Guild Wars 2

Protection+Stability for 20seconds. So you could choose then if you want to buff up your offence for 30sec or defense for 20sec. Possibly stability could be only 10-15seconds, it would be enough. Recharge probably 90 sec (unfortunately) as no-one should have permanent protection (with traits and food buffs).

So let allow ppl with 0 AR run together. When I make team and search for team mates I want them to have appropriate AR resistance for level that we are doing.

You can go higher then 50 now. You just need 1 person to open uneven levels for you. So you do 51, 53, 55, 57…..79. You cannot only kill jade maw so no daily.

If warrior will be running that build, he will either have 0 points invested in defensive trait lines or power/precision ones. So either it will be easier to kill him as well or more likely (for wvw/pvp) his dmg will NOT be changed a lot. As he will have less power or less crit chance or dmg bonuses taken out from some of the trait lines. Probably it will have no sense running this build unless you go in heavy burst skill dmg and you know that you’ll be facing oponents with 4-5 boons at all time.

My guild done even tier3 with 4×5 man teams (more then once). It’s not that hard, just follow the steps that Empressium gave in his note. If you have 4×5, at least 3 teams will have targets, and most likely you will have 5/6 or 6/6 bosses found. If it’s 5 at the end all ppl go to the last map, someone ask on the chat and everyone keep looking for boss. One thing that you might want is for ppl not tu use alt’s for the fights. Some of the bosses are quite strong (you can always delegate 2 teams to kill one boss, just be sure that at least 1 person stays with every other boss that was found).

Check the map – “m” button. There are plenty of areas before you get to the princess.

Ranger with a help of time warp from mesmer should be able to bring down shaman bubble alone. As per lava spawns – when shield is down just try to survive and get the full condi necro (there are items I believe toughness/precision/condi dmg). It’s easy with any classes just some of them needs more practice. And yes, usually one/two mistakes can cause total wipe. Remember that if someone is close to death he needs NOT to die in lava pools, and also when he’s dead, guy with agro goes away and 1-2 ppl res dead player. Try to be constantly in move – it will allow you not to be hit all the times by arrow/agony. Also keep the boss in the middle of the “island” before the bubble comes up.

There is a DR in FoTM. I’m not sure if it’s intentional or if it’s a bug but we are affected by it. When it strikes it does not end in 1-2 hours. It last for weeks. Day after day. You will have maybe 1 nice run per week but it will be nothing compared to the kill drop rates and chest drops that you had at the beggining.

Self healing crit based guardian. Nothing beats that while solo. For weapons GS as main and choose second as you wish (I would go scepter +focus/shield/torch).

Yes. If nothing was changed recently. 2 weeks ago friend from my guild dropped Dusk from Fire ele chest.

Not green but red

- Whose structure is this?
- It’s a Bay, baby.
- Whose Bay is this?
- It’s Red.
- Who’s Red?
- Red’s dead, baby. Red’s dead.

PS. I would prefer “Blue” but Red fits better instead of “Zed”

For all ppl here, please remember not to “hate” other servers/players because of the comments here. First of all it’s like a 1% of players that post here from each server. And second thing, even more important – It supposed to be a secret so Drq is gonna kill me that I say this, but we like to troll. Just for fun with ZERO intention of abuse Great week, great fights and GL and HF to everyone! Let the best SFR server win next machup

Ascalon, I just love to see charr’s owning humans and being one of the flame legion. Second would be cliffside and third grawls (grawls could be even better if not for the stupid fight with veteran shamans before first boss encounter, as the last fight is just great)

Oh we just love to share our emotions while reading Troma’s fairy tales

You and your warband of 40 angry ZD’s lold with you !

Drq admit it – you want Troma in the downed state on the Flame Ram altar

I agree with most of this. I would only say that in dredge fractal, bomb path is not so bad. It’s logner and has higher possibility for players to die but not to hard. Personally I even like it (as a warrior I usually can plant 2 bombs each time I run to the doors) but I prefer turret path as I thing there are more drops With with Rabovich I completely agree that he has to much hp, but I would love adds numbers to stay as it is. With overall drops beeing nerfed in fotm (or more possibly DR hitting some of as hard) it gives at least something in return. For the last bosses, I would say that currently dredge suit is easier.

Huge chest at spawn point where after whole battle (even day) you can go and take all loot from it (reseting at 00:00 gmt each day).

