Guild Wars 2

Eh thank you but I think the game hasn’t changed enough to being me back just yet. Thanks again ppl.

I’m thinking of returning to the game after a year long hiatus. My question is (since the reason I quit was the GW2 team doing nothing but adding more skins to the game) Has anything been added that actually effects gameplay? For example new class skills and traits (I left after the initial GM traits were added) or are they still just adding maps and skins?

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Oh so true. I can’t read words other than “exploit” “elitist” and “scammed”.

My kitten is so large because it must compensate for my lack of one irl. I get it. It’s a problem I’m working with my therapist on.

I always find it funny when people get angry at you about being an “elitist”.

Chaos.3579:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

No. Selling paths should not be bannable.

About the names, I never get kicked, but I always screen shot the account names of every. Single. Pug. Even if it’s just a cof run.

Next, ALWAYS. ALWAYS. Open the dungeon yourself. Always.

no selling paths should not be sellable. it incentives people to scam other people by kicking them.
if you could not sell a dungeon path this kind of crap would nearly never happen

It would be wrong to deny competent ppl or guilds who want to sell. The incentive to scam people comes from the jack kitten kicking system not he ability to sell Paths/Fracs

Ascended weapons and made account bound making account crafting useless the only real things account bound crafting would do is to remove a way to level (Not that leveling isn’t easy enough already).

Flissy.4093:

Can’t do anything, but you can make sure he doesn’t get anything out of it when it happens again by joining with a friend and then kicking him.

I always play with 2 friends, kittening love kick wars. Had someone attempt that with my group spent a good 5 min kicking him and letting him rejoin so we could kick him again. Best part of this game IMO.

Phadde.7362:

I saw someone suggest a great idea in another thread to increase dungeon difficulty:

3-man or 4-man the dungeon! I think it’s a splendid idea! Easier to find a full group, with good members. Your impact becomes greater, etc.

Thats nice but the point of hard mode is harder challenge for better reward.

VideoGamermike.5813:

Read the thread, tis not the difficulty, its that your forced to take a mesmer or theif with specific skills, if you don’t have them, you can’t win reasonably.

Then yea I agree I hate this fractal the mechanics in it suck and for some reason people can’t seem to stay out of the aoe on the last boss.

Hot tip: Stop back peddling turn and run out of aoes, don’t even need to roll

fishball.7204:

Good flippers stop flipping once they realize speculating is much more lucrative and less time consuming.

This.

Same Ive never got it next time it happens to you get some screens unless you can be specific enough and show examples anet will never fix it, well, even if you are they woun’t but hell its worth a try.

Your right there is no excuse same with the crystal bug in CoE anet needs to get their kitten together and actually fix their game. But that being said PSA wait, always wait for npcs.

Dub.1273:

You will fail at everything when taking time into account.

Yea I enjoy speed clearing but hell man let casual players play casually without being a prick.

The re spawn is pretty slow and you can clear one side to free up the party to 3 man the other while a mesmer or thief stealth the switch. Not that I like this fractal it can burn in hell but its not as hard as people think.

Welcome to GW2 were the mechanics suck and the rewards don’t matter.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Creating-a-Fractal-Group/first#post3957421

Check out that post, gives some good info on what classes bring what.

Pacer.6143:

Pure GS 6/6/0/2/0 with or without ea is imho the best for dungeons ofc. with sword+warhorn for exstra mobility and swiftness+weakness (lots of stacking places). While I wouldn’t use this for fractals….

The main problem with this build is managing HB. Pure GS has to get off full HBs on cooldown in order for it to actually be a DPS increase but in most dungeon situations as long as you make sure you don’t have to dodge before poping it, that shouldn’t be a big problem.

sinzer.4018:

tbh i do think all our off hands are pretty lackluster :p

I like the look of dual axes, axe 4 has my fave animation as you’re using both hands.

