Guild Wars 2

Oxidia.8103:

Every now and then i enter a path sellers lfg and say they should be ashamed of themselves. Then exit the group.

Every time i see a staff ele i force myself not to vote kick it from a dungeon, instead i grind my teeth and watch it how he/she spams fireballs with no attument switch ever and then die max range from all of us. Then i don’t res him/her the whole run because f you start using dodge and stop checking your facebook.

I do the same from above when a necro is in a group. Or a ranger. Because max range-spamming 1 rocks.

I change my armor’s apperance way to often. Sometimes weekly.

After i flushed 200gold in mystic forge and only got a few pearl exotics i quit playing for 2 months.

I like like world completion it relaxes me.

I strongly resent people who ping precursor drops on world boss event. I’m jelous besause in 2 years of playing the most expensive item that dropped to me is a hammer worth 20 gold.

I like running fractals even tho i know i’m going to get a uninfused ring on lvl 50.

Once i vote kicked afk-er on the phone after being afk for 10 min because i wanted to finish asuran fractal because Mentalist was on in 30 min on tv and i wanted to watch it.

This post is filled with so much fail.

Paragraph 1: Ever actually enter the path to see if the person completed every boss, aka legit solo’d the path? Because when I sell Arah, I complete the path. When I check other parties, I’d say 75% are legit sellers

Paragraph 2: Staff ele camping fire is actually the highest personal DPS build in the game. Usually you bring it when you have a second ele in the group (the other will run scepter for might stacking) or if the ele wants a relaxed playstyle build.

Paragraph 3: Well, I can’t disagree with you here. Though you should actually check to see if the ranger is running Sword/Warhorn or /axe and using frost spirit and spotter, because that’s actually a good build.

And the rest is just things you enjoy doing, minus the mystic forge (your RNG isn’t that bad) and the fractal kicking (patience please.)

When I’m bored, sometimes I will join a group of complete first timers and carry them through Arah. To make it more fun, I limit myself to no chat, only emotes. (/e emotes aren’t allowed) I usually do this with path 4, but today I was only able to find a p1/2 group, but it was still pretty interesting..

For starters, they didn’t even know about the detonator to blow up the mobs. In path 1, when I killed them they thought I did some crazy move to kill them all (this is after soloing Ooze/Champs after they all wiped). They didn’t learn about the button until path 2…

Also, somewhere along the way, I picked up the nickname “Legendary Mime Unicorn Thief.” I like it.

Is there a bingo card for the thief forums like the dungeon forums? This would win instantly.

Boldor Aran.8543:

My build is all power toughness vitality with a bit of precision. I have 29k health and 3.6 toughness, 1.8k shout heal. So today I did my usual trot along to get to the commander in wvw.

A thief cloaks onto me and killed me in exactly 6 seconds, now before I enquire about how it can cut a heavy tank to ribbons so quickly, he took a full volley of 100 blades at 70% critical chance and lost about 20% health.

Right from the start we can see something is horribly wrong with your numbers. There is no way, that if you build full PVT with a “bit” of precision, you will hit 70% crit chance. Even with fury. Next, assuming he did eat a full hundred blades (which if we assume this was a skilled thief, he would not) there is no way that he could only lose 20% health. Likely scenarios? You were standing in black powder, and missing most of your hits. More likely? He simply wasn’t getting hit by your 100b. Just dodged behind you and attacked from there.

Next up, you say that he killed you in exactly six seconds.. How do you know this so precisely? Either you have a video of the fight (which I’d like to see) or you must have stood there calmly counting the seconds of the fight while he was killing you.. Which might explain why he killed you so quickly, if you just stood there.

Throughout your post, you specifically say a few times that you are using the legendary greatsword Sunrise, as if it is supposed to be more powerful than other greatswords. Legendary weapons are just as powerful as other ascended weapons, so that part makes no difference.

Boldor Aran.8543:

Despite this it still shows that in one million scenarios I would not be able to kill him once

The reason you would never beat him is simply because he is that much better than you. The thief isn’t some super duper OP faceroll win class, you’re simply flustered because you got killed a few times by someone who is better than you, and, much akin to a flustered child who exaggerates everything, you also are exaggerating everything about that fight.

