Guild Wars 2

It has gotten so bad for me on my end that I just muted gw2 in my volume mixer setting in windows until a fix is put out.

Took forever but finished it without going in a down state on my warrior, but yes it was long and spam crazy with the aoes everywhere with the dragon and tendrils.

The first time I did this I was a bit confused on hitting the two side wall buttons before the golem turn the first one back on, stealth was easy I quickly found out about where I should be standing to knock out targets.

Then again I have play a few stealth games before so this living story was right up my alley. The only bug I can think of is that on my second character alt run I was standing too long (had to go to the restroom) where the boss rebuilt a generator on me causing me to get stuck in the generator, but yes it took a bit of thinking I won’t lie but I honestly did not have any issues after I understood what I had to do..

As for those that have slow computers I would suggest your turn your settings way down to give you more time to react, as I was able to with plenty of time between asura turning was able to knock out most of my target with plenty of time to spare. So if you were to turn your graphics down a bit it might help with lag.

I am sorry for me it was rough, especially on the first boss, which if it was not 20+ mobs running at me it was vines trying to yank me in while the boss was doing his aoe bomber run, it was hell because even if I tried to stay out of the way the vines would try to pull me in.

They also would so 3-4k damage per hit when they pulled me in and if I was unlucky to be pulled in by a vine where the boss was doing a bomber run I went into a down state…….

While I did finish the living story on my mesmer for this week I was left not happy with the way it played out, and yes I changed my build for last living story to a mantra build which was not idea this week and still even changing things up it was rough at lease for me.

I’ll try again to attack from range with the shield up but last time I did it I almost recall doing no damage outside of the aoe and even then I had to get within 2/3 in to do damage from what i remember but I willing to try it from range again with the shield on.

No it is the boss before you have the weak circle thrown out, yes that part in my opinion was easy and having back up on the last boss makes it easy if you make a mistake, no this one is hte boss where you kill a minion get a color buff and run to the buff to get a shield so you can go in hte middle to beat down on him.

I have already finished the story on my necro and warrior, like I said been having a rough time with my mesmer, however putting blink in might allow me to escape his mechanic that keeps pulling me back which might allow me a few second more to dps him down with blur twice if I go sword again.

I was never near any of the color pillars when I left the middle to get out, but if you say so I will keep that in mind, yet again I almost certain I did not, as I watched the boss do a animation that a similar boss in the previous area did that pulled you to him, which also knocks you down and pulls you to him…..

But on another note blink is a wonderful ability I had not thought to use that, which for some reason might be just the edge I need to escape and do a decent amount of damage per turn, thank you for suggesting that.

While that is a nice guide, I might watch the video that is not what I am aiming for, I just want to finish the story on my mesmer, I have not had the patience or luck to get past the second boss in glint’s lair without raging after the 2nd death or so every time I have tried to do it.

However if the guide video is being done by a mesmer perhaps I can get a few hints to make it possible for me to finish without giving up.

I need help with glint’s lair.. I have spent the last few days quitting on the second boss in glint’s lair that sits in the middle of the aoe.

I use assassins gear and I have tried many weapon setups and such but without my clones it becoming increasing frustrating to finish this last part of the story chain….

I am luck if i do 5% damage by myself when I get in and the boss tends to pull me back into the aoe after I just get outside the aoe when my shield goes down, both pulling me in knocking me down as well and killing me and resetting his health by the time I get back to him.

Some claim the boss doesn’t have his ability but I know for a fact that all of have the the ability to pull you to them, I think it has a limited range seem the edge of the aoe is still within its range to pull you back in.

Sadly is not like I can kill the boss from range as I have to be within a certain distance to damage him and my dps seem to be lackluster compared to even get him down in a timely manner.

If anyone has some suggestions for a build that might help please share as my mesmer unlike my warrior and necro which had this same issue but were able to escape death is literally causing me untold grief, which i might add makes me feel almost like the devs are trolling us….

