Guild Wars 2

Sorry I forgot to say that I am EU.

Still looking

Hello guys,

My guild does their GMs on sundays, unfortunately I don’t have time on sundays to play.

I am looking for a guild that does their guild mission on fridays (or under the week) and is willing to let me guest and help them out.

I am familiar with all GMs.

Thanks for your kind help

Paradox.5498:

So many ppl got 5 fractal focuses

You know whats funny, that I actually have 5 focuses which I use (different sigill) but havent got a single sword in all my runs. I got every weapon by now and just need the sword. I was so happy when that one guy was talking about weapon containers, i stopped doing fracs until update. I cant express how disappointed I am now.

We probably have to wait one more year then until they open the level cap and can see the weapon chests… Im not getting my sword … Im just not gettin it…

Thanks for announcing something, bringing up my hopes and then just not implementing it. Seriously fractals rewards are so out of balance. As soon I get my sword (which probably will take years) I will never visit this place again.

Actually I think the best way would be to be able to put 3 fractal weapons + 1 specific component in the MF and get your desired weapon. The way it is now, its no fun. Im’ against purchasing weapons with relics since those can be too easily farmed from daily 10 while with the other way it takes some time to get three weapons you dont want to use.
I do daily 48 and 38 and sometimes even two of both for weeks now and still dont have my sword and thats all I want. Im so sick of dredge, I just want to puke everytime I see it popping up.
What fractals is at the moment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBDi0iM2kcU

It probably has been said often enough, but I’m gonna say it again.
The Open-World player-limitation is just in no way acceptable, it is now. I wasted like 5 hours now and fought him TWICE. I have to say, I enjoyed both fights but its a kitten waste of time for 15 minutes fighting. Everywhere are overflows and when I finally find a kind person thats on a server, the main server is also full. Then when the fight is over in the main-server you have to camp for the next spawn and cant do anything else, as this wouldnt be already enough pain when I once made it, I had a freaking client crash while waiting and couldnt get in again.
Find a solution for this, seriously, I’d like to do some dragon slaying stuff (my guild only does dungeons), too without waiting forever and doing nothing else. This is probably the worst implementation ever.

- Im not saying condition or whatever builds are better than raw-dps builds
- If someone is not using the max-dps build, he is not leeching, maybe he cant play better because he would die then and is contributing at his personal best. That makes him maybe a bad player but not an idiot because he found at least his maximum.
- I haven’t measured times with perfect organized groups vs pug speedruns, but depending on the dungeon the time is not changing thaaat much. And at least for me 5 minutes don’t matter at all. (Sometimes its even faster to hop onto a random group compared to organizing a perfect group, facing the time you would loose by organizing, just saying for all you time maniacs)
- Sure guard can burn dungeons with sword faster, for me I felt like a robot and had not so much fun. But the perception of emotions you get from this game differ from person to person from playstyle to playstyle.

Take it that way, if theres a super-perfect build that will never make u die and you have perfect kill times. All you have to do is only pressing 3 buttons in the same order all the time. Would that be an enjoyment on long-term? Well content right now is pretty much this if youre playing with the right people. And its not really alot fun after two weeks anymore.

@Cookie Sure those people exist. At least I would feel very ashamed showing off Arah Armour or DM if I haven’t achieved it myself. But I guess thats a matter of attitude.

I find it more ridiculous to pay for something like that. Plus I don’t think people got kicked for that, just someone who enjoys solo/duoing Arah.

Well a kick on the third fractal is maybe a bit undeserved for that, I think I wouldve carried on with you with a bit of an annoyed taste. Though you made a mistake by not asking them if they want to kill the chickens and if they confronted you with that you should apologise. I think both sides overreacted a bit.

Its soloable yes, did it with maxed out zerk warrior. If your rotation is right, its not much of a deal.

Push I am still looking! Also made some adjustments.

Shiren.9532:

This is basically it in a nut shell. Against non-threats the sword and pet are fine, but once the battles go on longer or bosses become more threatening and timely dodges and precision position becomes important, the sword becomes your worst enemy and the pet dies. This situation is made worse in a pug, where bosses don’t just melt and you need to have full control of your resources during the fight. I don’t mean this in a disrespectful way, but that video shows basically an auto-attack spam for 30 seconds, content like that isn’t a good barometer for build viability.

