Guild Wars 2

I’d love to know the trait setup here :P

Mochann.5298:

sorry bro I die if I stack you do your thing I’ll do mine.

Soooo true!!!

Honestly, people who don’t have an elementalist just don’t get it what so ever. Any long term players still believe they are OP because they haven’t followed the patch notes and all the new comers can’t seem to grip this class got destroyed. Can’t deal damage even close to other classes and it’s a crying shame. I love my d/d ele, just as much as my mesmer, but it’s obnoxious to see my mesmer glass cannon things and my ele barely scratch them >.>

I’ve reached a point where I just try the stupidest things on my ele. I’m ready to put 30/30/0/0/10 and full zerk everything w/ scholar runes just to see if I can even pump out any numbers at all.

Reward LVL Karma Earned
11 ~ 742
12 ~1482

My personal reward lvl is 11 on my alt, just got to it last night.
Did a lvl 10, started with ~1k karma (bought obsidian shards last night as well) and at the end received 742 karma, as the right side UI indicated for auto loot. Checked my karma and only had ~2.5k.

According to the wiki, I should have gotten this amount as my reward: (Wiki Info)

6400 + 8 * Completed difficulty * (Personal reward level – Completed difficulty) = Karma awarded

6400 + 8 * ¹⁰ * (11 – 10) = 6480. Last time I checked 742 is not 6480.
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So instead of complaining, I propose we do something constructive:

[TESTING]
Having raised my reward lvl to 12 and just doing another lvl 10 run, I now got 1,482 karma (still well below that 6400 which should have been guaranteed). It’s clear there has been a nerf, but the better question: how much karma does fractals reward now? There is no official formula, let alone announcement of this nerf, so here is what I ask of you all:

Post your reward level, run a level 10 fractal, and report back on what amount of karma you received. I’ll be testing myself and see how much I can get

^Do you know how easy it is too keep aegis up 0.0

This happened to me with the mystic forge, logged out and logged in and all was good

Ash.5274:

I’m going to have to do a heck of a lot of jumping puzzles for the 500 Empyreal though.

Do dungeon runs, just did CoF p1/2 and got 20 from the daily chest per path (40 total)
Looks like dungeons are Empyreal, so between that and the temples, I can see getting these mats very fast even if you do only a few temples or dungeons per day.

Tried search, looked at the wiki…

I’m using 1 Crystal, 1 Bottle of elonian wine, 1 pile of crystalline dust and 2 charged cores…. but the forge will not accept that combination.

Has something changed and the wiki is outdated??

9.5/10/9.5

I like the first one a lot, the tattoo works really well with the skirt. The color scheme is nice too, goes well with the eyes. The hair stands out too much for me tho xD
The second is a great norn warrior, she freaks me out. Looks like she belongs in the wild :P
The third I like very much, never would have thought of using those legs with that chest piece. The color scheme is a cool one as well, great for a mesmer, but the blond hair doesn’t really work with it (not a fan of blondes, so that’s biased).

My guardian:

^^^^
I would heavily assume this, I highly doubt there would be 2 identical sigils, it makes zero sense what so ever.

It appears no one in your group knew to stack behind the stairs :/
Doing so would have made quick work of those dogs.
(and I agree, a smarter man would have quit. A 15 min run should never take 3 hours).

^learn the ele. I have never played an ele, but I’ve dungeoned with some and my dear lord they kick KITTEN. Properly traited they deal damage like I’ve never seen ( a thief and an ele alone solo’d Coe bosses in 30 seconds or less). I wish I could tell you the build this specific ele was running that blew my socks off, but if I had to start somewhere I’d start with something like this build: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVqU9-Rrack

I have a mesmer, my main, lvl 80. I’ve done nearly everything with her. Having done a handful of mmos before I can say a mesmer is really interesting to play, especially if you want something new. We hit hard, but not without some quirks:

Mesmers are not condition people, we have a staff that is very useful but relies on conditions (don’t discredit it though, that staff has saved my butt multiple times). That said, it won’t deal high dps. We’re not direct damage either, however. There are zerk mesmers but as of late we don’t do as much damage as we have in the past (certainly not the damage of a well traited elementalist). That said, we can still be tons of fun.

