Guild Wars 2

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how much do you need?

I would suggest to just accept the nerf and move on. This is old content that was going to get phased out anyway. Less people who do dungeons = more who will have to buy HoT to get rewarded.

I predict raids are not going to replace the fun I had with dungeons when the game first came out (nor have that fun last as long as it did) so I’m not going to buy HoT. With this nerf, I’m sure it will be hard finding pugs to play with. Seems I’m going to play less and less than the little I currently do.

Geez. The really sucky part is I have soo much gold/items hoarded up. Should’ve spent it all enjoyed it when I played more. xD Silly end of the world salty giveaway? who knows lol

Well… devs did say they were looking forward to some tears. just probably not the tears they were expecting

xD

“Being dynamic” lol

What a great idea. nice thinking dlonie.

And nice to meet you Crystal Reid; would be interesting to listen in on dev TS. You guys should leak and post xD

I encourage vids and streams of raids. I haven’t purchased the xpac, so I’d like to see the strats used over the weekend.

Just label your content/stream with spoiler tags. TIA

I don’t see too many people being hostile here. Disagreeing with you doesn’t mean that person is mad/negative. Forums are meant for discussion.

what exactly is “QA Embed”?

Interesting, I wonder what this means:

https://twitter.com/All_Caulle/status/649239988282875907

Ascended gear will be needed, but it has nothing to do with AR. How does that make sense?

Then rename it the Dutch Oven

deSade.9437:

The animation isn’t clear enough, people can’t see it over all the effects and they kept overlapping my cloud with their reflects when I wasn’t calling it on ts. Needs a big visual upgrade.

yea, i end up always pinging it so they have an idea. Also it is a bit odd to have necro contribute anything to the group so pugs are gonna take awhile to get used to it xD

8seconds of projectile defense, not bad for necro

“Corrosive Poison Cloud: Updated this skill to destroy projectiles that enter its area. Increased the poison stacks from 3 to 4 stacks and reduced their duration from 3 seconds to 2 seconds. Decreased the duration from 12 seconds to 8 seconds. Increased the frequency pulses from every 3 seconds to every 2 seconds.”

I though salvaging inscriptions was better gold? Is that still not the case?

I rekon’ i pug arah with randoms more than most who post in this forum. Pugs generally don’t bother exploiting the ooze anymore, they just melee and dodge and repeat.

But that doesn’t stop you specifically from doing those silly exploits yourself of course.

Fixing bugs in dungeons/fractals goes a long way in making the content more enjoyable. Take the Ancient Ooze for example. So many plebs exploiting it on that dumb coral until anet fixed it. After players figured it out, they can actually do it without hiding behind some silly exploit… oh look, it wasn’t so bad after all.

Crying “oh anet dont’ care, we just want gold, blah blah” when encountering a legit complaint like fixing an exploit is just pathetic.

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

idk, free exploration inside dungeons would be enough for me, but that probably wouldn’t work out as well in some dungeons, except they remove all barriers for free exploration and just let all bosses spawn/give a new NPC who follows us around.
I’d dig a full exploration of Arah in one go with a nice reward (who am I kidding) at the end, just for kittens and giggles. Also, would be interesting to see how people adjust routes in order to get through the whole thing the fastest.
But I see how that’s not a really feasible idea, sooo…

This sounds like a really fun idea. Open all doors and paths and make all boss encounters mandatory. Get all 3 or 4 paths rewards in one go. Splits for dungeons would be awesome to do. This would be a great throwback to dungeons in gw1, and would definitely rejuvenate the scene.

I really enjoy pugging 5-man dungeons. It is really fun when I group up with not-so-good players and I’m able to carry or contribute more than my weight in support/dps or even soloing a boss after an almost-wipe. That feeling of providing a massive contribution in a party is addictive. That is where all the appeal is in a 5-party dungeon, and it is really too bad not much more was done to develop it. In this way it was really casual friendly, as the barriers to entry for not-so-good players were very low. Just 1 or 2 good players in the party, and everyone is on there way to having fun.

Hopefully I’m able to experience something similar in this new 10-party pug composition.

