Guild Wars 2

Enaretos.8079:

Cheezy marry me plz.

???? The meta is changing at an alarming rate !

Edit : ??? was a donger I pasted but it won’t copy :’(

I’ll consider it #nohomo

The censoring is the only way they can stop us!

Quickfoot Katana.8642:

Laughed out loud with the tourney stream chat, as always. Great stuff!

Only the dankest memes for my fans

Sad times when wrong inefficient strategies are celebrated that much

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/30g0x8/stacking_what_youre_doing_wrong/

I don’t even

oxtred.7658:

You got lucky finding 4 experienced guys then :>

Shots fired

Hey,

just a friendly reminder that this has not been updated yet
(Unless the website doesn’t work correctly for me)

Stability might have an impact for SE p2, but I’m not 100% sure. Maybe someone of those who run it daily can say if there is a huge difference :d

Other than that maybe HotW story but there is no current record for that anyway

Conaywea.5062:

CoF door cant be glitched anymore to enter while contested

Are you sure? …
Alright, never doing CoF speedruns again

If they want to make low level characters more viable they should have access to key traits in these levels. Why would I bring an Ele if he can’t give me Fury? (for example)

I’d rather take a character with me that fills his role and hits like a wet noodle instead of having one that has comparable DPS but has only that. I’m fine with damage nerfs as long as they actually change something instead of just making things slower. FGS nerf/fix was a net damage nerf but it changed the way you play, that was a good thing.

And like I said it wouldn’t be that bad if only Power scaled differently but by changing Precision as well you are basicly forced to run Precision signet on all professions that can.

From what I know SE and upwards didn’t get hit by the nerf very hard (2% or less) so I think those don’t have to be reset. AC and CM definitly need a reset, I guess TA could be up to debate but there are no current records in TA.

A full reset would be strange, there is no justification for wiping fractal records or Arah.

@Stability: the only dungeon record where stability plays a huge role at the moment is SE p2 and I don’t know enough about it to make a definit statement. Other than that the replacement is good enough to serve its purpose.

Jerus.4350:

and for the stab I’m mainly just thinking of the troll if people have to dodge now… probably not, but just a thought.

You always want to dodge the Trolls autoattack since it’s a bouncing projectile that inflicts weakness. It’s also unblockable (thanks Anet). For the fear you can still use the new stability.

BlitzX.4039:

After testing Tom in uncat fractal on lvl 10 made decision that his hitbox is a bit smaller now and poison hits harder

I had a similar feeling in Aetherpath today, the tar field ticks seemed to be more dangerous. On the other hand I haven’t done Aetherpath in a while and we just might have sucked :x

xDudisx.5914:

Bukkebruse.2810:

Yes, prolonging content by reducing everyone’s effectiveness sure is fun.

It is not prolonging. It is fixing a old bug with scaling giving players higher stats than they should have.

Omg it will make speed runs take +5 seconds killing mobs. Unaceptable…

I think you are missing the point. Even with those changes AC bosses die really fast, so you don’t have to pay more attention, play better or anything. So all it does is make fights longer while not adding anything strategy-wise. Which is a pretty stupid concept, even if it was just a “bug-fix”.

On another note, precision is scaled as well. And pretty horribly at that. A warrior has in AC 39% crit-chance and if you swap in Signer of Fury you get to 57%.

GrimmR.3541:

Well done boys!

Thanks grandmaster Grimm

Taku.6352:

He probably couldn’t hear you over his non stop monologue.

Taku.6352:

That’s where you tell off your numpty staff eles to stop auto attacking when he’s reflecting.

As you can see the cuter asura performing a lightning whip you have to blame the one that is not in the picture

spoj.9672:

http://youtu.be/xUjrrc5aj2k?t=26m38s

Interesting. Sounds a lot more encouraging when they dont purposely avoid the question.