TL;DR?
L2P

Gaile Gray is carrying Anet’s commuication harder than I carry pugs in Arah

Trice.4598:

Talyn.3295:

The old one isn’t even cold in the ground yet, and we already got another one starting

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Meta-s-and-exploits-are-killing-this-game/first#post5066646

/sigh

I am starting to think its not so much the game as it is most of the people in it that I am getting tired of.

I didn’t want to but had to reply to this cancerous Nemesis video.

*You talk about Corner stacking, yet show a record run with clearly not a single Corner stack. Then you call perma CC an exploits (after complaining last year about CC not being meta). Then you call using terrain an exploits, while this being a fricking action MMO meant to use the terrain to fight.

But you didn’t stop there, you then talk about “freezing” boss while showing a boss being chained immobilize, which is using the game mechanic in a creative way instead of just tanking and spanking.

But that wasn’t enough, you show footage of YOU in a group exploiting mossman underwater (which no meta group does) then wipe countless time at the ice elemental because your team wasn’t able to provide the support a meta group does (you joined a meta group while not being meta, you deserved a kick there just for lying)
and corner stacking in aetherblade fractal.

You also claim the meta is so easy but couldn’t show a video of yourself succeeding in this so called meta.

I could keep going on but this post is already long enough.*

Everything in his video is wrong, EVERYTHING, I’m really starting to think MMO’s aren’t for me if this is the kind of people they are made for, I would really like to see how GW2 would end up if this guy was giving any kind of control on the gameplay.

These are my EXACT thoughts on this video, word for word.

I’ll go and hit that plus one button, even though nobody will ever see that I did.

Though the Conjure that was both Fiery and Great has fallen, we must not forget it’s Icy brother who gives us five seconds to act and shower larger enemies with it’s righteous Storm!

I think the solution is to let yourself die again then wait a few seconds, then waypoint again. That’s at least what works for me during group runs, except you need the whole party to wipe

Aleth.9630:

What about the Champion Risen Knight in Arah p4? How does its AI work exactly? I don’t remember it “pathing” to players normally, but in goated p4 runs I remember seeing it port on players after they’ve done the orb events. How does that work?

The Champion Risen Knight is a special enigma of its own.. few can escape his teleporting abilities, even fewer understand it.

I make my lfgs say “elitist jerks only.” Works like a charm.

Stompy.1387:

Stompy.1387:

sooooooooooooo……..

As for my regular bump, this bug is still an issue and needs to be addressed.

Yes, because nerfing the hell out of two classes in particular is a good idea.

When you suggest a change like this, keep balance in mind, and suggest other things to keep the game balanced.

I doubt this person wanted an extra gear slot. Just a cosmetic change. IIRC, in Runescape there is a NPC that allows you to combine certain headgear, such as glasses and a fake beard. Maybe something similar could work here?

Katary.7096:

xDudisx.5914:

It is good to have some bosses with different ranged and melee skills, but why does the melee have to always be weaker than the ranged?

According to gw2dungeons.net, phase 2 Lupi has:
Lupine Blast (ranged) ~9700 damage + 2 secs poison vs. Vicious Slash (melee) ~18400 damage + 30 secs bleeding (3 stacks) + ~3secs cc

Obviously Blast can hit targets which are further away, but that is the inherent advantage of ranged skills. Apart from that, at which point is his melee skill weaker than the ranged one?

It is weaker in terms of cast time, recharge time, aftercast delay, etc.

I don’t see why this is an issue. Even if you’re a dedicated support player, if you’re not doing enough damage to at least ONE mob, you’re doing something horribly wrong. There is no reason as to why you can’t both provide boons/healing and do damage. If you’re not, you’re just wasting all that time standing there after you’ve used all your support skills.

We have seen one encounter, there is no way to make an overall judgement yet.

Weakening Charge has three hits, and it is quite possible to land six back to back hits on a small target without any sort of teleportation skills. The trick is good positioning, not targeting the enemy, and aiming the camera straight down. I do it in the video I linked below here.

https://youtu.be/5T7ApkLgtHY

Edit: Walls can also make it much easier.

It has been nearly two months since Lupicus’s Necrid Bolt has been changed. While I do understand and appreciate the fact that it takes a lot of work to fix bugs like these, I would appreciate if we could get an official response relatively soon regarding at least whether or not the change to Necrid Bolt was intentional, and if it was not, the future plans regarding Necrid Bolt.

