You do know staff guardian has the lowest dps and by simply LoSing mobs and using a normal melee weapon you’ll do over twice the amount of damage…
Plus the only part I could see that working is in the first basement section of CM path 1.
I love how by saying to bring a staff, I’m saying that you’ll only be using the staff, and only using that staff to attack everything through a wall of some sort. Or if we could read:
Mobile mobs you just corner pull and beat senseless as normal.
If you have long term sources of immobilize, use those on the boss when his shield goes up, then ignore him and clear the elemental adds.
Otherwise, bring a guardian or 2 with shield of the avenger and wall of reflection, work out who uses which and when, and focus down the boss shield before clearing adds so he doesn’t eat a sacrifice and heal.
Through the wall is still melee, so no it isn’t. Staff guardian just has a little extra reach than standard melee.
I don’t think mantra of concentration is terrible for Lupicus, but I prefer blink. Blink has more use in the first 2 phases, and Mesmer invulns bridge the cooldown gap on blink in phase 3.
Why would you need to drop an anti-projectile skill, when you could just melee or pseudo-melee through the wall? Mobile mobs you just corner pull and beat senseless as normal.
Cause staff dun care bout no stinking physical walls.
Bring a power focused staff guardian. This is the only instance in the game where I’ll recommend staff over every other weapon for the majority of the encounters.
Already been addressed by the devs. It’s an intended and acceptable use of the party mechanics. Learn and let live.
Aww, I go on vacation for a week and miss out, oh well. I knew it could be done with how immensely useful Feedback is and the invulns galore we get.
Send me the 600g and I will buy 600g worth of onions with it. Because they are just as useful as a precursor for a shiny toy :P But that’s my opinion heh
I have this idea that soon there will be better gear or another way to receive them, and those who spend on these overpriced things will be kicking themselves. Never hurts to wait.
Legendaries have already been stated to always equal the current best in slot. As of right now, that means on par with exotic weapons, since those are the best weapons available. When later patches eventually introduce ascended weapons for example, the legendaries will (should) be buffed to be of equal stats.
Now whether or not making a legendary will be easier or cheaper than finding those eventual ascended weapons is something I highly doubt, it’s still worth mentioning.
Now if only we could choose the stat combos we get on our legendaries, instead of being stuck with Soldier’s on every weapon.
I prefer 10 in Wilderness Survival over 5 in Beast Mastery. Cooldown on all of Lightning Reflexes, Quickening Zephyr, Muddy Terrain, and Entangle, over the pet swap Quickness, but that’s just personal preference on my runs.
Magic bullet is a waste of time you could be using auto attack. The archers deal pitiful damage and dont need to be dazed. 3 sword clones will apply at least 6 stacks more vulnerability, plus bleed stacks.
There is nothing special about the encounter. It artificially lowers damage output (quite severely for mesmers) for no reason.
You can’t have clones up on these certain encounters as bugs in the fights themselves prevent the summons from appearing. That is the focus of this thread.
They are bugs though. An issue which only affects certain professions Because of the class mechanics needs to be corrected. It’s not designed as a mechanic to prevent the use of summons, same as the ring of fire around the Arah p1 boss. It’s merely an issue that has yet to have gotten a viable solution.
They are not bugs. They are examples of terrible game design. We all like to beat up on WoW, but I cannot think of one time when this happened in WoW. And if it did, it certainly never lasted 6 months.
You can’t honestly believe that these encounters are designed to be counter to summons/companions. Anet has made quite their fair share of screw ups, but to assume this is working as intended just to counter these professions alone is plain ignorance. It’s far more likely these are yet more unintentional side effects that have yet to have been addressed.
By not stacking when the group asks you to, you’re making the party tactic fail. You survive, because you got your party killed. See: Subject Alpha. Once you truly know the bosses and their abilities, stacking gets you further faster.
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It’s the same problem with thief and stealth in dredge fractal. Many high level players are rolling a lv10 alt thief with just shadow refuge unlocked to deal with that part, and then relog with their main. I DO NOT think this is how its intended to work.
Thinking of using that as an excuse to level my Thief as my next alt tbh. Stealth is just so situationally useful over the other options I have left to level, Elementalist and Necromancer.
