Guild Wars 2

voidvector.2780:

Most pug guardians I see just camp their DPS setup, and offers no utility to the group. Because they often camp melee, they would die more than my ele.

Guardians can:

• block/reflect projectiles
• tank mobs with mace/spirit weapons
• group mobs with GS/trap
• knockback with hammer
• protection and aegis for the group
• might with staff

This is usually the chronos job ! and might with staff??? If you got a prestacking ele in your party he will hate you if you do that

Kinda interesting how everyone is talking about the power creep … You were able to squeeze a very similar dps out of eles thiefs and in the past days guardians … The thing that changed it was the breakbar and its 50% dog increase when broken …

And on the other hand … Dungeon mechanics are less about bosses themselves … It’s more about mechanics like stealthing, using portals and stuff …

And I guess there are still some exp dungeon runners out there … But they are mostly organized in their own groups and would rather do a low an instead of taking a pug they have to carry …

Don’t complain about the most stupid nerf ever!
Anet needs to weaken the classes to make super strong elite specs with the next expansion…

And i thought the game is close to a good state again…

Would be really interesting if this console thing is possible in a 5 man party aswell…

could improve the record a lot… really sad that no one cares about dungeons anymore:(

but nice work

They destroyed a big part of the core game by removing dungeon rewards…

It would be a really holy trinity if they hadn’t removed them…

Dungeons, Fractals, Raids

Trinity in 2 scenarios:
1st.: Dungeons, not that hard group content for 5 people… or if you are experienced you can do them with 3 2 or solo if you want… why not

2dn.: Fractals… a bit harder group content but at the moment with an absolutely broken system … Go up to lvl 100 with a lot of new COOL instabilities and reintroduce the random component ( perhaps bring all the step6 1 fractals like the underwater one to step 2 so you can enjoy every fractal )

3rd.: Raids… More challenging group content for 10 players or 9 if you are really good. You have to organize this once per week and for all the other days you can do fractals and dungeons…

So every single instanced loving pve player would love anet for such a decision… but well…

You know their real intention for nerfing liquid rewards if you have a look into the gemshop… Change your gems to gold… oh wow… now we are going to pay to win for new players that have no great gear because the costs of ascended stuff are immense atm

Why is The Device time gated?

The pistol and staff precursors aren’t…

Balanced

SteepledHat.1345:

Ryn.6459:

Glad I did it XD
Seriously, they can leave tyria dungeons in order to farm tokens but also put them into fractals. Boom, a lot more of content that do not imply much work for them.

How is this any different than just buffing dungeon rewards to, while not as good as before, be the same as fractals?

So they should change dungeons in a gold sink like fractals :P

When fracture was introduced to the game there was a lot more instabilities than the 20 that was introduced leaked …

There was some instability like using a healing skill kills you ore something like that

The 20 introduced was also really funny and sometimes challenging an real fun to lvl up

But now it’s just boring 10 levels the same stupid instabilities … Sometimes destroying the best part of the gameplay ( dodging )

It seems like anet went extremely lazy

Anet simply destroyed both … Dungeons and fractals

Bad rewards in both of them
No one there to do dungeons because of the bad rewards
Just boring fractals because of the hp sponge mobs and the abolutely stupid instabilities ( dodging causes loos of any boon , yes pls destroy your game mechanics more offensive )
People leveled on 100 just do the daily fractals not even more because it’s not real fun

Anet gave us a good example how to not introduce some ADD on

It’s an ADD on not a REMOVE on

Is it welcome?

Guess not… I know a lot of people having their fun with min maxing their equipment.

They would be really disappointed if they would hear their 4 staffs on ele their multiple greatswords , daggers and so on are kind of useless then because they have pretty much of this ascended stuff

So if this is your opinion please don’t force anet to change this because you don’t have to min max … If you are just to lazy to swap around use perma force air and everything is fine..

But you want to force us min maxers to change our stuff because you are lazy … Sounds fair

I’m fine with the changing in raids because I never expected they would be nighttime or a specific type of enemies … But anet should stop to changing old content …

that could be a reason why anet is not answering to any of the dungeon threads…

But well their game just went boring now without dungeon tours … Open world is that brainless … I can’t enjoy it without watching some movie while doing this …

Fotm mobs in higher level are not really challenging … They just have tons of toughness and hp… Perhaps the intended time sink …

Linken.6345:

Dungeons only show new players stacking corners anet dont want us to do anymore.