PS. If you face this issue make camera show “the sky”. You will possibly see the scull – it’s not really invisible for you it’s just the camera. It’s very frustraiting but fortunately it’s in instance so ppl can help you.

For the issue described by me:
Race: Charr (if I recall correctly highest possible).
Fractal lvl: all
Which Fractal: Jade Maw

I’m not sure if it matters how big is character, I’ve heard that some ppl playing humans had the same on one of my runs. Friend of mine had it once or twice (human character) but for me its ALWAYS there. Started with latest patch.

There is a standard dmg together with agony in his aoe attacks. So you are downed by combination of these two attacks. Stay range (he has additional agony attack when melee) and dodge twice on the aoe.

First time in fractals – hard. Reached lvl 10, wow this is hard and 1-9 was easy! Reached lvl 20, c’mon 10-19 is piece of cake, lvl 20+ is hard! Went to 40, doing lvl 38 daily each day and everything is piece of cake if you have team that knows what to do.

Well, one of the best tanks (much better then warrior for sure) in game is elementalist. Ppl just need to learn how to play this class. Rangers/thieves well played are great. And since I started going to fotm with one of necros (full condi), I always want him in my team. 1 well played necro is just incredible! The only class possibly(!) bad can be engi – but only as I there is no engi in my guild team for fotm so I just dont know what and how can they do.

There were situations (very rare) pre patch that there was no skull. Much more often there was no sound. After patch what I can see.. is nothing. But I know I have the skull the issue is with camera. Sometimes I can see a little orange glow at the top of the screen, sometimes with strange angles on the camera I can see whole skull. Most of the time I see nothing and my guildmates tell me if I have one. It’s since the patch and happens on EACH run. I have huge charr but I’m not sure if this is the source of the issue. This is really frustrating as I keep going into downed state with no other reason then bug.

Done it few days back. We had to clear the island twice as these 2 npc’s did not leave the island after the first attempt but after second clearing they did and HQ event started. We’ve killed her and I got my achi with no issues.

It’s like posted above. when we started our hunt i was next to 1 of the bosses. It had like 20% of life as other guild was already killing him. I was alone and it was tagged for us when he was killed.

It’s hard but possible. Last night we’ve finished t3 in 20 ppl. 2 seconds before the end of time for it. But t1 and t2 are easy. All you need to do is find as many bosses as possible before you start. Then if there is 13th of you, you should have at least 2 found. You DO NOT teleport all to 1 and kill him. You divide in 2 teams and kill both at the same time. Now you have only 1 to find (possibly he/she was found earlier). If you’ve found it earlier 1 person is still with him/her and you wp there and finish boss.
You get commandations for 1 boss kill so no one will miss it, the last person will get it from the last boss.

Ranger + frenzy = no bubble in 3sec.
Thief is great with smoke screen.
Guardians are incredible but not “must be”.

I love popping endure pain on my warrior 100b + whirlwind out (marking most of the elementals at that time which makes rally easy).
My only problem is with dodging agony arrow. Many times I just dont see it but most of my guild mates does so it’s rather personal and not something that needs a change (although I would love this arrow to be blue).
2 days ago in a pug team we’ve faced this as a third fractals. 5 wipes 2 people leave. We get 2 more from gw2lfg and do it with 1 try with ZERO issues. People just cant die and have few skills on their bars. EACH class can be great for this encounter and each can s***.

I would not say that MF is not ok. Wait to see how this patch today resolves issues around MF.

I used GS/rifle for months and loved it (and there is no issue with only 180degree for GS, u just need to learn when and where). Unless GS skills will be changed or ANet will give us Great Axe, I’ll never put GS away. It’s mobility + additional evedas are just crazy (for me GS skill 3 is the best that warrior has from all weapons). But for about a month I’ve changed my secondary weapon set to.. Axe/Axe. GS is the one traited, I use axes to max dmg and life steal. Didnt have cash to buy “the best sigils” so I bought sigil that gives me a chance for frenzy at one of the axes (and 5% cirt chance for a second) and.. I’ve never had better fun playing warrior. I still use rifle for 2 bosses in Fractals, but for the rest of fights just pure melee dps and it’s soooo much fun. My fractal lvl is only 40 (completed) and I’m not sure how it will look like later on, but the healing from omnomberry ghost (also I think I’ll change on of the axes sigils to blood) is crazy. No issues with any fights if I just remember not to go berserk and throw myself alone into mobs (which I just love to do, but yeah it’s not for fractals).

Leave the drop rate as it is. Just make ppl choose which skin do they want to get.

