Guild Wars 2

Boogiepop Void.6473:

Known bugs (to me; there may be more):
All Paths: Lupicus never becomes hostile, just stands there, making further progress impossible
P1 – Enemies between Ooze and crystallines respawn endlessly (sneaking still possible, but clearing not); Enemies between Ooze and crystaline aggro to stealthed characters, never break aggro (can occur in tandem with infinite respawn, making progress impossible).
P2 – Belka Vanishes never to return; Turret at the end of the mech sequence instakills players (can be avoided but only if you known how ahead of time); Bone wall doesn’t despawn at Alphard in case of wipe (can force reset if party voluntarily wipes again); Alphard instakills party if CCed when she should tele.
P4 – Bombs fail to explode, leaving path sealed; Vahid spawns infinite trees, making movement of any kind impossible (can also fail to despawn if you somehow kill him despite this, trapping you in the room); Simi eternally hides at 50% health, making her unkillable.

Most of these are literally game mechanics.

Mobs follow stealthed players because they are coded like that, and it can be easily avoided by pathing them.
Vahid does spawn infinite trees if you keep killing the previous trees, they are capped at 5 so if you just bait them and not kill them he stops spawning them.
Lupi not activating happens because you didn’t pick a path before triggering lupi (usually because of skipping to waypoint), and can be easily fixed by using skill 1 on a hylek pot.
The “turret” kills you because the spiders attack in a large aoe, and since they gather at the turret you have to execute the unfathomably difficult task of using your dodge button.

There’s more like these but I can’t really be bothered to explain them, its just a case of you not understanding game mechanics.

Lord Hizen.5918:

Who said warrior cant solo big bosses think again :P

I don’t think anybody with brain cells ever said that, warrior has always been one of the best solo classes.
Also I don’t really see how soloing non-CM Ensolyss (which has been done numerous times before with way better times) in tank gear and every defensive trait is in any way impressive, other than that you managed to not fall asleep.

Each to their own tho I guess

I agree that it looks a bit uncoordinated, but all the stupid things that happen actually don’t lose time at all.
Detha instantly pathed even tho lemon forgot to place the portal, and my food ends during the ghost timegate so we only lose some milliseconds on endboss.
Still want roul to beat it tho so we have a reason to improve the run :/

Roul obviously did this before the icebow nerf and didn’t show options menu on purpose

Malediktus.9250:

Haha, I just had Helseth’s smurf in my team (Gold I) and we lost, so he can carry bronze but not gold. Very hilarious.

That moment when you are so bad that even Helseth can’t carry you

Tornupto.2304:

OnlyGame.7048:

As i have clearly shown, AC P3 isnt doable faster than 13minutes. So how the heck did they manage to do it in 6mins i think it was?

Even pug runs back in those days were faster than 13 min sometimes.

Those pugs cheated with anime chatcovers and teamspeak overlays tho

Only 4 minutes slower than the duo record, good job :o

Wethospu.6437:

Approved. Even watched the whole burrow part!

Can I expect a sub 9:30 in a near future?

If Roul breaks it again we will probably try to push it further, 9:30 should be possible

9-10-2016
Game build 67,732

[SALT] Bladex (Pls No Pugs) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOx7PlApWLQ
[hC] Lemon (Lemon Dealer) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgfO3R3hk4M

That “shake it off!” you took instead of signet of fury was pretty useful to cleanse the total of 0 burn stacks you had throughout the fight

KickzNGigglez.4958:

I want to do them for the accessories and armor pieces, but I can never find a LFG open for anyone. Every LFG I see is seeking experienced players. I find this sort of an odd spot to be in because I do high level fractals daily and occasionally raid, but have rarely done dungeons outside of COF and AC. I regret not getting them done earlier, but I had a bad case of anxiety when I first started playing gw2.

What if I told you you can create your own LFG?

:o

Every dungeon that doesn’t have some limitation that requires multiple players can be soloed.
AC p123, CM p123, TA up/fwd, SE p123, CoF p13, Arah p1234.

I personally started with Arah p2, but a lot of people think Arah is hard so it really depends on what you like.
TA paths aren’t that hard to solo, and if you have an elementalist AC p3 is probably the easiest path in the game.
Just practice a path that you like doing until you can completely solo it

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

As a necro main this is depressing, jesus christ…

I’m looking forward to seeing your video of the same fight.

Gz to the OP.

Can we please not watch more videos of necros doing fractals? ty

I’m pretty sure there are already way faster solos

Roul.3205:

Asurch.9352:

This could easily be saved for sub 10 min especially maybe if i didn’t get hit by spiders in skips every single time.

Atleast you don’t die to traps.

:)

AC traps harder than raids confirmed?