The way the prices are on the TP for the trinkets, the drop rates on the dungeon recipes are in a good place imo. You do enough dungeons, and you’ll get recipes. If you don’t you can just buy them from the TP.

Ignoring boss mechanics? What are you on about? This large purple haze takes up half my screen, tracks with the boss’ head and doesn’t go away; what does that have to do with the mechanics?

Question for you guys. In TA, has there always been a huge purple bloom that tracks with the movement of the front of oakheart’s head? Never seen it before today, but maybe some of my graphic settings changed.

10 man instance sounds like that would be fun. Hopefully non-linear

Not everyone does dungeons only for gold. I still log in time to time to do a few quick ones for fun.

As for dungeons dying, even with me playing less often or playing at odd times, when pugging w/o posting up a bunch of pre-reqs, the LFGs will still fill up quite fast.

my wizar d

k thanks for the info guys. was frustrating when i was lupi’ing with ranger. couldn’t see the axe whirl animation and kept dying to aoe.

can someone help me. i could’ve sworn i read somewhere that ranger off-hand training radius increase became base. or did i just make that up in my head?

I wouldn’t mind encounters where you would require the party to blast fields other than fire, or even force more teammembers to bring more cc and coordinate it. That would be fun.

Would be hell in pugs though, but it makes pugging with engi even more worthwhile.

I’ll make use of whatever guides are out there, as i’m sure many others will. If anet makes changes, or if someone else makes a better more accurate guide? then i’ll use whatever updated guide there is after it happens.

oh this has nothing to do with guides availability/accuracy? you guys are making snarky comments trying to get under each other’s skin acting like a bunch of little kittenes? nevermind, carry on.

whoops, i didn’t get that “let others decide for me what is fun or not” memo. just ignore everything i said and carry on.

Cheezy.2039:

Something that would already help is if skills had a shorter duration (maybe also a shorter cast time) so that you are required to use them reactively.

For example, no reason to put up a Wall of Reflection when the boss launches a projectile attack when I can also use it at the start of the fight and it won’t run out by the end of it. Feedback is a better example of that, now think the same with Aegises, stability, etc.

Obviously not a perfect solution, but it might make gameplay for 1 or 2 professions more engaging

i agree with this. shorter duration with shorter cooldown skills will be tonnes more engaging

Fortunately for you, Anet has already address this issue. Make your friend/party-member do the skip, then BAM! https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Teleport_to_Friend

There is your counter.

GLHF

I wouldn’t mind it if bosses had dodges or snare. As long as we could counter it in some way. like a skill that would drain their endurance, or the snare/dodge had a long windup that we could interrupt.

on the same token, it would be neat if bosses had a mechanic that would drain our endurance. Make it a long windup or give more classes skills like signet of agility so we could counter that too.

so basically any mechanic that requires you to react would be nice.

Jerus.4350:

Tom Yzf.5872:

equip everyone of your characters with a certain sigil. problem solved.

Thought they fixed that?

Still works

equip everyone of your characters with a certain sigil. problem solved.

I enjoy this new challenge. and to be honest, i wouldn’t mind if lupi’s (or any other dungeon boss’) mechanics changed it up every few months (be it a bug or not). However, I can empathize with how players would want a boss with consistent time-lasting mechanics.

deSade.9437:

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Swifty, on the other hand… but no, we can’t play with the mindbrain. Too much. My own mindbrain would melt in the presence of a real Grandmaster.

Pug more often, you’ll run into her more often than not. Then you can combine powers to smite down the gs mesmers or staff necros that join meta lfg’s

holy hell the trash can forum is getting all puketastic again.

Mourningcry.9428:

FenrirSlakt.3692:

My my. Have we resorted to name-calling this soon? It usually occurs somewhere around page two.

Even the threads are getting more optimized

phiw need better ai so they just dont stand there in our aoe

spoj.9672:

I was speaking of your general style of posts. You always seem to pop up and start instigating this same discussion. And the suckers we are cant seem to resist the temptation to respond.

