Guild Wars 2

I don´t think, that your comet hits the firefield. There is one step missing. How it works:

- lay down flamewall
- move to one end of it and face the other side
- stand still
- move camera completely down
- make one step backwards or forward
- hit #5

But it works only about 95%, because of …

ANet.

Just my impression …

PlayHowIWant:

“You mustn´t dictate me how i play. I choose gear and build that i like. I play how i want.”

SoCalledElitist:

“I form my group how i want it to be. I just want players that use specific gear and builds. I play how i want.”

SoCalledElitist to PlayHowIWant:

“Yeah, it´s ok for me. I have no problem with you playing how you want in your groups.”

PlayHowIWant to SoCalledElitist:

“No, no, no! You are not allowed to play how you want. Not even in your own groups.”
…
…
…
So, who is narrow-minded and who is the bad guy?!

Or has anyone found a workaround for this problem?

I know, this is not a new topic, and has been asked for many times, but i need to address it again:

As i am constantly switching weapons, also from 1-handed to 2-handed, i am

getting mad at my inventory becoming a mess. It can become very confusing,

if you have not much time for the weapon-switch (upcoming fight).

The problem is when switching from 1-handed to 2-handed, that your

mainhand-weapon will take the place of your 2-handed weapon in inventory and

the offhand-weapon will take the first free slot in it. Preferably at the

very end, where your loot is.

Right now, i am using the hero panel for weapon switching, but this window

is so huge, it covers a big amount of the monitor and you can´t resize it. I

would prefer to have it always open.

To become weapon-switching less annoying i would like to suggest …:

- Make a 20-slot bag in that every item has its one and only place. If you

equip a weapon out of this bag the place stays free, until you de-epuip it.

or at least:

- Make the hero-panel resizable (or add a smaller version like the trait-/

build-panel in pvp) and let the “weapon”-filter show main-hand AND off-hand

at the same time. Otherwise you have to make another annoying click on the offhand-weapon to switch the “weapon”-filter.

or at very least:

- Make a “20 Slot Fractal Exotic AND ASCENDED Equipment Box”, so you can equip one of it at the bottom of your inventory. Then you can leave some space free in it and your offhand-weapon will be sorted in the same Box as your other weapons. So you just have to deal with exotic/ ascended loot in this box, but that would be a very rare situation. ;-)

dlonie.6547:

Well, that bridge is waaaay too powerful for the dungeon’s level, as discussed in this thread.

We’re hoping they nerf it soon.

Yeah, i know. It is totally overpowerd and i beg for a nerv. The worst thing is, that it doesn´t have a handrail.
Is that allowed nowadays?

I remember being kicked once.

I joined CoF P1 way after midnight. They had already started and were doing the acolythe-event.

I was drunk as hell and didn´t even manage to cross the brigde! I died 2 times there.

Then they kicked me. I still don´t know why?! ;-)

I laughed about myself and went to bed.

PUGS!!!

@OP: nice thread, but very soon it will get lost in triviality cause of

white knights, or get lost in void cause of red knights

5. I totally agree with you and want to complement or repeat …

- time-gated crafting
- time-gated materials for crafting (dragonite ore)
- forced to do parts of the game you did not want to do (e. g. world bosses,

temple events)
- nothing out of fractals is needed for crafting armor/ weapons for fractals

(logic?)
- pushing crafting to 500 (ahhh what a pain in the kitten!!!)
- now you suffocate in dragonite-ore (silverwastes …)
- dropped weapon-boxes/ armor-boxes in fractals are 99% useless, cause not

berserker
- chosen (and maybe bought) armor-skins on exotic set became redundant
- scripted agony

maybe would be better/ would have been better:

- upgrade exotic armor to ascended through crafting (infusion slot) with

mats you get in fractals —> no better stats than exotic!!!
- selectable stats from weapon-/ armor-boxes and rings

4. You are totally right …

- no new builds
- no new theory-crafting
- stagnation since several months

3. Guess what, you are right …

- can´t talk of LS1, cause i never played it
- played LS2, cause of lacking new dungeons/ fractals, but where is the new free content in it? Ok, there are two annoying new maps. But for the rest you have to pay, when you don`t log in at the right time.
- playable content is about 15 Min each. The rest is watching cut-scenes.
- Cut-scenes not skippable (not even if you play it again)
- trivial content

2. Ok, you´re right …

- why did they need to change NPE and waste time on it?
- very annoying that you have to play part of the game, that you maybe don´t like just because of getting traits
- when you hit lvl 35 in the new system, you are nothing but a sausage. Ready for first dungeon? One trait point? At lvl 60 4 points, idk? A very good reason to exclude < 80 from your dungeon runs.

