Guild Wars 2

Updated with Jade Maw, I apologize if anyone was waiting on more, been busy, but I got footage for Uncategorized, Dredge, Swamp, Grawl, and a new Cliffside to go through so they should be getting done within the next 2 weeks.

Jerus.4350:

So… nerf the kitten out of Acro to reintroduce the dodging in the specialization. Nice…

my thoughts exactly. traits are just a slight difference from the acrobatics tree, even to the point of reintroducing removed ones.

Added Aetherblade Fractal link to the OP, processing now and should be up within 6 hours of this post.

Feel free to throw any constructive criticism my way. I’ll be at PAX prime over the weekend, so I won’t be able to fix anything till I get back.

Edit: altered the thread title so its less wishy washy.

Enko.6123:

If you really want to see if its timer based or if its based off an npc dying, let the guys out of the gas and fire room and wait for the Aatxes to kill their npc.

Oh yeah i didn’t mean like a timer where there is simply just a time limit, like a time limit you would have to save the inquest from the gas/fire rooms before they died, because i’d assume that once they reached a certain point in time with the gas filling up one room and fire with the other they would keel over, thus locking you out.

But yeah I’ll test it out next time I get a Reactor roll.

IMO Guardian and Thief should always be in a party comp, Guardians walls and Aegis are too good to pass up especially in Molten Boss and Volcano. Thieves make Urban Battleground and Cliffside doable with their blinds and shadowsteps. and both classes makes “Uncategorized” MUCH easier. The rest is DPS and luxury utilities from other classes.

The Meta GRP Bladex stated has the best synergy by far compared to other grp comps, but if your willing to make sacrifices and build/spec changes, you can go with other classes as well.

Enko.6123:

FinnTastic.8579:

Fixed audio for Snowblind, Also added Thaumanova Reactor guide, it should be finished uploading from 2 hours of this post.

Would anyone mind helping me clarify the time limit you would have to save the inquest in the lab room, as well as the HP threshold you would need to put Subject 6 into before it summons repair oozes?

The dorms event on 40s and 50s is bugged (Don’t know if its bugged between 31-39 and 41-49. probably is though). The door to the final room with the console is already open so you just walk in and hit the console.

On 30s and below, you’ll still need to break down the door. Next time I get it on a 30, I’ll take a look at how long it takes. Not sure if its a timer base thing or if its just due to the NPCs finally getting killed by the mobs.

I don’t think its a bug, because in case of the possibility of failing to save the inquest you would be permanently locked out of being able to complete the fractal at 40+ due to not being able to open the door. I believe they kept the idea to save the inquest as a bonus DPS boost for the end boss.

The reason why you would only have to save the inquest -39 is because you only need 3 Collidors with all 4 rooms accessable, and if you fail labs, you can get the 3 collidors you need from the other rooms, so there’s always a way out.

Its definitely timer based because the Gas and Fire room inquest always died first when we left them alobe after getting the collidor, the mob rooms inquest will tank the Aatax surprisingly well for a while even at higher lvls.

Fixed audio for Snowblind, Also added Thaumanova Reactor guide, it should be finished uploading from 2 hours of this post.

Would anyone mind helping me clarify the time limit you would have to save the inquest in the lab room, as well as the HP threshold you would need to put Subject 6 into before it summons repair oozes?

I do 19, 29, 40 and 49s everyday, sometimes 50s if the grp wants to deal with Maw. All while helping guildies get to rank 50. By the time they get to it, they already have an entire armor box set for another class.

The only hard part is getting that first set to even be able to do fractals, after that you are rolling in them.

If you have all your accessories/rings/neck/back infused you will have more then enough AR to do all the fractals to get the armor/weap chests.

SlyDevil.3952:

Cliffside spawns 8 chanters and a veteran after you killed the first 2 at a double seal. I’ll try to test the ring of warding on the first archdiviner when I roll a cliffside.

Ty for the clarification, I’ll add it in when I get new cliffside footage.

In the mean time, uploading Snowblind test guide now, it should be up in 8 hours from this posting, will put a link in the OP.

Updated Molten Boss Fractal Guide with a more concise text description, fixed errors, and added a funny at the end to it. The only way I can describe it, is what I see whenever that cutscene happens….

Again it will take 2 hrs from the time of this post before its finished uploading.

And thx again for the feedback everyone! Editing Ascalon fractal next in the meantime.

Updated with the Molten Boss Fractal Test Guide link at the top, Its processing now and will take about 2 hours from now before it will be viewable….. I won’t be awake by the time its up, so I’d figure I’d let you guys tear it apart while I sleep.

