Everytime I try to load up my mesmer I am met with the loading screen for Divinity’s Reach, promptly followed by Lion’s Arch before reverting back to the Divinity’s Reach load screen where I am then met with code 7:11:3:191:101. The last load screen displays the usual number of vistas, etc. and I can hear sounds momentarily before the error is displayed.
This issue started to occur after I was trying to run through the portal to Lion’s Rach yesterday from Divinity’s Reach before being disconnected, which has led me to believe that my character is stuck in the portal and confusing the game? My other characters can load into Divinity’s Reach fine.
Actually I just managed to solo Alphard just to prove that even after the buffs he’s still pretty easy. It was an afk fight to be honest. I have no idea why are you complaining. Pics attached.
This has to, has to go into the player’s fail thread.
And Ascalon wasn’t soloable before patch, it was nerfed ages ago as people 1-manned it relying on npcs and just got insane loot. I actually have the feeling that you are the one who hasn’t played frac79 in a long time.
Yes, it was. It was soloable right up until the Fractured patch.
The difference is more dps but more risk. Shield is safer and the 30 second cd doesnt mean anything if you use your dodges and any other skills that block or evade attacks efficiently.
A flaw with the sword is if you get nailed by multiple projectiles you have to dodge to avoid being killed since sword is one block. What sword is really good for is his attack where he targets a person with one projectile.
tl;dr
sword = more dps, more risk
shield = less dps but safer
Not really. Riposte blocks an unlimited amount of stuff, so long as you aren’t right up next to GL when you block in which case Risposte will end early.
The leaderboard is just the saddest thing to me. This is supposed to be the bone they throw to competitive pve’ers, yet not a single competitive pve’er I know wants this. Perhaps some interaction with the competitive pve community, the way that Colin Johnson interacts with the WvW community, would have let them know this?
Either fractals 40-50 will be so hard that the tears of the casuals wash them down to the bottom of the leaderboard, or it will be so easy that there is a 500,000th way tie for first place at 50/50 after two weeks.
I honestly don’t think the leaderboard was aimed at the competitive PvE’er at all. The way they phrased their announcement:
“Soon you can earn the envy and adulation of your friends and total strangers through our new leaderboards, which show off the players with the highest fractal levels!”
I doubt anyone from [rT], [HC], [DnT] gives two kittens about acquiring sycophantic randoms.
I was thinking about the old QP ladder that ANet used to have for PvP. When that ended they gave each person on the ladder a title depending on where they stood. So, a proposition. Since I doubt ANet will renege on their announcement to the carebears, would you be satisfied with a title that would be unattainable once the update goes live?
Something like PRL:
80+ Legend of the _ _ _ _
70-79 Champion of the _ _ _ _
60-69 Elite of the _ _ _ _
51-59 Veteran of the _ _ _ _
1) Jump over the first gate
2) Kill Dulfy through the gate
3) Skip every enemy
4) Pull enemies away from the courtyard
5) Use above mentioned trick to reposition Shaman
6) CC enemies to protect Shaman (NPC’s probably won’t be around)
7) ???
I didn’t realize someone would get so mad over a fractal….
This is true. For me, my opinion has been that if it exists in the game world it’s fair game with the exception of things that completely prevent an enemy from fighting back or going through geometry. I concede how I did Ascalon isn’t exactly legitimate, but then nor do I believe stacking in Dredge or Cliffside to clump them all up and make their fights far easier considerably legitimate either.
If you leave the siege up in the middle the ballistas constantly knockback the Shaman. He then casts the ritual from where he gets knocked back to and will aggro one or, at most, two mobs which are significantly easier to deal with than the four that you normally have to deal with.
Just a minor correction, mobs come in group of three, not four.
I didn’t mean the number of adds in each group I meant the number of mobs in total. There are 4 groups that spawn. 5 actually but the last one doesn’t reach the Shaman in time.
I guess it would be in line with the old kegway in CM P2, or maybe even 1-4 in CoE P1. The game gives you the option to destroy or leave the siege. I guess a legit way to duo the path would be to attempt to permastealth the Shaman.
If you leave the siege up in the middle the ballistas constantly knockback the Shaman. He then casts the ritual from where he gets knocked back to and will aggro one or, at most, two mobs which are significantly easier to deal with than the four that you normally have to deal with.
