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I 100% hate the direction we’re going with legendary armor. I get that the armor is really only for a small percentage of the total community but for those of us in that community we get to look very similar to all our friends. Just like when ascended armor came out we would sport that look for a little while but eventually went back to making unique looks for our characters. Fashion Wars man! However, with the animation direction we’re going on the heavy armor when my friend and I load into a raid on his warrior and my guardian we are going to look very similar. Oh and Revs too assuming they get something adjusted in their machines to be needed in raids after last Tuesday. The animation direction would be awesome if we could skin over them and gain new animations for other skins in the wardrobe but I’m sure we can all understand the massive amount of work that would take for something so fantastic. Why did we not go in the direction for additional effects and/or Auras for legendary armor. That way we could still use the wardrobe and create even more unique looks for our characters. It’s the same reason people combine the queen bee, the polys, and infusions to create really unique characters. Than there’s still the question about runes but that’s a totally different issue. That’s my position anyways.
I 100% hate the direction we’re going with legendary armor. I get that the armor is really only for a small percentage of the total community but for those of us in that community we get to look very similar to all our friends. Just like when ascended armor came out we would sport that look for a little while but eventually went back to making unique looks for our characters. Fashion Wars man! However, with the animation direction we’re going on the heavy armor when my friend and I load into a raid on his warrior and my guardian we are going to look very similar. Oh and Revs too assuming they get something adjusted in their machines to be needed in raids after last Tuesday. The animation direction would be awesome if we could skin over them and gain new animations for other skins in the wardrobe but I’m sure we can all understand the massive amount of work that would take for something so fantastic. Why did we not go in the direction for additional effects and/or Auras for legendary armor. That way we could still use the wardrobe and create even more unique looks for our characters. It’s the same reason people combine the queen bee, the polys, and infusions to create really unique characters. Than there’s still the question about runes but that’s a totally different issue. That’s my position anyways.
Can we please allow the storm bow from the gem shop to also be a short bow. I’ve been trying to properly theme the weapon set of my condi druid and it would be complete with a storm bow.
Thank you for bringing back a new version of an old GW1 favorite. However, can we please get a short bow version? I almost bought the new storm bow for my condi ranger when I realized it doesn’t skin for short bows. How is a condi ranger suppose to roll with an elemental type weapon set without a short bow storm bow. I’ve already got Rodgort, I’m working on Frost Fang, and a lightning short bow would complete my weapon set. Please make this a short bow item as well and I will gladly buy that thing.
#ShortbowStormbow
Thanks guys and show me some love if you also want this item.
I prefer the changes to what we had by a long shot. I’d rather be rewarded for doing T4s than running swamp over and over.
I just finished off gearing my thief for Fractal 50s. I usually use Sword/Pistol and short bow but before I put the sigals into Ascended weapons I would like some opinions.
Thanks for the help.
I was wondering for a spectral necro build…something similar to 6,2,0,0,6 would they still get the 10% dmg increase for being over 90% health if their HP is at 100% but say they are in death shroud below the 90%.
Has anyone tested this?
Come on now ppl…there has to be some people with Char eles that want to show off their looks.
Thxs for the picture. Please list the skins on the mix and match sets.
Hey everyone….I’ve been working on a “look” for my Char elementalist for a while now and I can’t seem to find anything I really like. I would like to go for some type of battle mage look but I’m open to new ideas. I know there’s a lot of better fashion creators out there than I so I’m hoping for some solid help.
Thanks
This is my opinion but I would recommend NOT investing in PPH for an ascended Armor set for your Heavy classes. With how this game works in PvE and the numerous dmg preventions of a guardian…Zerkers is a better long term investment. The healing power you get from PPH could easily be gained from jewelry if you really felt strongly about healing power for some reason. If you want to play around with the healing power than just go exotic…..it’s only a 5% difference anyways.
For example: my two heavy ascended sets are both zerker and one is runed with strength and the other with scholar. My third heavy set is tankie for WvW commanding and is a mix of clerics and sent…keep in mind…I only have that set because it was free from fractal defenders boxes. For light I have three sets: two zerker with scholar and Haolbrek runes and an assassins set with ranger runes for my mesmers. All these sets have long term flexibility and can moved around since taking runes out of Aarmor isn’t cheap. I don’t imagine you’d ever want to put keepers on a warrior if something changes in the game in the future.
Unless something in the game massively changes with healing power and PvE combat machanics change I don’t see the bang for your buck. My opinion tho.
Thanks everyone…I found this evening that right after reset is pretty much the only time to get them. I’ve posted my less played toons on two accounts at all their locations so I hopefully I’ll get luckly with two chances a reset for something good.
Is Ogre Wars Bugged Too?
