Guild Wars 2

Not sure why it wasn’t copied here, but props to the potentiality of warriors and Wethospu for performing so well.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Lupicus-Melee-Solo-15-mins/first#post936678

Try doing the temple of Balthazaar without a coordinated group.

Lucas Ashrock.8675:

Bro, i don’t want to be mean, we are laughing on your back, you seriously wasted loads of mats, gift, etc for… that underwater weapon even you will see just for a few minutes doing a fractal or hotw noone is running anymore (Except a few, for personal quick interests and leave when done)? Ping it on map, if you want a gz, at least. Lol..

Bro, I don’t want to correct you, but it’s not a waste if the person who used those mats didn’t think it was a waste, in which, as he states, he does not think it was a waste.

Gonna post to keep track of this thread XD. I need to be a chef.

Hey,

Put yourself out there
1) Go to clubs you may or may not be interested in. If you see a club that you think may be cool, then try it out! Don’t ever let the General Body Meetings (GBMs) out of your sight. Attend them and events to meet new people.

2) Sports/Intramurals are also a neat way to meet people. If you like sports, think of it as a real-life guild XD.

3) If you lived in a dorm, which it doesn’t seem like – Meet your hallmates/suitemates early. That’s probably the only time you can break the “casual barrier” of just saying hi to them only. In fact, the early you meet them, the more opportunity you have to assess whether you would like to be great friends with them or if they aren’t your cup of tea. But hallmates can be really cool. Some dorms that are co-ed also bring a nice mix of girls and guys to meet.

4) A lot of people study a lot in the student unions and libraries. Best way to meet people there is to ask if you can sit down and study with them at that table or group room or whatnot. Then introduce yourself! A lot of social gatherings happen at dorms events too. Although you may not live in a dorm, if you hear about a dorm activity, hop in on it! Most aren’t exclusive and a lot of people do it for potential free food :P

5) Get a part-time job on campus. Make that spare change, and more than likely, your co-workers will be students there and can be great friends too.

Break the Awkward Barrier
1) The biggest battle in meeting new people is getting to the point of comfort. Where meeting them isn’t so nerve-racking and awkward for you. The most efficient way to do this is when you meet someone, talk about classes—that is your common ground for anyone at the university. Don’t let it stop at “what’s your major?” etc. Do some research yourself, talk about how you’ll take down general ed classes (given that you are in a liberal arts school where students a required to take the same collection of classes to graduate) and perhaps take one together the following semester.

2) The lunch/dinner buddy. If you do not have a meal plan, get one. As a freshie, it’s the best place to continue a friendship. You’ll find that there is a weird time when you meet someone and don’t know what to do with them to make your friendship better. Sometimes it’s not as easy as “Can I come by your room and hang out?”—-Skipping bases there; not good. A better approach would be to invite them for lunch or dinner or ask them to be your lunch buddy. A convo could go as follows:

You: Hey! Do you have a meal plan?
A: Yes, I do~
You: Let’s get lunch sometime then
A: Sounds good! When are you free?
….<3

And don’t stop there, invite bunches of friends you meet to lunch/dinner. Sit and talk and eventually you’ll break the barrier and can be yourself with them and that’s the best part. Once you find your group of friends in university, they become amazing people that help you through your hard times in college and also be there for all your good times as well.

Best of luck sir!

Edit: Also, like Glitch said, be yourself! Sometimes a great way to continue your friendship includes the YOU factor and just sharing with your friends your interests and excitement. Friendship goes nowhere if it’s all Q&A, try to add some of your natural habits in there such as inviting them to play games, or go exploring around campus, etc.

