Guild Wars 2

Flytrap.8075:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

WvW tourney.

Spvp reward track and skyhammer

South sun cove and dry top

Balance updates all the time, namely April 15.

Moral of this story, stop ignoring facts just because you don’t like them.

WvW tourney? Go talk to the WvW community about their feelings on the WvW tourney and come back to me. Don’t worry, I’ll wait.

I think the best part of your argument is “balance updates all the time”… I guess a balance update every 5 months is considered acceptable now-a-days.

I’m not even going to bother with the other two since you’re simply reaching.

Yes because any proof to a person as biased as you are is “reaching”.

As a software engineer (literally) I can tell you you are the most wrong and vitriolic type of client I’ve ever seen. I’ve dealt with my share of kittens too.

WvW tourneys? They don’t like them? Lol? That’s why so many people participated in them? Gave feedback? And anet changed hkw they did tourneys for wvw. Right? Yep. How about edge of the mists? They had full guilds test and give recommendations before final release. Yeah. They do nothing. IM reaching.

Please go back to school this high school nonsense is really bogging me down.

Also I would like to point you to an elitists website, gw2dungeons.com. It is made by one of those filthy scummy elitists with the intention of helping everyone. We all write guides. We all spend our time on this. We want to be loved, but Sometimes we cannot just let our names be dragged through the mud without a reason.

Staff fire ele is the highest DPS in game. It is the go to build for additional eles in a party, with one going scepter or dagger focus for might stacks. Just wanted you to know. You should be pleased when you see a staff ele not attunement swapping unless they need to stack swiftness or want to use their earth blast.

So when the blog was posted, people responded with, largely, elation. There was confusion about certain wording and such, but with the discussion, people figured it out, and an hour after the blogs were released, mostly everyone was excited, elated, and optimistic about the coming changes.

But 2 hours after the blog was posted, attitudes changed. Many people began pointing out “flaws” and complaints on the new system. People are decidedly less excited. Are they different people? Maybe, but not really. I’ve seen specific posters (no names) go from happiness to fear, out of speculation and paranoia and distrust of the game company that they obviously care about.

Why is this? Why does the community reaction appear to decline almost exponentially? I’m still elated, but I know many others are not. They’re angry. They were excited, but now, no longer.

Is it a mob mentality? Do members of the community see a negative reaction and follow suit quickly? I don’t know. I’m very very interested to get some answers though.

So here it is: if you were happy but now aren’t, what changed? Was it further speculation, introspection, knowledge, what? And if you were first unhappy, but are now happy, what changed?

Thanks for reading!

Proposal Overview

As Fractal problems are frequently ignored (and stealth fixes only increase the problems in dredge), Developers should be entirely transparent about what their goals are for Fractals.

Goal of Proposal

Increase developer to player transparency when it comes to Fractals.

Proposal Functionality

Obviously, developers cannot give too much information, and will not discuss exploits because people should not know about possible ways to exploit the game. However, things like “What hole in Dredge Fractal did the developers change today ?” Should be clearly outlined in the patch notes so that people can alter strategies. But more importantly, developers should be clear about why they change what they do. The problem is, we have no contact or conversation with the people changing things in the dungeons, so problems often get ignored or stealth nerfed. A good conversation with the developers would be super helpful.

Oh my god. I can have bifrost skin on all of my staff users. Oh my god.

And my immobulus.

Oh my god.

I can’t even.

Oh my god.

What can anet do…. Well. I mean, it would be great if they could hold people’s hands. Say, go into twilight arbor and a little hint pops up “maybe a nightmare court potion would be good for this dungeon!” Get to the end boss, and say “reflections will keep the turrets from harming you!”.

Maybe there could be a learning mode like this, exactly the same as the explorable modes, except with little hello kitty hints like that.

Ps. I’m actually totally serious. I realize this might come off as sarcastic, but I know a lot of people could use a tutorial dungeon mode.

maestrochino.7104:

When you wish you have waypoints between your house, your school and your workplace. And basically anywhere you need to be.

Loading times would be awful.

My favorite hetero relationship in the game is the bandit man and the seraph woman, hidden away. I don’t remember where it is, but when I found it I sat with them for a while.

I’m not generally one for “feels” but this made me tear up.

I love Taimi. And I am really glad that a character like her has been introduced. I wish our characters could have story lines as fleshed out like hers (without just being the hero, the savant, etc) to actually have physical flaws.

