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Upset about "Celestial Infusion Chest"

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So, do people still feel 100 cm is rewarding enough? I’ve voiced this opinion before and no one seemed to agree. I consider the rewards for 100 cm pretty underwhelming.

Apart from the rng on essences, yes. It’s as rewarding as 99cm and takes about the same time so I think it’s fine

Arkk is tougher than Ensolyss (and it’s longer too, you can stun Ensolyss repeatedly for massive damage unlike Arkk) and Artsariiv is tougher than Siax, so I wouldn’t say it takes the same time.

Sure, but the events between MAMA and siax take a fair bit of time. I dont rly notice any significant differences in terms of time as a whole, but not all experiences need to be like mine ofc

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Upset about "Celestial Infusion Chest"

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So, do people still feel 100 cm is rewarding enough? I’ve voiced this opinion before and no one seemed to agree. I consider the rewards for 100 cm pretty underwhelming.

Apart from the rng on essences, yes. It’s as rewarding as 99cm and takes about the same time so I think it’s fine

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Raid group

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Some of our recent stuff:
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If youre interested in doing stuff like this and feel you fit the requirements, head over to http://etherealsynergy.eu to apply.

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Best and worst experiences with raiding.

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I don’t pug a lot, but I guess my worst experiences are that there is so much waiting for ppl to ready up and that no one seems to bother about rotations. It’s not uncommon to be top dps on cps, and not uncommon to be 3-6k(on arc) ahead of the other dps on target. I just don’t get it

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Please fix your staff's raiding skill anet :P

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Dunno if you should talk about raiding skill when you have like 4 min left and like 40% xD

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Difficulty Level of raids

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You can complete pretty much all encounters with 50% of the dps of a highly skilled group, that’s how forgiving the bosses are. Mechanics wise there are some punishing ones and some not so punishing, but it’s not like they require a degree in rocket science to learn.

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First time rewards.

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I think it could also lead to people just creating throw-away accounts, invite them to the fractal/raid, let them die and do their stuff. It’s basically what would happen with an unexperienced player anyway, just that you don’t have to wait for one.

Depends on the value of the reward of course.

If i am not mistaken, you need HoT to do raids. Would you be willing to pay 50+ euro for few items off boss?

It’s like 25 eur, and sure why not if the rewards are worth it. Not much different reasoning than having an alt account for extra rewards.

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Elitism and Nightmare challenge mote

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@OP
Asking for experience is not elitism.

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Power builds?

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“looking at you 0 cc trash dps no updraft ppl”

Wow, don’t you think that you are a little bit harsh here? I mean, those guys are still getting bosses down and sometimes there’s only a little piece of dps missing so you delay cc just this little bit.
But speaking of “trash” on ppl that clear raid bosses is exactly the kind of childish behaviour we don’t need in this game.

Delaying a bit is one thing, no cc at all is another. The point is that such groups would benefit far more from condi dps than power. Nothing more, nothing less.

My post was strictly about dps role, not ps warriors(although I’d still think power ps can pull ahead on kc, assuming impact gs and a decent enough player) or druids as those have had a stronger condi build for months.

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Power builds?

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From a speedclear perspective, power is preferred on a bunch of bosses(at least when it comes to tempest). This is based on a faster burst as well as utility, as a fair bunch of condi dps builds lack in cleave and cc department meaning that it’s rarely optimal to have most of your dps as condi.

Condi dps optimal: sabetha, matthias, cairn, mursaat
Power dps is optimal on pretty much everything else assuming speedclear strats and skilled player. As the average player is about as skilled as a potato however, it may be that there is a shift in what’s better(looking at you 0 cc trash dps no updraft ppl) but that really isn’t different to before.

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Raid Spectator Mode

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Wasted resources really. If you want to see others play, just check youtube or twitch, which is about as educational.

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Looking for Raid guild or group

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try the ‘looking for’ subforum

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Legendary Armor Backpiece Attach Point

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This looks so stupid. I was prepared for the backpack, but for weapons to float on other side of screen when wielded(when only using the chest piece)? Are the testers blind?

http://imgur.com/a/vUppU

What makes it even more silly is that the male version doesn’t have the stupid horn on the back, yet has all the floating anyway.

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Legendary Armor Backpiece Attach Point

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I prefer clipping over floating

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Warrior Build for Easy Solo

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“Best”?
The only point of this build is solo survival. It brings pretty low dps and 0 team utility, and basically just is a way to outsustain everything. As much of this build can carry you, it is in no way “best”.

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Our raid went wrong ' ~'

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Not even sure if you mean the ranger rotations or the singing xD

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Changes to distort.

