Guild Wars 2

Please, give us a few examples where stacking is a problem. I’m sure we’re all dying to find out.

I felt a need to momentarily revive this ancient tradition.
#throwback

100% REAL, LEGIT AND NOT SATIRICAL PATCH NOTES

Following feedback from the majority of our players, we are making the following changes to dungeons to bring them further in line with our original design manifesto.

Currently, players of any level are able to enter any dungeon, an oversight by our original dungeon team. This has been exploited by certain players to level new characters faster than we think they should. These exploiters have all been permanently banned, and to prevent further occurrences and enhance dungeons we have made the following changes:

• Dungeon story modes must now be unlocked by being of the appropriate level, and bringing a special item tangentially related to the dungeon to the NPC outaide the dungeon. This special item can only be obtained from world boss chests, and is not a guaranteed drop. Explorable modes now require story mode to be completed before players can enter such instances.

• All dungeons are now contestable, and new meta event chains have been added in the vicinity of dungeon entrances that are required to progress if the dungeon is to open, as part of an initiative to promote immersion and encouraging players to explore the open world.

The New Player Experience (NPE) has been integrated into dungeons to assist newer players making their first foray into this poorly designed excuse for a farm lore-rich instanced content. Henceforth:

• All cutscenes are now unskippable and players are forced to sit through minutes of boring monologue richly voice acted scenarios including one involving a charr telling an asura that his plan is stupid and won’t work.

• Popups will now appear throughout story mode dungeons containing useful information, such as informing you that the chests spawned at certain points in the dungeon might give you a legendary precursor, et cetera.

• Completion of a dungeon will now reward you with an unsalvageable masterwork aquatic breather, in addition to Empyreal Fragments.

Other changes not necessarily pertaining to dungeons:

• Trahearne has now been added to all dungeon instances to tie dungeons in with the Personal Story and Living World. In each dungeon, there is now a compulsory objective to rescue Trahearne after the main path has been completed.

• Added a new boss to all dungeon paths as part of the Trahearne rescue: Legendary Mordrem Dredge Disaggregator. This boss, in addition to applying protection every 10 seconds with a gong, will randomly stun you with said gong and summon dredge cars that endlessly spawn Mordrem Teragriff Bashers until destroyed.

• Dungeon clear times are now tracked, and the NPC outside each dungeon or the vendors in Lion’s Arch will show the slowest 3 clears of the day, as well as the average clear time of the dungeon. Players who complete all dungeon paths in 20 minutes faster than the average times of each path in a day will receive an Ascended chest containing their choice of a piece of armor with Nomad stats, and a new title: Berserker Elitist.

• Berserker gear has been renamed to Elitist gear, while Assassin’s gear has been renamed Tryhard/Wannabe gear.

This statement exists for the sole purpose of indicating that the notes above are satirical (if the title wasn’t obvious enough), that I am well aware that this thread is worthy of bingo, that I may get infracted for spreading misinformation (which would be stupid, since I made it pretty obvious this is fake, yes I was suspended for that very reason) and that I pity any sucker who believes that this post is a genuine set of patch notes by ArenaNet representatives, which I am not. Seriously, why am I including this disclaimer? It ruins the fun.

Signed,
LOD’s elitist jaguar

No. Dredge cars.

Here you go!

Vol.7601:

Nageth.5648:

Lindbur.2537:

Who’s betting the kids who have been playing Ghosts non-stop for over a year and a half will be separated? I’m betting a copper!

Speaking of that, I’m wondering how many incidental NPCs are going to get killed.

RIP ogden’s hammer savings guy

Axelwarrior.9084:

Lindbur.2537:

People keep trying to impose their definition of fun on others.

sigh

Your definition of fun is minimizing gaming time, intentionally skipping most of the game’s content, avoiding combat (a core mechanic of the game) and rushing to get rewards for the work you didn’t do?

Sorry, then.

I’m sorry you can’t understand the world doesn’t revolve around you.

I believe I’m getting eye cancer from the OP’s arguments.

