Guild Wars 2

Artasqweroldy.7458:

Classism i.e. People kicking me without a comment on sight for rolling an Engineer (full zerk, scholar runes and a 6/6/0/0/2 build with Bombs+Nades). Heck, if they are stupid Classists they should write “no class x”/“only class x;y;z” into their LFG -.-

Seriously, im sick of that class discrimination + it makes me rage to see other engis rolling flamer AA and therefore lowering Engis reputation…

What i hate from flamethrower engs is that i barely can see the boss because of all that flame effects. Once i pugged CM p3 and we had 2 flamethrower engs in the group, i simply couldn’t see which direction Sure-shot Seamus was facing. Also grenade engineers make me lag a lot in CM too.

Obtena.7952:

Ve Salu Sigtyr.4807:

Wow, I love all the constructive feedback in here.

Considering the player is a veteran who knows enough to have 80 tomes gathered, I would say the feedback has been appropriate. In fact, anyone that thinks they can play any class appropriately through ‘buying’ their way to 80 isn’t going to get much guidance from players commenting on their builds … the barrier in this case isn’t any particular trait or gear. Playing is an integral part of the game for a reason.

You don’t need to lvl up your character all the way to lvl 80 in order to learn how to play it. Doing exploration and heart quests is pretty boring after 2 years being playing the game. And the way you play your class during the leveling can be very different from the way you will play in pvp or dungeons or wvw.

Like rangers for example, the most efficient way to lvl up is by going bearbow, but that setup is completely trash in other game modes, so the player needs to re-learn how to play if he wants to be decent in a dungeon for example.

Leveling is there just to make you waste time before you can reach the endgame.

Forum bug :S
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I would like to watch a livestream from ANet talking about boss design, where they could talk about how they create those encounters, they could even invite Robert Hrouda or whoever thought about Lupicus. I wonder how the dungeon devs reacted when they first saw a Lupicus solo in full berserker gear.

Its cool that Lupicus design fits so well on gw2 combat, its a very fair oponent, if you use your dodges well you can kill it faster than a full group that doesnt know what to do.

SE p2 is not difficult, but you need to kill lots of mobs there, and dredge can be a pain if you dont have reflection but i think any group can finish it.

The only part that i kinda had some difficult in the first time i ran it is the final arena where you do the final fight, i think there are like 6 cannons all over it that you should destroy because they can hit you during the final boss, these cannons are guarded by dredge but you can ignore then and just focus on the cannons.

To trigger the final boss first you need to kill 5 dredge suits that keep spawning more dredge, then the final boss starts, its 2 dredge suits that keep alternating an invulnerable buff, so you need to keep alternating who you atack each time, when one of then dies he starts to regenerate hp again, it will stop only if you kill the other one in time before it regenerates completely, so try to keep their hp at same lvl so you finish then at the same time.

You can just read the guide on the wiki or search for a video on youtube, i dont believe any pug group would really fail at that path, no matter how bad they are.

Maybe you need that stone splitter thing, that everyone that had a transmuted legendary received from anet in order to get the legendary back. I think anet didnt think that players would transmute precursors too.

Send a mail to the support, ask for one stone splitter so you can recover your dusk.

What about the build 6/2/0/0/6 for pve? Is it as good for dungeons as the 6/6/0/0/2 one?

http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fRAQRBHhhu1IHNN2WdjLNc4moWoguODgZIqTg62YOqWA-TxRGABAcSAGS5HI7PQm+hyeCAAq+jUKBFEwoA-e

2g for 2 weeks is a good price. The matches that i host on the custom arena also give rewards in gold and achievements just like the regular pvp? If it does then the arena can pretty much pays itself with the rewards.

I dont know how these custom arenas work. If i buy one will it last forever, or it will disappear if i dont pay the rent? I would like to have one if its guaranteed that i will never lose it.

This is the build i use, since elementalist is just an alt for me i prefer staff buids, they are more simple than scepter for example but they have huge dps

I think its wrong that a heavy armor class like warrior has the highest mobility in the game, how come a full plate armor fighter can move faster than a leather armored one, it shouldn’t be this way. ANet should make the rangers capable of using their leaps on sword auto atack without having to target any enemie, it would be nice to spam those leaps to get away from enemies.