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It’s quite obvious that you have no idea how mesmer distortion (share) actually works.
The only build that can “spam” distortion is domi-inspi-chrono as you have distortion on phantasm(1s every 24s without alacrity), signet(1s every 24s without alacrity) and F4(1s per illusion every 50s without alacrity for the mesmer only. 1s total for subgroup). The illusion build only has distortion on F4, and the domi-illu build only has personal distortion.

While you can chain invuln for yourself as a mesmer(but realistically, you wont), your subgroup can only get 1s every 5s which in turn gives two possible uses:

1. As a panic button when kitten hits the fan (similar to rebound, which is more powerful) which is what most chronos will use it as.
2. As a part of strategy, VG green or Deimos slams. Requires cooldown management and good timing, and something most chronos neither will be asked to do or prepared to do.

Distortion is fine

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The Dreamer is amazing, please don’t touch it

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[Chrono] Raid Tank build - Rune of Durability

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First of all, Leadership isnt “extremely difficult” to farm for anyone that can press 1 in either pve or wvw. It takes time to build up map currencies(or proof of heroics) if you don’t have them, but that does not make it ‘difficult’. You might as well argue that the ascended commander pieces you have in your build are harder to farm than the runes.

Secondly, effective power using raid buffs is higher for the leadership variant using the numbers in your submitted screenshots, meaning that the conclusion that “durability is the winner” is incorrect.

All in all you have achieved more or less nothing with this build. Its another way of building a chronotank, but it’s not better in terms of min/maxing, and I’d argue that the ascended commander pieces are more annoying(or “difficult” using your own words) to farm than the leadership runes.

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Looking for SEA Guild for PVE stuff

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Try the ‘Looking For’ subforum

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POLL: Raiding Reset Time

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I’m not really sure which problem you are aiming to solve by moving reset?
Is it to make sure that those whom do not have the possibility to play during weekday evenings(I’d estimate this to be a minority of active raiders) to have more opportunities to find LFG groups?

It seems kinda pointless to me, and youre better off finding a guild or static that raid on weekends. There is quite a bunch of them

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Our latest achievements:

6 Man Samarog

7 Man Deimos

…and we’re still recruiting talented players for our daily clears and kills like these

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I need some feedback for my Chrono build

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Really you should be dropping well of recall for signet of midnight if you need extra distortion. I take midnight on VG, gorse (for invulning the patterns), and sloth (for spore shake). You shouldn’t need it anywhere else.

Edit: I take ether signet at deimos actually. It provides better ticking heals for when I have to tank the big attack with a block.

Why would you drop well of recall rather than eternity? Unless you have very inexperienced druids(or ppl that the druids cant keep up with) the area healing is not needed and youre better off providing more alacrity to the group.

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I need some feedback for my Chrono build

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Oh thx i think now i start to see the big pro for domi..
When dou i use signet of ether over well of eternity?

If you are new to distorting greens at vg, signet of ether can provide an extra source of distortion. Can also be used if you are new to tanking like vg or xera, as you get decent sustain and can recharge your shield block with it

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I need some feedback for my Chrono build

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The website i posted has both builds, video rotations and descriptions on pros/cons
Just press the recall-rotations tab

Is blurred inscriptions that strong? isn’t blurred frenzy (sword 2) enough shared blur?

Sword 2 is a personal evade, it does not provide group-wide invuln like distortion. So to answer your question, blurred inscriptions is very strong(and mandatory if you want to do a no-green vg)

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I need some feedback for my Chrono build

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First of all, you only need one concentration sigil(i.e. you only need one main hand).
Secondly, you need way less commander gear if you use bountiful sharpening stones. In case you need more toughness to ensure you are tanking, just add a few knight accessories.

Build wise it looks fine, although i prefer domination 2-2-2 instead of illusions 1-2-2 as the distortion is nice, cool downs line up better and is more forgiving. I see that you have included timewarp which is fine(may help with the less forgiving illusion build) but not required for permanent quickness once you get a hang of it.

qT has a pretty nice section for mesmers on their website(incl rotations), do check it out and good luck
http://qtfy.eu/build/mesmer

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Getting into raids

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I would say that most guilds are fine with you just listening on ts, but it does help if you at least can call stuff out every now and then.
If youre on EU, RTI is a very common training guild for people to start with but you also have KOR that is somewhat new but very often does training runs.
In the event youd like to try it out without pugging or finding a guild, this is a very good option: https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/5y6j9r/eu_training_raid_v23_0903/?st=j03trsy2&sh=37e0846c

you have contact details in that post, else just keep your eyes on reddit as they do weekly training runs

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Legendary armors questions

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My question is some player said first achvmnt tier means nothing and just gives set of asc armor and we will craft leg armor with refined set is it true any info about that?

