The dungeons are full of those zones that instantly reset the bosses. On lupicus it is on the doors, on alphard it is near the bridge, and so on. I think those zones are created so that players cant exploit the fight. Maybe that tunnel entrance that you talked about was used as a safespot in the past, so now it instantly resets the fight if someone is there and has agro.
The most active are those who have higher rank in wvw, the more populated the server is the stronger it is in wvw. So the best servers are Blackgate, Tarnished Coast, Jade Quarry, Dragonbrand…
I think only half of the NA server have a healthy population, the rest are pretty empty.
But next week ANet will release the new megaserver, which is kinda of a server merging but without eliminating the servers, they will start with the lower population maps and expand to the rest of the maps. So being in a small or big server wont make much difference for pve.
Sorry about sarcasm and jokes in this forum. The problem is that the dungeon community in GW2 is quite small, and also very hated. The best dungeon guides and builds for all classes are made by the big dungeon speedrun guilds, but still they are called elitists because somehow some players feel inferiorized when a theorycrafter says that clerics or soldiers gear that lots of players like to use is bad for dungeons. So this forum gets lots of posts of people saying that “zerk speedrunners are ruinning the game”, “berserker gear is an exploit”, “dungeon sellers should be banned”, “stacking and skipping are immoral tactics” and so on.
In your post you sounded like another of those trolls that come here talk trash about the “elitist” way to run dungeons.
Against objects longbow is better. From what i remember my warrior hits for 1700 on rifle auto atack and 2×1400 on longbow auto. Longbow does more direct damage, and rifle shares its dps with the bleeding.
I think its important to know how to range lupicus if you are not capable to solo him to save a pug group. In phase 1 everyone stacks at range and pick one person to be responsible for killing the grubs that spawn, in phase 2 you run around like a headless chicken as much as you can to make lupicus teleport around more often, the more he teleports the less he will do the aoe atack, on phase 3 everyone runs around at max range to avoid bubble and the floating aoe.
I was lucky to learn how to solo lupicus even before pugging arah because of how easy it was to solo arah p2 last year, you could just range Belka without any trouble and abomination is pretty easy, and after i got bored of trying to solo lupicus i could just do a jumping puzzle to alphard with my warrior.
I think i would have never learned how to fight lupicus in a pug, it would be nice if ANet released an arena where you can choose to fight any boss from the game, it would be fun to practice solos without having to run a dungeon path or pug everytime.
We could make the new trading system like it was in the older mmos, where you open a store in the capital with your character, and players can walk through the capital and shop, that way is much more immersive. And the chat was much more populated with the sellers posting their stuff every sec.
You as a thief have some bonus crit chance when you are above 90% hp and when you are flanking the boss, so i think its better to go full berserkers as a thief. And with the nerf to the crit damage i believe assassins will get hit even more by the changes.
On the other hand one player called Wethospu discovered that your crit chance is lowered against enemies that have a higher lvl than you, so lupicus for example is lvl 82 i think, so in this case having assassins trinkets may be better…
My question is, what gives players of the Arah run the nerve to demand that other players PAY them (in gold) to run the dungeon with them? Some dude tried to charge me 6 gold (6g) and when i didn’t he straight booted me. The game is free to play, now some kid is charging me? The irony is he couldn’t complete the mission by himself anyway! So in essence we are paying him to allow us to help him do what he cant do alone?
I cant be the only one who thinks this right? Shouldn’t the DEVS step in an warn these extortioners?
That player probably soloed the dungeon and posted on lfg to sell the slots before fighting the last boss. So when you want to join a group on the lfg tool you must READ what the add says in order to avoid these problems.
Maybe the problem is with your credit card? I’m from brazil too and i heard about some restrictions that creditcard companies made about buying in international websites, because some of those websites, like steam, show the price in brazilian currency, but they were getting problems because that price usually was different from the one you pay when you get the bill, causing some problems so the credit card companies stopped accepting those kinds of trades.
See if its affecting other purchages you do in steam. This problem shouldn’t affect purchages with paypal though..
Did you notice if a certain dungeon armor gives insignias more frequently than the others? From my experience some dungeon gear simply doesn’t give any insignia. For some time i tried to get the knight’s insignias from the SE armor but couldn’t get any, but from AC i have pretty high success at getting soldier insignias.
I have succeeded in getting insignias from 2 dungeons, one is AC, the other i forgot… I guess its CoE…
Edit: so appearently i didnt succeeded because i salvaged armor with the wrong stats, so i cant get knights insignias from dungeon armor, only those armor stats you listed.
The downscaling doesnt work very well in the lowest lvl areas. I use to farm black lion keys, and my warrior using lvl 0 blue weapons (which are quite strong compared with the starter weapons) hits the mobs for 20 damage, while my lvl 80 thief hits the same mobs for 700 damage. So basically a well geared character can one shot every mob while a fresh lvl 2 character struggles to fight then.