1. Yep, absolutely …

- they don´t need to tell us details, but a rough roadmap where the game is going
- many of us are in standby-mode (because of the good sides of the game and the (unused) potential), so just one official and honest comment, if there will be new dungeons/ fractals in 2015 and we would have a basis for making our decision. Let this wating loop end, pls.

thx

(for every spelling-mistake i give you 1S, wsp. me)

956 Aetherblade

948 Snowblind
952 Cliffside

Don´t know, if you still miss some ids …

872 Fractal entry room
947 Uncategorized
949 Swampland
950 Urban Battleground
951 Aquatic Ruins
954 Volcanic
957 Taumanova Reactor
958 Solid Ocean Fractal
959 Molten Boss Fractal

(edited: “959 Molten Furnace” —> “959 Molten Boss Fractal”)

dlonie.6547:

An open question for anyone who’s been playing the game long term:

Looking at the future of the game, what excites you the most?

I see now future for this game. It will be lost in triviality, if the devs stick to the thought, that LS is all that players want.
It´s just a matter of time, when someone releases a good alternative to this game. (I am already searching for it.)

dlonie.6547:

What upcoming features and content interest you?

There are no upcoming features and only LS content to be released.
At least nobody knows. And nobody is allowed to talk about it. Shhh! Top secret! Feels like kindergarten.

Yes, i can see your point.
But a rotation just manages cooldowns of those powerful abilities. So that you can use them as often as possible and don´t switch to e. g. Rifle or Grenade Kit and have to realize, that your those abilities are on cooldown.

Xyonon: Good hint with grenade or bomb filler. And Blunderbuss can just be left out, when fighting more than 3 targets.

Maybe it´s just me, but i feel a lot more confident, if i can use a pattern that assures not wasting too much damage.

And maybe i am just too new to engineer (reached lvl 80 yesterday) and realize in a few weeks, that you are totally right. :-)

Greets.

I think it is important to have a good rotation, that one should aim for, but could not find anything for the engineer. So what about this:

(6/6/0/0/2), Grenade Kit, Bomb Kit, Elexir gun.

1. Grenade Barrage
2. Blunder Buss
3. Jump Shot
4. Big ´Ol Bomb
5. Fire Bomb
6. Acid Bomb (cancel with “drop bundle”)
7. Shrapnel Grenade
8. Freeze Grenade
9. Blunder Buss
10. AA´ing Grenade and Shrapnell Grenade off cooldwon
1. Grenade Barrage
2. …

I really think, that this is far from perfect. Could you please tell me, what might be better or improve the rotation above.

Has there ever been any official statement to this issue?

Any news on this matter?

Hi DEKeyz,

i might be wrong, but looking at your numbers, D/F-DPS is not too bad regarding burst damage.

It has more DPS than staff and S/F-range and is only 4-6 % weaker than S/F-melee.

Only S/D-range and S/D-melee does way more DPS than all of the other sets.

But:

- Lightning Strike is only single-target
- Fire Grab has a very high cooldown and might not be ready for the next burst
- If you are able to cast Burning Speed into a wall, your AOE-DPS of D/F will rise significantly on a low cooldown (i use it often as a mini-FGS-#4)
- if your conjured-weapon is on cd or someone stole it (won´t happen in organized groups) you won´t do much damage after the initial burst of S/x

Maybe i am just trying to find arguments for D/F being a good weapon-set even out of fractals. I am quite good in fading out reality. ;-)
I really like the playstyle of this weapon-set, cause it feels, like this is the way an ele is meant to be played. Being able to use the needed skills out of every attunement and immediatly switch back to deal sustained damage.

Another question, if you don´t mind:

In your damage numbers at the top (D/F 6-6-2-0-0: 11580 DPS), was D/F-DPS calculated only with AA or also with Lightning Hammer? Because it should be equal to the other sets after the initial burst/ blast in the 6-6-2-0-0-builds when using Lightning Hammer. Right?

Thx in advance.

There are some things, that could be improved regarding visibility.

In many open world fights, like during the temple events, you are not able to see even the enemy.
It is covered with thousands of effects and you can not even tell, if you are behind or in front of the enemy.

So it is impossible to recognize any tells of big hits, that you could easily evade with better visibility.
It is also contrary to some game mechanics. Cause some classes deal more damage when attacking from behind or the side.

One should be able to switch off the effects of others, maybe except combo-fields. I don´t need to see the boss glow like a supernova, if there is this little burning-icon on his bar.

Another point is, that i am often searching for my mouse pointer, so that i might whirl in the wrong direction or miss my own combo-fields with ground-targeted skills.