Anyway, I’m glad. And bake those cookies! (Ooh, maybe attempt to make an omnomberry bar with a few berries that are like them!)

I’m done with the CDI until he says something. I don’t appreciate how he said he would be responding on this subject and now he’s bowing out.

I’ve been hopeful and positive up until now.

My first and only proposal was about developer communication. It was ignored. Not a single response from a community member or dev.

Oxidia.8103:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Staff fire ele is the highest DPS in game. It is the go to build for additional eles in a party, with one going scepter or dagger focus for might stacks. Just wanted you to know. You should be pleased when you see a staff ele not attunement swapping unless they need to stack swiftness or want to use their earth blast.

Spamming 1 all the time with 3 signets and not moving at all at boss fights? No thanks.

Staff ele on mai trin? Witnessed today it can’t last literally 5 seconds in a fight.

Staff ele is fine on www when you need to control the crowd with stuns and freezes, but it is useless because bosses go right though it on dungeons.

I’m not talking about signet weird builds. But the meta is the meta for a reason.

Shifu.4321:

Probably many people only saw “skin wardrobe”, felt happy. Then they thought about it some more, and realized that it’s basically a streamlining of the status quo, and felt betrayed because it wasn’t what they expected (an unlimited use wardrobe).

See, I see it as, I never have to buy 2 of the same dagger skins again. I don’t need to choose between the legendary utility on my elementalist versus the perfect skin for my Mesmer (bifrost). For expensive skins it will be worth the transmutation cost, IMO, and a welcome change.

So I can’t get out the elation phase.

Careful, the volatile developers are dangerous.

They’ll give you a ferocity/healing power/ vitality if you’re not careful!

Perfect acronym for this PASSS. ( which is what I’ll be doing) good luck nonetheless, it likely belongs in the dungeon forum.

Here’s the problem, Mike:

You are a new “dungeoneer”. You have attempted one dungeon. It was Ascalonian Catacombs, a dungeon I personally hate, but that most people fly through with ease. However, new players do not, because dungeons are the “hardcore” PvE that this game offers (along with things like Teq and Wurm). It takes practice.

You are posting on here, acting like an expert on the dungeon PvE in GW2 when you honestly haven’t even experienced any significant part of it. My first dungeon was a Caudecus Manor story solo. I did not succeed.

What you’re doing here, is you’re making yourself look really bad by acting like you know everything there is to know about dungeons. It’s like trying to tell a seasoned painter they’re doing it wrong (or even that art is a a lame garbage waste of time) after taking Art 101: Introduction to Drawing. The dungeon runners here aren’t simply dungeon speed runners, they are mentors, they are theory crafters, they know this game’s PvE in and out. And You’re trying to give advice as though you (or these elusive guildies) know everything there is to know, when there is no credibility in your claim.

I know what it is like. When I first ventured here, I argued with the best Arah runners about Arah p4. I acted like I knew it all, from my 2 failed runs and 1 success. It was a really hard lesson. The point is, you should be learning these dungeons, not acting like there’s nothing left to learn and that the systems are inherently broken, just because you are parroting what you are hearing from folks because it makes you feel better about the failed AC run.

I get it. Please. This is a place for learning and community. We have all taken efforts to make this place a good start for newbies (check the stickies!). We cannot, however, make it a well of information for those unwilling to learn, though.

Yeah wow. Lucky you got anything at all. Yep.

ipan.4356:

Dusty Moon.4382:

People need to lighten up – this ‘Entitled’ mentality of posters on this forum does not help their cause with the developers.

It’s actually people like you who are doing the most harm.

Nope.

Stop crying. Start listening. The devs are here (it’s like Christmas for those of us who have been here for a year +) stop berating them. Start listening. They aren’t going to respond to hostility or unconstructive behavior.

Hey everyone!

So I love the new hair styles. But we haven’t had new hair colors in a really long time. I’d love to see some new greens, maybe some hot pinks, whatever. It would be really awesome to have another set of new colors to compliment the new styles.

So next time you do an upgrade to customization, please consider new hair colors! (And better colors or dyeable accessories pleaseee)

Thanks for reading. Feel free to also add in any other customization desires, be it pony tails for humans, new Norn body tattoos, etc.

~Jaya

Hoowee. Let me tell you a story when Lilith was first leveling guardian.

