New dungeons should be in the same format that Underworld and Fissure of Woe were in GW1: big open area with a certain amount of objectives to complete in any order that you see fit.
that sounds too challenging tbh
we need narrow corridors filled with cutscenes and kasjory rp to immerse us in the world of tyria and to prepare us for the challenging group content! bosses that lie ahead.
I’m at the spot right now where all i need to finish my legendary is CoE runs but since I don’t use zerker nor do i feel comfortable using it it almost impossible to get a run. A week ago i was actually dropped from 10 parties in a row because i don’t have zerker or I wasn’t experiences. Now alot of ppl will tell me just to join a guild but lots of guilds do not want me since I cant play at a time when they do guild missions.
You were most likely kicked because you lack experience. My advice is to watch some youtube guides and try to improve.
Watching youtube does not make u experienced unless everything on the video is exactly how it is in the dungeon. Also i doubt its the experience since i got booted before we even entered the dungeon.
Of course watching youtube videos is not a solution.
Try starting your own LFGs. If that doesn’t work then you will have to just join zerker groups even if you don’t have the gear. They’ll get mad at you but it is partly there fault for making it impossible to run the dungeon unless you are zerker.
That’s a big IF. I’ve been in plenty of CoF runs that weren’t “zerker only”, but I play on American servers, it seems European servers take the meta more seriously.
well actually, watching youtube videos gives you a pretty decent idea of how a dungeon is going to work. when I hit 65 on tera, I basically watched a video of every dungeon I was interested in doing before I even joined groups doing them so I had a decent idea of what was expected of me and so I had a decent understanding of the boss mechanics, and it did wonders since I then knew what to expect.
and how will starting your own lfg not work in the first place? starting your own group will always work, it’s simply a case of how patient you are (which is why you’ll see lfgs labeling a path disappear much quicker than ones with a bunch of requirements). and no, if that “doesn’t work” then joining groups with berserker gear is not an option, since when is joining groups you don’t meet the requirements of ever what you should be doing when looking to pug a dungeon?
Cookie, what Element meant is that there is nothing preventing anyone from doing a speedrun the way they want and then publish it. People do not have to necessarily take part in the gwscr competition to make speedruns if they wish so.
Of course, if they want to take part in the gwscr competition then they must follow the rules.
Indeed. There are still several enemies and bosses in the game that I have no idea what they look like after 3 years other than what I can see in their picture when I target them.
Wow. I need that face of yours, my fingers needed more than 30 trys to defeat her and I got shaky every time I almost made it. Changing builds/armor/buff food all the time included.
Or better: Give at least 70% of the players your face.
Nice exaggeration on “drooling worshippers who can’t be bothered to think for themselves”…
Hardly “hero worship” – more like “players whose style or forum/in game personality you enjoy and who you feel you’ve learnt something from/respect”.
well let’s see….
Yesterday I saw the thread title “Offhand Sword is Better Than Ever” and I was like: Blabla dude, keep talking. I am not interested."
Today I saw the thread again and realized that Chaos Angel wrote it… so I went to check it out^^
I am sorry Mesmer community, but no matter what you say, in my mind Chaos Angel has the final say^^
oh look, since a specific guy wrote something it must be right. you know, the same guy who once said on a podcast that support isn’t very good in dungeons, which is about as misinformed as people who said CC wasn’t despite it being completely broken and busted to hell.
or like how “warrior axe dps is better than gs because strife said so”.
or “everything I say is right since I’m in an elite dungeon guild” – uhhh, yeah, no.
gotta love seeing all the drooling worshippers who can’t even be bothered to think for themselves
the only “expert” on mesmer I’d say I respected is frifox because of how he’s willing to do a load of boring math to prove his points and tests things so vigorously.
Found this happy fellow in CM.
Was told that we are skipping the trash after Gunpowder Morgan but somehow he interpreted that as: Let’s run in and aggro EVERYTHING!
When confronted about his Leeroy Jenkins like habits and inability to read he threw a little hissy fit.
On the side note, what is the point of blocking someone and then continuing to spam them? :/
http://gw2dungeons.net/Records
Monopoly or not, [DnT] is registered for a single record only (Arah P2) …
I’d love to see the Americas giving some proper competition
my impression was EU was full of college/university students who had masses of time to kill versus NA who has more older people with full time jobs.
what does vis invicta mean? i think we need a meeting to discuss this extremely important issue. alternatively we could hold a vote and get ourselves involved in a nice intense debate on the topic.
i think average reaction time is like around .3s, so someone bursting you in 2 seconds is plenty of time to react. people just don’t like when their egos get hurt and would rather blame other players or classes or builds or w/e, and this happens in basically every pvp game ever.
But how else am I going to knockback the mobs when they are all stacked on us
This is why people kick you. They want the mobs to stack on them so they can AoE the mobs with melee.
You can do any build you want and most groups won’t even ask what your build is. It’s how you play. If you disrupt the group’s strategy they will kick you.
people who think gw2 armours are skimpy have honestly not played any asian mmo in their lives.
playing gw2 feels like i’m playing a game inspired by victorian standards compared to when I boot up tera where basically everything is a platform to show off curvy women.
FYI. I made the party.. They joined me, and stacking was the Immediate default on their mind.
GO FIGURE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DUHHH!!!!!!
Do you not read why the post is up? Its talking about the Plague – 90% of the guild wars 2 PvE dungeon runners are stacking.
the real plague is this minority of people foaming at the mouth trying to get the 90% to play how they want with complete disregard to the preferences of the majority.
