Guild Wars 2

Same here, got ported into sPvP maps instead Sanctum Sprint.

There are dedicated players who are just unlucky with RNG like me, and that leaves a bad taste during every festival. I like Nebast’s suggestion but increase the amount to 10,000 or something and that it can only happen once. At least there is a sure gold sink way for those jinxed to obtain our festival skin while leaving extra skins to pure RNG.

Been having kitteny luck with PUGs this past week. I’ll start with my main class, warrior. This is probably the most safest you can get with Lupi.

Trait: Fast Arm
Utility: Endure pain, Balanced stance, Stamina signet and Warbanner
Weapon: Mace/Shield with energy sigil and Rifle

After Lupi transitions to phase 2 and starts his AOE, pop Endure Pain while you finish up the last grub. Then prepare his next soon AOE again with Shield #5. Now you have four dodges at your disposal from energy sigil and stamina signet which is more than enough. For the AOE again, alternate between 1 dodge and Mace #2 – Shield #5 – Endure Pain – 2 dodge. You won’t ever get downed =).

3rd phase, you use Lupi against himself. When you melee right under him, he’ll ignore you but sometimes you can get caught in his melee dome. Once you used up either two of Shield #5, Endure Pain, Balanced Stance you go range and recharge…

Goodluck!

Invulnerability:
Until we hit 25 stacks of combo attacks.
Need to chain opposite type of combo attack.

Boss debuff:
After 20 secs of poison, boss becomes highly vulnerable for a short while.
Make a huge notification when defiant stacks are fully removed, like translucent armor falling off so CC-ing becomes more fluid.

Player debuff:
Boss’ one attack causes random weapon set to be unusable for some time.
Rooted until a combo field is made under his feet.

What do you think? I didn’t really like Canach’s and NULL’s mechanics so thought of these.

With a coordinated party, you can be rooted and burst down things pretty smoothly. Everything depends on that. On a random group, it’s not necessarily being killed but more of not having the chance to pull off the full 100B chain.

The help comes from the Fast Hands trait, switching weapon sets back and forth in 5 seconds.

Hello, I’ve been having trouble so far with my transmuted armors and unable to completely dye them. Anybody else have them too?

If I have the original piece, it can be dyed fully. Once transmuted, that’s not possible anymore. Some original colors of the skin stays around or perhaps a color slot becomes missing.

Open in Fort Aspenwood right now, tho not sure till when again.

hi athe,

my context will be in a PUG where you’re the only melee.

with full berserk, your survivability is low and there is still some chance mobs will concentrate on you till death after you’ve dealt your ridiculous dmg.

when you bring toughness, mobs will also love you till death while you live somewhat longer.

my suggestion then is to take the minimum amount of toughness gear till it enables two things on the field:

1. sustain extra incidental hits without being downed.

2. lose aggro whenever you want (oh yes!) , which i think is a small form of control as you lead and disengage. since the aggro variable is mixed, this is possible.

with that in mind, there is two options for gear IMO. berserk armor / cavalier trinkets and knights armor / berserk trinkets.

from my experience, you won’t want to take either full cavalier trinkets or full knights armor because that’s enough to get full aggro. you’ll mix them with berserk gear to get your minimum toughness achieving the former points ive made on incidental hits and losing aggro.

the most difference between the two options is lesser precision or lesser critical dmg, up to your preference.

i feel thats enough for an average warrior. hope that helps!

CookMETEnder.7582:

I guess you’re trinkets.
I know a few people use fraps.
I just kind of want to see that you actually have the ascended cavalier trinkets (I have become extremely suspicious of everyone lately haha)
and what build do you run?

Your*

=P Vid link at Fireheart Rise: http://youtu.be/CzD1HlkFgNc
I’m running Red Falcon’s Dual Axe build.

Is there anything more specific you’d like for me to capture? I’ll have some free time later. If you want a vid, please recommended a decent program for me and also suggest a mob and the spawn point. Thanks!

Basically Berserk armor/weapons with Cavalier trinkets
Armor: Berserker with Ruby Orbs with the exception of 2x Rune of the Rage
Weapon: Berserker Axe and Mace with Force & Generosity Sigil
Trinkets: Ascended Cavalier with the exception of 2x Exotic Cavalier earrings with Ruby Orbs
Traits: 20/30/0/0/20
Boons: Discipline Banner, FGJ!, Signet of Rage

Namu.5712:

A warrior is only as good as his group… But if you are in a situation where your in a group and doing a ranged boss and your group is crap and you are getting pelted left and right by ranged auto attacks, adds and special moves, your as good as dead…. And in a bad group your gonna get hit hard, in a good group a good warrior will shine, in a bad group a good warrior is gonna have trouble if there are multiple targets gunning for him…. meaning your going to have to leave melee and kite in alot of situations as you cant rely on food heals.

Have to agree on everything there… generally if there is one guardian (who pulls very nicely) or one mesmer (putting chaos storm and clones) and or one ele (just some regen field) to help me, it’ll make me fabulous.

I can only speak for end game PVE like fractals. Having Berserk armor (ruby orbs + two rage runes) and Cavalier trinkets, my damage remains between 2.1 – 3.7k in auto-attacks. Utility slots are the usual FGJ! and Discipline banner. Then the F1 skill hits for an average 11k or so.

I do feel doing less dmg from full Berserk, but when I get hit now it feels like a nice confrontation instead of “oh kitten I gotta get outta here”. Coz the sustain is better?