Dear little Squaark was the cutest guardian around. She has pink hair, pink armor, and a stunning immobulus. She wondered, “What off handed weapon should I use with this beautiful scepter?”
So she went on, trying her possible combinations.
So she found shield, utterly useless while leveling. She was killing mobs so quickly, who needs more protection?
Then, a focus found her. “Again, who needs this? I’m only using auto attack anyway, the animations are boring, what else is there?”
And then Mr. Ollivander brought her a torch. This torch was light weight, pretty, and gave the little Squaark fire breath, the cutest animation. And so she took it. From then on, she always had grilled Moa wings for breakfast.

The reason it keeps being deleted is because he wants to stop getting gold spammers. However I think it is a feature that should be added regardless. And I think the OP is only getting infractions based on people false reporting because this is a totally valid suggestion.

Razor.6392:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

“Doing so makes it easy to abuse boon stacking, heals, combo fields " Support mechanics are abused when they are used as they are intended? what?

Used as intended? So ANet’s initial idea was to have everyone stand in a corner for the entire fight duration, letting monsters get free hits on the group while they faceroll combo fields, heals and all sorts of broken spells in those encounters? (ex: whirlwind type of attacks).

If that was the “used as intended” design philosophy then I regret buying this game.

You said boon stacking, and combo fields. These are things that are the base of support mechanics in the game. Knowing how to stack boons and such takes actual thought and cooperation (no light fields under my fire!). Combo fields being blasted and whirled and all of that is intended for group play. Stacking (and dodging/evade) are apart of that intention. Glitch ing bosses is not, but using terrain, LOSing and such really is. It was in gw1 and it is prevalent In gw2 because it is intended.

Miroe.2054:

Ranael.6423:

you should balance it with a buff for people losing damage for survivability.

Thats what Im already trying to do here. The Idea is, that at the moment there is an imbalance and this is trying to make defensive builds more viable.

The other way would be to add actual undodgeable attacks or bosses who’s attack patterns are a lot more aggressive so your defensive stats are just as valuable as your offensive ones

Id prefer a mechanic that turns your defense into an advantage then your offensive into a disadvantage but right now we have exactly that – timed bosses that do exactly that – rend your defense useless and promotes dps races.

Why can’t you see defensive gear works as it’s intended? It obviously cannot do as much damage as a glass cannon. Go look at the dodge unbound full cleric Lupicus kill! If anything, defensive gear trivalizes content because it makes it unnecessary to dodge.

With our current system, you can LITERALLY wear whatever you want and get the job done. Of course it will be faster with a full damage group, why shouldn’t it be?

Please, God of Logic… help me.

Mac.3872:

The ability to sell dungeon paths causes nothing but trouble. Either the buyer gets scammed or the seller gets ‘grieved’. Best solution would be to remove it from the game entirely, for the sake of a more pleasant community.

That’s funny. I’ve seen paths being sold without scamming or grieving.

Best solution is for everyone to stop being jerks.

That’s fair, but it doesn’t really answer my question…. Could I get an answer from you about your fluctuation of reactions to the blog post? That’s what I’m really interested in.

But I’d also like to add that we have asked a million times to buy a skin once and not have to again, I think it is totally fair to have to buy charges for extra instances of the skin. Anet needs some money, and i think that this is a great trade off.

Look. Anet is just doing what the loud forum majority wanted. When people said “dungeons suck because spider queen” they listened. And when we dungeon forum regulars told them this very change was not a solution they called us dumb elitists. Just like the bloodstone dust nerf. You asked. They delivered.

Disclaimer: this thread will change and update frequently. Come back and check it out daily if you’re curious about changes!

First of all, Welcome!
This post is to help new people to the community understand this subforum. Please note that it is up to each individual to keep posts clean and respectful. Before posting a thread, make sure your question is not on this thread. If you wish, Ask your question here, and we can answer it here, as well, and add it to this list. Any questions asked here will be added and their answer will be put in. Enjoy!
Let’s get started.
FAQ:

1. [Meow] Can I bring a non-80 into a dungeon that is “level appropriate”?
2. [Meow] What is the purpose of LFG group descriptions?
3. [Meow] What should I do if my group kicks me for my build and/or profession?
4. [Meow] What should I do if my group kicks me to sell my spot?
5. [Meow] Is dungeon selling against the rules?
6. [Meow] What can I do to mitigate time-loss by issues such as: Instance owner leaving, getting kicked for no reason, and having a group that does not know what to do in an instance?
7. [Meow] How can I find the best build for dungeon running?
8. [Meow] If I struggle with the best build, what are the best alternatives?
9. [Meow] Where can I find someone to help me run a dungeon path?
10. [Meow] What should I do if I’m new to a dungeon and join a non-descriptive dungeon run?
11. [Meow] Can I do the dungeon on a level 80, and switch to a low level character toward the end to get the experience?
12. [Meow] What can I do if I am kicked from an instance due to the dungeon starter leaving the party?
13. [Meow] If I find a bug or exploit, how can I report it to Arena Net?
14. [Meow] Ah! My dungeon speed clear video has been moved to Linksville! What gives?

