Guild Wars 2

I donmt know about everyone else, but ive had about 8 dungeon runs today, with I would say 10 different people in about 3 or 4 different groups.

Now, today the dungeons, im talking fractals and AC and Arah seemed Waaaay much harder to me and my companions than they normally have been over the last month. We couldent put our finger on it but we wrre getting downed more often and even wiping on some occasions.. Now ive run ac sooo many times and i regurlarly take at least 2 low levels in a group of 80’s with me to teach them the dungeon. Ive also 2 manned Ac before all 3 paths with a gaurdian friend and myself (warrior).Today was really really hard, we couldent understand it.. We were all level 80 on all occasions.

Now have classes been nerfed or mobs buffed in instances in general? Bosses seemed unchanged im talking all the trash mobs me and my friends like to kill for loot. I play a warrior but we had mostly all classes in our groups today at some point.

Ha sanyone noticed this today? Or do you think someone or afew people just were having a bad day and wernt playing to full potential? What i mean is have you guys expereinced ramp up in difficulty for trash mobs in instances today??

The only things i can see that have changed is wvw bonuses as everything reset. I did upgrade my accessorys and i chose something different to ptv but after arah i did a grenth trip and slotted equisite saphires in the ptv accesorys i bought and nothing changed.

I ran AC explorable multiple times today on my 40 Elementalist and 38 Mesmer and every run was pretty fast, perhaps under 10 minutes even with groups who had never done it before (I asked). With me leading we blew right through them pretty quick. So no I didn’t see any issues. If anything Kohler was easier than normal.

thanks alot for the reply, some of the group couldent have been playing to full potential then.. hrmmmm thanks..

There has been a change, damage to objects has been nerfed (at least when downscaled).

I’m not sure if this applies to all classes/summoned weapons, but every character i use melee with seems to be taking 2-3 times as long to destroy objects now.

For example, pre patch (21st feb) my mighty blow hammer skill on the guardian was doing 3/4 hp damage to the chaotic material in thaumanova reactor and about 1/5th of the bar to the ac burrows.
Post patch i barely tickle either, both of these happen in downscaled zones, i’m not sure about max level objects as i havn’t tested it in those areas.

I havn’t noticed any difference against mobs though.

Coltaine.6354:

There has been a change, damage to objects has been nerfed (at least when downscaled).

I’m not sure if this applies to all classes/summoned weapons, but every character i use melee with seems to be taking 2-3 times as long to destroy objects now.

For example, pre patch (21st feb) my mighty blow hammer skill on the guardian was doing 3/4 hp damage to the chaotic material in thaumanova reactor and about 1/5th of the bar to the ac burrows.
Post patch i barely tickle either, both of these happen in downscaled zones, i’m not sure about max level objects as i havn’t tested it in those areas.

I havn’t noticed any difference against mobs though.

Hmm. . .damage against the Subject Alpha crystals did seem really low today, but that could just as easily have been my party sucking. . .

Jezath.7395:

I donmt know about everyone else, but ive had about 8 dungeon runs today, with I would say 10 different people in about 3 or 4 different groups.

Now, today the dungeons, im talking fractals and AC and Arah seemed Waaaay much harder to me and my companions than they normally have been over the last month. We couldent put our finger on it but we wrre getting downed more often and even wiping on some occasions.. Now ive run ac sooo many times and i regurlarly take at least 2 low levels in a group of 80’s with me to teach them the dungeon. Ive also 2 manned Ac before all 3 paths with a gaurdian friend and myself (warrior).Today was really really hard, we couldent understand it.. We were all level 80 on all occasions.

Now have classes been nerfed or mobs buffed in instances in general? Bosses seemed unchanged im talking all the trash mobs me and my friends like to kill for loot. I play a warrior but we had mostly all classes in our groups today at some point.

Ha sanyone noticed this today? Or do you think someone or afew people just were having a bad day and wernt playing to full potential? What i mean is have you guys expereinced ramp up in difficulty for trash mobs in instances today??

The only things i can see that have changed is wvw bonuses as everything reset. I did upgrade my accessorys and i chose something different to ptv but after arah i did a grenth trip and slotted equisite saphires in the ptv accesorys i bought and nothing changed.

Well if you are having loads of downed players, that’s players thinking of playing in the dungeons like they used to be prior to the corpse run mentality. Meaning, Glass Cannoobs. If the fights seem to be taking too long then that’s players who realized that they could not be just Glass Cannoobs anymore and went completely the opposite direction. The key to a good dungeon group is balance, but finding that is not as easy as it once was.