I don’t know why you had to write this in the Guardian forums lol. If you wanted to roll an ele just write it on their threads about how fun/good it is. This doesn’t add value to the Guardian forums what so ever. Also, no offense, but the utilities are there to manage yourself in WvW both on the 1v1 side and zerg side. Escaping / Catching up has been a debate for Guardians for awhile and its really up to player skill, the potential is there, it’s just a lot stricter for us; if you want to have a class that’s fits you better, then good for you. But trying to shrug things off and arguing back isn’t going to doing anything. It doesn’t seem to me like you want any advice at all and there are sooo many situations to consider when you post these claims. I’ve done WvW several times and have yet to run into these problems. And the conditions you say they reapply over and over…Are you fighting an army? Or are you talking about 1 person. Cause against other classes, they do NOT have as much access to blind/aegis as us which in fact can cancel out condition proc. Let alone the 2 dodges we have, and if you would take some advice from the Guardian forums, the usefulness of Shelter (infinite block for 2-3 secs) and renewed focus; only move that makes you invulnerable to my knowledge.

Edit: and to your problem of escape. Learning how to escape with a Guardian is a skill in itself. We don’t have many options, I’ll give you that, but it’s possible. No need to hate on Guardians given that survivability isn’t based solely on being able to escape. Hopefully you’d be able to fight your ground most of the time.

axiology.5807:

ArcTheFallen.7682:

axiology.5807:

Shootsfoot.9276:

axiology.5807:

Shootsfoot.9276:

Sure. I just didn’t think there was anything to really do after completing all your missions. Sure there was grinding for the 15k armor and that stuff, but unless you were a serious PvP’er, there was…well…just farming to do. I just didn’t understand the point of farming in the game other than to amass gold.

I see, so you didn’t enjoy playing around with builds and gear? Yeah that’s a preference thing, most of my points would be irrelevant for you then.

What gear? All you had to do was buy it? And what was the point of playing around with builds in PvE?

That counts as gear too.

And personally, as a personal preference (emphasized in fear of making what I say sound like law), I liked playing with different builds. One day I could go as a Minion Master, the other I could go with Spiteful Spirit, just to name two of the more widely-used ones. That, to me, was fun. So as I said, the points in my OP are not relevant to you if this isn’t what you enjoy.

No offense OP. but it is relevant to anybody who plays this game. If you do not want input from gw2 players, go to the gw1 forums.

Gee, you misunderstand me.

Of course I appreciate Shootsfoot’s point. I’m saying that I have my preferences, he has his. Which I understand and respect. And because he has different preferences, my opinions for replayability would not mean anything to him, because HIS kind of replayable differs from MY kind of replayable.

Ah okay, I think they way you wrote your OP and posts made it sound like you rebuffed differing opinions, it’s clearer now. But for my input, I see the replay ability is gw2 and still do, but its through dungeons and alts and different ways to approach dungeons with different professions. But that’s my opinion

axiology.5807:

Shootsfoot.9276:

axiology.5807:

Shootsfoot.9276:

Sure. I just didn’t think there was anything to really do after completing all your missions. Sure there was grinding for the 15k armor and that stuff, but unless you were a serious PvP’er, there was…well…just farming to do. I just didn’t understand the point of farming in the game other than to amass gold.

I see, so you didn’t enjoy playing around with builds and gear? Yeah that’s a preference thing, most of my points would be irrelevant for you then.

What gear? All you had to do was buy it? And what was the point of playing around with builds in PvE?

That counts as gear too.

And personally, as a personal preference (emphasized in fear of making what I say sound like law), I liked playing with different builds. One day I could go as a Minion Master, the other I could go with Spiteful Spirit, just to name two of the more widely-used ones. That, to me, was fun. So as I said, the points in my OP are not relevant to you if this isn’t what you enjoy.

No offense OP. but it is relevant to anybody who plays this game. If you do not want input from gw2 players, go to the gw1 forums.

IllegalChocolate.6938:

Shootsfoot.9276:

IllegalChocolate.6938:

Shootsfoot.9276:

Ah, here we go….

You opened the door :P

Nope. I offered an opinion of a game.

Now you’re going to whip out your kitten to as if it’s a legitimate argument.

Buh-bye

The original poster offered a full detailed explanation of his point of view, the atleast you can do is match it with an argument that is equally substantial in information.

Just because the OP can write a good essay doesn’t mean all that he said could be shortened to an argument equal to Shootsfoot statement.

bpphantom.8243:

Mirta.5029:

Sola.7250:

Why would anyone design a game where 80% can be completed solo but, not the last 20%?