No it was the second boss that stands in the middle of the huge aoe on the ground I have to wait for his minion to drop his shield get the color buff then get in with my shield color shied buff to attack the boss (seems like you can not damage him unless your a certain distance from him?)

So I am trying to dps him down with the 10-12 second shield buff as I a running out of time 3-4 seconds to go I head out I get outside of the aoe with the shield down, that is when he decides it is time to pull me back in and knock me down.. .which by the time I get up I am dead in assassin gear on my mesmer.

So I end up dying since there is no way to get back up have to start back at the last save point and by the time I get back to the boss his health has reset, on my warrior I was able ot escape him pulling me in thanks to stability and my necro with shroud but since my mesmer does jack for damage compared to the other two I finished this story on it has been misable.

Does not help that clones images instantly die even fighting the second boss, and without them I do a far less amount of damage, while if I played it real safe I could do it with time but at less than 5% damage on hte bar done each time I go in with being super safe at 5 seconds buff on the shield we are talking 12-15 times in at lease that means waiting at many times for the small add to drop its shield and to kill so I can get a new color aura to get a new shield each time…..

To me that is a the example of tedious and very mind numbing and if I don’t get out with that amount of time to spare playing it safe there is a good chance that the boss will pull me back in to my peril.

So let me get this straight your not an elitist if everyone feels it is easy and says it so unless it is you, in other words the opener and me are bad?

Perhaps you have not played a mesmer in the last part of the echoes?

I had no issues with the gimmick mechanics on my warrior on a bit on my necro and the only real mechanic that I think the boss should not of gotten is the ability to pull be back in and knock me on the ground while doing it.

That one mechainc alone has put me in a down state and killed me serveral tims evne on my characters that could dish out good dps.

The fights in my opinion are very boring and long and way to gimmicky, as for my mesmer even with pwer/crit builds she can’t do anywhere near as much damage as my other prefessions were able to.

She was killed so many times being pulled back in trying to push to stay in longer than it would be safe to avoid not having the shield up due to the bosses attempt to pull me back in it made me rage quit the game several days in a roll.

See she was doing at best 5% damage per attempt I can not use clones and condition damage doesn’t work well either without my clones.

I got the boss to 55% one time of the many attempts on her and all I got in return was him pulling me back in to get me in the aoe without a shield as it worn off as usual outside of the aoe just to have him pull be back in knock me down and then get aoed to fast to even roll out which of course would reset the fight due to respawn and time it would take to run back.

So you spout how I am bad and bad mouth people in general is sick to read Algreg, instead of bashing and using petty words against us BADDIES how about giving suggestions and helpful advice instead?

I get sick and tired of elitist jerks, I can understand that you play your class well and have no issues, but really I can say I agree that some mechanics of echoes was overturned.

While my warrior with a nice condition build did great and my power necro made it through both died to the boss in glint’s lair pulling me back into the aoe after I tried running out killing me and resetting the encounter several times.

As for my mesmer I have tried so many builds to try to deal with glint’s lair that it sickening to even think about, While the mobs health in other parts of the story chain were ridiculous, I could rely on my clones and my ability to play my mesmer well to kill it in time, here even with good reflexes that kitten boss pull back into his pit after my shield had warn off has killed me so many time I have closed the game 6 time in the last few days after getting killed yet again to this mechanic alone.

Sad thing is even if I was careful it would still be so slow, I was doing 5% damage at best each time I went in without my clones to back me up, didn’t matter what build or gear I used…. so I gave up and still trying to get yet another moment of focus to try to get a build that might help me there..

So I agree that this story has been ramped up with silly mechanics, while most are easy enough to figure out the outrangous health on some of the minions and the lack of thought on how some classes play against these mechanics so a lack of thought when making content like this for all to supposedly see…

But again instead of people helping out and giving suggestions they instead decide it in their best interests to just bash the person voicing their concerns and to me that is just another example of lack of empathy on the internet.