CoF p1 5 times. And u can do it even faster.

Norn female Ele – Norndea
Human female Necro – Sonija Errickson
Human female Ranger – Nokija

Looking at my drops and drops of my guild mates (fractal daily 26 and 34/36 each day), for several days now I MUCH lower numbers of rare drops. Yes it happens that I find some exo in the chest or from time to time from a mob drop, yes it happens that 1 person from whole team can get a little bit more rares, but still in most of the situations mobs drops are crap. I had much better drops when I was doing fractals on a little bit lower levels. It looks like DR hits fractals (or stealth nerf).
On the other hand, drops like rings and fractal weapons I believe have nothing to do with it. I would say that they have just really low chance to drop, but each day at least 1 person from my team gets one skin (max 2) from 2 daily runs. And I would say that it’s the same as it was earlier.

Dwarves, Dwarves, Dwarves

If you go with ppl that you dont know, make a screenshot of a full team. It will allow you to report them when you got kicked and do not remember their names (add them as a friends).

Also thieves are nice here. For both – smoke screen and huge amount of attacks on the bubble. Be always range – one exception when the bubble pops out (as a warrior I just use voley from rifle then, change to GS, give endure pain and go for 3,2 on GS).

Same thing 2 days ago. Exactly right before Jade Maw fight (when we were doing last jumps to get to it). Just LA loading screen. No one dc’d, no one left the party.

You can do it easily with 10 AR. Only issues will be with mining suit mossman and of course Jade Maw. I’ve done 6-7 daily 20’s with AR10. Almost never died during trash mob fights and help others there, while fighting on of the bosses above, my party ressed me from downed state in 5sek. They had no issues with this as I was not a glass cannon and contributed a lot for all the rest. It would be the best of course to go with your guild mates. They will be always more willingly to help and shards which you drop at lvl 20 will make it much easier to get 15 or even 20 AR shortly (if you have luck and drop shards).

It’s not neccesary so one of the best options would be MF boost approrpiate for your level (some can give things like power prec or cond dmg in addition) OR if you feel underpowered I would suggest steal health on crit + precision one if you go this path. If you go for cond dmg just check TP for more appropriate.

There is sth strage with this achi. While being on lvls 10-20 I was still doing daily at lvl 2 or 4. For fractal relics and to get achi’s. I’ve tried 2-3 times on lvl 2 doing this one. Standing far from boss and shooting with rifle. Never stepped into lava. I’ve stopped trying as I thought it is bugged. Then somewhere around lvl 20 when I was not even paying attention to lava on the floor I’ve got my achi. So there is sth wrong there but it’s doable.

Yea, and this is flying ranger from Viz:
http://www.4shared.com/photo/wK_kFUb3/gw001.html

It’s from Sunnyhill, later he was hack teleporting into Hills as well.

Never had issues when group had 1-2 ppl with lvl 35+. For AC it wasnt even slow runs with them. But some ppl really do not want these extra 3-5min for the run.

You no, there is no in-game tutorial for it as it’s “Mystic”.. share in-game mystery with it if you dont want to use other sources. ANet has many other things to do then to create something that already exist.

Topic: “Wintersday JP discriminatory to Asura”
Last sentence: “Put the big races on their own island.”

Just brilliant..

This morning.
10 tries (10mc recipe) gave me… 10mc. 10%….. And if I would receive only T6 mats it wouldnt be so bad, but ancient wood planks twice, 10 treasure bags once, 20 crystals once… lost of time skill points and karma.

Ppl would abuse that and left game in primetime with all eq damadged to repair it for free when they have outmanned buff. Better would be to prevent eq from taking dmg while having outmanned buff. And as for the first post – there should be defensive bonus.

Happened to me (EU server) once. I was not able to report them as I was not in the dungeon anymore with the rest of the party. I was not even able to write down their “names” as I’ve joined fractal from overflow and all that was written during this run disappeared from the chatbox. And of course it happened 5 seconds before boss from the 3rd fractal was supposed to die.

I believe that lags can be not related to invisible players issues. 0 lag on my side all the time but ALL the time invisible players from both sides (enemy and our server players). Not seeing your own commander is the strangest thing for me.

They should make it possible to run let say levels 1-20 solo. You have issues with finding lvl20+ goup I have issues with finding lvl 5. Twice I’ve found we were not able to finish whole run because of dc. I’m quite sure that in 2-3 weeks it will be almost impossible to find low level groups.