When i pug TA i always bring my guardian if there is no other in the group, specially in a group with newer players a guardian helps a lot. Now if there is a warrior who wants to make the skip by his own i just wait for him to make it so i dont end up eating all that poison from the vines, if he dies during the skip thats his bad.

On arah i usually run with my warrior, so i dont know if i’m making the other players from my group die because i’m rushing ahead :P

From what i noticed from new players that i met on dungeon runs is that they have really no idea of the existence of different kinds of stats for armor sets. If you see the list of armors avaliable from the dungeon vendors you will see that they all have the same name, like AC is protector gear, TA is nightmare gear, there is no “heavy nightmare court helm of rampager”, it doesnt matter the stats, all gear has the same name. So i met quite a lot of new players that didnt know that there are different stats of gear, and each stats is much better that others, and some stats are almost useless to some professions, for example i met one guardian that farmed the full TA gear, so he had cond damage on all pieces of armor, he had less than 900 ap i think.

Another problem is that some newer players are very impatient, lots of then get to lvl 80 in less than 2 weeks and want to experience all the dungeons, but they dont know how to play their class because they rushed to lvl 80, and they kind of demand that experienced players carry then through dungeons, those types of players usually come from another mmo that is heavily focused on end game, so they want to play gw2 like it was that previous mmo, they dont really want to get better at playing gw2, they want just to “have fun” without making much effort in learning the game, they usually stop playing after getting a full set of exotic gear complaining that there is nothing to do at end game here.

So that is the problem i think, people that started to play in less than 2 weeks and are already pugging dungeons, and when they fail at those first mini spiders in AC story they already demand a nerf, without even caring about learning the game. Its that these players want to play mmo like it was a console game, they lack team play skills, they dont bother to comunicate and just want rewards, and they dont like to fail.

dlonie.6547:

Wicked Rin.1972:

TA: thief for stealth, guardian for lawn mowing and aegis. Reflects make the wurm in the beginning easier to deal with.

I might be forgetting about a wurm, but do you mean the nightmare vines at the beginning of both paths? Just wanted to point out that their projectiles are, unfortunately, not reflectable :-( I’ve tried. I wish they were.

I’m almost sure that their projectiles are reflectible, but you wont avoid getting damage from the small red circles, but if you reflect you can see that the goo they throw at you gets reflected.

I dont know if you keep reflects up you get less small red circles though.

jokke.6239:

Willycat.7310:

Hi guys,I intend to carry along a ranged weapon with me when I go for Dungeons/Fractals

Which Bow you guys think,would be better?

Thanks for any help

You should try longbow and shortbow combo .. Really great for fractals imo
No need to choose then xD

Nooo! Please dont be another bearbow in fractals.

trunks.5249:

there was me a ranger…

Players who have ranger as their main usually really hate the stacking/skipping playstyle, some of then are really stubborn and dont stack for nothing. Once i pugged with that youtuber girl who used to make gw2 videos of jumping puzzles and stuff, she was on her ranger using her legendary longbow and nothing that we told convinced her to stack with us, but luckly she didnt pull any agro and didnt spam knockbacks.

OP, if you want a guide for a full clear of arah you can follow this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhQC5-Vjvb4

I looted a superior rune of baelfire in CoF and it was soulbound.

Now, unrelated to the topic, i soloed arah p2 today and while fighting alphard i got pulled by her but i managed to dodge away from the red circle and didnt got hit by the explosion, i’ve only got pulled once and i forgot to test it again, did alphard got nerfed??

Yoy can farm ascalonian catacombs and honor of the waves for the soldier armor, cof for the berserker, there are other dungeons that give rampager gear and so on. Its better if you start farming more dungeons, they give a good amount of gold if you run different paths per day, and you will end up having enough tokens to gear up your alts without having to spend gold.

Deistik.7802:

Fastest way for any class to get from 75-80 was cooking with Karma mats (I got from 76-80 in about 45minutes!), but they fixed that right up. I’m currently specced for wells/marks for explorable Arah, and I love all the utility but I won’t pretend the warrior I roll with doesn’t do double the damage.

Necro doesnt do half of the damage of a warrior. Nemesis from the youtube channel “I am one and i am legion” made a video showing that necro’s dps is quite good actually when compared to warrior’s.

