetFX or GEMFX Shader"

Basic communication is difficult for them. They can’t tell us any details about the vote kick system, because that would obvs spoil HoT.

I wanna liiiive, I wanna giiiive, I’ve been a miner for a heart of thorns…
It’s these expressions I never give, that keep me searching for a heart of thooorns..
And I’m gettin’ old.

Rasimir.6239:

Well, I learned something new about my preferences yesterday: I realized that I actually prefer to run dungeons with mediocre players that are nice and friendly, instead of with good players that don’t communicate at all and treat you like an npc.

Not a single word in chat all through the run, and not so much as a “bye” before kicking me out of the group once the run was finished … never thought I’d be upset by that so much, but I guess I play this game to play with people. If I wanted no communication I could just as well go back to single player games …

yeah, pretty much my own opinion

i’ve got screenshots of like the most legendary teaching run I ever did (like … a lot of screenshots) and it was legit like the best dungeon runs I have ever done even though the party was pretty bad (on a mechanical level, obviously the instance knowledge would be bad since they were new) and needed massive carrying, but speeding through things with ease with no communication since everyone knows what to do just bores me to tears.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Dungeon-speed-runs-the-dark-side

Wow, that speedrun thread.
Anyway, I just realized how hard mai trin was in pug the last few days, I die a lot when I don’t get carried. Time to get good at the game I guess.

Nah, just go nomads shout warrior and tank her.

Actually in 2 of my last fractals we had people switching traits and armor without saying a word, a shoutheal ptv war and a cleric water/arcana ele. At least you can’t really die, but it doesn’t make the fight interesting and they could at least warn us, but meh. I just keep dying at the cannon part anyway so can’t complain about people surviving even with tankier gear :P

Dying at the cannon part is perfectly normal. It’s stupid design with buggy AoE indicators and super horrible for anyone with colorblindness. And if you die the cannon phase you can always relog and hope Ellen is not on her periods or go to another char to get back in the fight.

Or just go engineer and carry the whole thing. :^)

Taku.6352:

Dying at the cannon part is perfectly normal. It’s stupid design with buggy AoE indicators and super horrible for anyone with colorblindness. And if you die the cannon phase you can always relog and hope Ellen is not on her periods or go to another char to get back in the fight.

Or just go engineer and carry the whole thing. :^)

Tips for carrying on engi? I’m pretty bad at this fight too even though I know in theory I should be able to solo.

I just stealth in the corner during cannons, because I’m a bad teammate.

dlonie.6547:

I just stealth in the corner during cannons, because I’m a bad teammate.

This behavior destroyed so many potential friendships for me é-é

oxtred.7658:

dlonie.6547:

I just stealth in the corner during cannons, because I’m a bad teammate.

This behavior destroyed so many potential friendships for me é-é

But but but…there’s room in my SR for all of us! We could be stealth buddies!

Nevets Crimsonwing.5271:

Taku.6352:

Dying at the cannon part is perfectly normal. It’s stupid design with buggy AoE indicators and super horrible for anyone with colorblindness. And if you die the cannon phase you can always relog and hope Ellen is not on her periods or go to another char to get back in the fight.

Or just go engineer and carry the whole thing. :^)

Tips for carrying on engi? I’m pretty bad at this fight too even though I know in theory I should be able to solo.

Flamethrower with fireforged trigger and toolkit. With air blast you can reflect every teleportation shot and with toolkit you can pull her into lightning fields and use gear shield to activate her melee attack while inside a field to keep her rooted. +40% condi duration food and keep spamming cripples on her trough 7 shield stacks which makes kiting her easy. Also rifle 4 is good defiance removal and good for knocking her into the field.

I usually run 66002 with an energy sigil so i can take speedy kits for the cannon phase and still have some extra dodges. And because it’s daytime and not really a dps race you won’t lose much by taking energy.

Hmm, Never thought to use FT reflect, personally I suck at the timing on that usually, any tips for catching her pistol shot? Hit it as it releases or earlier?

Air blast reflect starts as soon as you push the button and lasts for about a second so the timing isn’t that accurate.

Havent played in weeks.
Run 1: “p3 experienced berserkers.” Spent a few minutes considering it but said what the heck.

Switch to my thief because I can solo if need be. Switch to bow and ask “stack might?” Guardian uses staff skill. I begin to worry. I say “I meant the ele” Nothing happens for 30s. Eventually everyone starts putting “r” but no one actually moves.
I pull and wait. Guard doesnt drop reflect, ele doesnt use swirling winds, engi doesnt attempt to get wor with lixer. I use elite. Guard doesnt use stability. They get chain kd’d. I gain aggro and pull away from em and we proceed to kill them.

