Guild Wars 2

R.I.P. Wayfarer’s gear.
Everyone in the group used armor, trinkets and weapons with Wayfarer’s stats(Magic Find, Vitality, Toughness). The best possible statspread which was too OP for the game, so ArenaNet had to remove it a few weeks back.

Sidenote: The spawned parrots from the Runes of the Pirate did at least twice our DPS. Runes of the Pirate also OP.

(How do you embed videos here?)

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

Each guild mission type becomes available through an upgrade that is researched in the guild tech tree. The first one is Guild Bounties, which does require Art of War level 5.

Wait, this means we all HAVE to be on the same server to participate in those missions together? Please tell us that guesting will work, otherwise that’s gonna be a pretty huge disappointment.

They want to bring down everyone else on the same miserable low level, alright.

I really hate bads in MMOs. What i hate more is developers listening and catering to complete bads and making (good)players, who like challenge, who like not taking forever to kill enemies, who like using their reflexes/knowledge/etc. to overcome challenges lose interest/quit playing.

If Anet actually only ends up just straight up nerfing damage/DPS dealt, there will be only bads left, as many of the actual “elite” dungeon players(or elitist scum as bads on the forum and LE REDDIT :^D like to call them) will highly likely be fed up with getting ignored, infracted, and shafted with every patch then getting insulted by bads, all the time.

Example: No people to carry you bads through lupicus anymore. Once they fix arah exploits, there won’t be any dungeon sellers either.

I guess they’d just end up nerfing him aswell once people cry hard enough about not being able to get past that fight(as they did in masses in the past), lol.

Watch this post being infracted/removed since bads can’t handle being called out.

[/Rant over]

I’m going to make a series out of this and try record every(or most) dungeon/fractal bosses being trivialized/facetanked/afk’d with barely any skill or player input needed and no dodges at all(since dodges are op and broken). I hit record too late on all 3 fights in this video, because it was so mindnumbingly boring that i wasn’t even paying attention to the game at all.

This is what most of the gw2 playerbase wants boss fights to be like.
This is what most of the gw2 playerbase thinks is good/fun content.
This is fun.

This is how gw2 is meant to be played.

(In all seriousness: Go equip full berserker gear, use meta builds and do the same in normal dungeons, since SO many people claim “lel zerg gear needs no skill just spam 1 and win lolol”

Yes, i’m tired of reading all this idiotic crap from people who hate skill, finishing dungeons quickly/efficiently and like roleplaying in dungeons or w/e.)

#NerfHealingPowerToughnessVitality

F—K time gating.

Stacking in dungeons
These noobs they will not heal
Fear mobs out of corners is what i do
Confusion is epic deeps

There’s some idiot beside me
That pulls the Spider Queen to the corner
They’re Exploiting
I’m confusing
This lack of crowd-control I fear is never-ending
Controlling
I seem
To find myself again in a corner
The walls(of reflection) are closing in
Without a sense of fun
I’m convinced that this is just too much exploiting to take
I’ve felt this way before
So offended

My first attempt at GW2 Karaoke.

Bads need a ranging weapon no matter what.

Phantasmal Berserker fix when? I’d love it if he actually dealt more damage than a single Spatial Surge, you know, like before.

Gandalf just had recently converted to berserker, so he wasn’t used to ~12k HP and forgot to equip his GS back after using staff to help his team skip a boss, which is why he died. Friggin’ scrub.

Viable, viable…viable.

phacking everything is viable in this game, doesn’t mean it’s good or anyone should run it.

I’m just going to post my 44 min cof 1 video with ultra bad builds, FULL WAYFARER’S GEAR (magic find/vitality/toughness) and play-how-you-want playstyles every time someone mentions how their bad builds are “viable”.

Most viable video ever. Suck it, elitists.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_mentality

“Crab mentality, sometimes referred to as crabs in the bucket, is a phrase that describes a way of thinking best described by the phrase “if I can’t have it, neither can you.” The metaphor refers to a pot of crabs. Individually, the crabs could easily escape from the pot, but instead, they grab at each other in a useless “king of the hill” competition which prevents any from escaping and ensures their collective demise.12 The analogy in human behavior is that members of a group will attempt to “pull down” (negate or diminish the importance of) any member who achieves success beyond the others, out of envy,3 conspiracy or competitive feelings."

Copied from wikipedia. I’m not going to bother writing anything else, as this article pretty much reflects the mentality of everyone wanting zerk/sin gear nerfed so their brainless/subpar/playhowiwant playstyles aren’t worse than no defense, max offense builds.

#2

~14? mins real time, recording issues as usual. Had immersive pvt gloves on instead of zerker scholar gloves because i forgot to swap them out.

I realized that this fight is indeed way too easy, even at scale 30-50, so i hope i get molten duo fractals in my next fractal runs.

