Guild Wars 2

Just to be more constructive, if you want to gain xp through actually playing rather than spending the money on crafting (which is screwed up now thanks to ascended) make sure you always have active:

both food types
XP booster
killstreak booster

And just run through level-appropriate zones chaining events. You’ll get even more if you do an invasion event. One invasion with all XP boosters up should give you something like 6 or 7 levels.

And you’re simply wrong about not being able to join dungeon groups under 80. It’s somewhat more prevalent outside of AC, but there is no shortage of “all classes welcome, sub 80 welcome” groups forming up for AC.

Dude it takes like a week to get to 80.

nothing that teaches pugs that it’s ok to bearbow it up is ok

There is certainly a lot wrong with ledge longbowing that boss. And it does not do “incredible damage”.

well at least this sort of thing won’t happen anymore

Oxxy.7068:

Upper left. Take a look at his title. He also had the pony shooter as offhand if i’m not mistaken.

and he’s still getting hit by the tooth, one of the slowest and most telegraphed attacks in the game aashdfoiuhaiodhjo’;ls’d;[apkd[

Nike Porphyrogenita.8137:

Broadicea.8294:

Or it could be un-broken by giving us things to spend it on. Why not have exotic weapons for 50 or 75 thousand? Then the mystic forgers among us could have something to blow it all on. And new players could continue to accrue it at a pace that would allow them to afford things.

FYI, the wvw vendors sell level 80 rares for karma. Knock yourself out!

Hmm, if I had more than 1.5M I might be tempted to throw some at that.

Let’s see though, on average .1% chance of precursor from forging rares, .8 recycle rate, carry the two…should only need about 50 million karma or so to get a precursor on average. Not bad!

Sounds like pets are getting a PvE HP boost on Oct 15th. Too bad Jaguar is the only one worth having out.

I call those elite guilds, usually the only people that use “elitist” are bads angry that you asked them to use a certain skill. No offense Chef!

Chopps.5047:

There’s this false notion that people who craft up their characters and have 2k experience and cannot beat liadri and use any old condition wvw spec in dungeons are just as good as everyone else and not to be judged. These people cause runs to fail. I’m sorry but that’s the truth. All I do is slum it, man. I PuG every day. I’ve seen this play out dozens of times.

sometimes I disagree with you very strenuously but this is a +1 post

The Mexican Cookie.3690:

I don’t know why people are being attacked for just sharing that they completed something.

Because they’re sharing that they completed it in the wrong way, and you know exactly what I mean by that.

Jumping around for joy and spreading the news because you 1200 ranged a boss doesn’t help the rest of the pug community get any better. This could have been a teaching moment, but instead people are coming out saying “nah don’t worry guys, our old crap-kitten pug tactics still work.”

It’s like those episodes of House where it really looked like House was about to learn something about friendship and human nature, but in the end it just turned out he was faking it the whole time.

swiftpaw.6397:

Zelyhn.8069:

But then Siwtpaw is just going to tell you that it’s only your opinion…

It’s only your opinion that I’m going to tell him it’s just his opinion.

I think someone still completely misunderstood the entire point of that conversation

If defensive gear mattered in this game, it wouldn’t be this game anymore. It wouldn’t be a Dark Souls/Ninja Gaiden-type combat, it would be pigeonholed trinity roles and just like every other MMO ever

Imagine if you could play Ninja Gaiden on easy mode (PTV/Cleric’s Gear), but it took you 5 times as long to kill a single enemy. Why would anyone subject themselves to that?

hmmm, could mini liadri be a sign of good play at all?

“LF3M full zerk, whip out liadri on entry please”

Or it could be un-broken by giving us things to spend it on. Why not have exotic weapons for 50 or 75 thousand? Then the mystic forgers among us could have something to blow it all on. And new players could continue to accrue it at a pace that would allow them to afford things.

ugh all these casual eaters in here. maybe a spork is good enough for you, but for anyone that wants to achieve cutlery perfection, I’m starting a guild…

I could swear I remember crit damage specifically being adjusted on this patch

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/updates/Game-Update-Notes-January-28-2013

Emanuel.9781:

I always thought doing the spider run was easy on almost all professions. The only one i didn’t do that on yet is necromancer.

it kicks my kitten on Ranger, maybe someone knows secrets I don’t. at this point I just always plan on re-stacking sigils at the detonator

I did see a “meleeing the tree” post for TAFU yesterday on LFG. I should have joined, but I was busy elsewhere.