10-07-2016
game build 63,845
Bladex | Pls No Pugs (ele) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4C9tZQGMq8
Asurch | Lemon Dealer (ele with disgusting precursor armor) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07BNqNEnT9o

Can put guild as [hC] I guess

Watchwork portal devices have been a thing for ages and they probably have better value if you don’t spam your white mantle portal every time its off cooldown.

Harpy feathers have also been a thing for years and people still want thieves for dungeons

Weerus.3701:

are you saying that healing build is not good enough?

There simply isn’t a need for healing in most forms of content outside of raids, and even in a lot of raid encounters healing isn’t that important, if your group knows the mechanics

Acnologia.6934:

i don’t talk about dumb people. i talk about dumb contents. they create a content where people like you and me with not so many time will never enjoy fully

How do you expect Arenanet to only release content that everybody enjoys?

How many complain threads about raids do you have to make?
We get it, raids are horrible, go find a different game

> 2016
> Discussions about whether or not AP indicates skill

Also obligatory “hey guyzzz I soloed Arah on my necromancer without armor when I had 60ap so every new player must be the same!!!!1111!!one”

Dro.1047:

bladex.9502:

Dro.1047:

bladex.9502:

it was an old and bad run.

http://goo.gl/wx2G34

http://i.imgur.com/VjidrmX.jpg

Also that’s not my description so idk, my description is actually making fun of how horrible the run was

when you achieve 1% of what I did in this game you will be able of making fun of my run, it’s cause of people like you that nobody respects hC

Sorry that I didn’t “achieve” as much in a video game as you did, I bet people are so proud of you for soloing some granular easy content and making casuals that have no idea how to play the game think you are god

Dro.1047:

bladex.9502:

it was an old and bad run.

http://goo.gl/wx2G34

http://i.imgur.com/VjidrmX.jpg

Also that’s not my description so idk, my description is actually making fun of how horrible the run was

Dro.1047:

bladex.9502:

, or needs to be carried by bugged legendary scaling and watchwork portals to beat records cough

If you’re talking about my cof with breke, tobi and I already did 5:40 few month ago

We only uploaded the 5:49 run because some random people uploaded one that was 5:54 or smth, it was an old and bad run.

We had several ele/ele duos around 5:30 with boss kills way faster than the ones in your and breke’s duo, even without food swapping and legendary scaling.
But yeah, no gold for watchwork portals since I was farming for the much needed bifrost, so we did it without and lost 10/15 seconds :/

It’s funny how everybody that defends the legendary usage either hasn’t done anything noticeable in years, or needs to be carried by bugged legendary scaling and watchwork portals to beat records cough

Also I think its funny that Goku tries to make fun of Roul with this sick kittenpost, and ends up making fun of himself by showing that even with bugged scaling he manages to lose like 1 minute

Dro.1047:

bladex.9502:

Not everyone has the ability to afford legendaries and get a +/- 15% damage buff in SE

What about farming a little bit instead of slacking in front of Arah ?

Because farming is now an essential part of doing dungeon records?
I guess we should add a category for restricted Silverwastes <<[WORLD RECORDS]>>

Everyone can drag their AoE indicator a bit up the wall to compress the meteors.
Not everyone has the ability to afford legendaries and get a +/- 15% damage buff in SE and copy everything from the previous run (and still manage to only be 15 seconds faster while roul wasted 10 seconds going ooc???)

Loop.8106:

In speedrun attempts you just skip kholer all together seeing he’s not vital for a single AC path.

In an actual “speedrun attempt” with a mesmer you would kill him in path 2 since its a lot faster

I ran the pingplotter and got this result.
I’m not an expert with this stuff, but as far as I can see this shows that the problem is the connection between my ISP and Arenanet?

If it is on Arenanet’s end, is there anything I can do about it, or do I basically just wait and cross my fingers hoping Arenanet will fix it?

Never had any problems with skill delay or lag in GW2, apart from occasional disconnects, until last night.

I randomly got huge delays on skills, leaps/blinks teleport me back further than they bring me forward when I use them, and when I write a message in chat it takes up to 5 seconds to actually appear.
This has been persisting non stop for about 24 hours now.

When I watch my ping in the options menu it shows a stable 20-40 ping, with the average sometimes going up to about 200 but not anything huge.
All other online games work fine, its just happening in gw2 and I have no clue why.