They are bugs though. An issue which only affects certain professions Because of the class mechanics needs to be corrected. It’s not designed as a mechanic to prevent the use of summons, same as the ring of fire around the Arah p1 boss. It’s merely an issue that has yet to have gotten a viable solution.
Mesmer weapon skills have lower damage coefficients to account for supplemental damage from either shatters or phantasms. To remove those sources is a detrimental bug that needs corrected. It does the same to Ranger pets and Necro minions.
Being able to support during boss fights (and dropping Time Warp I don’t consider being supportive) doesn’t justify having a class mechanic completely broken for a “mini-boss”.
You also don’t seem to realize that damage output from Guardian scepter is higher than the other options save greatsword. Pvp, it’s ineffective and easily strafed. However, pve mobs aren’t nearly as bright.
Wait, people are having problems with knockdown here? How? I’ve run through that place on my Ranger and my Guardian and I’ve almost never gotten knocked down. Are people forgetting to dodge or something?
You don’t have issues with knockdowns on 2 professions with the best access to Stability? This is my surprised face.
I’m going to chalk the above post to not understanding either of the professions mentioned.
3. Turns off melee attack assist and has aggressive melee summons either pacified or removed (cannot disable their melee attack assists).
Low leveled players looking for difficult content before hitting their character level cap are in the vast minority. Your anecdote does not represent the feelings of most of the playerbase, regardless of how much I may agree with you.
The dungeons are particularly buggy though as well, which is very bad for an update hitting the live server that’s so significantly different than the prior. Once they’re ironed out, I’ll love the new engaging AC. Again however, we are not the majority.
The Jade Maw also targets minions like crazy. I thought they said they fixed it?
That’s intended. The Maw is supposed to target summons.
CM is quite possibly the least ran dungeon, right alongside SE. It’s not terrible once you’re familiar with it, but it doesn’t provide good armor stat combos or money per se, so most don’t bother.
I still say 20/25/0/0/25 would reach your optimal GS output. I can’t justify empowered for a low flat % damage over 15% crit damage when we don’t know exactly where in the damage formula empowered applies itself. GW2 compounds a lot of its values rather than running them additively.
I still can’t understand why you would slot offhand Sword with a mainhand Axe over either Mace or another Axe.
So which of you rangers wanna join my CoF p1 farm team to test pet damage.
With my team:
Your pet will get 25 might
No it won’t. AoE buffs apply to party members before npcs/companions. Most party buffs have an AoE cap of 5 allies.
With boon sharing trait + RaO, a pet can hit 25 might in no time from just the Ranger, but some setup time is still involved.
My guild leader recently got Storm from a dungeon chest in Arah. I’ve also seen party members get precursors from CoF p1 farming runs. So yes, if it’s possible to drop a level 80 exotic, it’s also possible to drop a precursor.
and, any news yet? =)
I’m still asking in nearly every thread for people to post a video of doing rumblus successfully with interrupts, because I couldn’t get it to work after the so called fix. if they really fixed it, I don’t know what I’m doing wrong, no defiant, interrupt is displayed, defiant gets up againt, but rocks still fall and kill everyone.Why interrupt? You get the most damage time while Rumblus is screaming away. Find a way to make sure Grast lives to cast and casts his bubble.
because I’ve only seen him once casting the bubble in time. I usually give him stability
to survive the first 2 rocks (if you’re lucky and only two hit him), while he still winds up his hammer attack.
but if he doesn’t start casting the shield immediately after, he and everybody is gonna be dead. then you can try to ress him, where he charges in with 50% health and dies if 2 rocks hit. If you give him regen/protection he can hold out a second or two longer, but not long enough for his hammer attack to complete and start casting the shield.but ok, if you see a way to make him cast the bubble in time, please share. I don’t really care which way, I’d just like to see a clean run using normal tactics (interrupts, something to keep grast alive, w/e) without being to dependent on certain classes.
It’s a problem, for sure, no one can argue that. Mainly because of his wind-up hammer attack that he MUST complete before he puts up his shield. If he gets interrupted/knocked down/knocked back during the animation for that particular skill, then your party is most likely going to need to reset. He will just run back to Rumblus, and repeatedly try that hammer strike until it’s successful, as if it’s part of a chain required to summon the bubble.
The best stability option here is Hallowed Ground. AoE buffs were patched to be shared with all party members in range before npcs/summons, all of which being capped at 5. So Hallowed Ground makes it easiest to ensure Grast actually receives the stability boon.
