For my mesmer I use sword/focus and greatsword. Reason being iberserker is still good and targetable on burrows, and swapping to sword will allow me to do more dps than near range greatsword.
Do you hate on Valkyrie/ Soldier’s/ Rabid sets for not contributing as much as Beserker/ Knight’s / Carrion sets too? Do you hate on people who wear sub-exotic gear too? I don’t know, the argument that Magic Find decreases efficiency loses it’s appeal once you realize that you do roughly the same damage in exotic Soldier’s as masterwork MF.
That being said, I find the haters quite hypocritical that the exact same people are fine with sub-exotics and pirateish gear, which essentially are the same/weaker than magic find sets, and still hate on magic find because it is weaker. I say go the whole way for consistency’s sake.
So let’s start bashing people who wear Valkyrie’s. Why are you not using Beserker’s good sir? And those offensive Soldier stats! Two minor stats all for yourself? How selfish!
Now that I think of it, it does seem to be happening in CoF 1 at least.
Form your own group then.
Yes, people should be allowed to play how they want. Why not set up your own group and invite everyone and not exclude anyone?
1. Resurrect the downed, not the dead because you can quickly get out of downed but not death.
2. Ask for advice if there is something you do not understand about the dungeon.
3. Avoid red circles.
I see. But
>> Constant Burning ticks of 1000-1200.
Is wrong because the AoE damage only comes from your F1 skill. It isn’t even burning at all if it can crit.
Not all classes have stunbreakers : the ranger has none against knockdown.
You have GOT to be kidding me.
I’ve been playing longbow warrior for a long time and arcing arrow on bow does not seem to have any burning damage at all. It appears to be direct damage.
I also don’t think condition damage crits. Am I missing out something here? I have never ever seen burning crit before.
Are you serious? This event runs repeatedly, you can turn them in the next run. This is the least of things you could be complaining about the game. You gain no sympathy from me.
The 25 minute mark seems to be a completely arbitrary and unscientific number cooked up by OP to justify his point. Considering that he changed it from 45 to 25 just to make his point valid again, I question the legitimacy of his concern.
You can call torture an “enhanced interrogation technique”, doesn’t change the fact that it is still torture.
I have no doubt that gw2lfg will sorely miss your loss badges.
I wouldn’t believe for a single second that the “top players” would look out for the interests of the majority of people. Being a “top player” has no correlation to the ability to make reasoned and valid points to improve the game.
Look at the number of people who preface their posts/suggestions with “i am a top player with x QP”. Instead of making a good point that people can agree on, it’s as if they were afraid that people won’t care if they didn’t have credentials
I was wonder, since guesting is out, is there an unofficial official server where the gates to CoF, CoE and Arah are constantly open because everyone is on it playing those dungeons?
I believe that I have explained this before but I’ll do it again. I believe that CM is a dungeon which can prove extremely fatal as it is highly amped up in difficulty and is a large attraction to new dungeon players.
As CM was exploited/farmed heavily in a similar fashion to today’s CoF path 1, CM had its difficulty increased greatly, resulting in mobs that have very powerful conditions and damage that would be difficult to counter even with level 80s. It is also unnaturally long and doing it the “right” way may lead to anywhere from a 25~40 minute run depending on how experienced your group is.
That high difficulty is combined with people who run CM as a newcomer. From my perspective, CM is a newcomer magnet, as people who just hit 80 and want to run dungeons for the first time may pick CM as they believe it to be easy, and at the same time, they do not want to look like noobs by playing AC, so the pick the supposedly “second easiest dungeon” to run. This will also allow newcomers to blend in since it will be believed that they are “one step up” from the easiest dungeon in the game.
Furthermore, CM does not give unique armor. Unless one is going for looks, the rabid, rampagers exotics that can be obtained can be easily found in HoTW and AC respectively, which are much more easily found. Only Shaman’s is unique to CM and you will be hard pressed to find anyone who specifically wants Shaman’s gear. Runes of Noble is easily replaced by Runes of Pirate which are relatively cheap on the market. This causes experienced players to shun CM as there are better alternatives.
