Guild Wars 2

Nope, gotta farm that stuff. How else am I gonna run 6 chars through the events

I am looking for a dungeon guild that does speed runs of all paths and wants to min/max them. I have warrior guardian and mesmer.

If you are a casual guild I am not really interested as those are everywhere.

Thanks,

I have to agree with krag.

For path 1 just don’t stand in front of him when he does the spikes. The burning does damage but if the party has condition removal it is not an issue. Simply stack and keep moving to the side or behind him.

Path 2 he does less burning damage. If you have a skill to port out of the crystals that helps. Again you stack so that if stuck in crystal then your team and easily break you out. Just count to 2 and dodge when he does his large AOE attack. Having a food that gives life on crit really helps too as you can heal through the condition damage.

I will run a full berserker war mes or guardian and have no problems.

Check out [WISP]. We don’t do much WvW but we have a member who is part of a seperate WvW guild as well. You could join him if you want to WvW.

If you can’t find what you are looking for message me and I will get you in [WISP]. We fit what you are looking for. We are on CD but with guesting it is not a problem.

Check out [WISP]. We have several ppl levleling toons as alts. We also help them out by running dungeons with them for some easy exp. I will send an invite so feel free to give us a try.

Check us out if you wish [WISP]. Medium sized guild, friendly, and we run dungeons. Currently we have ppl running Story mode and all exp modes on the dungeons. They are working their way through the whole set. I will send you an invite and you can try us out or discard.

Take care.

If you want some people to play with PM me or mail me in game. I am on TC and you will be welcome.

Also, people have alt’s to run through the story mode to. Did arah last night and we moved through it really fast and it was a pug.

Story mode is the longest of any run no matter the dungeon so you are just stuck there. Figure on an hour in a PUG. Being in a guild with voice chat will get you through exp. mode with only a little discomfort as you will have people to tell you the mechanics involved. Once you get some experience you will not feel like you are out classed.

We are a medium sized guild that runs dungeons. We have all skill levels and will be reaching our cap of players soon. We wish to stay small enough to know everybody but big enough to find a group to run with. If you are interested we are on CD but any NA server works.

Friendly, non-elitist, and mostly mature.

That being said we are looking to do good clean runs and be as effective as we can and grow every players skill.

Check out WISP. We are what you are looking for. I will send an invite and you can try us out.

Hi,

We are on CD. We have a friendly medium guild. We do a lot of dungeon runs and not just COF and AC. Our player base ranges from experienced to helping out noobies. We don’t have an elitist attitude.

I will send you an invite and you can check us out and see if you like it. Guild tag is WISP

I ran a few events in orr (shelters ect.) and killed dozens of mobs. Only got credit for 4 combo kills. I had to change my play style to try to get more. Holding off on my combo’s and I even started putting my combo fields down later so that hopefully other could use them.

So I have to do just my auto attack till the mob gets low then pray to God that somebody saved their combo field so that I can do my combo finisher for the kill. I am sorry I do not have time to spend an hour trying to do one piece of the daily.

Even tho I have the berserker warrior I don’t care who joins. It is just a personal preference. I have begun posting that any class can join and it fills in under a minute. The runs are a few minutes longer but I don’t really care.

As far as someone saying the damage is only 100 more that is so wrong. When you have a 94% crit chance you get things done. Normal mobs in orr I am hitting for 2K. On bosses with the GS I am hitting for 21k+ when there are vuln stacks with the final swing on hundred blades. I was a more balanced build but as my play improved and guildies were talking about their dps I thought I would give it a try. I had at least a 20% increase in damage.

If you are on an odd number like 5, and you group up on an even number like 10, and run it at as even number will you get the daily since you will do the Solid Ocean Fractal even tho you are at an odd number?

I have been in all manner of pug’s and sometimes I look at the classes in the group and think that we are going to have a hard time. 80% of the time I am wrong and the group runs just fine. I did path 1/2 of cof with 3 thief’s and 2 guardians ( I was one of the guardians) we ran it really well as everybody knew how to play their class and if was actually one of the faster runs I have done.

You can min/max a bit with getting ideal group dynamics but in general the elitist attitude is just something that people like to do to feel special.

Ran it yesterday and dc’d 3 times and today I never disconnected but a couple of times I had the screen freeze for a few seconds. Another person on party was having some problems too. I have run COF, HOTW, COE, and AC with no problems.

