I love dungeons, haven’t played in 18 months though and just logged in for the first time. I am extremely excited to go through them all again! I always enjoyed being able to get new sets of exotic armor or weapons relatively easily through dungeons.
That being said, I do wish they would add more or add a higher difficulty for a challenging dungeon experience outside of the new raid content and fotm.
Nietzschens – 80 Warr / Siri Golightly – 80 Ele / Siri Rhaegar – 80 Guardian
[SOL] Sanctum of Legends; ‘The Forgotten’ ~Eredon 4 Life~
anet, when you fix this, can you make it so a dungeon potion works against every monster in a dungeon?
I hope this is addressed as well, though I have faith it would be eventually since they have continually been solving tens if not hundreds of bugs over the course of patches this year.
Part of me still doesn’t want to believe its true. I have stacks of 250 slaying potions for my beloved CoE lol.
Nietzschens – 80 Warr / Siri Golightly – 80 Ele / Siri Rhaegar – 80 Guardian
[SOL] Sanctum of Legends; ‘The Forgotten’ ~Eredon 4 Life~
I hope ascended Gear is the Last Step in terms of Gear Treadmill, please Colin, don’t troll around with this.
If they add anything after ascended, I am done with GW2. I didn’t play GW2 for gear treadmill.
You obviously don’t understand what a gear treadmill is because adding another tier above ascended wouldn’t be a gear treadmill.
A gear treadmill is when content is continuously increased in difficulty and new gear tiers are constantly being required to complete this content. Hence it being called a gear treadmill because it goes on and on.
You don’t even need any ascended gear at all to do FOTM 48.
THANK YOU! LOL I was hoping someone else would validate my thoughts.
Like I said, its not gear-grinding if they release higher tiered gear for the currently existing content and its difficulty. We just have better gear to use in that content!
(This opinion does NOT include fotm progression / Agony Resistance)
I am very excited for this and all the additions to come for the gw2 universe!
Nietzschens – 80 Warr / Siri Golightly – 80 Ele / Siri Rhaegar – 80 Guardian
[SOL] Sanctum of Legends; ‘The Forgotten’ ~Eredon 4 Life~
dude, its not a gear treadmill if the content is still the same. We will just have even better gear to use in that content. Durr. Stick with exotic if your so bumhurt.
Nietzschens – 80 Warr / Siri Golightly – 80 Ele / Siri Rhaegar – 80 Guardian
[SOL] Sanctum of Legends; ‘The Forgotten’ ~Eredon 4 Life~
It’s funny because when i’m talking about difficulty in finding group, you think i’m talking about gearing up. Dude, gearing in this game is hell easy.
Also there is 8 dungeons, each have like 3 paths. it’s 24 ways of making gold. Do you really think that someone gonna farm anyhow hard path, when there is plenty of other options?
And more then, even completing several paths will take some hours to do so. It’s not your regular CoF p1, which you can complete in 10 minutes.
And we returning to what i said: it’s hell hard to see all dungeon content for new players, especially on low populated servers, because after week or so people already could find proper time/reward route for farming dungeons, and other paths will be mostly abandoned, if you’re not in guild of same casual enthusiasts as you are.
That guy was right, you make no sense with your rambling. It is pretty funny to read, trying to decipher some pertinent content amongst bad English and run-on sentences. Maybe there is a language barrier in effect here, but if there isn’t than I am sorry to hear that.
tl dr; You might want to proof read what you type, because it makes absolutely no sense.
Nietzschens – 80 Warr / Siri Golightly – 80 Ele / Siri Rhaegar – 80 Guardian
[SOL] Sanctum of Legends; ‘The Forgotten’ ~Eredon 4 Life~
I mean, guardians get a ton of great ways to survive, and the common 30 valor 30 honor spec is common for a reason) zerker would be a better option for growth. Because as you grow and get better, you can drop defensive things and pick up offensive ones.
This is a great technique that I have implemented across my toons, and my third and latest toon happens to be a guardian!
My warrior for example, started with shout healing trait build and clerics armor and over time I implimented more and more DPS (offense) into first my gear, and later even my traits.
I just finished my zerker gear set for my guardian and I must say, the DPS is great and the sustain is more than enough. It takes awhile to learn cast orders, utilities to use in certain situations, how to best support other classes and playstyles, etc.
Great thread, mate!