Video of it happening : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NahBGNTi7qc

If it matters anything, I’m running on an i7 2600k with 16GB of ram and a GTX750ti with 200mbps up/down internet

TheSouL.1098:

If you compere gw2 to rl Sports then spending lots of momey for the best suite or car is normal… So i dont know why having the best gear is something wrong

If you compare it to RL sports, exploiting the (probably) bugged legendary downscaling is the same as using doping to get an unfair advantage over others, which is banned from pretty much every type of sports

Amicable Pugs.4503:

bladex.9502:

Another thing I’d like to propose is to have a look at certain CC consumables.
While they are easy to use and not that expensive to get, it kills off a lot of possible cool breakbar tactics, since its usually faster to just throw an Ettin gunk or break 70% of the bar with 1 plank hit.

Haven’t seen a video yet where Etting Gunk or Planks get used effectively.
Most of the time breaking without them is faster + better.
Look at Roul’s break rotation for example, bar breaks exactly mid meteor + overload.
Plus, if you wanna try banning certain cons then you’ll end up with a discussion on how other cons remove “possible cool tactics” too.

The thing with Roul’s breakbar rotation is that it requires you to precast gale, which prevents you from precasting other things which can be a reasonable damage loss.
There is also no way to efficiently break the bar a second time without losing tons of DPS, while breaking it a second time with consumables takes like 1 second.

If you combine CC consumables with soft CC from weapon skills/aftershock its definitely faster than breaking it with gale, the reason Roul uses this rota is because he hates consumables just as much as I do

So much +1 to the legendaries thing.
Its really annoying to have a huge disadvantage compared to other people because you don’t have a specific legendary, especially in solo/duo records where fights can take a little longer and you lose up to 10-20 seconds on a boss fight just because of bugged scaling.

I feel like its a lot less bad to have to spend +/- 100 gold on an ascended weapon because you aren’t allowed to use your legendary, than having to cough up 3000 gold to compete

Another thing I’d like to propose is to have a look at certain CC consumables.
While they are easy to use and not that expensive to get, it kills off a lot of possible cool breakbar tactics, since its usually faster to just throw an Ettin gunk or break 70% of the bar with 1 plank hit.

People have been complaining about this for 3 years, how is it a “growing concern”?
You should try pugging a 50 on ranger or necro before HoT, and you will see it has become a lot less bad.

But yeah, the people that kick based on stupid things like AP are usually just really bad players themselves, and you don’t want to play with them anyways

Swagger.1459:

TheSouL.1098:

Swagger seriously… The thread is about Solo dps WITHOUT buffs or boons from another profession. The benchmarktest you post is with boons like Banner, EA and spotter.

Seriously? It’s all relative. Remove boons any you’ll still get the same rankings.

Remove boon and Ele is top dps with staff. Add boon and ele with staff will be top dps.

Honestly, you have been provided with numbers as your framework. If you don’t like it then feel free to do your own tests if you want.

This is not true at all.
The thread is about a solo scenario where you don’t have access to boons from other people, and need to generate them yourself.

According to the spreadsheet warrior would be among the lowest DPS classes in the game, while in reality it has close to the best dps in a solo scenario.
Same goes for classes like thief that may look amazing in a full party spreadsheet, but those numbers are highly influenced by quickness uptime from a mesmer, which increases thief dps a lot more than other classes

Go ahead and test it and see for yourself why your post is just plain wrong

What a great idea

Roul.3205:

Meh, i have no idea why the music that i use is Banned, after all I am german and I can listen to the music just fine, even w/o proxtube xD

Probably because you listen to the music via Proximity/Sheepy, who have received clearance from the artists to use the music.
Its GEMA tho so kitten knows

Water and arcane traitlines meta? o/

Guild : [hC] This Is How We Do
08/05/2016, game build 61,265
Bladex | Pls No Pugs (ele) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f34lOOye6BA
Asurch | Lemon Dealer (ele) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIeYc_3GKc8

perry.9645:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Dodge_Instructor

Wait, you can dodge in this game? :o

Just a flesh wound.3589:

it was made long before gliding was put in the game, like 2 years ago, and it’s a toy not a backpiece.

Black feather wings were also released a long time ago, and we got a free glider skin if we owned them when HoT released

Thaddeus.4891:

I don’t remember all the time for boss kill in dungeon, been a long time. But from what I remember most boss used to take 20-30 seconds to kill pre-hot, not 3 seconds.

Maybe in pugs, in organised groups all bosses outside of HotW and Arah (and maybe Tazza) melted.

But then please tell me how somehow the elite specs increased class’ burst potential to reach above-icebow levels?
There is nothing that even comes close to the 150-200k damage icebow did over a period of 2,5 seconds on reasonably sized hitboxes.
Breakbars are causing the power creep you are experiencing in dungeons, not elite specs, if anything elite specs make it easier to achieve decent dps since most classes barely have a rotation anymore

Thaddeus.4891:

bladex.9502:

There isn’t really such a thing as “OP elite specs” in dungeons.
You barely get more dps than before the icebow nerf from the classes themself, the thing that’s causing the powercreep are mostly breakbars being ridiculously unbalanced.
Before HoT you had to coordinate deepfreezes, now everybody just spams CC and you get a 50%(????) dps bonus

You are not wrong about the breakbar. But you are so wrong about barely doing more dps than before icebow. I couldn’t find info on all profession, but for the Guardian. We used to do around 10-11k dps back before the June 2015 patch. 13-14k dps after the June 2015 patch. And now we do around 23k dps.