Because it’s an MMO is not an excuse!

it kind of is. Ever watched anime Sword Art online? The main dude talks about the minuses of soloing everything a lot.
Secondly, do you know a single MMO which you CAN solo 100%?

I can solo my/the story and hit cap just doing soloable missions in Rift, WoW, SWtOR, GW1, CO, DCUO, LotRO, and previously in SWG, CoX. So every other largely successful MMO in that last 10 years that was intended for a Western audience.

Just sayin’.

Dude, the only thing you can’t solo is 1 story quest. And you can hit cap solo. I don’t see what is wrong.

Leablo.2651:

chasingfuries.9635:

and to answer your question, ever consider the possibility that some people cant go out to hang with people? if mmos arent all about being social then please explain what they actually are

That doesn’t answer my question. If people can go out, why would you expect them to stay home to socialize? You’re the one criticizing the way we play. If you have some limitation that prevents you from going out, don’t force it on the rest of us.

To answer your question, social games are supposed to be social. GW2 isn’t a social game, it’s an MMO, and you keep leaving out the last part – RPG. MMO is the adjective, RPG is the noun.

and lastly, yeah sure group content is all for bad gamers – totally that makes sense, because teamwork takes no skill, right. got it.

You can call teamwork a type of skill, along the lines that communication is a skill. It is not, however, gameplay skill, which is the skill I was referring to. So yes, when you design content for teamwork rather than skill, it tends to promote bad players, who often rely on teamwork instead of skill. Are you…. understanding any of this yet?

Holy kitten lol. I have no idea what games you played but you definitely have the most accepted idea of mmorpg wrong. Technically you are right, mmorpgs can be made without social aspects, but I highly doubt that’s what most mmo players prefer. You obviously missed out on the various experiences of meeting really great people and guilds. Otherwise, I doubt you’d be spilling this nonsense. Seriously, teamwork is gameplay skill. To make the game soloable is to make it easier for you, it doesn’t test your skill any better than group content. Ever heard of combo fields? Having teammates gives you access to more types thus allowing you to create diverse combos affecting gameplay. Crowd control timings, aegis proc, battle standard ressing, etc. huge amazing teamwork is there. What I know though is that most people do not use these skills or improve on them so yes, being in a team sometimes or most of the times feels like babysitting, but being in a dungeon guild, I don’t get those bad experiences anymore. MMO allows it so other players can be your resources to beat the game; they are indefinitely a part of the game, if you fail to use them to your advantage; you do not know how to play the game.

Craft as you explore.

I agree. It’s frustrating when you think something is bugged still and avoid using the skill or going to a particular event/dungeon but then realize it’s fixed.

I loved how they will have big updates every month and they have teased at January and February being bigger than December’s update. :O

Congrats! And please promote fun/laughable trolling and not very annoying trolling now that you are free :P What legendary was it?

Jdreal.8347:

Ethics.4519:

The looks of the invader can tell you a lot about what’s going to happen in WvW. On my thief I usually look for a big norn in plate to steal from. Plus with the RPG aspect it doesn’t make sense for a warrior or guardian who’s wearing a robe and wielding a staff to be able to 100b with all that toughness and armor.

As for the town clothes, it sucks but I think the point is the RP element. I don’t agree with it, but it is what it is.

Well i love my class but i hate the the way the armor that is available for my class looks so i guess i’m just stuck with a toon wearing gear that i think looks ugly…

Hopefully they add much more gear styles in the future which may include heavy armor that seems lighter or lighter armor that has a heavy twist, but are def. distinct.

+1 when people voice out about actual bugs and gameplay inequalities.

+1 when people voice out about opinions

-1 when people voice out about opinions assuming factors they cannot count such as # of people playing and enjoying the game or vice versa, the # of people leaving and not liking the game

I don’t mind when people strongly feel for a particular update in gw2, but I dislike it when people say we feel this way or everyboday feels this way or the game is dying because I see no one

I’m still rooting for weapons having a different skill set for long-range and you can swap.