Nietzschens – 80 Warr / Siri Golightly – 80 Ele / Siri Rhaegar – 80 Guardian
[SOL] Sanctum of Legends; ‘The Forgotten’ ~Eredon 4 Life~
We are going through a lull, we have had them before and I dare say they shall come again down the road.
We must continue to stay strong, promote our positive & close knit community and support our vigilant leaders.
Some of the Eredon Guilds are putting together Guild vs Guild tourneys ATM, since [Sanctum of Legends] were lucky enough to end up with a private arena.
Nietzschens – 80 Warr / Siri Golightly – 80 Ele / Siri Rhaegar – 80 Guardian
[SOL] Sanctum of Legends; ‘The Forgotten’ ~Eredon 4 Life~
Can we have OP update “Answer:” with a recent score update please?
P.S. – Next week, whomever hosts the Tier 8 thread, please make sure you are available once per day to update Answer portion of Q&A Original Post. Thanks!!
Nietzschens – 80 Warr / Siri Golightly – 80 Ele / Siri Rhaegar – 80 Guardian
[SOL] Sanctum of Legends; ‘The Forgotten’ ~Eredon 4 Life~
This is a serious question. Can anyone confirm if magic find is actually working, and has any effect what so ever?
I bring a guildbanner MF boost to most Fractal runs, which only amounts to about a 20 MF boost. But of course now with Southsun Cove we have a buff of 200 MF, and I notice no difference what so ever. My drops are exactly the same with a MF of 240, as they are with a MF of 20.
Can anyone confirm if MF does anything at all? Or have we been trolled all this time?
learn numbers, do some research. Or just post mindless threads, thats cool too. sounds like u havent been playing long yet. hope you find out why FRACTAL RUNS with 20% mf are “different” than Southsun Event train w/ 240%. HMMMM
sorry to troll, my newborn kept me up all night. Anyways, you have some serious homework to do on Random Number Generation. Good luck n Have more fun.
Nietzschens – 80 Warr / Siri Golightly – 80 Ele / Siri Rhaegar – 80 Guardian
[SOL] Sanctum of Legends; ‘The Forgotten’ ~Eredon 4 Life~
The utility, practicality and overall concept of banners in general needs to be reworked and revisited so that they can actually be viable in any sort of setting.
LMAO oh man, you must not do much PvE.
Almost every PvE boss/mob instance where stacking is preferable, banners are FTW. Skill #2 on Tactics is a great regen for the team, and what signet of what class gives +15% critical damage? hmm?
4 banners = +160 to all stats, +10% boon duration and +15% critical damage to everyone.
Not even mentioning that the new warrior signets are pretty crappy.
Nietzschens – 80 Warr / Siri Golightly – 80 Ele / Siri Rhaegar – 80 Guardian
[SOL] Sanctum of Legends; ‘The Forgotten’ ~Eredon 4 Life~
I stopped spending gems/cash/gold on RNG chests after the Halloween event, and I’m glad I did because those new skins are pretty terrible. (Still no love for hammers, I see.)
No one likes RNG chests, ArenaNet.
I was really disappointed with the RNG screlite or what the heck ever skins. The molten skins were pretty cool, but these are BORING.
And the hammer, oh man, just had to remind me. LOL glad I finally got my Fractal Hammer skin.
Please stop copy+pasting daggers/swords/greatswords, they should be DIFFERENT, not RE-SIZED.
Nietzschens – 80 Warr / Siri Golightly – 80 Ele / Siri Rhaegar – 80 Guardian
[SOL] Sanctum of Legends; ‘The Forgotten’ ~Eredon 4 Life~
I have been having a ton of fun so far this week, feels like everyone has stepped it up a notch! Especially fergy, you guys have been a formidable opponent. Great job!
T8 was stuck with the mis-ranked (t6-ish) SF server for so long we are still rebuilding morale. THIS is the WvW I missed from last fall.
Nietzschens – 80 Warr / Siri Golightly – 80 Ele / Siri Rhaegar – 80 Guardian
[SOL] Sanctum of Legends; ‘The Forgotten’ ~Eredon 4 Life~
I look forward to a great WvW week! HoD is always a fun fight with you guys and Ferg, I have been seeing some new and improved tactics from you guys. Right on.
Good luck & Have Fun, Tier 8!