In an organised speed clear group under ideal conditions a single ranger can do fine, if the fight is as short as this one, the sword, pet and spirit won’t reach their limitations. In a longer fight or just one which requires more dodges and you will often get killed in the sword animation and the pet and spirit will die as soon as the boss looks at them.

A build like this one really isn’t half as good outside of premade groups. While an axe warrior has guaranteed access to his banners (they don’t die) and full DPS as long as he is alive (no pet to get killed) the ranger doesn’t enjoy these luxuries. Any other class or weapon will give you an easier time positioning yourself during combat and allow you to dodge normally. The sword just doesn’t do that.

Variations of this build have been run by different rangers for a while now. Under ideal conditions it plays well, but throw in a speed bump or two and it derails faster than most builds. I’ve heard stories from players claiming to almost exclusively run the main hand sword in all dungeon/fractal content while keeping themselves and the pet alive but I’ve never seen it done. I’m sure there are some players that minimise the issues of the sword control and survivability of the pet and spirit but that’s not going to fly for most players.

Pretty much this

Broadicea.8294:

obal.3218:

I was thinking arah path 3 and some fractal 48 bosses. I can fill the roll of anything but the ranger.

For arah path 3
Guardian, Mesmer, 2 Rangers, 1 Engineer
vs
Guardian, Mesmer, 2 Warriors, 1 Elementalist

For fractal bosses
2 Guardians, 2 Rangers, 1 Engineer
vs
what I had for my videos

I would agree with this, it seems fair and the longer length of arah p3 compared to CoF would make any difference more readily observable.

If its gonna happen I’d start with cof, simply because it requires the lessest effort and if the time is significant slower I honestly wouldnt have the motivation to see the it in longer paths. Start little then broaden the range.

Chopps.5047:

Ok great, looks like we have 3 people willing to give it a go. I can probably play in roughly 6 to 8 hours (on “vacation” suffering severe gw2 withdrawl) so I’ll message you guys in game then to try and get this organized. Also, I can record

Edit: in light of vox’s and broad’s observations, we likely cannot claim perfection but hey, it’s still worth a shot right?

Sounds fair, I can spent some gold on re-gearing its no problem if the costs are reasonable to a point. Also I’m EU bound.

Broadicea.8294:

However, since we’re actually getting around to scientifical discussions here, I’d be willing to help test out.

Dito

Yasi.9065:

Frost spirit has quite some range, you dont have to plunk it down just below boss as I see most people doing.

Yes true, still spirits lack too much imo and even if put aside they are likely to die. Though I haven’t tried so much with them.

Yasi.9065:

Until about 4 months ago I was in a guild with a really good necro and ranger. Always did my dungeon runs with them. Both tried switching to warrior because it became fotm, and we realized, it doesnt make a big difference at all. They played their warriors good also, but got bored by it.

I got the complete different experience, I mained a ranger for myself for 1k hours, tried different stuff and after I learned to play guard and warrior I felt a lot more useful for the whole team. I wouldn’t say of myself that I’m the best über-ranger in this game but I find it quite difficult to stay alive at fotm 48+ if I go melee. If I go with lb its more of a faceroll game, but I feel useless then because my warrior can go melee provide nice buffs, survive easier and do a giant load of damage.

Its true, ranger dps is not bad, but as you said there are alot of kitten “1” shortbow rangers out there. And a good warrior outdamages a good ranger imo by far (maybe not in this theory crafting where you hit a non-attacking robot but in real situations) .

How about bosses with AoE, your frost spirit is as good as dead while banners still stand in the ground, also pet is very difficult to keep alive (though its possible)

As I said, to deal good dps with ranger is just a way to situational, at CoE you’ll probably loose your endurance damage boost, frost spirit and pet.

If they boost spirits and make pet dodge when master dodges ranger maybe become more useful one day.
(https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/ranger/Suggestion-on-spirits)

And that’s situations where the theory is pretty much useless.

nemeth.4196:

I see where they get the impression, it just pains me to see these people then come out and say something as stupid as Almdudler did, and then see the community applaud him for it instead of pointing out that it’s utter bollocks.

