Guild Wars 2

I gave it a try with sword and got a 2.40 phase 1. The problem is that it heavily relies on luck, because with 2+ locusts you’re forced to swap back to axe

I fail to understand how playing with the people from my own server would contribute to it in any way. You can guest too you know.

Congratz man, I have something to keep me busy now

There are some things I’d like to point out:

I can pop my virtues much more frequently

Who said so? one of the most used DPS builds has 25 in virtues.

I can stand in the middle of the battle field and revive people so they can get back in the fight.

If you really need to revive people that often it means that they dont know how to dodge or how to take advantage of the mechanics of their classes.

I can cleanse the stacks of conditions that are killing you.

I can remove 3 conditions with f2, 3 more with purging flames, 3 more with elite + f2 again. Please point out to me a situation where this wouldn’t be enough.

A dps guardian can provide all the support needed in any situation, and one of it’s best advantages is it can spam a huge amount of blinds. The downside is that, well, you need to know your class and have experience to stay alive.

Using that video to justify a staff support build in dungeons is just hilarious^^ please go on, popcorns are ready.

We did it with the “standard” fullzerk 3w+2g way.. take things slowly and you should be fine.

Accordingly to what is written there, she should still get boons making the fight possible with longer phases, but what happened to us was different, she never got boons at all.

We got Mai Trin at 37 10 mins ago and she didn’t get any boons, so I guess the last patch fixed it.

I’m not sure how putting 30 in trickery would help him in any way. If you need more survivability you can just put 10 or 15 in acrobatics and you’re done, but 25 30 0 0 0 should always be the core of the build.

It mostly depends if you run around solo or in a party. 25 30 0 15 0 is all you need to solo stuff, and the extra might from dodging makes up for the dps lost for not having 10 in trickery (extra dmg from behind or the side).
In a party you can afford a 25 30 0 0 15.

For arah 2 you’d be probably better off with 10 25 0 10 25. The reason is that in a path where reflections play a big role you may want to maximize your reflections damage, and this is achieved by putting 25 into virtues. The build laharl suggested is just as good as this, but personally I like to have my shouts with shorter cd in most cases. And an assassin armor would probably be better than zerker for bosses like lupi and alphard, again for maximizing reflections, but you dont need to make it just for that unless you are going for a record run I guess

The kicking thing has been fixed a while ago, if the other members leave nothing will happen to him
Great job man, really impressive.

Not really pushing, but I wanted to get something better than my current 6 mins^^

Aah Dro, stop doing that, every time I get closer to 5 mins my morale is destroyed.

Seveleniumus.5973:

The only thing I really hope for is that they make fractal level account bound. There’s nothing to gain for me from fractals <28, why do I need to sacrifice 28+ hours for each new character I get to 80, to be able to enjoy fractals? It’s not like I need to relearn fractal mechanics all over again, just because I have new char.

I really hope for that to NOT happen, as I have at this point 2 characters at lvl 49, one at 38 and a couple more at 30.. and I’m sure there’s people with even more characters at high levels, all the efforts of those people would be just wasted, and it happens quite often that I do a couple of fractals of the same level in a day.

Bright.9160:

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It has been done in 4 seconds in a similar way, I think it’s on Obal’s channel.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Fumble-dodges-1/page/2#post3202582

Dolan.3071:

That video isn’t available in my country…. Right….

Hm that’s strange, youtube didn’t say that when I uploaded it :/ anyway, this should be visible (it’s also a bit faster):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnuu0Sd42Lc

For the OP:
You can check out the description of the video above for traits/equipment. You’d probably be better off with Practiced Tolerance instead of Critical Haste unless you’re going for a speedkill (Critical Haste could actually get you killed if you dont pay attention and quickness is applied when you’re using whitdraw).
Also, while practicing shadowstep would probably be better than haste, for an extra panic button when needed.
Offhand pistol isn’t really useful unless you are not comfortable with having many locusts around yet and are still getting used to how to move around to avoid getting hit by them.
Sword can be great in all phases to get in and out of melee range to avoid kicks/swipes/phase 2 aoe/barrages/aoe lifesteel, domes (you name it), but with practice you may want to use d/d as much as possible for the superior single target damage and perma poison to trigger the +10% modifier (and Wild strike coupled with Feline Grace will give you all the endurance you may ever need).