These types are the funniest. I love it when they try to act high and mighty after backpedaling. “Guys, stop being so obnoxious. Then the casuals will not hate you! …oh right, let me edit out my baseless/insulting claims from my previous post. teehee.”

super super energy sigils, now available in the gemstore for a limited time.

then anet shuts down arah like they did sab lolx

Because there is no new content. The stuff we have currently has either been beaten to death or are too easy, and the casual gamer can complete the “hardest” PvE content in the game dungeons/fotm in a manageable amount of time. You get a mixture of 2 different types of players who don’t agree with each other’s playing styles.

This mixture of the pot spawns the loud people that you hear crying a river of tears about the existence of meta. Or the “PVP ME BRO”. etc.

We need challenging DUNGEONS and not the “challenging group content” power phrasing that the devs and their parrots like to throw around. It needs to be hard enough to where meta/skillful play will be needed to complete the content in a reasonable amount of time; provide an easy/story mode for casual gamers. F the mantra of “not wanting to separate the playerbase”. And as optimistic as some people on here are about new dungeons in the upcoming expansion, i personally doubt anything will come out of it.

Tears upon tears.

J Eberle.9312:

I’m a little bit fuzzy off medications atm so excuse my typing , but I believe I have found the mother of all pug experiences. enjoy

http://imgur.com/a/nKcbb

bringing pvp discussion into a dungeon conversation…. geez. people must be pretty slow in the brain to not see how absurdly stupid this is.

;)

Ezkiel.7059:

Meh from rather fun thread in start ending was rather disappointing with more complaints and ppl being kittens then actual funny stuff to read XD

I dunno… I thought it was pretty funny how certain forum-champion complain about pugs leaving their party when said forum-champion exploits a boss, only to turn it around and complain about a different pug exploiting the same boss weeks later.

topkek

Rising Dusk.2408:

I don’t want to rely on the OP to constantly update his post, so I am keeping track of these bugs separately. Please keep reporting unique issues and I will collate them all together and report them directly to the developers. The following is my list so far.

• [All] The game seems to not be rewarding all dungeon chests or end of path reward chests, even if you haven’t done dungeons in many days.
• [CoF p1] Ferrah cannot continue after the Slave Driver event, breaking the path (we somehow managed to unbug her but not sure how).
• [HoTW p1] Aldus Stormbringer’s adds don’t all turn hostile now, they run around as friendlies and occasionally turn hostile. They also dodge around.
• [Arah] Lupicus’s Necrid Bolt auto-attack hits in melee range.
• [Arah] There seems to be a strange pathfinding bug whereby mobs are teleporting into Giganticus Lupicus’s arena. See this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVP9_6r98SM
• [Arah] Lupicus is failing to track his targets like he used to when using skills, causing skills like his Necrid Trap (Bubble) and Shadow Step to miss their targets by wide margins.
• [Arah p4] The Grenth event never finishes when the last wraith is killed.
• [CoE p2] The Husk event never finishes.
• [Fractals – Thaumanova] The eastern event where you have to break open the doors to save the Asuran engineers is broken insofar as the door to the collider is open even if you never save any of the engineers.
  If there is something dungeon/fractal related that is broken as a result of this patch, especially blocking bugs, please post in this thread to let me know.

Would it be too much to ask if you could post up a new thread every week (2weeks?) of bullet-pointed issues you send to the devs, along with updates to all, if any, responses to said issues? Just label all threads consistently so they are easy to search for.

It would be nice to see how much effective “communication” we get all in one spot to sort out to look over.

Not too bad of a change for solos. All classes are fine except for necro. But man oh man are the fights longer.

meta necro dagger. omg so boring to play.

It is pretty bad. Especially noticeable when you pug.

Maybe different rng drops for you? I have about the same amount of recipes (although I’m counting the ones that dropped more than once for me) and I do remember drops from other non-endbosses other than the TA path. In particular the two Creed recipes that dropped for me in arah p2. I have one that came from brie and one from a boss prior… can’t remember which boss though.

Me: necro

4 others: pug roulette

the randomness adds to the fun. Sometimes i get a special treat and a random dnt joins my party.

Kuru is correct. Recipes can drop from any champ in the path. Doesn’t have to be the last boss.

I don’t see any “QQ self pity posts” in here. What I do see is speculation; much like what you are doing. When no information is forthcoming, this is what people do, speculate.

Some people choose to hope for the best with a twinkle in their eyes. Some choose to expect the worst.