Reading an enemy’s telegraphs and rotating evades is exploiting.
Nerf evading.
However its also worth noting this only affects warriors with the fast hands trait, as normal weapon swapping is the same CD on these sigils anyway
Except for these aren’t ‘on swap’ sigils at all.
He’s highlighting the situational irrelevance of the question due to the fact if you are spamming weapon swap (on a 10s CD), you don’t need to worry about whether or not the sigil cooldown will be counting, because it shares the same (10s) cooldown to trigger on crit.
TL;DR
Whoosh
There is no “Tank” and no amount of damage mitigation skills (sans dodging and actively avoiding attacks) are going to allow you to survive extended combat engagements.
Bringing to you today, the one and only AFKardian: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fVEQJASWn0ARhQ2JEOCBBimIhgyc//H7MsiWcZAWAA-TRSDABO8AAMUJ4xHBAMuAAXq+TWK/A4QAonugU2fIAwBwv/mv/GY5lXe5lXul/d5fXe5xAYG-e – only press 1 once and beat all of pve
Sounds too OP, man. Surely you should solo Lupicus with ease.
Post the video, mayne.
I actually thought skill hunting was pretty rad, it’s like a unique bounty/treasure (multiple, in some cases) on a per-zone basis.
Trait hunting seems lackluster to me, however, because traits really aren’t that impressive. Elite skills were game-changers while traits are… skill cooldowns.
At least in gw1 it was a matter of going into a mission and fighting the enemy. You didn’t have to wait at some part of the mission wondering whether the boss would spawn or not
That’s right, you just had to zone in and out a bunch of times hoping the boss with the skill you needed even spawned, or spawned close to the gate instead of halfway through Snake Dance, so you wouldn’t waste your time fighting your way there to see that… he still isn’t there.
I can’t count the number of times I’ve been PMed by gold sellers.
Because I don’t pay attention to them.
Because they have no impact on my gameplay.
It’s pretty decent.
1. Opening up with new permanent zones is awesome with tons of new Dynamic Events and jumping puzzle to experience.
2. Keeping contents permanent is exactly what I want so the game expands with more things to do instead of taking things to do out.
3. Experiencing the Story should always be part of the permanent content to allow everyone to experience it at their own time so character development is told properly.
But for now, assuming Season 2 will be like Season 1 in terms of temporary content driven story… I think it’s a big mistake…
How often do you enjoy dynamic events and jps in Southsun Cove these days?
The Southsun Cove jumping puzzles take not even minutes, but seconds.
Karka Queen is a pretty cool DE web.
Absolutely bone-chilling tale, my friend.
Now imagine doing that for in excess of 300 skills, and you have GW1. Enjoy not using the Wiki for that one.
Why does 1-week retention even warrant a statistic? That gives me the immediate impression that even they believe the game is shallow.
I find this humorous.
Casualism is a secondary symptom of hangovers, trying to cure it with poutine.
oh lord
Please deliver me from the curdling of this stomach
They’re trash so you can pay 50 copper or 1 or 2 silver for a moderate buff rather than 12 to 15 silver for the non-welfare version/similar type of food.
Just go TP the ones you think are crap, then TP the ones that aren’t.
Some of the crap ones might be expensive anomalies due to whatever special ingredient to cook them.
It’s pretty straightforward.
Is that why the food that is quite straightforwardly better costs 8 times less(2.5 silver for Koi Cake as opposed to 20 for truffle burger)? Your explanation has zero sense whatsoever.
And those are event foods, which have no crafting cost and dropped by the millions, daily.
If you played GW before GW2, you’d also know to stock up on the good event foods while they still cost copper in the single digits. Candied Dragon Rolls, Dragon’s Breath, etc, versus their Chef-crafted, IDENTICAL counterparts.
Go look up whatever the equivalent of a Koi Cake is, if there is one, and you’ll probably find it falls in line.
They’re trash so you can pay 50 copper or 1 or 2 silver for a moderate buff rather than 12 to 15 silver for the non-welfare version/similar type of food.
Just go TP the ones you think are crap, then TP the ones that aren’t.
Some of the crap ones might be expensive anomalies due to whatever special ingredient to cook them.
It’s pretty straightforward.
My favorite thing is climbing up the busted ship at the very end of all the skipping stones and finishing the puzzle in ~10 jumps.
Leap game, keep play’n
Dear ANet,
Buff everything I do, nerf everything they do.
Things I don’t care about can remain untouched.
Can someone point me to a dungeon boss where control is viable? I honestly don’t know any.