Every hit from lifesteal cleanses one of its conditions this works with both single target suck and big circle.

The challenge level is quite similar, but a condi spec cannot afford to get hit by its lifesteals. So I tried a phase 3 in the open, and it was quite a challenge with no endurance food. Also 2 big mistakes (even if I call the dodge in the wrong direction bug) made me waste 30ish seconds.
7.50 solo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLn6d_D8HtQ

Everytime I had this problem getting downed fixed it.

AkioFallstar.5460:

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It seems to me that your problem isn’t related to the bug advertised in this thread. You may want to check if you actually unocked the skill on your character, it may be unlocked to 95%

Posting this even thought phase 3 sucked really hard.
Necro solo 8.15
Dhuumfire op!

It happened to me a couple of times back in the days.. it seems to happen if randall gets killed by gorillas before the boss (sort of a Detha bug).

That was pretty nice. However I still believe 20 in soul reaping could help more than blood magic, I cannot find an useful adept trait in none of those lines, but I value more 20% crit dmg+DS recharge over wells recharge. Or maybe I’m heavily underestimating vampiric and vampiric precision?

GG man! I guess I should start using ranger runes with certain chars.

Anicetus.1253:

Little bump, noone pushing times any further?

I have a couple of things in mind but it may take some time

Just died from a fumble after warrior axe 2. How can fixing this bug not be the priority?

It happened again in coe, getting downed fixed it again.

cifer.2357:

I attempted it once with 25 stacks and his p1 kick attack did about 19k damage on my warrior. It was a while back so I’m not sure on the exact numbers but it did one-shot me. Only a masochist would attempt a 25 grub stack solo so I might give it a try..

Classes like thief-ele-guardian will be 1 shotted by that kick even with 0 stacks so.. the extra dmg taken may be a problem but the time it’ll take to bring it down is worse.

I had the same problem in fractal and going downed fixed it, have you tried it?

Xae Isareth.1364:

Molch.2078:

Exploit? Which exploit?

And it doesn’t take a hour. Try it yourself.

For exploits, just look at AC P3. I don’t think the devs intended players to beat the spider queen and the end boss by stacking in a corner and face rolling to stop their. Able damage mechanics from working.

Nothing is stopping their mechanics from working with exploits as you clearly think. Players use their knowledge of bosses to kill them faster.
A spider queen’s skill will not be used if all the team is in melee range? cool, let’s melee then, I don’t see any exploit in doing this, as the boss is still able to fight with its melee range abilities.
And for what concerns end boss, it can use all of his skills even in melee range, the corner thing is tied to ele’s FGS, but he could aswell die in like 15-20s in open space.

I dont know about fire axe, but afaik ring of fire works. The target has to cross it, he won’t get burning if he is standing inside the ring when you cast it.

Malediktus.9250:

Problem is there are a lot of exploits in Arah and most dungeon sellers abuse them.

Problem is legit sellers have to invite 3 friends when selling to avoid beeing kicked by white knights.

Terrahero.9358:

Luke.2643:

Do you mean that the fact that channeled skills keep following you even if you move while stealthed is logical?

Do you mean that the fact you stab someone with a dagger makes you magically invisible to everyone, even in a wide open field, is logical?

Its a game, stop applying real-life logic to a game where Elementalist conjure meteor showers, Mesmers teleport armies, and Thieves just go invisible.

This isnt about what makes sense or not, this is about people who didnt use their stealth properly, died, and now feel stealth should be buffed under the guise of “fixing a bug”.