This patch has left me bewildered, not only do I have to redo all my specs on several of my characters I have to now relearn how each one plays with the new changes…

I rather not even comment on what they did to weapon skill and low level locking, which I might add will keep me from wanting to level another character anytime in the near future.

I so not like having a shady guy like phlunt, blackmailing me, yes I want the asuran race on my side, but I have also seen how they try to blackstab each other day in and day out….

If it wasn’t for the inquest or just regular asurans backstabbing each other quite often I am certain they would of gotten much further along technology and power base wise in this world.

See I want them on my side, I however do not want to be blackmailed by one of its arcane council members that has shown he can change his promises and backout on a moments notice.

He reminds me of a child not getting his way, my way or the highway attitude that I really urks me in a wrong sort of way.

Taimi aside I think some adult asuran act just like him, like spoiled brats that won’t do whats best for our world unless given exactly what they want, and even then ready to pull out and run at a moments notice if things don’t pan out the way they hope.

Honestly I want their knowledge and technology on our side but at the same time allies like that are rarely very reliable.

Not to say on a individual bases that there are not exceptions or really great asurans like zojja or our player characters but as a whole a a lot of asurans give me a bad taste in my mouth when dealing with them.

See I did just that, I used my shields both focus 5 and my aegis shield as often as I could.

While world mobs can be ok and even berserker gear is ok to some degree in the wrold or some personal stories, being aoe condtion by vines and having a dragons aoe the whole room can be hell.

While I dodge a good majority of unavoidable or very large consecrations of aoe both from the vines and dragon it still was hard not to get hit occasionally, and eventually the dragon would add in a extra minion or two like the aoe vine that try to use vines on you or one that spewed aoe nasitness on the ground along with the wolves = a great time.

While I try to avoid it that were very few SAFE spots nad even then for 5 seconds if less, so in the end dying 4 times to be overwhelmed with loss of shields, low endurance, and such I felt was good but still I was hoping for more suggestions for survival, that last chapter in this most recent living story just shows I need to rethink my spec no amount of timing with that much on the ground is going to save anyone for long.

Who said he would have to be in the same place as to force evil plant monsters to come out of the ground, remember the device can work on the whole network as in thousand of mile away without being anywhere near said waypoint.

As someone else pointed out it was blackmail against our player characters after he went back on his original promise, as well as stealing from a genius like taimi that had good intentions.

I have played several different version of asurian personal stories and trust me there many nasty asura outside of inquest that take someones personal device even adult asurians devices and go and do nasty things with them.

While we only have his word I can say given phlunt track record we likely will pay for letting him have that device sooner or later.

Hmm guess no one is interested in giving me any advice…….

I have been interested in trying to start up pug storymode dungeons to move my living story forward…

Now I have read up on a lot of builds but I really tend to get confused, while I willing to take a build specifically for dungeons I was wondering if anyone has another build in mind for open world and the living story.

The last two story modes for dragon’s reach 1 and 2 really drained me if I was not down 3-4 times or killed especially at the summit I am constantly jumping around dodging to try to stay out so much aoe that I was forced to go scepter just to get a ok ranged and heavy on soldier though even with some berserker gear mixed in it didn’t help as much as I hoped for survival.

While I do pretty good on my warrior and necromancer for dps and survival my old guardian here rarely gets to play outside the living story and it is real torture for me to finish every two weeks when a new one comes out.

So if anyone has a few suggestions on weapons, gear, and builds I would greatly appreciate it.

You assume that had she sent all scarlet’s research to these specialist that they would of come up with it faster……

News flash the asura in rata sum didn’t even consider it a issue until they got reports of vines grabbing and destroying wp on the network and only taimi understood the severity of danger Mordremoth. Only a few asurian in the field actually added in the this weeks patch that were not inquest might unserstand the danger of the dragons minions.

Otherwise like most ADULTS she was ignored and the only reason that she that councilor phlunt was even interested that was because her mentor Zojja mentioned that taimi was in the works in making a device to help save the wp network.

