Guild Wars 2

Ummeiko.5318:

Iehova.9518:

Name bosses that couldn’t be done using “horrible faceroll tactics”. Hard mode: No Lupus.

I’ve seen a few hilarious Alpha “How I dodge?” fail groups.

Maybe Sir Jimmy Russel unless skipping him/him getting himself stuck inside a wall is considered a faceroll tactic

Isn’t that like the 3rd or 4th time they change the first part of arah3?

Fun =/= Efficiency
Let’s not start a discussion on this btw, there have already been too many of them

Iehova.9518:

Izuna.5307:

aha just smack him with prison bars and he never gets the scales and its hilarious

What sorcerous feature is this?

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Broken_Prison_Bar

Iehova.9518:

haviz.1340:

I’d rather have more bosses like lupicus or simin than autoattack bosses when you have 1 certain proffesion in your team composition.

You and me both buddy.

Most players that have met and bested all/most of the PvE encounters would probably agree. Though certain classes still can trivialise the fights to some extent, the fractal bosses were a step in the right direction and a nice change from the tank and spank encounters you meet in a majority of the dungeons. (Especially the imbued grawl shaman, you can still melee him without reflection skills but it requires some fast reflexes which some players might say equals skill)
Unfortunately a lot of the encounters just become punching bags at 25+ which takes away a lot of the fun.

All hotw paths are like 10-20 minutes, they just feel a lot longer because you often end up doing close to nothing.

Probably 11:59:59 PM / 23:59

Wethospu.6437:

Perhaps I’m wrong but doesn’t elite banner give everyone 100% Fury and 6 Might? (I will test this later unless corrected)

The banner gives 100% uptime on swiftness and fury. Every three seconds it gives one might stack that lasts 12 seconds which means you won’t get more than 4 might stacks from one banner. Not to mention that once the one minute duration has expired you won’t be able to use it for the rest of the fight.

You could also join a guild that isn’t full of wannabe elitist scrublords.

You can still salvage them for ectos/orichalcum.

It’s not like CoF1 has a whole lot of mechanics though. You kill 2 elites, one champion and a legendary monster.

Just do AC or CoF1

OP, which dungeons have you completed?

Compounding Power – “3% more damage for each of your active illusions”

-Does this trait also increase the damage dealt by phantasms, or is it only the “main” mesmer’s damage that’s increased?
-Do phantasms count toward the illusion count (IE would 2 phantasms and 1 illusion give 3% or 9% increased damage)

Thanks

Iehova.9518:

haviz.1340:

I can organize some runs (EU) but there’s one rule you might not like it

“You must kill the champion giants patrolling in p3”?

I think it’s the “hardcore mode” where you get kicked if you use an exploit or get killed.

I remember someone made a guild for Arah groups before gw2lfg was created ( https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Arah-Exp-Group/first )
I don’t know if the guild still is active but I suppose you could try to join it/whisper the creator for an invite

CoF path 1 and all AC paths are probably the easiest and most farmed dungeon paths for money/karma.

Don’t worry. One of the devs (I think it was Robert) said they were improving drop rates next patch, so you’ll get a bit more greens.

Depending on the skill level of your PUG you should be able to do SE1 in 10-15 minutes and SE3 in 15-20 minutes
Arah 1 and 4 aren’t very PUG friendly so you might want to stay away from those at first. Path 2 and 3 should be beatable in 25-45 minutes if your PUG is good, otherwise expect it to take a bit longer.

You can easily kill Simin with a guardian on your team. Just don’t expect too many pugs to take you since most of them aren’t aware of it.

Sounds like a case of RNG doing what it does best.

I bought mine on the TP. Cost me 15g

I think you’d get better results with having 1 guardian instead of 4 warriors since reflecting his frenzied blast on phase 3 takes away a decent chunk of his health

On Strife’s path 4 video they kill Lupus in 2 minutes and 50 seconds. Myself and a group of guildies I regularly run Arah with have managed to do it in 2 minutes and 46. :P

Curious on this as well. Would be pretty cool to know what the fastest kill is

it’d be awesome if we could salvage our rings for either pristine relics or the mist essence containers.

Dub.1273:

Well, noone skips kholer because he is too hard to fight but because he is inefficient in making money. It’s basically wasting minutes for almost nothing.

since when is 10-15s, a bag and a chest for two to three minutes’ work considered inefficient?

I bought the recipe for the gift of water (which only is required for the legendary weapon Frenzy) and noticed the tooltip in the crafting tab says it’s used for Kraitkin, which is wrong.
You might want to fix this to avoid causing any confusion.

