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Warriors are wanted because they have max base health and armor(why? No one knows) on top of some seriously insane(why hasn’t this been balanced yet?) DPS before you even account for gear/spec. I run into people saying we need a guardian or warrior all the time in fractals and it simply isn’t true. Don’t get me wrong, they can certainly make things a heck of a lot easier(especially guardians with reflect and Aegis) but they aren’t really needed.
The main thing you want in a party member is that they aren’t idiots. I will take a competent squishy over a no-brain cell warrior/guardian any day of the week. All the health/armor/block in the world can’t save someone that has no idea how to utilize their skills correctly.
Cause they cant remove conditions so they need to have the best at all (hp, def, damage), dumb if you ask me.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Rune_of_the_Soldier
With 6 of these runes equiped wariors are among the best condition removers in the game. And as the op is talking about dungeons all pvp examples are a bit superfluous imo.
Res signet anyone? Utility skill available to every class, insta-res a fallen ally, recharges when you kill a boss….
Teams that run without it gain the use of all utility slots, teams that decide to slot a hard res lose a little utility.
Just a thought to deal with how hard it is to res someone who’s defeated and standing under a dungeon boss.
Wait. We have hard resses already.
Every class except thieves have a hard rez. Thieves have SR to make up for it.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Resurrect
On top of that you have the rally mechanic too, which is an instant res.
from your wiki link :
Skills that revive allies can only revive them from Downed state, not Defeated state.
Thats more like a band-aid. Not really a hard res.
O dear god! It’s returning! The never ending battle between team “always carry a res in dungeons” and “I need all my slots and can’t carry a res!” team. I mean seriously, forget the hard res, how many people carry the battle res they do have now? I have seen warriors sometimes have their banner res and engineers sometimes have Elixer R but most people do not carry their battle res. Before we start asking for hard reses, maybe we should start using our battle reses and see if that helps group not perform better in dungeons.
I tried running the battle res on my necro, saw it only worked on downed players found that not so usefull and gave it up. If it would have worked on killed players I would use it in some of the “harder” bossfights in Dungeons.
I haven’t been able to play since the patch but has anyone tried to use a resurrection orb since the patch ? Are they still usable, or have they been scrapped from sale in the gem shop ?
To answer your question, I do!
Alpha is one of the more challenging bosses in the game. One of the most enjoyable too, because make one mistake and you’re dead. People say constantly dodging is boring. To me though, nailing the dodge every. Single. Time. Is exhilarating in its own way.
Of course that’s just me. I’d run CoE a ton more if more people ran it…
I love path 2 CoE, if its with 4 heavies and 1 squishie. Why because the heavies don’t need to dodge. The squishie does his/her ballerina thing and dodges the icespikes, the heavies keep each other alive by shout healing and stack on each other. Down goes alpha. No dodging needed. And as an added bonus you feel like a real warrior not some kind of acrobat/dancing girl.
Some ppl aren’t good at spacing between the shield which apparently pushes you into the lava ruthlessly. I think that’s the main source of deaths.
It’s a matter of observation. The shield pulses 4 times (or 3?) before being renewed. Of course, by the first pulse I was already out, but some of my guildies stayed in till the last moment.
And if someone isn’t good at something like this, they should train. It’s like players saying “oh I’m not even going to try to jump the laser grid, I’m bad at it”. Of course you are bad at it, but if you don’t practice, how can you get better ?
Lol I don’t disagree with you. This is mainly a L2P issue, but it’s less forgiving compared to others because you put the whole team behind if you die which can be frustrating for a person and his/her team.
As someone with problems with depth perception its not so much a l2p issue. I and others don’t see the leaps needed in one glance. This compounded with the red colouring makes the needed jumps a hell for me so I stay on top.
We have to guess to make our jumps. Thats why I hate cliff side fractal I don’t see the ledgers as most people do and some of the jumping puzzles are almost impossible for me to finish.
Cliff side is one of the reasons I stopped doing fractals.
Honestly, I think CoF p1 needs less attention (minor tweaks to difficulty, it is a bit over easy) than CoF p2 and p3….. I’m far more interested in how things will work in P2 once A-net disables res zerging.
You can kill the spawns even in a pug if there are enough heavies in the party.
So something like this : lfg CoF path 2 only war or gard wanted.
You can skip everything but the bossfight on path 3 Arah by jumping and walking up the walls, you don’t even have to trigger the path to do it.
This gives you 60 dungeon tokens in 10 minutes or less if everyone knows how to jump up walls. If you have, like me more than one level 80 you can get quite a lot of tokens. Those tokens you exchange for the rare armor pieces not the dungeon armor. You proceed to salvage those armor pieces. You get ectos and orichalcum out of them.
That hurts the economy.Actually gossamer is better than ori and this depends on RNG, as well as the number of ectos u can salvage. COF path 1 legit speedruns are still more profitable, even faster and requires less skill. If you are talking about Arah gear, I personally think it looks terrible. If Anet wants to encourage non-repetitive play, then it should have better scaling of rewards.
1 good jumper + portal gun + waypoint = run under 10 minutes.
Thats 60 tokens, so what if ori is worth less than gossamer my point still stands.
If you don’t use the candelabra exploits in cof path 1 that path is longer.
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Just on the topic of calling these methods “exploits,” I don’t feel like it’s entirely correct. For me to call something an “exploit” I’d have to feel like someone is being harmed by the activity. Given that you can’t trade the tokens you get on completion and the silver reward is pathetically low, I can’t honestly say that I feel that anyone is being hurt by it. Back to the point, I’d prefer people call it cheating or abuse of a mechanic or something like that. Just saying.
You can skip everything but the bossfight on path 3 Arah by jumping and walking up the walls, you don’t even have to trigger the path to do it.
