Guild Wars 2

3 weeks ago, I started my Ranger… I am planning to use AC as my levelling grounds until I can reach CoF… Every PuG I joined – it is always failing on either Lover’s Crypt or Hodgin’s…

Why?

I mean, I get it. I post “any level/class as long as experienced” but no one seems to know what to do. I try my best to teach but nah, I’m getting ignored.

Okay, so I got my Ranger to kittenfed. So I went ahead and tried Warrior.

Same. I never get any good PuG’s now. I switched to my 80 Ele/Guard/Ranger, thinking maybe it’s me because I’m low levelled – no. Still the same.

So, are people only used to run only CoF nowadays? Has player skill diminished?

It wasn’t this bad a few months ago – I almost always do PuGs because of the thrill and challenge – but this is not challenge. It’s, sad to say – stupidity.

AC is not the equal playing field compared to other dungeons. After the AC revamp other dungeons have better rewards/time ratio. You run “daily” CoF because it’s easy and fast, so unless you want the AC tokens you’ll stay away from it.

tl;dr Experienced players run CoF (fast/easy), CoE (same as CoF), or Arah. I do run SE for tokens.

Most of the good players have quit by now. Either that or they just stand in Lion’s Arch like me.

Yenn.9185:

AC is not the equal playing field compared to other dungeons. After the AC revamp other dungeons have better rewards/time ratio. You run “daily” CoF because it’s easy and fast, so unless you want the AC tokens you’ll stay away from it.

tl;dr Experienced players run CoF (fast/easy), CoE (same as CoF), or Arah. I do run SE for tokens.

Are you saying AC takes longer than Arah? O_o

it might be a consequence of CoF farm – i.e. 100-blades brain dead players who barely know what dodge is for

i find pugging AC lately difficult as well, thats why we only run it if we have at least 3 members from our core dungeon team

overall im happy with ANET dungeon team focus – they definitely taking steps in the right direction with AC rewamp and new dungeon like AR where content is gated and boss fights are phase-oriented and mechanics oriented instead of good old “stack-100B-feedback-wall-aegis-DONE”

Aside the fact that AC is no more a no brain DG, i second this:

Skady.5916:

it might be a consequence of CoF farm – i.e. 100-blades brain dead players who barely know what dodge is for

The number of ppl who thinks they can use decently zerk gear and warrior (and instead get stomped by trash mobs) has got over 9000 since cof farming started.

I don’t mind ppl playing in zerk gear – but not if you spend every single fight on the floor.

knives.6345:

3 weeks ago, I started my Ranger…

This is the problem.

TheMaskedParadigm.3629:

Most of the good players have quit by now. Either that or they just stand in Lion’s Arch like me.

We should start a guild based on " akitten in LA".

We’d have scheduled AF K times, much like raids in other games.

That’d be fun.

Dub.1273:

knives.6345:

3 weeks ago, I started my Ranger…

This is the problem.

Dude… If you would read the rest of the post, even my Warrior, Guardian or Ele is having a terrible time doing it with PuGs – unlike some few months back where we faceroll the dungeon like CoF regardless of what class in it(not in terms of finishing time but you get the point).

I have carried PuGs using my Ranger, yes, you saw it right – Ranger. Probably not in terms of damage – but in terms of strategy – but they have a bloody hard time grasping things. I mean, you already told them countless times what to do – still doing the exact same mistake.

I don’t want to look elitist, but I even tried to put in the “Experienced only” tag on gw2lfg – I don’t know if they are really experienced or they just choose to ignore that to be able to run the dungeon… I mean, honestly – majority sucked – no offense.

And I experience this to AC only.

I had a run last week on TA and HoTW – great groups. Not the best, but they are great. So, I don’t have any ideas what’s going on.

Dub.1273:

knives.6345:

3 weeks ago, I started my Ranger…

This is the problem.

+1

Really bad timing, rolling a Ranger when everyone else is deleting there’s…

You know, if you were just using your ele or warrior you could litterlly fully carry your team, no matter how bad they are.

Either way, i didn’t do much AC lately but when i did my group never had problems except the burrow parts if i wasn’t doing much. Pug team’s dps often sucks.