So yes, quite a few factors play in causing playing CM to mostly be either a long, arduous experience or just plain hair-splitting.
The 20% gold infusion. I play dungeons alot and this would jump my money pile greatly.
Don’t laurels have PvE stuff in them? Why bring them into PvP in the first place?
You do jump puzzles, which does not help your server, and get siege weapon plans and free badges. Then you want to sell siege weapon plans to other servers. Do I see where you are going with this?
Giving CoF 1 the CM treatment would seem to be the obvious solution.
I kill people in jumping puzzle for their badges.
First, I would like to contest the assumption that you can make 6-7 gold per run. The fastest recorded CoF 1 run is seven minutes, with a range of a seven minute low to a 9+ minute high for speed runs.
Let’s assume that you are able to do it at the fastest speed. A base CoF 1 run would net 15+21 silver from bosses. Throw in 5s for the chests that appear. So you have around 40 silver per run at base.
Assuming you run consecutively, you would be able to manage 8 runs in an hour, which will net you a profit of 40 * 8 + X where X is the silver from dungeon completion.
Now, if you run it consecutively, you might have noticed that the silver rewards for completion diminish after every run, from 26 > 21 > 13 and so on so forth. You are simply not able to reach 6-7 gold even if completion silver did not diminish. At most you would be able to earn half that amount, at max 4g, diminishing rapidly after first hour.
My question now is, is this an honest mistake? Or has there been something wrong with my calculations?
I do think there is something wrong with how people are requesting for 4x warriors and 1x mesmer, but what exactly is your point? That the existence of such groups negate the existence of other groups which farm CoF 1? There is high demand for such groups and yet there is nothing that prevents you from forming such a team. The only difference is roughly having a 7~9 minute run extended to a 12~15 minute run. Besides, CoF 1 will be changed in the next patch anyway.
There is nothing “competitive” about running dungeons, no speed clear scoreboards, no killboards at the end, no dps race. You are free to form your own groups as you see fit. Bearing this in mind, you are not losing out on anything at all. The only problem that may arise might be from 1) extremely extremely low takeup rates to farm path 1 without that specific composition (highly unlikely, and would have to be absymally low to justify a change) or 2) Prices of Omnomberry MF/Gold food goes up dramatically, speed running will be justified due to high cost (likely, since prices have been rising).
I would like to ask a question. As far as I know, Eternal Flame is a structure that cannot be looted, only a chest appears at the bottom. Are you referring to the chest or am I missing out on a way to loot Eternal Flame?
I don’t think sPvP has a learning curve… Many high profile live streamers flocked to GW2 on release and left just as quickly because it is immediately recognizable as an imbalanced PvP game. The people who stayed all populate the most OP and imbalanced class/traits possible and pretty much live on a loop playing against the same teams day in and day out because there is no sPvP community.
The first step is to not live in denial and make excuses that the game didn’t have enough popularity or people didn’t know how to play. The people played it and didn’t like it and moved on. Address that. Fix the game. Maybe people will come back.
I agree, the player base is quite limited already. To get more people to play Spvp, you are trying to draw from the people who are currently playing Guild Wars 2 right now. There is little to no external audience to reach out to.
If people are not interested in the first place, spvp will remain unpopulated with little people playing.
I also find the community to have some sort of collective cognitive dissonance about wanting new people playing pvp in this game. On one hand, more people would definitely increase the popularity of this area of gameplay in Guild Wars 2. on the other hand, the community repeatedly makes remarks about how 8v8 hotjoin is bad, is for noobs, you don’t learn anything from it. How only 5v5 matters.
Guess what, the first game mode that people coming into pvp play is most likely 8v8. Why would they want to continue playing if they are met with hostile and elitist attitudes as such? The hardcore players who have invested time and money into playing pvp are going to stay, but the casual players are not.
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Why would I use one of those infusions over a versatile simple infusion which is easily obtainable? +5 to any stat at all is negligible.
What I think will happen is that people who run fractals will separate themselves into tiers. There are two types of players: People who are in it for the level advancement, and people who are in it for the farm/dailies. Such a system will benefit both.