This gives you 60 dungeon tokens in 10 minutes or less if everyone knows how to jump up walls. If you have, like me more than one level 80 you can get quite a lot of tokens. Those tokens you exchange for the rare armor pieces not the dungeon armor. You proceed to salvage those armor pieces. You get ectos and orichalcum out of them.
That hurts the economy.
A lot of other dungeons have ways to glitch your way through content, glitch not skip. Hotw was another example before anet fixed it.
If people defend this just ask for an I win button, its basically the same thing.
I agree with the OP, At the moment dungeons have gone from skipping to glitching/exploiting. Jumping puzzles are a good training ground for finding exploits in dungeons. Arah closed ? No problem, just use the terrain to enter it. Roofs are higways to succes. Portal guns are an ingame expoiters dream.
I’ve given up on doing dungeons, the guilds I’m in or the pugs I join are glitiching their way to dungeon tokens, and while it can seem fun to do in the beginning it just messes up the game longevity in the long run.
I’m working on my 6 lvl 80 char I’ve a lot less money than the persons who glitch. This because of the salvaging dungeon gear difference, the economy is a farce as salvaging for ectos obtained by glitching your way to dungeon tokens destroys any sense of fair play.
Path 3 Arah about 10 minutes by exploiting the walls. Maybe introducing jumping was not a good idea.
The jp req is not that hard to do like other people already stated; but wvw again ? Please give us something else than that hellhole every month.
The only time I enter wvw is for my monthly, I do not like pvp in whatever form it takes. I don’t even do the snowball fights. Oh yeah and making Commanders a buy option and not a voting with option to demote.
The month that has no wvw req I’ll do my happy dance.
I hated every part of the time I had to spend in wvwvw for map completion. So I server hopped to the server with the biggest night crew.
After a full month of going nowhere with completion I completed wvwvw on 2 charachters in 1 night. After completion I switched back to my original server.
The system is broken and its not fun please remove it. It also made me change my playing style I went twice for 100 procent, now I just go from personal story to personal story with side ways exploration for unlocking dungeon maps on my other characters. No way in hell am I going to go back in wvwvw until need I the tokens for my legendary or the hour and a half monthly zerg fest.
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I hate pvp, but when I saw the new add on I rejoiced as this for me anounces the dead of pvp. A last and desperate attempt to try to get people to play it.
More and more focus on pvp. The pve crowd who pays for the extras are going to get fed up and leave the game.
He gives me flashbacks to Kormir. You do all the heavy lifting he takes al the credit. But at least he isn’t as bad as the other wilted weed that “helps” you in the priory story line. I was glad she got killed.
I dropped three bags of holding 15 slots in my guild bank only one showed up. The other two weren’t in the history they just vanished.
I don’t wvw because its pvp.
I don’t like pvp because pve suffers underneath the balancing issues of pvp.
I don’t wvw because I’m forced into it for my monthlies and legendaries.
I’m in two guilds, one of them does only dungeons. We skip him. If we need to pug it we will quit if someone triggers him. We don’t find him a fun boss but a boss that really shows all thats bad whit downlevelling. If you find him a fun boss to kill every time more power to you, just don’t try to make yourselves seem better for not skipping. The fight is not neeeded and gives no rewards. Now if you want to talk about running through TA skipping 70 procent of all encounters and making the Dungeon a wipe fest be my guest.
No don’t force people to play pvp even more. As it is now its already to much. Forcing to play wvw for monthly and for legendary weapons is not fun. Not fun as in not fun to do not because its to hard to get the 500 tokens or the 50 kills. Don’t ad it to daily.
Far Shiverpeaks. It was bugged then got fixed earlier this week with a patch, only they broke it again with the second patch that day.
Remove the event chain check until you (anet) fix the bug on a test server please.
Please let it not be a bug. I don’t care about pvp and would like a complete split between all pvp and pve. Give us a gw1 split so pve vcan be fun and pvp can be for people who like to feel though.
Yes please my Necro would run a 4th well and never look back at the elites I now can choose from.
A radical step away from balancing pve for pvp needs would be even better.
The boss I remember having the most cheesy attack was Kudu in Crucible of Eternity story mode.
What was it , Shoot to kill ? I can’t remember as I did the story mode a month ago and vowed not to return to it before I was sure I wouldn’t ragequit the game. I hated every moment of that dungeon from the asura equiped with guns with a rate of fire equal to a machine gun to Kudu with his Hunter Seeker Gun, and those anoying blue blobs of death with my name on it.
They’re already split- racials are PvE only. The problem of “roll race x cause it’s the best” would still apply.
Honestly though, most of the elites are so weak, or on such long cooldowns, that I use the racials anyway because they have better niche applications.
That’s the whole point of my post. I’m not saying that all Elite skills are bad, but that for example my Necro would be glad to use the elite slot for something different like another well. The cooldowns are a direct pvp result that I don’t want or need.
Anet balanced the Elite skills around pvp. Racial Elites are weaker than normal Elite skills. See the problem ?
Please split pvp and pve skills like in Gw1.
Not only are some weapons underwhelming but they clip with the ears >< because they are too small, making the weapons larger would solve the clipping problem.
Staff is biggest culprit. Hammers are so small I refuse to use them on my warrior.
I have 4 Asurans atm.
People skip the trash mobs because the reward/risk is negative. The drops are bad and the trash mobs are harder to kill/ more dangerous if engaged than the bosses. Trash mobs with for example kd combo or a fear that can almost be spammed are not fun to engage.
As it stands now you stand to lose money if you engage the trash mobs.
This is not a endorsment to skip the trash mobs btw, I want them to be rewarding not a punishment.
But to be honest most in my guild are starting to refuse to do dungeons (250+ guild) as they find the dungeon system broken.