At this point I hate all of them and stealth myself to turrets. As I run solo the engi types “we have thief”. I type “we also have engi” and start the turrets. I stop and clear half the hallway because that is as far as they make it.

1 rushes in without gun and insta dies. 3 others follow suit with guns firing all at the same time and still die.

I just stand there trying to understand how this could happen.

I get kicked.

So new taunt mechanic skill coming in the expansion. Here comes the trinity? Altruistic tank / healshout war/ dwarven revenant meta?

Put on your thinking caps/tin foil hats, folks, and remember those pitchforks.

War is on the horizon.

And my FC has increased from 20 seconds to 2 minutes for no given reason. No mail or anything. Meh, whatever.

Omg on mai now with engi so much fun

:)

Yeah, flamethrower for reflect on mai sounds like fun, gonna have to try it!

Thief on Mai is much more fun :>

But I don’t have a thief at 80! I am a very, very lazy leveler.

O.o interesting, that opens alot of things with the flamethrower. Thanks for sharing that!

In terms of mai’s shot, Ive been dodging it with jumpshot and rocket boots myself =)

I like elixir gun better, Sarah. The Condi cleanse, weakness and cripple rebuff spamming are just perfect. But again, I run pistol/pistol sinister at Mai. So my experience is different from you guys. You know my group. We always pug 2 slots.

Iris Ng.9845:

I like elixir gun better, Sarah. The Condi cleanse, weakness and cripple rebuff spamming are just perfect. But again, I run pistol/pistol sinister at Mai. So my experience is different from you guys. You know my group. We always pug 2 slots.

. . . you know you could always send me a whisper :b

But yeah, pistol/pistol? curious why? just condi damage or any cool tricks to it that I may not be thinking of?

Jerus.4350:

Iris Ng.9845:

I like elixir gun better, Sarah. The Condi cleanse, weakness and cripple rebuff spamming are just perfect. But again, I run pistol/pistol sinister at Mai. So my experience is different from you guys. You know my group. We always pug 2 slots.

. . . you know you could always send me a whisper :b

Me too! Except I’m not online much. And usually when I’m on it’s ‘cause someone told me to log on to do some dungeons. And I can’t even bring a thief! But still. I’m not much more scrubby than the average pug!

Iris Ng.9845:

I like elixir gun better, Sarah. The Condi cleanse, weakness and cripple rebuff spamming are just perfect. But again, I run pistol/pistol sinister at Mai. So my experience is different from you guys. You know my group. We always pug 2 slots.

:s how to word this..

You know that you can use the leap from Acid bomb to dodge mai’s shot.
( sorry if you already know this )

Jerus.4350:

Iris Ng.9845:

I like elixir gun better, Sarah. The Condi cleanse, weakness and cripple rebuff spamming are just perfect. But again, I run pistol/pistol sinister at Mai. So my experience is different from you guys. You know my group. We always pug 2 slots.

. . . you know you could always send me a whisper :b

But yeah, pistol/pistol? curious why? just condi damage or any cool tricks to it that I may not be thinking of?

Just condi. When people tend to drop off after the first or second cannon phase, the condi damage becomes more consistent with one or two people left standing. The immobilization on pistol 5 is quite useful, too. I tend to run 42044 or 24044 for that fight.

And because it is super cute!!! http://youtu.be/-ueHlEl97iI (main reason)

Also, you tend to drift off to the Unknown realm whenever we try to invite people

Sarahfull.4930:

Iris Ng.9845:

I like elixir gun better, Sarah. The Condi cleanse, weakness and cripple rebuff spamming are just perfect. But again, I run pistol/pistol sinister at Mai. So my experience is different from you guys. You know my group. We always pug 2 slots.

:s how to word this..

You know that you can use the leap from Acid bomb to dodge mai’s shot.
( sorry if you already know this )

Yeah, that’s the main reason I take Elixir Gun. The extra benefit makes my preference.

Iris Ng.9845:

Also, you tend to drift off to the Unknown realm whenever we try to invite people

Jerus is the King of the Unknown Realm.

>.<

I’ve been doing a lot of tweaking of my new comp, really trying to get this GemFX thing working but not having any luck, so yeah, doing a lot of poping in and out… well then also I never log off, I just walk away when I stop playing

I really need to mess around with condi on my engi more.

the new profession seems quite interesting.

Can’t wait for a fresh wave of ‘tanks’ and condition ‘pros’ to hit the pug dungeon scene!