I’ve incorporated slowdowns for tells, With walls of texts for explanations. Since the fights themselves are veeeeery quick, I found it hard to give each text enough time to be read, I could slow down the footage, but I don’t want the footage to get too butchered.

I might mess with some effects later on, I wouldn’t go overboard with it, cause I’d feel that would be obnoxious.

Didn’t add any funnies to this one yet, wanted to get the facts right before I did anything else.

Also, should I keep with the same looping song, or find some other tunes to loop for each fractal? Finding good FREE royalty free music is really time consuming.

Lendruil.9061:

Rag.3258:

fracture.9754:

Do you know that his range attacks can bug out and hit you regardless of range you are away from him?

The bug always happens, the aoe damage portion that should be centered around the archdiviner (physically hitting with the hammer) happens around the player he targets afaik. Like the ele blast heal blasts at the targets location instead of on yourself

I am not even sure if this is a bug, just see it that way that the projectile attack has two components. The first component are the (reflectable) projectiles, the second component is unreflectable (but dodgable/blockable) and hits immediately when he does his animation. And i am pretty sure that only the targeted player gets hit by it.

Yeah I’ve seen it several times myself, dodging regardless if he was aiming at me or not, cause the times I didn’t I’d get hit by one of them or both. RIP.

Edit: BTW almost done with the Molten Boss test guide, it should be uploading in about 24 hrs. It has a lot of the stuff that people want in it. Should I include scenes when things kinda go bad like at the end of the cliffside guide, or should I relatively keep it to a smooth run edit?

fracture.9754:

FinnTastic.8579:

its a fractal mechanics guide

Really? Let’s see.

-you recommend range attacks and spreading out to decrease chance of party wiping at 1st stage of archdiviner. At max melee range you have to be careful of 2 (TWO) attacks. How about show those TWO attacks and let people learn them instead? Like slow them down, show the tell to people? Do you know that his range attacks can bug out and hit you regardless of range you are away from him?

-“I haven’t tested it extensively, but I’m pretty sure…” <—- this does not belong in a guide. You either know or you don’t make a guide. Guides are done by people who know, not people who think they know. Personally, I’ve done all the dungeons a thousand times, but I still don’t feel fit to mentor them. There are people who are more suited for that than me and that’s fine.

-I miss the mention of hammer #3 skill, which will grant you stability – immunity against the 30 stacks stun – you know this (you used it in the video), it’s a good tip, but you didn’t write it out.

-I miss the knowledge of entire party, i.e. ele put down sandstorms at first set of seals, thieves/mesmers/eles blink the hammer up, etc.

-second seal: “it takes about 10 hits” <—- why write a number you’re not sure of?

-“if you kill both chanters, a dozen or so” <- again, same thing

-you didn’t even mention how standing next to archdiviner while hitting the seals work and what the formula is to how many people should stand there to remove x amount of stacks of defiance

There’s more things I could nitpick, but I honestly like the format and the idea, it’s just that the run on video is so very, very poor. I really don’t want to see people learning how to do stuff off of this video, even though it’s presented in an appealing format.

This is the kind of feedback I like, thank you. I’m perfectly fine with adding all this and fixing the cliffside guide. Ive run fractals thousands of times as well and am guilty of thinking some things are common sense, and working off of intuition when to others its not. I don’t mind being called out on hard facts, it makes for a better guide.

The good thing you can be happy about, these aren’t set in stone guides, I’ll be removing and fixing them to make a better version, to see what I miss and what I could fix, I’m more then willing to attempt what people suggest.

SlyDevil.3952:

FinnTastic.8579:

things about melee and stuff in cliffside

The further his leap travels the longer it takes him to travel the distance until he impacts. So yes, the further away you are the more time you have to dodge, think of him as an unreflectable projectile. He has air time.

GS 5 pulls not GS 4 as you mentioned at the last fight.

The red/purple colour was quite hard to see, you may want to set the text on a black background.

As amusing as some of the objectives were, you may want to have a static description during fights like the last archdiviner fight, and have the various life advice underneath it. It may be better to set those in their own category, I find them amusing but I already know the bosses mechanics, for newer players who are trying to focus on the fight, they may be confused why the objective isn’t related to the video.

In regards to melee, either buffing your move speed or debuffing the bosses will make melee much easier. You should only need to dodge his leap at the bottom, or his pull/agony at the top.

Check the exact number of chanters that spawn after you kill the first 2 instead of a range.

