Guild Wars 2

Okay so, I set 4 gambits for Deadeye Dunwell. Buffed myself with the staff and swapped out my weapons just as I enter the arena. It immediately boots me out, taking my tickets and no fight. I did swap out successfully before, so this is baffling.

Well, spoiler but she’s part of the Pact team in one late game story mission. Can’t remember which option though.

O-kay I can pretty much only catch NA 3 times a week, and the rest of the time, just about no one around. Looking for a friendly guild with a relative focus on WvW during Oceanic or SEA timezone, though having more PvE is fine by me.

Usual play times would be around 8-10pm (8 GMT) on weekdays and 9-10am (8 GMT) onwards during holidays. I’ve got all classes to fill any possible class requirements, but doesn’t mean I’m good at all of em.

Salut!

I guess it’s NA prime; I get up early enough to catch y’all. Highlight of my 5-6 hours in EB right here, with both BG and SOR backed into the dead-end in dredge. I need to make sure I don’t do that either…

As per title, looking for a guild in SEA or Oceanic timezone to rep part time in the later part of my day. I’d like to run high-ish level fractals (~40, still below 50) for the most part or dungeons. WvW is on a lesser priority since I just follow whoever I like (cough). I also pvp now and again.

I’m usually online every day without too specific times since it depends on lag/college. Anything else, idk. o7

Tooltip for Throw Wrench does not display the cripple applied even though I have the power tools trait. Cripple does not proc either. I only have kitten of the tooltip atm, but I’ll add that later when I also show that I have the trait on.

If you read the Edge of Destiny book, Rytlock mentions he has plenty of brothers and sisters, so I would assume they’re born in litters?
(Now where the hell are they?)

Beetle.2476:

Aaron Ansari.1604:

@OP They certainly don’t have booths- The Grove is the only place they have an open presence.

That’s probably due to the fact that once one sylvari joins the Order, the Pale Tree knows and all Sylvari being born from that point forward will know. (I’m surprised anyone trusts a sylvari with secrets…)

Not really. Sylvari get an IDEA of knowledge, not the exact knowledge per se. An individual sylvari will still need to experience something for themselves to understand what is usually vague bits passed down to them.

I seriously can hardly play with my laptop continuously overheating. Gotta get that looked to. Meanwhile, this just about 10 minutes ago JQBL. It could probably work in another situation…

A little while ago, BG stormed JQ BL bay with golems. The crew that went ahead forgot about destroying the oil and the golems took the mez port. That didn’t end so well, for the golems.

I also get sick from SAB, though I’m not too sure if it’s specifically motion sickness. I just figure it’s because it’s too bright for me; like how Bioshock Infinite’s Columbia is “too clean” (in the first parts of the Let’s Play I’m watching at any rate). I think it’s just that I can’t take “extremes” in lighting, since Rapture gave me headaches for having poor lighting. There are couple other games that make me feel ill from too much movement, on the other hand…

My TP’s problem is currently:

= Unable to sell items
= Able to see the opening page of the TP, but some items do not have pictures
= Unable to search/purchase items (blank)

Considering it worked just two days ago, what the heck changed overnight?

To the [Thai] asura warrior/engineer, you could have let me take the vista at Spirit :< I suppose you wanted to complete your daily…

Got a cooler, it died twice. =/ It isn’t a kitten cooler either.

Yesterday, I had 4. Today, it’s three and likely counting.

2 of yesterday’s was in AC (the second time the “repair” thing came up) and the other 2 in WvW.

The latest WhoCrashed report is as follows:

On Wed 6/3/2013 2:12:49 AM GMT your computer crashed
crash dump file: C:\Windows\Minidump\030613-15662-01.dmp
This was probably caused by the following module: nvkflt.sys (nvkflt+0x31704)
Bugcheck code: 0×116 (0xFFFFFA80045CB4E0, 0xFFFFF8800724F704, 0xFFFFFFFFC000009A, 0×4)
Error: VIDEO_TDR_ERROR
file path: C:\Windows\system32\drivers\nvkflt.sys
product: NVIDIA Windows Kernel Mode Driver, Version 314.07
company: NVIDIA Corporation
description: NVIDIA Windows Kernel Mode Driver, Version 314.07
Bug check description: This indicates that an attempt to reset the display driver and recover from a timeout failed.
A third party driver was identified as the probable root cause of this system error. It is suggested you look for an update for the following driver: nvkflt.sys (NVIDIA Windows Kernel Mode Driver, Version 314.07 , NVIDIA Corporation).
Google query: NVIDIA Corporation VIDEO_TDR_ERROR

I already updated my Nvidia driver about couple weeks ago. I have had BSODs before, but having them in fairly quick succession is not very ideal to say the least.