Correct.
First collection has no impact on which set you make in the end, its simply a free asc set.

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The raids need an easy "story mode"

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Remember how immersive is the Zaithan fight on the story mode? No? So yeah thats how immersive an easy boss is.

Then don’t play the Easy Mode boss, play your normal mode Raid.

Thats the point. An easy mode boss has none of the immersion “story-mode”-advocates ask for, hence it is a waste of time to develop it.

That isn’t the point. The story people want to see/hear what happens AFTER THE BOSS IS DEAD. The fight itself isn’t relevant to the story, other than any potential dialogue that may happen during the fight.

So why would they need a story mode? Im well aware of where the story is in raids, but this thread is all about a story mode because of the immersion you lose by not participating in the fight. Try reading next time

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The raids need an easy "story mode"

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Remember how immersive is the Zaithan fight on the story mode? No? So yeah thats how immersive an easy boss is.

Then don’t play the Easy Mode boss, play your normal mode Raid.

Thats the point. An easy mode boss has none of the immersion “story-mode”-advocates ask for, hence it is a waste of time to develop it.

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Viability of an "all builds welcome" raid?

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Snip

Why do you write like a 15 year old upcoming gangsta-rapper all of a sudden? As much as your previous wall of texts were filled with anecdotal evidence and a significant lack of self-evalutation, at least they were comprehendable.

To OP: I would stretch it as far as most bosses can be cleared with pretty much any comp, but in the event you lack offensive buffs and/or dps you will need to have a way to deal with the increased pressure once you hit enrage. Another possible issue is that characters with the highest toughness arent necessarily built to tank, but that can be worked around of course. Good luck!

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Questions about projectiles.

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Do you mean the Molten boss fractal?
If so, then yes it does work

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Do feel free to apply, but note that you will need to have chrono, druid or warrior ready at the time of application. This includes all relevant builds/gear for that class(i.e. meta chrono, condi+power for warrior and condi, power, heal for druid) as well as raid experience on them.

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Are we happy with the ascended gear change?

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Ascended is the (atm at least) final gear tier.

Atm?

A-t-kittening-m?

I’m staring down the barrel of trying to level leatherworking and then craft ascended armor for my main, at ruinous expense. The idea that all that work could be undone with the addition of another tier is incredibly disheartening.

anet has stated it will always be the best gear in the game. dont worry.

Actually no, they haven’t. They were very careful to avoid any definite statements. There’s likely much more loopholes existing in their promises now than there were when they introduced ascended.
It doesn’t seem they plan to introduce any new tier anytime soon, but it doesn’t mean they won’t change their mind later. They certainly did change their minds on many other things.

Remember, that they said once that the best tier should be easy to obtain, and yet they are now changing ascended to be more and more of a grind. They changed their mind on it.
Nothing is safe.

Changed to be more and more of a grind? What?
It’s easier than ever to obtain ascended gear

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Is it time to nerf difficulty of metas?

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Metas are still run and completed multiple times per day och multiple maps. If anything it is time for the community to stop asking for easier content and git gud instead.

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What's the new GS Condi rotation?

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You cant swap stats on earrings & amulets, stat select rings can be reset with attune & infuse(i.e. twice) and stat select back items reset on infusion as well(1 reset for a fair bit of gold).
Items from bloodstone fen can be reset for some unbound magic.

For the condi gs rotation just look up LN Farbstoff on youtube, but note that the dps is unrealistic as you rely alot on combo fields which will be pretty random in real scenarios.

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So I really wanted to try the raid but...

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I hope Anet can find a way to make this content available to relatively new and weakly geared players as well. I just need somewhere to start. I will then slowly gain experience and know-hows. I don’t care about failing it to complete the dungeon.

Content isn’t locked for anyone that has HoT, but groups may enforce their own requirements in order to complete it in whatever way they please. Also note that raids are end-game content and it would defeat its purpose if it was scaled for players that are new and undergeared.

My best advice would be to join a training guild, there are multiple ones.

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The new W4 title is a mistake

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It’s indeed a mistake.
The new title should have been “Real Raider of Tyria”

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Wing 4 bug

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https://twitter.com/GuildWars2/status/834494228831076353

Due to a crash error, we have temporarily disabled the Bastion of the Penitent raid wing. We will update when it is available. ~RB2

Will never understand why Anet uses 3rd party platforms for important infos like this. Not everyone is social media freak (for good reasons too, since they constantly break privacy/data protection laws).

You don’t need to register to any of the social media websites that Anet uses in order to get information from there. You also don’t even need to participate on those social media sites.

