Guild Wars 2

Today I was offered some gold to run someone through Arah path 1 so a few guild mates and I were more than happy to. This made me think, that there are probably more people out there having trouble with dungeons and are willing to part with some gold to get them done.

So, I’m offering to anyone out there who wants any path done, my guild and I are able to easily run any and all dungeon routes and PvE content in GW2 currently, if you’d like a hand, just add me to friends and whisper in game and we can discuss what you want.

Cheers,

Harm ^-^

P.S i know this thread is going to be hard for all the flamers to resist posting in, but do try… If you your post isn’t related to my topic and OP, then don’t post at all.

I’m not sure, the forums seem to bug. The “Quote” button should be at the bottom of the post of the person you want to reply quote, along with 2 other buttons “Report” and “Permalink”. But half the time it doesn’t show, after a few refreshes it seems to pop up again but >.>

Kierlak.5209:

Then why is there even an argument?

Why did you, with literally no provocation at all, attack his use of signets? From the very first post, no less.

Yeah I eventually stopped bothering to respond when I discovered the history of troll posts and arguements in other threads. Seen plenty of people in games who feel the want to be praised because of their so called superior knowledge and skill and anything that doesn’t abide by it must be bad or inferior, and I see it here. Don’t care for spending my effort on the type of person, one who is unable to understand others builds may be as good or better (and yes potential to be worse) than their own for what they are trying to accomplish, who they play with, their playstyle, and their level of skill. I don’t believe my build is inferior to any others for the way I want to play, you are welcome to disagree, but at least have the courtesy to do it constructively. However I never let my desired style of play known in my original post so I don’t know on what grounds I gave anyone anything to even disagree on. Instead from the very first response, onwards seems I’ve read nothing but snide condescending posts, which I dont enjoy being involved in.

Those who know me, know I like a dangerous, challenging, all-or-nothing playstyle. Not going into further detail about myself or my friends unless its with people I find it constructive or enjoyable doing so.

I made this thread with the intention to provide some fun, comedy and amusement at my own expense. Needless to say I was extremely saddened when I happened to log back in and see the first response I had.

swiftpaw.6397:

I’m lost.
How does the OP have anything to do with builds to begin with?

Talk about derailing a thread >_>

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Milennin.4825:

Kevin.2176:

-insert silly argument-

Welcome, Ladies & Gentlemen, to the future of the Guild Wars 2 dungeon community where we talk down and insult everyone who doesn’t follow the perfect and mega ultimate superior statistical builds.
WTKitten are you on about? What’s it to you how he plays anyway?

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swiftpaw.6397:

Grats on your traveler’s Ceremonial scimitar of rage O_O
I will still be doing this as I have 0 use for those tokens atm though something better than nothing I guess T_T

lol ty

Kevin.2176:

I will use smaller words and simpler paragraphs next time if it helps with your reading comprehension.

I’ll help you with this last reply, you are on your own after this. My last reply was a direct response to the post prior to it. Main point being precision/critical strike is not superior to power, even taking into consideration every on-proc effects.

It is fairly obvious I won’t list every single ability that is superior to the said signets, as it is highly encounter/situation dependent, Banner of Strength was a simple example. I’m sorry to inform you that your unsubstantiated opinions are not considered as “facts” (lol, I laughed at this).

You sir keep believing what you believe. I’ve no desire to school you with that attitude.

Kevin.2176:

I do not think you understand your class mechanics well enough to make statements that berate others about high enough level.

From a simple DPS/more damage perspective, in which you pride yourself and your group to be striving towards. You are using Signet of Precision. 90 Precision (+40 more with traits), on use of full adrenaline. Compared to one of the many superior alternatives, example: Banner of Strength (close to 100% up-time with tactics), which is 90 Power/condition damage to you AND all of your allies.

I’d recommend you to take a look at the Damage Formula, Precision under almost no situation is superior to power in a 1-1 ratio.

Furthermore, from the video it also looks like you are using a 5% critical strike Sigil, both on your Arah sword that you transmuted and on another weapon. In which it is proven from time and time again greatly inferior to many of its alternatives, Force, Air, Fire, Frailty. Here is a nice post that should help you out at bit on reaching that “high enough level”.

Yes, you can complete everything in this game in non-optimal builds, and do it in non-substantiated “record” speed. There are many well written threads about the lack of PvE challenges in this game for a reason.

P.S I don’t play warrior. I also think you should get some knee pads for your buddy there that is blindly backing up anything you say.