Hey, I never claimed that my numbers are the best proof, I even wrote that I’m a bit unsure about them, so dont call me stupid. Also, first this whole theorycrafting thing is freaking annoying me, I thought it would be usefull to actually compare the numbers from both theorycrafts.
Secondly, what can I do if Guang wants to proof something and then tries to proof if with slave driver? I gladly take my time if you give me numbers from a longer boss and compare them and I’m pretty sure the results wont differ alot. The numbers maybe differ not that extreme like at slave driver, but you dont have to be a genius to read out the obvious out of a short test.

nemeth.4196:

Then you hit the dummy with your rotation again. You continue this for the duration of expected boss fight (noone cares about burst in PvE). In other MMOs, it usually is couple of minutes. For this game, I’m not sure how long does a boss fight take in a proper group (I run with guildies, we don’t care about clear times as long as we have fun). My uneducated guess would be 1m.

I was guessing someone will reply this, and I quite agree to you, as longer the benchmark of dps testing is as more accurate it is. I just choose the slave driver because it was not a lot of effort compared to long fights to pick out every number, also there were already videos given. Also dont forget that CD is also affecting the ranger utilities and in longer fights he may dodge and loose his 10% dmg etc.

So I’m definitly not saying warrior is doing exactly 1.530170243 more damage than ranger but I still think this small test speaks for itself (also Guang was recording on purpose the slave driver as I suppose, he can’t be wrong at good test objects :P).

nemeth.4196:

Just beacuse warrior does in it’s first 7s 15k dps doesn’t represent the fact that for the next 8s when he waits for his cooldowns he does bugger all (exagerating, but you get the gist). And I’m starting to see why Guang doesn’t care to post any videos, because this is what happens.

Cooldowns for warrior arent that long that you would loose significant time to start a rotation again. And when you use auto-axe in the meanwhile you probably still out-dps other classes.

nemeth.4196:

That’s why burst clasess are useless in PvE. It’s nice to have 20k DPS in the first 5s of a fight, but if your next 15s you’re doing 3k DPS, you’re a wasted slot.

I think there are really alot boss where burst is good.

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

I used to make videos to illustrate my point. The problem is that people literally only look at the biggest number that appears at any point in the video. I’ve got like, four videos on my Youtube channel of warriors being outdpsed by three different classes, and the response was pretty much “BUT MY HB DOES 40K”. I had this exact same discussion a while back, of both my ranger and pet hitting between 3-4k per swing in an unbuffed group in CoF (which isn’t even level 80) and what I got in response was a bunch of screencaps of warrior HB numbers.

Okey, just before I start, I’m definitly not a dedicated theorycrafter and don’t know so much all the calculations for damage and so maybe my analyses is wrong. Even if this video

Strife’s Warrior at the Slave Driver: http://youtu.be/EUhUj1aL0yA

is a bit outdated I think it still reflects the warrior damage (I dont know actual numbers from now, since I only play very passive now)

then I took your videos (I believe this is your channel)
http://youtu.be/i8QQfrcam-0 ranger
and
http://youtu.be/Ac2NGGjjPsU guard

then I watched them frame by frame and typed the hit numbers into my calcuators and stopped time from first hit -> death, results are following:

Strife’s Warrior: 106327/7s —> 15190DPS
Your Ranger: 138978/14s --> 9927DPS
Your Guard: 108945/12s —> 9079DPS

I did not count in the condition damage since they would neutralize each other to a difference of dps that is insignificant in my opinion.

Even if this is just a benchmark on slavedriver the result is pretty obvious:
Its right, ranger and guard can do good dps but warrior can do alot better and also is more suited for more situations while the ranger dps build you use is very situational (e.g. 10%damage only when endurance is full)

Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong or underline my statement, since I’m not 100% sure about it myself, just my attempt to contribute

Edit: had to add this

On the basis of group buffs, DPS potential, and overall usefulness, at least in PvE, from best to worst:

Engineer
Guardian
Ranger
Warrior
Mesmer
Elementalist
Thief
Necromancer

Note how high ranger is on that list.

