Guild Wars 2

Bloody Zac.8960:

So, I’m just curious on what the consensus is with “stacking” during dungeon runs. I mainly run Ascalonian Catacombs, and in every group I run with, anytime we get into a boss fight the leader will yell, “Stack here!”.

Then, the entire group scrunches up into this corner, and then you mash your weapon keys until the boss is dead. From what I understand, it glitches some bosses to where they can’t use their full skill set (I could be wrong, and maybe there’s another underlying reason that I just don’t know). I see this specifically with Kohler, Colossus Rumblus, the ghost fight as you’re setting up the traps, and with the Spider.

Personally, I hate this mechanic. Getting into a corner and mashing my 4 key isn’t exactly a fun time. But I’m curious, do people enjoy this? As I haven’t ventured out into the other dungeons, is “stacking” just as prevalent there as in AC?

Stacking is not a game mechanic but a a choice

First thing you have to understand about gw2 is that the mast majority of the players are sheep’s and what I mean is that they do what ever they see or what ppl tells them with 0 understanding of why. So you going to have a lot of pugs yelling stack with 0 clue why.

Now the game is not about stacking but about being as close as possible and here is why!

1) LOS pull:
LOS or (loss of sight) is a smart way to pull because it bring the mobs to you instead of you running to them and keep all range mob at a distance close to you so you wont need to be chasing after them.

2) Buff:
A lot of the buff on this game have a very short range of 240 distance, forcing players to keep close to each other if they want to benefit from it

3) Cleave or Aoe damage :
Because of the fact that melee build is the top dps in gw2 a lot of player choice
It over range build, now since melee has a short range distance, to kill trash efficiently they need to keep all mobs as close as possible to hit multiple targets

DonQuack.9025:

If you are on the forums you are the minority

+10

People still don’t manage reading through threads before ‘answering’ OP for the 25th time.