For example, the first tier would be 1-9, so people of that range will play with each other. If the difficulty scale is set at 9 at highest, people lower than 9 will be able to advance, and people who want to get some easy relics will still be satisfied as the difficulty difference is negligible.
The second tier would be 10-15/20. At this point, agony starts to take effect, and people who are doing this tier are starting out to acquire ascended rings. Dailies would also give pristine relics, so setting the difficulty at 16/20 would allow people who want to advance and get daily rewards to group together at the same time.
Ideally, each tier would be separated by a significant change in mechanics that increase the difficulty in completing the fractal. Since I have not played fractals much, I am unsure of the difficulty changes as fractals go beyond the level 30 ranges.
I am against any and every gold and material benefit you get from owning keeps. If that happened, I would be the first to make multiple shell guilds and take over everything myself.
I have a question about the criteria for this. Do low value rares like tonics count as a rare? If so, does that skew the numbers one way or another? If not, why is a “rare” tonic not considered rare?
I’m not sure if DR affects chest drops. Does this count? Do crafting materials count as one count in the table?
I honestly doubt that switching characters during tournaments was intended.
Your fix would need well thought out proposals for new scales, long testing times, and large amounts of internal testing. It will not end well.
Also, I note that CoF path 1 farm is usually composed so as to achieve maximum speed. There are plenty of other CoF groups around to join, unless of course, you intend to farm the path as well.
I really do not think that the company should be responsible for the user’s mistakes.
Bunkering is an abnormal playstyle that has evolved solely because of the game mode.
Why not just post upfront that you are relatively inexperienced or that you want a group of people who do not mind inexperienced people?
MF hate is really a forum thing. You don’t really see it ingame.
*Reduced damage from dagger skills by 30%
*Reduced healing from dagger skills by 30%
Engineers used to have the same problem as Elementalists. One specific kit (weapon set in the case of elementalists) was overpowered to the point that it overshadowed other kits in utility that practically everyone who wanted to be effective used it. The answer to that problem was to nerf said kit’s damage by 30%. I can see a similar scenario coming soon for d/d.
http://mygw2.wordpress.com/2012/12/31/simin-high-priestess-of-dwayna/
Here is all the information you need to know about the fight.
I very honestly doubt it. The price went up a week or so ago to the above 1s prices recently. From gw2spidy, I notice that T5 prices took a large drop on 17-17th December due to large influx of supply. Also, I guess that the snowflake exploit lowered demand for them due to free ectos being created, reducing need for T5 materials. Prices have steadily increased over the past few days and appear to be going stabilizing at the 1s mark.
The price is most unnatural and I will be looking more into it.
I have a strange feeling that the wiki is completely wrong about bleeding that it does only one tick of damage a second. In many cases on reaching the 20-25 bleed cap solo, I’ve found that it tick much rapidly than at the 5-10 bleed stack rate. Is there anyone with a good explanation for this?
Thank you for the quick response.
I think there is a technical difficulty in implementing your suggestion. I imagine it would be difficult to return tokens instead of gold. Also, it brings up the problem of equipment swapping within a dungeon vendor, so implementing a timer based vendoring system would be needed. Again, more technical difficulties.
For now, I believe that the confirmation system is adequate in preventing mistakes such as this.
This will be changed. They changed iberserker precisely because of this. How will they explain to the other players that you can allow pets to scale walls, but not allow the same for phantasms?
It is a nice idea, but what’s stopping you from putting your invisible bag last?
I concur on the need to speak up if you are new to a dungeon. The community overall is much more mature here than in other MMOs so there is really little chance that you will be laughed at if you are new.
A common culprit and killer when not speaking up can be found in CM. CM is a much tougher and longer dungeon for new people even when they come with experience with Catacombs.
There are certain parts of the dungeon which require very good teamwork like the door bombing part which need everyone to be informed of. I would very much rather people say “I am new to this path” than have someone go in and makes things difficult by failing that portion.
Whenever I see a thread that says that mentions someone being booted, it always paints them in a good light, and they are always booted for an unfair reason. What is coming to the world these days?