What I dont get is Guang that different people offered you help to even get the classes you would need for your idea and you dont jump on it. Calculations are nice, sure but nothing is more of a proof than an actual video. The only thing you should not do by recording a video (and someone already mentioned it) is to be like: “uh obviously I can’t use this and that now so just imagine blabla”

Since I really like my ranger I can help out if you bring the people together and help testing it. Though as I mentioned earlier at the moment I am on the other side of the argument as you are, but I like to test things

I feel like a single discipline banner is more efficient than all spirits together.

If you want to make spirits any usefull you need to radically change them and not only make some little tweaks.

Some suggestions:
1. Make the percentage to activate the spirit buff on hit to 70% without traited
2. Remove the Spiritual Knowledge and add some other trait which increases the granted buffs on spirits (examples: raise Frost Spirit to 15% damage, Sun Spirit also gives weakness paired with fire)
3. Add to the Spirits Unbound trait to make them dodge when you dodge, because nothing sucks more than a spirit that dies by every AOE in a boss encounter.
4. Storm Spirit: throw away the swiftness and add confusion apply.
5. Stone Spirit: throw away the quicksand and add the special ability to create an projectile reflecting shield.

If you increase the spirits by far, ranger may be a option to give strong team buffs.

I “main” a ranger, before not being such time-run oriented I did quite fine with it, though after leveling mesmer then warrior and guard as class for dungeons to 80 I started to feel really bad when picking my ranger in dungeons. I run full zerk on my ranger and can do half damage my warrior can do while he even may have some defense. I feel betrayed by a-net for not caring about ranger and I feel kitten ed because I crafted Kudzu for my ranger and some other expensive stuff, now it seems a waste.
The only thing a ranger is quite useful for, is for long-range combat which you don’t need in this game (its no-where part of time saving)
I really love my ranger as an character for all the energy and enthusiasm I put into her but its a fact that it’s nowhere close to a warriors or guards efficiency.

And I can understand peoples ranger hate, I think I only see SB 11111 spamming rangers which probably are 1/3 of effective as a good ranger is. And in a non-warr filled group I mean warhorn-buff at least fury to your allies, it’s something…

Hello my fellow Europeans!

I’ve lately tried to look for guilds who focus on clearing dungeons in fast times and are able to pop up fractals 48+ groups, but I rather end up in a extreme hardcore guild or a casual one. In the time I’ve made nice contacts to make smooth run with. But it kinda annoys me to play contact wars before I cant start a run.
I think many of us are in a guild but rarely play with them, because they prefer to speedclear with other players or are just fed up with all the basic question every day (sorry to say, but there are soo many obvious questions I hear every day).
If you’re already in a guild like I will describe, Im very interested to join, too

Im looking for some guys who maybe have the same vision of a guild like I do, I can’t afford the the time and energy to start something alone again.
My vision:
Having a nice bunch of people who focus on clearing dungeons in good times, having fun developing new tactics and maybe make a tPvP team. No “forced” atmosphere!
Some approximate rules to participate (which are stretchable from case2case):
-Willing to represent all time once guild is set and alive. Except for guild missions if we dont have them.
- Having at least a mesmer, guardian or warr max geared. (Im not saying that I wouldnt run with other classes, and for fun its sure doable, but you should have at least one of these classes in case it’s needed)
- Being fractals level 40+
- Option to use teamspeak if needed.
- Experience in all dungeons
- Ability to take and give constructive critism, realize own mistakes and laugh about trivial failures

If anyone may have about the same imagination he is free to contact me with any feedback. If you’re interested but in a guild which you can’t leave for this project, hey I dont expect anyone to leave his guild instantly for an idea which ends unkown, just make sure you will leave if the project is successful.

PS: I wrote earlier “again”. Yes I owned a guild once but after so much stuff to manage I rarely came to play and decided to migrate into another guild. It would be possible to reanimate it since there are already some upgrades done there.

