Guild Wars 2

Try to play with staff. You have extra dodge on fire 4 and play range. Utility skills to arcane shield, sandstorm, lightning flash. This should give you enought survivability.

I tried to play celestial and knight. It was massive dps decrease and I didn’t feel any better with survivability.

Hey Anet.

Can you please consider “normalization” of the infusions we can buy from laurel merchant?

I think there is no point to keep them as ‘+4’ when they cost 5 laurels. The wvw version, which is “5/bonus in wvw” also cost 5 lurels + some badges of honor.
In my opinion it should be like
“5 lurels = +5 stat” and
“5 lurels +something = +5 stat +some game mode based bonus”
Thats also my proposition – make them simple ‘+5 stat’ infusions.

Advantages:
1. The possibility of obtaining ‘+5 stat’ infusion, that is meta for raids for fair price of 5 laurels (I think everyone buy wvw version right now instead, becouse they don’t want to lose that 1 point).
2. Lurels sink.
3. Top infusions easier achevable for new players.
4. …?

Disadvantages:
1. Can affect the price of Stabilizing Matrix a little.
2. …?

So… What do you think?

It’s comfortable for escort. For all the other bosses “Bolt to the Heart” for more dps.
Using staff you should stay on fire to keep dps high.

So the answer is “none/escort only”.

Dodges and positioning. There is nothing above that. It requires practice.

Also low ping and high fps (some options to low/off during raids) helps with “Dodges and positioning”.

And blindly following the meta rotations is not good. You have to adapt to situation.
Practice, practice and once again… practice

I think there is no need really. The drop rate of rubies is quite low (too low in my opinion), so it should not take more then one slot.
And if Anet made it an item, it means they can have a plan for the future chained to it. Maybe some recipe.

When I change my status to “Invisible”, it cuts off the guild chats. I think it shouldn’t work like that. In some moment I want to not be seen, but I still would like to be able to read all the chats, and answer if I have a will to.
The status change to “invisible” cuts off only the guild chats.

Also, we can’t whisper to invisible people. I think that this should be changed too, but with the extra condition maybe, like:
The message will be delivered to the person who is invisible, only if that person has you on friend list.

“Invisible” is not “offline”.
Can you consider a change of this, or explain the reason it works like that?

Guild chat does not work since the morning.

over 3k hours / 1300 days

Looking for a guild for raids.
Over 15k ap (not care much), 169 mastery points. Was doing dungeons and fractals speed runs long time ago (before the change). Guildless right now. I don’t care about gold or fancy skins – can spend my resource for improvements. Languages: english, polish.

I play as elementalist (full ascended dps).
Done w1 VG once and w3 escort once (started doing raids like 2 weeks ago).

My requirements:
Open and friendly group willing to teach – I don’t like toxic behaviors.

I prefer contack in-game. If offline, you can send me a mail.

In my opinion, all the easy mode requires is to decrease the mobs dps, or rather the whole damage dealed to players. It can be realized by adding a boon with N% damage taken reduction. Simple NPC or something similar to chalange mote can give it to the group inside the instance.

The mechanics and timers should stay the same, so newbies could learn the raid as it trully is in normal mode.

Ofcourse easy mode := weak rewards.

“Ping your Li or kick”. This is how it looks like.

I killed VG once – leader allowed me to stay in group, couse “one noob is acceptable”. But even if I know what to do, there is no point to look for group until I have N+ Li… But I have to kill bosses to get Li…
Vicious circle.

It looks like the UW speed clears from gw1. “Show us X uw tokens or kick”. Noone cares if you started raiding one week ago.
Now I’m sick of looking for groups. Looks like the fun with raiding ends here for me.

Absurdo.8309:

Why do you need an easy mode to learn?

Yesterday, I beat the first boss of wing 3 with an all pug group. None of us really knew the encounter.

The only thing stopping you is you. This is literally the best time to learn since everyone has zero experience. Jump in and try it.

And how long did it take to you to find a group? Then how long did it take to you to beat the boss? I was standing in LA with LFG open for an hour or a bit more. Nothing (EU server).
The point is that with easy mode implemented, more people probably will start pugin raids. And there will be no need for meta team composition = chance for eveyone.

Why do I (and I think many others) need easy mode?

I would call myself an experienced player. I know my profession, I know the combos, skill rotations and I can use them. I was speedruning dungeons and fractals. I have ascended gear and 161 mastery points. I made a lot of things, others call hard, solo.

So where is the problem?
I don’t have a guild or friends to play with. I became casual player, due to real life, but still I would love to go there and experience new content.

So why do I need an easy mode?
It would allow me to go there with pugs, with any professions composition like in low level fractals. It would allow me to learn the mechanics. It would allow me to experience new content.

It would be a great TRAINING for newbies like me!

I don’t care about rewards. All I want is to start a game and enjoy it.
Do not send me to other content, couse I did it. Do not send me to YouTube to watch how others play to learn the raids. Do not force me to join the raiding guilds. Give me a chance to try the raids without requirement of siting there for hours looking for group and then dying inside the instance till I become disappointed and tired.

Please.

//Pardon me any language mistakes. English is not my native laguage.

Why do I (and I think many others) need easy mode?

I would call myself an experienced player. I know my profession, I know the combos, skill rotations and I can use them. I was speedruning dungeons and fractals. I have ascended gear and 161 mastery points. I made a lot of things, others call hard, solo.

So where is the problem?
I don’t have a guild or friends to play with. I became casual player, due to real life, but still I would love to go there and experience new content.

So why do I need an easy mode?
It would allow me to go there with pugs, with any professions composition like in low level fractals. It would allow me to learn the mechanics. It would allow me to experience new content.

It would be a great TRAINING for newbies like me!

I don’t care about rewards. All I want is to start a game and enjoy it.
Do not send me to other content, couse I did it. Do not send me to YouTube to watch how others play to learn the raids. Do not force me to join the raiding guilds. Give me a chance to try the raids without requirement of siting there for hours looking for group and then dying inside the instance till I become disappointed and tired.

Please.

//Pardon me any language mistakes. English is not my native laguage.