To be honest, this doesn’t really sound like new stuff coming up but rather them changing the old stuff. And he did avoid the aspect of group size, so I’d guess they are talking about open world challenges? I don’t know, maybe I am missing something but it does not sound like instanced content to me :/

Who needs new content if you can have CM story

You can leave the dungeon while someone is in combat, so I’d say that’s an advantage

I think it shouldn’t be allowed due to the mess it could become

I didn’t even get an infraction for that thread

Maybe they felt sorry

dlonie.6547:

-snip-

If you are not going for a speedkill you can pre-dodge it, lupi attacks about every 3 seconds and he usually doesn’t kick twice in a row.

That’s how I use warrior GS 3 at least, when I focus I can get my dodges in time

Strangely enough, it only happens in SE

At least it never happened to me in any other dungeon and our tours aren’t slow (elitist4lyfe)

Since 95% of cutscenes are just two faces talking to each other, I don’t think it’s far fetched to think that ANet does not care about cutscenes in the story dungeons. If they want me to watch cut-scenes they have to remove the skip button à la Aetherpath. And many people dislike it for that reason.

Also, whether the kicking people were in the majority or not does not matter. If you don’t have respect for the wishes of your party… well, don’t expect them to keep you around. It is group content after all

phys.7689:

no offense intended, and it isnt everyone, but the fact that more than half the people in a thread were supporting kicking people for watching cutscenes during a story dungeon (which means its unlikely it was advertised as speed run) Heck even the guy who is supposed to be your representitive to anet said that kicking people for watching cutscenes in a story dungeon, which by the way is intended to be for story, and has less rewards than other dungeons for this purpose, is perfectly cool.

You forgot to mention that the OP in that thread was specificly asked by his party to stop watching cutscenes. Since he kept doing that he fully deserved to be kicked.

The fact that they kicked him at the endboss is a bad thing and no one in that thread supported it either. But not following what your party wants you to do? Yes, you indeed deserve to be kicked.

It’s bugged for me, records don’t get shown at all.

Guilds page does not work either and gives me an error message:

Site error. Action not recognized.

Not sure if that’s just me

Reddit is full of casual idiots who think that you can’t solo dungeons without exploits.

Don’t think too much about it

J Eberle.9312:

GrimmR.3541:

What did I miss ?

Well Grim, needless to say it was saddening. Many a person was broken this day.

I ask myself now,

Where are the days of yonder, where a man step’th into the gutter of the dungeon forums to feel his feet sink into the simpering ooze of stupidity and self righteous anger?
Where be’th the hour upon which the common scumbag elitists would unite to achieve but one goal, to taketh down the potato?
Where o’ where are the serenades, the chants, the lamentations of the just, the self important, the ‘moral’ brigade?
Where be the distinction that was so finely set in stone,
between the meta player and the casual?
Between the joke that is ‘morality’ in a video game and the font of reason that the toxic and vocal minority drink’th from?
Why doth now the oft poster care more for vanity than for the cause that is scumbaggery and entertainment?
Why is it, that we no longer descend into these fits of fancy? These chaotic, yet collaborated threads that bound on in a strong and sickening fashion until’th a moderator doth frantically shut it down?
Why now do thine threads carry on weakly, whimpering off into obscurity until a moderator puts them down out of pity? Without a word, like a whisper, out of sight, gone.
Be it that we no longer care? Long gone is the fire that once ignited within us at the mere mention of a bearbow?
Or be it that the bearbow himself is gone, purged from this hallowed ground of filth and obscenity?
Perhaps it be that we have long discarded our concerns for jest, for comradery and have instead turned to idolize ourselves?
Or perhaps, perhaps we have suffered enough.
A forum plastered with red ‘we care’ posts,
words as empty as a toxic nightmare husk,
the constant and never ending drone of ‘nerf zerk’, ‘I got kicked from x for playing how I want’ , ’I’m important and my opinions matter’… clawing at the last strands of our sanity..
Has this dog of a subforum taken the final kick? Or will it stand for more belting?
What will keep this mange ridden mutt alive?
What will keep the scum, filth and elitism coursing through its veins?
To that I say,
A Heart of Thorns.