Not big enough power creep for you? Nor only the elite spec are giving more dps to most profession, but we also have a lot more buffs. Grace of Land, Quickness and Alacrity are very high buffs and they are all new, or for Quickness used to be very limited in quantity, while now it’s perma.

We can explode the dungeon without the breakbar. The breakbar just make things even worst.

I’m talking about dungeons, not raids, maybe read my post.

In dungeons you usually don’t have all buffs 100% of the time, and pretty much every boss except for some Arah bosses is completely burst orientated.
Icebow had a way higher burst than what most of the new elite specs will ever achieve, the thing that makes you believe your burst is higher in dungeons is the breakbars giving you pretty much a perma 50% dps bonus, since you can instantly break the bar and the boss should be dead before the dps bonus ends.

Compare kill times on bosses like lupi where breakbars play no role.
The lupi duo record before icebow nerf was 1:06, the lupi duo record after icebow nerf is 1:04

Spreadsheet DPS is a stupid argument and serves no purpose when you are talking about fights that literally last 3 seconds

Charrbeque.8729:

Dragon Masher.5749:

bladex.9502:

There isn’t really such a thing as “OP elite specs” in dungeons.
You barely get more dps than before the icebow nerf from the classes themself, the thing that’s causing the powercreep are mostly breakbars being ridiculously unbalanced.
Before HoT you had to coordinate deepfreezes, now everybody just spams CC and you get a 50%(????) dps bonus

All this! the breakbar is horribly unbalanced for pre hot content except for high level content.

Naw. Just have to do it right. The quarterly patch buffed ranger shortbow a bit. Skill 5 now causes 2 seconds of daze/stun instead of 1 second. If I use it right after my Juvenile Fire Wyvern uses its Wing Buffet skill (it’s not the F2), I can take a good chunk out of a breakbar on a lot of enemies by myself in dungeons. I found this out yesterday when I did story mode on several dungeons. I don’t have the Druid elite spec unlocked and it’s not something I’d want to use anyway, since healing/support isn’t my style. Combine that with whatever my party members were using, and breakbars weren’t an issue.

I don’t think you quite understood what we are saying, the point is that breakbars are too easy to break and the damage bonus is way too big for the little amount of effort spent

There isn’t really such a thing as “OP elite specs” in dungeons.
You barely get more dps than before the icebow nerf from the classes themself, the thing that’s causing the powercreep are mostly breakbars being ridiculously unbalanced.
Before HoT you had to coordinate deepfreezes, now everybody just spams CC and you get a 50%(????) dps bonus

If you have a highly profitable dungeon recipe (SE p2, hotw, arah p4 etc) its amazing since you can choose what tokens you want from the achievement chest.
Otherwise the rewards are good, but its nothing close to before the dungeon nerfs

reikken.4961:

oh, dang, I can’t swap traits that fast
do you use some kind of build swapper addon for that?

I just play ele way too much I guess, I know where all traits are without even looking

reikken.4961:

also how did you do that? I can only manage 65k dps…that drops off to 46k before I get the kill

air/water/arcane, start with tempest to precast overload air and swap it out for water when walking to the golem.
Also cast arcane brilliance with elemental surge on for the ferocity bonus and swap it out for the more damage on boon trait after.
Lava font meteor shower, swap to water, icebow 4 and it should be dead.

You can get like 90k dps if you actually use food, roll for meteor hit RNG and use something else than your arah staff and strength runes, I think a guildie got 92k on ele

LazySummer.2568:

Hi Anet, just wanted to let you know that you might have made one of the shorter fractals like x10 longer than the old cliffside thanks to 1 million hp Legendary Lornarr

1 million? more like 3,5 million.
Challenging content i guess \0/

On ele with some bullkitten air/water/arcane build, am I a skilled player now?

With an organised group : AC story, AC p1, CM p123, SE p1 and HotW p12
With pugs probably just AC full CM full and SE p1 or smth

If you purely want gold, its a good idea to include aetherpath in the rotation since you have 100% chance to get a skin which are worth at least 5g

AC p6 works fine btw since you get the achievement for all 3 paths, but the p3 burrow timegate and the time it takes to actually bug the npcs makes it not really worth over other paths time-wise