Yeah, finding a better group is always better imo. The only thing I think they should fix is when the party leader leaves, it doesn’t kick anyone out.

Some other areas get news/affirmations faster than us. Here is the thread where Robert has confirmed that they are working on it:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Any-word-on-a-Dungeon-Group-Finder-system/first#post912840

Caelib.2497:

Darnis.4056:

and probably Last.

LOL! I was thinking the same thing! I don’t understand why anyone would invest so much time and money into something nobody will ever see.

Maybe because people like getting things for themselves and not just to show off? seriously guys, lol. This is why a majority of people rage at legendary weilders because of this mindset.

To the OP, gratz!!

I thought I’d like that too, but I’ve grown to their exclusive class types. This way you can immediately tell who is who and their looks mean more than just cosmetics. But I’m a more of a symbolism kind of guy.

Well, doubt he was lying about the server bandwidth. So think again for those ppl who keep on saying the game is dying. People leave, new people come, some people come back. It seems that the population is reallocated in certain areas such as WvW or FoTM especially. Is that a bad thing? Yes. But by no means is this game dying. I’m actually excited that Jan and Feb have bigger updates than December and how they plan to do big updates every month. That’s a really good thing they are doing. But yes to taking more time to fixing bugs.

Dogblaster.6713:

Erasculio.2914:

Dogblaster.6713:

Only few players will have them and those players hould be dedicated hardcore players. Not complaining whiny kids .. Sorry, but thats how it is.

Ideally, it would be something given to the most skilled players. Not simply to the players who have the most free time and are willing to mindlessly farm like bots.

Nope .. this is mmorpg. Who dedicate more time go MMORPG will ahve better things .. You are in wrong game if you think skill matters more than time spend ingame.

I play mmorpg because I enjoy farming gold, doing dunges over and over for better gear.

If I wanted to be rewarded for skill I would just play Dota 2, Starcraft 2. FPSs games.

MMORPGs are about how much time you can play them. Simple

Agreed with this. They people who complain about legendaries going to people who don’t “deserve” them should just go out to real life rich people who got their money through exploiting life and luck (whether it was inheritance or good investment in stocks) and tell them they didn’t deserve it.

So I feel like there are plenty of games out there that have done well for Anet to figure out what’s good and what’s bad. I enjoyed capture the point for maybe…1 week, maybe less but if they want to enter the competitive gaming scene, I think adopting a Dota/League game type for PvP would be pretty cool except you build your own heroes.

Quite the epic item to b\e overrun by stupid ascended additions :\

Another thing to note is that not all people require exotics/dont check for them when they do pick up groups.

Keep in mind, you cannot equip two of the same legendaries at once (you can weapon swap them though). Like two daggers is a no no because it’s “unique”.

Meh. Always gotta plan ahead. Processing should be accounted for. Now if it was Nexon, where my processed ticket wasn’t looked at until a year later…then we got some issues there

Thanks kandolo I’ll look into your advice!

Alright, so the title may be slightly inaccurate because I’m more focused on utilities as opposed to traits.

I’m leaning towards 10/20/0/30/10

10 for adrenaline power
20 for GS cd reduc
30 for banner regen/banner cd reduc, shout cd reduc
10 for signet cd reduc

Right now I’m running with shake it off, endure pain, banner of tactics and signet of rage. Most of my traits are focused on reducing the time it takes to do my skills and I havent’ found a particular area I’d like to fully invest in (shouts,banners,stances all seem good).

I main as a Guardian but I want to be able to switch it up sometimes. For my warrior, I want a good mix of dps and strength, with more focus on power because I feel confidient in my skills to dodge attacks; also my guardian ways drive me to help teammates as much as possible. I’ll list some questions I have and let me know if you guys have any tips or suggestions!

1) Is shake it off necessary? Is there another viable way of removing conditions? Because I can’t seem to find a good source of conditon removal except that move so I feel like I have to put it on my utility.

2) Endure Pain. Okay, so I kinda love the idea of not receiving damage especially since I’m a fan of renewed focus for the Guardian so I chose this as one of my utilities. Regardless if it’s not useful or not, I find it pretty good to use against 1-hit kos or like an “Ohh kitten!” button. Does anyone use this?