I’m trying to get the Ancient Stone Summit Shoulder Spike for my treasure hunter collection and the event never seems to start. I also can’t seem to find any information on the wiki about how to start it.
Any suggestions?
pure glass phalanx warrior
Is this real? The build with mandatory +3k life says it’s the pure glass cannon? ^^
Yes this is real. The term “pure glass phalanx” implies 100% zerker armor, weapons, and accessories along with the oblivious 12 trait point spent into the phalanx build.
The term you’re thinking of it is “pure glass DPS” which is a build that one would expect max self DPS rather than having pure zerker DPS and boosting party DPS.
Honestly, the current dungeons should remain easy IMO. Many established players forget those dungeons were where we got our first sets of exotic armor paid with tokins or karma down at the temples and lord knows karma is not as easy to get these days (except in EOTM). I’m surprised by the number of under 2k AP players I see lately and I’d hate to make it harder for them to get their exotic sets.
Anet knows there is a need for harder content…they just have a problem balancing hard content with a proper level of reward with time invested. Perhaps the new dungeons and zones will have harder content for us.
woot? how is the ~ 11k hp guardian not a challenge in fractals while warrior is ?
Well a phalanx warrior needs to keep using his GS to maintain the party might. So in a melee fight you have your dodges, GS 3 attack, top teir Hp pool and endure pain to block/evade attacks and stay alive.
On my Sword/focus and GS guardian I have dodges, blind on GS, blind on sword, passive aegis, active aegis, focus block.
Depending on utilities you could have retreat aegis and WoR as a projectile blocker and also depending on traits you have another blind in virtue plus other possible trait options.
So IMO a glass phalanx warrior has less options to prevent dmg than a glass guardian. It can take twice the hits tho….which in fractal 50 twice the hits is usually two hits.
Stacking in dungeons is standard for a very simple reason. It’s effective. Most people who stack in a dungeon have ran it dozens or even hundreds times before. We are there for a reason and we want in and our as quickly as possible.
If you want to sharpen your player skill than load up your zerker and join us in lvl 50 fractals. I no longer run my guardian in 50 fractals because I enjoy the challenge of being a pure glass phalanx warrior. Running a lvl 50 fractal in 45 minutes is just awesome to me.
Why would you ever use a spread sheet to make ascended armor or weapons? I simply click the buttons in the crafter and it spits out another ascended item for me. Talk about taking crafting from simple to tedious.
By the look of your post, you’ve never crafted a legendary and you’re not a market broker. I suggest focusing more on one than both at once. I’m currently stock piling supplies for my 5th legendary with not a single one in mind yet. I don’t recommend doing the solo focus path if you plan to make multiple legendaries. You’re more like to rage quit the idea. Play they game, enough the game, stock pile the stuff used for legendaries and when you’re fairly close then finish it off.
Also, to answer your question more directly the prices one the TP for both legendaries are fairly accurate to what you’ll need to buy them out. Things like Karma and WvW tokens all have factored in value and there’s enough people making legendaries for gold that it’s fairly balanced to a degree.
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True story here. On a Sunday morning, a guildie of mine was going on and on about the improvements to eternity and how with the wardrobe system you could have any of the three any time you want. So of course I had to you tube the chances and as I watched the video I began to think " I have quite a bit of stuff in my guild bank… I bet it wouldn’t take much to make it." I already had a gift of mastery and fortune laying around so sold tons of stuff and by the end of the week I was cursing JQ because their Citadal in EB was all I needed to finish off eternity. After a week of us (TC) and JQ sticking it hard to BG there was no way they would give it up during the last week of tournament…and they never did that entire week. But I got it the next day after the turny ended.
All and all…it was totally worth it. Eternity on my warrior, sunrise on my ranger and twilight on my guardian. I say you should go for eternity all the way.
For my four legendaries I always tell myself " I’ll do the ten clover path cause I could use the extra T6 mats anyways." Than I land my 77 clovers in Ten try’s easily.
That’s not the norm for most tho.
There’s not really that much of a grind to make ascended armor. I’ve made two sets of heavy ascended armor gradually over time since it was put into the game. I made them Beserker gear because it will always be the highest physical DPS output available. Beserker may get changed, buffed, nerfed, etc but by its very nature will be the best physical DPS…so it’s a safe investment.
Since then I’ve consistently ran daily fractal 50s and 38s to put together my other A armor sets for my light armor toons…since their mats are far more expensive. Also, you don’t have to run lvl 50s either. Lvl 49 doesn’t require armor like 50 does and it has good armor/weapon box drop chances. Since the update I would dare to say that about 50% of the time someone in the party gets at least one box.
