Just opened 12 chests, in addition to the useless boosters, I got:
1 endless mystery tonic (animal)
4 BL ticket scraps
1 BL Salvage kit
5 Unidentified dyes
1 dye pack that had useless dyes
2 instant repair canisters
1 transmutation charge
2 merchants (non permanent)
2 bank access (non permanent)
So, all in all, pretty good stuff, IMO. That however, was the last of my keys that I had left from key farming. Promptly got rid of my key farming gear after.
SAB was the best content in game, no carrying, no cheating, you HAD to have some skill and patience (yeah, there is dulfy) or you weren’t gonna get the skins. Skill=guaranteed reward is the best kind of content. No “if I finish the level, I might get a skin”, if you finished it you got a guaranteed token you could trade for the skin. Plus, it was fun as kitten to play with someone else and see them die over and over and over in tribulation mode.
To me, having an exotic and not ascended weapon as a precursor to a legendary weapon is like having 3 rare parts and a masterwork part to make an exotic. It just doesn’t make sense.
Very experienced in dungeon running and I’m sick of running with pugs that claim they are meta zerk, but aren’t. I have an 80 warrior, elementalist, and necro. I have full zerk gear (scholar) on all and a dire set on the warrior as well. I have done all paths of all dungeons but have never repeated Arah after doing it once. I attempted Arah solo back before all the fixes, but lupi’s kick always got me.
If precursors are a piece that leads up to creating a legendary and Im pretty sure other gifts are of legendary quality, why isn’t the precursor an ascended weapon? If you were truly to RP the game, the precursor would be the most powerful weapon (non-stat wise) that is not the Legendary weapon, and you would probably use it until you got your legendary. I know that before ascended gear was introduced, legendaries had exotic stats, but now, with ascended, there would be NO REASON to even use a precursor, it would sit in your bank til you use it or sell it.
All in all, the defense part of the fight didn’t go too poorly. He did a pretty good job of clustering a lot of the trash mobs in 1 place so i could DPS them down with AOE. However, there either he didn’t see or didn’t care or didn’t have a way to pull the champ undead brutes that continued to follow me around with their hammer stuns. And after our defense was over, he was very proud to say he made a good tank during the battery phase, which the entire goal of the battery phase is to kill the mobs before they can get to the battery. Bottom line, it could have gone worse.
So, I was at my daily Tequatl run today and was doing a defense team as usual. I asked the guardian in my party why he was using a staff and the answer was “for the might”. Considering my party had myself (an ele), a warrior, a thief, and another ele, i told him we had it covered. So he decided to use hammer and staff and proudly showed off his full set of Nomad’s gear (TVH). I asked why he used it on a defense event, the point of the defense was to kill the mobs before they walk over to the turret operators. He said he was gonna “tank the mobs”. I replied with “I’m not sure how you tank when there is no way to manage aggro and in my experience, the mobs aren’t drawn to high toughness anyways.” He didnt care what i thought, and I fully expect to down frequently in the fight. Thoughts?
Didn’t go terribly…The other ele and I kept getting followed by the mobs and the other ele kept getting downed by them. The thief remarked that we were doing pretty well. I kinda made a kitten move just then…stopped attacking for 15 seconds..heard the remark “our dps has kinda slowed” then attacked again.
Let me just say, I really enjoy GW2. I enjoy that there is some skill involved in the game, or at least there can be. A game that rewards my ability to spot tells, dodge/sidestep, and get right back into the fight is something I really enjoy. Its good to fight a boss, and keep my HP at almost 100% the whole time. Some may argue that PVE is broken, but that’s another topic. So, I do almost all dungeons every day, except Arah. I decided to try and solo lupi as my last GW2 hurrah before I hang it up and wait for some more interesting changes/content. I use path 2 (no exploits), solo both the first bosses, and get to lupi usually in 1 or 2 tries. Lupi’s kick gets me every time though. Any advice on avoiding it? Everything else in the game is getting pretty stale IMO, and this is the only thing that seems like a challenge of my skill alone.
BTW, I play a full zerk warrior with the meta build. I have all the foods/weapons/potions/powders/whistles for Arah. Thanks!
