Guild Wars 2

Thank God John Madden decided to stop dishing out his game breaking football analysis and started playing GW2!

You’re correct. Max out condi duration to 100%, then focus on condi damage. That’s the down and dirty tl;dr version.

However, you shouldn’t use giver’s equipment to maximize condi duration. Use viper’s gear for that.

Bumped till you do something about it.

1. You would only need to craft the precursor to unlock all the achievements, not craft the whole legendary. If you’re that hell-bent on doing it you could craft it and then sell it.

2. It’s 9 AP with no title or additional collections and achievements tied to it. Don’t bother.

3. Yes it’s intentional. The point of this was to provide a one-time, zero RNG, gradual crafting process for precursors. Not to placate achievement kitten.

Ardenwolfe.8590:

Case in point: They nerfed all the champions in the starter zone into vets. Even you state this. That alone discounts any notion that they didn’t nerf mobs.

That’s a terrible example since it wasn’t done to alleviate complaints of difficulty. They did that to stop champ trains from ruining newbie zones, which was a fantastic idea.

Just before the chest seal during the Cliffside Fractal. Couldn’t get the angle perfect, but w/e.

Magira.6390:

Dawdler.8521:

So the big question:

Will balance between the classes in WvW both zerg/roaming be considered even once or is this a pure PvE/sPvP rebalance as usual?

You only need to remove the silly PVE Gear from the Open PVP and accept WvW as PVP mode.

Then they could handle SPVP and WvW together and the PVP players would no longer have to deal with PVE Gear.

Holy kitten someone actually gets it… Someone else actually understands…. Having a pvp game mode governed by PvE rules was never a good idea…

Shadow Blade.1324:

Elred.4709:

So it’s really worth it to save up 700-800 gold to get the precursor?

unless you’d rather throw 700-800g in the mystic toilet and get nothing

alternately chances of precursor are meant to increase with the rarity of the items you throw in

so try 4 ascended Great Swords

getting your crafting to the point where you can make those will use up a lot of your T6 mats tho so make sure you do might/ magic gifts first

Except for the part where you can’t put ascended weapons into the mystic forge, and even if you could, there’s no way in hell it would be worth it given the cost.

Does anyone know how multiple transmutations of the same item will affect the transmutation splitters? None of my legendaries have been transmuted, but I’ve recently been thinking about giving my Juggernaut to my Guardian. This shouldn’t theoretically pose a problem, since I would just trans to a white hammer and use the splitter when it arrives in the mail tomorrow, but that got me thinking about something else… what about people who transmuted a legendary to move it to a different character, and then transmuted it again to get it back to exotic stats? Will the splitter still work on a legendary that has been transmuted twice? Any input or dev response would be appreciated.

They said they’re not changing the max effectiveness of vuln, so why waste time and money changing the way its applied and scaled? What’s the point of that? To make you feel better about yourself when you use a vuln skill and a boss is already capped?

Not getting patches in the middle of NA prime time is clearly asking too much. Push it back 4 hours and its early morning EU, midday in Oceanic, and late evening NA.

I know, time zones are hard.

Please give 1 example where it’s actually faster and more efficient to stack a boss in a corner. The stacking in a corner meta was fixed when we stopped taking 3-4 warriors and FGS was nerfed.

You can kill him, but you have to be in Infantile mode and stand on the rainbow bridge. But the more concerning matter is that virtually all of the old SAB achievements seem to be bugged, since I followed Dulfy’s guide for w2z2 and didn’t get any of the achievements I was missing. (Baubles, secret rooms, assassins)

One time I was pugging arah and everyone else dies to p2 aoe. I’m soloing, and in party chat one of them writes, “keep tanking him! Using a revive orb.” Needless to say, 2-3 minutes later lupi is at 5% hp, he finished reviving the whole kitten party, they all charge in, spawn a bubble right on top of me and everyone dies.

I just left.

Glenstorm.4059:

Lava Font wasn’t even an issue till raids came along. Instead of improving raid mechanics, they went with the nerfbat.

Resources are probably stretched what with the upcoming expansion and all, but still.

In PvE, staff ele was broken. Completely broken. It needed to be toned down. Every ele main who’s not kittened knew that. It had nothing to do with raids, either. It’s been that way for a long time.

Once again, the issue at hand isn’t the nerf itself, it’s HOW it was nerfed. That’s what we’ve been saying since the patch.

This is a horrible change and I seriously hope they reconsider it.

I agree the story is great…. it is just too bad the gameplay is horrible. Kinda kills it :/

I still don’t see why it would be an exploit. If it was unintended for AR to be cheaper to craft at the vendor, ok fine- that explains everything. But why are we inherently assuming that it was unintended? It seems perfectly reasonable given that the merchant is locked behind mastery progression, we now need SUBSTANTIALLY more AR for lvl 100, and those infusions are crazy expensive to craft. (Even with the lower prices at the vendor, those infusions are still really expensive). To me that change seemed logical. If it wasn’t intended, it would be great if we could get an official response.

Thankfully we have fairly accurate DPS meter now. It should be fairly easy to whip up a quick demonstration of your hypothesis for the simpletons in this thread who cannot wrap their heads around your ideas.

