Agree good thread a few minor things I disagree with but largly everything you say is true. Also what was so addicting about gw1 dungeon speed clearing was the meta setup , you had a job riding you actually feel like you have some value to the team and you can make choices that can make or break runs gw2 is no roles so no importance you mean nothing but more damage in a team of 5. Also I know people don’t like rng but I think unique dungeon skin should drop from ea dungeon like bone dragon staff in gw1 . One last thing I would rather a jade maw chest at the end of was dungeon than these crappy minichests full of blue and green crappy. It would also be a great place to put that unique dungeon skin
My best guess is you had already wiped a couple of times on the boss and they simply needed any reason to kick you to replace you for more damage or a guard. Secondly in every situation of that boss imo there is no reason to ever let the ads live even last phase and further more iv never seen these ads in the corner with their thumb up their kitten they always affront someone.
It a good idea if you feel this could happen in a run to take a screenshot at the start when everyone is standing together to get all the names this will back up your report.
Hi all! I mostly play a lot of pve , me and a couple of friends do a lot of dungeons but in most cases without 5 serious players I cannot achieve what I want to. I have experience with arah coe cof AC and fractals.
I’m looking for a guild that is oceanic ( to fit a timezone ) and likes to tackle dungeons . I’m not saying I know everything about every dungeon bcos I don’t I’d like to learn a lot more with experienced players.
I have a range of lvl 80 and a good understanding of there classes. I have a 25 man vent server and can use any others mumble etc.I have tryed to form guild with the only intention to have contacts to fill slots. However these have almost never worked out for me.
If I could be an asset to your guild or a good apprentice xD please contact me . Thanks for reading and happy guild warring
ps . I’m on sea of sorrows . I don’t have a problem joining guilds in other servers due to pve not entirly requiring it , but that is your call.
Hi all! I mostly play a lot of pve , me and a couple of friends do a lot of dungeons but in most cases without 5 serious players I cannot achieve what I want to. I have experience with arah coe cof AC and fractals.
I’m looking for a guild that is oceanic ( to fit a timezone ) and likes to tackle dungeons . I’m not saying I know everything about every dungeon NVIDIA I don’t I’d like to learn a lot more with experienced players.
I have a range of lvl 80 and a good understanding of there classes. I have a 25 man vent server and can use any others mumble etc.I have truest to form guild with the only intention to have contacts to fill slots. However these have almost never worked out for me.
If I could be an asset to your guild or a good apprentice xD please contact me . Thanks for reading and happy guild warring
I agree with the OP , here’s my 2 cents . To all the ppl who flame me for ridiculous reasons like I put my banner between slavery and the wall, I hope in the morning you use a superior sigil of faster eating on your corn flakes a superior sigil of drying on your teatowel to speed up the drying , you then sprint to work and use a superior sigil of faster writing on your office documents at work , this will save you 2 minutes at the end of the day that let’s you get onto gw2 faster. If you dont do any of this then all the optimization you do in cof is in vein. Cos let’s face it you certainly act like that’s what you do in life.
A voice-over plays saying we’ve cleared the entrance to the citadel of flames. Shortly after you realise you can dual wield greatswords and have a new skill called 200 blades wich you can cast while moving it has 1200 range and a 4 second immobilise
@ undefined firstly it wasn’t you who mentioned skipping mobs =]
@ Dwadler , i agree with the above post , you raise a valid point but it still does not make skipping an “exploit” if i would pick your argument to bits i would say that on the flip side if they fully intended us to kill everymob they would make the aggro range larger than the environment and the leash range infinite, because they havn’t done this it is your choice to skip the mob or fight . if it is a choice it is not an exploit if you could find a way to glitch my above mentioned changes through clear glitching etc it would be an exploit, but in all cases it is not.
guild wars 1 is very old and from its begining people skipped mobs and it was accepted and used as a tactic from that day onwards , they have followed a similar trend in gw2.
to the OP i think the best bet for this is creating your own group clearly stating you do not wish to use an exploits and if suggested you will be kicked / or have you and your guild/friends who are on the same page do the runs.I understand this is not ideal at all and it shouldn’t have to be that way but it is about the only reliable way to get groups whom will see things as you do.