Thanks for reading

Hi,

I was wondering if there is some guild who have a playerbase that can fit my needs::

- Knowledge of smooth dungeon runs in all dungeons, people who know their class, skipping useless trash etc.
- Ability to form a fractals 40+ group
- Possibility to use TS3, I normally listen to music while playing but for tough stuff its nice to use, normal Arah and CoE run for example should go well enough without.
- Have a nice and mature atmosphere
- Optional: Guild Missions, but if its not available I want to be able to play mercenary for other guilds for commendations.
- Optional: Im also playing some pvp from time to time, though I wouldnt consider myself as the unbeaten player there

I’m someone who is looking for optimizing runs in tactis and speed, but I dont mind it 100% serious, so if someone misses a dodge or two once, its fine.
Also its not mandatory for me to have everyone running 100% zerk, if builds have a little defense mechanism, I’m fine with that.

I can bring:
- Speed Running Experience in all dungeons/paths (bit old knowledge when it comes to CM or TA though)
- Personal Fractal 52 level with ranger and level 26 with guard.
- Guard, Warrior, Mesmer, Ranger, Ele all full geared and ability to use them correct.
- Experienced in smaller guild leading and organizing groups
- Willing to represent full time

Not looking for super big guilds. Up to 100 players is okay. If you dont have alot players it could be nice to have a fixed time a day where you start to run some stuff.

Feel free to contact me anywhere

Thanks.

Im not a maniac Arah runner, but done it enough of times with different classes and I had the same issue until I just started dodgin regardless I’m in a circle or not. But lately I figured out that it is maybe a line of fire issue. Meaning that if there is an red circle behind you the projectile will hit you! Last time I tried this, it worked pretty well, I mean just don’t stay infront of a circle in the line of fire. I didnt try this on enough runs to confirm though. Anyone else? I cant believe the draw issue lol!

Zumy.6318:

But you guy want me and my account with 2600 hours of playtime, 7k achievementpoints and 5 legendaries and lots of dedication put in banned?

Just out of your jealousy, because either you are a minipet flipper and lost potential money or you are mad that you did not notice the exploit, when it was profitable.

Sorry but for that much experience in the game, you shouldve noticed that as an unintended thing.
Im not jealous neither because I am a flipper nor because I lost potential money. I came here to complain about this issue and the ignorance about some players, why should I feel the need to have used something I complain about? Kind of pathetic and contradictory, but yea there are people like that, but Im not one of them.

Zumy.6318:

PD: I did around 6 forges and got some rares back that I stored. Arrest me!

If you re-read my post, I said if you did heavy abuse which you did not, so in your case I dont care, because you werent abusing the heck out of it. I only care about the people who were rich enough and did to exploit this with not a big risk at losing money because statistically they would gain alot if they keep forging (this especially applies for the first people who discovered this) . And if you know you turn out almost guranteed big profit, then you know something is wrong.

Okay fine, as far the interested is not that high, we still need two people and maybe someone as backup and already have 2 guards and one warrior. If there is no one else interested I guess I will cancel it.

Zumy.6318:

Who the frikken chicken cares about your pixel gold and trading?

I dont. Anet doesn’t. Just asked my mum, she doesnt neither.

The biggest QQ always comes from those who didnt notice until it wasnt lucrative anymore or didnt have the funds to participate.

You sound a bit like someone who is afraid of getting banned due heavy abuse, if you did so I hope you get!

But I only blame the heavy abusers, if you tried like 2,3 times and figured its obviously not correct to convert rare event for 4 gold into alot bigger profits, okay you did something wrong but at least not abused the kitten out of it.

But the biggest mistake comes from A-net how ins worlds name is anyone overseeing such a trivial thing? I really started questioning their testing team with the last patches. If there is even one…

I honestly dont get this, reef rider can not be forged. Why make then another event one forgeable? Its the same with the selllable stuff, helloween skins are sellable then introduce a new event with skins, not sellable. I dont get this system and its kind of annoying.

Nikaido.3457:

You can’t really talk unless you’ve tried and seen for yourself these classes in full zerk build. Guardian has far better dps than mesmer overall in dungeons when built as full zerker with damage traits.

Ok maybe youre right, I never tried full zerk on guardian because it will become very useless as soon the group needs some support and I am the only guard (as I said I mostly pug). Do you have any numbers how high a zerk guard hits average? Just out of curiosity.

