Guild Wars 2

“Citizens–coming soon, the newest and most unique resort destination in all of Tyria! Brought to you by the Consortium!”

I use MSI Afterburner to get the video recorded, then compress and retouch it in Microsoft Movie Maker.

People used to do AC a lot before the dungeon change – but to me personally I don’t like the looks at all on any class for that gear.

In terms of “easiest” to farm or shortest it would probably be AC or HotW Path 1.

If by chance you have tons of Karma from your time in WvW, you could also get PVT gear from the God Temples.

http://dulfy.net/2012/09/08/gw2-templegod-karma-armor-sets/

For the most part, people run dungeons for the rewards or the skins. Right now where it stands, CoF is the fastest dungeon for time/effort to gold ratio. People will tend to go towards the path of least resistance. This was apparent when world chests events rewards were buffed, and everybody was there for a chance at rares/exotics.

I’m sure ANet is re-working and re-designing some of the dungeon encounters as we speak (update to A/C, and CoF P2). However, even with new encounters and changes to dungeons people will look for whatever is most efficient in terms of gold or rewards. So in other words…. show me the loot.

Here’s an idea I had in regards to turning more people into the dungeons while at the same time throwing some rewards in there that isn’t RNG. The bags of gold, karma, and 3 tokens were a step in the right direction.

There are 8 Dungeons (not counting fractals) currently in the game – I will associate each dungeon with a type of crafting material as an example attached.

In addition to receiving the tokens, depending upon your character level that you complete the dungeon on in either story/explorable mode, you would receive the loot table’s crafting material and tier. This also spreads people out into various parts of different dungeons as the materials may be more desirable depending on what you are looking for. You’ll notice that I put Ancient Bones as a reward for CoF since that is likely the most run dungeon daily.

This is just an idea and I’m sure would have to be account bound per day per path so that the rewards wouldn’t be abused in some way. The same would have to be done with the quantity of said materials (maybe 3?) as well. This would give some incentive to people for running different dungeons and guarantee them another form of reward.

Everybody was excited about guild missions and speculating about how things would work out. New content is always refreshing and exciting but the implementation is probably the hardest part to pull off (remember Legendary, Fractals?)

I refer back to this post https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/New-guild-missions-opinions-concerns/page/14#post1522077 which defines some of the problems and solutions that could help out.

Hope ANet is reading and listening to some of the feedback here.

Yes same problem here and same error code. Nothing changed and keep getting this every 5 mins – It has become unplayable since the last patch. I put in ticket and I even call my ISP and they always say it’s on Anet’s side and Anet always says it’s ISP side…

More patches more disconnects….

Also having lag issues since the January update.

Location: US Boston
Server: Dragon brand

“Ah yes, I was wondering what would break first… your spirit…. or your turret” – Bane The Dark Knight Rises 2012

Agreed, put the recipe into the MF for consistency. Haven’t seen much drop across all the hours I’ve put in with 6 lvl 80’s. (maybe 4-5 total), Platinum are more common drop from my experience.

When my group did this path after patch, we died horribly since people did not equip stability skills. Once we had these in place the fight went smoother. Our strategy was to use stability while using cripple/immobilize/chill/slow on the boss while kiting him and dodging his attacks. Nobody fell into the lava the second time after this change.

It was like when people got to 10+ fractals, Harpies started using knockback. Could people progress without using utility/weapon skills that had projectile reflect, blocks, or stability? The dungeon presented a mechanic and people adapted – now if there was no way to ignore the mechanic then I can see more QQ going on but there are ways and strategy on this path.

Dungeons were meant to be ran through with some coordination, of course in the beginning you expect to die since you don’t know the mechanics or are still figuring out your class/build/gear. I always felt more comfortable running dungeons with 1-2 Guildies since having VOIP.

Though pugging can be difficult since you cannot assume everybody knows all the mechanics – a little communication before major fights like “everybody know this part?” etc can help.

I’m sure everyone here had good experience with PUGS and some bad experiences with PUGS but more importantly communication was the key that made that experience either great or painful.

For people that want to get into dungeons, learn the dungeons mechanics like we all did in the beginning, watch some youtube videos, study the pattern of enemies – can it be CC’ed now(defiant stacks etc), when do I dodge, will this stun breaker help – is an all signet build good for my team or will this banner/shout/healing help instead etc.