Anybody else having an issue?

I have been running into problems where nobody is doing the opening event. This will make it so that even less people are around to do the event and when everybody in the group is in different worlds and all are contested it becomes an issue.

Dungeon contested? Go find a world that isn’t.

Doing Jormag three times. Not much of a problem due to the length of the encounter.

I hope you have plans to prevent Orichalcum mass farming. Not that I am opposed to one siver per ore tho.

I can finally farm plinx again

Oops. Wrong forum was supposed to be in general discussion.

I was wondering what people are using in high level fractals? I have a newish mesmer that I started working up the FOTM ladder.

Also I was wondering about a 20 0 0 20 30 build. Greatsword and scepter/focus. I normally run a 20 20 0 0 30 but reflection is so strong in fractals that dropping 20 down into inspiration for the feedback while resing and for reflection with focus skills. is any body doing something similar?

http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#mcmz0Mz9bG9MGxzazRmob

It would be nice if there were a button in the hero tab to switch weapon sets instead of having to click them into place. Make it so that you can press the hero tab then click a button to switch one of the equipped weapons and even a button for armor too. It won’t really effect game play as you will have to be out of combat. You could even make it unlock with gems as it is a convenience item.

Do it all ready! If ANET wants people to run the dungeons more then this would do it. Even if it was just cores that could be converted I would still like it and it would help keep the lodestone prices up too if they were concerned about it.

It was the chantry of secrets. I had gotten it when I was doing my personal story which does not give the chest.

Thanks

That is exactly what happened. I cleaned my inventory right before I bought the stones too. Did not know that was there thanks.

I was forging mystic clovers and ran out of philosophers stones. I exited and bought more stones then went back to the forge. I no longer have the shards ecto’s or mystic coins. Only thing I can think of is that I had them clicked into the forge while using it and it never made it back to my inventory. I tried exiting and coming back in and materials are still gone.

I had clicked in all the components and didn’t have enough stones and just exited the forge then everything was gone.

I lost 170+ shards, 30+ exto’s and 25+ coins.

The forum is player helping players. I was asking for help in solving the problem of getting no reward and wondering if there was something else that needed done.

I just finished world completion. Got “been there and done that” and there was no reward for competing rara sum or the world. I did compete it in a side asura portal. Is this a bug or did I miss something. My progress bar is 100% on everything.

Thanks,

I am running the 0 0 30 30 10.

For armor I have some power/tough/vit but pants are knights and chest is berserker. Jewelery is all berserker cause I don’t need more toughnes and my vit is 16,300 which is plenty. I don’t like to over do it on going real tanky because I like DPS and once you get the dodge mechanics down things are pretty easy.

BTW runes are all soldiers for the vit/toughness plus condition removal.

I use great sword and scepter with torch for dps and shield for range protection

My crit is 38% add maintenance oil and it jumps to 43. Add sigil of accuracy and you are at 48 without fury. With signet regen and passive regen plus healing from boon sharing and knowing how to dodge make for some fun game play.

I was just starting to enjoy the fractal gear grind but I won’t wait 20 min to find a group that is for sure. They better have something in store to fix it or return it back to where it was.

Definitely dropping. The fractal drop was significant. Had 20 really active people in the guild and they were a guild before the game and I happened to find them. Fractals hit and several left because of it then the others wanted people to play with so they went to other games with friends in them.

As long as ANET fixes guesting soon so that you can group up across servers for fractals without an overflow you can do anything in game in only a few minutes so it is not dead by any means. It is just not as easy as it should be.

I must say that I am enjoying the game. Initially I thought that I would be doing WvW the most but it turns out that I like the dungeons as well.

While the current state of the dungeons are good for farming (and should stay that way) it would also be nice to have a hard mode on the dungeon. I know people will say just do fractals, but I don’t have that much time every day and I won’t start a fractal if I can’t commit to finishing it for the other players.

The hard mode can have some new mechanics in it and also require that you need to complete the whole dungeon to get the final chest. Maybe have a set of 3 keys that come from the chests to open up a special chest. Make the reward a guaranteed core for that dungeon and a chance at a lodestone plus more tokens. AC can have a random core from any dungeon.