Golden shows you’ve run either AC or CoF a couple of times without spending any large quantities of money right away. Just like the DM title just shows you’ve been at the ending cinematic of every dungeon path.
People like showing off their achievements, no matter how they got them.

Lolicia.6502:

Why on earth would you buy a title you didn’t earn? Who would display such a title?

The same kind of people that want and display the Golden title. It’s just to show off, nothing more, nothing less.

Zershin.9628:

Then all the people leveling their alts by switching them in when the boss is almost dead should all be “banned to hell” as well by your words. Because while the user did do work to get to that point, the character being switched to does nothing at all and in the same vein doesn’t deserve to gain anything.

When you altswap before the final boss you’ve still contributed to everything else in the dungeon. When you buy a spot for the final boss (in this case Arah 4) you contribute to 1 out of 7 fights. The final boss is even one of the easiest fights in the path.

No. It’s just RNG doing what it does best.

Since most dungeons don’t really require any profession mechanics there’s pretty much no point in going for disabling/cc builds.

I’m pretty sure one of the devs said it wasn’t against any of their policies. The owners of gw2lfg have a different opinion though, someone got banned from making entries on the site a couple of days ago because he tried to sell arah 4 spots.

Wartna.8671:

Ioflux.4369:

Wartna.8671:

You can interupt him when he goes with his sword in the air, that way he won’t get the buff

Wrong animation, Sword up in air = Icicle summoning aoe skill.

Sword into ground = Ice armor if absolute annoyance.

My bad :-p

JJBigs.8456:

Wartna.8671:

You can interupt him when he goes with his sword in the air, that way he won’t get the buff

More info on this plox.

I’ll give you a hint,
Defiant
Now go figure it out! XD

Bjarl doesn’t have any defiant stacks. He used to have the resilience boon, but they took it away a couple of patches ago.

Here you go. Never tried it without a leap as Weth said but I suppose it’ll work as well.

Nothing needs to be changed about his agony attack. The only problem is the lava elementals he spawns (imo)

You can jump there from path 1 with a leap ability/portal gun. I’ll take a screenshot and include it the next time I run the path.

Not really. There are seven different fractal encounters where the only increase in difficulty is more HP/damage.
The Dungeon Master title already means absolutely nothing so there’s no reason to make another wannabe elitist title

Or you could stop ranging him and melee instead. If the entire party melees him from the same angle you’ll eventually push him into a wall.

Scoundrel.2139:

Speaking of drops, can someone answer this: Does the chance of better drops increase from Dragon chests the more damage you do during the event? Or, is it more a case of time spent on it? Asking because currently running a condition/support build.

Cheers in advance.

Dragon chests have the same chance of giving you greens, no matter how much you contribute beyond the gold medal

Volcano – The lava fonts on the platform also count toward the achievement. If you take as much as one tick of damage you’re out.

Swamp – I think it’s party bound but I’m not too sure

Urban battle – The chickens are everywhere, before Dulfy, inside the city and inside the plaza

CoF path 1, but you might have a hard time getting a group take you in if you’re new.
SE 1 is about as fast as CoF path 1 but almost no one runs it.

AC runs usually only take 20 minutes for PUGs so you might want to just take some of those

If you’re dead when a boss dies you won’t get the loot from the corpse. The corpse won’t glow and will disappear after a few seconds. You’ll still get the chest though.

also make the bags of wondrous goods loot from the chest instead of the actual boss. If someone dies during a boss fight they will not get any loot (including the bag) from the bosses corpse.

I’m fairly sure Spire didn’t die when we fought Alpha.

Let me guess, you’ve either never run an explorable path of Arah or you die when your group tries to run past mobs because you can’t utilise your dodges efficiently?

Mesket.5728:

Arah 4, except for Simin mechanic; is one of the most fun loreful dungeon… together with Arah 1.

Skiping the whole content its kind of meh… why dont you photoshop the title on a screenshot and be happy?

Having the title without the whole experience… is really people looking for that?

People don’t even looking at the titles.

That’s cool and all but I don’t think you’ll get a whole lot of replies from people interested in buying a spot. If you’re serious about it you should make an entry on gw2lfg instead

Mesket.5728:

You just met 2 of the highest trolls in the forum… very famous for some videos but infamous for their bragging comments on how easy Simin (and other encounters) is with blue/green gear… just do a quick search and you will see.

I wouldn’t really consider his comments bragging. Simin is far from as hard as people make her out to be.