Been playing my Asuran thief lately and kept on hearing “I feel six feet tall!”

so mine would be

“I feel six feet under”

Legendary Sword of Logan Thackeray

Attack: 0

Power: -100
Vitality: -100
Toughness: -100

When equipped, your armor is always broken and cannot be repaired.

Permanent Bound – When you equip Legendary Sword of Logan Thackeray you cannot remove it.

“Keep running my friends.”

Personally I was stuck on 99% about 2 months ago – missing 1 WvW Poi that there was no way our server was going to get. Hated the fact that I had to WvW to get it. Luckily I woke up early at 3:AM EST and got that while everybody was asleep to get my 100% map completion since I refused to switch servers.

But in the end, throughout that whole journey, I realized the achievement has to mean something and yes it took a long time to get those last 3-4% world completion points but it was worth it.

Now when I see others with a star above their name or title “Been there done that” I know they had to go through the same thing I did to earn that achievement.

I can attest to this from having 4 80’s and starting on my 5th. The problem isn’t really the ways to reach 80. There’s already plenty, the problem becomes getting everyone interested in leveling alts or going back to lower zones.

Give achievements for going back to lower zones ie (getting 5 alts to 80) get guild influence through letters of recommendations or achievement titles like “Altoholic” – just throwing out some ideas. Something that would make you want to go back to lower level zones.

Fractals caused a good chunk of the population to remain in Lion’s Arch since it gives the players the highest tiered gear in ascended. Maybe combining “UnderFlow” servers for people leveling alts.

The Wintersday Airship over each city is a good idea since it moves from time to time. Why not a world event chain that goes from area to area – similar to that of the Halloween scavenger hunt.

There’s not much reason for an 80 to go into low level zones – farm copper ore/do dynamics? People will go where the loot/money is – right now that’s dungeons/fractals/Black Lion Trading Co.

I second this, hopefully it gets fixed. It’s been on report for 3 months now.

For thief which is my alt – I raised him to 80 by doing dungeons since 50, so I can definitely help out.

Most of the Dungeon runs were in AC and some CM.

I started out with a Bleeding/Condition Build and it was good until i got to 70 then switched to Bleeding/Venom Build.

For traits with 40 points -

20 points – Acrobatics (Power of Inertia, Assasin’s Reward)
20 points – Trickery(Uncatchable, Thrill of the Crime)

Skill – Signet of Malice, Caltrops, Roll for Initiative, Shadow Refuge, Dagger Storm.

Weapon is D/D and S/B. Runes get Vitality/Condition Duration increases on Pow/Vital/Cond Armor. For Sigils when you get to 60 (Sigil of Stamina on 1 Dagger and probably Agony on other) for S/B get whatever you like.

Pretty much spam Caltrops in a large group, and Dagger 3/4 to cripple and Death Blossom them. Sigil of Stamina combos we’ll since you will be dodging a lot after killing enemies to boost up your might/caltrops/ and swiftness when dodging.

As i got closer to 70 I switched over to the Bleeding/Venom build and it really is amazing in a coordinated group.

30 in Shadow Arts(Cloaked in Shadows, Leeching Venoms, Venomous Aura)
20 in Deadly Arts(Venomous Strength, Quick Venoms)
20 in Trickery(Thrill of the Crime, Bountiful Theft)

Skills – Hide in Shadows, Spider Venom, Skale Venom, Devourer Venom, Basilisk Venom will sometimes switch Devourer Venom for Shadow Refuge depending on situation.

Weapon – P/D with skill 5/Hide in Shadows it will create blinds on nearby enemies really useful since you will stay close-mid range. Blinds are a great way to mitigate damage. For Sigils I prefer damage increases or condition durations. For runes definitely Lyssa Runes – it is amazing with Basilisk Venom due to the recharge rate. Armor is Pow/Vit/Cond same with Jewels. Skale Venom is great against bosses/single yellow mob since applying weakness to them. I like to start the fight off with # 5 to blind them by going stealth and then use Sneak Attack.

When I play thief the worst that happens is removing conditions in this build, you have to rely on playing smart and utilizing the heal and Basilisk Venom. Hope this helps.

Fractals of the Mist was welcomed by many players, but Lost Shores one-time event was just a horrible experience for me.

