Guild Wars 2

As Gwy, i never had issues with DC’s but tonight i cant play at all…. DC every 3 min returning me to character select screen.

My engi before going into fight with this new weapons!

Engi and that heart weapon…. all i could think of is this…

I would love to see some flowers that are open during the day and closed turing the night. Would greatly boost that flower feeling of race

That is one hard boss that i enjoyed full 3 days until i killed her! Challange made it perfect, reward is also PERFECT! Wish there is more solo bosses like this <3 GG Anet!

I belive that Fire Elemental Deal damage and apply burn, but not sure.

Tbh all the staffs look kinda dull, exeption is legendary and The Crossing, rest of staffs i dont find interesting at all. But again that can be only me. If someone have some nice staff skins to show off please do, my reaserch about staff skins showed me all same/dull looking and far not interesting skins. Even with new patch both of staffs (guild exotic and fused one) were dull looking. So far i got The Crossing, Fractal Staff, The Final Rest.(forgot to say The Final Rest is kinda interesting also)

@verd, i understand, if any class that is in party with you have some skill that can destroy / reflect projectiles you can use same tactic. Keep in mind that on lvl 40 + shaman adds hit like a world champion boss on my ele they do 4-6 K dmg with 1 hit and agony arrow is most likley to down you from hit. Its rlly important that all move in same direction after buble is broken on shaman so adds dont spread all over map and also is easyer to rez downed players.

I use, 10, 0, 0, 30, 30 shouter build on dual axe on lvl 40+ fractals, my gear is full zerker.

Its extremly hard on lvl 40+ with pugs, its trivial with perma party. Few things to remember:

1. Shaman attack range is 1200, keep max range and if he turn to you dodge or change direction of your run.

2. On buble phase, elemental or any class with chill cast it on shaman, go under boss, guardian cast avanger shild or auromancer elemental share magnetic aura, while u stacking adds are gathering around you, aoe all, boss and adds, when shild break run in one direction, one where is your guardian, guardian pop out reflecting wall, stand behind it or in it, finish adds…..

It can be easy if all know what they doing, can be nightmare if only one is failing all the time. I dont think that shaman need nerf, he is easy until lvl 40 anyhow.

It probably my luck but in a month + i got 11 skins, 4 torches, 2 axes, 1 staff, 1 sceptor 1 speargun, 1 rifle, 1 shild, 1 hammer…. i do daily 20/30/40 almost every day. Actualy FOTM is only instance im doing ftm.

I dont know what lvl of fractals you refer to, but i go full berserker gear in lvl 38 fractal daily, i didnt yet go to 40 so i cant comment it. I basicly dont die on anything if i dont fail to dodge. Im “shout” user, shouts heal me and give me andrenaline, im using double Fractal Axe Of Berserker + Fractal Rifle of Berserker. Tbh, most of my progress is thanks to my party, i dont think i would survive fractal without deaths with PUG’s. Also, my party got 2 zerker warriors with axes (me and friend) auromancer elemental, defensive guardian and condi necromancer. Ofc we dont “tank” mobs in this gear/build.

Nop, swamp is buged sometimes, try it again and you probably will get it. Rest is as Bukkebruse said.

UW was one of the “elite” dungeons in GW1, by elite i mean hardest dungeon for that time. I wouldnt mind same thing in gw2, elite dungeon with higher reward. Some say that Arah and FOTM are elite dungeons…. tbh they are not, they are easy dungeons that dont offer any good reward for your time there. Time efford VS reward is not soo good. I agree u get tokens, but we all wanna some “unique” skins on our armors / weapons that are harder to get. Also in GW1 after u finish story mode you are offered special NPC that can craft you armor / weapon as reward for your time for finishing story, here you can get weapon only. Gw2 is NOT GW1 but some things could be nice in GW2 also that worked great in GW1.