It’s hard to take people seriously when it seems that they are trying to accomplish nothing other than to befuddle people with mental gymnastics and nonsensical premises like 8 stacks of bleeding can potentially do more damage than 10.

“The error comes from single stack assessment. The crest of a bleed equals its product after all.”

It’s kitten like this that makes not give a good god kitten what your saying. Get off your kittening high horse and create an example analogous to your premises that people can actually kittening understand. This is a game. Not academic math theory.

The better question is, why are people demanding the game be rebalanced around obsolete, 3 year old content that’s been on farm status for nearly 18 months?

Jesus Christ. At 10:42 pm eastern standard time, the TAFU SNAFU becomes self aware and spreads itself to other threads beyond the dungeon subforum.

Seriously guys, this is getting old. YouTube “TA F/U naked”. Done.

Crystal has there been any discussion of reducing the CD on the portal device? 3-5 minutes would completely reasonable.

You ask them nicely to use them anyway, despite it not being part of their “build”, which is kittening absurd. If they refuse, vote to kick. If the rest of your party is worth keeping they will second it. If no one else seconds the kick, I’d leave. It’s not worth the aggravation and failure. Reform your own group.

This is also the reason why I only play my Guardian when pugging fractals.

Ayrilana.1396:

Tentonhammr.7849:

Please give 1 example where it’s actually faster and more efficient to stack a boss in a corner. The stacking in a corner meta was fixed when we stopped taking 3 warriors and FGS was nerfed.

Golems in SE P1 and CoE all paths. Subject Alpha otherwise he moves around (backs up until pinned against something). Also easier to dodge forward into the wall to prevent him from moving.

I said faster and more efficient. Not safer. There is zero point in stacking for any of those fights.

Ele facetanks Belka orb
Ele facetanks abom rock
Ele facetanks Lupi kick
Ele facetanks Lupi swipe
Ele facetanks Alphard’s bomb

You’ve clearly broken the game with your OP build. I’m just waiting for someone to comment and ask what you’re running… and be serious about it.

John Smith.4610:

The mystic forge changes are a work in progress. What I will promise is that when it is done you will like it much better than you do now.

The number of rares and exotics I’ve chucked into the forge (for science!) is absolutely staggering. I would like to take a moment and share with all of you what I’ve learned about the forge: you put 4 items in and get 1 item back.

That is all.

Sirlath.1672:

Tentonhammr.7849:

I work full time and can only play 2-3 hours a night.

30 minutes of map comp, rest of the time spent in fractals (or doing whatever it is you like doing in this game.) I’ve done map completion 10 times with this schedule, despite the fact that I hate map completion with a burning passion. Nut up and get it done or live without it.

Honest question: why do you guys argue about/discuss changes like this, that any rational person can surmise will never, ever happen….ever?

It doesn’t matter what you like to do. Because you enjoy it, everyone has to? No. It could be optional and you’d not have to do it, others could if they want, done. You can not counter this with any argument, period.

And how do you know it won’t ever happen, are you the CEO of ArenaNet?

I…don’t….um…..what?

Did you even read what I wrote? I HATE map comp. Despise it. Yet I do it for world completion to make legendaries and have easy access to vendors and WPs and other things. I’m not doing it because I enjoy it. I do it because I feel it’s necessary for the way I play the game. If map completion is so vital to you, shut up and get it done, or do the bare minimum you need to get by.

If you don’t already have a legendary, I would suggest you stop and think for a moment about how many different stat combos you really use or would like to use on a regular basis. If its only 2-3, you’d probably be better off just making several more Visions and outfitting them with different stats. For Twilight or Sunrise, you’re looking at a minimum of 1700g in raw coin, plus all the other time consuming account bound stuff. VotM is currently about 200g, even if you factor in addition cost of making it ascended, it would still be way cheaper and faster to make a couple of dupes with different stats.

What you are asking about will work, just not sure if its the best option. Anyway, just something to consider.

We haven’t had any power creep in a whole 2 weeks, so why not?

swiftpaw.6397:

Pug roulette is like Russian roulette except every time that it’s your turn you get shot in the head.

New forum sig.

With the changes to instance ownership, instances are now lost if you log out or leave the dungeon while soloing. If you dc, you’re starting over.

GG for people like me who enjoy soloing but have crap internet.

Some, but not all, infused rings do not show up in the Mystic Forge, preventing you from Attuning them.

Ok. Just did a 50 and a 20 after reset. Got both fractal daily chests, and the new bonus daily for the 11-20 tier. Can someone else confirm this was a weird interaction with the new dailies?

EDIT: Just read Evan’s post. WTF is going on? How did I get my 20 daily chest if the problem isn’t fixed?

EDIT 2: Just did 30 and 40. No daily chests.

thefantasticg.3984:

Right. So they didn’t say it should give out sub-lvl 80s when you put in four lvl 80s the patch notes.. Got it. Thanks.

This needs to get fixed.

There’s nothing to fix because it’s not a bug. It was an intentional change to increase the variety of skin/sigil combinations possible from forging.

You not liking something =/= bug.

Dungeon changes never make the patch notes, cause patch notes for dungeons are too hard to include. Assume its intended and move on. Welcome to dungeon running in GW2.

This is so unrewarding its not even funny. Actually, no, it is funny.