3) Last but not least, I use banner of tactics, mostly for the boon duration and skill#2 for regen. Although I am quite the banner build, I decided to only invest in 1 banner because….I can only carry one banner with me as I travel, imo it’s pointless to have 3 banners since you can only keep up with 1 when you move on to the next thing. In that regard, is there a better banner than tactics? With the banner regen trait, does that make it’s skill#2 kind of redundant?

4) I use signet of rage for the power/speed upkeep with a minor void period. Is this what most warriors use?

Anyways, a little more about my playstyle, I know I can’t have everything. But I just like a playstyle in whcih I can handle everything at least once. If I’m knockdown, BAM—break stun. If I have conditions, BAM—remove that ish. Stability is not a concern for me, but if there is a good build that incorporates it, I’d be interested, but it’s too situational for me to use beneficially. Thanks for taking the time to read this long post :\

Not sure about the level requirement, but the tidbit I can give you is that if you don’t get enough kill credit, you do not get credit for the event. A good way to keep track is see how many exp things pop up from mobs you fight at those places. The more damage you do to a monster, the better chances of getting kill credit (and having a party helps, although you need to tag a monster before getting credit from your party member’s hits). Loot drops when you have the kill credit, (get xp on monsters death).

Not sure if this answers your question, but hope it helps somewhat.

A lot of the times, parties of people do AoEs ahead of time and kill monsters before you can do sufficient damage to get credit.

A lot of problems would be solved if you found a dungeon guild or built a good list of dungeon runner buddies. PUGs are not very reliable except for FoTM at the moment.

RNG is RNG, why are you guys so impatient. I assume getting rings is to progress further in the dungeon? Otherwise, I don’t know why you need it so soon. They said they’ll make more ways to get it other than the dailies/drops. Just move on and come back when it’s more available.

Great job repping SoR in WvW Spiritsong!

It’s in options. One of the check boxes on the first home tab.

Imo, if you want to make money and level up. Do ac exp. Each path is at most 30 min can be as fast as 10-15min and it gives you pretty much a level per path.

Rinse & repeat and level up. The best thing about this is in fact (if you don’t start the dungeon yourself) you can do it with your lvl80 warrior and switch before the final boss or something so it’s faster and more efficient. My friend got 4lvl 80s by doing this method, takes literally less than a week.

Edit: It’s not only a good way to level, it has so many bonuses along the way, which include $$, rares, karma, and tokens (for exotics). So while you find yourself needing money for armor at lvl80 you can have a AC Monk set as a temp or you could buy exotics and salvage them for ectos to get about 30s per ecto.

Rannug.2731:

what I can’t figure out is why anyone would need 25 copper sickles..

Point is the save space. For lower levels, they can’t help but only afford lower level sickles, also given the low amount of space at low levels, it’s nice to free up room especially if your sickles are just wasting space. just fyi

Hey guys,

I guess probably a majority of the playerbase won’t know this given that this is hard to attain, but it’s been confirmed by legendary owners, that legendaries are unique. You cannot for example equip two legendary daggers together. So this mechanic has been in game since the beginning.

Do I think the wiki or anet should’ve told us more about it? Yes.

Just get the runes you want, drag and drop ontop of the armor and it’ll prompt you if you want to replace the current runes.

mercury ranique.2170:

Nope……………………

Was that sarcasm? O_o They definitely did work when I tried them awhile back when I farmed Orr.

Yes they do. Unless there’s a bug, but normally they give you 4000ish, boosters bump it up to 6000ish and the other karma upgrades bump it to 7500ish.

Get to level 35. Do AC exp. Every path gets you 70%-80% of the bar no matter what lvl.

/edit
Also, you could run dungeons with your lvl80, park your alt at the wp and switch into your alt if your party lets you when boss is at low health, as long as you make it to the cutscene you should be fine. Ac exp is the fastest though and it gives you some good gold income too.