Helpful guides: will be updated retroactively

GW2Dungeons.com

Controversial Topics, By Maxinion, but Lilith supports:

1. [Meow] I just ran a dungeon, and everyone just bunched up on top of each other in a few corners to fight the mobs. What gives?
2. [Meow] Stacking is awful! Isn’t this an exploit? Why doesn’t ANet fix this? What can I do so I don’t have to use this mechanic?
3. [Meow] Everyone in my group just ran past all the trash mobs! Aren’t we supposed to kill monsters in dungeons? Isn’t it cheating to just run through?
4. [Meow] Doesn’t it take zero effort to skip? Isn’t it unfair for this reason?
5. [Meow] I still don’t like skipping! What should I do?

SkylightMoon.1980:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

SkylightMoon.1980:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

SkylightMoon.1980:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

SkylightMoon.1980:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

SkylightMoon.1980:

Emanuel.9781:

There is not only no hope left for the gw2 dungeons, but also for a few people posting here in this very thread.
Especially for one specific person above me.

Ah, dnt and rt I see. The propogators of the zerk and stacking meta. Its really quite embarassing that you encourage this toxic type of gameplay when you could really be a voice to the devs for guild wars 2 on how they could improve these dungeons.

You’re funny. Toxic game play. what are you, the sheriff of fun? You determine what’s toxic and what’s fun now?

Because using the same stacking strategy to accomplish nearly every dungeon is fun? I get you wanna make money, I do to sometimes, but lets not pretend like there is anything challenging or fun about the way we do it.

Look sweetie I run Dungeons for fun with friends. What’s not fun:

*dying
*taking forever
*not being able to RP walk
*not making money
*kiting a boss for 10 minutes with bearbows
*unfashionable party members

See. Fun. Stacking and such fit into my idea of fun. I’m not in it for a huge stressful challenge. I’m not in a dungeon speed run guild. I play this game to have fun. Stop trying to ruin the majority of players fun because you want something that this game isn’t.

In gw2 you make your own challenges. Which is the beauty of it. You can kill bosses naked. You can do whatever you want. Stop trying to make this game that is ours into yours. God I hate you all.

Gw2 isnt inherently challenging which is why people consistently find ways to make it challenging. By soloing it, or doing it naked. Soloing some dungeons is actually quite challenging and impressive to see when done in a speedrun. There are some examples that obviously don’t count, where they bug the boss, like ive seen a player bug the spider queen in AC so she doesn’t move or attack and can just be dps’ed in the open.

The problem is that these players arn’t rewarded any differently. You take the easy way out and get rewards, they do something obviously much more difficult and get the exact same thing. Dungeons and fractals need a system that acknowledges that a player is soloing it so they can get better rewards.

It’s called getting it done quickly so you can run another path. That’s the incentive! More chances to receive a good roll on the loot table! More champ bags! More material bags!

Soloing and duoing? SELL THE SLOTS

Oh wait I’m sure you hate sellers too. Point is, rewards up the freaking wazzoo for doing something challenging.

Oh and ps. Good job taking my words, paraphrasing them, yo try and make yourself look good. GG.

Ye I get your mentality, you wanna get it done fast so you can make more gold and do another dungeon to make more gold so you can buy some pretty weapons that you can use to go back and speedrun the dungeon. This mentality makes no sense. At this point, there is nothing enjoyable about the content. Its the unique thing about guild wars 2.

This isnt the game you’re looking for, move along.

It’s about the gameplay. It’s about the rewards you get from gameplay. If it wasn’t I’d just play tetris. It’s fashion wars 2, baby, and I’m freaking winning it.

“Its about the gameplay.” What gameplay? All you are doing is stacking a boss in the corner, this is not gameplay, this is a joke. I won’t give up on this game even though its plagued by a seemingly brainwashed community of speedrunners who don’t want anything to change ever. This game has the best combat system out of any MMO ive played and Anet can do better.