Like many of you getting D/C, and lagged out of the game client was all I remembered during this weekend. The expectations were high after the Mad King event but ANet should’ve forsaw the influx of players for this event (given that they allowed accounts to invite 3 other players).

Only made it to the explosive part of the hive and died to invisible enemies and D/C’ed. Afterwards I spent a couple hours trying to log back in only to find that the event has ended in that overflow. Overflow hopping + reading forums to see who has active event, shortly after for 1 hour and everything was full.

Luck is luck I suppose but that was not a pleasant experience in GW2 :/

Not sure what the right approach on this is – but I for one got D/C’ed during the laying the explosives part and never being able to log back in. The lag was tremendous that entire wekeend (plus ANet allowed accounts to invite 3 more friends). I didn’t get the reward nor seen the Ancient Karka( Had to rely on Youtube to see everything). Don’t mind missing the reward, more frustrated with the lag/server issues.

One-time events could’ve been handled better through smaller instances of people on servers. Difficult to dodge or do any moves with lag – it’s about the equivalent of ANet coming to your home and smacking the controller out of your hand while your on XBOX 360 or PS3.

I support BuckeyeMagic’s idea after reading the thread. Good suggestions and insights on potential handling of One-Time events.

Fractal of the Mist was good – I enjoyed that dungeon after grinding A/C, CM and other regular dungeons for so long. Nice change of pace and good level of challenge that was welcomed by many players.

The Lost Shore events was just an unpleasant experience for me due to lag/disconnects. The artwork, design, and monsters were great but it’s very difficult to enjoy the game when you can’t even go into the instance. I tried mulitple times Saturday/Sunday to get into the instance with the event but alas when I managed to get in, the lag spike was tremendous and it resulted in disconnects.

I tried again Sunday when a friend invited me to his instance 11PM EST but that world got filled up fast ( I think they were replaying some events in Overflow servers in EU). Got to the event that required escoring the guy to lay explosives but died due to invisible enemies and not being able to do anything during the fight.

Afterwards, I get D/C’ed again for about the 20th time that weekend and just couldn’t even get to login at all. Didn’t even get to see what the ending to this Lost Shore Event was .

Now, I just relied on watching Youtube video’s of the event just to see what it was about – same with the potential good items that were in it. Don’t mind missing out on the items/events – it is what it is – just got to keep moving along and learn from it.

Not sure what the right approach to handle these types of events but I think ANet should’ve forsaw what type of potential increase these events bring in. You just have to think that during 11/16 – 11/18, each account was allowed to invite 3 friends too.

Would’ve been alright with me if there was no Lost Shore event and just Fractals.

For the past couple of weeks after hitting 80 on my thief, I been running a support venom build in dungeons with P/D and SB – focusing on that bleeding. It’s been a blast running in with venoms and superior rune of lyssa for all condition removal/buff. I can’t say even tell you how great it is to stone lock a boss for almost 5-6 game time seconds if coordinated.

I find shortbow (4) posion is amazing combined with (2) to create the area weakness in which helps mitigate damage for the entire group. Coupled with Blinds, Steath, and Cripple, thieves have a lot of way to migitate damage for the party.

add me up if you want to do CM. I’m leveling an Alt but use my 80 shouting guardian to run a couple paths nightly (8PM – 11:30 PM EST).

The only thing with CM is the bombers in the small cave corridors. You must target and get rid of them to avoid their AOE at all costs. Most dungeons are notorious for conditions and CM is no different. If a group doesn’t have anything to berid of conditions, it can be really painful.

I can see where people may find him difficult on their first time but with the afformentioned strategies, Sure-Shot isn’t difficult at all. Playing on my guardian or thief, just circle strafe him and he’ll miss everytime. Bringing a stun break also helps out on this.

With range he shouldn’t even be aggroing on you – just don’t stand still and shoot. You could even stand still if your up in the bushes Once I tried bowing him with my thief and I had to pay careful attention of the positioning of the Melee’ing Guard/Warrior.

Not too difficult of a fight after you learn to recognize the pattern.

Just tried this and it is ridiculous to say the least. The Mark 2 Golem has to have the damage either reduced or the ability on longer cooldown. Even with the Ice Venom and other condition runes he still spams it in a matter of seconds. No human reaction is fast enough to avoid 3-4 AoE circles that tick about 1-2K per second. You’ll definitely run out of stamina to dodge.

