Guild Wars 2

After the upcoming patch lauches, will you ever ever skip those annoying trashmob champions in dungeons anymore? Finally these will be worth the kill! There’s only one downside in this.. now we will keep skipping elites (silver).

Good. Even faster way to clear dungeons. fast farm good money

Maybe now people will actually (try to) kill the champion risen abomination in coe.

Nope. Still going to skip the champ in COE.

I can understand the logic of skipping the champ in COE, but it might be another chance for a lodestone/core now. Might be worth the fight depending on the actual drop rate.

I’m sure most groups will just drop the idea after they give him 25 frenzy stacks

The Mexican Cookie.3690:

I’m sure most groups will just drop the idea after they give him 25 frenzy stacks

Stunning him removes frenzy stacks. There’s always a hope.

Skipping as usual

I get the feeling it will be bad loot. I mean, I get a really bad feeling.

Account-bound materials and skillpoints. Whoopie! :’(

If they are dropping the same things as the champions outside dungeons then probably not. At least no more incentive than previously. Most open world champions are still going to be better in terms of reward for time invested.

Then you still have stupid stuff like the legendary in CM who has absolutely no reward. Not even a chance of a reward. At least the champ in CoE still gives exp and has a chance of dropping something.

The skippable legendaries in HotW are probably not going to be worth it either. Even if we assume they remembered to change those .

My biggest concern is Arah P4 might only give a measly 3 gold instead of 10g and a chance at rare skins.

It’s possible to make more than 10g within 2 hours. Considering Arah P4 takes 3-4 hours, I don’t think a 10g reward is that bad.

Kain Francois.4328:

My biggest concern is Arah P4 might only give a measly 3 gold instead of 10g and a chance at rare skins.

It’s possible to make more than 10g within 2 hours. Considering Arah P4 takes 3-4 hours, I don’t think a 10g reward is that bad.

Path 4 takes 20-30 minutes with superhero speedrunners.

TheMaskedParadigm.3629:

Kain Francois.4328:

My biggest concern is Arah P4 might only give a measly 3 gold instead of 10g and a chance at rare skins.

It’s possible to make more than 10g within 2 hours. Considering Arah P4 takes 3-4 hours, I don’t think a 10g reward is that bad.

Path 4 takes 20-30 minutes with superhero speedrunners.

Can I run with you? Please? Pretty please? :|

Kain Francois.4328:

TheMaskedParadigm.3629:

Kain Francois.4328:

My biggest concern is Arah P4 might only give a measly 3 gold instead of 10g and a chance at rare skins.

It’s possible to make more than 10g within 2 hours. Considering Arah P4 takes 3-4 hours, I don’t think a 10g reward is that bad.

Path 4 takes 20-30 minutes with superhero speedrunners.

Can I run with you? Please? Pretty please? :|

Probably not, but you can learn our tactics, form your own group of farmers, and then farm it on your own. This video may help you: http://youtu.be/edcRz-WaszM

Will probably kill just to test the drop rate…. Anet the ball is in your court.

As i know Anet´s so bad RNG drops etc … will probably skip forever!

I see that the new content coming in august still does not mention anything about a dungeon/group finder in game tool. Can we get a possible ETA on when the community can expect to see it? hopefully in the next content that comes out after the August 6th release.

I don’t know why people like ETA’s so much. ETA’s lead to people getting super mega butt devastated when they aren’t met, due to perhaps quite legitimate reasons.

So people who skip half of the dungeon get even more money…
They are really trying to make people join the dark side.

Wethospu.6437:

So people who skip half of the dungeon get even more money…
They are really trying to make people join the dark side.

but they’ll miss all the awesome champion loot!!!!! :p

Champions all over Tyria are gonna be having their loot drops bettered, I believe the Rapier will have a chance of dropping as well as those purple glowy mini Fellblade swords in the screen shot

People will still skip just because the Drop rate for any “better mats” is still going to pretty darn bad overall, & then probably get stealth nerfed on top of that as time goes on (just like lot of T2 mats were once Anet decided to punish botters)

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TheMaskedParadigm.3629:

Skipping as usual

I imagine the loot will be nothing to write home about so I’ll probably skip them.

TA f/f, 2 champ wardens to kill. Some groups skip the one b4 the archers but theres really no point. Now even less groups will skip it.

The Mexican Cookie.3690:

I’m sure most groups will just drop the idea after they give him 25 frenzy stacks

Wait wait wait… Are you saying people skip him because he’s too hard??? That’s the most ridiculous thing i’ve ever heard.

Well you see, only an elite core of people know that you can just blindly melee and then when the abomination starts swinging you move two steps forward behind him.

Everyone else thinks its better to range, get hit and give it frenzy stacks.

To me, speculation is pointless. I’ll try out the changes and decide if taking on the champions are worth my time. I do have one concern though. Tying everything to the end of a dungeon will just make the leader-dropping/party-kicking issues worse.

There’s also the 30 second refresh timer, if you ever find yourself in need of a frenzy reset.
Lots of ways to approach that guy, really.

Bambu.4270:

Finally these will be worth the kill!

No.

What will probably happen is either the drop rate on champion loot will suck and will still be a waste of time, or they will be non-terrible and Anet will just nerf it.

Casino.net (I really liked this term first time someone used it, such accurate!) is shining with another meaningless RNG mechanic that won’t change attractiveness of the dungeons nor champions inside by a tiny bit. In every possible game people run dungeons for actual rewards, in GW2 you’re runing dungeons to have tiny fraction chance of getting rewarded… with maybe t6 mats at best. C’mon Casino.net – if you don’t want to give us reward for our time then atleast make it fun. Punching sandbags with tons of HP and cheap mechanics isn’t exactly my definition of fun and I feel like I’m not the only one in that regard.