Nikaido.3457:

dps guardian still has better dps than a lot of classes in this game, mesmer included.

It always depends, but in general I would definitly not say that .

Nikaido.3457:

“This game is all about dodging” you can’t constantly avoid the immobilize in arah p3 from the hunter while meleeing crusher and also avoiding his attacks. You put up a wall of reflection and suddenly you negate any potential immobilize. The war don’t need condition removal, stun breakers or anything even remotely defensive because the guards helps some and also gives regeneration. (And yes, I know frenzy is a stun breaker but we use it for dps we don’t keep it out of cooldown just for the sake of breaking stun.)

ofc there are always examples, but cmon in fact if you cant dodge, you wont make a great career.

I see you use the words “we” “ours” so I guess youre playing with a premade group/guild? Well I dont do that alot and in pugs you never know if the warriors already have removals, and stuff. Neither I know when I play warrior, how good is this guard? Will he remove my conditions? So obviously I cant go 100% pure zerk dps.

Its just my experience that Ive done often alot better with one guard than with two, I think its because there are alot guards who just go full-tank and spam staff and dont know how to support their team correctly while dealing some damage themselves, which is in fact -as you said too- not needed twice in a group. If it comes to pro-premade groups, its of course a different view.

Seriously guys, do you ever learn? I stopped after 20€ on halloween, then I never bought boxes with rng skins again… learn to control yourself.
This may be fun for very rich ppl either in gw or rl but dont spend your hope on it, except you dont have better uses for your gold.

swiftpaw.6397:

same deal for me, then every so often I get a whisper ‘fotm 48?’

and I say ‘no, pls dont make me go back there, you cant make me go back there, I’m getting facial spasms… my eye twitches…’
And then they say ‘Geared team, all friends of mine, quick run, promise!’
and then my OCD kicks in.. And I have to do it, I have to jump in that fotm 48 with the ‘friend’ and the super amazing geared team he has presented before me like an offering.

5 minutes in… Mesmer is in full clerics gear for god know what reason..
10 minutes in.. Other guardian hasn’t touched his virtues once and is running two ranged sets.
20 mins in… someone is using hounds of Balthazar..
30 mins in.. Warrior is boasting about how he has almost 30k health.
40 mins in… I’m kiting grawl shaman around while the idiots try to res someone who’s died on one of the lava pools and isn’t regenning. Other guardian isn’t using reflects or shouts… I see a sword of justice bouncing around somewhere and he’s got his tome of wrath out, there’s no feedback either.
50 mins in.. mesmer finally remembers he has timewarp on his bar.. uses it when its not needed.
60 mins in.. it’s dredge fractal.. they bust out their magic find sets and start pinging their drops like they’re smart motherkitteners. Slowly the team inches its way to the end, after dieing repeatedly.

Run ends after 2 hours or so.. I have lost my sanity and have carpel tunnel from pushing my guardian to the limit to keep kittens alive. Tell myself never again. Next day someone asks me again. I cry.

I feel you. And the worst thing is everyone is relying on the guards, honestly I dont understand those groups with 2 guards mandatory, one of my smoothest runs lately was 1 warr / 2 rangers / 1 nec / 1guard (after plenty guards left when they saw our composition lol). I just want to cry when I see people getting hit by every second arrow by shaman on 48. Actually this game is all about dodging and every class can do that.

“LF1 GUARD 3RD STAGE SHAMAN/CLIFFSIDE posts, quickly copy-paste their names”

I did that actually, but Im to lazy to keep an eye on it the whole time because spots are gone fast and when Im playing I want to play and not monitor stuff for 2 hours. Also I came across that there arent that much spots on 3rd stage. I prefer to do alot runs once in one evening so I get this stuff done at short time. And to raise the first levels its probably alot faster than monitoring for spots.

Edit: just joined a level 32 fotm run in 3rd fractal shaman… wasted 20 minutes trying to help them, after they werent able to dodge, I just cried

Good post, I agree with almost all Points.

Though I dont think Cliffside needs tweaking, its fine.

Also to your reward System, I would leave point 5 out. And raise the levels you suggested by 10 each.