Otherwise especially in act 1 of dragons reach it was made clear that phlunt that and his arcane council guards that were with him not only find it annoying to deal with taimi but also made it clear that they had no love for zojja.

They made it quite clear that if it was not for the fact she might have something of extreme interest to the arcane council in rata sum they would not given a two hoots what taimi or zojja are doing.

From what I got they could care less if she was being mentored and only when she has something they wanted that they pulled the mentor card and stole the device as a stipulation to going to the summit.

Shady is all I can describe phlunt and his arcane guards not once did they care about taimi health or happiness but whether she had something of value to them.

To me that is mirror of the real world how adult treat each other, not that acts of a mentor but that of a adult using their power to get something they should not of gotten freely.

Honestly I wonder if the people that talk down on her would do the same if she was the same age as zojja, even our team makes it clear to keep quiet on future research and study so we would not have another incident like we did with taimi device reaching wind to the arcane council.

That it was clear had our player characters had not helped her the device would not of been finisih even at a decent pace, it was clear from the beginning that they were interfering with her finishing what was a vital project not only for her but for her people as a whole.

Phlunt like a few selfish player races tend to do whatever is in the best interest of themselves instead of the tyria as a whole. Rarely do these groups care about tyria as a whole and if it was not for our team and us players I am certain great doom would befall tyria.

Without Taimi the asura would never have come to the summit and without her the wp network would be in ruins, yet you claim she is lucky she didn’t get locked up?

Had it not been for her the ntwork would of been destroyed there ould be nothing left of it, also it would be noted that no one elese in rata sum or outside of it thought it a wise idea to come up with such a device, if anything she did a heroic and wonderful thing for her people and yet she got treated like a stupid worthless child having a trantrum when a person of authority demanded she give up that device after all her hard work without even a thank you for saving their network from a elder dragon.

So much hate for taimi, seems clear some of the posters here hate children and have no respect for them even if they accomplish great things.

Shame that some people look down on others because of age, race, sex, or so forth, I personally think all the team I have work with in the story have their faults just not taimi, and for a child she sure acts more mature then some adults I know in real life.

Manasa Devil I am sorry you see it that way, while phlunt might give her device back at a later date, he already made quite clear how excited he was once he realized that the device work so much so he was quick to change his stipulations for joining the summit. Not only is that underhandedly devious, he also broke his original promise he made in part one so that he could claim credit for taimi’s invention.

People like him imagined or real life are the lowest of low in my book, I have had the unfortunate pleasure of meeting people just like him in real life and I can say as far as I am concerned that was he was doing was down right wrong and in my book stealing.

If you think that taimi is so dangerous than perhaps we should not have had her invent a device to save the waypoints, I mean I am certain you wouldn’t mind hufffing it from one end of the world to the other.

For me and other’s I saw great purpose in what she was doing and while annoying child like her insight and genius level knowledge helped a great deal in helping at lease from my perspective many of the interesting facts about Scarlet and Mordremoth during the second living story.

While you might not like her as I get the impression she is getting on your nerves, I however find her comforting she reminds me somewhat of some of my childhood memories and at the same time how cruel life can be when authority takes advantage of people both young and old.

Some of you people in this topic make me very sick, not only do you justify phlunt’s actions you go as far to cheer him on as the hero.

While I agree children should be supervised within reason in the real world as most know no better, I can not for the life of me see how some of you are acting, my only conclusion is that some of you have jaded feelings against children in real world.

In no situation would I feel good allowing some old cruel npc like phlunt to steal and take credit for one of my npc friends just because they are considered too to young.

While taimi’s action were the actions of a child very much smart enough to know she was being taken advantage of never once did I feel what phlunt was doing was right.

Perhap’s you others have had children of your own or family that have children that been rude and spoiled, but in taimi case phlunt not only down talked her as if she was stupid but the moment he realized she had created something no one asura had created he was quick to claim owbnership of this creation of hers.

