Guild Wars 2

After some testing came to an interesting but probably not a surprising conclusion. Alpha’s armor value is exactly 2,600.

Why is this useful? Knowing that you can get to him and use him as an test dummy that doesn’t hit back (just like the test golems in HotM) with almost no effort, he is a perfect test material for those interested in calculating skill coefficients and similar theorycraft-fü in PvE environment.

Thanks! I never thought of him as a use for that. With that knowledge, I went and tested on him. I found out that with persisting flames and Elementalist dagger mainhand Burning Speed, the flame wall ticks a total of 40 times, and it ticks 30 times without persisting flames.

AlliedKhajiit.2794:

Thanks! I never thought of him as a use for that. With that knowledge, I went and tested on him. I found out that with persisting flames and Elementalist dagger mainhand Burning Speed, the flame wall ticks a total of 40 times, and it ticks 30 times without persisting flames.

I’m guessing the same would apply to burning retreat. Odd it doesn’t apply to fgs though.

Gyler.8150:

AlliedKhajiit.2794:

Thanks! I never thought of him as a use for that. With that knowledge, I went and tested on him. I found out that with persisting flames and Elementalist dagger mainhand Burning Speed, the flame wall ticks a total of 40 times, and it ticks 30 times without persisting flames.

I’m guessing the same would apply to burning retreat. Odd it doesn’t apply to fgs though.

That’s because FGS 4 isn’t a fire field.

Gyler.8150:

AlliedKhajiit.2794:

Thanks! I never thought of him as a use for that. With that knowledge, I went and tested on him. I found out that with persisting flames and Elementalist dagger mainhand Burning Speed, the flame wall ticks a total of 40 times, and it ticks 30 times without persisting flames.

I’m guessing the same would apply to burning retreat. Odd it doesn’t apply to fgs though.

Actually, burning speed is really strange in that it doesn’t seem to lay down a particular amount of “fire walls”. Burning retreat on the other hand, you can visibly count 6 and they tick once a second for a total of 36 hits w/o PS and 48 with, however at Burning speed seems really strange in that, for being on the ground for 6 seconds with PS and ticking 40 times, it would mean that there’s 6.6 flame walls on the ground, which makes no sense. Same without PS, it ticks 30 times over 4 seconds which means there would be 7.5 flame walls. It’s a strange skill, and they should probably update the tooltips on them to properly reflect what they actually do.

Huh… How do you use Alpha as a tes tdummy? Someone mind explaining, please?

Easiest with a thief but doable solo with every class except mesmer and necro. Or, can always get an friendly ele to summon you a LH and do the jump with the conjure.

A Phalanx warrior and an S/F engie spamming Shatterstone should be able to get you to 25 stacks of might and vuln and permafury plus the ele can get people without leaps over the gate. Might be worth making a DPS video series of so we can shut up the spreadsheet naysayers.

Necros can do that just fine. Spectral Walk allows you jumping in the air, combine it with flesh worm and you can jump three times as high/far as normal.