I heard that it was a bug, that the skin was never intended to be sellable, so they removed then from the TP and refunded the gold. But i find it weird that they didnt refund the skin too. Did you check your wardrobe if its there? If not is there a way to you to pick it again from the reward track?

Wait for the festival of the 4 winds, we may be able to farm the fortune scraps again, so you will be able to buy the Desert Rose, which is just like the backpiece you want but red.

Next time you see him take a screenshot and see if you can add it when you report him.

I think its not a bannable offense if you do it in dungeon groups, but you can be banned if you do it in pvp matches. There are people who join pvp matches and stay afk just to get the daily done and to farm achievements, in that case its definetly bannable.

There is an exploit in arah p2 where if you are a thief or mesmer you can break the map and swim to any place and even fight the bosses underwater. To see if its a legit solo run you just need to see if the wp at lupicus is avaliable, because lupicus cant be killed with this exploit but he can be skipped without losing the final rewards.

Recently a bunch of arah sellers got banned for selling exploited runs, there was even a guy named Dolan who got banned too, and he was quite known here in the dungeon forum, so i believe if you keep reporting that scammer you can get him punished for selling exploited runs.

It probably works. All the damage modifier traits for ele, thief and warrior work when they equip a bundle, so i dont see a reason why it wouldn’t work for eng too.

I have a lvl 80 eng, i think they are pretty strong for pve. I use the bomb kit for melee fights and the grenades for ranged and vuln stacking.

This is the build i use

Edit: i’m having difficult linking the video, you can search for “Nike dnt” on youtube for the guides for dungeons and fractals.

Edit 2: here it is!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7br1Sn5Tqjw

If you really want to play with ranged weapons you can play staff elementalist, which is top dps and is ranged, or engineer, with engineer you can use grenades, but grenades demand more effort since you need to keep placing the aoe target on every auto-atack, you can aliviate that by setting your ground targeting to “instant” and using those mouses with buttons on the side.

Ranger in gw2 sucks with bows, ranger is more a beastmaster and not a really good archer. Warrior for example is better with longbow than ranger.

I think most of the players don’t put a lfg thenselves because they dont have enough confidence to lead a group through that dungeon path, so they wait for a lfg that appeals to then, if its an add with 2 necros and 1 ranger they will not join.

I like to solo arah p2 up to alphard, where i put a lfg add with no requirements, just saying “p2, at alphard”, it usually fills up very quickly, but most of the pugs that join usually are new to the dungeon. They would never make a group by their own to run the dungeon, which is understandable because a group with mostly inexperienced players in arah doesnt end up well most of the time. And if you look to the lfg section of arah you dont see many groups forming to run the dungeon, there are mostly sellers.

Are you sure there isnt another exotic weapon that shares the same skin? Spark for example has a clone named usoku’s needle that drops in caudecus manor. But that rifle has a really cool skin, i doubt you wouldn’t notice it if you have looted it.

Its the hylek hue potion

http://dulfy.net/2013/01/16/gw2-useful-and-fun-consumables-guide/#38

Make a guardian. But dont make a bunker guardian for pve, make a dps one, usually most guardians in the game use defensive builds, but a group with 3 defensive guardians (which i bet your guardian friends are running bunker since they also do wvw) makes the runs painfully slow.

And dont camp staff please, i dont know why wvw players believe staff is so awesome to use in pve.

Just follow this guide https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/guardian/Guide-DPS-Guardian-for-PVE/first

The underwater weapon with stacking sigil holds your stacks, so you can unequip your land stacking weapon. Its a bug that the devs didnt notice when they changed how stacking sigils work.

From what i noticed you need to wait for then to “spawn”. After when Belka loses an X amount of hp the barrels explode and then become targetable. But if you wipe on the first try the next time you run back all the barrels that exploded are targetable. So if you wipe once the second try is easier.

The barrels also respawn after a certain time, so you have to kill then again.

You misunderstood what i said imperfection. I said that the exploiters skip the burrows room, so to be sure that its an exploited run see if the event “Find the first scepter” is still up, you will see the red mark on the burrows room and the quest name on the top right of the screen.

Its just like the people who skip lupicus in arah, in a exploited arah p2 run you will still see the quest “Navigate the labyrinth of arah” or something like that.

That last screenshot you posted doesnt look like an exploited run, that player completed the burrows room event.