So I tried running this again today. Posted an LFG for 80 zerkers for all 3 AC paths, 10 minutes of waiting andI had a level 64 ranger join then leave, had an 80 warrior join then leave, and that was it. Changed the post to no clerics or soldiers gear, 10 minutes…nothing. Joined a PUG, got a pug with 2 other warriors, a ranger, and an ele. We wiped at spider queen, the ranger pet (which was a dog or a fox) was wandering around doing who knows what which may have led to the wipe. The ele got killed even before that due to “lag” and i noticed that one of the warriors was running sigil of sanctuary. In case you didn’t know, thats the sigil that gives you invuln for 5 seconds on the 26th stack. Do people just figure, “oh I’m just gonna go into the dungeon and do whatever”? Play how you want, but come on, google “gw2 dungeon [your class] build” and take some pointers. Don’t screw your team cause you “play how you want”. You don’t need invuln, super heals, or tankiness if you whole zerk team gets together, shuffles some skills around and kills bosses in 15 seconds. Your own heal+dodging should be able to get you through 15 seconds. Please, someone give me a reasonable, rational explanation for running clerics or now sigil of sanctuary. Convince me, and maybe I will buy a set of gear, FROM YOU!
Can someone explain to me why a level 80 warrior would need to run a level 35 dungeon in clerics? I was doing AC p1, which is pretty easy IMO, and was in a PUG with all warriors, but I was 1 of 2 running full zerk. The other one said they needed to swap out theirs for valk gear cause they kept dying…Please explain why you would use clerics gear. The guy with 25 stacks has 25 stacks of HEALING!! WTKitten?!
I have been thinking about this problem for a while and I came up with 2 solutions:
1. Give all classes their own condition to replace bleeds. This condition would have the same damage as bleeds and only be triggered by that classes skills/traits. Sigils would still provide bleeds. Bleeds seem to be the main thing that immediately gets to 25 stacks.
2. Critical conditions that hit for immediate damage. Hear me out before you flame…This would only trigger once something gets to 25 stacks. So, if bleeds are at 25 stacks and you cause a bleed, you have a 50% chance to cause a critical condition that does all your DoT damage for that bleed instantly. A 50% chance to trigger a crit means if you have 50% crit chance, then you have a 50% chance of that 50% chance triggering a critical bleed (25% effective chance). This would work probably work best if they implemented class specific conditions as well. It would much harder to get to 25 bleed stacks if the only way you could cause it was by sigils.
3. Make burning affect objects…objects don’t bleed, can’t be poisoned, tormented, vulnd, feared, etc. Everything burns.
Yes, vulnerability gets to 25 stacks, but PVE would be too easy if you could stack vuln to 150 and all damage was increased by 150%…
As far as duration conditions go, such as Burning and Poison, idk.
Thoughts?
I was planning on giving my almost level 80 warrior my necro’s trinkets. I have a lvl 80 necro (my main) with both a full zerk ascended set (D/Wh & A/F) and a rabid set of trinkets (S/D & Staff) with 15AR on the zerk set, to include an ascended zerk back piece. Should I give them to my warrior (by transmuting into account bound) or just keep on with my necro? I don’t think people really care to bring along necro’s to high level fractals and even then, my necro is really squishy in zerk. I know someone will say “dodge more”, but honestly, its a necro, its not the easiest class to high end PVE with as zerk, and if you mix with other gear, you have suck DPS and might as well go conditions. I’m posting this here and not in the necro/warrior forum because I want opinions from FOTM pros.
So, first off, let me say to Nemesis that since I found his videos i have been running his glass cannon zerk necro ever since. I have been running a necro main since the pre-launch event of GW2, so I am very familiar with most builds and have tried many of them. I did try the 30/25/0/015 build for a little while, and the damage is awesome. Heres what i got from my little test. Yesterday I ran 4 dungeons just to test it out: CoE P1, CoF P1, SE P3, and AC P2. I only run groups with groups I find from LFG, my guild is not that big into dungeons sadly. CoE = my party got wiped at least 4 times, the first being at the VERY first group of mobs you meet right at the door. I kept getting trapped in the imprisonment crystal as well. Bad team= bad me. CoF= no problem, but the final boss is a little tougher since I have to dodge the AoE instead of firing lifeblast from the edge. SE= no big problems, final boss a little tough. AC= another awful team. I got downed numerous times at the waves of ghost right before the ghost eater and had to quit at ghost eater cause my team was god awful. I did do awesome with this build in WvW with a few different skills set. I killed at least 2 other necros and a few warriors. Took a few supply camps solo as well. Wall of text being completed, i say the build is great and has easily the highest damage you can get, but…i would rather rely on me than cross my fingers every time i PUG and hope for a good group. Was it my fault for not doding, or the guards fault for not giving me aegis, i don’t know. I do A LOT of dungeons, so I know what I should do and rarely die. I am much more survivable with a Lifeblast build, and as nemesis points out, if your dead, you have 0 dps. Just my opinion, but I’m switching back to the LB build. I do keep dagger/warhorn as my 2nd weapon set for situations i know i can go in and melee.
I was highly surprised as well to see such a good PUG. Usually you have the one guy who gets tired of the team getting wiped and quits without even saying anything.