I just really want to point out to the OP that you are concentrating 100 % on the effect and not the cause. I sincerely believe it is the fact that many of the bosses have outragious HP , some of the mechanics are ok some are bland but the fact they have so much HP will drive people to take the easiest route. Sure i agree it will make you a worse player in the long run but you have to relise its human nature to find the path of least resistance and atm that exploits. if it were the same mechanics with alot less tedious HP then you’d find alot less people exploiting due to it being harder to find exploits than do the boss itself – again path of least resistance.
I understand you’re frustrations but i think your venting it in the wrong direction , it is infact Anet that has made these dungeons and their bosses , you’re really going against the grain if you think people are going to stop doing this for moral reasons.
the problem needs to be fixed at the cause. (HP bars > Mechanics)
PS , for all that is good in the world please stop refering to exploits and skipping mobs in the same sentance they are completely and utterly different. its like saying finding 5 dollars on the ground outside your front door is stealing
Hello all. Me and 2 – 3 of my mates run arah p3 nightly and sometimes struggle to get the 4th and 5th members . I’m looking for people who are keen to run most nights that can fill the gap , you don’t need experience we cam show you the ropes but experience in your class will help. You will however need ventrilo to make things easier. It’s nothing serious we just want some reliable peeps to have on fl. We get uptown a stack of tokens a night and generally lack a guardian for lupicus.
So if your interested please jot your name down and expect a whisper ingame from me.
We run anywhere between 6pm – midnight Nz time.
@ stark . If that’s your point of view , then this isn’t the place you should be posting to some people it is a priority , and some might regard fishing out 600g broken. So take you and unvaluable comments elsewhere.
@ danikat . Exotics start @ lvl 69 therefore any exotic chucked into the forge can yield a precursor provided Ofcs they are weapons.
Also a lvl 1 Moa can drop a precursor provided you are lvl 80. The chances are just horribly less. Take for example my spark dropping from a lvl 50 champion whilst doing world completion on my 80. It’s unfortunate wiki doesn’t outline the drops correctly
I just don’t want ppl being mislead
Gets I’m a chch Nz player , play mostly from 6pm to about 1am. I have 2 good friends that i run with every night. We use vent , and we do nightly Arah runs on all of our alts for max tokens we also roam in 4’s in wvw. Would love to have another kiwi or 2 on board . That would make 5 solid runners. Generally we get someone off friends list to fill gaps but at this point we can 3 man most stuff. If you Wana join us feel free to add me and farm them tokens x)
The issue I have raised and still stand by is the goal posts for legendaries gets further away the longer the game is live ,lodestones cost me 30s when i got mine ,prec was 300 g for greatsword and all my t6 mats were 3 – 5 s. Is it fair that I paid 1k less gold for mine? No it isn’t the recipe should be made up of constant prices not inflating. It’s unfair to casual players and the prec portion is no exception
I couldn’t agree more. The anti climax feeling I got at my first ever dungeon when I realised my hammer warrior was worthless . The cc shield bosses have is a mechanical cop out and the degree of builds and professions it would add if removed would be immense. Coupled with the fun you could have with it. Ofcs no one is going to KD a boss to death but least it could be used effectivly . Currently the shield makes 30 % of the games skills useless.
I can easily farm 7g an hour and dont have to touch cof, there are Beter places to farm just gotta find them. Ps I have done p1 cof speedany times. It is not comparable even on a good day
Thanks for answering my question. I did Google and wiki this extensivly and asthey give drop chances mostly but no definitive info on the drop source wiki says “if acquired from daily chest” suggesting there are other ways. Non the less thanks again
Firstly I’m sorry about posting about these weapons as I know there are a lot of threads about it.
Unfortunatly I cannot get a clear answer as to what they drop from.I don’t want drop rates I simply want to know if they drop purly from the daily reward chest or from mobs and normal boss chests aswell.
I don’t know the Subject Alpha encounter, so perhaps there the group is constrained to a very small area when fighting?
No the problem with the alpha fight is about every 5 – 10 seconds he will put a circle around every player regardless of where they standing , and if your anything less than tanky it will generally one shot you . if you are in mele range of this boss he will not use his aoe circles on you only another couple making people downing in mele range of you/boss easy to pickup , anything else is suicidal at least
So after all the big words and comparing of wall street skills and terms what is being done about manipulation of pre cursors ? If you strip.everything away John you have a problem that the height of your moral highchair will never remove nor the t&c’s, people have been crying out for changes to precursor prices for the games life , and whether you like it or not by delaying this issue your pushing people to g sellers.you say you are after the sellers themselves but you are mearly putting plasters on saws you are not addressing the source of the problem or working on a cure. years of work art money everything has gone into this game and what a game it is but you are completely undermining its beauty allowing a minority whom look at nothing more than the mahogany behind the tp to put major hurdles up for those.who enjoy your work the most.