Actualy, its about mobility . 100B is chaneling skill and if u cancel it by moving you will get few hits and thats all, while axe do almost same dmg and you can move freely, you can even dodge while using skill 5 on axe/axe. A lot warriors will rather die then cancel 100B. Tbh for my play style axes are way better since i like to move a lot that contribute to my survivbilty. Im almost always alive and bring great benefit to the group by DPS.

I think that it work as posion, my heals while under agony is reduced by a lot.

Well, i dont mind boss is not pug friendly, but i do mind that it need specific builds / classes to get her down. Before we could down her with 2 glass canon elems 1 thief glass and guardian + necro. Now with same setup, same group who downed it before patch few times, we failed.

I was wondering what elite you are using and how offten in dungeons?

I find my self using Glyph of Elemental but tbh its prty rare. I find big lack of good elite skill that can be used offten for elemental.

Your thoughts guys?

I use only Ice Bow / Shild. Ice bow for structers or addition to my dps on some bosses that require aoe, shild usualy giving to guardian at Ascalon Fractal when he pull warriors for some defence on their first skill. Basicly what i miss is single target / AoE elite skill. All our elite skills are summon/ transform. There is a lot of times that summons dont even survive 3 sec.

My main is elemental, i dont have any issue with partying up. D/D elemental bring a lot of buffs, staff can bring reflect tons of AoE dmg etc etc. Remeber that not all fights are melee friendly and you will be fine

All that BS that people dont like elem on high lvl fractals are not true, i find party as easy as any other class.

Since i offered my help concernig path 4, last night some people called me to help them. We finish dwayna before patch few times, its not easy boss but also is not impossible. Last night we failed badly, after 3 hours on Dwayna we couldnt manage to pull sparks fast enough, sparks seems to aggro any other player that is in aggro range and in most of times spark even reset, i find this spark behaviour more confusing then before patch. After 50% Dwayna sometimes hide in next 10 sec, sometimes in next 30 sec, kinda randomly and still dont know why is that…. We had ok dps, 2 elementals glass canon, 1 warrior, 1 ranger, 1 guardian.

Had 5 ele party few days ago, all d/d experianced players. I never passed dungeon so fast and with soo much fun! Thank you all my dear fellow elementals

here take mine 90 Priestine tokens, i go no use of them….. oh wait!

Actualy, i didnt grind anythign exept fractals, there is plenty of drops there to salvage, a lot of mats to craft golds and salvage, few golds per run if lucky and buy mats and again salvage, ectos went like crazy( i actualy got 500 ectos this way to upgrade it for cosmetic purpose also). On other note, i dont think that anyone have 35 AR yet. Also, i didnt fight Ice Ele yet with this new patch, i see a lot of people complain about it so i supose it is rlly harder now.

I got my backpiece infused on lvl 25 so i could progress to 30 without problem, your issue is that you went to 30 without preparing yourself.

You will get flamed ^^

Prices are ok, for exotic armor u need 7 days of 3 paths to farm, that is not much. Karma armor is also preaty easy to get.

I mean, i would do daily in any case, not depending on amulet, but i would love that amulet so i can progress into fractal, now im FORCED to wait 20ish days for it….

So much of policy " we want our players to be free to do whatever they want"… sure…

Agree aswell. Maybe they wanted to avoid people getting that amulet ASAP when its out and add it to daily achivment. However, only instance where agony hits is FOTM. Why add only to daily achivment, why not add to FOTM aswell. We all worked hard for our tokens. And ftm, with them we cant do anything exept delete them since they take a lot slots in bank.

If your personal lvl is 5 and you are doing lvl 10 you will advance to lvl 6, however you will not get daily chest since you are getting reward only for your pesonal lvl.

Actualy, even if u joined on last boss only without knowing u need to pay anything and they ask you to pay when u joined them inside its scamming i think. Selling dungeons run is ok only IF you say that you are selling before you invite them in party.