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Nietzschens – 80 Warr / Siri Golightly – 80 Ele / Siri Rhaegar – 80 Guardian
[SOL] Sanctum of Legends; ‘The Forgotten’ ~Eredon 4 Life~
Your not a little bit of everything, you are nothing but zerk squish. Nice crit chance and dmg, but why so high? 112% is overkill and your losing out on (guessing) 6-8% of your overall stat total that could help you stay alive longer (which = kill more stuff)
Nietzschens – 80 Warr / Siri Golightly – 80 Ele / Siri Rhaegar – 80 Guardian
[SOL] Sanctum of Legends; ‘The Forgotten’ ~Eredon 4 Life~
This my lyssa warrior that’s my general pve build.
My plan is to keep my stats relatively balanced between offense and defense.
I like your build dude! Its great being able to go from a dungeon of fractal and jump right in WvW without having to change to a sustain trait build or whatnot.
Nietzschens – 80 Warr / Siri Golightly – 80 Ele / Siri Rhaegar – 80 Guardian
[SOL] Sanctum of Legends; ‘The Forgotten’ ~Eredon 4 Life~
After banner buff, I use strength, discipline and tactics almost always. Tactics banner is great for parts skipping mobs, with the swiftness and AoE heal+regen
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Nietzschens – 80 Warr / Siri Golightly – 80 Ele / Siri Rhaegar – 80 Guardian
[SOL] Sanctum of Legends; ‘The Forgotten’ ~Eredon 4 Life~
Also, your reason for 1v1 disillusionment is valid, no doubt. Alas, I have a solution!!! Two I suppose.
If there’s a 1v1 match-up in WvW that is troubling you, ask a friend of a certain class to help you practice 1v1 in sPvP. This was you can try and see what works better and what is getting you killed.
This has helped me immensely in WvW, having had the experience of what to do 1v1 against any certain class.
Nietzschens – 80 Warr / Siri Golightly – 80 Ele / Siri Rhaegar – 80 Guardian
[SOL] Sanctum of Legends; ‘The Forgotten’ ~Eredon 4 Life~
Compared to the other classes we are basicly the /Red Solo Cups/ of GW2, we are used and die easy.
Why can’t we builds for sustain as other classes can?
My build is 0-5-20-30-15 with all Zerk weapons+armor, a PVT Fractal Capacitor and five Cavalier ascended trinkets. My runes are 2x Holebrek, 2x Water 2x Monk. It is basically a tanky DPS build and my sustain is amazing.
I use this for WvW, Dungeons and high level Fractals.
Nietzschens – 80 Warr / Siri Golightly – 80 Ele / Siri Rhaegar – 80 Guardian
[SOL] Sanctum of Legends; ‘The Forgotten’ ~Eredon 4 Life~
What they should do is eliminate the redundant #5 skill on banners, since there are 2 other ways to plant the banner already. Even if they make planting the banner instant, they could come up with a better utility or something to put there.
Well it does create a blast finisher. And since it’s an environmental object, anyone can pick it up for a blast finisher with their own seperate cooldown.
I love chaos armor, area retaliation, etc. Blast finishers are amazing.
Nietzschens – 80 Warr / Siri Golightly – 80 Ele / Siri Rhaegar – 80 Guardian
[SOL] Sanctum of Legends; ‘The Forgotten’ ~Eredon 4 Life~
Since Shouting heals is a more support-based trait, why not give shouting heals condition removal on top of the heal?
- It adds support
- Helps with warriors massive weakness to conditions
- Doesn’t really benefit or at least wont strongly benefit bullrush frenzy combos (making them an unstoppable beast as they said was a concern)
- And it livens the trait up a bit, what do you guys think? They’re all on 20+ second cooldown as well, so its quick condition removal with a decent cool down or spread out condition removal.
I like it. Anyone else?
So, I use a cleric/PVT shout healing warrior in high level fractals. I love it. I found a pretty nice combo for condition removal.
On the power trait line, use “Restorative strength” (Whenever you use a heal spell – removes cripple immo weakness frozen).
This allows “Shake it off” to remove up to 3 conditions AT ONCE. FGJ and On my mark will remove 2 conditions and mending will remove 3 (these are if the correct condition exists [cripp, froz, immo, weak])
-Shouts heal (vigorous shouts)
-Shouts remove condition (Soldier rune 6th stat)
-Shake it off removes a condition (thats 2 conditions removed)
-If the third condition happens to be frozen, immo, weakness or cripple, Shake it off will remove it too (Restorative Strength major trait)
I am surprised I have never heard of this combo before. Try it out and see how you like it!