Since OP has framed the question in terms of fighting games, I thought this video might be relevant:
http://youtu.be/tehc8UP--VE?t=3m01s
The video talks about a fighting game which had to be completely rebalanced around a single character because that character was really really powerful and strategies revolved around that single character.
Another point raised is that “a combination of a team is what you might want to consider broken”. In a team-based game, a different perspective could be that certain team setups are broken and gives a gigantic advantage to the team using it. So rather than a single character being broken, it may be certain characters working together that are broken.
Video also mentions some opinions on what makes a broken vs powerful character:
- How safe are they when they do stuff
- How punishable are they on their moves
- Ease of playability, how long it takes to learn
The same reason why there isn’t a separate sub-forum for every WvW matchup every week.
I have a much better idea. Why not have guilds charge the server for their services as well? I think a rate of at least 1g an hour for each member who serves the server in WvW would be a nice touch. After all, if everything that can become a commodity in WvW becomes one, why not effort as well? Server profits from winning, players profit from gold. It’s a win win situation for everyone.
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The timer for phase two is one minute it seems.
I find it extremely strange that there is so much hate focused on MF armor, yet very little on people who wear sub-exotic armor. Comparing the stats of a masterwork to an exotic, there is a large gap. It makes me wonder why aren’t there more people hating on others who wear “pirateish” gear, a sure sign of armor below the level of exotics. It also makes me wonder whether magic find hate is more of a “monkey see, monkey do” syndrome, as I hardly encounter this kind of dislike towards on particular armor set ingame, but see it often on the forums.
After three hours and twenty two minutes, I have finally cleared this paticular path which has given me much pain in the past with a team of 1 mesmer, 1 engineer, 1 elementalist, 1 warrior, 1 ranger. It took very accurate running of sparks after phase 2 (because we lacked about 10% of Simin’s hp in dps ro do it in 2) to wait on Time Warp’s cool down, before setting down a second time warp in phase 5 or phase 6, while the dps group constantly kept her health low.
It should be noted that the group that I ran with tried and tried and tried again until we wore it down though.
Some stuff I noticed after going through the footage I recorded of the hour long fight:
1. “Worship the power of Zhaitan” appears to be the cue before her turning invisible. I think this is the single most important piece of information that I don’t see posted on the forums. Knowing this could save some time by moving the people to their positions for spark running. It will also prevent any bad time warps. I can’t get a bead for the time interval between sparks appearing and when she says this, but from the video it seems to be seven seconds.
There is an anomaly though. At the “g” of “high” in her name, she will say this phrase again but she will not turn invisible.
2. Shuguard’s diagram in the page before this was extremely extremely helpful. There is a proper way to run sparks with two people only. A few things need to be ensured while spark running. A. Who will do north 2 sparks, who will do south 3 sparks. B Backup runners. C. Which person slots sparks in first to avoid cross aggro. D. Knowledge of what phase Simin is on.
3. The cooldown for phase 2’s invisibility is 1 minute. This timing should be fairly accurate as I derived it from footage of repeatedly fighting Simin at Phase 2 and failing. Note that Simin must be in phase 2 in order for the invisibility to go into a one minute cooldown. Otherwise, she will go invisible at around 50% of health in phase 1.
4. The video “[DnT] vs. Simin, Arah Path 4” is possibly the closest to a perfect run using current technology and tactics. Note how Simin disappears for Phase 2 at 3:18. [DnT] beats Simin at 4:11, about eight to nine seconds shy of her disappearing again. It is perfectly possible to do this is two runs as long as you can beat the clock.
5. Another possibly important piece of information: Simin will ALWAYS turn invisible at the “o” of “of” in phase 1. Or to be very precise, the middle of the “O” and “f” of “of”. That is the 50% mark for phase 1.
6. Every little bit helps. The potions of undead slaying at the Arah vendor will help in the fight against her. You can mail people the potions so if the dungeon starter (who cannot exit the instance) or anyone lacks them, just buy some more at the vendor, return, and spread them around.
I hope that these cues would help people in the fight.
Sidenote, I have a theory that because the important cues in this fight are sound and hp-percentage based, people are confused by it. Most people look for visual cues like Kohler’s sword shining so may miss this out.
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