You can always make the suggestion that Anet use one of those automated phone systems to call (or text) people when anything occurs to the game that could impact them.

I actually do otherwise i wouldn’t get notification that there is info like this on first place.
Haha, phone call, you are very funny (not really). You know they could just use official Anet platform to post information, that would actually suffice…..

It happens all the time too. When there was issue with pvp season titles, they posted info about what is being done about it and when we will get titles on muffin-lovers and trolls club board (aka reddit, where pvp’ers usually get flamed/downvoted and harassed to oblivion) weeks and weeks before they finally answered that question on official forums to actual pvp’ers. I think it is absurd.

Like this?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Bastion-of-the-Penitent-raid-wing

There’s nothing wrong with them trying to communicate to players across various platforms. You don’t need to register as you can check regularly or at the very least when you experience an issue. They even communicated about the issue on what you consider an “official” platform but still posted in the very same subforum that the notification was stickied.

Yeah, days later….

Actually, it wasnt late at all.
The patch was released on Wednesday the 22nd, and I personally logged in at around 20.00 cet. An hour or so later, we got thrown out of the raid wing like everyone else.

The forum post was added on the 22nd, and from what i can tell around the same time the wing was disabled.

I wonder how much salt that could be avoided on this forum if people like yourself bothered to check reality every now and then rather than assuming everything is bad.

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Minion Master, Blood, GS Reaper Support Tank

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I main Reaper.

I love my power reaper so much that i know i need to put it on the shelf for the betterment of the group I run with. And since I am either Pugging, or leading training runs. I file roles that are needed.
and Reaper is just not needed currently.

such as it is. we shall see what happens Wednesday

on a side note. I am ludicrously happy that Guild Wars 2 raiding is nothing Like World of Warcraft. but that’s just me. .

So you’re happy that class balance is so crappy that you can’t raid with your main?

What ever flavor that coolaid is let me know so I never buy it by accident when I’m shopping.

I just can not wrap my head around the mentality that a whole subset of the player base accepts that the game is so broken that they gladly play classes they have no insterest in; I’ve had this discussion with other guild members as well.

No one has a good answer.

Perhaps because you refuse to listen to other views than your own?
That you have a main doesn’t mean that you have no interest in other professions(well for you it does I guess) and in TEAM content you often try to bring whatever is best for the, you probably guessed it, TEAM. Some professions are more optimal than others if played well depending on encounter, but ALL are viable choices. What you fail to realise is that you are not entitled to other people’s time, meaning that you bring what they ask for or you simply don’t join that group. If you want to play something specific, simply create your own group – is that really so hard?

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Is lying about LI worth it?

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…How about watching videos by Nike where one glibs comment in a video about patch balance takes a whole class like Necro’s and throws them away because of META Hive Minders.

Why must you vilify people that want to run a specific composition that you are against or think that people shouldn’t follow? Is it so hard for you to find a group of people that think the same as you, about what is acceptable in a raid and run with them?

There seems to be ample room for middle ground, and for everyone to find like minded people to play with. It seems the best suggestion, instead of trying to excise an entire community base or at the very least constantly complaining about them.

When meta thought excludes whole classes how could you not expect resentment?

If only there was a way for people that wish to include everything could make a group, really a shame they can’t /s. Man if you spent the half of the time making an lfg group that is inclusive rather than whining on the forums that everyone else should do it, I bet you’d be far less salty. But of course, it’s easier to complain that others should do something than do it yourself

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Lag since patch

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Lots of reports of lag, ping spikes, dc and other issues on EU. Something in the last update seems to have kittened things up

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Anet, you owe me an Leg. Insight

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I’ve killed it twice this week despite the bugs. You know what the bugs are and should prepare for them, not whine on the forums because it’s an easier solution.

I’d agree with you if the bugs were preventing kc from be completed, but that’s not the case

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9/2-2017 19.03 CET W4 cleared: http://imgur.com/a/yV9mV

World first kill of second boss cm: https://youtu.be/Mj3u7AVNjBw

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The numbers of the raiding community.

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The issue with releasing numbers is that the community, especially the non-raiding one, cant handle it. Suddenly everyone is an expert business analyst and will fiercly argue that it is waste of money for whatever reason.

They have said that the amount of raiders is higher than what you normally see in an mmo and I think thats fine enough information.

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Why would you put important lore in a Raid?

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As somebody that clears raids weekly and is not in favor of multiple easier training modes. I still think lore fanatics have a valid complain. Some of the best story telling is not available to a majority of interested people and it sucks balls for them. A story mode would definitely improve their situation.