If you are under the false impression that I am a brainwashed speed runner I challenge you to ask anyone I run with if that is what I am, or if I’m just that adorable Asura playing the flute at the way point while they /dance for 20 minutes. Also I challenge you to RP and RP walk through dungeons. Cause the game play is social. It’s not, “RARRRRGGHHH no skill no stack no skip do it my way or I’ll grief you to the high heavens!”

Its: “Hey colesy, want to join me while I teach a new player the ropes in AC? We can giggle and make jokes in TS.”

Its: “Hey sexy players let’s take level 2’s into fractals and complete it and take screens because it’s fun.”

Its: “let’s make some gold so I can change my characters armor once a week like I want to.”

Its: “Hey let’s create a community where we learn and play together, without judging other people for how they like to play.”

Because that’s what I’ve found. That’s what makes this game great. Again. The gameplay is up to you. Make your own Darn fun. Stop trying to ruin others.

New Folks in Dungeons [READ]

Hello everyone!

Welcome to my post about a hot issue here in the dungeon community: Bringing non-80s into dungeons.

As of late, there have been several posts on this topic. The topic then derails because all of us are sick of reading it. Here is the relevant information

• Lowbies are perfectly capable of completing a dungeon run of the appropriate level

We all know this to be true. There isn’t a single member of the community arguing otherwise. However, those of you angry folks, be aware that although lowbies are capable of completing a dungeon, this can sometimes not be as quick as we want.

Important fact #1: No one should believe that a person’s dungeon group composition should be dictated by anyone but those in the group.

If a group wants to run full berserker speed runs, they have that right. If a group wants to run a full clear, they have that right. No one has the right to tell either group they can’t, as both groups are allowed to run the dungeon both ways.

• People need to learn to read LFG descriptions.

Descriptions are there for a reason. If you are running a lowbie group, post something like “Anyone welcome”. It will fill. I spent about 30 minutes last night watching the time trends of lfg groups of AC. Non-speed runs filled, on average, 23 seconds faster than speed runs. People are running these groups.

Important fact #2: Normal groups are out there, do post, and fill quickly. In 5 minutes, you will be able to find a group for any normally run path. If you are running an abnormal path, post your own.

• Dungeon veterans are willing and able to help dungeon newbies

There are several posts here on the forums, Teachers and specifically for Arah, Arah Vets. In addition, see the sticky at the top of the forums. More recent threads may be more useful, but it is still very much a tool to be used.

• If you come to this subforum for a build, you will be given the current meta build for dungeons.

What this means is that regardless of your feelings, people will give you the absolute best build for dungeons. This isn’t debatable. The best build for dungeons focuses on DPS. If you don’t want the meta build, do not ask. If you want advice on how to best use the meta build, or tweak it because you need extra survivability, the dungeon “elitists” will give you their best advice (usually along the lines of knight’s gear, but it depends). Arguing with the forum regulars about this will only cause infractions and the closing of threads. Be aware that if you are asking a question wanting advice, it is up to you to take it.

Thanks for reading, please stop posting those threads.

2 legendaries down and I only have rank… 12 in wvw. What a silly silly requirement for new players

I’m just mad because I didn’t want anything other than an open conversation about it. Or even just a response that says whether or not they think it will happen again. I have no reason to level fractals. I have no desire to go in and have my progress destroyed in 6 months when they think more people should go into fractals. Because the real truth is, the argument for 30 was that people couldn’t get up to 50. But really, I highly (and I mean highly) doubt that the number of people maxed out at lvl 50 fractals now is much different from those that were before. Casuals still don’t play above level 19. And so next time they decide to “increase the challenges for leaderboards that won’t ever exist because they never had any idea on how in the first place” (hence the several dev comments either saying explicitly that they’re still trying to figure out how to measure fractal awesomeness or simply asking, ‘how to do bros?’ As in the CDI).

ipan.4356:

Nobody cares about feature packs. They want more content.

I care about feature packs.

I think outfits are amazing. 0 charges to use. Dyeable. Adorable. Usable in combat. Win.

Beauty is in the eye of the bookahs.

Don’t worry, you don’t need to measure up.

kyubi.3620:

im just making sure the Dev actualy see this. Idc what they nerf i just want them to nerf it to the ground so that it never happen again.

This is the most vindictive post I have ever seen. You’re so….. I don’t even have a word for it.

Nerf cleric, OP! OP!

smh