It pains me that pre patch on more than one occasion I was the last person alive at alpha kiting him until the team returns only to do it again on the same breath 5 mins later (glass cannon mes) . It’s not about taking people that can survive longer on their gear its having people that use skill and experience to conquer dungeons.
Typically its a guild run. 4 people leave at endboss to invite 4 costumers. Money gets divided by 5 for everyone who did the run.
I dont get it , so you have someone solo or the 4 other people have to kill the boss with you? because i surly wouldn’t pay money to have to kill the end boss with you when im a paying customer , and if that is the case do they get upset if you wipe. that’s like buying a big mac and having to make it behind the counter as well with a chance of an old pattie
To be honest im glad they are removing wp’d i think they are making it more like fractals with the checkpoint system. it will make these dungeon what they were intended , then they can alter the difficulty to allow teams to finish these without having to die. Sure it will take some more skills but seriously zerging shouldn’t be a tactic. and everyone that gets carried will be weeded out and forced to up their style a bit. i’m not saying i’m awesome or people are bad , i’m saying collectively the dungeons will be more fun in the long run
These types of bots have been occurring since release, anet have certain ways about banning bots. they collect info on their behavior over a period of time and ban mass amounts. if they banned them instantly when they found them they would know they need to build different bots , by taking their time and mass banning it takes the bots right out of the game until they can make another.
The first time I tried this fight once was with my staff elementalist, and on my party’s advice I ran to the very base of the greater nmv. The entire melee area, including spots directly under the g. nmv, was then carpeted with small red circles and we were all annihilated. I wasn’t sure whether this was some sort of technique failure, or perhaps a smaller nmv respawned behind me that I did not see. Has anyone else experienced this, and can explain it’s cause?
your parties advice was correct BUT one minor flaw in it is that you must have a party member get to the safe spot and range them before you enter their mele range or attack them yourself for that matter , this seems to cause the vines to stay stuck on the person whom attacked them first and if that person is in the safe spot they will not attack anyone else , the one thing they do still do is use the AOE KD attack when people get within mele range you must evade this as 1/2 times it will knock you into blossoms
also its important to note i found that they share aggro as though anyones that have spawned already will act as one in terms of targets and aggro.hope this helps
i could and still can solo this fight, it is entirely possible , and there is one small spot to afk the boss without suffering damage from the blossoms it took me a while to find but it is there. but dont bother trying it without being a warrior with extended longbow trait or a ranger it simply wont happen.
Can’t believe I forgot to mention templates in my first post! I long to be able to save my traits then easily swap them. I don’t even care if the game keeps charging me a few silver to do it, or if they put a short cooldown or a ‘no swapping in combat’ restriction.
agree 100% what the hell were they thinking not putting in saved builds its entirly tedious to visit a town again because you wana change things up
launch to nov 15th alot of yellows and a good rate of return on ectos for salvaging when i say alot of yellows doing plinx anywhere from 1 – 10 an hour this is also pre DR system
after nov 15th massive reduction in yellow to the point it was depressing trying to farm
a patch about a month ago yellows seemed to drop in the order of between pre nov 15th and after so about 50 % more drops for time invested BUT the ecto salvage rate imo has been lowered as without any proof its only words but it certainly seems that way. and a good way to see this is ecto prices , sure they are affected by bots but also the yellow drop rate and the rate of return of ectos, the prices sure havnt returned to 15s before nov 15th
Well as we have all learned from plinx or straits your damage in contrast to your team mates greatly affects how many corpses will be loot-able so it will differ from group to group depending on there damage input to yours , regardless if you do the same amount every time. i notice what your talking about in the asca fractal some groups a lot of loot others hardly any as they are laying down more smacks than me.
In saying that they have nerfed the no tele spot for that boss , so that fractal was under the microscope.