It would really help to be able to make it full-bright and change its colour.

In Captain Mai Trin Boss Fractal during cannon phase, you can get damaged, although you are standing clearly outside of the red circles.

There seems to be something wrong with the damage indicator and the area of effect itsself.

This can also happen, if no other red circle is behind you. So it can´t be a problem of being hit by the trajectory of a farther projectile.

Another problem is, that these attacks deal way to much damage. In a level 19 fractal as ele you get oneshot by them.

This cannot be intended, as it leaves absolutly no room for any mistake.

In combination with the bug mentioned above, it gets really annoying, cause you might die, although you didn´t even make a mistake.

Ok, comet works with going to the end of the flame wall, looking up and one step back or forward, then cast it.

Well, are you still able to aim the comet on top of yourself?

With Anierna´s assumptions:

Founding this guild is a really great idea!

I would like to be invited as a student, please (EU, ingame: “Herrin Lilith”).
Maybe i get the chance to be taught the dungeon-paths i still haven´t run, especiallly Arah.
I could also help out, if a group needs to be filled up, because of lack of people being online.
Thx in advance.

Staff is really overpowered.
I use it for the “Ambient Killer”-dailies in Godslost Swamp.
20 sec.
Should be nerfed. ;-)

Creslin.1758:

Black Box.9312:

Raven.3248:

You missed our point

No I didn’t. Your point was that stacking is the most effective way to kill off a mob with melee, which is true. I’m just arguing that that makes for incredibly stale, boring gameplay and I’d rather see something that requires actual coordination and teamwork.

Yeah exactly man.

I’m amazed at how many people here actually enjoy the stacking mechanic. I feel like a lot of the community here doesn’t really care about playing the game, they just want to burn through content to get rewards as quickly and easily as possible.

And I dunno, if you are at that point…you may want to play another game. If the game is no longer fun to you, and all you want to do is burn through content to get rewards, there just doesn’t seem to be any reason to play to me.

Why don´t you even consider, that exactly this is fun for some people? (doing dungeons as fast as possible)

Many thx for your answers and advices.

Unfortunately, i just crafted an ascended chest armor, right before i noticed Anets commentary on berserker armor:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/balance/PvE-Revising-the-DPS-Meta

So i won´t do anything unless i know if i can continue playing the game or not.

MHo.1056:

I have the bad feeling, that Anet will do their next big mistake and just nerf berserker-gear.

All of my 6 toons are full zerker with exotic/ asxended quality. So i spent some time/ money/ efford to get it.
If they nerf it in a way that this gear becomes obsolete, i would just quit playing.

Another point: Is this the right time for changes? I think it would have been better BEFORE introducing ascended weapons and armor.
Oh wait, no, it fits perfectly in Anets money-sink-system.

I have the bad feeling, that Anet will do their next big mistake and just nerf berserker-gear.

All of my 6 toons are full zerker with exotic/ asxended quality. So i spent some time/ money/ efford to get it.
If they nerf it in a way that this gear becomes obsolete, i would just quit playing.

Another point: Is this the right time for changes? I think it would have been better BEFORE introducing ascended weapons and armor.
Oh wait, no, it fits perfectly in Anets money-sink-system.

anyone? :-)

(bump)

Hi all,

i want to decide for myself, if the cost-benefit ratio of ascended armor is it worth to craft it.

I think, that Anet has implemented ascended armor really poorly. These are some of the things that are holding me back to get it:

- they look ugly
- i already have a nice looking armor-skin-mix and don´t want to change it
- i don´t want to pay for making it look like it is now
- i don´t enjoy temple events or world-bosses
- i want to sell exotic-drops or throw them in the mystic toilet and not salvage them for globs of dark matter
- i don´t wanna be a forest warden and take care of the woods in low-level-areas
- i don´t wanna be a dwarf and work all day in mines in low-level-areas
- i enjoy FotM less since the update, so i think i won´t need the slots for agony-resistance
- i don´t like crafting A after crafting B, C, D and E as an requirement for crafting F and G that is only half of A and i have to … once per day …
- i want to play how i want

BUT, i couldn´t live with being too much “not optimal”. I usually don´t play with perfect groups (did i ever?), but i have the claim to be as “optimal” as possible.

So i took the calculations of effective power as help for a descision (see screenshots) and want to know, if i did it right and if it made the right conclusions.

What i´ve got it this:
- full exotic zerker is less than 2% weaker than full ascended zerker
- if i take only two ascendend pieces, it is less than 0,5% weaker than full ascended and less than 0,6% weaker than the most optimal armor-setup

What i realized:
- to optimize EP you have to get to 100%-crit-chance as near as possible (but don´t pass it)
- if a ranger with spotter joins your group you may have to switch precision-stacks to bloodlust-stacks or precision-food to power-food.