Its a good investment for me since I’m doing random PUGs only. If you’re in an organized team, I guess Cavalier trinkets aren’t necessary at all.

Uncontested in Tarnished Coast right now, though I’m not sure how much longer.

Hiya, balthy (us) uncontested anywhere for the next two hours?

I’ve read the link before and also consider myself competent enough online. This is actually the first time an online account of mine is being “hacked”.

Please review the article for more information.

I’d like to know how exactly the hacker accessed my account. If it’s from a single proper login, or trying a variant of a peculiar password which I’ve only used in tumblr (which is still safe). If you can provide some personal uncensored logs, that’ll be great.

So I tried logging in several times and it says either my username or password is wrong. I signed in to my email and got this msg twice from arenanet:

“A log-in attempt from the following location is currently awaiting your authorization.”
Address: 71.236.145.81
City: -blank-
Region: -blank-
Country: -blank-

Apparently someone just knows my log-in credentials (both email and password) then somehow my own password is changed or refused. The hacker is from US, I’m from Asia.

My PC is clean, my password for GW is unique. I’d appreciate an official response too. Thanks.

Don’t be afraid to melee if you see the staff mesmer.

Can this statement be true most of the time? I’m annoyed when I see warriors and guardians turning to 100% range during boss fights when they can instead do some CC saving our kitten or possibly more damage in melee.

As a staff mesmer, I can contribute constant fury, around 30 secs of ethereal field back to back during the initial encounter including the effects of time warp, chaos storm, null field and lastly some might, cripple and dazing.

Is that good enough for melee engagement?

Sounds good.. thank you.

I’m around level 20+ only right now feeling somewhat kittened though having fun.

1. When fighting mobs, is it better to concentrate your clones on one enemy then shattering or quickly spawn clones for each enemy then shattering?

2. During bosses or champions, when all your phantasms are up and your phantasms are halfway recharging, is it more DPS to let them auto attack or shatter already and build your clones/phantasms up all over again?

MithranArkanere.8957:

I do that too. I try to keep my camera right behind the character at all times, but I’m getting things like this all the time:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=104966104

Is this at the start after the platform breaks and materializes?

From my runs, certain platforms give weird camera angles. The ones I jump on to reach the end fastest were free of those glitches.

I think the players natural and random body type blocking the view of others is part of the challenge. It takes familiarity and skill to overcome it. Other than that, it’s either trolling or technical issues.

Mostly it’s the starting platforms that people fail on. How I think it might help:

1: Your first goal will be to reach the first vertical cog wheel smoothly. Practice and memorize the first few jumps by starting late after the zerg jumps, which once you’ve arrived, you can relax to drown in the green fog. I think the quote below is the key to run smoothly and also very naturally get ahead of others (from my own repeatable experience).

TopGun.6732:

hold down your forward movement key pretty much the whole time, use your left hand to hit space bar to jump, and change direction with your right hand on the mouse.

Try not to stagger more than twice to adjust your view for the first few platforms! That’s important! Turn smoothly with mouse!

2: Now attempt with the zerg. If you’ve memorized enough – your camera view, the feel of your jumps and landings – it doesn’t matter anymore even if it’s hard to see because you’ll be able to reach this place by blindly jumping straight forward (in around three/four jumps). The initial thinning out happens by then.

3: If you think you’re competent enough, now is the time to race against the green fog. Most probably this is obvious, before the starting platform materializes, you can already jump on it safely (this is how most of us gets ahead + the first few smooth jumps).

Hope that helps….

Zimlobo.3962:

I’m going to put this puzzle on the shelf with my other life’s incomplete failures. Excuse me while I go carve some pumpkins so I’ll feel better about myself… just kidding. Super fun, but seriously, I’m never going to complete this one

Where did you get stuck mostly? Once you memorize the first few landing zones, you’ll really be on your way smoothly.

I think now I’m now gonna troll people there with a charr, blocking their view as they jump or land.

How long did it take you to master the jumping puzzle?

Almost 5 hours for me.

That’s part of the “madness” for me. Asura consistently managed to get into the tower here.

Don’t be afraid to rush and jump at the few starting platforms. There’s little chances to fall there. Like Vexacion said, you’ll eventually memorize your landings and after you’ll get past that critical point.

Okay…. after the new client build, tried it once and made it. It really was a bug.
Thanks for the feedback everyone.

It’s a “mad” clocktower with a mad dash. At first I cursed the charrs and norns for being so fatty. After lots of practice I realized it’s totally doable despite that.

You rebooted? I’ll try as well…

Something that helps push you ahead is not to be afraid of jumping forward blindly during the initial platforms. There’s low chances of falling there.

After that and the crowds thin out, it’s pretty easy.

Hope you’ll make it eventually. All the best!

Welp… that’s at least more than 20 tries. Still can’t get in. Reloaded client, different instances, different characters. Nothing different from the videos I’ve seen.

Is this at the end? If so, I have the same problem..

I’ve made it to the end many times. Jumped right after lightning but I don’t seem to be teleported into the chest room. I’ve watched other’s videos, they aren’t different from my attempt.

Any ideas?

The event’s bought, random and temporary memorabilia really feels against the spirit of GW1’s. It was a much more generous holiday in GW1, we get free hats and the armor skins were worldwide.

I’ve browsed through and not sure if someone has suggested this: If you’re in the instance of somebody doing a story mode for the first time, you get the full initial rewards like 60 tokens and 20 silver of some sort. That’ll help newbies to dungeons.