After 3 hours of trying this dungeon’s path 2, I just gave up. I don’t think this is intended this way. Path 1 and 3 were a lot more manageable.

I’m leveling my Alt Thief (76 now) and welcome this idea. I’m on Dragonbrand server – so +1. Guild Name ideas —> Fraternity of Assassins :p

Leveling up my Asura Thief. 54 so far and enjoying the adventure.

Yep tried Rhaps method to repair but still doesn’t work. The lag and disconnects have been happening since the last patch. Must be that Asura head size growing out of proportion! It might just be a bug that needs to get looked at but the client keeps crashing/freezing every time I log in. The game has become unplayable at the moment.

I have all Exotic Cleric on my PvE since I run Orr and doing dungeons.

Running GS & Mace/Shield with Superior Sigil of Water & Superior Sigil of Life (Stack Healing) with Full Superior Runes of the Soldier with my Shouting/Support build like you mentioned. My purpose was to give boons, heal, and remove conditions, while keeping army alive. Works very well with a good group that sticks together.

DPS isn’t great but survivability is there and that’s my role in dungeon. Traits is 30 Valor, 20 Honor, and 20 Virtues.

Since this change was made – falling off cliffs have increase by 5000% for the Guardian class.

I was running CM Explore last night and did notice the impact on the long cooldown on symbol of wrath. I mainly use this for the light field since it had a short cool down – could care less about the retaliation. Aftersignificant time on the GS Guardian, I prefer to have the GS skills back to same positioning keys or give options to change weapon skill order.

Anet should’ve just taken the retaliation off Symbol of Wrath and made it something else like burning, might, etc.

Thankfully, I am leveling up my Thief.

Best bet would be to spend that in WvW or Go to Orr and buy at Karma Vendors at Temples. Each Armor piece costs 42K Karma and are Exotic. So that means you need 252K Karma for 1 full set or mix match (Archon, Armageddon, Aurora, Mortal etc).

I believe you normally default to “online” Green Circle on your status of your name and people that they have the party finder icon change it to “looking for party” which is a blue icon I believe (don’t have access to game atm).

The best bet to find a party right now is to go in front of the dungeon and type out
looking for group AC – Explore Mode/Story Mode or do that through Lion’s Arch.
(LFG AC EM- Lvl 37 Warrior)

Unfortunately this is the fatestest way and I know Anet is already working on something to ease the group finding.

I’ll add to this thread from my experience in running through Honor of Waves, Crucible of Eternity, and Arah.
Lvl 80 Guardian Shout/Support Build
http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#Mccz0cMMmNvammNvam9MxGGmsqMkMs

Armor – Full Exotic Cleric (Full Superior Rune of the Soldier)
Jewelry – Full Exotic Cleric
GS – Exotic Cleric (Major Sigil of Water Rune)
Mace/Shield – Exotic Cleric (Major Sigil of Water Rune/Superior Sigil of Life)
Food – Strawberry Tart for Vitality + Regen

This build has its advantages in the healing/regen department while boosting over 3K armor. With the Strawberry Tart & Soldier Runes HP is 15K. This build maximizes regen/healing and shouting to allies while in essence ensuring that you will likely not have a status condition on yourself.

The weak side is the DPS but there is a pseudo offense while playing defense in this build.

Retaliation is very powerful in this build and there are a couple of ways to attain it.
1) Use a virtue – (Virtue of Retribution Trait + Vengeful) + Elite Skill Renewed Focus to refresh Virtues
2) Symbol of Wrath for Allies Retaliation + GS Leap for Retaliation
This build works well with Combo field light to trigger Condition Removal or Retaliation.

GS – Symbol of Wrath, Mace – Symbol of Protection, and Shield of Absorption are all Combo field light creators. GS 3/5(Whirl/Bind) would remove conditions while 4(Leap) would give retaliation. With the Increase duration of Symbols (Writhe of Persistence Trait) you should be able to drop symbol of wrath and GS to utilize both retaliation (4) and condition removal (3/5) during the duration.

Healing comes from the tremendous amount of regen/Altruistic healing/Virtue of Resolve/rolling/Mace Heal/Shield Heal and Sigil of Water.