So, i possibly could live with exotic armor being less than 2% weaker, but i think i will craft two ascended pieces.
I am optimistic that i may survive doing the temple-events for those two pieces, as i have done it before for some ascended weapons.

I know, that for most people of the dungeon-community nothing of the above said is new in any way. Only for my own sanity if have to ask you:

- Are my calculatinons correct?
- Are my conclusions correct?

thx for your attention

Well, thx for clarification for aiming the comet correctly. Although i have to complement your description.

If i move to the end of the fire field my camera already needs to be angled completely down, or it will miss.

If i move to the end of the fire field and angle down the camera only now, i have to do a step forward and backwards, or it will miss.

Considering the above, i am able to land the comet in the fire field 100%.

I also searched for a way to do the same with dragon-tooth, while looking down. But this will work only 90%.

It will only work 100% with the described way in the guide. Looking upwards, move a bit and activate.

I don´t think, that you will lose a blast finisher with the lightning hammer, when stacking might with weapon swap, because you will do it only pre-fight and switch back to S/F immediatly.

And i think it is much easier this way, because you only have to aim the dragon-tooth correctly and don´t have to bother about comet. But i think that is a matter of preference.

Thx for your help.

Hi,

i have had an lvl-80-ele for quite some time, but started playing her seriously about two weeks ago.

So i really appreciate guides like yours.

I don´t know if it is common knowledge, because i did not find the information in your guide:
I realized that you can easily stack 21 might pre-fight with your rotation for S/F and then switch to S/D for another earth 4&5.

I tried this, because with S/D i am not able to aim the water 5 correctly and i ended up with only 15 stacks might.

If you clear them or not doesn´t shorten the way you have to run, when someone dies. The broken check point appeared after the last patch. So still a bug.

Yeah, “play like you want”, i know …

The lfg tool doesn´t function like it should do. Please re-read the quote of the wiki.

If finding a group nearly does take longer, than the encounter itsself, something is wrong.

Why should I be punished for wanting a group that fits me? If someone isn´t as nice as me and is ranting at me, I have the right to leave and shouldn´t be punished for that.

Yes, I know, maybe it´s his right ranting at me, cause thats the way he plays like he wants.

The camera zoom seems to be broken. You can´t zoom out enough anymore, so that you can see the skull above your head.
This conflicts with the planned mechanic of this fractal.

(P.S.: I am not posting this to harm you. I like your game and want it to become even better.)

In the gate-room dead bodies are not more able to keep the buttons pressed. This will keep many pugs out of fractals as they don´t know or cannot handle the right tactics.
Furthermore, not all classes have the same amount of block-/ invulnerability-skills. You reject these classes from fractals, although you stated every class should be able to do any content.

(P.S.: I am not posting this to harm you. I like your game and want it to become even better.)

At Rabsovich, dredge are able to shoot through the car, while players aren´t.

(P.S.: I am not posting this to harm you. I like your game and want it to become even better.)

You can no longer respawn at the check points, and are forced to respawn back at the starting area. This rather annoying if one person dies on the trash run to the end boss, since they then have to run all the way from the start again. Just a huge waste of time for no reason.

(P.S.: I am not posting this to harm you. I like your game and want it to become even better.)

The lfg tool prevented me yesterday from joining groups after being part of two groups.

I used the lfg tool and joined a group for AC Path3. After completing, i left the group and about 3 minutes later i joined another group for AC Path1.

The group filled up with professions and player-levels i didn´t want to run with. So i left the group and wanted to join another one.

But that was blocked already blocked by the lfg tool. After waiting 5 minutes, i was able to join a group again.

Same thing a few hours later. We completed some FotM 20+ with a pug found with lfg tool.

We wanted to do some 10+ after that and joined another group via lfg tool. As the group didn´t fit our demands we left, and guess what? We could not join a different group, because of 5 Minutes block.

Quote of official wiki:
“The Looking For Group tool shows groups looking for players. The tool is designed to allow groups to be formed quickly in order to proceed to content. "

So why am i blocked for being part of 2 groups in total and leaving only one group, cause the requirements did not fit?

Must be a bug, right?

(P.S.: I am not posting this to harm you. I like your game and want it to become even better.)

rfdarko.4639:

I recommend re-posting this is the bugs subforum – the fractal weapon box issue was answered in a number or hours when posted there.

I’m use to the dungeon subforum being ignored but typically the on-going LS subforum has dev feedback, at least in regards to perceived bugs. I’m not sure what’s going on, but they are really letting the wound fester by not giving a reply.