TL;DR

Something unusual: I don’t trust pug staff eles. In theory the playstyle is very simple but you’ll find 99% of those pugs to camp water attunement.

And I don’t trust pug thiefs in general, somehow they spam Pistol Whip when they are supposed to use Black Powder… which makes surviving difficult :P Also they somehow never stealth the party and if they do it’s with SR.

Hey,

my first solo of this boss, it’s a pretty interesting fight. I think ~8 minutes is possible, I might try it when I have more time.

Block-gets-interupted-by-a-blockable-attack counter: 3.
Thank you Guild Wars.

Enjoy!

Found this awesome quote on reddit:

Berserker armor works only if most or all party is also zerk.
You only have 2 options when doing fotm 49 with players in knight (I presume they were in knight or a PVT set)..
Either you go tanky as well, or leave the party, hoping that you’ll end up getting a better fractal party composition.

dlonie.6547:

- Vallog (CM centaur endboss) is no longer stationary.

Aw, how am I going to keep it at 1% now, when selling?

Or…

Confusion already dealt more damage in PvE :P Not sure by how much tho

@might: Doesn’t seem like it will have a huge impact in PvE, 125 power is quite negligable, considering most of the time in dungeons is spent skipping (or timegates :/) and not actually fighting. Does not warrant a reset in itself to me, but maybe the other balance changes will be impactful enough.
Definitly something for the agenda of the speedclear meeting

Not sure if this is the right place to discuss this, but I’d like the design more if the single dungeons were aligned horizontally instead of vertically

Looks weird atm, in my opinion

Man, that FGS wasn’t that bad

We would always have to wait for Randall in the previous runs, I sure wasted some time but it didn’t cost us more than a minute QQ

I already used one in CoF P3 and that one got accepted as restricted. And according to Brazil it’s allowed because all it does is expand the food duration

dlonie.6547:

Very cool! Nice work!

Quick questions, IB5’ing the shard — just for kittens and grins, or does it actually do something? Also, what consumable buff (blue…apple? with an up arrow) did the thief and mesmer have on their bars?

It does get Defiance so we assumed it would also trigger Tempest Defense

The buff is the metabolic primer, because food is too expensive

As others have pointed out, you can repair. But I would still like an Anvil so that I don’t have to bother someone else when soloing

Your thief loves his Signet of Shadows, does he?

Before the turrets, you can place your SR right on the Fire Field and it will still stack Might and you don’t have to wait in the SR for that long afterwards. At the three elites before the endboss you don’t have to Daggerstorm, just cast a Pistol 5 and do normal DPS rotations.

We also use a different skip to the endboss, but I guess that’s a matter of taste.

Nice run ^^

Minigrump.4961:

why do i always get the stupid pugs?

guardian with 15k hp in cof. joined my lfg that said dps zerk meta only with foods and potions or kicked. they joined, did not use food and potions by the slave driver and then complained because they got kicked.

Ah, yes. And when you ask them to use Food you see the + Magic Find popping up

xDudisx.5914:

Dungeons are too rewarding for such easy content. They inject way too much gold into the economy. If dungeons need anything is a nerf in the gold per hour. Either reducing the gold or using mechanics to make them longer.

What do you think should be the most rewarding content then? Certainly not open-world farming Silverwastes or something.

I would like this idea if they eliminated the problems some of the dungeon paths have.

Why does no one run SE p2? That’s not because reward/time sucks, that’s because the escort event bugs out half the time making you reset the path. Why does no one run Aetherpath? Of course I can speak solely for myself but the rewards/time are okay but it’s simply not fun. (Unskippable cutscenes, huge timegates, boring puzzles)

Other than that I like that more difficult paths (like HotW) would get a better reward than easier ones (like AC).

Minigrump.4961:

a guide to warrior in gw2

Hey! It’s actually an effort to roll my face over the key board without hitting F12 or Alt + F4!

/s

You should also get closer to the meta and run five human females.

To add to what spoj and Iris said we always use Ice Bow to kill the archers in the bubbles.

Wethospu.6437:

So did you verify is he svanir or icebrood?