Let me see if I can produce another set of notes… ah, there we go. Prepare yourselves, ladies and gentlemen!

100% LEGIT PATCH NOTES

Recently there has been an increase in the number of players stacking and using damage gear sets in dungeons. In the past, we made it clear that these are exploits. We will not tolerate them, especially ‘Berserker’ gear. We have made the following changes in order to bring dungeons more in line with our original design manifesto:

• Renamed Berserker gear to Exploiters gear and added intense particle effects that cannot be toggled off. This is to assist players in reporting these exploiters and at the same time disrupt the prevalence of stacking by making it impossible to see.

• Added intangible dredge cars to all dungeons. These dredge cars spawn lots of dredge and themselves have lots of health. Should two of any of these dredge die within 5 seconds of each other, the car will burrow for 5 minutes and return with twice as many dredge, and 10 more Disaggregators. This change is necessary to discourage stacking against the cars and to promote greater immersion in dungeons.

• Following player feedback from the CDI, we have removed all dredge from the Underground Facility fractal. For lore reasons, all dredge have been recalled by the Moletariat to combat exploiters using Fiery Greatswords to kill their kinsmen.

• Replacing the dredge will be Ascalonian Cave Trolls wearing clown costumes. There is exactly one less troll in the fractal than there were dredge, just so people can’t complain that we didn’t do anything about the number of mobs inside.

• All dredge cars have been painted with red, yellow and white colours to represent something. Take a guess!

:)

I could sum it up in just a few words.

The game has been out for over 1.5 years now. People changed and improved. Dungeons did not.

Somehow I feel that devs are simply too scared to try anything radical with dungeons. :x

People keep trying to impose their definition of fun on others.

sigh

Although I agree that people should check the forums more often for news, I don’t see why adding the vendor back would hurt anyone.

How about a hostile Legendary Defender spawning on you every time you enter COF? That’s a great way to make it hard for you!

So what? They’ll pay for their hubris… eventually.

“I am a casual
You’re an evil elitist
I play how I want”

-Casual haiku

Hey, on the bright side, you won’t be needing to use dedicated MF gear anymore!

Tengu.

Seriously, it’s time.

Give me a B!
Give me an I!
Give me a N, G, O!

What do we have?
BINGO!

Season 2 has just started and you’re already complaining?

Alright then.

I forgot to include this in my earlier post.

Hello little one. You’ve been a busy little poster, haven’t you?

No going further for you. It’s too dangerous. You might get hurt.

Sam Gem.1246:

I’m a logic person. After buying 3 precursors, I have done the math, using statistics and the experience of other people to persuade myself to use the mystic forge instead of buying the precursors. Basically, the odds of getting a pre is .2 % from rares. Using a cumulative binomial calculator, the odds of getting 1 or more pre from 350 attempts is 50%….
Well, after 1100 attempts, I’ve convinced myself to quit. I know.. 100 trolls will say good ridden. Whatever. I’ll never buy an Anet game or all other affiliates. You have wasted my time enough already…

You also had a 99.8% chance of not getting a precursor from rares, and a 50% chance of not getting 1 or more pre from 350 attempts according to your statistics. How’s that for perspective?

Statistics don’t guarantee anything, it’s just there to inform you.

1. I recall hearing that in the beta, enemies would move out of AoE circles, but they took it out because it basically made AoE useless.
2. I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: people would start using bodyblocking as a griefing method. It’s inevitable.
3. This is basically telling speedrunners to go kitten themselves, pretty obvious how and why.
4. Now this I can agree with. Incentivisation is, compared to coercion, a more “peaceful” approach, for lack of a better word. Sure, some people will complain about it, but at least they won’t have any sound logical basis for their complaints for the most part.

New title: Legendary Defender of Lion’s Arch

It boggles my mind how much people hate being good team players.

Kahrgan.7401:

I guess people in this thread never run content that’s harder than COF or COE, and ask for heavies only and experienced only, when they themselves are not only my opinions matter, I don’t run scholar runes so everyone else is a pleb, hurr durr.