This isn’t true its just no offhand works for everything

• Mace gives you a cleave vlun and KD for trash mobs and some bosses
• Sword gives you a block while maintaining DW
• Warhorn is good for trash mobs due to its AoE Weakness and Vigor
• Axe 5 when used in large groups (5 or more? I’m not sure) is actually a DPS increase
• Shield is useful for running, especially in a solo setting

Axe and shield happen to be the worst choice of off hands even with the new DWA trait. Sorry about the double post I really need to finish reading threads before posting :/.

sinzer.4018:

Simon.3794:

sinzer.4018:

There is a use for axe 5 in the grawl fractal on the last boss to strip its shield before it kills a hostage. This is the ony time i use axe offhand.

i dont believe it works that way anymore. now one skill count as one attack

When would you say it changed? I’ve not had that fractal in a few months. If that’s the case it’ll be time to salvage that axe.

It didn’t if that was the case 100b would be the same way and it isn’t.

This thread needs to die, its just people bickering at this point.

Miku Lawrence.6329:

Rym.1469:

No, we don’t want that in GW2. There’re enough zerker checks.

Sadly not enough.

There are no real in game checks the only for sure one is pinging which no one likes especially when the fix is so easy (inspect option). The only actual tool GW2 gives for player filtering is adverts which I’m not saying is unwanted but it just isn’t enough. And again I only used Gearscore as an example this thread is about in game player filtering tools.

• Changed the title so people will stop with Gearscore comments *

rainynoble.6531:

Just need titles after 50th/100th run in a specific dungeon.

Dungeon master title is a joke.

A tool would be better adding too many titles ruins the point of them. And yes I agree it is but hey at least you know they did it. Probably.

CoE has longer paths but the rewards are good (+ the chance at charged cores/stones) So I make it part of my routine.

Yea unfortunately as far as weapons ar concerned sword on warriors just isn’t even close to top dps and the meta that’s in place today doesn’t allow for it in SC or Zerk groups. That being said in SPvP I run dual sword for the conditions and in some builds swords are used in your offset for the mobility. Offhand sword also has a place in soloing for the block.

The main problem with swords is that in order to maximize the damage you have to run a hybrid build and pure physical damage is just better then hybrid at the moment.

DonQuack.9025:

stachekiller.2591:

“speed clear, please be experienced”

In my experience that usually means
Rangers- No spotter, No spirits, Always Longbow
Ele- Staff Water Magic Frozen Ground
Engi- MORE FLAMESSSSSSS
Mesmer- I cast Clone I cast Clone
Warrior- Cant really complain atleast they usually carry fgj
Guardian- All spirit weapon all the times
Me- FGS dropped finish 1 rotation and is confused as to why non boss mobs are alive. Realises is only one in melee range.

Only conclusion… Said lfg’s are traps.

I was in CoE P2 the other day doing the Evolved Husk and out mesmer was jumping around killing everything including the golems and when I asked them to stop they replied “I guess you’ve never seen a shatter mesmer”. Control your class.

Jhughes.8341:

What is it? For each dungeon? I know a few are probably similar or exactly the same comps, but what is THE fastest possible team assuming perfect rotations and synergy with no errors. I’m mainly curious about cof, ac, ta, and manor

What your asking for isn’t really something that can be put down if you want information like that you need a leader board for things like that and I for one have no idea if there is anything like that.

ArthurDent.9538:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs4LsSLv9jc

not nearly as fast but no fgs use

Use the force Cooo!

Meryn.6875:

Mitch.4781:

I just don’t get it; I don’t. I’m HOPING with the potential release of Magumma that some NEW 3 path dungeons will be implemented with appropriate sets of armour, or at least some HIGH level, permanent content.

dont hope, it will only dissapoint. Its been almost 2 years, and it feels like this game is still within beta.

I wouldn’t say within beta but yes this game needs some actual new content it just throws me how little this game has expanded in 2 years.

Is it sad that I solo P2 all the time and I’ve never even thought about this?

zaw.6741:

gearsscore/inspect? no!
way to check skill/experience? yes please ! can be hard to earn titles or tonics, whatever. just unavailable to dungeon buyers.

I used gearscore just as a reference inspect is what I really mean and the problem is looking for a group asking for things like dungeon master titles would take way too long I want a way to check the players in my group. Yes gear doesn’t always = skill but its an okay way to filter players. And for the record I don’t just run speed clear elitist groups but when i’m doing my daily’s i’d like to reduce the headache that is new players.

aceboogie.4031:

Well if not anything else, you resolved my issue of who is worse.