I run a Shouting GS Guardian and utilize Altruistic Healing but not Zealous Blade (GS Healing) @ Lvl 80 PvE. Works amazing for me but it took me a lot of time to research all the traits/armor/sigils/runes to make that build worthwhile.

@60 I had a Sword/Focus/GS Burn/Blocking/Meditation Healing that closed the gap on enemies fast but didn’t have much defense. I relied on the Meditation Heal and Blocks from the Focus/Virtue of Courage Aegis/Shelter to activate Might of the Protector and hit back.

Think it all depends on the right set of skills on weapon, sigils on weapons, armor, runes of armors, jewelry, and traits to get a good synergy for any of the GrandMaster Traits.

I use renewed focus after I started using a shout/boon/anti cc build.

The change that I would like to see on Renewed Focus would be any one of the following:

- recharge all virtues, invulnerability 3 secs, and grant protection and regen for 5 seconds to up to 5 allies. (600 yards and cooldown is now 120 secs)

- recharge all virtues, invulnerability 3 secs, break stun and remove all conditions to you and up to 5 allies (600 yards and cooldown is now 120 secs)

- create a dome that prevents enemies/projectiles from entering and heals up to 5 allies for 1/5 of health over 6 seconds (600 yards, remove invulnerability, last 6 seconds, and cooldown is now 120 secs). – Close to the Sanctuary but tweaked.

I tried to balance it with longer recharge but I dunno just some thoughts.

I’m going to have to try this later after work :P Lion’s Arch is one of my favorite cities in the game due to it being a central trading hub/waypoint area.

If you don’t want the latest model try the G74SX – they seemed to have fallen in price with the GTX560M that’s still a good card to get you over med-high setting on games.

http://www.amazon.com/ASUS-G74SX-DH71-17-3-Inch-Gaming-Laptop/dp/B005PAJI4Y/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1346944147&sr=8-1&keywords=asus+g74sx

or this one which has a 660M card for about the same price – might as well get this for better card but lose out on 750GB of storage. You can always buy another HDD or SSD to put into one of the bay’s.

http://www.amazon.com/ASUS-G75VW-AS71-17-3-Inch-Laptop-Black/dp/B007MW73C2/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1346944147&sr=8-9&keywords=asus+g74sx

If you are sticking to laptops (one’s I mentioned), yes they are big but for the price compared to Alienware they get the job done. Plus you would be 300-400 saved on budget – I personally would spend the extra 200-300 to get the one I mentioned in original link, trust me it won’t disappoint.

+1 Awesome Game. Kudos to ArenaNet and Staff for their dedication and work. It clearly shows how much time, effort, and passion went into creating this game.

Great Sword/Sword and Torch is what I have been rolling with (Lvl 50) while running zeal/valor/radiance and stacking precision/condition damage on gear. The sword teleport and Great Sword Leap of Faith is usually what I use to start an attack to help close the distance.

For Elite Skills I’ve been using Renewed Focus for the 3 sec invulnverability/recharge. I just don’t like that the animation for the time frame – wish it was just instant

Didn’t realize how good Judge’s Inverntion was until I started using it in this build. It even works when you are knocked down.

When I tried this out on PvP the best thing was timing an Aegis or Heal (Shelter) to trigger Might of the Protector (Grandmaster Valor). The healing primary came from Zealous Balde (GrandMaster Zeal) and Monk’s Focus (GrandMaster Valor).

Tarhana.3561:

Thank you guys for all the suggestions, I really appreciate it
I like Falcon NW because its made in USA I believe
1. my question here I guess is for massive WvW battles is it the Cpu or the Graphic card it runs smooth more
2. Guild wars 2 is more ATI friendly or Nvidia ?
3. Can you suggest me something from Best Buy website

Though I prefer Nvidia I think ATI is good too. I have something similar to the below. The GTX670 is a pretty good card and a SSD is really good for application load times. I keep all gaming and frequently used application on the SSD and pics/itunes/movies on the HDD. (Though SSd doesn’t directly help with graphics or anything it’s just icing.)

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Asus+-+17.3%26%2334%3B+Laptop+-+16GB+Memory+-+750GB+Hard+Drive+%2B+256GB+Solid+State+Drive+-+Black/5732103.p?id=1218688220205&skuId=5732103