So unless you’re one of those ppl that scream OMG I must have a full set of armor now than yeah…you’re gonna pay heavily for it. But consistent play will yield it much cheaper and consistently. Do your fractals, dungeons, world bosses, and farm/order the basic mats and they’ll just flow in. Do fractals for sure tho…I think on sitting on a dozen boxes ATM.
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It was a few weeks ago when they were more expensive. None the less, if you were to buy them on the TP right now they’d cost you 2,000 gold for the two of them. That’s to much IMO and giving us a path to craft account bound ones to reduce the demand over time would be nice.
Anything to lower the price of precursors is a plus in my book. I recently made eternity and I paid 2,000 gold for both dusk and dawn. I got that as a straight trade from a guildie and saved me easily 400gold.
Fastest lvl 50 fractal I ever did was about 40 minutes with two 100% zerker warriors, two close to glass zerker guardians and one zerker staff ele.
Lvl 50 pugs are the best pugs IMO.
Eternity is crafted by combining two of the more expensive legendaries…..it should look much better than normal legendaries and have cosmetic perks. GW2 is a cosmetic game after all.
Really, the loudest people on the forums are nearly always the worst.
Hey everyone! I’m pretty new to the game and I’m looking for people that want to spent excessive amounts of time in dungeons for only little reward, I like to disregard effective tactics so I can claim " I play like I want and expect other people to play the way I want too", and I’m looking for a forum or website where I can push my own opinions on other people for the millionth time as well.
Can anyone help me with this?
I open all my champ boxes on a little 25 toon that I leveled with scrolls since I already have all classes at lvl 80s. It works pretty good since it only changes the gear to at level gear and doesn’t give you dust. At lvl 25 I get soft wood, wool, and iron…..works for me.
A random bug that took a few hours to correct is way different than the removing of glory that has been communicated over the last two months.
Perhaps people should accept some personal responsibility over their glory loss instead of looking to blame the other guy. Anet overall did a good job with this patch.
I believe Anet should have had some sort of mass communication center where players of their game could log in and have access of all the newest offical information. Perhaps it could be divided into forums and sub forums for easy selections…oh and players could add their thoughts and opinions as well.
Oh wait….
Ummm….try 250 skill points. The anomaly costs a scroll and a blood stone.
Warriors, guardians, elementalists, and mesmers are the most powerful dungeon running toons in the current DPS meta. You decide.
This subject has been beaten into the ground already. Take five minutes to review the dozens of posts already discussing this and you’ll find all you need.
I have a simple and easy solution for you….
Make an extra character that you don’t plan to lvl much or one you don’t play would work….and open all your champ boxes on that low lvl toon.
For example: I have an extra lvl 25 engine that I never plan to lvl and I open all my champ boxes on him. This results in still getting T6 mats, lodestones and cores, at lvl gear, skill point scrolls, etc. The real difference is no dust and the at lvl gear. The nice thing about at lvl gear at lvl 25 is salvaging it into iron, soft wood, and wool. For someone with all lvl 80s these mats are nice. Same works for the higher tiers like linin, Cotten, hard/seasonal wood, etc. This rolls into helping me make my ascended armor mats.
Hope this helps
I will admit the first thing I thought was….“Why is that black armor char wearing a flower?”
Oh….and the wall is a minor thing.
For myself, dragonite is very easy to get every day. I use my second monitor to watch three servers at once so I can hop between servers to catch about 14 different world events. Usually I can get them all done in a couple hours….just a suggestion.
If only the Anomaly wasn’t purple! They should make other foci that come in different colors that are just as hard to obtain.
Anet is in love with purple, and I really wish someone would show them a color wheel. We have so many dyes, several very similar, yet our weapons are mostly basic or purple.
It would be awesome if we could replace the scroll in making the anomaly to any unidentified dye or perhaps a list of colors to spice this item up.
Givers and clerics on an elementalist is about the only toon that can mass heal a group. Staff 5, arcane brilliance blast, and arcane wave blast.
Still pointless imo.
If you’re bringing a healer like toon to a dungeon than its only because you plan to compensate for another party members lack of player skill. So basically the remaining three party members are the ones really clearing the dungeon. One member can’t dodge an attack by actually watching the animations….they must be used watching little bars fill up, second member feels sorry for players like that and decides to trait and gear for healing….sounds like a three man to me already. There is nothing wrong with zerker toons…..they’re just better players imo
Wow…..such a stalker. “Toss Jaya the letter D”
For me…..I’ve been making ascended weapons/armors and transmuting them over to the look I already had. Just transmuted my vision of the mists over on my mesmer yesterday.
