Guild Wars 2

Traps are boring.

Not even fun.

Traits suck booty.

I wanted spear.

It’s a bugged preview. It happens to me all the time.

I didn’t start getting mean players till around scale 30+, and rightfully so because if everyone has done fractals at least 20 times, it gets frustrating if someone doesn’t understand how to do something.

Otherwise keep your pet on passive and most people won’t say anything. Sometimes I get the feeling that the people who make these threads don’t get kicked for playing non-meta, but get kicked for not knowing how to dodge….

Just an idea my friend and I were talking about. As much as I wanted to use traps, I personally found it really hard to find room for traps over the utility that shouts/other skills bring. So what if Dragonhunters received a 4th utility slot only for traps and only if you trait for it (grandmaster).

Here’s what I’m thinking:

Change Hunter’s Fortification to also give a 4th utility slot for traps. It makes sense fortifying something means you’re strengthening something and traps help strengthen defense.

I feel that Big Game Hunter and Heavy light are slightly better than Hunter’s Fortitude, especially since Guardians have “Hold the Line” which is already on a 35 second CD- a mere 10 seconds more than Spear of Justice, which is the shortest cooldown virtue to proc Hunter’s Fortitude.

In PVP, Heavy light will probably be favored for it’s knockback and in PVE, Big Game Hunter will probably be favored for it’s damage buff and vulnerability. Adding the 4th utility slot onto Hunter’s Fortitude would make it more pickable.

Also, another note is that all the traps are 45 seconds long meaning that in most fights aside from bosses, you’ll probably be able to place one trap, maybe two if your party lacks dps, before the fight is over. So this idea would be drastically gamebreaking. Even in PVP, the 1 second activation time makes it kinda obvious a trap is coming.

What do you all think? I love guardian but I’m iffy on the Dragonhunter. I’m just trying to think of ways to make traps more viable because they do seem fun to use and I WANT to use them, but I don’t want to make my party suffer because of it.

I honestly don’t think it’s too much to ask for considering how much Mesmer’s are getting to their toolbox. cough using skills twice and 16 second quickness cough.

I’ve been testing some interactions between the new Dragon Hunter virtues and some of the traits that modified the old virtues. I found that:

Wrath of Justice: “Striking an enemy with justice’s active effect triggers signet of wrath.”

Does not proc signet of wrath when using Spear of Justice, namely it does not proc immobilize.

I checked some of the other traits that modified the old virtues and they seemed to work as intended, however it was confusing because all of the trait text still refer to the virtues by their old name and not the modified virtue names if you go DH.

Am I right to assume that all the traits that modified the old virtues will modify the new virtues?

If so, perhaps a nice small change would be to change the tooltips to say “Wings of Resolve” instead of “Virtue of Resolve.” (for example) if you pick DH as a spec.

This is from a pvp perspective. I’m not a pvp god or anything, just your average player who also sometimes visits the forums.

I like the Reaper design and I love the animations. I really do feel the slow part of what Robert Gee was describing, but I’m not exactly feeling like an unstoppable monster… In fact, I’m dying even faster now. I don’t feel like I’m doing a lot of damage with GS.

Also, Reaper’s Shroud is really cool and interesting, however my biggest gripes are that Death’s Charge doesn’t stop at the enemy. It makes fighting on ledges really cumbersome. I know this won’t get changed- I’m just voicing my opinion.

Also, I really enjoyed Death Shroud because Life Transfer could siphon life force which allowed you to stay in DS longer. I don’t know about you but I’m losing my Reaper’s Shroud reeeaally fast. Maybe allowing Infusing Terror to siphon life force as well could work a bit better?

I pretty much never pvp and only PVE. I mainly PUG most of the time too. Any tips on what runes I should use?

I agree. Sometimes it’s ridiculously hard to find my mouse when there’s flashing lights everywhere. I didn’t really notice it before till I started doing fractals, but it’s hard to time dodges when I can’t even see the npc’s movement fast the visual effects.

I’ve played around 1k hours or so. I’ve never had to ping gear nor have I been kicked for my class. I usually run a mix of soldier’s and zerkers too.

Honestly I bet the majority of people who post here saying they had to ping gear/were kicked due to class, were probably kicked due to not being level 80.

ITT: I don’t want the trinity… I want the holy duo- healer and dps.

I’m sorry but if you don’t know how to get on the same map as your guildies, then you still have a lot to discover about the game, let alone endgame. Perhaps your feeling of unfinishedness is just ignorance.

I would throw money at a large gemstore update.

I’m personally going with the scientific hammer. It’s as if that skin was MADE for engineer.

Could someone explain what exactly is going on or how this farm works? I was on Bloodtide coast the other day at this place called The Underbelly and saw a bunch of naked people standing in a corner, and occasionally some candy corn monsters would come out. They told me not to attack so I didn’t and I stuck around and asked if they could explain to me what they were doing but they didn’t speak English. They just told me to leave lol

The first time I ever saw a bunch of naked people standing in the corner, they told me they were role playing lol. Now I know they were farming I guess.

I think p2 is pretty fun and not too difficult. Plus you get so many bags and chests

I have about 900 hours across all characters I play and I’ve never gotten anything worth over 5g I believe. Though like 2 months ago I got an ascended weapon chest from SW conviently before the stat change update. Aside from that, a month later a pile of regurgitated armor box dropped for me at triple trouble. I’m sad now because that’s 900 hours of Rng for two ascended items :/. I’ve already used all my luck I suppose

Does anyone have any tips for the individual bosses in Arah p2? I got through Belka on my warrior no problem because I could out of combat by the bone wall, but I’m having some trouble with the Abom because I’m missing the timing on his AOE as well as when he goes berserk.