I think you are getting kicked because you are joining groups for explorable mode, which is lvl 35 and most groups like to run it with lvl 80s so they can speedrun it faster. Story mode dungeons are easier and people usually dont require lvl 80s to run it.
It will change a little bit after april 15th, when crit damage will get nerfed. They devs said that a berserker build will get a 10% dps decrease with the changes, but i’ve seen some people claiming that the reduction may get to something like 30% in some cases (like eles with lightning hammer and spotter and banner of discipline and so on…).
But i think the nerf is fair, because with ascended weapons a berserker build could get +12% dps because how crit damage scales so well with the extra stats, so this brings the ascended gear down to the same dps as exotic in the past.
I have the same question as Jerus. Why do you like staff? Is it because you like to roleplay as Gandalf or something?
I feel so frustrated when i get staff guardians in my pug runs. I never say anything bad or kick then, but when i see that a staff guardian joined i know that it will be a long run.
Those ascended rings and earrings are “unique”, meaning that you can’t equip 2 with the same name. So you have to equip one with offensive infusion and other with defensive infusion, if you want then both with the same stats.
Only on amulet you have the option of an utility infusion slot, where you can put a +20% magic find infusion for example, but you cant put agony infusions on utility amulets.
In the past people used to mock players that click the skills with the mouse, calling then casuals etc, now i see that lots of records have been done by using that. Is skill clicking the new meta?
Rangers have a trait in beastmaster line where the pet gets stacks everytime you kill a foe. up to 25 stacks, but you automatically lose the stats if you go underwater and also if you leave the water, even if you have the same pet equipped on land and underwater.
I guess the new stacking sigils mechanics will work just like that, if you get sigil stacks on land you will lose then if you enter the water, and you wont be able to do that trick you mentioned.
They will still be useful, they give more convenience to the users, with then you dont have to wp to a repair npc. But the only place i would consider to even use then is in fractals, my pc takes too much time to load the screens if i go to my login screen to get to gendarran fields to repair.
I dont think they are useful in wvw, because if you die you need to wp to your base and you have an repair npc there, unless the group you are following keeps ressing you.
If you transfer you keep all your gold and karma and other currencies in your wallet (we have a wallet now that is shared by all of your characters), and you keep all your stuff in your bank.
See if you have some valuable skins in your bank. Some skins from the first year’s events now are worth more than legendaries. And if you have any but its souldbound to your necro it will go to your wardrobe on the next feature patch.
For active servers, in NA its Tarnished Coast, Blackgate, jade quarry. Some of then are full now so you cant transfer. But there are other nice pve servers, some servers are having a free transfer this week i think because they have low pop in wvw. I was thinking about transfering to Northern Shiverpeaks since it was free but i dont want to lose my personal guild bank.
ANet is always trying to fix arah. They closed some jumping puzzles, fixed some safe spots on alphard, then buffed alphard, then added some instant reset zones on alphard, they buffed brie, and so on.
They still need to fix the underwater exploit, at least the one from AC p1 got fixed.
Arah is the most difficult dungeon in the game, you shouldn’t be running it if you are still wearing greens. Its easier to farm gold then buy exotic gear from the tp.
They cant make the trash mobs give good loot because that can increase bot activity in dungeons. But it would be nice if they tone down a bit the mobs hp and damage.
I remember when i started running TA, i started with friends and using no guide so we were always clearing all the mobs, we used to have a lot of difficult with the knights, they do an absurd amount of damage and keep knockbacking you, they also place that aoe that keeps pulsing damage, clearing that road in TA f/f used to take forever. Those knights should have slower atacks and shouldn’t spam knockbacks like they do now.
I also think they should add more dynamics events inside dungeons, and they should give much more xp than those that we have now, so it makes it worthy leveling up alts in dungeons. Anet should change the scaling in dungeons too, right now if feel too much overpowered in my full ascended warrior, while the low lvl pugs that join the group have too much difficult doing the content, part because of inexperience but mostly because their stats are too low compared to a lvl 80.
I think that quote refers to guilds, not to the lfg tool. The changes they will make to the lfg tool is adding more options to lfg in wvw and to select language.
There is also a jellyfish we don’t have access to.
I saw that we need at least rank 20 in HotM to get the pets, how long would it take to get rank 20 if i start to play gw1? Assuming that i will play alone so i wont get any power lvl or wont be rushed through story quests and stuff.
You will have to transmute it if you want the skin. It looks really cool on rangers, specially if you also have the desert rose backpiece http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Desert_Rose
Most of the pug groups dont have a clue about how to stack might and what are the meta builds for dungeons. If you join groups advertising for “experienced” players you will see lots of staff guardians and other terrible builds played by people with 11k+ achievement points and dungeon master title.
So, if you just watch a video from a speedrun guild you will prepared enough to join an experienced group.
And if the people from your guild refuses to help other guildies with such basic dungeon paths like cof p1 you should look for another guild, there is no point in being part of a guild that doesnt Interact with everyone, that just want experienced players for dungeon paths that can be soloed by good players.