Exploits used are listed in the video description.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_mentality

“Crab mentality, sometimes referred to as crabs in the bucket, is a phrase that describes a way of thinking best described by the phrase “if I can’t have it, neither can you.” The metaphor refers to a pot of crabs. Individually, the crabs could easily escape from the pot, but instead, they grab at each other in a useless “king of the hill” competition which prevents any from escaping and ensures their collective demise.¹² The analogy in human behavior is that members of a group will attempt to “pull down” (negate or diminish the importance of) any member who achieves success beyond the others, out of envy,³ conspiracy or competitive feelings."

Copied from wikipedia. I’m not going to bother writing anything else, as this article pretty much reflects the mentality of everyone wanting zerk/sin gear nerfed so their brainless/subpar/playhowiwant playstyles aren’t worse than no defense, max offense builds.

Slowburn.5319:

Ethics.4519:

Slowburn.5319:

everyone stacked in a corner and autoattacked for like 10 minutes… glitch or strategy? HHmmm, i guess strategy more than glitch.. but would be nice to see cheeze strategies fixed.

About this ‘no dungeon team’? did they lay off the dungeon devs?

Stacking isn’t a cheese strategy. It’s efficient. There is still good gameplay even when stacking. Also, you aren’t being very specific as to what encounter, just making some generalizations.

Good groups realize:
- You still need to dodge
- You can res downed players quickly
- You can share your boons/blast fields with your party
- You can remove team conditions
- You can hinder the group by putting down unwanted fields (I’m looking at you bad necros)

Bad groups think:
- You stack and spam 1>2>3>4>5 and 6 sometimes.

The dungeon was AC P3 i thnk… the end lizard. dodge? nope. 12345 and sometimes 6? nope. afk autoattck while smoking….

I wonder if anyone could tell me? How many bosses have this feature?

Your group may have made use of the serious Exploit&problem called using gear with “Healing power”, “Toughness” and “Vitality”.
In that case. All of the bosses. Make sure to report those players.

Refer to this video for a demonstration: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYsLU-efhhY

First time i’ve used scepter seriously outside of PVP…

Waiting for Sandy’s full melee video now.

I’ll just leave this here:

“Robert Hrouda
August 20.
Today marks the release of the last bit of content I built for ArenaNet. I had always hoped my last hurrah would be an epic dungeon that would stand the test of time, and provide entertainment for players to the very end… but instead it’s an instance that will only persist for two weeks, and then go away.
That’s not to sound gloomy or anything – just that things don’t always go the way you hope they do. I still had a great time, met some amazingly talented and good people, and got to work alongside friends – not just coworkers, but people I consider friends. I feel lucky to have had the opportunity, and just wish I had done more with it.”

These two won my personal all time award for best cosplay/names.

I think they call it “being an extremely ignorant and annoying f…riend”.

Please stop posting, account.

Tree.3916:

Emanuel.9781:

tips top hat

What a small world we live in I went to school with this kid. No joke. Never thought I would see him again let alone in a GW2 forum.

Are you f→king serious now.

The answer is below.

Whoa…

Thaddeus.4891:

No. The game don’t have Holy Trinity for a reason. The system is not perfect, far from it, but its different from the Holy Trinity and it work. A lot of holy trinity MMO out there, so can we keep at least 1 that don’t copy/paste the same system over and over.

Improve the system, i’m for it.
Improve the teamplay, i’m for it.
Agro, Tank, Healer, please NOoooo.

Please do not feed bad threads like this.
Here, let me improve your post with a more appropriate response:

Thaddeus.4891:

No.

Dishonorable Updated engi solo, 10:20 min
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fzr6fXAH0DY

Dishonorable necromancer solo ~15 mins(25-30 sec cut in video due to HDD getting full)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sinh5-FK7l8

oops

If you’re on NA, you can ask me out for a few dates in arah if you’re not too shy. I help out pugs a lot on good days and occasionally even do path 4 with them for their title ’n stuff.

All i ask of people is to use full Berserker’s or Assassin’s armor/trinkets/weapons and listen to orders. If you’re a ranger, make sure to bring a sword, an axe, a warhorn and maybe a red moa pet.

Power block was the best fun i had in the game since back then when i first started doing dungeons…

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Transmutation_Crystal

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Transmutation_Crystal

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Transmutation_Crystal

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Transmutation_Crystal

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Transmutation_Crystal

maha.7902:

got this commission for my mesmer :p

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/18721945/maha--shaded-sketch--FINAL.jpg

Pic related

Full wayfarer gear mesmer 20/0/20/20/10 condi/HEALER build!

Scepter + torch + staff!

All dem conditions and DAT MF, so tanky i never die! I always have to heal those zerker baddies that go down you do no damage when you’re dead, guys!