I’m running out of unique responses to the thread for bumping (it’s been three months, cut me some slack) sooooo I’m just going to copy paste from now on I guess.

As for my regular bump, this bug is still an issue and needs to be addressed.

So are Necros. Necros are great, Anet – Don’t nerf them!!!

1. Press Y, look on the left. There is an in game LFG tool now. That website was used before the tool came out.

2. You could start at around level 30, but since you will be much weaker than level 80s (yes, there is a system that downlevels the 80’s to 30, but they will still be much stronger due to having more traits/better gear) you should just wait until level 80 to start running dungeons.

3. You should have at least most of your professions weapons, so you can swap them out as the situation calls for it. Don’t worry about the stats on the gear to start out, but be informed that any decent group will want you to be wearing berserker gear, or in the case of mesmers, assassin gear.

4. World v World also has a team aspect to it, especially if you hop on your servers teamspeak and run with an organized group. And of course PvP has a team aspect, since you’re on teams, competing against another team.

Welcome to Guild Wars 2!

Minicus Lupicus. ’nuff said.

Solution: remove the merge party button. It serves no useful purpose, really.

Arenanet doesn’t even have to put any bugfixing effort in to their “fix” this way. Yay.

Tiddles.1602:

Oh and one other question would she be able to get in the same guild as me even if we were on a different server ???

Yes. The only thing that matters for servers these days (used to be different in the past) is that for World vs World, players are divided by server. Other than that, people on any server can play together at all times.

EDIT: Do note that NA and EU are completely split and independent, but that should be obvious enough.

Nope.

Get a sample size of at least 1000 before you try to make any claims like this, otherwise it can just be blown off as RNG.

/thread

The current meta, in terms of composition, is two elementalists, a warrior, and the last two spots vary. Usually at least one is a thief, and then the other can be a guardian, mesmer, ranger, or engineer, depending on what you need.

It would also help to know what class you play. Ele, for example, had FGS nerfed so it’s no longer useful for anything other than mobility. Instead, everything gets Ice Bow’d to death now. Usually groups take either two s/f or s/d eles or one and a staff ele.

Warriors had a big adrenaline nerf and a greatsword damage nerf, but I think GS is still the way to go. Axe/mace also had a buff by increasing the vuln on the mace skill.

If you played before the new grandmaster traits came out (which was April) then Thieves are a bit different. Instead of the old 5/6/0/0/3, you run 6/6/0/0/2 to pick up Revealed Training for +200 power while revealed. Also, Dagger auto attack now cleaves 2 targets, which is nice in some situations. Lastly, Black Powder only blinds once every 2 seconds, which can be a pain when trying to solo something like Melandru, but in groups you should be fine.

The rest of the other classes, I play significantly less, so please correct me if I’m wrong.

Guardian, as far as I know, is the same as before. As for a not class specific change, Guards (and mesmers to a lesser extent) can instakill Lupicus from phase 2 to dead by traiting for ground target wall, and putting WoR on top of the wall so lupi’s head is in the wall.

Mesmers can also do this with curtain, or a untargetted feedback (aim down?)

Rangers got a buff to their longbow, so now a lot of rangers carry longbow solely for opening burst of fights. Barrage, Rapid fire (which is twice as fast) and then back to sword/axe or sword/warhorn for the rest of the fight. They also got a new trait that lets them do more damage to crippled/chilled/immob foes (barrage!) so overall their personal DPS is much better.

And we all still hate necros =)

Another quiet reminder that this issue still needs to be addressed, please and thank you =)

It would have been a nice video, but there was one major problem: almost every player you played against was extremely bad. Just as an example, take a look at the first two players you killed. Did neither of them even have a stunbreak?

Darude – Sandstorm

Sorry, couldn’t resist XD

You were gaining the might from a trait that gave you might while entering/staying in stealth.

I’ll try not to say anything too specific, but after the last story mission, everything sort of ends abruptly. You see a cutscene, but nothing is said about the future direction of the Pact, nothing is said about a certain choice you make a couple missions ago, etc. The personal story has a whole celebration for the Pact after you defeat Zhaitan, but after the final mission in Heart of Thorns, absolutely nothing happens.

Unless – the only thing I haven’t seen yet is the meta event completed in Dragon’s Stand. But you can complete that theoretically before the story, so I don’t see how it could offer an epilogue.