Of course they have to finally remove this ridicoulus level cap!

Hey guys,
do you have an alt which you want to use in fractals but he is just fractal lvl 1 and so not worth bringing to an 48 run? Then you figured out that to level him/her up, you wouldve to go with some very unexperienced players in the first Levels which will probably make any level 1 run longer than a good 48 one. At least I figured that.

So I’m asking if anyone with a frac level 48+ character wants to team up to level his alt. Im actually only looking forward to do uneven numbers until level 20 because of time and we will starting with swamp ofc.

Exotic gear (NO MF) and one character at least at 40+ is required! Because this is not a really rewarding task I want to finish it asap. And please know your class, I dont expect you to know every fotm trick for your alt but you shouldve done some dungeons with it.

If anyone is interested you can send me an PM or post here, btw I will bring my guardian to level.
Please dont be unfriendly or an extreme elitst, everyone is missing a dodge once, or twice. Thanks.

Depending on how much people are interesting I’m aiming for next friday (around 24:00 cest) /saturday(20:00 cest) playing through the night until we get tired.

No regrets after some hardcore grind for Kudzu because it looks awesome !! I am just glad the whole grind is over and I can relax

I had the same problem on my first run. I did my second run with an alt and got the achievement.

Yep Wayfarer Foothills are bugged for me too. Neither dead drops nor the lost and found stuff.

Also somebody made a topic here:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Secret-Contact-Missing-Drops

I think light armor is pretty well filled with options for skimpy armor. But what they did to medium armor is horrible there are so many coats which just look very cheap on a female. I really think there should be more skimpy armor for medium armor, personally I like a female too look beautiful in a game and not like a steel tank.

I want to point out that some people like it more skimpy (like me) and some don’t. I think there are enough options for full covering armor already, but skimpy options are just missing! I respect people who want a full covered armor, but hey they should not flame if there are skimpy options too, as long you can choose what style you prefer.

For those saying it’s unrealistic, I can only give a laugh. I mean wtf guys it is a FANTASY game, nothing of the stuff happening there is realistic.

So yea, please add some more options for revealing armor (especially in medium/heavy)

Hello,

at all my playtime I always tried to have an overview about all things going on in GW, one thing I watched is that there were a lot currencies added over the time.

I tried to list, we have:
- gold
- gems
- karma
- dungeon tokens
- guild commendations
- fractal relicts
- laurels
- wvw badges
- skill points
- glory
and had SA-Box baubles, captain’s council commendations.

In every way those save you some money(gold) or bring you some. But I think it’s quite hard to constantly have an overview about the uses of them all, especially if you’re not playing that much, I think it can cause some confusion. Or is it necessary to have so many currencies because it balances the game better? I’m not sure.

I agree Dredge is too long. It’s not that it’s too hard, ist just super-annoying to progress. I think if you have a coordinated group of ppl you know, it’s not so much of a matter but I did it yesterday on lvl38 with pugs and I usually pug above 30 because my guildies arent that far progressed. The console part is just a annoying pain if you don’t have any stealth classes with you, now there are even more adds lurking around everyhwere.

Then the bomb or cannon part, again super-annoying (not hard) but it takes a way to long.

The Rabsovitch part is quite okay, it requires some tactic where you dont need to stealth but can end annoying too if someone screws the aggro.

The final boss is the best part of the dungeon, nothing to change here.

The whole fractal is pretty much my least favourite one, and if you have no stealth class it’s unbalanced stretched into length. If you compare it to all other fractals, it just doesnt fit.

I have no dead drops in Wayfarers Foothills as well! Also I cant find any of the items of the achievement lost and found there. Everything worked fine at Diessa Plateau. I checked the locations on various websites, and yea there definitly missing. Different people in map chat confirmed this. I did the MF dungeon before I started the rest of the Living Story achievements and would like to complete them now.

This was the one dungeon boss that required some well coordination and was still hard then. I remember fightin it the first time for 6 hours and then giving up, then I came a weekend later with the right preparation and beat it! That was something not everything was able to pass and neither it should be for everyone. There arent many hard dungeons and now you make some even easier. Why guys….