Thanks for introducing yourself.

Lilith being a bad person lol you don’t spend much time on the forums do you?

Jerus.4350:

DonQuack.9025:

Jerus.4350:

GW2 is the worst community I’ve seen in an MMO, No way in hell would I trust someone to pay after completion. When you’re in a community you can’t trust to even read (lfg notes people, they are meant to be read)I woudln’t trust them with anything.

Must not have played many mmo’s

Well, I stuck well away from WoW so… yeah, I guess i haven’t seen the worst, but just yeah… the lack of compassion in this community is pretty bad. As a seller I see people trying to get in and not pay far more often than I would expect. And just as a player PUGing i see people ignore the LFG notes more often than I see people fit what was asked for.

So maybe I’m spoiled but I’m use to people sending tells and asking “hey, i’m in valkyrie, but I know the dungeon if you’ll take me” or just not even trying to join the group. So again, maybe I’m spoiled but the community is very rough here and i would not trust a stranger in this game personally.

There needs to be a PSA for what adverts really mean I always hate it when people join zerk groups as a Sword/Sheild warrior and say hey, I have zerk armor. And the amount of people who don’t know what SC means makes me sad.

Your right about the thread so I apologize about my previous post but IMO the harder something is the more rewarding it should be, soloing is one of the hardest things to do in this game if not the hardest. So making other farms (Which are almost all mind numbing easy) shouldn’t have the same income as soloing. I go back to what I said before they did the hard work, even if they can do it well now it took time and effort to learn, they should be able to reap the rewards.

Lapiy.7160:

I don’t like Arah sellers mostly because they make most there gold off of people who have never tried the dungeon and never will because they never see a normal group posted up in the lfg, all they see is a bunch of sellers and a few “Melee lupi noobs will be kicked” posts. People think the dungeon is to hard for normal people because there is no group posted for a normal group when the dungeon is really not that hard as a 5 man, its only hard until you learn how it works. Lupi can be ranged much easier then melee and alot of the “hard” parts just have to be explained once and practiced a few times to learn. But the lfg has made it look like arah is some super hardcore dungeon that only pro’s can do and gold sellers are taking advantage and making gold off this illusion. I can post a lfg for a lvl 50 fractal and get a group faster then posting p2 on the arah lfg because no one looks there anymore and I find that pretty sad.

If people want to play arah and theirs no path set up make your own advert. Running isn’t against gw2 policy and if people want to pay their way though a game who are you to say they can’t? Just be glad gw2 implemented a lfg system at all (It wasn’t in gw1).

There needs to be a tool put in place for people to better control their groups. Someway other party members gear, traits, ect. Too many people just don’t get the tells on LFG adverts or don’t care. And secondly for that matter instance leads need better control over the group (Kicking and such).

I know this is a horse beaten to all hell but unless people keep bringing it up day after day it’ll never change.

Phadde.7362:

Taygus.4571:

It’s very annoying when you’re looking to pug the dungeon and all you see is group after group, selling the path. It makes it harder to see a legit group.

This, and I despise the fact that some of the groups that are selling might actually have just kicked a member at the end. (May not be occurring as much as I think though)

People who abuse the kick system should be banned yes BUT have you tried soloing? It’s a tough thing to learn and even when you do your reaction has to be spot on. People who legit solo arah paths deserve to be able to sell it

FGS wielding tree FEAR YOUR PLANT OVERLORDS.

guanlongwucaii.3162:

why?
http://youtu.be/xFVdvXGIT34

Tricky tricky! nty son.

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

serialkicker.5274:

Zylonite.5913:

what is the point of LFG tool.

I ask that myself many times, since 80% of my lfg descriptions are ignored. If I want guardian, I’ll get everything but guardian. If I want ele, I’ll get everything but ele. If I want experienced only, I’ll get necro with 1000 ap that says “Oh, I haven’t done this dungeon, but I’ve done others”…
If I just put “p1” in description for example, then I don’t care who joins, I never kick anyone, but if I explecitly ask for something, then don’t ignore that. The worst part is that most of them actually read description, but they choose to simply ignore it, which then leads into kick and then probably some of them come here to make topic of how they were kicked for no reason.