If you aren’t sure about something, do another fractal run a few days later and make your sentences statements, rather than moderately well informed guesses. You can look at getting some information off of gw2dungeons.net as weth keeps it well updated.

You may also want to mention the most relevant consumables for each fractal. Ie. cliffside is outlaw slaying. Molten facility is sharpening stones. etc…

You can slow the video down and zoom in for specific tells the first time the occur, pause and show the description, then continue so players know what they should be looking for. As a reference, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Kvk28qNfw4. Card’s video displaying proper aegis timing for grawl shaman.

Ty for the constructive feedback! All excellent points. I’ve added the black outline for future text edits, as well as the wanted consumables. I’ll definitely leave the serious stuff for the objective section, and come up with a different way for the funny stuff. The pauses/slows for tells is a very good idea, I’ll add those in as well, and I’ll use gw2dungeons.net for confirmation on specifics. Thanks again!

fracture.9754:

Please learn how to play properly before making guides.

I apologize that I don’t play like you and do 2 min elite guild runs, but again, its not a how to speed run guide, its a fractal mechanics guide, average player isn’t going to be like you and know every single detail and know the exact timing on boss CDs. Try to get the average player to go D/D on archdiviner and see how long they stay up to actually do any dps, I have done D/D on archdiviner, and when he focuses on going after me, I can only do a couple pot shots on him before having to dodge out of his auto attacks, I actually spend more time kiting as D/D then actually doing any dps. So yeah I went P/P, I can remove defiance stacks and do good single target dmg continuously, sure its not the best, but to cover all my bases and any shortcomings its a decent middle ground.

edit: and in the guide I don’t make any comments about how to do it as a thief so its not a how to thief guide either, its all general mechanics, so how I specifically play is kind of irrelevant.

Spextor.5732:

Thanks Finn…appreciated your time putting this together.

No problem! I should have the molten boss fractal guide up in a day or two, and I got decent enough footage that covers everything for the dredge fractal guide.

IrisTheCasual.3742:

Hey,

I like your editing job but there are a few things need to be fixed. Firstly, the texts are barely readable. They are too small and some coloured texts don’t show up well on screen. Also try not to include speculation (I feel this, I think that, I guess …) in your guides – it sounds very unreliable. If you are not sure about something, do some research and makes sure the information is correct. There are quite a few of flavored texts that are not related to the guides, I think those are best suited for a narrated guide than the caption format.

Thank you for your input, I’ll see what I can do to make the text easier to read, usually a black outline would be enough to separate text from the video. as far as making the text bigger, I don’t really want to have the text take up the whole screen even with how much it already does, and I don’t want to divide it enough into smaller bits and force the text to go by the screen too fast.

Yeah the speculation bit is a very valid point, I’ll remove it from further guides, and fix it from this one.

I’m personally a fan of flavored text, makes it a bit more interesting instead of just being bombarded with constant information, but I’ll try to limit it to a minimum.

Disclaimer: This isn’t some kind of “How To” to breaking a speed record guide, its a guide to relatively smooth, quick, and easy runs for new players at higher lvl fractals.

This guide is an introduction to each fractal, and shows the most common and effective methods, so when you’re in a pug, you can at least be on the same page as everyone as the more experienced players, and decrease chances of party wiping.

This guide will probably take a little while to get completed, since I’m only going to be recording 49-50s, and I’ll have to wait till I get the right fractals needed.

Solid Ocean (Jade Maw) 1st test guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vh9jdRIcf7Q

Aetherblade 1st test guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP6OzPEbNms

Thaumanova Reactor Fractal 1st Test Guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KZ8A2PG21k

Cliffside Fractal 1stt Test Guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bv65wP7y8xs&feature=youtu.be

SnowBlind 1st Test Guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK1HmGyDS3I

Molten Boss Fractal 2nd Test Guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUit8lwthQY

Feel free to discuss how I could make the guides better, and call me out on any mistakes!

Another run down! I will try to make this a weekly thing, every saturday at 5:30 PM PST I will do a complete JP porting marathon to 1 region. Ill update the order for each region in the main post.

Updated new JP marathon time!

Was a lot of fun doing ports for everyone yesterday, but it did take a while to get every JP done, so for any future marathons, I will keep it strictly region based for that specific week.

I’ll keep everyone posted for the next date I do JP ports!

Jumping uninclined individuals! I will be performing a Jumping Puzzle portal marathon every Saturday at 5:30 PM PST!

I will be doing one region a week in this order.