At the same time the reason raids are so succesful as a story telling tool is the fact that bosses are a real threat hence offering immersive story content. Is the time and effort spend at creating a pale version of the real thing that does not offer a whole lot more than a cleared instance which will be played through once or twice by a small subset of the population really worth it?

I think it is worth it but I can imagine Arenanet decidinh the opposite.

in the new raid tell me which part of the best storytelling is locked exactly?

I would guess Glenna’s one liners as you progress through the wing as well as the shackled prisoner’s one liners in the final encounter. The rest is easily accessible by entering a cleared instance, apart from immersion of course(though one could argue immersion would be gone in ez mode anyway, just look at Zhaitan)

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As for the assertion that you don’t need it, because good groups get through with time to spare…

Yes, but good luck finding a group of 9 players at that level who are willing to spend their time carrying your inexperienced kitten.

…particularly since I just noticed you explicitly saying in another thread that they shouldn’t have to. Oh, the irony:

this is the same thing as in reality with jobs: experience needed, but as an entrant, u dont have any. u need a job to get experience, but job needs it… try to find groups without restriction

I dont know what experience you are describing. You get the experience you need after 15 LI. However people demand 150 some even 200, but most of the time its not below 100.
Please dont compare it with REAL jobs. You spam 1 2 3 to kill a scripted mob.

The experience you need for what? To get efficient kills? Or just to kill it sometime?
It takes time to learn encounters and optimise rotations to the point where you get smooth kills 9/10 times and the 150LI groups want just that, smooth kills. They dont want people that know mechanics but frequently fail them(very common in sub 100 groups) or people that do ok dps, but not good.

There are of course exceptions, but a high LI count does in general mean more experience and higher skill. Why should experienced groups be forced to carry less experienced or even bad players? Entitlement is real

I agree, incidentally, they shouldn’t have to. But you can’t have it both ways – if you can’t expect experienced groups to carry inexperienced raiders, then you just can’t expect inexperienced raiders to find an experienced group to carry them.

GW2 has no mandatory grind, i.e. no gear treadmill. No grind philosophy doesnt mean getting everything at once, and i merely gave a bunch of suggestions on how to gear up apart from crafting (whcih given AB multi mapping would be an easy alternative as well). It’s still ENDGAME content (so is fractals t4), so why should it be easy for someone new to the game?

You’re kinda missing the points in my posts completely. Im not saying all groups will have 50% of the enrage timer left upon kill(I’d estimate this to be 1-2% of groups), I’m opposing your claim that you need to play perfect to beat the encounters – which you do not.

You shouldnt try to find 9 experienced players to carry you, you should find players to learn with. Will you die alot? Will it take a significant amount of time? Will it require you to step up your game? Yes to all three, but its the same journey most raiders have done – its not like people magically became raid experts

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Raid-Bosses are buggy as hell since patch

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KC adds walk backwards instead of walking towards the marked player which causes constant wipes. I think killing KC is impossible atm. On top of instant wipes upon entering the KC room.

How can you break it so badly?

We killed it yesterday despite the bugs, but it probably took 4-5 attempts because of moonwalking statues and other crap. Knowing it is bugged, you just need to try to work around it or pray for rng

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while GW2 raids were explicitly designed with the expectation that anyone planning to go all the way through would have full Ascended. Furthermore, playing in elite areas in GW1, with the possible exceptions of the Factions zones, pretty much felt just like you were playing anywhere else except that the enemies were harder. GW2 raids, however, are quite different to anywhere else: you need a larger group, there’s a greater focus on encounter mechanics, you have enrage counters and DPS checks calibrated so that you need to play almost perfectly, and so on.

Max level gear is easy to get for anyone that plays somewhat frequently or has been playing for a while. You could lose your way to an almost full armor set in pvp, LS3 maps are easy farms for trinkets/backpacks and T4 fractals reward ascended equipment somewhat frequently(I have 12 sets, crafted only one).
Even with that in mind, ascended is in no way a requirement for raids apart from requirements that GROUP COMMANDERS may impose on others. The enrage timers are pretty generous once you get mechanics down, especially in the new wing, and there is no need whatsoever to play perfectly either (Near perfect play typically leaves you with 50-60% of the timers left)

Apart from the possible challenge of finding 9 other people, literally all you need to do is to play decently in terms of dps and mechanics. Now I understand that this may exclude “I got the game last week and used my lvl80 boost” and “i have spent 90% playtime in jumping puzzles”, but this is endgame content and SHOULD require some investment.

On topic:
90% of raid story is in the cutscenes and even then it is pretty limited stuff you get from it. I don’t mind a story mode per se, but i personally think that it would be wasted resources. After all, the amount of players that would raid only for the story can probably be considered very small

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