I’d be curious to know what 3 fractal shards they got in a row that allowed them to duo it. Swamp seems challenging to duo, dredge virtually impossible, cliffside virtually impossible, uncategorized would be extremely rough, shaman theoretically possible, water definitely possible, and snowblind is possible.
So by what luck are we talking here whereby someone duo’ed a full fotm 79?
Don’t forget Charr fractal. That’s definitely possible to solo.
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Have you actually even tried it? It’s quite tough and annoying even with a full group.
@Nike: Quite pointless to talk about content which physically requires more than 2 people. Requirements like that don’t make it hard.
Yes, I used to solo it while I waited for pugs for 75-79. I had 5 more levels left and my fractals group had stopped playing the game. I will admit I haven’t tried it at scale 80 and that I wiped at the Warrior+Mage mob in the courtyard but yes I’ve solo’ed the instance.
I’d be curious to know what 3 fractal shards they got in a row that allowed them to duo it. Swamp seems challenging to duo, dredge virtually impossible, cliffside virtually impossible, uncategorized would be extremely rough, shaman theoretically possible, water definitely possible, and snowblind is possible.
So by what luck are we talking here whereby someone duo’ed a full fotm 79?
Don’t forget Charr fractal. That’s definitely possible to solo.
@OP If you ever run into a guild group add them as friends temporarily so you can report if they kick you at the end.
I’d take OH Dagger for Ele over Focus. RTL to get you the hell out of Technician range as well as Updraft for the mad swiftness/sitting a few Deadeyes on their kitten for a while. This is of course if you’re not worried about your team dealing with back aggro xD
You’re doing it wrong. Get deadeye aggro then blink in front of teammates so that they’re in the projectile’s path. Bonus points for multiple downs.
Elementalists have access to Stability (Armour of Earth), Invul (Mist Form+Focus Earth 5), Blink (Lightning Flash).
If you don’t care about utility cooldowns, bring X/Focus. Get swiftness, run/blink past first group, dodge roll when appropriate, use 7 seconds on invulnerability to casually run by.
they fix this, but they don’t fix that wonderful banner cd bug where my other skills (stability!!!!!) take the kittening banner cooldown and get me killed by the technicians. thanks a lot Anet.
doing this normally isn’t really hard (but waiting for stability cds is) and with a thief it’e cake.
I’m assuming you mean something like where SiO in my screenshot inherits Frenzy’s cooldown. Like Wethospu said, it’s to do with your underwater skills. Normally, SiO is in the second slot underwater but because I used Frenzy when it was in the second slot and then changed SiO to the third slot it takes Frenzy’s cd. I guess a workaround would be to equip useless underwater skills which you’ll never use.
So a statistic to make people feel better about themselves? Also, SC2 generally has some sort of skill involved in it which is why APM as a statistic can be useful. Here, who cares about skill when you’ve got 40 other people next to you.
Which is why I said in a group fight in the first scenario its still easy to remove all duration in one condition removal skill letting you ignore almost all of the duration. The second scenario the thief can pretty much remove you from the fight while you take condition damage from his bleeds or you waste condition removal on a tiny immobilize to get immobilized some more. Plus this example is just thief venom, engineers and warriors can do the same thing but attack the entire time.
In a group fight you’re going to be stacked with conditions from passive effects. Immobilize is always the last condition to be removed from the stack, which means you’ll have to burn through every condition removal you have to get rid of it.
With the old mechanic, for venomshare to maximize immobilize duration they have to stop attacking. No attack = less pressure. With the current mechanic, to maximize immobilize duration they can merely spam every single skill.
This immobilize change has changed almost nothing in large group fights and in small it only effects venom share thieves sharing Devourer venom which would still be enough to kill most normal enemies before the patch anyways. Tell me which you would prefer a thief with 100% condition duration and all venom traits using sneak attack to give you 12 second immobilize in a group fight or a thief waiting 3.5 seconds before auto attacking you for the same 12 seconds. The first scenario you remove it all with a condition cleanse. The second scenario has existed since launch and barely anyone has complained about immobilize even though the second method is still possible and 3x more deadly.