You just need to look on the map if the event to protect hodgins is still there. Appearently that burrow’s room event is not mandatory and can be skipped to get the rewards.

You can give an AC skin to your weapon with sigil of night, AC weapons only glow at night.

If you dont like skipping you can run the new aetherblade path or do fractals, you dont skip much in fractals. The old gw2 dungeons are meant to be skipped, if you have ever tried arah exp you know that there is no way to clear all that trash mobs in all the paths.

HotW path 2 is not that hard. The only difficult fight is that Svanir boss with 2 quaggan champions, but you can pull the champion quaggans if you get the npc killed and make all the group wait in the water while someone tries to pull then. The final boss was easy if you had those underwater net consumables, where you could just spam immobilize on him.

If the leader ragequitted in the middle of the path it actually saved you time, but i agree that the party system for instances is broken.

lvl 80 players are stronger now when downscaled and mobs from lvl 1-79 got their stats changed because now new characters created after the patch can’t unlock new traits every lvl, and i think they can only use grandmaster traits after getting to lvl 80.

If the arah’s dungeon wp is uncontested you can enter the dungeon, i think the event to uncontest it happens every 24 hours or something, so you almost never worry about it being closed.

You guys only need one person in the group to go there and enter to start the instance, the rest of the group will get a prompt that they click to join if they are in the Cursed Shore map. If you all are in the “Victory or Death” personal story quest you all get the achievement, but only the instance opener character is shown on those cutscenes. The only problem you may have to deal is the run to get to that wp, if all the temples towers are active you will get atacked by it and there will be mobs atacking you too, so it may be a difficult skip to get there. But if one person from your group already has the wp you dont need to run that, just wp and open the instance ^^

You guys will not need to repeat the run, no matter who opened the instance.

Maybe you need the story mode? Story mode also counts for dungeon master.

Thanks Kaiser. I just had to die again to make the wall go away. I thought it was another patch to fix people exploiting alphard by running to the wall to make the barricades respawn.

I was trying to solo alphard, i died on the first try then when i walked back to fight her again the bone wall didnt despawn. Does anyone know how do i open that thing?

You never had to buy skill books to change traits, you just had to pay 3.5s to a npc to reset then. I cant believe that you leveled 8 chars to lvl 80 and you are a guild leader but never learned that.

PM “hatred”. He might have tested it already.

What about the sigils? I like the sigil of strength now that it has 60% on crit to give might, and that might can last for a long time depending of your might duration.

This kind of class discrimination happens because the players hear that a class is trash for pve (for example bearbow rangers) so they believe that, even without having knowledge about the class. In the past when cof p1 farm was popular everyone thought that warrior with greatsword was the best dps in the game, and they believed that you had to always have a mesmer in the group no matter what, and people didn’t even gear-checked mesmers for speedruns because of how over-hyped mesmers were. I remember in some pugs the leader making us wait a quite long time to fill the last slot with a mesmer for dungeons like TA, where mesmer is not even useful that much.

In the past the community also believed that AH guardians were the best thing to have in groups, until some people start to question why other setups like shout heal warriors were considered trash but AH guardians were meta, if you search those threads you will see some of the “elitist” crowd confirming that AH guardians are really useful and so on.

So basically, people just follow what others say like sheep.

They should bring the guild changes together with the new megaserver release. It will be weird when people start recruiting for new members they will have to say which server they are from, so we may have too see people recruiting for guilds from Anvil Rock, Ehmry Bay, Kaineng etc all in the same maps.

And guild mission will be a mess too, imagine if guilds from many servers have a guild puzzle or whatever in the same map at the same time, in the old system it was much less likely to happen.

For me the worst class to pug is guardian. LOTS of then run pure staff, and to make things worse they are very full of thenselves, they really think they are carrying the team with their build and they act very elitist if you question the effectiveness of staff.

Rangers and necros on the other hand usually have low self steem lol, they believe that their class suck, unlike guardians and warriors who think they are gods even when using trash buids.

You need to see if the lfg add is for story mode or explorable mode. Story mode is easier and can be done by lvl 30s. Now explorable mode can be more difficult and people like to speedrun those dungeon paths, so lots of groups ask for lvl 80s.

You can do AC story, CM story and so on since they are a bit easy. For explorable modes i dont really recommend until lvl 60… But if you get a group to help you run then its ok ^^