Fallout.1798:

Broadicea.8294:

Aside from a couple fights that are fun to try and see how quickly you can do them (Lupi, Alpha), every single dungeon run is just boring crap in the way of my reward. If there was a dungeon I could walk 5 steps into and hit F to collect 1 gold and 60 tokens I’d do that crap daily in a heartbeat.

But that’s not the intention of dungeons. The reward at the end if suppost to be because you put some effort into doing it. There comes a point when if its too easy to get the reward, then that reward shouldn’t be as high.

Compared to open world zerging, flipping stuff on the TP and things like deadeye farming, dungeon(ESPECIALLY fractal) rewards are a complete and utter joke. You think dungeon rewards should be even less for people who want to get it over with quickly?

Nah, it’s fine as it is right now.

AntiGw.9367:

Bad idea.

This would not address the zerker problem, while encouraging more elitist behaviour. Casuals would be even more discriminated against, and being blamed and hated for wiping and losing the bonus.

Seeing how MF was removed, this is not going to happen.

People like you are an actual problem, while “zerker” is not.

So all the devs did was changed som values/numbers for this boss and made it quite more challenging as a result, instead of the (half-)AFK fest it used to be. I like it!
I also am looking forward how pugs will deal with this from now on. Full ranging i guess or stacking reflects like there’s no tommorrow?

Also this just in: The P2 waypoint after the Spider run past belka also doesn’t activate until way later. That makes two pugbusters in one!

Opinions?

BURNED

Even if it wasn’t top notch play, pugs would be 9000% better if people knew all things in these guide videos.

No schiet, humanity is kittening kittened.

Inb4 300+ replies.

Most bad players i found pugging weren’t using zerk gear. A bad player with other kind of gear doesn’t go unnoticed and doesn’t contribute anything at all. Even the worst berserker player ever at least does some damage before dying. A PVT/rabid/dire/cleric etc. geared bad build using double bow/double rifle player is good for nothing and does negative damage before dying.

Alissah.9281:

Im not sure if thats sarcasm or not :o.

I really hope you’re not trying to make fun of me i am very ill and gw2 is one of my only forms of entertainmaent and i cant enjoy the game with hard bossts like this

I love all those poems, songs and stories you guys write. Bing-Bing-Bingo!

TL;DR version of the morale of the whole thread: Pugs are bad. You are bad too, if you don’t use proper DPS builds, which provide other damage/defense buffs to the group without lowering your DPS. If you don’t do this or at least try, you are as bad as the pugs you’re talking down upon.

tips top hat

Now if only the general populus around here would improve.

There was arah selling back in 2012 already…

You should seriously stop posting here now.

Filorin, please never stop posting here. You’re funny as hell, i’m serious. This was the best thread i’ve read in a while.

get it

pachex.9723:

[…]…But what happens if the general public decides to start charging people just to party up with them for dungeons because they consider themselves “L33T”?

Simple: Nobody joins them, but there is always casual/bad/rich players that will pay to get carried or taught.

BINGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

DO NOT LISTEN TO THESE PEOPLE ABOVE.

You need full PVT gear, Runes of the Soldier and a Shout Heal build with Mace/Shield with rifle for maximum efficiency in dungeons.

Please upboat my post :^)

DUNGEON BINGO!

I’ve been using almost the same exact build for fractals for a while(was trying out full mantra DPS 30/30/0/0/10 before).
It is good, EXCEPT for the fact that you didn’t pick at least 5 in illusions. Why would you NOT pick at least 5 in Illusions? Drop 10 Domination and put it into 10 Illusions instead, then i’ll fully approve of this.

You lose: 100 power(neglible, not much), -20% GS skill cooldowns

You gain: -20% cooldown on ALL clone/phantasm summoning skills(that includes Mirror Blade+Berserker+Warden etc.) and whatever you pick as the Minor Illusions trait(i pick +3% damage per summoned phantasm/clone usually).
i.e. i-Warden will have a 15 second cooldown with both -20% traits.

I also run full berserker gear just like OP here, with Omnomberry Pie(66% chance to heal on crit food)+Precision Oil. Good DPS, good group support, lots and lots of reflects. I also put Inspiration I as a trait sometimes when i know people go down a lot(like high level Legendary Grawl Shaman). Sometimes i also put in Temporal Enchanter, which makes the revive-Feedback last like 5 seconds(1-2 seconds more than normal) and the normal Feedback around 8 seconds. So if you have a dead corpse near you, that alone makes up for almost 50% uptime of reflect and you also have Temporal Curtain, Warden and your normal Feedback.

Thanks for making this thread, because i was too lazy to make one.

Consider the stuff i posted, OP.

No, it’s not.
You’re highly likely just too much of a bad player.