Its funny though that people get so engrained to one build . i have seen a 4 ranger group using piercing shots that have cleared mobs faster than anything else i have seen including war groups. its just a closed minded way of thiking when it comes to making money. i hope it changes otherwise power to making your own groups
What gets me the most is ppl.saying it requires no skill, while it requires less skill than what anet outlined by no means does it require 0 skills. Unless ofcs you flip and buy it. For anyone that has recently purchased the game may seem impossible. from launch I worked on mine . Lodestones were cheap yellows dropped a lot and ectos were easily obtainable , lucky for me I acquired alot early using something called time management which is a “skill” if I didn’ I may not have it today. Dungeons had little or no tactics so we had to really slug them out . There were no easymode crafting guides. There was no jugs of karma or dungeon karma. Many aspects of it could be multi tasked just a little forward thinking could achieve this again a little bit of “skill”. People that had a legendary within two weeks of launch however did seem very suspicious. So yes aspects of legendaries were much cheaper bit you still needed skill for other aspects.
“Most people buy them” yes I’m sure kudzu will look great pirched infront of the tp all day what use will flippers have with leg’s nothing but more meat to flip. And if someone has the ability to flip up to 2k + gold that’s
Pretty legendary to me (I’m not one of them).
So please before you make claims about people having not even tryed to build a legendary think twice because a lot of us have worked kitten hard for them and not because we were worried about your opinions on them.
The funniest thing about this thread is the op is wrong go back and read the achieve properly it states “discover” not “complete” I can confirm this via the fact on the occansion where my achieve completes a tier I have jumped no more than the first ledge/stone/rock in the jp and it has counted it. Therefore you don’t have to complete them mearly find them.
This is working as intended,but just like gw1 it will not attack all targets around you it will attack your main target and 2 other random targets in your main targets rang. If you get 5 enemies you’ll soon notice your actually only hitting 3. This does not apply to when your skill states all enemies, this will as it states hit everything. And yes warriors are the same , and I agree the auto attack is vague about that. Due to your mesmer not swinging the sword and the attack is ranged its logical it will only hit a single Target.
Agree with OP contention is just stupid , to make people do dynamic events? I don’t Wanado them I’m there to do a dungeon not an event if I wanted to do an event I would do an event. Duh. It makes minority servers suffer without the likes of gw2lfg which isn’t anet design.
I am all for removing this. You’ve done an event once you’ve done it a thousand times, now just let me do the dungeon.
Abilities that changed a fight. A 55monk set up right to tank a boss that could otherwise 1 shot you. It’s clever use of abilities. All we have here is different ways of dealing damage. Tell me do you actually take any note or even notice what skills ppl use in dungeons? I don’t cause none of them matter as long as you zerg or just damage bosses forever you’ll pass it. Not like one person dropping SF at fendi ! You’ll quikly notice that
I’ll point this out as I have done so many times.coming from a person who has a legendary I think precursor are far to expensive and my biggest concern? Let’s take player A a person with limited time to play the game each day. Player B someone that can throw a lot of time at the game each day. Both equally have the right to achieve a legendary. Player B farms and farms from launch buying precursor for cheap , lodestones for cheap and t6 mats. Player A chips away buying what he can facing massive inflation across the entire market . The result? Player B achieves the SAME legendary for a quarter of the price player A does. Why should any get a “legendary” for less than another does that make me 4x as legendary as player B?
They need to do something about precursors and make them more obtainable.they say they are monitering this yet we see nothing but a one time chest whoms supply got quikly chewed up.
Anet you undermine yours years of work on this game and your customers with your lack of communication and fixes.I hope you address these problems soon and tell people that you are
This is called “the path of least resistance” this applies to almost all things in life and it doesn’t stop with humans. If there’s a way of making something simpler/faster it will be found and it will be used. I agree with post above you need to start making your own groups
The thing I also think is missing which isn’t noticed is the likes of shadow form the 55 monks the 600 smites . What do we have now ? Skills that don’t actually impact anything they are all just variations of dealing damage or survival skills that help you survive a split second longer aginst a boss that will kill you anyway . No one skill in any dungeon is honestly noticable nor does it make a big difference its just deal damage and survive. All skills feel numb and pointless vs certain situations. We need more exciting skills and less HP bosses maybe then will people really feel like they make a difference . Just look at the likes of fowsc that was a fantastic marry of builds and classes to finish a hard event . Such great teamwork that this game lacks the feel of.