Arah P1 Shoggroth
If I was unimpeded, I’m certain I could finish it in <5 minutes. There is no jumping puzzle in this game that takes me more time than that. And that’s why jumping puzzles are worthless (but still very fun!); you cannot design rewards around the less skilled players because the most skilled players make a mockery out of it and may very well become quite wealthy doing so.
You literally complained about dungeon rewards being too good and used (albeit a singular) example of people not even finishing a path to get the reward you’re complaining about.
That’s it, thread over, pack your bags, etc
P3 is the best CoF path and just as fast as P2, but people are bad. No surprise. I enjoy the last boss but your idea sounds like it would be fun, too.
I don’t care.
Happy?
If it was profitable, they’d be doing it already.
People who dont know what to rebind profession skills to:
F1 → Shift+1
F2 → Shift+2
etc
The easiest keybinds imo are always using a key you press often and changing the qualifier (Shift, CTRL, ALT).
That doesn’t sound very profitable. Perhaps it could be worked into the gemstore!
If you care about dungeons, Ele > Mes. Don’t even look at Necro. And if you’re thinking of playing caster to be ranged DPS, abandon your hopes and dreams now. Ranged DPS will only limit your ability to grow as a player in the long run.
If you only play open world it really doesn’t matter what you run, everything is easy enough.
It’s a feature patch, not a content patch.
No, they are not synonymous.
Yes, this distinguishment matters.
Why the heck would you want to remove the merge feature? I’m confuzzled…
Destroying instances is #1 feature!
I’m positive the real April Fools joke was instigating all of this ineffectual “outrage,” that and the fact that it seems like everyone forgets April Fools exists, every year.
What if someone wanted to dual wield weapons such as Infinite light? Or a 2nd Mjolnir with different stats?
I have two Inf Lights and two Whisperblades; I’m VERY happy with the change. Everyone else is crying too much; all I see are a bunch of mascots for Kleenex.
I can feel sympathetic for the Legendary owners because they took thousands of T6 mats and map completion etc, but exotics are nothing.
Better call the fun police… ANet can’t let loose one gag one day of the year.
People don’t know what an Ash Legion Spy Kit is and are punished for it. Working as intended.
You don’t know what a feature is, and you’re asking for content.
Features are not content.
While I agree the games needs more content, I hope you aren’t confusing the “2014 feature patch” as being a content patch because it was never communicated as such.
If you didn’t think that, and this is your own separate complaint, that’s cool too. I can rally.
But if you did think that, it was misinterpretation and I’m sure ANet would thank you for your understanding.
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I’ve killed 12 and played nearly 6,000 hours. So at this rate, it’ll take me 500,000 hours to complete, or 20,833 days. Or 57 years. I’ll be 89 when I complete this achievement.
You didn’t spend 6000 hours farming Giants, so be less dramatic.
Longbows are exploits because they directly prevent Spider Queen from using her Bite attack on you.
Don’cha know!
I just wish they’d create a PvP/dueling server to test the water. But what’s funny is that people act like they’ll be forced onto that server and just shout it down from on top of their horse.
It doesn’t make any sense to me, how people can be so adamantly against something that doesn’t oblige their involvement whatsoever, such as a new dueling server.
I bet it would irritate people like OP to know the Mario 64 120-star world record is less than 110 minutes.
“No! Stop skipping enemies! You have to kill everything! Stop running straight for the star! You’re playing WRONG!” pls go
I didn’t watch the entire thing, but of what I did see, he was doing everything regularly.
But I have a question for you: why not just go try it yourself? If you’re paranoid something in the video is illegal, why not just go try to solo it (and it is very soloable on many professions) the way that you would do it? All it really comes down to is knowing boss animations and dodging key abilities, except you’re a one-man army instead of five-. Plus, if you don’t know the run so well, it’s a much better learning experience than watching a video which doesn’t always entertain WHY things are done as they are, just that they are. My best learning experiences always come from getting killed by something, maybe more than once, to familiarize myself with the exact mechanic. Such as, “Oh, that’s why you dodge Deadeyes after 2 seconds.”
I have crafted two Infinite Lights.
This is an unnecessary request based only on preserving your special-snowflake feeling.
Yeah, we wasted our money; I understood the potential situation I was getting myself into. But it doesn’t undo the fun I had with them in the meantime.
Legendaries are where I feel someone might be recompensed or offered an exchange, but high-end exotics are nothing special.
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By far Warrior, even if you’re a complete screw up you can just say “it’s your fault I’m dying you don’t have enough DPS” and it’s all good.
The way you said that makes me think you believe it is a farcical statement — farbeit from one if you’re trying to maximize DPS, however, which you should be trying to do as your skill ceiling rises as a player.