Aren’t you supposed to be dead?

rainbowchainmailguy.com

Principle is one thing, irking your customers is another. Just put the merchants back in and these guys will shut up.

Azreell.1568:

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Why do you keep making the same few points over and over as if we can’t understand it? Stop.

It’s a fact that there are a lot of humans in light T3… but this is just a hard slap in the face to me.

insert string of perceived vulgarities that would be filtered out as an expression of rage and disappointment

I guess people can now play the ultimate waiting game where they just wait for the mobs to die of boredom, heh.

I have a human mesmer with a full set minus the headgear (because it looks odd). For months on end I have been happily flaunting it because the skin was exclusive to humans. I’ve sunk over 2000g on this character, if that is any testament to how much I like it.

The new skin looks great on a human. Naturally, since the original skin was designed solely for human characters. But to imagine some fat norn in that appearance? Urgh.

I can’t think of how else to express my thoughts on this, so this will have to do.

tl:dr: This is a big slap in the face to anyone with a human with light T3, myself included.

almost sure

Been to Arah yet?

Well, the build included in the hard copy is the base build, completely void of any updates prior to launch, and the game has been out for a year now. There have been at least 10 major updates not including the smaller patches for bug fixing.

Does that answer your question?

In PvE a thief is very much wanted in dungeons for the incredible blind spam, stealth, and most importantly very high DPS.

Good to know that I’m making people smile

xDudisx.5914:

I think that if they just add 5 defiance before the boss enters in combat would make dungeons a bit harder. Would avoid opening with icebow5 and kill boss before he can even reacts. Or at least make it harder and require more coordination to land bow#5.

Head Shot.

Flash it or you don’t have it.

That’s for boobies.

It does work as intended, what matters is where you place the curtain.

I have 3 asura characters (ele, necro and warrior), all of which use the exact same body design. This is my ele, you can expect my necro to look exactly the same right down to armor and dye choice.

Basics of the guardian: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/guardian/Guide-PVE-Guardian-101-A-Beginner-s-Text/

Optimised guardian builds for PvE: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/guardian/Guide-DPS-Guardian-for-PVE

I stack how I want, even my money stacks.

Correct, but you are also forgetting that HB and the axe chain both take a good 3.5 seconds to fully execute. Thief rotations only include one auto chain (which itself takes about 1 second to complete while still doing respectable damage) between CnD and Backstabs, and when your target goes below 25% health you start spamming Heartseeker instead because it does nearly the same damage as a backstab at this point and as I said, spammable.

I currently don’t have access to my computer (typing this from an iPad) so I can’t conduct any testing to provide proof right now.

Addendum: While the 1 second auto chain seems too fast for Revealed to wear off, you need to account for the after-use delay of a Backstab and the auto chain’s last hit, along with the use time of Cloak and Dagger. These factors ensure that your CnD will hit just a split second after Revealed wears off, unless you are under the effects of Quickness, which borks your rotation.

EDIT: This is within a group setting, if it’s solo style a warrior will win due to his crazy self buffing power that a thief lacks.

So you want to be respected because of factors completely out of your control, by means of luck? I don’t respect luck, I respect skill and dedication, and no matter how you put it there’s certainly more dedication involved in working for something than simply having it handed to you.

You want respect for getting lucky? This game is not for you. The whole thread is already teeming with people who sincerely disagree with just about every point you’ve made, if you haven’t noticed.

So, from a game world perspective, anyone who uses shouts to grant boons now has to bellow at the top of his lungs so his friend on the other side of a mountain can hear “FOR GREAT JUSTICE!” and gain boons.

Gameplay wise, others have already given the reasons why this is a bad idea.

I like being cryptic.

Here, eat this.

It costs 9 initiative to enter stealth using D/P compared to 6 with D/D, and let’s not forget that Cloak and Dagger hits harder than Heartseeker above 25% and applies vulnerability too.

After 6 hours of slipping up and unwittingly switching from Thief to Warrior, I’ve pulled off a Lupicus solo at last. On the wall.

Maybe I’ll try off wall when I have the time, but for now, I can relax…