When you are on vengeance you have only 25% chance to rally if you kill an enemy. But you can pick up the trait Sweet Revenge if you want to have 100% to rally while on vengeance.
There are tons of videos on youtube showing how to solo arah, then you just need to practice. And i dont think soloing arah is that much profitable anymore because you can get griefed a lot, and it can take quite a while to fill up a group.
So if you duo an arah path in 40 minutes on average and takes 10 minutes to fill a group and if you take into consideration that you get your instance stolen on 50% of the times you will see that selling arah is not worth that much.
You should first do the story mode of AC. In story mode dungeons the downscaling allows you to be 2 lvls above the mobs, so you can be lvl 32 inside the lvl 30 instance.
From what i remember from the time i had a low lvl character in a dungeon i happened to die a lot on squishier classes like engie and thief, but i could run full power+precision armor on guardian, and that was before the new player experience change, so now low lvl instances must feel easier. So yes, get some gear of green quality for around your lvl, trinkets too and mix gear with power+vit and power+toughness. Healing power and cond damage and non power gear are garbage for dungeons imo.
About the gold sellers, it may be because anet recently put a cap on the amount of gold you can send, you can only send or receive 500g per week, so that makes their job much harder.
Honestly i dont see why it’s so difficult to add a new dungeon in the game. Wooden Potaotes made some videos about that datamined map called Fortunes Veil, that was some kind of world pvp map that ended up being discarted, anet could totally use that map to make a dungeon that would be even bigger than Arah.
Selling twilight to buy eternity will make you lose gold, in your case it’s easier to just craft eternity yourself. If you add the tp fees to sell the twilight (i think it is 15% fee) you will end up needing to spend much more gold than just keeping the twilight and making eternity.
I dont see the advantage in selling twilight, you would end up with both sunrise and eternity for yourself but imo its easier to just make an ascended gs, having the original legendary weapon is not so useful.
I never tried to transmute a legendary, but i heard that you can do it, and the legendary will still keep the ability to change stats no matter what skin you transmute on it.
In most pug groups people will not notice if you are running meta builds. You may get some hate on your warrior because pugs are used to see warrior with gs, and specially if you start spamming that hammer knockback, but if you dont play an opressed class like ranger and necro people will not bother you much.
I keep seeing these whining threads about people saying that the dungeon community is toxic and kicks you on the slightest mistake you make, but i only pug when i run dungeons and the situations where i saw that happening were so rare that i cant remember right now when it was the last time i’ve witnessed that type of behaviour.
What most probably will happen is that the group will disband after the end of the path, so if you for example are pugging CoE, instead of the group staying together for all paths they will leave after the first path is done because they noticed that the dps was terrible and there was no banners/might/reflects/icebow etc.
The story mode dungeons are very easy, but some of then take a longer time to fill a group because they dont reward much gold, but you can do then while you are leveling with no problem. The explorable mode paths i recommend you to wait to do then at lvl 80, unless you have friends or guildies that will run it with you, lvl 80 characters are much stronger even with the downscaling. In gw2 you can do the low lvl dungeons with a max lvl character with no problem, since the loot and rewards are good for lvl 80s too.
I was guiding a group through arah p1 with my thief, i simply couldnt stack stealth for more than 5 secs without getting revealed, at first i thought it was some bug on the gate or the floor that made me get revealed, but the entire group was getting the revealed debuff at same time. Sometimes i would get the revealed debuff but still keep the stealth up for a sec or 2 more.
In organized groups they almost never get downed because they bring all the necessary support, they have a guardian throwing blocks and reflects and stuff and everyone is in melee range with the boss or trash mobs. If you are running with pugs where everyone is ranging and you are the only one meleeing, and the group doesnt have a guardian or the guardian is too lazy to give aegis and blinds then expect to get downed a lot.
If you could give some examples of dungeons where you get downed frequently maybe the folks here can help.
Arah is very easy if you have the knowledge. Imo it was one of the easiest dungeon to solo before anet bugged Lupicus on that closed beta patch, thats why you see so many arah sellers and almost no seller for other dungeons. What is difficult in arah is the skipping parts and Lupicus, but most groups just one shot Lupicus using a glitch with ground targeted wall of reflection.
If you want to run arah you need to find someone that is experienced and is willing to guide you and your group through it, if you join a group full of newbies expect to stay there for a 3 hour+ run.
I wish his auto atack stayed working as it is now but with increased cast time, something like +0.2 seconds, because right now it’s very frustrating to solo him if you have a higher ping.
Honestly i think these arguments like “I own a software development company and i could do a much better job at fixing the game than any of these kitten devs at anet, but i wont do it because anet pays too low” and “anet should improve the enemy’s AI to fix the game” are really stupid. Off course fixing the mob’s AI would improve any game’s balance issues, you can use that argument on any game ever made but i dont think it’s as easy as these people make it look like. There were news about anet hiring a company speciallized in AI maybe for a new boss or raid, so i dont think you forum geniuses are really more capable than then to improve this issue.
These arguments like “i would do a much better job than any anet dev here” made me remind of this video from Kate Welch that she made after she left anet, she made that video during that PR disaster that was that dev interview saying there wouldn’t be any new dungeon or SAB development: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEAUIiD4DHw
I used to experience that when soloing crusher and hunter in arah p3 with thief, after a while when spamming pistol whip i would get that immune pop up from the crusher. But the bug would stop happening after a while, i think it’s the interrupt spam that causes it but i’ve never seen that bug happening on abomination where people also spam interrupts on him.