Mesmers are about deception, but that’s not how it turns out. Instead I like to think we’re thorns. We’re about getting in and then out but never leaving – our illusions are there to continuously lay on the pain. A mesmer cannot tank damage and certainly cannot stay in the front lines, we’re constantly mobile getting in and getting out (although I find myself staying in more and more XD). Our shatters can wreak havoc, our illusions can keep the dps coming. We won’t blow the dps charts, but we’ll get the job done and do it kitten well. We also provide highly sought after utilities (feedback, time warp, portals).

If you want a new experience a mesmer is for you. You can’t sit as a mesmer and just auto attack, you have illusions to maintain and shatter at the right time, you have damage to be dodging, utilities to be using, and carefully timed attacks to execute. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to play one, but you can’t expect to be good if you can’t focus.

IMHO, I think you’d love a mesmer. You really need to be actively playing, and the more skilled you become, the more tricky you’ll become to your foes!

Edit: a bit of clarity:

Pros:
-sustainable dps (which can be a large burst damage if you shatter)
-engaging, no auto attacking!!
-our skill sets are versatile. We can be ranged, melee, or a medley of the two. Success will not come from the perfect build but the proper skill (trust me I’ve tried countless builds until I made my own and finally found success). It’s about how you use you’re weapons, not necessarily their individual dps.
- we provide really useful utilities

Cons:
-we’re fairly squishy, not nearly as bad as an ele though.
-dps is solid but not on par with a well traited ele or a warrior.
-wvw roaming or taking on Orr can be a solid challenge without a buddy. Having 1 person with you makes a really solid combination. On you’re own, however, can get very tricky (but fun if you’re up for a challenge!)

Dramen Maidria.1034:

The biggest problem with PUGs in general is a lack of communication which for someone like yourself who is new will usually make your dungeon runs an awful experience. AC and CM are the easiest dungeons to accomplish without any specific group composition, and of course CoF p1. I would join a dungeon running guild, you can hang out in LA and usually hear guilds advertising, so I would start there. Guild runs if its a good guild will guide you on how to play your chosen class, and you’ll want to pay attention as to whether they are aimed at solely speed running or just doing dungeons casually to have fun, speed runs require certain gear setups and group compositions to be effective.

While you hold a very valid case, I found running pugs perfectly fine w/o any issue since day 1. Ironically I’ve had the most issues ever running dungeons with the guild I’ve joined than any pug I’ve yet to have. I think the key to my success with pugs is I always initiate conversation, giving warm welcomes and keeping the mood light (not trying to demand things from people). That tactic has worked for me completing 5 of the dungeons, running hotw and Coe countless times for the armor, farming cof 1 for perhaps a handful of times (wasn’t a fan), and even fotm through lvl 18/daily lvl 10. Another key thing is I’m 100% honest and detailed in my lfg posts, if I said “casual cof farm all welcome but know what you’re doing” I got groups of people who did not expect flawless runs but knew how to run them effectively.

Connecting this back to topic… gw2lfg.com has proven to be the best method for dungeon running for me since I got the game 3 months ago. This was my very “real” first mmo experience (but not gaming by farrrrrrr) and all I can say is I’m glad I heard about the lfg through lion’s arch’s chat. I’ve on average been able to get a group together in 5-10 minutes too, sometimes in seconds. Imho lfg is the way to go unless you can find a guild that can take dungeon runs a bit more seriously and not jerk around being silly -.-

Honestly gw2lfg has proven very effective to me to the extent that I don’t want to see anet’s version. I’d rather see anet focus on fixing the plethora of issues they’re already dealing with. (and tbh I’m sure an anet lfg would garner more problems than solutions)

Davy.9063:

Would it be possible to farm 500k karma in 10 days?