This totally is about what makes sense or not, and you are comparing oranges and apples
If a warrior starts channelling killshot and i’m immobilized, I stealth with blinding powder and shadowstep behind him, it makes no sense that he turns around and still hits me.

Terrahero.9358:

Thieves dont need a buff, certainly not to stealth. If Stealthing would break a channeled attack this would be a pretty big nerf to professions with such abilities.

If you can just Stealth break Rapid Fire, that would be retarted. This is the deal, you are in stealth and single-target abilities cannot “lock on” to you, that is a fantastic position to be in.
But when you werent in Stealth, they could and they will keep hitting you. Either you’re going to have to do something else to counter it, or use Stealth at a better time.

Do you mean that the fact that channeled skills keep following you even if you move while stealthed is logical?

I bet your elixir U is in slot 9 underwater? When you cast rocket boots the underwater skill in that slot also goes on the same cooldown, so if you try to equip it on land it will still have that cooldown.

It is due to your underwater skills, because when you use a skill on land, the skill you have in that slot underwater will go into the same cooldown aswell. If you then swap that underwater skill in another slot on land, it will still have the remaining cooldown from the underwater state.

A little voice in my head keeps telling me pushing to the wall like that is almost an exploit, but I try to shut it up Its true anyway that it makes p3 very boring.

Unfortunately thief’s power build has too many advantages below 50%
Taking a deeper look into the runes I think superior runes of the noble could actually help a lot for a condi build (if they work properly, that is, you never know in this game)^^

Syn Sity.5826:

Luke.2643:

viciouspike.8624:

I definitely need to learn to do this. It looks like so much fun…

It actually was for me, thief and ele are the classes I like to play the most at lupi :=)

Anicetus.1253:

Ever thought about doing a condi solo? With 25 stacks of bleed and poison that should go quite fast.

It could be an interesting variation, but first I’m going to wait for the 2nd ascended dagger (those 4 power and 3 precision can change everything) and try to shave off those 20-30 sec.

The change in weapon strength is beyond significant.

You are probably right, that’s why I decided to go with condition 1st.
8.10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNI0AYYoUTU
I was surprised that phase 1 and 2 turned out to be just as fast as with the power build..
It was actually fun, even if I’m totally not sure I chose the right build.

zencow.3651:

Back when Shadow Shot wasn’t unblockable before the April 30th update, teleporting spinning Ginva onto afk rangers was fun fun fun.

Dat shadow shot could also pull the Colossus at the jade maw fractal and troll your party with no end (RIP old shadow shot).

thief 6.47

viciouspike.8624:

I definitely need to learn to do this. It looks like so much fun…

It actually was for me, thief and ele are the classes I like to play the most at lupi :=)

Anicetus.1253:

Ever thought about doing a condi solo? With 25 stacks of bleed and poison that should go quite fast.

It could be an interesting variation, but first I’m going to wait for the 2nd ascended dagger (those 4 power and 3 precision can change everything) and try to shave off those 20-30 sec.

I think 6.30-6.10 is possible with less mistakes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPSbpONmjjE

Sanderinoa.8065:

Counting on you to necro your old thread Dub!

:)

Congratulations, awesome time!

Instead of trying to learn to do dungeons with pugs I suggest you to ask your guild for that, I’m pretty sure they’d be more willing to help you than randoms. If you state its the first time at the beginnning they’ll have no reason to be mad at you.

Hall of Monuments Portal Stone ftw.

Sanderinoa.8065:

Luke.2643:

SkyChef.5432:

I think there were some successful attempts recording on video. But there is no one had solo Lupi naked yet.

Dro already has.

In that case, OH HELL NO

But is was with a warrior, I think nobody attempted that on a mesmer

In my experience, if I keep pushing him around the room in phase 3 he never uses Necrid Trap, he only does that when I “cross” the max melee range line.

SkyChef.5432:

I think there were some successful attempts recording on video. But there is no one had solo Lupi naked yet.

Dro already has.