Guild Wars 2

So everybody’s favorite dungeon is Fractal. If you want to make Fractal a little more interesting, try out these rules! These drinking rules were made by the guild Across but we have so much fun playing it, we thought we’d share!

Warning, these rules are for adults! Drinking is involved and underage drinking is not condoned or encouraged blah blah blah.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1whCe0ZuGOoTp78g8NIneBryAt7vmFH79AHTLM0WuSrA/edit?pli=1

You wont feel complete for not finishing the jumping puzzle? Who says you have to have all the achievements complete? Sounds like entitlement to me. Im glad to finally have a decent and challenging holiday event that is not only fun, but lets you be rewarded with an achievement for achieving the end goal. If you have others do it for you, you dont deserve it. It’s a kitten line of text/orange bar, it wont give someone an advantage over you. If you want it, earn it. For those that completed it, the feeling of achieving completion was awesome. Changing the clocktower only cheapens it.

Also, it takes 5-10 minutes to get a character from creation to queensdale where you can complete the event. Make your own kitten norn/char.

i grab aggro all the time as engineer but i put out 1/4 the damage of the rest of the party because im built tanky. I think aggro goes through these checks to determine aggro, but i could be wrong.

Proximity- within certain range of the boss. Pretty sure its only and A or B thing like, you are with A range or B range. So just because someone is standing on top of the boss, it doesnt mean they get more aggro. If you are close to medium its the same amount. If you are farther than medium, you get less aggro.
Frequency of hits- How fast you hit the enemy. Flamethrower does 10 per 1 skill. Thats a lot of hits
Damage- How much you do, third on the list, so not as important as the first 2.
Using a Shield- Using a shield

Im not sure if this is correct by any means, but I playing my engineer over 250 hours ive decided this is why i get aggro a lot. Warriors also get a lot of aggro because of the proximity and hundred blades/5 skill for axes.

I would be interested to see if someone could test this theory out.

clocktower was awesome and still is. Fun to do even if you dont care about the rewards

Did you ever think that this event was put in for people who want a challenge? I LOVED the clocktower. LOVED it. You know why? Every other game that has a holiday event makes it cheesy, grindy, and ultimately boring. The clocktower took me at least 2 hours to finish ONE time. That in my opinion is fun because you feel accomplished. After another 2 hours, im hitting the top 70% of the time. I find that I want to do the event just because its fun, i could give a crap about the halloween bags.

If you want “events for everyone”, look around! 80% of this event caters to EASY quests with decent rewards. Find the ghost… with guides… really? This does nothing for the hardcore gamers, but its something for everyone. Leave the kitten clocktower! There are other ways to get the rewards from it (MK dungeon) if you can’t platform.

As far as achievements go, you may not get it if you can’t do a hard jumping puzzle. In real life, i’d like the achievement of being a CEO, winning the lottery, being a quarter back in the NFL, and performing successful heart surgery. I’ll probably do none of these, and nobody will give me an acknowledgement of completing these tasks. Just face it, you may not get all of the achievements for Gw2. Tera had an achievement for first of your class to max level and nobody kittened about that even though only 7 or so people could achieve it. The simple solution is to do nothing about this event and leave it as it is, and its also the best one

BTW my guild is filled with full time employees that are casual as hell and EVERYONE has finished (most of them under 2 hours).

The blast needs to go off when it hits the target. What giant rock do you know of goes right through people and explodes on nothing? It just makes more sense that the rock or lava ball or whatever it is explodes on contact. I see people saying make it detonate on a second button press but I still think thats unrealistic. What is there like a detonation device in the lava rock ball you just shot and like have a button that activates it? kinda weird. My vote: explode on contact.

Nepocrates is right, you need some kind of stun break or condition removal. If you are doing dungeons as opposed to just leveling you need condition removal. The elixir gun can remove conditions from others but not from yourself (i think). You also have no toughness or vitality in this build. In my experience, if you dont have either of these you better be a good dodger because thats asking for death. Some people can get away with it, but I highly recommend you get some in there somewhere.

I love the flamethrower!

If you use it as more of a defensive build, you will have way more fun with it. If specced right you can get ~11 stacks of might 100% of the time (and up to 25 stacks if you do an elixir spamming build). Currently I have 1v1’d a thief, guardian, and mesmer in Spvp and been able to win. Also killed the thief twice in one round of health as a guardian who was watching us duel got him up.

If you like something in guild wars that isnt popular, you just have to find a way to make it work for you. The game is still fairly new and luckily there are tons of factors for creating a build! (gear, sigils, runes, traits, slot skills, food, etc.)

Hope that helps, its a hard weapon to work with but it IS doable.

The #2 skill is so aggravating! Many times i find it more work to try and perfectly line it up than to just mash flame jet. If our #2 skill had a detonate or worked with the push back, it would up our damage and usefulness so much!

I’m cool with the blind skill, but I do have to agree i only use it when stunned. It could have a little more usefulness.

I like the toughness bonus on juggernaut and the might sure does help a lot, especially if you use the tricks to get it from ~6 stacks 100% uptime to ~11 stacks 100% uptime.

This is probably the coolest weapon for engineers and its so broken at the moment. FIX IT!!!

So two friends and I have been doing an experiment. We have been queuing for the same world at the same exact time, and I keep getting a pop every 15-20 minutes, while my friends never get any. I’ve even re-entered the queue multiple times in a row and gotten a pop fairly consistently while my friends call me a kitten as I get pop after pop. Sadly I don’t even enter because I would like to WvW with my friends. If anyone knows how the queue system works, please explain!

I’ve seen several topics already saying “its random” “its broken” “its bugged”
So which is it? When does something this game breaking get fixed?