By 10 days do you mean 10 full days or 10 days of after work play?

I had wondered how I had spent 140k karma after my character reached 80 and then made another 100k within in a few days. Turns out Fractals of the mists lvl 10 gives ~6k karma per run (just read that on the wiki today), so leveling my fractals to 10 (by running level 10 fractals with other people) and doing it a few dozen times more over the course of a week netted me ~100k karma. That could prove effective if you want to mix things up in between farming sessions, although event chains would probably prove more profitable (especially with boosters) if you can’t get good fractals groups.

ZenoRoarz.3152:

omg imagine Arah now, not many people run this dungeon, so people won’t be doing it their alts now after their main ran it, gonna have a hard time to find a party for Arah I guess.

I thought the same until I looked at the lfg…. there are tons of more posts o.0. I’ve yet to make a group myself, but from the looks of it on the lfg, there may be MORE groups then before o.0

I’m still ticked at the token Nerf, though. Makes my alt that I just started feel more and more useless ;(

I’ve had the game for say 3 months now and I got world completion a month ago. Wvw proved to be a very, very fun challenge – I honestly loved every second of it. I play on darkhaven and we were against yaks bend and Fergusson (I think). I was just getting into wvw, had zero idea what I was doing and has zero idea it would be the day wvw was resetting. To keep things short, I essentially did all the border lands in a handful of hours with my Mesmer (easy), and then it became evening and I found myself dodging zergs in the Eternal Battlegrounds as darkhaven made an epic stomp on yak’s bend taking over perhaps 70% of the map (including stonemist keep!!). So all I can say was it never felt like a chore but a rush of excitement. And I got lucky xD

Never noticed this….. until I looked at arah Exp on the lfg 5 minutes ago… someone looking for a final boss group ready to pay 3g. You’re kittening me.

Acerola.6407:

Hmm, I start to guess that the Queen’s speech will be about an actual revamp of all dungeons at once, including the token rewards. I can’t explain arenanet’s absence otherwise anymore …

That would be something, the Queen announcing “Let there be dungeons!”

But let’s not fool ourselves – why would anet include this is one of the biggest patches this year :/

Nilkemia.8507:

Reducing the token reward to just 20 tokens from the path itself and the other 40 from an account bound daily reward chest does not make people want to run other dungeons/paths. They’ll just run the same paths they want to, only once each, and then either log off or do something else.

This. Tokens are the encouragement to run other paths, not dungeons. There’s a reason why I would run all 3 hotw paths – I want the armor not the gold. Once all the paths were exhausted I would stop running and go earn some money not do another dungeon, I don’t want their tokens. If anything this additional nerf has made it very hard to find a group – once someone has exhausted all 3 paths they’re done for the day. At least before they could run the path again on another character and help more people out, but there’s no incentive to now (both gold and token wise).

Ahhhhhh! This makes sense now, kinda skipped that dungeon xD

People too lazy to hit mobs themselves I see xD

All these posts concerning scarlet and not a single one says who she is. Who is Scarlet?!

A 10 day sale has been announced starting Friday August 23rd, where they’ll be bringing back lots of times to the gemstone. I would count on those being in there, although they may rotate what’s on sale everyday, so you may have to wait or may not depending on what they do.

Really want the flame and frost dyes, not sure about anything else right now. Maybe a permanent pick, but that’s a maybe – not a huge fan of them, I don’t harvest enough anymore

2: My first is a Mesmer and my alt is a Guard (which I’m loving a lot, Mesmer gets stale after too much play XD)

Will I make more – probably. But I will not do what I did in skyrim after I finished most of it…. so… many…. characters o.0

Ducky Shine 2 purple led, MX blue switches
Cyborg rat 7 Albano (whose sensor is starting to go )

What bothers me the most was that everyone did not fall in to protect sniff, all they had to do was hold off the hordes for just a few more seconds as Rytlock says…. but instead they left caithe to do it on her own? Big zojja was clearly cutting through these things like butter and you’re about to tell me she couldn’t have fallen back and helped? We’re talking about seconds!

