Guild Wars 2

GW2LFG.com will always be superior to an ingame tool. Mainly because it’s not run by ANet.

And yes, we need MORE of a reason to bring a pug then kick him just before the final boss dies.

nofo.8469:

Treehern with his mighty sword saladbowel didn’t strike me as the leader type. In fact he seemed like such a beta male I don’t know how he managed to stay alive in Tyria at all.

Really bad characterisation.

Firstly, Caladbolg is a real-life legendary sword, thought to be the source of the Excalibur myths no less.

Secondly, just because someone is introverted doesn’t make them unable to survive.

Yes, we know. No Dungeon Finder, Anet sucks etc etc.

Look at the stickies and use GW2LFG.com

This really should be stickied.

http://gw2lfg.com/

Laziness is not an excuse.

Great guide. If anything this deserves a sticky. ^-^

I would like to salvage them into relics and/or mist essence.

Or they might open her in December 2016 because ANet likes punishing people who play the game.

I just want her open so I can get rid of my commendations.

dulfy.1493:

BaconCatTheGreasy.9542:

Nice Guide.

However, “Agony is only associated with the end boss of each fractal starting at L10.” is a little misleading as the first fight in Cliffside has agony too.

Oh Cliffside is an exception that I mentioned

^_^ You also seem to have forgotten to mention the fact the Thief can solo the bomb path on the Dredge Fractal. Since they only pick up the bombs if they are aggroed, a Thief can use stealth to run up, plant a bomb, then run back.

Best way I’ve seen this done is to use Hide in Shadows first, pick up a bomb, drop a shadow refuge and wait for it to stick, then leg it like Horus himself is after you, plant the bomb and run the hell back. The 50% speed boost trait when stealthed is needed to do this though (I think), and the extra second of stealth Trait is also useful.

It’s the only thing thieves are good for in FOTM tbh!

Without a Thief, I would highly recommend doing the bomb run naked or with looted blues. You will wipe a LOT if you do the good ol’ bum rush and you don’t want broken armour.

Oh, and the Dredge Power Suit’s Agony can be blocked entirely with any skill that blocks 3 attacks, such as a Guardian’s Shield of Wrath (Focus 5) or an Elementalist’s Arcane Shield.

And OOOOONE MOOOOOORE THIIIIIIIING </uncle>, dropping a Shield of the Avenger directly on top of Old Tom totally eliminates his poison bolts, although Wall of Reflection and Feedback don’t work.

Nice Guide.

However, “Agony is only associated with the end boss of each fractal starting at L10.” is a little misleading as the first fight in Cliffside has agony too.

Support that’s hard to kill? Guardian is tailor made for that. Use shouts, Shield of the Avenger and Wall of Reflection.

Put 5 into the Virtues Trait Tree and you’re good to go. If you really wanna rock everything, put 30 into Vitality. Not only will it help compensate for the guardians low health pool (though the Healing Signet helps with that a LOT, restores well over half your HP without any added Healing Power) it gives you a trait that converts a condition to a boon on allies (including yourself) affected by your shouts (Save Yourselves, Stand Your Ground and Hold the Line).

Pets are actually really good. Lots of extra free DPS basically.

Well, it really depends on what you mean by affective (you mean effective btw :3 ).

Rangers by far have the most useful direct damage skills with their longbow, while causing lots of bleed and poison with the shortbow. They are very much the “Bow” class, the only one able to use both types.

Theives can use shortbow but are more inclined towards support, setting up Poison AOE fields and using Trick Shot to damage multiple foes. Against single foes they really have a hard time.

Warriors use Longbow, but it’s outclassed by the Rifle in almost every respect, so don’t use it. :)

Sounds to me like you are wanting a Dual Bow Ranger.

Barrage (AOE Massive Damage and Cripple) into Hunters Shot (10 Stacks of Vulnerablity) into Rapid Fire (10 quick arrows, massive damage) into Point Blank Shot (Knockbacks), Switch to Shortbow, fire off all your skills, flank and cause some bleeds, switch and repeat. :3

Retsuko.2035:

What exactly makes the greatsword mobile? If i think of mobile, i think of the sword.

Whirlwind Attack and Rush give the mobility, while Bladetrail cripples. Bladetrail into Rush lets you catch just about anything.

:‘( Why isn’t she back yet?

Is it possible to transmute the look of a quiver onto a fractal backpeice?

Power/Toughness/Vit Gear (AC or HotW gear is the easiest way to get this).
Rune of the Soldier.
Hammer/Greatsword/ScepterFocus.

Done!

The reason I need to decide is because I use a Rifle for my 2nd weapon slot.

Def a glitch. I know several who got chests. Try relogging? If not, contact support (lol).

Why is it that the Greatsword seems to outclass every other melee option for the classes that can use it? I am desperately trying to like using Dual Axe on my Warrior but Greatsword is just undeniably better!

Yes, how DARE people PvP in a PvP area! It’s shameful! ANet should declare it an exploit!