Froggineer (please use my forum ID as I am currently training an alt)

Profession: Engineer, full exotics

Traited: All-kit tank (Soldier’s, 0/10/20/10/30)

Experience: P3, once (thanks Obal!)

Time: Able to be online everyday, but most free on Friday/Saturday reset nights due to timezone differences. (GMT+8)

Other: Would like to kill mobs to get a 25 Life stack for healing, but won’t mind skipping. Has both TS and Vent if needed for easier relaying.

I couldn’t try out the changes to P2 because Detha bugged out and just stood in the middle without fixing the traps. I’ve heard that P2 bugs out the most, and well too bad for that.

I got the idea that “dodge” meant a second of “invulnerability”. Nope. Mid-dodge, I get tossed about by scavengers, pulled by Kohler and killed etc. My endurance got used to supposedly get me out of the way, but doesn’t matter; I die. I simply cannot dodge the knock-downs because somehow or other, the attack connects while mid-dodge (the point I had always assumed you would be evading). If I happen to be just on the edge of the red circle, I get thrown. If I roll to one side when the red circle appears, I get thrown.

Also, there are still scavengers with permanent knockdown and I can’t do jack as they chew on me. I have experienced using stun breakers just as I get eaten but the attack continues regardless and I get knocked down again. The latter part is prior patch, so hopefully it won’t be as bad now.

Just returned from a P3 run. I heard about the new mechanic, but wasn’t expecting it to be like this.

Yes, we wiped several times (at least 6) at CR. The first several times, Grast:
= Didn’t cast his bubble in time
= Was knocked down from the siesmic waves despite that “stability” buff he has
= Stubbornly charged at CR at 50% health and died to the melee swipe
= Simply died to melee

If he had a Determined or Righteous Indignation buff, it would have been great. Instead, we have a squishy (god forbid, dim) NPC to protect us. Once I died running back to CR just when the rocks were cast; they covered the tunnel exits, alas.

Defeating the krait slaver forces at Triskell Quay. I just did it, and it isn’t labelled [Group Event]. Some of the krait have knockback. Then, one type gets quickness, and they also poison. Yet another type drop down caltrops and stack bleeds (which yes they can just be walked out of, but you’d likely have other stacking conditions and/or cripple on you; or if you’ve gotten to a corner to hold out in my case). I was using my necromancer. If I didn’t have minions (which I use for PvE) to at least distribute some of the damage, probably would have failed taking it on solo.

^ Are you guys okay with your borderlands turning red?

Cheers to that SoR asura guardian who chased me out of the frogs at EB about 2 hours ago (had to leave shortly after that). I can’t remember your guild tag (was it LoR?) because I was the human (uplevelled) necromancer running the kitten away to prevent being a free kill to a level 80. You gave me quite a good laugh while I did nuts to you with my staff marks. Managed to stay alive long enough for reinforcements to come, but yeah, that was fun, really.

^ That happens often when I switch out my sword for my axe in LA after a round of FotM on my ranger.

I seem to be hearing “You’re dumb. You’ll die and you’ll leave a dumb corpse” more often on my asura Mesmer… I’m concerned about how that applies to her current unpredictable nature.

I’m curious if mesmer mantras differ from race to race? I can’t remember the lines, since there’s several of them and they’re three words long each (and I don’t use them either).

Been focusing on levelling up alts, but I’m planning on running Arah soon. This coming Friday reset time, I’ll get my engineer if there’s space ^^;

sostronk.8167:

Trying to work out what BSOD means.

Blue screen of death. In other words, I crashed.

Considering the outmanned buff on JQBL just yesterday afternoon my time, which would be about night to late night for NA, I guess people are taking breaks in between, rather than the fabled 24 hour coverage.