Shiverpeaks
Ascalon
Kryta
Maguuma Jungle
Orr
Maguuma Wastes

For a relatively speedy marathon run, it is recommended to have all the WPs close by the starting points of the Jumping puzzles. If you wish to know which ones these are, here is the link! http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Jumping_puzzle

I will be relatively going in the same order as the list in the link.

Please Note that a few puzzles will take a couple portals to reach the end, so if you are looking for fast achievements with very minimal hassle, then please wait at the assigned portal spots, you are welcome to do the Jumping puzzles yourselves at your own risk, but that will mean possibly missing the portals.

It is recommended to add me to your friends list in case you don’t see my tag on the Map, that way you can quickly whisper me to get a taxi.

In a ghosty voice Alex…. whhhhyyyyyy didn’t yoooooouuuuu saaaaaaaveee meeeee?!? OOOOoooOOooOOOOOOo!

Its definitely a pain, I have to actually look carefully at the party to make sure no one is dying on me, instead of focusing on killing the boss…

Well due to no racers showing up, the race has been cancelled, if there had been at least 1 racer, they would have been guaranteed 100g just by completing the race.

Due to players not liking the 40g entry fee, We have reduced it to 10g, which also means that the winning pool will also be lowered.

Greetings Everyone!

On February 28th, 6 PM PST, Serenity’s Ascension [Rise] and The Nameless Ones [TNO] are sponsoring “The Great Asuran Race!” Its a race in which currently 28(subject to change) participants race to the finish line all the while surviving as level 2 Asurans!

Your host, organizer, and founder of this race will be me! Master Shenanigans!

First Place wins 240g!
Second Place Wins 125g!
Third place wins 75g!
Total Pot is dependent on the number of registered racers and participating moderators

Entry Fee is 10g per Racer
Racers will be limited! Apply before positions fill up!

Remaining Slot will be updated regularly!

Slots 28
remaining (26)

The first racers to pay the entry fee will be invited to “The Great Asuran Race” Guild to be counted as a registered Racer!

This is a North America based event!

NOTE: if you pay the entry fee, please keep a free guild slot open for the invite!!! If your Guild tabs are full upon receiving an invite we can not guarantee any refunds!

We accept donations from any guilds! If you donate gold for the race, it will be added to the winning pool! Just say which guild is sponsoring and we will give a shout out to your guild!

There will be several rules and trusted moderators to ensure a fair race, any violators will be disqualified.

Rules will be listed below.

1. No Using EXP consumables or any other consumables.
2. No Assistance from friends or other higher lvls
3. No teleporting, Using Home cities, LA, PVP Lobby, WVW zones.
4.You may use WPs that you have discovered as a checkpoint in case you die
5. You must be in a moderated party to be considered an active racer.
6. For you to be invited to a Moderated party, you must be inside the starting ASURAN INSTANCE as well as repping The Great Asuran Race guild.
7. Only Moderators can instigate a party kick vote, and if they do, the party must ACCEPT the vote kick, so make sure its a moderator calling the vote!
8. The Race Organizer will designate and link where the finish line will be, it will be a WayPoint or a Point of Interest. To be declared a winner, the racer must Link the WP or POI in guild chat for everyone to see. Using Link codes or the like will not count!
9. Racers Must NOT accept any resurrections from other players, you must revive using WPs, if you are resurrected, you must quickly teleport to a WP or be subject to disqualification.

Failure to adhere to these rules will result in a disqualification and forfeit of your entry fee.

If you wish for a entry fee refund you must send an in-game mail to the Race Organizer before the 25th of February, if your game ID does not match anyone in the guild roster, you will not get a refund! So don’t quit the guild before you get your refund!

You may send me your entry fee using the in-game mail. Make sure to specify why you are sending the gold! Whether its sponsoring or entry fee!

I’m assuming this event is still bugged? Because he hasn’t moved at all since the 2 hours ive waited for him to activate, and nothing states that a prerequisite is needed for him to activate either.

So I use my mouse to move, holding down both mouse buttons. I always keep my mouse cursor near the center, and whenever I click or unclick my mouse, they are still in the center, but randomly, but more often than not, it keeps right clicking on the player on the bottom of the party window even though my mouse is in the center.

I feel at some point it would accidentally try to kick someone out of the party.

Do you ever wish you could LA map chat on the go? Do you enjoy talking with absolute strangers over nothing in particular? Do you need an outlet for your sarcastic witty humor? Do you ever find yourself yelling at imaginary creatures that you believe have been out to get you since you were a 3 year old kid, back when you had a traumatic experience from watching that one non-descriptive horror movie without your parents permission, and has since then forever scarred you?