“I do not think you understand your class mechanics well enough to make statements that berate others about high enough level. "

Coming from someone who doesn’t even play a warrior, sorry for replying seriously >.> didnt realised you were just trolling. But for anyone else who might have been curious on what my response was going to be:

Wasting time placing flags, waiting for its cooldowns, picking them up, running around with them. We move too fast for this pesky playstyle, and each second wasted doing that is 1 less hit others and I haven’t damaged an enemy. Not to mention all the encounters where the buff is wasted since your silly if you and your team want to hug your flags to get a the buff from it. Having said that there are rare occasions I have decided to use flags to fight certain bosses.

Sigh, no idea why you are trying to have such a discussion without actually have understood playing a warrior. DPS is only half the reason I need to be crit’ing all the time. And I’m not going to bother explaining why if you don’t already know. Again my comment before about not understanding peoples builds etc etc, and you link to information you’ve gathered from other sources to base your ideas. No offence but there are good players and great players. Sometimes all the research and practice in the world won’t get you to cross that barrier. And greater players are capable of creating new/better/different ways of playing instead of always basing their playstyles off what they learn from others. And as for your research “Tested by auto-attacking with axe with 56% critical chance.” …no need to say anything further.

Done arguing with you sir, please don’t respond unless a comment to do with the video.

I’m still keen to hear feedback on what everyone thought, feel free to post I’d like to know if you guys found it a little amusing at the very least ^-^

Kevin.2176:

Gab Superstar.4059:

Maybe one day you will be able to…

Maybe one day I will be able to come up with a utility setup that offers nothing to my group, I need to get back to the drawing board on this.

Try not to downplay the builds of other because it doesn’t fit your “omgthisistheonlyproperwaytoplaythisclass” build and. If you had the privelege of playing with the people I do you’d understand why I have such a build and how it works better than any shout/flag/survialUtilities ablities builds you obviously believe warriors are meant to use. Also, even if the ablities in the video are equipped at that time doesn’t mean these signets/ultilites don’t change depending on specific situations requiring it. Your way may be the slow safe standard generic way of playing a warrior and works fine, but I rarely pug now, and with my groups and their abilites, there is no need to play so conservatively, and to go further “utility setup that offers nothing to my group” would be completely incorrect. My abilities and playstlyle offer whats needed to the group, they play accordingly, and I play as such in return to their abilities and playstyle. Not sure why you would think killing enemies faster and easier doesn’t benefit the group.

But to conclude, I(we) play and complete the hardest content GW2 has to offer and do it in record speeds so if proof is what you need there it is. If you still don’t understand that’s fine, your welcome to your own opinion, I would just have to say once you play on a high enough level you will come to understand.

Understanding may also help when you know my friends and I mindset is: “slow fights are boring/bad fights”

Bashful Heart Bear.1953:

All I learned from this is that there is a /deaths and across all 6 of my 80s I’ve died 1247 times. I have enough /age that I’m embarrassed to say it…how has this guy died 2200 times. Shoot I already feel like I’m face down in the dirt a lot but 2200… :O

Lmao my /deaths seems to cause much amusement for those who know me also ahem on a more serious note I guess I can only say it comes down to my personality/playstyle/warrior and the amount of time my /age is in dungeons, and how much of that age in dungeons is pushing our group to the limit of its dps and the fastest possible speed at pulling/killing enemies. Dieing and repair bills don’t phase me, especially with the amount of damage I can put out at the same time as decoying so the rest of the group can damage as safe as possible. But bottom line is…its a massive number…and I’m strangely proud of it lol.

Kevin.2176:

Gab Superstar.4059:

You must be in a terrible group if you can’t keep a signet warrior up :P

No problem keeping them up or around. My back just hurts a bit after doing so.

Lol. Yes “Signet noob warrior”, but when you get good enough, with a good enough build, with a good enough group you can pull off Signets and call it pro, and proceed use it in all bar certain sections of PvE content. Although guildies and friends do seem to have an aweful lot of back problems… ^-^

I agree with original poster, I remember when I did my story mode, finished it first go, but dealing with the kitten canon controls and adds and aoes at the same time was pretty annoying, not difficult, annoying.

Okay, so you can demolish all the dungeons in the game including Arah. You have lots of spare tokens, they keep accumulating and you want to make good use of them!

This very short video will help you out on what you should (or shouldn’t do) for all your hard earned dungeoning.

feat. the Mystic Forge – where dreams come true…?