Nietzschens – 80 Warr / Siri Golightly – 80 Ele / Siri Rhaegar – 80 Guardian
[SOL] Sanctum of Legends; ‘The Forgotten’ ~Eredon 4 Life~
Right now it does look like ET will be heading back home to good ole’ Red. Unless we pull things together for a comeback. SF would be well served to keep on the gas through Friday rather than letting up. Also the ET morning crew seems to have severely dwindled this past week, perhaps due to burnout.
Yes I noticed PST morning crews to be sparse, maybe people are demoralized/ waiting for WvW update? Im not sure, but we haven’t been beat so bad by SF in a few months if my memory serves.
Nietzschens – 80 Warr / Siri Golightly – 80 Ele / Siri Rhaegar – 80 Guardian
[SOL] Sanctum of Legends; ‘The Forgotten’ ~Eredon 4 Life~
Culling should have never been introduced to the game, it’s clear that the game was not ready on release and still shouldn’t have been released to this day, not when you have massive game breaking issues like culling.
I was standing at the top of the stairs into the LA bank the other day and I couldn’t even render players that was stood at the bottom of the stairs
I can’t imagine the last 7 months without playing GW2. Anet has world-class support, hence so many player driven post-launch improvements/patches/updates. When you release something as ambitious and innovative as GW2, it takes time to get things to the top of their game. I would rather be involved in the progressive living story (PvE) improvements than wait for it to be ‘perfect’.
I have terrible culling in LA as well. We were having a costume brawl and when people started coming to watch, suddenly everyone on screen (cept one or two) started disappearing.
Aesthetically, this is certainly painful to experience but is well worth the patience for a PvE culling solution.
Nietzschens – 80 Warr / Siri Golightly – 80 Ele / Siri Rhaegar – 80 Guardian
[SOL] Sanctum of Legends; ‘The Forgotten’ ~Eredon 4 Life~
As for the culling issue with PvE… The issue is a self-inflicted problem brought on by one very specific NON-Programing change by the powers that be…Guesting!
You want to fix the problem in PvE, simple:
One chest…per character…per day. Done! You will notice I did not say “Per Server”.
I am not sure what you mean. World chests are NOT once per day/ per server.
They ARE once per char per day, so the only world event guests are people who probably don’t have time to wait for a spawn window on their server and want to get a certain event completed for that day. Life happens. Maybe they have to go to work, school, etc.
Like I said, none of the PvE culling is detrimental to success in most circumstances. In WvW it is so much more important to see who is where, hence the long months of work by Anet to solve this issue.
Nietzschens – 80 Warr / Siri Golightly – 80 Ele / Siri Rhaegar – 80 Guardian
[SOL] Sanctum of Legends; ‘The Forgotten’ ~Eredon 4 Life~
[…] back in November/December[?] Where we had 100+ people on screen [during the Lost Shore events] with little to no culling? What exactly changed between then and now to make the game engine run so badly that we have major culling in PvE?
I would like to hear from more people that were participating in lost shores or any world events in past months where you could see more than 25-40 people on your screen at once. I don’t think anything has changed, but I could be wrong.
I am not as worried about PvE culling because it is not NEARLY as critical to success and having fun as it is in WvW IMO.
Nietzschens – 80 Warr / Siri Golightly – 80 Ele / Siri Rhaegar – 80 Guardian
[SOL] Sanctum of Legends; ‘The Forgotten’ ~Eredon 4 Life~
You don’t need the NPC to do this path and you don’t need to use an exploit. There are 2 spots where now stones fall down. If you stay in these spots while it is doing it’s uber-attacks you won’t get hit at all. In the “safe” phase you just go out lure him a little away from the safe spots and hit him. That’s how you can do the boss easily even if the NPC is bugged/dead/whatever.
PS: @ANet – I encourage you to make dungeons harder. Most people fail at Bosses not because they’re too hard but because they don’t want to listen or don’t get the boss mechanic. – bugs of course need to be fixed but otherwise i would love to see super hard dungeons where you need forever to figure out the strategies.
I am very happy with the amount of replies to my post, thank you all for your input.
I have to agree with Kanako, I love a challenge. As long as its not BUGGED, anything is possible through practice, patience and teamwork. I dislike that they nerfed the ‘trash-mobs’, especially the hallway after the spider queen. Even that short encounter took a high degree of coordination.
