Guild Wars 2

With the next raid. And it is unknown when that one is released.

Most people I know raid for fun and the rewards are just icing on the cake. Otherwise they would not kill the bosses multiple times with different groups which I would consider as “helping”. Sure some are also killing them over and over to train to get better/lowmanning them but as far as i can see it, those are rather a minority.

Quasar.1756:

Joxer.6024:

There are titles already. “Eternal”, “Slippery Slubbing” to mention 2. odds are that folks with those have done a fair share of raiding.

Why stop at an “Eternal” title? Extend it to Sp and Wing 3 or just have an option to view the bosses a player has killed.

even if they are not the most practical, there is the tonic for w1+2 and the experimental armor for all wings

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If Anet wants to promote ‘No players left behind’ attitude, why not give double M shards or guaranteed ascended drops to exp players helping out the non-exp players in the group.

I’m sure everyone wouldn’t mind that…win-win on both sides

Raiders are shard capped after a full clear already.
Regarding the ascended drops:
I am sure people would find a way to exploit that.

Khisanth.2948:

Ranael.6423:

Crystal Reid.2481:

A few development updates for you guys since there are some things I can clarify here.

While Forsaken Thicket was 3 wings that encompassed a complete story line, that does not mean all raids will be 3 wings. We’ll do that where it makes sense, and sometimes it will make sense to release a stand alone raid with 1 wing if we think we have an interesting story to tell there that doesn’t need to be stretched out over multiple releases.

Sorry to hijack your answer but if you think you can break the cycle by having a raid only composed of one wing, do you also think that now bosses could also not live in circular rooms/platforms ?

Bosses on a torus could be interesting.

Or on a moebius strip!

First of all, great guide, really love Shattercat and been playing it now in WvW, Fractal, Dungeons having a lot of fun.
I am not sure if this has been mentioned but since you stress the high cost of the rabid gear in the condition based section I wanted to point out that you can basically get the gear (at least weapon and armor) for “free” from dungeon tokens (Caudecus, Twilight Arbor, Honor of the Waves, Arah) with TA and HotF being two tungeons that can be run quite fast and easily. AND you will earn quite some money for the trinkets as well if running the dungeons. Runes of the Undead are extremely cheap as well making this build in my opinion actually cheaper than the other variants with the high priced Runes of Air.
One other thing: you mentioned somewhere in the guide that you had added a food/oil section but I can’t seem to find that, did you remove it again? What are you using atm, highest oil and 100prec/10%crit food?
Thanks again for the wonderful guide