Mechanics:
Have the main bosses vary their timing and AOE circle sizes.
More chill effects as that cuts movement speed and requires more skill.
Increase the movement of some bosses so that they don’t just stand still.
Let the bosses dodge more.
Increase the number of attack abilities of the bosses.
Summon some adds that you actually need to kill instead of kite. Maybe they put a shield around the bosses.

And get a group finder for fractals and dungeons already. I hate wasting time finding groups when all I want to do is play.

The hard mode should be for lvl 80 only.

Thanks,

Just this.

http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/473/feature/6892/Guild-Wars-2-Exploring-the-Fractals.html

For the hardcore the reset is good and it also helps ensure that all levels of the dungeon have people looking to play it.

My concern if for the casual/semi-hardcore. With only about 2-3 hrs per day to play and it taking 1 hour ish to do a set of 3 fractals, I won’t have the time to do much elsewhere in the game.

When you consider that people drop from the group and ruin the progress it gets really annoying to run pug groups when the time needed to progress is so tight. I would like to run the other dungeons and be able to farm on the map as well with out having to be so focused on one aspect of the game.

This will make PUGing harder as people will mainly run with their guild so that they can maximize their time. If the reset was longer I would not care so much if people dropped the group 2 sets in on the fractal. Now if they do that I feel the time crunch and get pretty frustrated. On top of that the the disconnect problem only makes the problem bigger.

Please make the reset 2 weeks starting off then reconsider after that. I understand that you are trying to balance the rewards and limit what the hardcore can accomplish but it will limit the casual player way more.

With a 2 week reset I will be able to get to a 5+ fractal level (and not feel bad repeating lower levels), run other dungeons, and farm without feeling like I am getting punished for not playing 3-5 hours per day.

I feel really bad for the people who can only play an hour or so a day and have DC problems and people dropping from the group. If they have no guild or a small guild they will see very little progress in a week and will probably skip them all together.

I am with you on that. I think that once you get to the higher fractal levels it will be better as that will be an indication of the frame of mind of those in the group.

That and it is the release weekend so you have a lot of people curious and taking a casual look at it.

3 hrs is a fair bit on the long side even with not knowing the mechanics of the event.

+1 I can see locking the group in place and not letting others join the group or swap places but 2 ppl DC’ed in the group and I was one of them and could not rejoin party.

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

Your assumptions are flawed.

1) Berserker gear gives you waaaaaaaaaay more than 16% crit damage and 224 precision. I don’t know where you’re getting the number from but full Berserker’s gear gives you something like 700 precision and 60+% crit damage. That is something like +35% crit chance and more than a doubling of the damage bonus on each crit. That’s almost a 40% boost in overall damage compared to just power with no precision.

By comparison, a Soldier’s set will give you about 25% damage reduction and an extra 7k health, but you will actually die faster since you’re not getting AH procs from crits. Is dying faster worth not being able to kill anything ever? It’s a judgment call I guess.

Oh, no, wait, it isn’t.

Gotta second this. On my warrior I had a 35% increase in crit damage going from a 50/50 knights valk setup to berserkers. My trait line is on the survivability side so if I wanted to more dps there is still more to get.

I use both. I spam in chat and use the www. I don’t like having to wait 20 minutes to find a group to do CoE or SE. It is even worse if it is not peak time for the server you are on. If you only play in peak times I am sure you wouldn’t think it necessary. For me standing in LA and not playing the game is a huge game breaker.

Just noticed that there is a www.gw2lfg.com and it is the same site design. Hope you got it and someone else didn’t steal my idea for you.

Latinkuro.9420:

tryklon.7384:

I dont want LFG websites, it’s just not practical. I want a better in game LFG system.
As such, I will not use or endorse any system that is made to replace what should already be in game

This idea is a bad stopgap measure all it does is make what is ingame even harder to do instead of promoting this outside the game tool why not get more people to use the systems in place.

I’d hate for it to get to the point where people are actually only trying to find groups outside the game how lame and how bad is that for the game? very very bad.

There is no viable in game solution. Sure people are looking for groups but which dungeon are you wanting to run? What path? Need story mode? Good luck. Joined with some people on LFG and they had been trying for 30+ minutes to get a full group. If you don’t run CoF or AC finding a group is difficult at best.