It’s not that expensive if you do it over time though. You can refine to 425 over time if you farm nods or use mystic salvage kits like I do to go for the one in four salvage rate T6 ore, wood, gos. So thats very cheap but draw out. You do have to discover to 450 by crafting exotics, however, you have the mats now and if you run dungeons, champ farms…heck nearly everything gives champ bags now for T6 crafting mats. Once you’re at 450 you refine the new mats to 475..etc.
It’s only really expensive if you have to have it done now like IMO.
IMO ascended crafting is working just fine. I craft the weapons and armor over time as I gather most of the mats in my normal daily play time. I’ve got over two dozen weapons and one full set of armor. True….I usually have about 40 bricks of blood dust more than stars and ingots but it’s a far cry from over taking any of my inv space.
Honestly, not sure why people don’t progress towards Ascended stuff. It’s easy to make and it’s not a race to make it.
Stalker Jaya…
I for one respect the OPs desire to run dungeons in a certain manor to which he/she deems within his/her own personal criteria. Thankfully Anet has already given us the tool to help…create your own lfg and detail the expectations and wait the excessive time it will take to fill the lfg with like minded Individuals. It’s no different than when we ran four warriors and one Mesmer cof1 speed clears all day. However, To join a lfg and expect other players to run dungeons to your specific expectations is absurd.
Many players have similar opinions as myself and desire to use the most effective tactics to increase the speed and effectiveness of the dungeon clear. Oh…and stacking is not exploiting…it’s a perfectly acceptable tactic. I don’t recall reading about exploitation cries when the early Romans learned to stack together, lock shields, and march in lines to prevent their troops from being volleyed to death by enemy archers. Any stack Anet has deemed unacceptable is simply removed…ranging from the tree in swamp fractal for example.
Lastly, using effective tactics by an entire party of level 35s can clear AC in only a few minutes more than a full 80 party. Player skill and the willingness to learn and use better tactics is the difference here.
@ Heltzer: That’s almost the same thing we do! Except….
- For dungeons, add in AC p2 and Arah p2.
- For group comp, it’s slightly more lax: 2x Wars, 1x Ele, 1x Guard/Mes, 1x Other (not Necro, not a 2nd Guard or 2nd Mes). This is because you usually don’t need both a Guard and a Mes; just one or the other. Although, in practice, it usually ends up as 2x war, 1x ele, 1x mes, 1x guard, same as your comp. lol
- For builds, the Guard uses sword/focus. The 10/30/0/5/25 build with sw/f is higher dmg & utility (burns/blinds/vuln) than any build with hammer/staff/GS. And since I usually play Ele, I don’t want to deal with useless combo fields from a Guard’s hammer. Also since I play Ele, I REALLY don’t want to deal with Empower, especially not after engagement. That skill totally messes up my Might-stacking, Your group would be FAR better off pre-stacking Might via banner summons/stomps in the Ele’s fire field.
- For builds, the Ele can stack Vuln via Air 25 minor (Build G in my guide if you also want to stack Fury – link’s in my sig). It’s especially good w/ Fiery Rush. Also, scepter/focus is better Might-stacking than scepter/dagger (there’s a link to a vid of s/f Might-stacking in my guide).You didn’t mention the traits, but I assume they’re also….
- 30/25/0/0/15 for War
- 15/30/0/25/0 for Mes (10/30/0/20/10 for Arah), sw/f + OH sw
- 30/10/10/20/0 for Ele (or 30/30/10/0/0 if stacking Vuln)
I don’t disagree with your points at all. The guardian is really quite a generic add in and is kind of a safety blanket to prevent DPS done time. Examples being able to stack stability for the Vets at the end of TA, first boss of SE 1, etc….and yeah..empower is a pre burst only kind of thing only. Empower, stand your ground, hallowed ground, sig of inspiration, Fiery GS, TW, Burst, etc.
However, I’m sure we can all agree there’s much better versions based on specific dungeons. That is just our generic format…we swap stuff out all the time. My guild leader loves to bring his Zerk bomb kit engie to COE1 for example.
My guild does a static dungeon speed clear group that clears the following dungeons: AC 1/3, TA U&F , SE 1/3, HOTW 1 , COF 1/2, COE 1/2/3, and Arah 3…basically 13 of the fastest dungeons in our opinions.
In our opinion, the most ideal generic dungeon party to handle everything those dungeons have is as follows: Two Warriors, Guardian, Mesmer, and an Elementalist.
GS/Axe/mace warriors for base dmg DPS, banners and vul.
GS or hammer/ staff guardian for DPS, intial empower, and 23 seconds of stability.
Mesmer for double warden phantasm, sig of inspiration, and TW.
Scepter/dagger ele for maintaining 25 might, 1 minute plus fury, and the Firey GS wall spike.
All zerker or nearly full zerk.
So yeah….ele by far IMO.
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