If you know how to do dungeons in a good way… you wont stack in a corner anymore…
There are just a few situations you really needed to LoS mobs or pull them into a corner

It was to much changing in the basic game .

I am not able to understand aNets decision to nerf rewards that hard … They should have known it would be hard to find parties then …

I just can repeat myself … ANet killed the variety of the game… Made the gameplay boring by disabling soft cc to bosses..

Fractals are that boring too … 4manned a fotm 89 yesterday an it was challenging in no way it was just boring because of mobs with ultra high vita and toughness

But well we can do open world , where auto attack would be enough …

totally agree with the OP

and to the last comment… early in the game the dungeons were new and you wanted the armor skins and so on… but if you mind back to this time… there was every dungeon empty too, except of arah p3 farm for a while and cof farm…

when they gave us gold for every dungeon we got motivated to do and enjoy them in all their ways..

so the same as before will happen now to the dungeons… they are burried under the dungeon reward nerf … and i dont want to farm open world for gold its just brainless… there is no challenge at all … well dungeons are also not the big challenge but more challenging than open world stuff…

so we can just hope, that anet give us our dungeons back … revive them… the variety of the game would increase so much if we have dungeons raids AND fractals and we will do them all together … i am sure about this

The worst thing with nerfing dungeons is that they also destroyed the variety of the game …

I love their new maps and also love to level up my masteries in maguuma.. But I also would love to run some dungeons every day … The problem is the lfg is empty for all dungeons except cof 1 xp farm … Also in my dungeon guild everyone is saying "we do dungeons just for xp let’s kill everything "

And I was losing 1 gold in 10 fotm lvls.

Now someone might say do sw farm for gold… But just no … It’s brain dead , stupid and just boring … Also fractals are that annoying without effects of chill root and so on…
I agree with the defiance nerf for stopping getting mobs freezed but it’s just boring to dps mobs down if the break bar is open a revenant kills the bar with staff 5 and perhaps a shiro elite … It was more challenging to deepfreeze really… And why the chill and the root … To make it more boring … Just because we know how to counter an enemy like the archdiviner with roots? Isn’t that what pve should be to know how to encounter things???

I’m just annoyed from the changes in instanced content … I love the new maps the masteries but i know running thru new maps is not satisfying after a few days maybe weeks…

I thougt it would be fixed that soon, that i decided to ignore the bug…

but i was not reading anything about this bug so far, so i wanted to ask:
Is it just bugged for me?

Got all of the fotm skins in my account wardrobe but just7 in my collection…
first i thougt you have to have the skin still in your vault or inventory not just in your wardrobe … but thats also not working so…

hoping to get a bugfix for this soon… i want my golden sword

lordkrall.7241:

Fines Juliverine.5846:

Now if you combine the two events … Give champs loot in mordrem you don’t force players porting around .. And everything is ok …

So basically end up with the exact same issue that we had during the Scarlet Invasion that prompted ArenaNet to remove the loot from them in the first place? People refusing to finish events but rather just scale them up to farm Champion Bags. Not to mention the abuse for people that wanted to finish the events.

Is it better if people finish th events or is it better to port around..

And the difference is… In mordrem you don’t have a meta event , in which you have to do events … If you would follow a commander in mordrem event scale events up to champ, you can get champ rewards an you can do enough events for the blooms… I don’t think an event would need more than 1-2 minutes if most of the people stick together

Well in my opinion the biggest problem in that event is , if you want to get blooms you have to port around…

And why should i stay at a single event … There are no rewards for it … Also why should I join a commander … The champs are not dropping loot boxes…

So we had the scarlet event , where events was up scaled to champions

Now we have this port around thing … The difference is … At the scarlet event you take part at the event until it was finished ….
Another difference … At the scarlet event you had to finish the events , if you want scarlet to spawn …

Now if you combine the two events … Give champs loot in mordrem you don’t force players porting around .. And everything is ok …

Also don’t be that lazy anet and create new skins and don’t always recycle old stuff in such events … If you bought the skins in you gem shop you have nothing from that event because you were a supporter of anet by buying gems … Sounds fair

Ty thorwyn 100% agree;)

Yeah sure i agree with the most of your arguments but I am really not sure if the 10 % isn’t better in a ice bow burst … There are some fights e.g. Golem in se 1 you don’t really have the time to cast torch twice if you way to use the bow … You can also increase your dps if you cast focus before fight an switch to torch …

I personally think in daily runs both builds are ok … The differences should be small

I could imagine, but i don’t have any proof for it , it depends on the length of the fight… if it’s a short fight version 1 should be better because you have a increased damage output while using ice bow under the effect of retaliation…

you also don’t need the torch that often in short fights

The signet trait improves the bane signet by 36 power that is not that much… but the burning increase is also not really much without condition gear…

hard to say which version is better…

ofc you should take amplified wrath in situations you are not able to run bane signet.