I actualy dislike kicking people, my group is usualy from guild, before i pug anyone i always ask in guild. Even if i pug few people and they r there for first time i would never kick them without good reason (like inkittening or being rude to others). But few things are anoying like:

• Players ignoring others while in downed state
• Warriors using rifle as main weapon
• Thief as shortbow as main weapon
• Mesmers who randomly spamming feedback and when u actualy need one its on CD
• People who exploits or bug bosses even if they are easy enough
• Drama queens who start to QQ after first person die
• Wanna be “elitist” rude person who insult others on their death etc etc etc

We all can die from somethign stupid, it happenes. Ill rather have good laugh with them then to laugh at them.

Lupicus is easy enough, no need for nerf tbh. I think he is one of rare bosses that u CANT exploit or bug.

Advise about AoE from Lupicus.

Boss cast aoe that move from him to last aoe circle on ground, if you are on way of that u will get hit. Try to stand at max range behind or from sides of circle, never in front of one.

Cheers

I actualy dont like warriors in group, 99% of them use rifle as main weapon. I’ll rather take any other class then warrior “wanna be ranger”.

There is a lot those kind of groups that will kick you without any reason. When i recruit its usualy LF1M, self invite on Pospani…. I dont care if someone is first timer or there 100 times, i just care on behaviour of player.If he start to act rude then i kick him with explanation that we want constructive run, not someone to be rude to others.

That is not construcitve post. Its a bit insulting to all rangers aswell.

IF they nerf RTL then they should nerf thief stealth, theif shortbow teleport skill, mesmer portals, etc etc etc, every class have something to escape fight.

Sarcasmic.6741:

Nagorn.2307:

Strifey.7215:

T1: Guardian, Warrior, Mesmer
T2: Ele, Thief, not sure where to put Engi after Grenade nerf
T3: Necro, Ranger

There are no tiers…each class have their advantages and disadvantages, btw necro T3??? You don’t have one, don’t you?

Guardians, eles, warriors are good buffers, offensive or defensive, necro = best condition profession, ranger just have a lot of dmg (bows way), mesmers are versatile, i don’t know much about thiefs or engi but i figure thiefs = tons of dmg and engi = mixed dmg with some support.

Necro can stack the most conditions by default, but it’s not the best condition profession. It lacks access to the hardest hitting condition of all, burning. I also don’t recall Necros being able to apply confusion.

I disagree slightly with Strifey’s tiers, but there /are/ tiers of effectiveness both in pve and pvp. Necro usually falls pretty low down the list sadly, as do Ranger and Engineer. Until the balances and bug fixes are completely ironed out (which could take years to finalize) there will always be the profession/build that outshines the others.

As all above is true but there is few thing that need to consider, necro can add confusion only i its asura (asura racial utility), all classes can add burning via combo field OR with utility item Something coctail. I know its not necro skill but its possible still. (at least my necro friend is using them)

Every group have 1 guardian, at shaman is easy, party go under him when he bubble, and guardian use reflecting buble, dps his armor to 0, then dodge back becouse of his aoe under him, dps adds (elemental auromancer is nice addition couse he can share magnetic aura to party to reflect even more of adds projectiles) finish adds.

Dredge fractal is not that hard, as people said before Spy Kits help a lot, on lvl 2 you can even do it without it, i think we started to use it after lvl 10 or so Boss itself is easy also, kite him under lava tank, slow or imobilize him and get lava on him, debuff on boss last 30 sec and u need to kite him on second one etc etc…. If you need help with fights let me know in game. /w Pospani

If you guys from EU server stuck on Dwayna priest PM me in game, i can join your party to kill her and leave after it. Ofc if im not in some dungeon myself. Feel free to PM me on Pospani.

WebFerret.6270:

Gear isn’t the biggest issue, though one of them. (Anyone with half a brain can be equipped decently at 80)

Personally after being away from GW2 for a whiles due to work commitments, I return to this FotM dungeon and see 99% of players are well and truly into lvl 40+ of this endless dungeon. I sit in Lions Arch and can lfg for hours to try and get my first run in there and still have not zoned in.