Leave any feedback for the video, I’m keen to know everyones thoughts ^-^

I have all the gear I want yet I still do dungeons, not sure why, but I do, and I don’t my rewards for doing them being reduced, since they are not that great to begin with. I probably still play the game and dungeon because im more involved with a guild/friends now so it keeps me interested. So gear alone is not my concern when it comes to doing dungeons.

I have no problem with bugs…but when…they never…or take so long….to get fixed…..

Agreed. Lalallalalala (An Error Prevented Saving: Message Body length must at least be 15.) lol

the merchant has several tabs if you look in the merchant window’s left hand side, click on the lower ‘money bag’ icon and you will see the elite unique looking gear for that dungeon.

4. Sorry missed a point I had intended in original. Nerfing content after caving in to whiners Example, I did Path 1 CoF Effigy pre-nerf with friends. When we first attempted it took a few attempts and thinking about what angle we’d take trying to actually down it. What strat to use, employing the use of potions and food, literally having to push our characters to 100% of what they could do in the game to actually down it. After we killed it the feeling was great, and each successive kill was easier and just as pleasing knowing we could do something that is meant to be challenging. Then Effigy was made 20x easier and all that pride was thrown out the door, we can simply sit there, auto atk and the boss will die now. I guess all I ask is that there are some dungeons that are completely challenging, so those of us who are after hard content, get it, and can be proud of the gear we get from there since we know only skilled players will have been able to achieve that gear. Even Arah doesn’t fit this category with having an easy mode path 3, which everyone simply farms to get the same gear.

Okay so most of my GW2 gameplay so far has been revolving around dungeons and I’ve finally reached a point where I just need to get some things off my chest.

1. I’ve read similar comments in other posts, but I feel the need to reiterate, sick and tired of doing super fast runs with my guilds/friends, most of the time we only ever do a single run of each route per day, but still hit the diminishing returns. For example, yesterady, grouped with a few guildies and friends whom are full geared 80’s who I have done every dungeon path in the game with. We can ‘speed’ through every explore path in the game now with no problem. So we decided to do CoF since we wanted to do a dungeon and none of us had done it that day. Started with route 1, did it in the usual 10-15min’ish mark and got the usual 26s, 60tokens and full karma (sorry didn’t time it exactly), left straight out, and did path 2 to in the usual 10-15min’ish again. This time we only recieved 45 tokens, 19s and reduced karma. I approve of you Anet punishing bot users etc, but WHY are we legitmate players being punished for getting better and actually being good at the game. Its extremely offputting.

2. Make the Arah weapons/armor look cooler please greatsword in particular for myself, I was proud to be able to smash Arah to get all my gear and weapons from there (80 human male), yet I still wield my CoF greatsword simply because it looks cooler, even though I feel dirty having it knowing its so easy to get. Male heavy armor, I 100% like and luckily I mained a male human before I knew anything about the game, because that armor is perfect of what I wanted from my end game armor. Human female version is terrible though, for both heavy and light, and male light chest is horrible. I have a female alt character which I might level up at some point, and I hate the though of not actually wanting to equip her with gear from the most elite dungeon in the game

3. Game mechanics and frustration, bugs in dungeons, spending hours in places like Arah, only to run into bugged doors, bugged npcs, and not just Arah, in so many different dungeons, and weeks, after weeks, after weeks…bugs still existing ruining hours of gameplay and leaving a bad experience constantly of dungeon’ing. Invisible walls, bosses (Lupi), enemies depending on your camera angle, and just bad camera angles in tight spaces which is literally painful for the eyes in dungeons. (someone mentioned somethign about transparency if your camera hits walls etc, that would be perfect)

On a final positive note, I have been reading throught the forums a bit and I have to see I’m very pleased to see such high presence from Robert Hrouda, Content Designer. Kudos to you Robert, I have much respect to game devs who mingle with their player base.

Wow, this thread made me realised just how much cooler and epic the Lupi fight would be if music queued when you walked in and did the most fun boss encounters. Pretty please Anet?!? You’ve mentioned changes/updates to dungeons, keep this in mind ^-^

P.S i found the matrix one most appropriate for the Lupi fight, this genre of music would be great if you have composers that can pull it off

80 Warrior. I speed run all routes of Arah and other dungeons regularly with friends and guildies. PM me in game and if we get along I’m happy to have you join in, just be aware to at least have a decent level of skill playing your character/class and/or running dungeons/Arah. P.S US server players only, since Euro players can’t play together with US