There any score update? Don’t wanna go back in-game just after a BSOD.

Soldier: This beer’s missing something. Something salty. You got any dried beef sticks?
Bartender: Uh, no, we’ve got pretzels…
Soldier: No.
Bartender: … bread and butter…
Soldier: No.
Bartender: … potato skins…
Soldier: NO!
Bartender: That’s all we’ve got! Do you want me to go out and slaughter a goat for you???
Soldier: Yeah, that’d be great. And some dried beef sticks please.
Bartender: Have another beer.

Wait around the female bartender merchant at Butcher’s Block (Diessa Plateau; aka where Meatoberfest is).

So… score update? My screen ain’t big enough for some character shot thrown in :<

I’d really love it if people didn’t bother trying to kill me when I’m trying to get skill points. I know I’m a free kill and all but could you please let me finish off the spider queen first thanks.

Meanwhile, score update.

Heh, looks like I’m part of that growing demographic w (going on 19)

Originally I just explored a lot (my main had over 60% world completion before I even touched WvW) or the ocassional dungeon. Then I got told WvW is needed for world completion, so I joined a couple of buds as a 3-man gank team. Can’t say when I got “hooked” (so to speak) on WvW but I got invited to a WvW-focused guild (current guild in fact) and just rolled with it.

I don’t do a set thing on the battlefield, but I prefer running with the commander(s)/zerg and beat people up. It feels really gratifying to see the enemy crumble and you securing the territory for your server with like-minded people :) I run lowbie alts on WvW a lot as well, and while it’s easy to die, I think you get made to learn your class faster with the limited things you can do.

And yeah, 5/7 characters are male, with 2 female asura. The 8th would probably be a guy as well ;)

Just opened on Jade Quarry!

Score update at my 5am woohoo
Work hard, SoR!

Score update, JQ +/- 10 since a tower is under attack. Screen not big enough for a full map update screen :<
I find it funny the most action JQ has is during the weekday…

Those who are in need, it’s just open on Jade Quarry again!

Score update, because I want one too.

Just out from a battle for bay on SoR BL. As I go to sleep you guys might be capping it back, unless FOO stops you of course :P

I thought it was stated in the patch notes that the transform was removed?

As for warrior and ranger, they do have skills that make them grow larger with stability (Warrior’s Rampage and Ranger’s Signet of the Wild if I’m not mistaken) but they also have non-transform stability skills (Balanced Stance and Rampage as One respectively).

Bomb Kit + rifle Jump Shot:

Fire Bomb + Jump Shot = Fire Aura with the forward leap, but after I move or DON’T move, it seemingly clips me back to my original spot. However, it seems to be working fine with the fire field from Napalm (Flamethrower). After further tries, the issue appears to vanish.

Smoke Bomb + Jump Shot = Stealth with forward leap, but if I don’t move, it seems to clip me back to my original spot. After further tries it seems that this issue disappears.

I sure hope it doesn’t decide to bug out on me in WvW.

Alright! Just reopened on Jade Quarry!

Just opened on Jade Quarry!

P/V/T armor, Infiltration runes, Berserker weapons and half Berserker and half Knight accessories. At least 10k, able to go up to 15-18k with crit. Possible to rack up 20k with buffs.

I second the stunbreakers on kits. Running all-kits myself, it’s either

• time it right and bring out Gear Shield to block mow downs and wait and dodge for the CD
  OR
• die (not really but close)

I’d love mobile turrets and have them spin around you as say a Grandmaster trait in Inventions. Static ones would be good for trolling people by contesting their WP in WvW as it attacks random crap. Now if only Deployable Turrets was actually working…

I haven’t actually experimented much with various utility combinations so my ideas are rather lacking. Planning to try out a gadgeteer for wvw so I’ll see how that works out!

Opened on Jade Quarry just a couple of minutes ago.

I ran all-turrets before, but that was months back when I was really bad in choosing my traits. Auto-repair and Metal Plating hardly kept my turrets up, and I remember just how useless they were during the last part of SE story. Kept hearing them explode.

Yes, downed state needs to be reviewed. One time I can tell that the grappling line was useful was when Kholer refused to enter another room to attack the troll and since he had no stacks of Defiant and I got downed by bloody traps, I pulled him over and we continued on our merry way.