We have not tried p3 again yet, but the other paths are fine. We have 2 shout healing warriors in our dungeon group along with the usual guardians and d/d eles (that we love) and we will try these new strategies suggested above. Thanks all.
-Siri Nietzschens [SOL] Eredon Terrace
Nietzschens – 80 Warr / Siri Golightly – 80 Ele / Siri Rhaegar – 80 Guardian
[SOL] Sanctum of Legends; ‘The Forgotten’ ~Eredon 4 Life~
So last night I noticed that this is (only?) happening when I have my greatsword equipped. BTW I am a male charr warrior, should have mentioned that above.
If I have GS drawn, and take a step forward the Fractal Capacitor twitches up in position on my back. As soon as I stop walking, it twitches back into place.
Aesthetically, this has been becoming more and more visually displeasing.
Please let me know, is anyone else having this issue? Most likely this will end up an Anet ticket, unless it’s more so a toon/avatar skin-based bug. Thanks.
Nietzschens – 80 Warr / Siri Golightly – 80 Ele / Siri Rhaegar – 80 Guardian
[SOL] Sanctum of Legends; ‘The Forgotten’ ~Eredon 4 Life~
I read in patch notes that this was fixed, but my backpiece still twitches out of place/back into proper place during multiple instances (when pulling out weapon/swinging weapon/dodging/switching weapons/casting spells/etc).
Is anyone else having this issue still?
-Siri Nietzschens (Sanctum of Legends, Guild Leader/Eredon Terrace)
Nietzschens – 80 Warr / Siri Golightly – 80 Ele / Siri Rhaegar – 80 Guardian
[SOL] Sanctum of Legends; ‘The Forgotten’ ~Eredon 4 Life~
I’ll look into it and try to make sure Grast uses the bubble properly, but we also made the roar he uses to summon the boulders interruptable so a focused group could stand a chance if Grast died or ever misbehaved.
Thank you so much! I didn’t even think about interrupting! The guildies and I shall try again today, I will let you know how it goes!
Nietzschens – 80 Warr / Siri Golightly – 80 Ele / Siri Rhaegar – 80 Guardian
[SOL] Sanctum of Legends; ‘The Forgotten’ ~Eredon 4 Life~
I <3 my shout healing warrior. I used zerk/knight build for awhile, which was great for zone dungeons & events.
Now that I am fotm 30+, the Cleric build is essential. Glass cannons can do it, sure. I think my warrior does plenty of dmg with cleric gear, and @ 1500 healing power I am healing ~2499 HP/shout. Thats amazing if you ask me.
Plus I dont have to pray for a guardian to be in my party for the extra survivability, as many glass cannons rely on (along with superior dodge skills hehe),
-Siri Nietzshens (Sanctum of Legends/Eredon Terrace)
Nietzschens – 80 Warr / Siri Golightly – 80 Ele / Siri Rhaegar – 80 Guardian
[SOL] Sanctum of Legends; ‘The Forgotten’ ~Eredon 4 Life~
I think Anet deserves 100% more credit for making a video game with so many tens of thousands of variables and players, and that it works so wonderfully. Not to mention their world-class support.
I did not get my first 10 daily ring until my 8th day, and on the 10th I was able to buy my 2nd ascended ring and move on to fotm 20+. The replay value is great and the loot from fractals is the best in game. I think whiners like all of you will never be satisfied, so why should they bother with your complaints about a system that is FUN and WORKS?
Nietzschens – 80 Warr / Siri Golightly – 80 Ele / Siri Rhaegar – 80 Guardian
[SOL] Sanctum of Legends; ‘The Forgotten’ ~Eredon 4 Life~
In Ascalonian Catacombs path 3, Warmaster Grast seems to never pop his bubble shield when Colossus does his ‘global’ AoE falling rocks skill. My guild has patiently attempted this boss fight a few dozen times with different strategies with no success. Is this a bug? In my party, we only saw him pop the shield once in 10 attempts. Stability (Signet of Dolyak for me) did not seem to be a key element of this, either.
Let me know if its a bug or not, so my guildies and I can know whether we need to keep trying!!
PS-On behalf of the Sanctum of Legends, thanks for your hard work and unparalleled support. We love being a part of such a breathtakingly vast and dynamic world.
-Siri Nietzschens (SOL Legend)
Nietzschens – 80 Warr / Siri Golightly – 80 Ele / Siri Rhaegar – 80 Guardian
[SOL] Sanctum of Legends; ‘The Forgotten’ ~Eredon 4 Life~
