Guild Wars 2

I think using whether a boss can be solo’d as a metric is a mistake. The way the boss mechanics work in a solo vs. a group is very different. With the Duo, it makes the mechanics of the fight harder, because suddenly you’re being focused by both. With Mai, Id argue it makes the mechanics easier, because her aggro, teleports, etc are much more controllable and manipulateable by the soloer. (I’m not saying solo-ing as a whole is easier. It’s all on you, 1/5th of a group’s damage, etc. Obviously its much harder and takes a ton of skill and luck. I am saying though, that it is fundamentally different from group play.) We have to consider the buff from the angle of Group Play.

I’d say the time dedication is different, as well. Wiping on the Duo may mean five minutes of lost time. Wiping on Mai might mean fifteen minutes of lost time. That can start to add up. Once or twice probably won’t be a big deal for anyone, but many of us, hardcore and casual, do have busy real lives that may only afford us so much play time.

I still think the damage she does is going to kill PUGing, which was maybe Anets intention. I don’t know. Listening to new techniques from more experienced players I can maybe agree that the buff is okay. But without experienced players in your group, Mai Trin will spell doom.

It would be much more reasonable to keep Mai like this, and maybe give PUGs (and everyone else) a much better fighting chance if we were finally able to have a practice mode. More than any other fractal, it’s needed for this fight.

Sera.6250:

explain to me how exactly jade maw scales in difficulty with fractal level?

I mean, yes, i know the real answer to that, but in all practicality, it really doesn’t. You can sleep through it 40+ the same as you can 1-10.

Even if Mai Trin were “fixed,” and even if it is doable (which it certainly is), you can’t pretend that this change doesn’t put it totally out of line with the difficulty of the other fractals and fractal bosses.

Just because they changed the stats to scale correctly does not mean that the actual difficulty is scaling correctly, especially in comparison to every other fractal level and boss currently implemented.

The big change with Maw is in 50. The veteran irukjandi (or whatever they’re called. Flying tentacle monsters) do not despawn when you kill the two Maw tentacles. It’s not insurmountable by any means, but it is a complication.

LordByron.8369:

DigitalKirin.9714:

Mai Trin is now everything the anti-metas want, I think. Fast attacks, high damage, damaging aoes, blah blah blah. Now everytime they complain about a boss being stacked we can just ask them how they like fighting Mai Trin at 50.

Its not.

I Always carry with me a www set on my ele and i perfectly know how to build a nearly immortal tank (in any other situation even lupicus).

It was not enough at level 29

Even with a full banner bunker warrior (possibly the most unkillable thing in the game, something I ran in ranked TPVP), whether with the new TVH or mixed primary Healing Power (cleric/magi); you might not be able to survive. Even if you did, with the inconsistent aggro, the AOEs, and the cannon phase, the rest of team will go down. And once they do, you’re a full tank, you will do no damage. It will never end. It will be the twilight zone.

Taku.6352:

Soon they’ll introduce some constant DoT to Molten duo that will require people to use healing gear to survive throug the unskippable cutscene.

(Edit: Yay flood control!)

No, don’t give them ideas!

Just came away from a 49 PUG group. The first three fractals went as expected. A wipe here or there but perfectly good for a PUG group. I was crossing my fingers we wouldn’t get Mai, but we did. We had to abandon the fractal. Everyone was being one shot and we simply had been in the fractal way too long (something like 1.5 hours just for her. We had a lot of fighting spirit) and had real lives to attend to. I’m sure professional groups will be able to do it, but I will not be PUGing fractals at all until this is fixed. Fractals aren’t worth the time + 1/3rd chance of having to toss in the towel. Its nigh impossible.

As someone who hasn’t managed to find a Fractals guild and PUGs at the 40 level, this sounds horrifying if its really true. Its like they want to push people into using the glitches. Lets hope this isn’t as bad as it seems or its just a misplaced 0 or the like. If not, I’ll probably have to abandon Fractal if I roll this in my typical PUG groups.

Its not just the aura. Its the walking and shooting effect, and the weapon itself.

Just saw this guy myself. Very confused.

Just wanted to give a shout-out. Even if the PPT is biased in one direction, the skill certainly isn’t! Both NSP and EB have been dishing out some awesome fights, and I, with [BAEST], always look forward to engaging with you all! In particular, [VOID] and [GH] have been bringing their A-game! Your organization is top-notch. Keep on showing up, keep bringing those fights, and lets have some fun!

