Guild Wars 2

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tom.7468:

TheMaskedParadigm.3629:

Tier 1: Warrior, Ranger, Guardian, Thief
Tier 2: Mesmer, Elementalist
Tier 3: Engineer, Necromancer

Berserker ele and necro outdps guardians and thieves by a ton were talking as much as 2x their dps. Thieves hit hard but their cleaving damage with sword is not that strong pistolwhip got overnerfed.

lol ok

It’s probably easier and less controversial to group them in terms of team contribution since personal dps is only a component of that, in addition to team damage boons and enemy vulnerability. A tier system is much easier:

Guardian/Warrior/Ranger/Thief
Elementalist/Engineer/Mesmer
Necro

It’s supposed to simulate an amusement park queue, obviously. It’s still a bad idea. The time-gating going on in this game is getting ridiculous. Every design decision involved with Living Story updates has been horrendous aside from the QoL fixes like account wallet. Stop doing this crap, you’re making the game worse.

I miss dungeon books from GW1. Those would be cool to have.

bravoart.5308:

Pugs won’t take people without certain AR. Also, the people that still run fractals don’t want to go below their effective reward level, which is usually 40 or so.

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What exactly is the message that’s popping up? Screenshot or video would be nice.

I just soloed Evon’s T4 again with a thief. It’s still pretty easy, though I did mess up two pulls and then got down to the wire with only 500 treasure left as the seconds ticked down. The key is to drop aggro on any regular guys that spawn as soon as possible with stealth. You don’t want to cross the beach ahead of where the rock on the right is, that’s basically a death sentence due to aggro.

And of course as much DPS as you can bring, outlaw potions and crit damage consumables are you friends here.

Saying “path 4 only takes about 30 minutes” is like saying the 40-yard only takes 4.2 seconds. Or a marathon only takes 2.5 hours.

We’re not all Usain Bolts. If the reward was set in anticipation of 1-2 hour runs that would be more in line with the average dungeon community. Then the folks who can speedrun it get a nice reward for their accomplishments.

I really liked your text guides. Not much to add, just gj.

Please don’t, it’s fun the way it is. Puggie tears are a bonus.

I get naked and untrait when I want to test that. usually gets rid of enough spread to be able to test it well enough.

You don’t have to use the guns on the abomination in p2, and even when you do it’s a pretty easy fight still. P2 is a much easier solo path to Lupi.

You should have one of every character, you never know when balance patches will tip the scales in one direction so that particular class will become more valuable than it was before. You don’t want to be playing catch-up, so just have all of them at 80 with at least some passing familiarity playing them in high-DPS builds.

If you have some way to escape the crystals you can solo every boss aside from the Destroyer. And even with him, you just need someone to operate the lasers, you can have it take 100 trips if you want. That’s the opposite of DPS check. DPS check means time-gated windows to do your damage otherwise there’s some sort of non-reversible condition to wipe the party or regen the boss to full. Enrage mechanics, etc.

Champs still aren’t going to be worth the time.

but the bias against rangers is still justified in like 95% of cases now. Down from 99.7%.

The only number I care about is right here. It’s the only one that matters.

That part is hard solo if the risen have kittenty placement too close to the abominations. The cool thing is though the aboms will follow you quite a ways, so you can always pull them back to the rock on the right wall which is a spot much less likely to draw stray risen aggro. But usually most folks just do it in the corner next to the door. Just watch your stray projectiles like guardian GS attacks, focus 4, etc.

“All champions in the game will drop a new loot container based on their type. For example, champion bandits will drop a new Embroidered Coin Purse which will contain a few silver, some karma, and crafting materials, with a chance at skill points, rare crafting materials, and new, rare weapon skins.”

“chance”

you know good and kitten well they’re not gonna be worth even considering

SE 1 is 10 minutes max, should be down to 7-8 once your group is organized and comfortable, SE 3 is 15 minutes max, down to 11-12.

And there is no Up/Up in TA. It’s just UP!

/twitches

Because pug CoF warrior farmers can’t even get 4 runs per omnom. They don’t know how to do a proper rotations, they don’t know how to dodge, they don’t know how to swap weapons for a better run time, they don’t know how to do anything if an enemy lasts longer than 20 seconds. I’m not saying this applies to all CoF farmers, just the vast majority of groups on LFG. When was the last time you joined a pug group of 4W1M that could do runs under 7-8 minutes?

And don’t get me started on the mesmers…

I would think that fractals and the reward/token system will receive at least a minor overhaul when the 3 new fractals are added. Of course there’s no guaranteeing that, but if I were on the dev team that’s what I would do.

At the very least, the account wallet will relieve some of the bank space pressure caused by overflowing relics and pristine relics.