Well then this is the guild for you, except for that last bit, get some help for that, cause that’s just weird.

Lions Arch Chat’s is a new guild and its sole purpose is to be a global LA chat. Missions/Buffs/Upgrades are secondary, if enough interest is kept then be sure to see those be an active element as well.

No reqs, No specific Server, its not like LA ever had any standards to begin with anyways, oh snap! Burn.

PST me or anyone else in guild for invite.

Wanderer.3248:

Right a bit, and down the tunnel.

Oh! Good show! Thank you for that, was getting furious over this lol.

So in order to access “Discovering Scarlets Breakthrough” instance, you gotta have t4 zephyrite cred within 30 mins before the next sandstorm, then you have to kill the skritt queen to open the door up.

Sounds easy enough right? Well not when your Dry Top instances hardly ever reach t3, forcing you to wait 50 more mins till the next sand storm to see if you even have a chance at reaching it.

Yeah I could try logging in and out or changing zones to try to get a better and more populated zone, but thats playing the lottery.

TL;DR
Shouldn’t have to wait on a 50 min gamble timer for a singleplayer story instance.

Heyas Shiznex, The Audacious P [Tap] is a small Jade Quarry guild trying to build up its members, we are a very lax and ridiculous group of people, we do just about everything but mostly focus on PvE, such as dungeons/fractals/world events. We don’t have a hierarchy, so everyone has the same pull and access to everything that our guild has.

We don’t really have any requirements other then being willing to learn dungeon mechanics as well as being able to dish out and take jokes!

If you are interested you can message Master Shenanigans in game for an invite whenever!

Take Care!

Heyas Angkorwat, The Audacious P [Tap] is a small Jade Quarry guild trying to build up its members, we are a very lax and ridiculous group of people, we do just about everything but mostly focus on PvE, such as dungeons/fractals/world events. We don’t have a hierarchy, so everyone has the same pull and access to everything that our guild has.

We don’t really have any requirements other then being willing to learn dungeon mechanics as well as being able to dish out and take jokes!

If you are interested you can message Master Shenanigans in game for an invite whenever!

Take Care!

Heyas Tayte, The Audacious P [Tap] is a small Jade Quarry guild trying to build up its members, we are a very lax and ridiculous group of people, we do just about everything but mostly focus on PvE, such as dungeons/fractals/world events. We don’t have a hierarchy, so everyone has the same pull and access to everything that our guild has.

We don’t really have any requirements other then being willing to learn dungeon mechanics as well as being able to dish out and take jokes!

If you are interested you can message Master Shenanigans in game for an invite whenever!

Take Care!

Gonna cut out all the BS, we are a Jade Quarry based guild. We don’t care for hierarchy or numbers of players being in our guild, everybody gets treated the same. We are just looking for people that want to hang out with us, we are a PvX guild but mostly do PvE atm.

We are a small guild that’s been around a while, every bodies guilds gotta start somewhere though.

We don’t care for forums or registering for stuff, if you want to find out if you want to play with us, then just play with us! We are a super chill and ridiculous bunch with semi hardcore PvE tendencies. We are just tired of the overpopulated guilds and anal retentive leaders.

So if you are still reading and are still interested then drop a message over to me, or whisper me in game, I’m always free to chat.

Master Shenanigans
The Audacious P [Tap]

Angry Angus.2187:

Okay so I’ve found the one near the waterfall at the start. Then the spider nest in area 2 and the shop, then nothing in area 3 other then getting to the spider nest, then in area 4 the shop with the light, and then the drop down tricky one. Then nothing in area 5.
I’m still missing one so any help?

there is a hidden cave you must use a bomb on to open up. Its to the left of one of the shops, there will be a rock to the right where the cave door would be.

Josh Foreman.8250:

I remember the good ol’ days… those 3 hours between when we launched, and when every single secret was laid out and demonstrated for the world.

You know when you got good secrets when everyone is having a very hard time searching for them, and are forced to use the internet! I was stumped for 5-6 hours on these! GJ!

No shortcut doesnt count toward the secret rooms

but the shortcut is at the big pool of blue water with the turtles, there is a tree with a weird branch that goes into the water, the shortcut is behind that tree leading underground with a giant “wormhole” sticking out, make sure to collect all the baubles in there as well!

Found 1/6 at the start, to the left of the waterfall, there is a hole in the ground that you jump down into the secret spot, besides that I have no idea where the others are. Besides the shops.

Feel free to share!