Sorry, I didn’t test it, I just asked Sesshi .__.

Hey,

Pretty fun and challenging boss, I enjoyed doing this. Showcasing my incredible max-meleeing skills (not).

If you have questions feel free to ask. Enjoy!

If you can’t access the video try this version without music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gKYU7GAmSI

Good job! But…

Sanderinoa.8065:

May the might be with you!

you totally kittened that up.

To soloists: what do you think is your most perfect solo? Which one is the most challenging in your opinion?

Ryn.6459:

Thanks. I will check them out. Any of this programs is mprre noob friendly than the others?

Brazil made a nice guide to OBS but I am too lazy to find it

Seera.5916:

Jerus.4350:

I’m totally with you Nevets, I think you summed up what i was trying to say earlier very well too.

The only example I have from a game though is back in EQ we had a few discussions and a ton of parsing to find some options were within the margin of error of our testing (we had very nasty math in that game so all testing was done through parsing… and extensive parsing, 6hours minimum to be considered valid and even then there were variances, the error I was referring to).

I’d argue that there are optimal setups, of course there are going to be things better than others, but it doesn’t have to be one, it could be multiple, likely, no, but possible.

I’d add to that, what’s the point of that discussion? How often are people running optimal? Does everyone run 2 mesmer 2 ele 1 war in SEp1 now that they set the record with that? I doubt it.

Now of course everything is going to be glass gear, because the content allows it, but there is diversity and min/maxing in this game through the other aspects. I think it’s a far more fruitful and entertaining discussion to try and min/max for given situations. Learning tradeoffs and making those decisions to best accomplish a goal is what’s fun.

There are enough intangible variables in the game that arguing about on paper optimization just seems silly to me. And blinding yourself to alternate options just because someone sets a new bar also seems silly.

Props again to all 3 of those teams in the recent SEp1 race, they demonstrated the diversity of the game pretty well as far as I’m concerned. 3 different compositions all racing for the best time and it was a pretty tight race.

Your bringing up that not all dungeons use the same build set up as the record breaker does not invalidate that they likely had the most optimal set up discovered.

Just because there is the most perfect optimal set up does not mean that players are required to use it. There are sub-optimal builds that are perfectly capable of completing the content. Some more optimal than others.

And I would bet that a good portion of what made them have the best record comes down to luck and skill rather than their just their build set. Meaning it would take them specifically to reach the optimal conditions because no one else will have the same ratio of skill levels present. Of course luck is in a perpetual state of change so no one ever always runs at the most optimal conditions. Something always is against the optimal most times.

Just to let you know, we knew that SC was going to run double mesmer. But it required them tons of resetting, because Tazza and Kaeyi are a pain with two Mesmers, doing that in a daily run does not pay off.

Using 1 war, 1 mes, 3 ele is more conveniant than that. And 1 war, 1 mes, 1 guard, 2 ele makes Tazza almost a breeze. So the “meta” in this path is about how much DPS/time advantage you are willing to sacrifice for safety. 1 war, 2 mes, 2 ele was the riskiest and afaik SC took about 7 hours of resetting to get it done. Props to them for that, but it wouldn’t be a viable option in a daily run.

Jerus.4350:

Like the idea of having less dodges unless you gear into Vitality.

The thing I don’t get, when this is suggested is: why would I need Vitality if I have more dodges? And thus it becomes a worthless stat in itself.

If you look up the guild in my signature and/or click the link in my signature I think you can guess that I count myself amongst the best PvE players. I am surely not on a perfect level, I make a lot of mistakes especially after a long day.

For people in glass gear I’d say it’s the same if they spent equal time in the content. At the start it’s harder and if they aren’t (for example) experienced in Arah or HotW then I’d say Silverwastes is harder for them in comparison to these dungeons.
In my opinion most hard hitting animations are obvious enough that you can dodge them with mediocre reflexes. And due to that it becomes mainly a matter of experience instead of pure skill.
Exceptions are bosses that are really small where you can’t see anything due to skill effects.