This also makes me wonder why everyone blames Logan – sure he left but he had an oath to protect the queen and from the state ebonhawke was in, they surely could have used the help. Logan doesn’t deserve the heat really, if they adapted their plan to the circumstances and moved closer together when Rytlock ran I could see them having been successful.

Really? Is it only the rares that you can buy salvageable or is it also the exotics? I could have sworn the exotics weren’t but I didn’t know about the rares – never bothered to buy them when I could buy exotics…. but this changes things o.0

Honest question that I’ve been thinking about for a while. What’s the motive to have nerfed tokens?

To go from getting 60 per path per character we went to 60 per account per day (which disappoints me as I just started a second character and gearing her will not be a simple task, having 2 characters fighting for tokens :/)

The only motive I can think of is that tokens were generating some form of revenue? I mean you can buy weapons, but they’re all soulbound, can’t be salvaged, and 4 of them for the forge would cost 800+ tokens. Was buying 4 weapons and forging them to get a chance at a rare their big concern?

Broadicea.8294:

Dmzsfx.8103:

Broadicea.8294:

look at that scrub mesmer not even shattering once. disgusting, ugh.

He didn’t have to, so why shatter? XD
The iSwordsman and the iDuelest will do more damage unshattered if the guy wasn’t running a shatter build and from the looks of it he wasn’t. That said be could have shattered before the big AoE, but other than that he probably benefitted more by keeping his illusions up.

I’m the mesmer, lol.

And yeah I meant to shatter before the AoE attacks. Preferably an F3 before the first hit that took my Duelist and Swordsman, then a Mind Wrack right before the hit at the end. But oh well, next time!

My main is a Mesmer and I just started a guardian. My build relies on some of my shatters to deal a solid amount of damage, so tbh I wasn’t all surprised you didn’t shatter at all. Really like the focus warden and the staff warlock, especially in groups (because of the amount of conditions on the bosses). The gs also has that big #4 aoe illusion, I’d rather keep him up so he can strike more than once.

Broadicea.8294:

look at that scrub mesmer not even shattering once. disgusting, ugh.

He didn’t have to, so why shatter? XD
The iSwordsman and the iDuelest will do more damage unshattered if the guy wasn’t running a shatter build and from the looks of it he wasn’t. That said be could have shattered before the big AoE, but other than that he probably benefitted more by keeping his illusions up.

I would love seeing some of these mechanics in bosses in general – not just world bosses. I think it would add greater diversity but the difficulty wouldn’t be that much more – remember the gauntlet is 1 person not 5, if 1 can take down a boss with these mechanics I don’t see why 5 couldn’t, the 5 would just have to work a little more to take down the boss. (to be honest I’ve yet to have a boss fight that has gotten my blood pumping, only lupi has managed to do that which is a shame – I’d love to see the adrenaline kick in more often then not :/)

There are people asking for less o.0?!
Everyone I’ve talked to/read has asked for more (i.e. why are there no 2g or 2.5g paths?)

If anyone read Ghosts of Ascalon I think we’d see why the treaty should go through. That said, the book also indicates there are separatists in both human and char factions – why not start there. Have each nation fight their separatist forces, perhaps the forces collide – separatist human v separatist charr. That’d be an interesting dynamic. Plus I’d love to defend ebonhawke, that has potential to be really fun

Been thinking about this for a while, really wish there was one, especially for switching from wvw to pve, I use vastly different builds for the two and it takes maybe 10mins to switch them out 0.o

I haven’t been able to log in during this patch so far, what is going on with the wp system? Is there a cool down on it or something?