I’m fine with Medkit’s explosion refinement for the most part, but if it explodes why isn’t it a cheap blast finisher? Or is that too OP now…

Edit: By the way does Fast Acting Elixirs apply to Super Elixir now? I took it out in favour of Backpack Regenerator but I can’t say if that actually helps or not either.
(Might think of more later.)

Jade Quarry opened it some 5-10 minutes ago.

I tend to roll with whatever I get so I don’t notice flaws, so I don’t have an extensive list of ideas. I would like to see the traits Fast Acting Elixirs and Potent Elixirs combined, because well, the alchemy tree is fairly useful imo and having to have 2 separate traits for elixir effectiveness without being able to have other (what I seem to recall as) useful traits is a bit… eh.

Medkit’s Kit Refinement is an explosion. Either make it a regenerating mist or – gasp! – a blast finisher.

Tanky Tagger

Traits: 0/0/20/20/30
Inventions: VI (Cloaking Device), VII (Reinforced Shield)
Alchemy: IV (Self-regulating Defenses), IX (Backpack Regenerator)
Tools: II (Static Discharge), IV (Kit Refinement), VIII (Power Wrench)

Skill set:
Pistol/Shield – Superior Sigil of Life, Superior Sigil of Paralyzation
Utilities: Medkit, Toolkit, Elixir gun, Bomb kit
Elite: Supply Crate

Equipment:
Full Soldier’s (Power/Vitality/Toughness) – Superior Rune of the Dolyak

This build is very simple. From the name, your (probable) best skill is to tag mobs. This build is best suited for teams since you have access to 3x AoE heals – 2 of which are condi removers – (and the fact that your damage is pretty… well.) as well as being able to take massive punishment while you rez fallen teammates. You’ll also be able to kite extremely well.
For all intents and purposes, this build is not very good for PvE outside dynamic events since you’d probably take forever to take something down, but if you mostly run in groups, it might be really great.
Only just started, so can’t tell how effective it is with kiting champions. With the champ giant in Diessa Plateau, the aggro was mostly kept on me except for the couple of times it decided to switch. Forgetting to heal meant I was downed just as it died, but during the fight itself, health was more or less always full. Would eventually try tanking some other annoying champs out there.

Logging in and back out seems to fix it, but it’s annoying when you have sigils – in my case Life – that needs stacking and it doesn’t work.

Weapon stats have applied, Dante. My HP doesn’t drop by 2k when I switch out to kits now, so hurray for that. I never really noticed before if Super Elixir had previously scaled with healing power, but if it didn’t, since I heard that it heals 180 a tick, and with 17 stack of life it heals 207 per tick.

2k health on kit switching doesn’t sound so significant, but despite the massive lag I had I still survived with about 100~200hp with that blessed Tankcat build fighting that kitten champ giant at Diessa.

Let’s gather NERF and the engis from the other servers for some PvE steamrolling for the event \o/

Hello there! This is my first time contributing something vaguely useful to the engi forums… at 1.45am no less. This is a simple build, playing off Tankcat (bless you) and some idea.

Build: http://www.gw2build.com/builds/simulator.php#1.4.6.0.19.0.0.0.0.0.80.97.96.94.102.8.8.7.0.0.0.0.0.0.261.262.264.274.0.0.287.289.293.0.0.30.10.30

P/S, of course, and full Soldier’s gear and Dolyak runes. I have Sup. Sigil of Life on my Pistol, and Sup. Sigil of Paralyzation for the Shield (considering there’s only 2 actual stuns I should prob. switch out for something more practical).

I ran the Grenth temple earlier, and I noticed that I was more or less constantly using my toolbelt skills (even F1 even though I was full health, by accident mostly). The PvE tagging seems to be absolutely great as I could build up the stack of life fairly fast.

Now since I haven’t actually changed my build yet I don’t know how well it works. I’d probably try it out in wvw eventually where I’d get mobbed and have my health dropping frequently to fully utilize that recharge at 25% health.

What I’d wonder is mostly this: the build’s practicality. Damage is pretty much bull, though CC might be on the passable side. Thought I’d post this before I lose my train of thought.