Hey! I just graduated from university this past May. Decided not to go to grad school because my major was Computer Science and didn’t want to go into research. Just started work in a program I got hired for but I have plenty of friends who are in grad school right now for PT, Med, etc so I know that feel haha. Also, assuming you are asian due to your ign, welcome to the Asian Sensation :P. My guild is small as in 2 consistent ppl and sometimes 6 on better days, but it’s grown pretty well and we like to have fun and maybe talk about life and whatnot.

PM me if you are interested!

Oh and if name matters, the guild is Arkania and we are located in Sanctum of Rall and play on EST time.

No.

/15characters

When you transmute an item and see it on the sell tab, it shows the image of the item with better stats not the one of the current skin. Not sure if this is a bug, but it’s inconsistent and bothers me :\

There is story and explorable dungeons. You do not have to be a certain level to enter a dungeon but you meeting the level requirement is respectful for other players and is the bare minimum, so keep that in mind.

First dungeon starts at 30 and that’s story mode; explorable mode for each dungeon are unlocked 5 levels after story mode. So for the first dungeon, it will have a lvl30 story mode and a lvl35 explorable mode.

Everytime you hit the required level, which happens to be in increments of 10 (i.e. 30, 40, 50…etc) you will get a mail letting you know about the dungeon available. If you look on the world map and zoom out, big dungeon doors will be shown on the screen for the ones available to you at your level.

www.gw2lfg.com is a way to find parties. But in-game options are map chat in LA or on the dungeon map area or joining a guild that runs dungeons.

You do story mode to gain the ability for yourself to start explorable mode. Some people skip story mode as long as someone in the party has done it and can access explorable mode. For instance, in a party of 5 where no one has done story mode, you cannot enter explorable mode. If at least one person has it, he can start the dungeon and you all can enter.

Having both close-range and long-range weapons are good to begin with. Once you know the dungeon mechanics, you can re-assess yourself for weapons best fit. But it’s not preferred for you to enter combat, and not be able to switch to a long-rage when needed.

Chaos Archangel.5071:

Hey thanks for the website link, I definitely did not know about that!

Glitch.6849:

Mining Ores can be a slow process. Yea, not sure if it’s changed but gold is in regular demand due to jewelers it always seems to sell fairly quickly for me and for a reasonable price. For most profit/time go with Ori Ores as many crafters are after the high end ore now,

Yea Orr farming is probably pretty much what you do now. Go for the chain events but tag every single mob you can. Only really works if you’re with multiple people otherwise you get stomped. After that you have lots of drops.

Yea try Fractals as if I recall correctly you may have a chance of an Ascended Drop too in the higher Tiers.

Yea like DEK said Magic Find increases the chance of better drops but only for drops it does not effect chests. Also folks are debating whether anything over 100%MF changes anything. I’m not sure as I do not use MF and have not much problem picking up regular rares. I guess GW has been good to me, :P

Which reminds me of something I’ve been curious about. It really feels as if you get more drops from being in a party, even if it’s just a party of 2. Can anyone confirm this?

I’ll add you to my friends list and shoot you a whisp whenever I do some ac exp. I’ll make sure to go on my guardian and get some friends so we don’t end up with crazy elitists lol. Also, partying with friends do not give you more drops, but it does give you more kill credit. In the case of a zergfest, it could give you more drops due to better kill credit. Because if you hit 5% of an enemy while maybe 10 other ppl hit the other 95% you won’t get xp, let alone loot, but if you have party members, their damage to the enemy reflects your damage (if you tag the enemy at least).

So…how does one get Warmaster Forgal’s chest and bottom piece?

Two simple possibilities
1. Play-time. They want you to keep doing stuff. So if your goal is to get legendaries for all your chars, you don’t reach that end-goal faster. And they want you to work on your other chars beyond 80 and not just get hand-me-downs.
2. Value. They want to keep each character unique and they earn what they do especially if it’s a legendary weapon.

Suggestion: Have a combat preview option. As much as I’d love to see youtube vids, I think it would help a good bunch to preview the items before soul-binding them because I just want to see what they look like in combat before making my decision.