Are legendarys meant to be for casuals? Is it the goal of a-net to have almost everyone with a legendary in 2months? Though you got pretty much money on the bank for that playtime per day! Respect for that!

PS: Id save the money

Hello,

first of all about myself, some days ago I finished my Kudzu after ~1200h playtime and I’m very happy with it. I run fractals daily (am level 36 now) and Ive got myself the dungeon master title. Furthermore I manage a smaller guild. So I think I can talk in a wide spectrum.

First of all Id like to refer to the most hot topic here, the legendary. For me personally it’s based to much on money. You theoretically need zero skill to get one, you can simply faceroll CoF all day or be a genius in the TP and buy it off (please why in gods name you made them sellable -.-). And no I am not a TP rich-guy nor did I get lucky. I grinded the hell out of this game. I ran cof/coe/fractals plenty of times a day and made some money with that. I think that most stuff of the legendary process is fine but the precusor is not good implemented. I bought mine off for 335 gold and I think its not good that this is just about money or get lucky. Its definitly the hardest part of a legendary.
A lucky person should get good loot, but not just 50% of the legendary process by luck thats just not fair. Mystic Clovers are meant for that. Neither my quest to the legendary should be manipulated by some TP-geniuses. Some recipe/vendor where u can get a precusor by adding 250 of all dungeons tokens together would have been cool.
Or implementing achievement points because they actually show how much aspects of the game you discovered. Also wvw badges loot should be reduced by JP and added more to killing enemies because that is the sense of wvw.
In short: Too much braindead grind, and no I’m fine with grinding and working hard for my stuff but why so much of one thing? Its not fair that early players had to pay 50g for the precusor I was exploring and actually playing the game it was meant to be played at that time. If you ever implement scavenger hunt please make it hard as possible. There are already too many persons who have a legendary in my opinion.
One a side note, the skins are a bit weird balanced, some are really childish and girly (dreamer) while other look really epic (twilight). I cant imagine playing a dark-themed necro and run arround with bifrost. Im glad I made a female norn Kudzu looks awesome on her

Lets look at grouping, I think its about time for a intern dungeon-finder. When I started the grin I mainly used gw2lfg because it grants you good groups in really good time. If you advertise in chat it takes you up to 15min+. But an extern website can’t be the solution and it kind off died out with the new patch. Thats really a missing feature and should be have higher priorty.

I really like the dungeons, but its a bit out of balance. Why are some paths taking up to 1hour while others can be done in 20minutes with the SAME reward? No one will play the long paths anymore after finishing them once. Same applies for story, it gives you nothing really worth back, and some story bosses were really cool made (example: inquest final boss). The new feature with wp-rezzing is fine, but you shouldve implemented it alot earlier, I’m not a fan of changing whole mechanics after this long time. Also fix the loot, because if you die at a boss and he gets killed you get no loot. Really annoying if you make a mistake 10 seconds before boss downs.

Facing the fractals, I think this is a really good thing you guys created. Really challenging in higher levels and you meet some skilled players. I like it! The problem is what to do with all the pristine relicts/relicts? I was hoping to buy some amulets with them, but now I have to do dailies for a fractals thing? Also what to do with all the rings? Make them salvagable for ectos or add some mystic forge recipes, please.

I also like to say something on the guilds. They need at least a calendar where you can add some dates. Since we are rather small it’s not so easy to get a full guild run for Arah at any time. A calendar would really help. Also a name change feature and a guild hall would be nice (for influence of course).

In my grinding time I figured out that some classes are just to OP. When I started grinding I mostly used my warrior because he was more effective in clearing dungeons. Its just a sad fact, but except arah/fractals I think you are faster with a well played warrior who pulls out 15k small AoE crits without a problem. Not the biggest issue because I still can kick kitten with my ranger, but Id like to have it mentioned.

I really like the game but there is always room for improvements Thanks for reading, anything on these thoughts is appreciated. See you all in Tyria

I agree! A nice buff called something like “spirit of the beast” which I grants you some power / vitaly while your pet is stored would be nice, because its really useless in some situations. Im not so much annoyed by jump puzzles, but some dungeons like CoE where you have to dogde alot AoE just are killing the pet in 5 seconds which make them useless there.