Zenith.7301:

Getting kicked for a build doesn’t happen often unless you make it plainly obvious such as a staff/scepter mesmer (especially on a power build) (…)

Scepter on a mes is indeed a bad idea on a power build, but mind that staff gains a dps benefit in short fights under 10-12 seconds compared to s/s … Because staff phantasm has lower attack speed (6s untraited) than the sword one (4s untraited) but it’s damage should be higher caused by the 10% buff per condition on enemy. ( vul, bleed, chill(thru bow) burn, and the random condi like poison thru chaos field or thief) so 50% …

You should start with the staff phantasm then the chaos field ( while you cast the phantasm the eles have time to freeze ) then swap to s/p or s/f …

But of course in a pug it is really unusual to use staff on a mes …

If you are running sword you miss about 5-10% of your dps compared to mace…

I am also running sword in some situations, because the projectile block is awesome in some solo dou or trio runs…

I’m also very sad that they removed the 10% benefit by using sword:(

CoF path 1

If you kill the first two turrets and the mobs after the first door in less than ~9 seconds, ferrah will not start the next dialog to trigger the slavedriver.

NikeEU.7690:

All time records never get reset.

k. ty… it just sounds like all time records are included this time

Are we talking about resetting the current records or the all time records too?

Very nice run!

Looks like the Mesmer pulled them into the AoE’s against the 2nd Champ

Restricted CoF path 1 by Yoga
June 10th 2015, Gamebuild 49,781
Time: 4:42

Team:
We Got Nice Moves [Yoga]

Participants:

• Warrior: Fayne Nuke (Jonny.5218)
• Thief: Briá (Leandra Vanyar.7548) PoV
• Mesmer: Valea Juliverine (Fines Juliverine.5846) PoV
• Elementalist: Yimeji (Foxyyy.7960) PoV
• Elementalist: Cassy Sue (Wandra Eos.2384) PoV

Thanks to Lyss Lumina (Dumbofant.2894) for this awesome chat overlays.

My feedback to HoT Stresstest:

It ran pretty smooth and it was really nice to see a part of the new revenant skills.
Very interesting was the Wyvern fight, it would also be an interesting fight for a party of 5 in a dungeon or something.

Like others here i was a bit disappointed about the mastery panel. It is not very intuitive and you don’t really know if you spent a point in a mastery or not. I think a Window similar to the trait window would be better. In my oppinion the mastery panel should also appear in heros panel directly under the trait button.

You should als be able to start gliding more quickly … It isn’t that cool as i hoped it is because you have to fall free for a while until you are able to activate the gliding option… a bit earlier would be nice

The new map looked pretty nice, but unfortunately we was just able to see a small area… but for the first beta stresstest it was an eyecatcher. Especially the cave you are entering while you are doing the story sequence… pretty nice

I am really happy to see old friends like Majory or Kasmeer in the new story =)

In general a good job Anet

I also dislike the gw2 greatsword Models… Just Vision of the Mists is really nice in my mesmer, but for my guardian i don’t have a fitting skin… So i built the legendary Sunrise to have the option to change stats. But Sunrise isn’t really beautiful… It is netter than twilight in my opinion.. But to big…

My favourite would be a greatsword in the style of the 1 hand fractal sword..

So i’m waiting for new legendaries hoping there will bei pretty new gs skins.

You forget… if you want a Legendary Skin in your Wardrobe, you have to build a legendary. And you aren’t able to play two characters at same time.

At the moment, if you have 2 Characters and you just have 1 legendary it is possible to switch this legendary around, too. Only problem the costs of 300 gems and a trans crystal. So nothing really changes. It is just easier to switch the skin around between multiple characters.

System is:

Intel i7 4771
Gtx 780m
Driver just updated
256gb SSD
8gb RAM

System crashes when showing lfgs of Dome Dungeons
Not when joining Party

Have the same problem like zahrexsiiszb.8472. Did AC p1, then everytime i want to use lfg the game crashes.

Just tried it with other Dungeon LFGs… there are no crashes… only at AC