Regardless, even as a poor warrior running sub-optimal DPS to improve your survivability as you learn, it is in my opinion that warriors have some of the best active mitigation — Endure Pain, Shield Stance, Defiant Stance (which is in effect 200% healing, so long as you know how and when to use it) — all very powerful crutches for the new and learning Warrior.
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If you have to ask yourself that question it is probably an exploit.
Meh, I’d be more forgiving with what seem like obvious answers to obvious questions due to the mindsets of a lot of players around these parts. What I mean is, any hyper/casual player could stake the claim that, “Stacking is an exploit because Spider Queen!” without having a proper knowledge of the game mechanics involved which, to another player who really has no experiences and knows not better or worse, may result in them parroting that sentiment posed as a question — “Is stacking an exploit?” And it does come up fairly often.
That said, I haven’t watched the video so I have yet to give input pertinent to the video content.
Big man OP is a Euro.
It is a statistical obligation that certain things will always be the individual “best”; the real err is in the pug logic of assuming that stacking those individualist “bests” — heavies only — will be even more optimum, instead of diversifying for more party buffs since it is no longer an individual crusade. They don’t try to compliment each other all all. They’re just stacking ketchup and meanwhile mustard is pretty kitten nice.
The idea is so encompassing that not even saying “heavies only”, but posting “DPS only,” results in far too many 5 warrior teams, and it hurts.
So the epidemic is not an epidemic of class imbalance, it’s an epidemic of practicing stupidity. But that’s why they’re pugs! It’s like a warm-up for hard mode (if they ever get around to it).
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Do you play a character with a leap (alternative: Experimental Rifles)? Each of those jumping puzzles can be skipped about ~90% (or 100% of the hard jumps).
OP what you don’t understand that optimization IS the fun to many people.
There’s nothing fun about stopping to smell the flowers after the 5th or 6th time; eventually there comes a time when you want to know just how well it can be done, rather than just getting it done.
Anyone play Mario 64 growing up? How long did it take you to get 120 stars? I never did, I couldn’t be bothered with 100 coins per level and et cetera. But how would it make you feel to know the world record 120-star completion is sub-110 minutes? Because I think that’s just awesome. These people aren’t being rewarded because there’s no reward to chase, it’s just fun to do (or watch, the tactics and intricacies for speed clears — Mario or Guild Wars — are pretty interesting).
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Honestly OP you might want to roll an Ele. You seem to crave a higher skill-ceiling so Ele may suit you; all weapon sets have attunement-specific skills, and there are four elemental attunements. At any one time, your weapon will grant you 20 skills (5 Air, 5 Earth, 5 Fire, 5 Water). The difference is that the Ele’s attunement swapping is a class mechanic to replace (most) other professions’ weapon swap, so while you may only have one weapon equipped, you can swap attunement at-will incurring a short cooldown on your previous attunement. It will take time for you to memorize all skill effects and what skill in what attunement is a combo field, what is a combo finisher, and how to tailor those attunement/skill combinations relevantly to the different content, but it’s all memorization… you’ll get there with enough time.
It doesn’t surprise me that the OP is attaching arbitrary feeling and emotion to vernacular and gameplay.
At least not after I read their name, it didn’t.
“Why would I want to give my party an extra blind, F2 heal, or Aegis when I could PLAY WITH MY DOGS?” That’s how I see it.
That said, I wouldn’t kick or really even care, but I would think it was stupid if I saw it.
extra blind – lol
f2 heal – really?
aegis – sure1 out of 3 ain’t bad.
You underestimate how many crutches some pugs need. Have you wiped on the trash pre Icewolf CoE?
Because pugs can, and will, and do. Blind rotations are the only thing keeping them from getting knocked and eaten alive when the DPS is that bad — and it can easily be that bad when the majority mentality is “why should I wear zerk it doesn’t make that big of a difference”, and honestly, just more of the same old unimaginable tripe, on and on.
I pug almost exclusively, while (somewhat contradictory to that) being a proponent of optimal building play, so I have plenty of my own experiences to back up justification for otherwise negligible contributions like 2k heal (or the cleanse), or a SINGLE extra blind before the trash starts dominoing to start spamming Justice.
Don’t even get me started on something like Rumblus… if I could pay cash money, ACTUAL DOLLARS, for instant cooldowns, I would spend the entire fight spamming F2, F3.
They are that bad and in no context could I ever justify even “having fun” with Hounds.