I think the arah story dungeon didnt get finished in time for the launch of the game. There is a poi that we cant unlock, the elder dragons lair http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/The_Elder_Dragon%27s_Lair
I think that poi was supposed to be the place where we would go to fight zaithan. When you kill that mouth boss there is a cutscene showing the open gate leading to the elder dragon’s lair, but after the cutscene you are imediatly teleported to the ship, you can’t even loot the mouth boss.
I’m thinking about transfering from Ehmry Bay to Northern Shiverpeaks since it will be free this week, NS seens to have a much more active pve community, but i have a personal bank guild and i dont want to spend gold to upgrade it again in a new server :/
Warriors can farm pretty fast, and they are very tanky even in full dps spec, and they have easy access to swiftness and they can rush a lot using greatsword skills #3 and #5. But guardian is good too.
Oh, and dont forget that in this game you are downscaled to the map you are playing, so your lvl 40 guardian has a lvl 30 effective lvl inside ascalonian catacombs, so you wont be able to faceroll the dungeon just because you are above the dungeon’s lvl.
Those mini spiders do projectile atacks, so you as a guardian can reflect then with wall of reflection, you can use shield of avenger too to complement your anti projectiles.
I’m from Ehmry bay but i always guest on northern shiverpeaks for the temple runs and world bosses, in ehmry bay i couldn’t get balthazar temple done for example, but its been a long time since i tried it on my home server.
Now for WvW i have no idea if my server is strong or not.
You can go to lower population servers. I’m from Ehmry Bay, and its a pretty dead server, i’ve seen my server fail on jormag or even that worm in caledon forest lots of times.
Its good to hear that the servers are getting populated, so those comments that we keep hearing that “gw2 is dying” and stuff are not true.
I bet he is a ranger, lots of ranger players really hate stacking. I see that players that play gw2 for long time have more difficult with the stacking/dps meta, newer players usually learn that kind of stuff fast, but experienced players are more stubborn and dont accept changes.
They say that stacking is not fun, but failling at burrows room in ac p1 or at the explosive golem’s room in CoE p1 was not fun either, nowadays its very very difficult for me to get a pug group that simply can’t complete a dungeon path, like it used to happen back in 2012.
Illegal tactics such as turning off options that Anet gives you to use or not use? …. wha?
Yeah, he commented about that 50k WW that obal did with his guardian, he said that was possible because of an exploit, where you turn off your melee atack assist so you can enter in the mob’kittenbox and do that crazy damage, he used the same argument for the fiery gs against a wall.
@Tree
According to him those speedclear guilds can only achieve that because they exploit the game, using illegal tactics such as stacking, skipping, turning off the autotargeting and melee atack assist from the options menu.
I remember reading a comment from the player fadeaway, who made that spreadsheet with dps from different guardian builds, he said that with a clerics guardian he was more useful in pug groups in fotm that lacked skill or something, so maybe a tank guardian may be useful for pugging.
I soloed alphard yesterday. His adds dont despawn anymore if you reset the fight, and if you run to the bridge to make the barricades respawn alphard will reset his hp instantly.
But you can still run to the bone wall to make the barricades respawn without reseting alphard. Appearently ANet will keep patching alphard until it gets broken like the TA f/u tree.
But i noticed a bug on that boss, even though i was in a lvl 17 area i was able to deal damage equivalent to a lvl 80 character, so a champion that apparently is very challenging to fight solo by a lvl 17 character was really easy to kill on my lvl 80 warrior. In the pic you can see that my warrior didnt even finished doing 100blades and she had already hit for 19k damage on the boss.
I dont think it will get nerfed. ANet didnt change then back when they removed mf gear, so there is no point in changing then anymore. I have that utility ascended amulet with mf infusion, it works fine.
Maybe your mailbox is full. That happened to me once, i bought some stuff from the gem store and didnt receive it, then i checked my mail box and noticed it was 10/10. After i deleted some mails i got my stuff.
That troll fight is very unfair for low lvl players, a non heavy armor lvl 40 can get one shot very easily.
And the lovers fight has a very random difficult, sometimes i’m soloing the guy while the rest of the group is killing that girl and i have no problem killing him, other times he spawns like 5 of those illusions which i cant cleave.
The charr story is better. There is a part where you choose your warband (iron, ash legion and the other i forgot). In the norns you basically do the great hunt, fight some drunk foes and so on. But your race personal story ends at lvl 30, after that everyone gets a generic story.
And there is no evil choices in the game i think, from what i played the best personal stories are from asura and charr, Zojja and Rytlock are very likable characters, norn was the least interesting for me.
I have a female norn warrior. The nice thing about norns is their cultural armor, the T3 female heavy looks awesome. But i dont like much the voice from the female norn, the charr has a better voice acting, those war shouts like “remember ascalon!” “charr have no gods” and so on have more emotion, and Rytlock is more cool than Eir.
