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Hey there, maybe I missed it. What is your guild’s home server?
Their home server is Darkhaven.
I am returning after a bit of a break and you seem like the casual guild I’m looking for so I’m quite interested if you have room still. I do have a second guild that has a few good friends in it but our times online don’t mesh to often so I’m looking for another group yo share my adventures with.
Well I’m already a Hunan ranger so I got that going for me haha
But I do hope the specialization is interesting and not blan and boring.
Good morning all,
I was highly interested in your guild as I’m at work now and will be for the next 8-9 hours I felt id leave a message here. I did however try to go to your website but guildportal kept turning up errors so I was unable to. I’ve had the game since it launched but just recently came back from almost a year long break so for all intensive purposes I’m new again. I will attempt to get ahold you Oakos.2417 and Vanguard.8769 when I get home from work hopefully on of you will be on. have a great day and I look forward to hearing from you!
V/R
Matt
You can’t say that as you don’t really know how things were meant to be played. Anet has already stated that LOSing/Stacking and skipping trash is perfectly acceptable.
If you don’t find stacking fun, fine, that’s understandable. But don’t look down upon groups that like to stack.
It’s the most efficient method in the majority of encounters. This ensures the group gets all of buffs, melee burst can go over succesfully without the mob moving, and you can easily res up the dead in a time-efficient manner.
As opposed to everybody spread out, ranging (which does less damage), where you hvae to wait 10 sec to get ressed if anybody notices, and you don’t get nearly all the group buffs/boons.
If you don’t want to stack, that’s fine, but then you should start your own group and say “No stacking strategy” or something along the lines. As the majority of PUGs will expect you to know when and where to stack.
so your telling me when Anet designed this game and its dungeons they designed it with stacking in mind?
Thank you both for your replies I did a couple dungeons last night and noticed the wall stacking you where speaking of and to be honest it really took the fun out of the dungeon and IMO unless my few groups sucked the wall stacking is an excuse for less skilled players to avoid party wipes which is where all the challenge comes from I do hope to see the staff support buffed as it was by far the most enjoyable for me to play kitten . again thank you for the replies.
I disagree with your assessment. “Wall stacking” is simply a method to efficiently deal the most DPS to a group of trash mobs using melee cleave attacks and AoE. It has nothing to do with skill.
hmm I may have misunderstood stacking what I was talking about was when everyone finds a spot and clumps up. there’s absolutely no challenge in that at all if I wanted something easy to do id stay out of dungeons, they are easy enough as it is. and the two groups in question when they weren’t standing in one spot clumped in a corner all they did was die. it was as if they had no clue how to actually fight so they took an easy and far less satisfying route.
Yes, that describes what we mean by “stacking”. Well, minus the dying bit. You’re not supposed to die.
What stacking does is to exploit the weakness of the AI, as we have for years, drawing them around dark corners like little children chasing the elusive ice cream truck. When they turn the corner, down comes the wrathful vengeance of our heroes. If anything, this tactic does test the aptitude of said heroes, challenging them to understand when to use what skills, and most importantly, when to disengage.
For example, in the first encounter of Crucible of Eternity, consisting of an Icebrood Colossus and two Icebrood Elementals. Clumping them up is arguably much more dangerous here because the Elementals have an AOE attack (V-shaped ice attack) that deals significant amounts of damage and knocks you back. While dangerous alone, two will easily wipe the entire party within two seconds. This then challenges the players to understand two very crucial things:
1. The aforementioned ice attack can be reflected or blocked as projectiles. Successfully reflecting the attack will deal over 60% of the enemies’ HP in damage.
2. You have to recognise an obvious danger on the ground and dodge. Yes! Dodge.
The same concepts are applies with the next fight with the Icebrood Wolves, Golems guarding the Golemetric Waypoint, etc.
Yes, stacking is a tactic that can be used by anybody. But like a hammer, simply knowing that it can somehow put a nail into something doesn’t mean you can do it without broken thumbs.
I guess I can see your point I just always enjoyed dungeons more when they where played the way they where meant to be played and not by everyone standing in a corner lol
Just outa curiosity what’s the gem cost on server transfer in terms of $ is it something ridiculous or reasonable?
Thank you both for your replies I did a couple dungeons last night and noticed the wall stacking you where speaking of and to be honest it really took the fun out of the dungeon and IMO unless my few groups sucked the wall stacking is an excuse for less skilled players to avoid party wipes which is where all the challenge comes from I do hope to see the staff support buffed as it was by far the most enjoyable for me to play kitten . again thank you for the replies.
I disagree with your assessment. “Wall stacking” is simply a method to efficiently deal the most DPS to a group of trash mobs using melee cleave attacks and AoE. It has nothing to do with skill.
hmm I may have misunderstood stacking what I was talking about was when everyone finds a spot and clumps up. there’s absolutely no challenge in that at all if I wanted something easy to do id stay out of dungeons, they are easy enough as it is. and the two groups in question when they weren’t standing in one spot clumped in a corner all they did was die. it was as if they had no clue how to actually fight so they took an easy and far less satisfying route.
Thank you both for your replies I did a couple dungeons last night and noticed the wall stacking you where speaking of and to be honest it really took the fun out of the dungeon and IMO unless my few groups sucked the wall stacking is an excuse for less skilled players to avoid party wipes which is where all the challenge comes from I do hope to see the staff support buffed as it was by far the most enjoyable for me to play kitten . again thank you for the replies.
Morning all,
So as the title says I’m a returning player I last played about 8 months ago and made it to 80 on my Ele with decent dungeon gear etc. What I’d like to know is if enough has changed that id be better off just starting a new character so I don’t screw anyone over, or if little has changed with the classes that I wouldn’t need to. one thing I do remember is I quit 8 months ago due to the staff Ele getting nerfed in PvE so I was unable to play proper support anymore. has anything changed or is staff Ele still useless for the support roll.
V/R
Matt