Guild Wars 2

apharma.3741:

You know, there is a mute button on teamspeak, dunno if hipster discord has it but can’t see a reason it wouldn’t.

People who aren’t hipster already uninstalled TS and move over to discord.

If you just want to have smooth raid clear, there is no reason to run anything other than magi. I’ve been clearing all raid bosses with 2-3mins left on timer with 2 magi druids tons of times. Your extra dps from using berserker/viper probably only add 5-15 seconds faster clear time but with much less consistency.

How about pvp league progress? I progressed from ruby to diamond during that time and it’s going to be suck for me if it’s reverted.

Don’t follow blindly meta/ metabattle build. For example metabattle told you that condi/zerk druid are meta while healer magi druid isn’t. That’s downright stupid. A bunch of newbies group won’t kill VG with zerk/condi druid as a MAIN healer.

Enrage times is never a problem since you pretty much can clear every encouter in raids with 2 FULL TIME healer. Try bringing 2 healers next time for VG( 1 to heal green circle and the other 1 to heal the melee team) and make sure all of your dps doing their job properly . I assure you, you can clear it with 2mins++ left and realize that the enrage time is already generous enough.

Also, as other people said, W3 fist encounter is pretty easy and doesn’t have an enrage timer. You could try that as well.

Fay.2357:

VG definitely deserves a split ranking along with Xera depending on tank/non-tank. The tank on VG has to play nearly flawlessly. If you don’t move it fast enough, green circles spawn in active sections. If you ever get hit by a teleport, VG follows you wherever that went. VG actually hits pretty hard, so you need to be good with rotating defensive skills so that the Druid can focus on healing other people.

Xera is similar of course. You need to move her properly and know the mechanics as well as mitigate the blurred frenzy or keeping you alive will be a full time job for 2 healers.

Are you speaking from experience? Tanking VG is really nothing much compared to tanking Xera. You’re pretty much dead if you facetank blurred frenzy, the adds hits really hard so you need to pull them with focus 5 if you’re a chronotank, movement pattern is also more complex than VG.

After the LS3 patch Xera is the hardest boss imo, because of Ele nerf and the red orbs actually relevant now. I believe there’s some other change too that makes the fight harder than usual. Chronotank still doing 85% of the job for Xera but you can’t really carry your raid like you used to. People need to learn dodging the red orbs and your tempest must be more competent on clearing the bloodstones now.

My list now probably
1. Trio
2. Gors
3. Escort
4. Sloth
5. VG
6. Sab
7. KC
8. Matt
9. Xera

Really don’t understand how people failing Gors. I’ve been doing several training raids with my guild and we literally one shot Gorseval everytime with 3-4 new people.

Considering it’s a pug raid and I never raided with you before. If I was the raid leader, I will kick you too if I see you’re bringing PS with a kitten pack runes.

Do you even know what herald jobs in raids? When you’re using Shiro in raids , any decent raid leader will kick you except you’re doing mortars in Prison Camp encounter. You should stop being a special snowflake and play a proper build so you don’t drag 9 other people with you. I enjoyed pistol/pistol thief gameplay but there is no way I bringing it for raids.

There are some groups that don’t do gear/exp/LI check and actually succeed out there. Join those group and eventually you will get your exp and raid kill.

I know for sure.

You can choose any stats. Including HoT stats like Viper and Minstrel.

Raids rewards are not even good . I can easily craft 1 ascended part by doing T4 fractals in a week. Meanwhile I need to wait at least 2 weeks to buy glove/shoulder/head/shoes from raid vendor. Heck, I get MUCH more gold just from auto attacking and map hopping AB meta.

Honestly, raids are pretty casual right now. I cleared wing 1 and 2 in 1,5 hours with a PUG few hours ago. You can easily hop in to squad that already 9/10 in LFG if you hate to “organize for 1 hour”. Don’t play special snowflake build , hop into the squad TS , be flexible and you should be able to do raid.

Valik Shin.9027:

Hornet.6357:

So I do play a thief in raids btw also, and have killed all but sloth with it. Staff eles theoretical max dps is significantly higher on large hit boxes… This shouldn’t be in dispute, new rotation does 49k dps* vs Thiefs 35k. If ele switches to dagger he does DPS comparable to thief, but his offhand is where the utility can be really strong. Swirling winds, Obi flesh, Heat sync, cyclone, waterglobe, water overload…. These are just from weapon choices. Then there’s auramancers that proc protection. So yes, DPS wise thief is arguably equal on some of the fights, but ele is better for the team in the long run.

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staff is only that high on gorsaval. For everything else if you go practical dps a thief will beat an ele and the thief will have more cc. If you bring focus for the untility as an ele you lose more dps. This isn’t to say ele is bad they are very good, but thief is also really good for dps and break bars. Thief is also far more survivable. So unless you are at gorsaval or need the swirling winds at sloth, there is nothing wrong with taking a thief over an ele

There is literally no reason to take thief over ele in ANY FIGHT.

>you go practical dps a thief will beat an ele and the thief will have more cc

Explain more about this. Ele has more range, which is useful againts mobile boss like Matt,VG and Sloth. Ele also much better at cleaving adds and don’t forget about static charge which is a raid wide dps boost. Ele also gives group heal from wash the pain away, feel the burn and elemental bastion.

Also, eles have their own use in every boss
VG = seeker control, green circle back up, some healing for tank and melee team
Gors = Orbs
Sab = Cleaving adds, taking care of turrets without losing any dps with overload air
Sloth= Projectile management, mass stun break
Trio = kiting narella flak, cleaving adds, mass stun break
Matt = clearing ice patch, condi cleanse, mass stun break

Meanwhile, what does thief bring? CC which is still inferior to DH and DPS which is still inferior to ele??? Zerk Thieves also bring ZERO utility, no pull, no group heal, no unique group buff and not really good at cleaving adds. It’s been proven that with alacrity ele will outdps thief WITHOUT counting static charge. I’m not sure how people are still delusional about thief is more “practical” than ele in raids.

I tested in the dps golem and looks like the trait is not working properly on shield phantasm. I checked the wiki and it also said that this trait is bugged right now.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/index.php?title=Phantasmal_Haste&traitid=729

Can we have a fix? I heard it’s been bugged for a while

When I’m doing Gorseval few days ago, I noticed that my firestorm can’t kill an orb but my Lava Font can . So, I did some test on pvp golem, Lava Font hit 1,9-2,2k( 6hits) while Firestorm only hit for 800-900(11 hits). Considering it takes 1 1/4 sec to cast Gylph of Storm and it only takes 1/4 sec to cast Lava Font, Isn’t it pretty obvious that using Gylph of Storm in fire attunement is a dps loss?

I have no complain about using Gylph of Storm in D/WH build, Lightning Storm apllies 25 vulnerability on its own and can hit up to 30 hits but I just dont see the point using this utility skill in staff tempest since going out from fire attunement is a big dps loss.

Please correct if I’m wrong, just curious about what other people think about this issue.

Anet? hello?

15char

I’ve been having weird connection problem in-game. LFG, TP, guild/map chat don’t loads, can’t queue for pvp etc and pop up about “can’t log-in to server” appeared. The weird thing is I’m not having delay or bad ping. Pic related, (I’m not disconnected after I clicked that pop-up . I already tried restarting my modem and PC too.

Anyone know how to fix this?