Thanks for the tips. I try to be as discriminatory as possible, asking for zerk gear and specific classes, but, well look to the screenies I’ve posted lately to see how that usually goes. I just hate spending a half hour waiting for an acceptable pug to come together.

LordByron.8369:

Yaso.8510:

Cliffside: Without not touching the mobs at the double seal it is too hard 30+.

Oh i forgot..
1-2 months ago a dev said on this forum he would fix this to clear all and spawn only 2 at each party wipe, basicly resetting the seal as you would find it at 1st attempt.

He said he couldn t give us a date but he was working on it….any news?

Also address the mandatory guardian in fotm issue please

Would made fotm great.

He fixed it, it just wasn’t announced in the patch notes.

bvtt hvrt

I wish I knew a better way to do the abomination as a mesmer, because getting phantasms up is a pain. even from that…area.

Chopps.5047:

That sounds like it would ony benefit people who don’t PUG. Considering they’re about to release a LFG tool, I doubt they’d do that. I applaud your desire for difficulty, though.

Well yeah, my intention would be to drive the scrubblebutt open world players back to their world events and living story, and raise the overall quality of dungeon pugs by attrition.

Nikaido.3457:

I’ll join you for half pugged runs if you feel like it. I don’t have a guild or full groups yet though and mostly do pugs.

So you’ve been with good organized groups before, how do you not drive yourself crazy playing with pugs? I’m trying to manage it and it’s just…ugh.

TAFU, AC p2, maybe Arah p4 pre-nerf are the only pugbusting dungeons that have existed in the game. The rest of the explorables need to be boosted to that level.

If you do actually sit a dev down and have them do actual work on fractals, could you please have them stop by the actual dungeon forum every now and then to chat? I promise we won’t bite…

…ok, maybe just a little off the flank, nothing more.

of course they display it with open world/living story content

I hate this game

BBMouse.6510:

Healing builds are working pretty well. Might kill slower but works wonder if you see the whole party are almost always full hp at all times.

healing builds “work” in the same way that a yugo “works” compared to a maserati

As long as they can do like half of the warrior’s personal DPS they’re still a party-wide gain from Spotter and Frost Spirit

Thing thing about Aragorn is he realizes when to weapon swap to a higher-DPS option

facepalm_through_head.jpg

llllllliiiiinkkkkkkkuuuu to leaked notes pl0x

ed: nevermind, I fount it

it’s a low level explorable dungeon, which inherently is not supposed to have the same difficulty as all other low level areas. Just because you can clear hearts in Caldeon Forest doesn’t mean you should feel entitled to the same level of difficulty from an explorable dungeon.

People won’t understand that you’re supposed to skip some parts until Anet makes all the mobs Legendaries with a neon sign around them that says “SNEAKY PATH HERE!”

obal.3218:

Aside from the video sticky….

Guardian
http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/83701-the-perfect-dps-guardian-build/
http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/84653-the-virtuan-sf-gs-guardian-dps-build/
http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/84006-guardian-video-guide-for-fractals-of-the-mist-shown-at-48/

Warrior
http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/83915-axemace-dps-build-for-dungeons-and-fractals-62513/

Ranger
http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/84268-the-perfect-dps-ranger-guide-for-real/

Theif
http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/84546-the-perfect-dps-thief-build/

Mesmer
http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/83936-the-new-mesmer-meta/

Engineer
http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/82395-guide-to-grenades-in-pve/

Necromancer
http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/81260-powermancer-glass-cannon-build/

Elementalist
http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/83561-hamartias-sd-elementalist-build-dps-might-stacking/

lunyboy.8672:

Good information about builds isn’t that easy to find, there are no clearing houses of “good” builds with ratings, and the plethora of “guides” on youtube is spurious at best.

It’s not hard to find good ones. The length of the video is a pretty good indicator for dungeons. For builds if it’s for dungeons and it’s not a zerker power build it’s bad. If it’s a condition or healing build it’s really bad. People are hesitant to change to this and look for something easier and much worse rather than try it and get better.

lunyboy.8672:

The game is advertised as play the way you want, with no holy trinity, and roles are very poorly defined.

True, but after a year of being out it is pretty clear what each profession brings.

Warrior – offensive support of FGJ, banners, vulnerability
Guardian – defensive support of projectile reflects/destruction, condition removal, defensive boons, binding blades, blinds
Mesmer – utility of TW, feedback and other reflects, focus pull, null field, group boon copying
Elementalist – lots of might and fury and conjured weapons
Ranger – offensive support of spotter and frost spirit
Engineer – stacking max vulnerability with grenades
Theif – stealth, lots of dps, good for stacking might before fights blasting sb in a fire field
Necro – blinds, chill, vulnerability

A good group comp maintain 20+ might and vulnerability stacks, perma fury, reflects if needed, condition removal if needed, and ZERKERS. Some other good things depending on the situation would be blinds, cc, and perm prot.

