Today i got kicked from CoF twice. It happened during the invasion event on fireheart rise, i kept guesting in 2 servers until i finally managed to get to an overflow where people were doing the event to open the gates. When the event ended someone invited me and when we entered the dungeon i got kicked ¬¬
Luckly i was able to find that overflow again.
Before that i joined a group on gw2lfg and the leader left the dungeon making us get kicked too. I don’t know if people are doing this just to troll everyone or if there is a new kind of scam.
… Except that the games industry IS exceptionally sexist. And just because one incident of a very sexualized character (Lara Croft) not being abducted doesn’t make the trope any less overused, prevalent, or troubling.
If this year’s E3 was any indication, the gaming industry is still exceptionally sexist. You should look at the blogs of women in the industry and the kind of ridiculous things they have to put up with.
Also: Using “feminist” as a derogatory term is very insulting to anybody that’s looking for equal rights for women… which is what a feminist is by definition.
I think that facebook and tumblr are better places for you to spread the feminist word.
I think healing power for this game is too weak, specially for warriors, you will not be able to heal out all the damage you will be taking. When i started playing i used the Dontain’s warriors build, which was soldier gear with berserker’s trinkets, i had good survivability with 30k hp, but the fights were taking too long, for example to kill a veteran risen giant in Orr would take forever.
The best thing i did for my warrior was to craft a full set of knights armor and get berserkers weapons, the damage i was doing increased a lot and i actually got more survivability, since the mobs were dying faster.
I never used my soldier gear again, and now i’m trying to get used to always use berserker gear on dungeons but it can be a pain on some situations, at least in AC i can use full berserkers, even when i’m the one in charge of protecting Hodgins in that burrows room.
I really think the best option for warrior is knights gear exatly like you are already doing if you want more survivability, but allied with a good dps build.
Eh, what kind of damage are we talking about? I can cruise around Southsun and Orr by myself with no problems and dungeons are also pretty doable, even with a PUG…is there somewhere where the mobs are even stronger? Er, I just passed Level 50 in Fractals, too…not entirely difficult, either.
You kill mobs with clerics gear in a warrior? I’m sure you can survive in though places with that gear, but a fight that could be finished in 1 minute will last 10 minutes with that setup, in this game critical damage is too OP and healing power scales horribly when you add too much of it. Its better to kill stuff faster to increase survivability.
“Er, I just passed Level 50 in Fractals, too…”
Please, you don’t need to lie here, you may have experience in killing solo the Champion spider and Champion bandit in Queensdale, but you don’t need to exaggerate to make a point.
I forgot to mention that i use superior runes of lyssa on the knights armor, that gives you all the boons for 5 secs and removes all conditions every time you use a elite skill, so that also increases a lot your survivability, and if you take 10 points in discipline you can pick that trait that reduces signets cooldown, making the elite signet recharges in 48 secs. Then you can swap that trait to the one that gives +25% speed when you want.
I think healing power for this game is too weak, specially for warriors, you will not be able to heal out all the damage you will be taking. When i started playing i used the Dontain’s warriors build, which was soldier gear with berserker’s trinkets, i had good survivability with 30k hp, but the fights were taking too long, for example to kill a veteran risen giant in Orr would take forever.
The best thing i did for my warrior was to craft a full set of knights armor and get berserkers weapons, the damage i was doing increased a lot and i actually got more survivability, since the mobs were dying faster.
I never used my soldier gear again, and now i’m trying to get used to always use berserker gear on dungeons but it can be a pain on some situations, at least in AC i can use full berserkers, even when i’m the one in charge of protecting Hodgins in that burrows room.
I really think the best option for warrior is knights gear exatly like you are already doing if you want more survivability, but allied with a good dps build.
Maybe it was because of the culling effect that they didn’t ress you? In events with 30 players i have to play on subsample settings, the temple of Grenth for example is impossible for me to participate, i always first get killed then a moment later i see lots of spiders around me.
When i did the personal story on my first character my favorite mission was one where you go with a group of npcs and atack lots of undeads with cannons from a bridge, but then you realize that they were allied soldiers and you made a huge mistake by ordering your team to fire on then. In that part i was feeling “Oh god, what a huge mistake my character did, he will be punished by his order’s master (in my case the vigil) and the pact will fall appart”. It was interesting because when my character asked to a npc if he/she saw the soldiers the npc said that he couldn’t see really well because of the smoke or whatever.
So i think it would be better if my character had get expelled from his order and be ashamed by everyone for causing a huge massacre on the allied forces and making the order’s trust on the pact fall appart. So then our character would have to gain their trust back by fighting that eyeball and that mouth with the help of the member of destiny’s edge (in my case Eir) who was the only person still believing in my character’s innocence.
I did the 4 tiers on both candidates by myself. You don’t need to fight the veterans and other mobs, i just stayed near the place where the plunderes and the cannons spawn and kept killing the plunderers, you don’t get agro from the veterans if you stay behind where the cannons spawn. I got bronze medal on the end of tier 4 but still got the achievement ^^
I was using knights gear on my warrior, so i had good defense and was able to kill the plunderers with the rifle.
Also if you get bored to leveling but still want to experience how to play at max lvl you can go to pvp. In there you will be brought to lvl 80 and you can get all the equipment for free, so you can also see the strenght of each class, i think it will be easier if you try that with a thief.