If you’re feeling particularly enthusiastic, quickness helps also (he executes that annoying hammer swing quicker, moving to the bubble sooner). But that’s more difficult to get to apply to Grast over the rest of the party.
Make sure your group has good damage along with that particular utility set up (2 Guardians is better than 1 here) and Rumblus should die within 2 of Grast’s bubbles.
There is nothing ranger offers to the group that a guardian, mesmer, or warrior can’t do better other then maybe rezzing a fail group in the first place. Far from the best PvE class.
If those 3 classes are the best, then why use any other? Why just tell Rangers to get lost, and not Elementalists and Thieves? Because after all, Warriors do better DPS than thieves and Guardians are better support than elementalists.
That’s essentially the point. Warriors, and Guardians are all that’s necessary for any of the dungeons in the game. If it weren’t for Time Warp, even Mesmers wouldn’t have a spot (while their damage isn’t as low tier as other classes). Time Warp essentially turns 4 Warriors into 8 Warriors for 10 seconds (which is the majority of any boss fight if your dps is high enough) or they’d just run 5 Warriors.
Other classes are more viable in certain SPvP or WvW scenarios, but in dungeons, your best bet is Warrior, Guardian, or Mesmer.
In the time you spent trying to gather 35s to do this run, I leveled my Guardian from 30 to 80 from AC, CM, and CoF =|.
and, any news yet? =)
I’m still asking in nearly every thread for people to post a video of doing rumblus successfully with interrupts, because I couldn’t get it to work after the so called fix. if they really fixed it, I don’t know what I’m doing wrong, no defiant, interrupt is displayed, defiant gets up againt, but rocks still fall and kill everyone.
Why interrupt? You get the most damage time while Rumblus is screaming away. Find a way to make sure Grast lives to cast and casts his bubble.
99% of those “zerk exotic” warriors just plain sucks and can’t even maintain full dps and just autoattack with gs most of the time like idiots.
As ranger to get highest dps you probably need 1h sword, 2 cats as pets. Avoid bows, dps is just plain bad, I have better dps on greatsword…Look also for traps, you can make with them some ice fields and fire fields. With the new changes to fire and frost shield it makes them very usefull. Remeber that you have leap finishers and drakes have blast ones.
While I’ll agree with needing sword mainhand, cat pets, and utilizing traps thanks to the changes recently, 2 points bug me.
Drakes are unreliable. The blast finisher isn’t on demand and has a substantially large cooldown, not worth counting on.
Shortbow dps beats out Greatsword dps on a single target or targets that can be stacked for piercing arrows. Greatsword is just horrible damage period. The evade is wonderous, but the damage leaves much to be desired.
That said, Ranger can’t even see the damage pedestal Warriors sit upon in dungeons. If you want to have an easy time finding dungeon groups for any dungeon, rolling a Warrior, Guardian, or Mesmer is your best bet (then learn to play the class of your choice competently please).
Asura Warrior is best Warrior.
Male or female matters less, but female Asura do have the better hair options. The gear is essentially the same for everything between male and female asura, with female being ever so slightly more slender.
On topic, I feel as if devs buffed the greatsword on par to the damage of the spear. That would make me very happy.
I could get behind that. It’d put Ranger greatsword damage only slightly behind Guardian greatsword damage to account for the built in evade on auto attack (which is a godsend for an otherwise lackluster weapon).
- GS has “better” #2 ~ #4 skills
Staff has the better 2 and 3 skills as well. Phase Retreat is a much better skill for a condition build than Mirror Blade. You want to stay away from your target while conditions do their thing. iWarlock is far better than Mind Stab (gs), unless you enjoy being rooted.
Greatsword is much better at applying bleeds, but the problem with bleeds is even single condition removers get rid of all stacks at once. A decent player with a condition remover isn’t going to notice the bleeding at all, a mesmer doesn’t have enough “covering” conditions to get in the way of cleansing, especially when using greatsword or mainhand sword.
Feel free to level a Warrior. You’ll find your dungeon life much better in all aspects from that point on. You can’t beat them, might as well join them.
Now greatsword vs sword is really signifcant too. Ofcourse the sword does lower damage but if you count in speed and mobility it can out do a greatsword pretty quickly.