I can be certain that when a level designer makes a level, he does not account stacking to be one of the many ways of completing his challenge.
No, actually you can’t be sure. I can quite easily say that due to no collision detection, stacking closely together was taken in to account. So besides your possibly incorrect assumption, how do you know what anet intended?
well how about you go somewhere else because literally nobody here is interested in reading your posts
Yeah, I know the circle-kitten is much more fun than actually having to consider your assumptions.
I’m not looking for a fight, I’m trying to promote considered thought on the subject as compared to the destructive cycle of outrage folks like to engage in.
I don’t actually want to be the bad guy, but seriously somebody’s gotta try to break the cycle.
well you are looking for a fight because when spoj stated the blatantly obvious (anet balance for pvp rather than pve) you decided to try and make out that we want them to balance the game for us (as in, speed runners, not pve in general) which is incorrect. we simply want pve to be given even the slightest consideration in terms of balance changes. a basic example would be something like the damage reduction on hb/ww or the damage increase on whirling axe. what need was there for hb/ww to be reduced in pve when warrior is an average dps class, and why did whirling axe have to get its damage buff split between the two modes? it’s not like off-hand axe is particularly good in either pvp or pve so why not let pve get the buff as well?
it’s flagrantly obvious to anyone who has been paying even the slightest attention to this game that pvp is basically what 99.5% of the game is balanced around, since catering to the almost zero people who play it is of the utmost importance.
On a more constructive note, sinister with Str runes and a lot of might stacking seems to give a fair punch + with all the condition damage on top, and am DOING GREAT in dungeons.
aristocracy runes are basically condi strength runes
and they dont even cost anything
where creativity in builds mattered more than raw numbers.
pretty sure people looked at raw numbers still when it came to speed clearing, just like they do in gw2
creativity is nice when you’re clearing content with your heroes since none of them can tell you your build is bad so it makes you feel special
1. Make a special stat which affects the way your iframes work. Basically, when you invest no points in that stat, your dodges are, like, only half (or any number here) effective. You would get hit by 50% of damage, you would get stunned for 1.5 seconds instead of 3 and so on. Of course, rebalance numbers across the board.
wat
not even tera does that and that’s a trinity game
what makes you think that would even be a good idea?
3. Make other stats more meaningful. Add an armor penetration stat. Make stat templates or w/e to force people to switch all that kitten mid-run: e.g. there’s a boss with a ton of armor and that shouldn’t mean classes with weak conditions automatically kitten a kitten there. Just put your arpen gear on and be able to contribute.
so make certain content exclusive to other classes and force people to change their gear and waste more inventory slots because … reasons? do you think having to use a different stat prefix suddenly makes your game more interesting? if i was having trouble with a fight and switched from berserker to knight do you think that suddenly makes the fight more interesting because it has a different prefix that has no relevance in game?
4. Design encounters in such a way that they offer you a choice: you could invest into that dodge stat and evade that scary room-wide kitten or you could learn the encounter and sidestep kitten without hampering your DPS.
i literally don’t even see the point in presenting that option
if you don’t know a fight you should be punished by dying and you then learn to sidestep the damage.
5. Make a boss which is invulnerable to damage when not moving.
probably the worst idea of all of them
and this is why I’m grateful people like you have no power over this game, these ideas are absolutely terrible.
errr, no. knowledge of classes, skill and positioning are all important. if you go against someone on a point and don’t know what their skills do then you’re just going to be running around like a headless chicken randomly dodging. once you learn what their abilities do then it makes it a lot easier for you to mitigate their bursts or interrupt their defensive skills. understanding the burst patterns of thieves and mesmers for example means that even if they stealth you’ll be able to make an educated guess of when they’ll start hitting you again and dodge/block/invuln accordingly.
Build crafting is irrelevant when you can just look up good builds for whatever class you play in a game, which is what I do, and then adjust them accordingly dependent on team composition if need be.
the tl;dr is basically that you play an action game that requires fast reflexes and you don’t like it because your reflexes are slower and therefore you lose more than you win. and that’s cool, nobody likes losing. just don’t try to pretend justifying yourself with poor, incorrect reasoning when you simply just don’t like losing.
yeah tera has some really nice bosses. soloing the pre-60 instances really tests your ability to actively mitigate damage through positioning, blocks and iframes (tera equivalent of dodging I guess). everything is all pretty choreographed too so if you die you pretty much know exactly why and can learn to deal with it the next time you fight.
These days I got kicked out from a party just because I had my two guns. I was stacked, and party leader said: “You are using ranged, bye” lol
Can we have improvement on Dungeons? Like make them impossible to stack, and actually facing it?
What can we expect from dungeons in this new Exp?
I had people kick me from a group once because the WvW bonus max health made my health seem too high (with whatever mod they were using) and they were convinced I wasn’t in full zerker.
The trashiest, most toxic parts of the community aggregate to speed dungeon pug groups.
i’m pretty sure health bonuses are disabled in dungeons?
yeah, gw2 pvp streams are pretty much a rainbow of graphical effects being thrown around by pint-sized asura with basically zero choreographs for anything. if a thief spikes someone down with c&d + bs it’s kinda just like “wat just happened” whereas if you see darius ult someone in LoL you’ve got the bleed stacks displayed around the target champion, he takes a leap, yells and you hear a brutal sound effect making it pretty obvious the ability was an execute.
gw2 pvp needs classes with fewer, yet clearer abilities so that people can actually keep track of what’s going on, and character models large enough that you can actually see the abilities being used. and then maybe a not terrible, not borefest game mode like conquest.