In the knights armor from my warrior i use superior runes of lyssa, they work really well since warrior’s elite skill has a low cooldown (48 secs if traited) and we have a trait that increases damage for every boon on you, so basically runes of lyssa makes you enter in godmode for 5 secs every 48 secs ^^
That increases the duration from fury and swiftness too, if your elite skill gives 33secs of then it will give +5 secs with the effect from the rune.
I think i have the same dps of a zerker warrior in those 5 secs and a much higher survivability, and also high precision from the rune.
For me it was cheaper to buy the armor with karma from the temple and transmute it to the knights armor i crafted.
Oh, i forgot to say that runes of lyssa also cure all conditions you have when you use an elite skill, very useful
AC path 3 is perfectly doable by a group of lvl 35 people if they have updated gear for their lvl (green gear and trinkets is enough). Path 1 is easy if your group knows how to deal with the burrows room where you need to defend a npc, and path 2 has a very boring boss at the end so its better to stay away from it.
Also that ghost boss Kholer you can avoid him, just walk on the border of the place where he stays in a way that you won’t aggro him, i think he is harder to fight than the final boss from p1 for example.
The problem with the dungeons in this game is that you need to know the encounters, so experience here means a lot, but if you have difficult to beat certain challenge at lvl 35 if you lvl up to 80 and use exotic gear it will be much more easy.
There is also the problem from path 2, where most of the groups only want classes that are capable to skip using a leaping skill. The last time i did path 2 we had to do it with 4 players because we couldn’t find another skipable class, and the dungeon was easy enough to do.
CoF should be a low lvl dungeon instead of AC or CM.
Also you need to learn how to exploit the fights in the dungeons. The spider for example you can stack near the stairs, that trick makes the fight waay easier, even if your group die on the spider queen at least you will be able to kill all the mini spiders, making the fight with the boss easier (don’t forget to destroy those turrets first too).
That boss with oozes and traps is one of the most boring in this game, so that path is the least played from that dungeon, path 3 is easier, path 1 is the easiest if you group know how to deal with the burrow’s room where you need to defend Hodgins.
I think that for new players the most popular class is ranger, and they use to always prefer longbow, but after they join a guild or learn more about the game they start to hear how weak the longbow auto-atack is and how broken their pets are, so they roll a warrior.
So, for new players is ranger and for more experienced is warrior.
Also, if you have necros with minions in your group you need to tell then to kill then before the fight, or if you have a ranger you need to put the pet on peaceful to make this exploit works.
Maybe you are missing the new poi in Divinity’s Reach. You guys must have already completed that map before the path, but since the poi was added with this new path you need to get back there to get the achievement.
Its been a while since i did AC path 2. But you can charge all 3 traps before getting agro from the boss. You just need to stay in a distance greater than 900 and hit the boss one time with that weapons, that will make the boss spawns the oozes but he won’t agro on your group. So you can start to charge all the traps by picking the oozes while the boss stands there.
Also as pointed out you need to avoid hiting the boss when his shield is up, it will make him spawns more oozes which he eats then to regenerate hp.
It would be a good idea to suggest your tanky friends to use some berserker trinkets with the soldier gear to increase their dps. I don’t think its a good idea for your group go full berserker gear because that will make you get downed more frequently.
With my warrior i started with soldier gear + berserker trinkets, and only recently i started using knights gear with berserker trinkets and weapons.
Thats a huge problem with that boss, that healing. It makes impossible for low dps groups to defeat it as it heals faster that we can charge the traps, so if your group can’t kill it with 3 traps then its better to give up the fight.
Once i was in a group with 2 players that never did AC and one dungeon master that haven’t done the new AC yet, but we still managed to complete the path 2 quite easily. But after that i was in a group that just didn’t have enough dps to kill the boss before it regenetates its health. Now i don’t have courage anymore to try that path with new players.
There is a problem here i see that is the lack of communication in the group, the people that were with you could have given you some heads up about the encounters and stuff. But they also helped you a lot i believe, specially in that tunnels full of gravelings before the boss fight, that are really easy to get lost and killed in the way.
I’ve done AC several times but i also got yelled when i didn’t stack with the group near the stairs to fight the spider, i wasn’t aware at that time about this new way to exploit the fight.
But i also think you got luck to get such an skilled group that managed to complete the path. My first experiences in AC path 1 were just TERRIBLE, i was in a lot of runs that didn’t passed that room full of burrows. I still hate Hodgins for being such a stupid npc :P And now that ANet changed the AC dungeon i think it really is not a good option for not very experienced pugs.
Well, at least you didn’t get a bad pug full of ragequitters, there are some people that when they join a group if they see that some of the members have low achievement points they just leave.
he has a point. nearly ALL karma stat combinations are completely worthless for PvE and you’d cripple your group completely if you’d be running with one of the karma sets.
True, they do have some mismatched stats that are 90% of the time totally useless (only good ones are pwr/tough/vit I think)
But you can’t expect everyone to immediately grasp that, and that the best stats are bought on TP or acquired through other means. You gotta let people make mistakes sometimes so they can learn on their own
I think the mismatched stats are intentional, so if you want a full set of gear you need to go to 2 or more temples. That helps making more people willing to do all the temple events, and not only the one with the most popular gear.
“I’ve seen enough pugs with terrible dps to know that taking a low level alt isn’t going to slow down an AC run much compared to a 80 who’s running shout heal or dontain condition warrior. I really wish this game had a gear checker so that we could weed these people ASAP.” [/quote]
I run a warrior with healing shouts ç.ç
I almost tried to make a bleeding warrior too.