I once did a “experienced zerk only, must know how to melee lupi and do all skips first try” LFG and got a guy who joined and asked me where Arah was, then asked me if it’s far from Queensdale.

He was level 80 too.

lol champ trained to 80 much?

Oh GW1 running 1/2 at first zone 1/2 at second I miss the prime days of EotN tours.

That guide is awesome but too bad I rolled a human warrior lol.

Jerus.4350:

It’s black market trade. it’s unfortunate but it’s to be expected I guess.

I’d love so much if a game came out and made being a Mercenary part of the game. Let people hire eachother out for tasks =).

I wouldn’t be opposed to this in games I always enjoyed using services to make gold and this would give the buyer more control over what they want. Very good idea.

Azure Fang.8605:

I’ve played since Guild Wars launch and never once dealt with dungeon selling. Personally, I think it’s childish. If you’re already planning on going through the dungeon, you’re already looking for a group. Now you’re charging a fee for the privilege to group with you? In the case you weren’t planning on going through the dungeon and just taxi’ing, I’d question how hard you’d be playing the instance and why you didn’t just go do some other content you actually wanted to do.

But hey, that’s just me.

GW1 Mission/Dungeon running and selling slots it was a thing and I did it. If your good enough to solo/duo instances and other people want to waste their gold by paying for their stuff its up to them not you or anyone else. Just deal with it and be happy with the knowledge that you actually worked for what you have.

GDKP anyone? Some good times in WoW.

I wonder if this works with immobile tonics, FGS rush not needing a wall? Time to try this.

Yaki.9563:

robertul.3679:

Pugging AC is solid proof people hate themselves. It’s one of the worst things you can do.

I pug AC with no issues. On my guardian.

Agreed I just advert “All Paths SC Zerk Exp. only” and its rare when i get a stupid player.

BurrTheKing.8571:

Warlord.9074:

Burr is right.

15 char

IMO the only good grandmaster trait we got was the might sharing trait. All other traits are either not needed or underwhelming.

I’m actually finding decent synergy with Shake it off + Shrug it Off with Rousing Resilience because it actually triggers on ANYTHING that warrants using a stun break like daze and knockback.

Agreed I’m using a shout healing tank build for decap and every time I stun break its like a free endure pain.

Xae Isareth.1364:

If you’re going pure axe, I think Dual Wield agility is definitely something you want to take.

There’s a lot of cases in the game where you want to go pure axe really. Like the before-mentioned fotm fight in a pug, or Mossman in general at 40+, its a complete losing battle trying to land 100b in that mess, so GS DPS ends up on the bottom of the sea.

I don’t think the aim of the developers should be to change the meta. Heck, I hate the idea of a ‘metabuild’ which everyone should take. It should be different builds for different situations, you can never balance the game properly if you’re just going to put pretty much every build under the who-has-more-DPS game, because no matter what you do, there’s always a build which will have higher DPS.

Meta just means its a widely accepted build in fact if you really want to get down to it if everyone was a smart player and understood that there are different situations which call for different builds THAT would be the “meta”.

SrebX.6498:

Awesome. I’ve been playing pure GS so far anyway, I really hate using Axe…
Does anyone know what’s the rotation?

Should watch the vid he explains it but basically is use 2-5 on cd auto in between with one trick to increase dps trying to get the 1st auto chain inbetween skills.

Eh you’ve seen my previous post its anet.

Pip.2094:

PowerCat.5738:

They said the same thing about level 1 fractals, and there’s still a lot of level 1 groups

Because they can get an insanely easy daily reward from it? While story mode gives such a puny, meaningless reward that NO ONE in the world would run it as much, other than using story modes to grab xp for new chars.

Which can be just as easily done in exp via swapping.

Mystic.5934:

+1 to Astral’s explanation
Repair canisters should only be used in places like final bosses in dungeons – where you can’t repair. same for reviver orb.

Revive orbs a used only to go to jail in rata imo.