Thread title says it all.

I know that the red bars mean it’s out of range, but for ranger it would be helpful for Long Shot, since you wanna try and stay past 1000 but inside 1200. Several other skills have varying effects based on range.

Twilight. I’ve been seeing Volcanus a lot too.

To be fair, it’s not it’s fault. It’s one of the first to be discovered and generally easier to make than the others.

Using anything BUT Time Warp on a Mesmer is like using a Creme Egg to hammer nails.

Would be nice to have a little indicator with the range on it, no?

I would definitely consider selling things on the TP for profit an exploit. If you see anyone doing this, please report them.

How about next time you take 5 seconds to read? It very clearly says soulbound on acquire.

Guys, don’t you realise that using revive orbs is clearly an exploit? SHAME ON YOU!

I would like to know if selling loot I get from dungeons is banable too.

Is running though some parts of a dungeon naked so you don’t have to pay for repairs banable too?

Seriously. Every other Level 30 fractal I can breeze though with my eyes closed, but this shaman is a bloody nightmare.

Twice we got it as 3rd on level 32 and twice we had to quit. And that was with THREE Guardians. I don’t even want to know what would happen with none.

Agony on top of heavy damage on top of lava pits on top of damage when resing on top of immobilise on top of massive amount of elementals is just unfun and unfair.

If people are dumb enough to spend 15 gold on a dungeon slot, then they are beyond help.

The wiki says it is but I thought a patch fixed it recently, no?

I thought Vials were only supposed to stop dropping at 20+ for Globs, but I just got a vial in lvl 26

How about you don’t be a burden on your team instead and not use MF gear?

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/fractals-of-the-mists-dungeon-improvements/

Why? Because now it’s impossible to tell if the person joining you for level 30 is actually good enough to do it or not. It will result in people just huddling together with known factors and never inviting new people in.

Edit: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/fractals-of-the-mists-dungeon-improvements/

For those who don’t know, it basically allows someone who has no AR or no experience to freeload with a bunch of Fractal Level 30’s

Simple question really. Does the SB Rate of Fire make up for the longbows damage or not?

There is no fool proof method. Anyone who says so it a liar.

There are, however, simple steps to reduce the chance of your account being compromised.

1) Don’t visit Gold Selling or other nefarious sites.
2) Use a proper browser. If you aren’t using Firefox with Noscript or Chrome with Scriptno, you are doing it wrong.
3) Use a strong password.
4) Use different passwords for GW2 and Email

After having my (downed) pet targeted no less than 5 times in a row during the Jade Maw, causing my party to start shouting at me for wasting their time, I got to thinking, why can’t we lock our pets away when needed? There are many times when the pet is a hindrance, not a help.

defrule.7236:

At some point I would like to see MMOs simply have one server.

Eve Online has done it from Day One.

laharl.8435:

One more question. What tier fractals can Pristine Fractal Relics be obtained? It’d be nice if I got them when I’m helping guildies with low level fractaled as well.

You get one Pristine Relic per Daily Chest Per Character for Fractals 10 and up. So you can get (realisticly) 3 per character per day by running Level 10, 26 and 30.

ATM I am running a Power/Precision ranger, have 3,029 Attack with 56% Crit Chance and +79 Critical Damage.

Out of Power/Precision/Crit or Power/Toughness/Crit Which should I pick?

Embershard.7294:

Doesnt it ask you if you’d like to make that purchase before you buy with tokens?

Which in itself was a change made by people whining about accidental clicks.

Or how about you spend 5 seconds making sure you bought the right one?

No amount of failsafes will stop a stupid person making a stupid mistake and just opens up a slippery slope.

Robert Hrouda.1327:

Blueshield.6291:

I’m honestly very confused about how this can still be a fix-in-progress situation. Your team evidently found time to create an event from start to (presumably) finish, and in over a month they still haven’t figured out how to modify this dungeon to use the same system which others use?

That was actually a separate team that did our Wintersday content. Our team’s programmers are working on the DC issue. A majority of the fixes that went into this patch are content design related (things I can do), and require no programmer time. We have dedicated programmers working hard on the problem.

Is there any reason why you can’t just slap on the Explorable Dungeon method the same way you Slapped on the Story Dungeon method?

Ravrohan.8231:

Just a question, but can the rings be broken down into ascended mats?

Nope.

Stridix.4260:

Stridix.4260:

U can buy ascended rings now at fractals.

What is the required material?

10 Pristine Relics

Stridix.4260:

U can buy ascended rings now at fractals.

Which is completely not what I was asking for. I am asking for a way to recycle useless soulbound rings into a new random one.

Yeah they could be a bit clearer about that.

Putting this in Dungeons seems it seems the correct place to put it.

We need the ability to recycle unusable rings. ATM I have 4 soulbound non-infused rings I will never EVER use again. My only Options atm are to destroy them, sell them for 4 silver or waste my bank space.

Please allow us to Mystic Forge 4 acended rings into a random new one.