Imo FotM was a huge mistake regardless for GW2 as there isn’t a soul in the high level zones much anymore, events go by with no one to combat them etc, so pretty much has me looking elsewhere once again for another MMO. This is only my view and sure to be a hassle for anyone new coming along in the future.

They might as well, just continue dumping dungeons in LA and removing the rest of the world, since that’s where everyone sits flooding chat with LFG’s.

And I also agree if I was lvl 50+ in FotM I would also find it hard to run lower tier since the rewards are not worth it yada yada. This is the biggest error GW2 has made and is a shame really.

But currently I am still trying to get some FotM tiers done to keep me focused and hopefully to continue playing. Time will tell. (Yes I am on a very busy server)

Cheers

Ferret

Hello Ferret,

If you have trouble with FOTM i would sugest to try www.gw2lfg.com, its nice way of finding groups. Most of us already do it with LFG.

Well, maybe portal to some main city, like LA portal for ele is fine On all other mages in other games portal was mage ability, but it was to main city usualy. Tbh i would rather have LA portal then pay up 4 silver every time i go from Orr to LA. ( i know you can go to pvp then LA, but i dont like so many loading screans)

Actualy, there is people selling path 4 arah for 20 gold, they clear dungeon and invite people for last boss, people get achivment (dungeon master) and all are happy. Tbh Dwayna priest is not pug friendly but its duable, also in path 4 for first timers you need to spend 3-4 hours minimum and Dwayna get prty frustrating with hide and heal.

Also on some topic before, dev said that is not against rules to sell runs.

Have it finished but if u need help let me know, EU server.

If you are lvl 5 and you are doing lvl 10 you will get rewarded as you are lvl 5 (you will get chest from Jade maw, but with no chance of ring). I think

makku.2508:

:( This feels like GW1 all over again. Is Izzy Cartwright still involved into balancing and stuff? Because as far as I remember, that guy single handedly destroyed every GvG teambuild he didn’t like and did everything he could to keep at least 3 professions completely out of competitive play..

I still played GW1 for more than half a decade despite all the nonsense their balancing department came up with, hoping it will become better one day. That day never came, so eventually I quitted. If GW2 is gonna take the same route in its balancing policy, it won’t take anywhere as long to drop it I guess.

I dont think Izzy is destroying elementals, he is one of us after all

Alilinke.7690:

Does anybody know when the patch is rolling out? I can’t seem to get any info on a date.

Patch is out on 28.01. i dont know will it have this specific nerfs on our AoE.

Besides, i enjoy to be rare breed

I agree with all above!

We did recover once, but it was hard, lost like 30ish min only on that seal. Basicly we had auromancer with us who switch to staff and activate magnetic aura (reflecting projectiles) with low cd, guardian with reflecting shild, and good party. One of players went to right room and he kited chanter there around some small pillar, rest of us went kaboom on both side and we did it TO do that on 30 is like impossible, those mobs HURT!

Erasculio.2914:

Blazed.8346:

If Anet would ban anyone who exploit a glitch they would have a lot to do and lose players aswell.

They would lose exploiters, not players… And good riddance, I say. If ArenaNet were that afraid of losing exploiters, they wouldn’t have permanently banned the snowflake exploiters.

Well tbh, i dont play AC that much, but in fractals we had same person as you, player who didnt want to kill Moseman from tree, rather he would fight as it should be, on lvl 30 u shouldnt do any mistakes or u die from him fast. That same player died multiple times, then in end rage quited since he died to much and armor repairs cost silver. We were left with 4 players who killed him easly and finished fractals without tree exploit (Swamp was 3th map). Some fights in fractals are hard on high lvl, some even impossible without some tactic (like using Ash legion spy kit). I wonder how to pass dredge map without spy legion kit on lvl 50 +. IS there actualy some way to pass it or?