It might have something to do with playing this class

Completing CoF doesn’t take teamwork. Farming it very quickly (under 6:30) and endlessly does. People that can do the latter will move on to a varied dungeon rotation and be fine. PUG farmers can’t do that, and they’ll either get better at other dungeons, or just give up. That’s fine by me.

Wukunlin.8461:

daily pug story time:

bunched up a hoard of dredge in the corner before the cannons.
-mesmer GS 5’s them away
-necro feared some more away
-engi BOB blew the rest away

so that’s why anet improved my hammer symbol size

lol, +1ed. please keep pugging and posting about it, I love reading your trip reports

oh my god how could you seriously complain about Lupi’s grub spawn being a bad tell

there’s no way someone could be this kittening obtuse by accident

But then those groups that act like they’re hot kitten don’t even get under 8 minute runs

I have nothing against CoF Farming in general, but the pug community for it is like 90% godawful players and 10% good

champs are just gonna be a dumb loot bag with a horrible chance at cores, most likely going to be a few fine mats.

I know, I mean it didn’t used to be like that, people were doing the Maw above 50 for a while until some change was made. Did they up the agony damage as well as make it so that reviving re-applied agony?

What was the change that was made so that you could no longer do Maw at level 50 and above?

SkyChef.5432:

Broadicea.8294:

yeah when I play my warrior all I do is press 2 and every time I win. every time. a dusk drops and I gain eleventy billion xp cause I pressed 2.

You’re talking about me? A pretty blonde warrior doesn’t know where to put a banner? And what is 2 by the way? Oh yeah. I got Dusk too. Jealous much?

See look how biased the game is for warriors! All you have to do is login on warrior and precursors drop like rain!

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

Broadicea.8294:

Stop crying that you can’t kill every boss in a single try. It’s ok to make players wipe until they learn.

And that is why you are not a game designer.

I think I found the game that you worked on, it had some p. sweet boss encounters

yeah when I play my warrior all I do is press 2 and every time I win. every time. a dusk drops and I gain eleventy billion xp cause I pressed 2.

Stop crying that you can’t kill every boss in a single try. It’s ok to make players wipe until they learn.

Yeah the colossi will reflect Sword Wave. It is kind of stupid that’s a projectile move for the third auto chain of a melee weapon, but I guess it has to be to hit the way they wanted it, with 3 strikes coming out in a cone pattern.

Sword Wave is a projectile attack.

Any evasion WITH aegis should work but I haven’t tried them all.

This is why I really like the update, pugs suck at dungeons but they’re quick, easy and painless for organized groups.

If it’s a point blank AoE attack, it seems more likely that the trigger is the boss switching to a melee range routine once people are on the platform. The tooth seems to be his normal range attack, since he starts using that as soon as he spots someone up above the lava pool. Could be the boss’s AI has always been bugged and he just never (except for the few exceptions noted) switches to melee attacks.

This is a very good QoL fix. I’d be remiss if I did not drink a little bit of hatorade here and say it should have been that way from the start.

More QoL fixes please! Armor Skin Locker in PvE!

Yeah I liked doing Kol on my warrior solo when I was practicing getting the GS/axe/mace rotation down with evasions. Small beans to some of you I’m sure, but I think it’s a nice place to start.

You can get 60 tokens back to back for two alts running the same path, it just has to take long enough for your second completion. It’s not long, something like 10 minutes. I pugged a ton of HOTW 1 like a couple months ago, just rolling through alts and got 60 every time. This won’t work with something like CoF 1 or SE 1.

How about a giant kittening neon sign that says PRESS DODGE NOW

I mean from what videos I’ve seen, letting the spark run go longer than 45 seconds will just make that window last longer, then she’ll resume 45-second windows once you’re back on track. I think Brazil’s video where his group let her regen for awhile showed that.

Stealth to stealth after she goes at 50% should be 45 seconds. If you get anything other than that, video evidence is needed. It will throw off the timer if you take longer than 45 seconds, but that would mean an exceptionally kittened up/buggy spark run.

This change came down much quicker than I thought it would, and 3 gold is triple what I figured the max reward would be. I’m still really curious how they’ll rank the dungeons, since organized groups can coast through stuff that gives pugs a lot of trouble. But still, even with just a gold, it’ll be worth running the easy paths once a day.

Dolan.3071:

You can Eviscerate through it on a Warrior, only Eviscerate though, even Whirlwind doesn’t work.

WA should work if you have an aegis up though, right? It doesn’t make sense that you can Eviscerate through it since that’s not even an evasion! kitten Anet

ugh use the share link you nub, white space is so gross

I’ve gotten my 5 skins (rifle, trident, hammer, greatsword, staff) all between 35 and 45.