I think this is a good idea, or at least worth trying.

For every single issue or bug we could create a seperate thread, and bump them, if they are not answered.

So we observe their rules and they should not be too glad about the bug-subforum flowing over.

Something like this:
(taken from Nike´s initial post)

- Issue: FotM, drop of uninfused rings in higher levels
Uninfused Rings continue to drop through level 49. An infused ring at 49 is

bad enough, an uninfused ring is a slap in the face. This is obviously

broken and needs to be fixed.

- Issue: FoTM, account-bound recipes in
The new recipes are account bound. I have both recipes now, each new recipe

that drops is useless for me, these should be sellable. It wouldn’t hurt the

market for the Runes/Sigils since they are very limited by Shards which are

a relatively scarce resource.

- Bug: FotM, Aquatic Ruins Fractal, Krait get stuck in ceiling
Krait still get stuck in the ceiling and you have to hope you can get far

enough away from them to reset them or else your progress could be lost.

Granted this is the first part of the first fractal, but it is still

technically a game-breaking bug and ought to be fixed out of principle.

- Bug: FotM, Cliffside Fractal, arm seals do not properly reset
The arms seals do not properly reset to 2 chanters on each side in case of a

wipe. This is mildly annoying in the 30’s for a good group. This is pretty

tough in the 40’s and will only get more difficult for unorganized groups as

progress into the 50’s and beyond begins to happen. This was supposed to

have been fixed months ago but that promised change appears to have not

happened and been forgotten.

We had the same. The farther seal reseted correctly.

They should update the appearance of the gate. So noone can say, you haven´t been warned.

swiftpaw.6397:

Spiky Muffin.9180:

this thread makes me wanna go in pug groups and teach everybody though i doubt that would be received well ^^
anyway thx for reminding me of the people who aren’t kittens and actually appreciate advice.

You think it’s gonna be all rainbows and lollipops.

You pop on in and enter the dungeon, you see a staff mesmer with corruption sigil who tells you he doesn’t have a focus.
’That’s ok, just take feedback please’
you tell him, a smile on your face. This guy is gonna learn something about reflects today! Oh it’s exciting!

The guardian loads in, sword shield. Well he’s halfway there isn’t he. Halfway to a decent weapon setup despite his life sigil and Strength in Numbers popping up to indicate he’s probably AH.

’Hey bud, do you have a focus instead of that shield?

‘What? No. And that reminds me, I only use this sword for roleplaying. Sorry for the inconvenience.’

He swaps it to a mace. Ok well, that’s only 2 players so far, lets see what we get next.

A longbow ranger enters the scene. He has a polar bear and an arctodus. He isn’t your typical brown bear guy. He’s special. Like a snowflake. How else do you know? His other set is axe/torch and he’s running traps. What do you even say at this point? How do you even.. Well. You remain calm and ask him if he has a sword. That’s a negative however.

And then *drumroll please *

The crème de la crème of warrior’s loads in. Full cleric’s, shoutheals and a rifle. He proceeds to rifle attack every mob from the backline.

‘Excuse me warrior, do you happen to have a melee weapon, perhaps an axe?’
You ask politely.

Oh you’ve done it now, all 4 of these players have been interrogated by you, the elitist scummy. Did you ever stop to think about how you made them feel? I don’t think so. Heartless.

The warrior keyboard turns all the way around to face you.

’I’ll have you know that rifle is the highest single target dps in the game.’
‘He asked me about my build too! He has no right!’ The ranger chimes in.
The Mesmer.. ‘He… he tried to make me use a focus’ *shudders *
‘kitten YOU’RE ALL RUINING MY IMMERSION!’ screams the guardian.

In unison they chant.
‘We, play. how. we. want!’ We play how we want! We play how we want!’

The ranger passes out torches to everyone and they chase you out of the dungeon. As you almost reach the exit you trip up on the ranger’s spike trap. You fall. A single tear peels down your face as you accept your fate. You end up carrying the entire team for an hour or so and soloing the end boss.

You describe my standard-pug in detail. Sad but true.

Although i´ve learned, that leaving and joining another party even in the second or third fractal can save you some time.

Also, i am not good enough to finish encounters solo.

@OP: Very well written! Like you, i also learned a lot of the so called “elitists”. I use the builds and gears described in nikes and brazils and whoevers builds. Otherwise i might be just another pug.

But its very hard to convince people of something that might work better. I dont even get it done in my guild. Guardians gear up with clerics and Eles try to be healer, sticking in water attunement.

What i really do like about the dungeon forums and its inhabitents is the irony and sarcasm used here. It saved many of my days.