In fact, reminiscing upon how many groups I’ve had actually disband at Arah P2 spider run since the WP “fix,” I’d be especially disheartened to see a couple Hounds Of Balthazar fighting alongside the party at Belka, knowing full well how useful two blinds, two cleanses and heals, and two blocks would be to escort the pugs that need all the help they can get through that segment. (And of course, you could just solo Abom, but half of them will practically froth at the mouth that they don’t get the opportunity to rebalance the economy with their repair bill than wait a few minutes and take the next waypoint. Trust.)
…why not join a dungeon guild then? Death and Taxes is recruiting right now.
Also, why would you need to disband an Arah p2 group at spider skip? All you do is make sure you don’t host the instance, solo abomination (I have literally never had a group stuck on the skip complain that I have done this), kill/solo Lupicus, switch (if not already) to a reflect class for Alphard and then wait for someone to get to Brie (or log to a thief and escort them).
Why would I disband? I don’t disband, but I’m serious in saying I’ve had numerous experiences wherein all it took was for a single person to get frustrated in their inability to do the spider trash run to leave, demoralizing/compounding that same mentality in the other three incompetents, and before you know it, one more drops, then another, then other, and I’m posting the ad again.
I’ve seen plenty of disbands at Tar when I was hiring pugs just to do the boss kill because they can’t do the Ooze → Tar trash run, and even in one instance, the group fully disintegrated because I wasn’t looking for a fifth (who would?). A potential “employee” on that run somehow deduced from my refusal to post for a 5th, “Oh, you’re a scammer,” and left the party, and then one more, and then one more, and then one more…
As for a dungeon guild, I was in LOD for the 5 years leading up to it’s current implosion, and I still barely ran any content with them in this game… I honestly just don’t care. I could give you any reason in the world but two things that it really boils down to are that, as much as I will ever complain about pugs being pugs, I actually like pugging in silence and on whatever class I feel like playing, more than I like being tethered to using a VoIP and re-rolling around the rest of the party comp, even if pugs will occasionally build and act in the most stupid of ways.
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“Why would I want to give my party an extra blind, F2 heal, or Aegis when I could PLAY WITH MY DOGS?” That’s how I see it.
That said, I wouldn’t kick or really even care, but I would think it was stupid if I saw it.
extra blind – lol
f2 heal – really?
aegis – sure1 out of 3 ain’t bad.
You underestimate how many crutches some pugs need. Have you wiped on the trash pre Icewolf CoE?
Because pugs can, and will, and do. Blind rotations are the only thing keeping them from getting knocked and eaten alive when the DPS is that bad — and it can easily be that bad when the majority mentality is “why should I wear zerk it doesn’t make that big of a difference”, and honestly, just more of the same old unimaginable tripe, on and on.
I pug almost exclusively, while (somewhat contradictory to that) being a proponent of optimal building play, so I have plenty of my own experiences to back up justification for otherwise negligible contributions like 2k heal (or the cleanse), or a SINGLE extra blind before the trash starts dominoing to start spamming Justice.
Don’t even get me started on something like Rumblus… if I could pay cash money, ACTUAL DOLLARS, for instant cooldowns, I would spend the entire fight spamming F2, F3.
They are that bad and in no context could I ever justify even “having fun” with Hounds.
In fact, reminiscing upon how many groups I’ve had actually disband at Arah P2 spider run since the WP “fix,” I’d be especially disheartened to see a couple Hounds Of Balthazar fighting alongside the party at Belka, knowing full well how useful two blinds, two cleanses and heals, and two blocks would be to escort the pugs that need all the help they can get through that segment. (And of course, you could just solo Abom, but half of them will practically froth at the mouth that they don’t get the opportunity to rebalance the economy with their repair bill than wait a few minutes and take the next waypoint. Trust.)
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“Why would I want to give my party an extra blind, F2 heal, or Aegis when I could PLAY WITH MY DOGS?” That’s how I see it.
That said, I wouldn’t kick or really even care, but I would think it was stupid if I saw it.
Please always remind yourself, and given the circimstance of this especially (it is the ending to the personal story, after all), it has to be catered to the lowest common denominator, much like almost all of the other content in-game, so the hypercasuals have a chance to win. I mean, the already huff and puff about having to enter an instance and party with people in an MMO just to complete “MY” story, could yoy imagine how much more they’d rage of they actually had to fight some real bosses? Oh boy…
Pick any single enemy in the entire of guild wars. ANY ENEMY AT ALL. I guarantee you it was harder that Zhaitan. Yes, that includes level 2 moa birds.
People have wiped to Moas.
Yes.
I don’t always talk smack… but when I do, I make sure I make a hypocritical joke out of myself.