I can’t blame her for wanting to take what she created with her two hands and run. While rash to run out into unknown territory she didn’t want such a devious and cruel lying mistrustful asura like phlunt to have her device so he could take credit for it himself.

IT was only because of the GREATER good that she was forced in the end to give in, had there been a alternative option I would of taken it. Not once during the entire story dealing with phlunt and taimi did i feel heroic.

If anything phlunt reminded me of so many bullies and peers in my own life and I can say without a doubt that set my emotions aflame. I hope that the people in here that had jaded views never end up supervising my children nor do I think they realize how jaded they sound. I suppose some forget how piers and adults treated them at that age, mind you phlunt is not even taimi’s father, just a man of authority that is using his power on the council to his own advantages like so many politicians do in the real world. /sigh

I have the same issue I was spending more time running and evading on my warrior then I was fighting, they really have upped the condition spams on the mobs in the living story for season 2.

I am all for challenge but sometimes i wonder, while I can adapt I have to now make a specific build with the right gear just to survive these outrageous spamming of aoe on the ground and conditions, makes me wonder what the developers are aiming for aside from forcing me to go ranged to even kill efficiently.

Thanks for sharing.

Interesting build any recommendations on weapons and gear or should I stick to my berserkers set and trinkets or mix it up a bit?

I am having issues deal with the new way that mobs in the living story and events that anet is putting out to the effect I go down in a matter of seconds unless I run and even then still I go in the down state often.

Sadly there is no open world or living world builds that I saw list, while I like my beserker set and build I tend to go in down state or death quite often in the living stories being released in season 2 and in the new zone.

So my question is there a gear set I could buy that would help immensely with my survivability and still keep decent dps against bosses like aerin and trash mobs like the veteran inquest that like to teleport and throw around a lot of dots and disables.

Right now I even fight to finish up evons meta for teh mini but really trying to finish some of these achievements especially t4 is never gonig to happen, I am not going waste a respec and buy whole new gear set to gear my necro, guardian or mesmer to try to do this solo or duo so I am not going to try anymore.. I am fast approaching burnout on this biweekly living story it feels like every new living story is just another grind without meaning while the devs continue to add more grind or ramping up while they are at it.

Sadly I will not be finishing this challenge I have 3 80 a necromancer,(blood tank build) great for puling the mobs to me not so great for dps, a mesmer that is staff/sword build (doesn’t have great utility to pull mobs back and my guardian that is a staff/two handed sword build.

The last two do not have much mob control and as for beserker gear there is no kitten way I am going to spend 20+ gold plus 4-5 gold respec to make a build with one of my 3 characters to try to solo or duo this. Not work the money not worth the time.

I am sadden that I bashed myself solo and with several groups over this last week to get basically nothing for tier 4 and 75% of the time not even tier 3.

This place is forcing me to play with a certain gear setup and spec and I will say to anet no thank you take your stupid kitten tier 3 and 4 and keep it, not only is gold impossible as far as I can tell on tier 3 and 4 just finishing it seem just as impossible unless you have the most decked out players with the right gear and builds. Which I might add ticks me off something fierce.

My god that was painful, finally got it but really this more about luck then skill, this isn’t challenging content this is punishing content. It is one thing to be able to get better and overcome something its another to almost never be able to beat something that can not be beat by skill and give up for most of the time due to frustration.

My god that was painful, finally got it but really this more about luck then skill, this isn’t challenging content this is punishing content. It is one thing to be able to get better and overcome something its another to almost never be able to beat something that can not be beat by skill and give up for most of the time due to frustration.

Sadly I almost feel like cheating or giving up after 30 times trying I could not get him he just spam his ultimate, if I had my ultimate as often as these npcs had their I might of stood a chance I mean I got him the closes to 10% before I died to his taunt but still its madness.

I would prefer to actually do it without using what the dev team might consider a exploit with a chanced to ban our account even if Adnul was created by a twisted mind.

I do agree with you on the labeling, but after all the times I went to each location known over and over at lease by the wiki/dulfy I am mentally drained.