What do you guys think? Am I the only who thinks great-sword is pretty weak atm
Ranger greatsword is terribly weak. Even with the “buffs” to Maul and Swoop, the damage output is poor at best. Hit for hit, single hand sword hits harder with a significantly higher attack rate. If it weren’t for the rooting on sword mainhand, I’d never have even thought about using anything else.
It can be interrupted, that’s the method we use since as you mentioned, Grast is unreliable.
Grast is reliable enough if you have workarounds. He does need some massive improvements though. Rumblus can be easily killed within the time span for 2 of Grast’s bubbles.
This guy is a bit annoying. Daze could interrupt his heals.
Daze only interrupts his heal if all Defiant stacks are gone, just like any other cc.
If he’s Superheated he’ll Stun himself when he attempts to heal. No cc abilities needed.
The above is the same for the Dredge Mining Suit as well.
sword ranger with 30bm and a jaguar pet will give you the most dps, and with a total of 4 evades/dodges, you’;ll survive pretty kitten well.
I still cannot believe how people still use a longbow only with bear pets running 30/30/x/x/x. and yet they still claim to have great dps, it’s just shocking.Not sure why anyone runs 30/30/x/x/x period.
20/20 sure……
and I suppose 30/20 might be ok, But going 30 in skirmishing for anything but Trap Build seems like a waste.
You 30 in Skirmishing because that’s the crit damage trait line, which conveniently enough actually comes along with precision (I’m looking at you Guardian). 10% crit damage alone is better than any single major trait Ranger has in any trait line (obviously assuming direct damage is your goal).
Same applies to any profession building for damage. Incorporate the crit damage trait line as much as possible.
30/30/x/x/x builds are so common because they’re efficient at what they do. They maximize the reliable, albeit sub par, damage that comes directly from the Ranger. With the pets being as situationally kitten as they are, it’s better to build what you can depend on, and make due with what you can’t.
Rangers are already easymode in open world pve. Making the pet able to dodge on its own keying only helps where pets actually risk death.
I would still rather the option for my Ranger to be pet less. But since that isn’t gonna happen, a separate dodge is next best. There would need to be a direct indicator of the pet’s endurance and boons on the Ranger’s GUI.
I don’t believe companions can trigger the braziers, but they can destroy the controller. We’ve had Ranger pets and Necro minions kill the controller while the player filled a brazier slot. True story: Flesh Golem is amazing at destroying inanimate objects.
Path 1 is 4 man-able if you have a Ranger or Necro in the party. I don’t believe the braziers can be completed with less than 4 though.
Path 2 is doable easily with 4, with less for an experienced group.
I suspect path 3 is doable with less than full as well, but my guild has not tried that one yet.
Mesmer easily has 100% vigor uptime, so dodging is a non issue if you learn to time Blurred Frenzy. More hp isn’t necessary if you can not get hit (easily done on Mesmer).
@ Kandolo: I personally wouldn’t take Wastrel’s Punishment. I’d take those 5 points and the 5 in Chaos to Illusions for Compounding Illusions instead.
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Lion’s Arch is a much better place to show off legendaries and rare skins. In WvW, the rendering issues won’t even show your char to the enemy half the time, let alone what weapon you’re wielding.
Just remember the 5 D’s of GW2: dodge, dip, duck, dive and dodge.
If you can dodge a wipe, you can dodge a ball?
Ranger greatsword hits like a wet noodle. Anyone claiming otherwise really has no idea how to do math.
If you have a regular experienced group you dungeon with, then AC, CM, and TA are all easily doable while under leveled. If you’re pugging it though, don’t try to level via dungeons. CoF farm on your main, and use the money to craft your alt to 80.
Sure, make the problem the portal guns. Let’s ignore the players who are purposefully cheesing the game, it’s the portal guns’ fault.
I used to use this dungeon to level up my characters past 40, i doubt any parties would take me now, as this dungeon is right now, no one wants someone lower than 80.
Currently leveling my guardian in AC and CM. It’s slightly more difficult than my 80’s, but not by a significant portion. However, if you’re inexperienced, lvl 80 or not, AC is much more of a wakeup call than it used to be.
Yeah. I like how Hodgins’ assistance to the fight not only does insta-kill the adds, it also gives the players areas they can’t use or become collateral damage.
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