Probably left out some things but oh well. You get the drift.

This whole post should be made into a thread that we keep bumped at the top. Compendium of dungeon builds. I’d say stickied but there are no mods for this forum, only modbot.

Lots and lots of GW2 players will call you elitist simply for asking them to use a certain skill during a certain fight. But hey, being called an elitist isn’t insulting at all, so w/e.

Wukunlin, we need a list of these threads

They should be kings of applying vulnerability IMO, just thematically. But even if they did that and buffed their damage a bit, maybe gave a couple ways to spread might stacks, they’d still be on the boring side.

Warhorn, daggerdaggerdaggerdaggerdagger Focus, daggerdaggerdaggerdaggerdagger DEATHSHROUD! Once again, with feeling!

I mean, your build is probably the best they can hope for in high-DPS teams spoj but they would need serious, big time rework to make me want to take mine. Was it you or someone else who suggested they should have Orders? Even with that, how do you make them better or even different from Spotter/Empower Allies? Maybe a crit damage order, perhaps a flat damage boost a la Frost Spirit. Doesn’t matter, Anet will never change the class in a meaningful way. They were broken on release. How long did it take them to actually fix Death Shroud after they changed their mind on it being the downed state?

Alissah.9281:

CHIPS.6018:

It doesn’t make any sense for those low level dungeons to scale players down to their level. It mess up many player’s build big time.

How exactly does down scaling mess up a build?

I never had my build meesed up. I still have stats, traits, runes and weapons. The only thing that down scaling does is make all stats lower, to match the area you are in. It doesnt mess up builds if you ask me.

When they revamped downscaling, they significantly reduced crit damage at low levels. A character who brings 100% normally will see theirs at something like 5% in AC. But it’s an exaggeration to say your zerk build is ruined, since you’ll still be doing more damage than if you were in PTV or Valk or anything else.

If someone can just take it from you then you haven’t really earned it. I pay the iron price for all my chests!

The rewards do need to be fixed, they’re utterly ridiculous. The fact that there’s a gap between 1.5 and 3 shows not much thought went into the whole thing. Just implement Bright’s list, it was basically perfect.

but TehPwnerer, the reason why you’ll get a chilly reception here is two fold:

1) People who frequent the dungeon forum see the same posts over and over from new people who come in wide-eyed, expecting their (maybe good, maybe bad) ideas to get a dev response, but since they’re new they don’t realize that:
2) Devs don’t read the dungeon forum, there are no devs dedicated to dungeons, Anet doesn’t care about dungeons because they’re not Living Story.

I’ve only sold p2 a few times but I’ve never had any problems or any dissatisfied customers. Guess I’ve just been lucky.

Well if an average pug group takes down Lupicus in 5-10 minutes versus someone soloing Lupicus in 5-10 minutes…

Most minmaxers probably do 2x-5x as much DPS as your average pugger.

Unshakeable – Gains Defiant when targeted by crowd control skills. Blind is 10% effective. Weakness and vulnerability last 50% less time

Bright.9160:

Broadicea.8294:

DAE sabway, upboats to the right pl0x

Sabway was actually pretty bad, just saying..

14 heroes or gtfo.

that’s fine, I was super casual and only played alone or with my partner, so all I had to go off of was how things were rated on the pvx wiki site

inb4 “what’s changed lol”

DAE sabway, upboats to the right pl0x

Nerf…condition necro

So that…condition ele is viable

I’d post that Scanners gif but the last time I did it I got i-n-f-r-a-yougettherest

SkyChef.5432:

I would suggest you using some sort of recording videos so you can record your fight and see why you’re hit at the time. Very good learning tool to study boss animations, reaction time for you.
PS: For some reasons, free recording apps don’t work for me so I use a paid Fraps.

Seconded. Fraps, MSI Afterburner, ZDSoft Screen Recorder, Bandicam…

Lots of options.

Nike Porphyrogenita.8137:

I agree with you an Nikaido that the LH ele was almost certainly unintended. However, it wouldnt be the first time that the optimal build (mesmer/warrior) was based around not using the profession mechanic. A big failure of their class design was that they made traits that run specifically counter to the class mechanic..

Ranger suffers the worst from this, IMO. Way too many traits involve stuff happening when downed, when you pet is dying, when you’re dying, etc.