Good luck all!

Mesmer meta!

I would suggest all guild leaders strongly encourage their mesmers to remove the trait. Beast has done so, and I can only hope that our honorable comrades and opponents both will do the same.

Elsewise, lets all just weather this, and report anyone abusing it.

Kire.2364:

Had some fantastic fights with TE in SBI bl today and then TE and BEAST in SoR BL. Hope to see you guys out in during the rest of the week for more fights. And that golem rush on SBI hills by Abys and other assorted SBI members was good, you guys almost caught us out there.

Beast member, reporting in!

Those were some absolutely fantastic and fun fights! We weren’t too worried about the outcome, we just knew we wanted to get some great battles in and work on training some in-battle commanders! What better way than to fight SoR? We won some fights, we lost some fights. All was awesome. Shout outs to our opponents (I saw DIE, TW, and a few others… I’m sorry if I missed you. I was focusing on not dying! Haha) and shout out to our comrades TE, DR, and the others!

Oh, and I say this in the most friendly teasing way (cause lets be honest, we don’t have much in the way of map to brag about), I hope you enjoyed your paper Bay, SoR!

JetLu.1874:

Anyway, while in TS last night I was listening to one of the commanders, I swear he could be an auctioneer. There are some terrific commanders on SBI and if everyone would just hop into TS, listen and follow there would be no problems.

While I can’t be sure were thinking of the same person, Im going to guess that was one of our commanders from Beast. We tease him about what a good auctioneer he’d make.

Truth be told, just like you said, there are many, many fantastic commanders on SBI. Its great fun.

It continues to be a fun matchup BP and DH! Very impressed by your skills! Lets keep up the fun fights!

Yep, seems everyone is experiencing it. Frustrating.

Yeah, me and a few guild buddies have it. None of us are actively in WvW right now, but we can see camps and points changing, so people must be in there. Very frustrating.

Oozo.7856:

The uplevels in Rally Bots [RBOT] are some badkitten motherkittens, but they aren’t nearly as badkitten as the badkitttens in the Badkittens of Isle of Janthir [BIoJ].

As a member of [RBOT], you better believe were the coolest up levels out there. We stomp and crush anyone and everyone who stands in our way! We will crush BIoJ!

Note: RBOT is sort of a running gag, comprised of various DR guilds, intended only for up levels where we know were going to be dying every 20 seconds and rallying whole enemy zergs. Any statements of awesomeness should not be taken seriously. If you should take it seriously for more than three minutes, were sure a doctor may be able to help.

I don’t have screenshots on hand at the moment, but I can add that all Tiers of Heavy Female cultural armour do glow. T1 glows along all the edges of the leaves very distinctly, (Its a gorgeous glow/armour), on all pieces. Tier 2 has the least glow. The “ribbing” on the stomach and the legs glow, and some dots on the back. No other pieces glow, and the glow is faint where it does. As you’ve already noted, T3 does glow in a variety of places.

Newbkakes.4971:

Great fights at SE tower in ET Borderlands!

Definitely! Look forward to more fights like this!

I happen to be in this guild! They’re absolutely fantastic. Don’t let the hard-line rules scare you away. They’re there to keep order during fights. However, when we’re not actively in battle, this guild is a bunch of goofballs.

As far as battle goes, its great. Skill, concentration, coordination. We’ll go for anything. Camps, Towers, Keeps, Garris, Stone Mist. Doesn’t matter. We’ll take it.

Its a lot of fun. If you’re in to WvW, and want something better out of DR WvW, give [BÆST] your consideration.

insanemaniac.2456:

numbers were even or in your favor o.o
we didnt outnumber you
we did have the arrow cart advantage though

We had, at most, 15. I believe we spent most of the night around 12. I won’t claim you outnumbered us 3 to our 1 or something silly/grandiose, but I /believe/ you did have a numbers edge.

Mostly irrelevant number claims aside, it was some fantastic fights. We’re still talking about the fun we had. Good test of skill.

Wanted to give a shout-out to the Ferguson’s Crossing on FCBL last night, server time! Great fights were to be had. My guild, [BÆST], was determined to conquer your superior numbers and arrow carts in SE Tower. You took us out a few times, but eventually the tower was ours. Even after we took it, you kept on the offense for a few more hours. Kept us on our toes. It was great fun! Hope you got some good loot too!

At the end of the day, we were a bit tired.

Note: No, we’re not sitting on anyone. Just regular sitting.