I have not the energy to go back again on my server to screenshot each place to show that there is only one place with a covered object.

Thankfully for me just guesting on another server allowed me to finally get my compass after a almost week of trying to find it, just trying to bring it up since I am know I am not the first to have this issue.

On some servers the second snow covered object is not spawning, I tested this shortly after posting and guesting on another server I found the second object and was finally able to get the compass.

Honestly they should really fix this bug…..

On some servers the second snow covered object is not spawning, I tested this shortly after posting and guesting on another server I found the second object and was finally able to get the compass.

Honestly they should really fix this bug…..

I have look at all spots I have only found one spawn point and trust me I have searched every spot 5 times over many times overs….. and only found the one snow covered object spot that won’t let me loot

Sadly I have been to all spots only one place lights up and that place claims I already have collected and returned the stated item.

I have looked through with the dulfy.net guide for the spots where a snow covered object would be, I only end up finding one spot.

While I was able to pick up the refugee belt in the other zone from the same dirt pile that had the soldier, in this zone I can not get the refugee’s compass from the snow covered object from where I got the refugee’s goblet. I have tried logging out and even closing out the game and restarting my computer. I have also taken other characters of mine out there.

Still in the end the snow covered object is only in one place and still says “You had a lost possession, but it’s back with its owner now.”

So what can I do at this point, do I go and visit another world or do I wait or is there something I am missing?

NoTrigger.8396:

ac has been nerfed tbh. its even easier than before. its so easy its not even funny. it actually makes me cry to see how with every update the difficulty leaves this game more and more.

arah p4 got nerfed to the ground. enjoy ur free dungeon master guys.

i guess soon we will be able to finish dungeons by entering them and going afk.

Not everyone is on the same level as you buddy. Maybe you have a great guild with people that are on top of their game. But I can tell you the average player is not going to agree with you that on the whole that AC or even the other dungeon P4 you mention were nerf at all but in fact had added complexity.

But like everything people have different opinions on the matter and different skill levels, just wish the devs would remember that when revamping things that are not broken…….

That is the reason I am turn off so much by path 2 especially. I mean I spent more time explaining to 80’s mind you the changes to the AC dungeon, I am only 40+ on my 3 alts and they died more then me on most runs today.

But still the difficulty level on the spider queen is not challenging it frustrating I have had groups wipe several times over and people leave several time to either disband or find replacements.

Other times like the Ghost Eater boss fight even after people understood the fight. Ghost Eater would either stand in the middle of the room and not aggro to anything we did after charging all 3 traps or he would bug out for 2-5 minutes at time at one trap after he would go invincible again. Many people in many of my pug groups were very unhappy and stated they would not be running AC or path 2 especially again.

While you might want to fix bugs what was the point of tuning a starter dungeon to the degree that you did. If it wasn’t for all my runs so far last week and my mmo experience as a whole I might not be doing so well, but I can hardly imagine that AC is meant for 35+ characters just starting out on their first dungeon.

This kind of thinking makes me just /facepalm. I mean what the point of making a starter dungeon tougher then a some of the 60+ dungeons out there? Other then to make it less farmed by level 80’s? Just boggles my mind because what is the point of making something enjoyable harder just to drive people away that might not be at that skill level especially people just trying dungeons for the first time.

Honestly you would of been better trying to fix the bugs that still persist or the new bug on some of these boss fights then trying to update the dungeons. As it stands I’ll still keep going in but I can tell you I have run into quite a few unhappy players after this patch.

Time and time again i go from mmo to mmo and I find that devs feel the need to change something that was working or people enjoy, while it will not kill GW2 these kind of action tend to anger the player population as a whole.

I have seen way too many mmo’s go under with poor decisions made by devs I hope that gw2 devs are not heading the dame direction with poorly though out decisions.

I mean going through on path 2 na having ghost eater just stand there not moving for 2+ minutes was frustrating to say the lease.