Wasn’t one of the selling points of the game that you could sign up and do dungeons quickly? I see no good option to make that happen. I have to spend on average 10 minutes to find a dungeon to run and even then I am just looking for a group that already exists and isn’t running CoF or AC.

If you think that is a bad stop gap measure fine, but at least is is helping mitigate the time to find people to run with. Spamming in map chat in LA shouldn’t even be needed and is a design flaw in the game. You should be able to go the dungeon of choice and click on something to get in a que then be able to play in game like the que for WvWvW. Even better would be a drop down like WvWvW and join the dungeon form anywhere in the world.

BTW not meaning to flame on your post just quoted it to use it as a reference to all of the above posts.

Path 3 is the easy one. 25 min or so if you know what you are doing. Most people that run it do so you will learn it fast.

On gems to gold. If the price goes up a bit more I will definitely be buying gems to sell for gold. I only have so much time and shaving off some hours by getting gold makes a lot of sense. I was actually surprised how low the gold to gems rate has been. I figured it would hit 1G per 100 really fast then go up more from there.

Just tried going with some EU people and it didn’t work. Just a heads up.

Thanks for the site. Looking forward to seeing it grow.

A quick idea. If it takes off, which it should, you may want to add a drop down for each dungeon. It will make it easier to find a group rather than scrolling down through a page or two of random lfg want adds.

A more user friendly www would be nice too. maybe gw2lfg.

Yes you need a party especially if there are a lot of people on the event. I hardly ever was in a party and I would just mainly get skulls. When I started joining up and tagging the same mobs as the people in my party the drop rate and quality really improved.

All things considered, I like the option. If there was no party option then you would not do enough damage to get full credit for the kill and thus limit yourself while farming because of the competition for the kills.

Perfect? No. Workable? Yes.

Wow I hope not but I also wouldn’t be surprised (Weaponsmith selling for karma). 4500 did seam like a lot to me but it is really nice especially when you start adding it up. I just figured it was ANET trying to make the game so that you didn’t have to mindlessly farm events and just start playing the game again.

I am gonna down the jugs I was saving just in case. I was saving it for a karma boost.

I was thinking the same thing. I am needing to do AC story mode and there is nobody around.

They should set it up like WvW. Have a que that you can join and even set it up for paths in exploratory mode as well and have it across all worlds. I can’t stand just waiting around trying to find a group.

I agree also. This week was the first time that I have been playing with a 3 orb bonus. It made a huge difference in the way I was able to roll over people. The orbs should have a diminishing return. Maybe like 40 30 20. It would still give a buff and keep the added complexity in the game.

An idea for the out maned buff could be that you get leveled to 81. More glancing blows taken plus a little bit more staying power. Would really help keep people in the map which is needed so that you don’t just have people going around getting map completion on an empty map.

My primary is a thief and I am mainly doing WvW now that I am fully geared. I didn’t go the glass cannon build and traited for vit/percision/toughness. I am no glass cannon as I will go in, kill and finish someone, then easily evade 3 – 5 people. I run D/D S/P the a bow when I am up on a wall for extended periods.

I also have a lvl 75 ele as well. The key is not to play them the same. I am adjusting to the different play syle but to call a class a glass cannon is not a very good generalization.

I created a mumble server for W3. It is open to all maguuma players in the battle grounds.

There is a password to keep out trolls but join the “Maguuma” guild to see the password in the message of the day. You don’t need to represent the guild at all but all influence will be used for W3 activities.

The guild management is currently broken but send a message to “Tessik” and I will get you the info.

www.maguuma.us

After reading a fair number of the posts regarding the “problems” in WvW like night capping, orbs, and reduced player participation when behind I figured I would offer a suggestion like everybody else……

If all zones were reset and players brought back to the starting points at regular intervals (including orb possession) it would do several things.

1) Even if your world was behind it would provide “meaning” or at least an even footing in the world.

2) It would keep the scores closer. While the stronger server would win because of superior play it would also keep the scores numerically closer by limiting 24 hour map domination.

3) Loosing worlds would be incentivised to try to make up ground by coming on strong at the next reset.

Resets could be regular like 6 or 8 hours or irregular 5 or 7 hours. It would depend how having a regular or semi-random time would effect play.

A general suggestion would be to have a way to show estimated wait times to enter WvW. This would really help populate the lower traffic areas and also make it easier for groups to decide where to join.