The chest piece you buy from the temples in Orr, the gloves are those cheap skins from all those blues and greens that you salvage everyday, the leggings are studded plate armor, the rest i dont know.
There was a famous griefer that kept using a lfg bug to crash other people’s dungeon instances for a year, there were numerous reports and videos proving that he did that just to grief people and NOTHING has happened to him. So i guess your account will be fine too.
I think that to craft the higher infusions you need to use the discovery tab, like if you want to make the +9 you mix 2 +8 and the other ingredients on the discovery tab so you can unlock it.
I see you are running full shouts. I hope you are not one of those kind of guardians that when asked to bring reflection they reply “Thats not part of my build”.
Ravinsild, i think you will not find here the kind of advice you are looking for. People here in the dungeon forum are more “meta oriented”, which means they always follow the latest speedrun tactics and builds, and you are looking for something that is out of the meta right now, that is this traditional support low dps role in dungeons.
I think people already explained to you that all the support you provide is not dependant of your gear, that you can bring support and still do decent dps and blablabla but i see that you still dont like the meta builds.
OP, you need to learn that the general gw2 community is not very nice, all that talk you hear about “gw2 have the nicest mmo community” is bullkitten. They give examples like “if you get downed in open world people will come and ress you”, that happens because the key you use to ress people is the same you use to pick up loot, so the players are conditioned like bots to just spam F on everything.
If you want to pug more dungeons you need to adapt to the pug way of doing stuff, pugs in general are very quick in kicking people, and our group system favours griefers by allowing the minority to pretty much steal everyone else’s progress with the vote kick system.
If you want to do things your way you need at least one friend in the group and start kicking everyone that joins and dont fit in your lfg description. Like, if you put a lfg for story mode watching cutscenes you need to kick everyone that just rushes ahead soloing the next event while the rest of the group lags behind watching the cutscene, and when you get to lvl 80 and tired of watching cutscenes you put lfg for speedruns and kick lower lvl pugs that join.
In gw2 it’s more important to know the encounters than to have a good build or rotation or whatever. There are full groups that get destroyed by dungeon bosses and there are players that can solo an entire dungeon or fractal faster than most pugs.
You gave an example of some gorillas in arah that your group had to kite, i think you are refering to the gorillas on the melandru boss in arah p4, i think having someone on the group just to kite then while the rest of the group slowly kills the boss is a bad tactic, you could instead stack on a specific pillar where those green knockinback things dont hit the group and just kill the gorillas there, then proceed to range the melandru boss, not many groups are capable of meleeing that particular boss.
Arah is the most difficult dungeon in the game, and you have only 1 month of experience playing so it’s normal to struggle there, it’s not a problem on your build it’s just a l2p issue.
Crafting imo is only worth for making account bound stuff like ascended armor, or to make a legendary. You dont make much profit from crafting stuff then selling it on tp, if you add the tp taxes you almost break even on everything.
Good question. I ran arah yesterday but i didnt pay attention on the elite hunters to see how they apply stability now, if they still give perma stability to all mobs around.
Another bug i got was in ac story mode, on the chain to disable the traps after the first boss (the one you fight on the coffin room), that chain is not working.
welp, looks like I’ll be running around in quaggan form a lot more until they fix this. -_- thank god for in combat tonics.
or just not attack anything. like you’re already doing unless you’re supposed to.
edit: personally it’s a QoL change since the times I forgot to make pet attack outnumbers the times pet kittens up by infinity.
I was making a joke, but thanks for the personal atack.
Also, with this new bug you need to keep spamming f3 while you atack to make your pet stop agroing stuff, making it more annoying to charge the traps in the ac p2 boss.
Ranger’s pets now atack your target even if you set then to avoid combat, i see that lots of pug rangers will start to get kicked at the final boss of ac p2 because of that :P
Has anybody else of the Solo AC P3 dungeon rushers noticed the extreme Power decrease?
My Power always was at the 720 cap and now its down to 576… havent done anything different tho
Yeah, i just entered in an ac explorable instance and my power is capped at 587.
Edit: I just used food and maintenance oil and my power raised to 619, so 587 is not the new cap i guess.
I like how this build got a generally more positive reception here in the dungeon forum, it seens like people here got more tolerant to different playstyles. Last year Nemesis made a video with a similar build, but he got so much hate here XD but maybe that happened because it was a video from him, depending on who sends the message people will react differently.
The new expansion doesnt seen to bring new dungeons. I guess when anet tried to remove the dungeon forum section it was a sign that they were not going to support this kind of content anymore. Which makes sense, dungeons in other mmos serve to bring gear grind, people farm then to get the best gear in the game then they demand new ones for the next tier, but since the expansion wont bring new gear anet doesn’t need to make new dungeons.
I think you can ask for a refund, then you buy another gw2 copy when the sale starts. But you will probably have to buy the other account using another email, but i’m not sure on that.
At the final boss the guardian used that tome skill while the group kept dps’ing the necro boss while standing on his aoes, but they also glitched the boss on the rock so that made the fight easier too.
I wonder what the developers could have been planning when they tampered with Belka.