Does anyone have any tips for him and for the other bosses when I get there? Most vids on YouTube are just speed runs and not really advice or tips/tricks.

I don’t see how people get offended by selling paths. Those who are buying know full well what they are paying for. That’s why they pay and wait in the party till the party gets filled.

Just a quick question here- I’m interested in trying to solo Arah. What is the easiest/best path to solo and what class should I use?

Also any good vids online that I can watch/learn?

lordkrall.7241:

There are a grand total of two things in the whole PvE-part of the game that require any sort of organization whatsoever. Is that really such a big deal?

Triple Trouble Wurm and to a lesser extent Tequatl are supposed to be for organized groups. It really is as simple as that. If you do not want to make organized groups, there are over 2500 other events around the world that you can complete.

Well yeah it kinda is a big deal in my opinion. Sure, EVOS facilitates a triple decap without teamspeak, but everything is still fairly organized as far as text-only goes. The only NA groups I know that do triple decaps for large groups are EVOS, TTS and EG (not sure if they actually do triple decaps), and TTS requires teamspeak to get on the map.

My biggest problem is failing when everyone does their job because it’s a dps/healthpool issue!

Also today is like the 3rd, 4th? day in a row failing. I’m really getting bummed now. Moreso than when I fail Teq because there are always people taxing in for Teq because it doesn’t require the setup Triple Trouble does.

Hi all,

I know at this point I’m probably beating a dead horse with a stick on account of all the Teq posts (so if you don’t want to read a rantyish post, that’s fine), but I’m honestly having the most trouble right now with the Evolved Jungle Worm.

First I’d like to say that I love the design of this boss and I love how each group must work together to win. I’ve personally been running with EVOS (Evolved Jungle Scouts). Everyday I get on the map 30-40 minutes early 11:30PM est, and for the most part prior to the health buff, we’d succeed with a triple decap with just enough time to spare.

Now if you don’t know how EVOS conducts their Triple Trouble decaps, they do so without requiring TeamSpeak. They have three commanders (bless their heats and fingers) who type out detailed explanations on what to do for whatever head their leading. Afterwards, when the worms spawn, they also give out orders in chat so everyone knows what to do.

I personally like to run Amber head, and almost every day, people listen to the commander and do what they’re told, ie: don’t attack abom, stack might, grab harpoon, etc.

It’s really beautiful to see things working out in just a random pug.

But with the health buff, we’ve been failing more and it absolutely sucks because even with a full map, even with competent commanders (who often times drop food for everyone) and competent players, even with all the teamwork, we still fail because of lack of DPS.

And it really sucks the fun out of everything because even with all the work and time we still fail and it’s disheartening when every gear is working correctly but the machine still fails and there’s nothing I can do about it.

That’s really the part that gets me the most. Even when everything is working we still fail just because of dps :/

I was with EVOS last night and we successfully pulled off a Triple Decap (no Team Speak) even though Amber missed a burn phase during Phase 1. One of the of the other heads had to decap early to give Amber more time to decap to make up. The crits are also in the hitbox where most people stack to kill as well so it’s not too bad.

Granted we were able to glitch Amber head on the wall for Phase 2 for most of the fight which gave us more time to dps and not chase. I’ll write more when I do it tonight again.

If anyone from EVOS is out there, you guys are great! I wait like 40 minutes every night just to get on the right map and it’s worth it imo. I’ve only failed a few times running with you guys.

Edit: we finished with no time left.

I was just there too. I’m really disappointed in this health buff because the MKII didn’t need it. It’s already got a ton of health and takes a while to do. Not to mention it doesn’t drop anything worth getting like Teq or TT does. What makes it worse is that the majority of people stand on that box and auto from range which doesn’t give crits. You have to melee the boss which proves somewhat difficult on MKII because of its electric fields.

tl;dr: health buff was good on some bosses (fire ele) but MKII didn’t need it. It’s just obnoxious on him.

I’m running the meta pve power grenadier build, with 6/6/0/0/2 that’s found on Metabattle:

http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Engineer_-_Power_Grenadier

But I’m having a really hard time staying alive in boss fights. It might be me not being able to dodge and go through the full kit rotation at the same time, but I feel like Healing Turret isn’t doing enough to keep me alive.

Any thoughts on what I should do? I’m used to playing classes that can take a lot of damage like guardian, warrior, and necro.

I like using shield on guardian when I’m troll zerging.

Just face the facts. The devs of Anet don’t actually care about the player base. Sure, you see Gaile posting on here often, and I applaud her for her work, but how much affect do you think her insight actually influences the devs. If you go to the engineer subforum, there’s a post with over 1000 replies about giving engineers the ability to toggle their toolkits. When a member of Anet finally replied after a year (Gaile) they basically told her they have no intent in the near future of changing anything. I’ll probably get chastised for this but I honestly think the communication team on the forums is just here to give people a false sense the the game devs are paying attention. If a community had been begging for end game content and more PVE, why would you focus on rehauling traits to screw over new players and then overhaul pvp?

/endrant

YES PLEASE! A lot of people say to take it slow, enjoy the game, smell the roses, etc , but I’ve already done that. Four times. The game is getting stale and I’m getting antsy for an expansion already. I don’t get as much enjoyment from exploration as I used to and it seems like nowadays I only enjoy tinkering with builds on my 80s in WvW.

So my friend and I are on different servers which means we can’t WvW together. We play for maybe an hour to two hours a night and usually do a couple dungeons, then level some alts, then explore a bit on them, but most of the time it gets to the point where we just walk around Lion’s Arch and ask each other what we want to do so I’m looking for specific suggestions for what everyone else does other than the generic do what you want to do answer.

Meet my guardian, Galahad of Divinity.