The second method has an opportunity cost: does the thief attack for more damage or time his attacks to maximize immobilization duration? In the first scenario the thief spams everything for maximum damage and immobilization duration. Also, unless this has been changed recently, immobilized is always the last condition to be removed in a condition stack, regardless of the timing of the application.
Has anyone ever done a high level (48+) ascalon fractal without the charr NPC’s? It feels like that fractal is actually designed around having them, but it’s quite possible that people (such as me) have just gotten used to using them as a crutch.
Also; RANDAL CAN DIE IN A FIRE
I imagine it would be possible to 5 man the instance. However, the instance is pretty much designed around keeping the NPCs alive. They’re what make the instance soloable even at level 79 (in a somewhat reasonable time), and they also make the defend event at the end much easier if you’re doing it properly.
Simple, add a recent partymates tab to the friends and contacts menu which could maybe be time filtered. Then if this does indeed happen find the names and report them. It seems to me that the biggest annoyance that OPs of these type of threads have is that they don’t have any sort of retaliatory measure.
These numbers are outrageously inflated. I’m not even really sure what to say about it. 10/30/0/5/25 isn’t going to be anywhere near the highest possible DPS you can get in an optimized setting.
It’s not dps but something called effective power. Warrior builds have those numbers even higher.
10/30/0/5/25 is probably not he best build since you lack critical damage from honour while getting only ~5% damage modifier (excluded unscathed contender), but this build (and the one with 30 in virtues) has more utility. There are few decent interchangeable traits, depending on the situation.
It seems to generate 1 might stack per tick instead of 3. Granted I didn’t search very thoroughly in the game release notes but I couldn’t find a change being documented.
If I remember correctly it’s Brazil’s selfless initiative to bridge the community and usher in a golden era of players with gumdrop smiles dancing in a mystical land of rainbows, unicorns, and rivers of chocolate.
This video is plain bullkitten, I have exact same items, runes, sigils, skills and build as he and I even used +10% crit dmg food and I still can’t kill him fast enough, I only lost my kittening gold and badges for exotics not mentioning 80 tickets, I’m attaching screenshot as a proof. If you want farm gold then pavilion zerg is the best and you can even use mf gear.
Um if you’re using the utilities in that screenshot in the fight you’re doing something wrong. Also, I’m using yellow Berserker gear to farm this guy.
Edit: You’re also not using the same gear. He has full Berserker. You have some Cavalier and Valkyrie mixed in.
I’m fighting Subject 7 with gambits on (not including Tremor). However, as soon as I enter the arena I keeping getting KD’ed as does Subject 7. Is this a bug?
The problem with this guide is you give the viewer no indications on how to run the other wisp routes. This is the fundamental gating mechanic that can cause problems for people new to the fractal. Without this information, the guide really becomes more of a playthrough rather than a guide. In addition, you neglect the Mossman as well. A guide should seek to give the viewer information on how to do things that may be outside of the scope they are normally used to. In camping staff and autoattacking at range you deliver nothing new to your average pug player.
Also, since you were playing at a scale <10, you neglect to show the agony mechanics of the bosses.
No, they definitely messed this up. My guild was unable to complete it during their daily 48 (got this as the 3rd fractal, had to restart because it was impossible to kill the chanters). I went along for the second attempt, we got Dredge on the 3rd fractal after getting Grawl 2nd. What do we see in Dredge? More groups of mobs that have not been there previously. There was an extra group patrolling behind the gate, 3 groups patrolling at the beginning, and I cannot recall every encountering this before. I’ve seen one stray group patrolling the beginning a few times, but never this many groups of mobs. They also failed to fix the mobs spawning invulnerable at the clown car, so I suppose we will be dealing with that for awhile longer as well.
Actually the Dredge additions have been there for a while. In my experience, if you’re rolling, get Dredge, and reroll, then the next time you get Dredge those additional mobs spawn. If you roll Dredge for the first time, they don’t.
The achievement is easy. I got it in my 2nd or 3rd round on the first day with out even trying for it.
But if you can’t do it. It’s not like you need it. Doesn’t reward a title and there are plenty of other achievements that can be done to reach the 25/25.
So by extension if I got a precursor the first time I killed a mob in CS without trying, precursors aren’t rare at all?
