Guild Wars 2

Not quite related, but I’m pretty suspicious of that Asura who was looking at the clockwork knight at the very beginning of the story.

There are some strange sounds in and around the Queen’s Pavilion. Not sure if that’s foreshadowing, or just an attempt to replicate how such an immense structure would sound as sound echoes through it.

Thanks for this strategy. Worked pretty well once I got the timing down. Didn’t even have all the Precision and Crit Damage.

Works really well when doing just a few of the gambits too.

I’d say at the very least “unintended”, if only because you end up going the wrong way across the finish line.

It would be nice if a dev would chime in.

My main problem with this is when meat seems to be thrown in two different places at once, or when it’s thrown right at chomper’s feet.

Still, as far as strategy goes, caltrops and more caltrops is the best way to go for keeping the dog from beating you to the meat. Maybe should work in scorpion wire to pull the dog away?

The problem with Cursed Shore is the mob variety. Queensdale at least offers a variety in types, which is important when it comes to getting some of the new weapon skins.

The champion farm in Queensdale is a bit crazy. What’s most crazy about it is how poorly these champions scale up with the amount of players involved. These champions die just as fast as veterans. If there’s one thing I’d see changed, it’s making these champions scale up in health a lot more just so there’s more time for players to move to the event once it starts.

Umm.

Make it harder yourself? Add in all the gambits and try to fight her like that.

Easiest way to get tickets is by turning in Watchwork Sprockets. All you need is money.

Other ways of getting tickets include:

1. Opening up the daily chests in each area. Each of them will give you 1 ticket and sprockets

2. Opening up the Group Event chests in the Pavilion. Each of those will also give you 1 ticket.

3. Random drops from mobs will also have tickets.

4. Defeating the Queen’s Champions out by the Balloons will give you 1 ticket per event.

5. Use your tickets to defeat an “easy” encounter in the gauntlet to get Sprockets.

I would really love to have Rifle as a long range weapon. I wouldn’t mind giving up some mobility while it’s equipped either. Just a high burst, high initiative use, single target, long range weapon.

I beat her…but still felt like half luck. Gotta get those orbs to spawn in the right place at the right times.

Just a few things I’d like to see changed really, which I think would keep the intended difficulty much the same, while removing some of the random chance.

1. Move the arenas to somewhere outside where all the big group events take place. Lag is a killer for this, and this just adds to the frustration.

2. Allow the camera to extend back further. The arena can stay the same size, but if we could get a more accurate view of what was behind us, it would let the player know what they are potentially running into.

3. Reduce the damage Liadri does during Phase 1. Yes, it can be avoided, but even avoiding it feels a bit random at a times. It makes a big difference going into phase 2 at 50% health or 90%. That damage at the beginning should just be there to make sure the player is moving.

4. Extend the time limit by 1 minute. Chances are, 3 minutes won’t make much of a difference compared to 2, but it will give just a bit of leeway to some of the classes that rely on pets to assist with damage.

Finally beat Liadri!! It was pretty dicy, but I beat her just moments before she killed me.

I actually used a surprising build for her, that changed a bit as I progressed. 10/30/0/30/0

I started out using Bow, but after some time, I switched over to Dual Pistols. I used Steal to get rid of the orbs and to give myself a bit of healing. I had Withdraw and Roll for Initiative to give myself some extra dodges., and Shadow Refuge to prepare for Phase 2. Vigor of healing meant that I had a few extra dodges to work with as well. +2 Initiative every 10 seconds, and Healing on Initiative Spent.

The rest of it was DPS traits. +10% pistol damage. Fury when target reaches 50%. +20% damage when target reaches 50%.

Phase 2 was basically all just a kiting fest, stacking bleeds and vulnerability and railing into her with Unload when I got a chance. Using my dodges when I needed to, but mostly staying close to the center to quickly get out of the AOEs.

I’m not really sure if I could have beat her with Shortbow. Simply was not dealing much DPS against her.

I think I’ll be showing her off for a while as I go about Tyria.

I do feel that she is too difficult for what this is.

The fact that there’s all these gambits to take on to the arenas says to me that the basic fights should be completable by the average player. Then tie the special achievement to defeating the bosses with the extra gambits.

That said, tonight I actually felt like I might have a chance of beating her. Just need a LOT more practice. Having to grind out all these tickets to keep entering is probably the most annoying part of fighting her.

I’d love to see a video of sword/dagger against Liadri. I’m just not sure how that setup would deal with her damage and all the aoes.

I’ve heard a thief beat her with mostly shortbow, so I think I will try that out.

AlietteFaye.7316:

Elbegast.6970:

TNoD.8143:

It is beatable by every class. Every class has a condition build/DPS build/Tanky build/Dodgy build.

They’ve stated you might need to change your build within your class

Yeah…that’s not gonna happen. If I have change my build and gear every 5 minutes, I would rather not even participate.

I’ve beaten every boss but the last one with just my Berserker set on my Engineer. I don’t think it’s nearly as bad as you’re making it out to be.

Nah. You may need to change up weapon sets or utilities. Or go from melee to ranged. But majority of the bosses can be beat by just knowing the mechanics.

Shyhalu.4891:

Just wondering, but do people pretty much need to be 80 in order to beat all the gauntlet bosses?

Thanks

Not for Tier 1 I think. But Tier 2-3 will be a really good test if you aren’t level 80 and running exotics. I’m honestly not sure if people will be able to beat Liadri without being level 80, simply due the mechanics leaving no room for errors.

Thief, went P/P and ran Signet of Malice to heal through high rate of fire. Just kite around the big blob in circles to avoid most of the damage. I even gave myself cripple gambit.

Being a thief, I abused my caltrops, using them every time they were off cooldown. I also used blinds so their big damaging attacks would miss. Since the caltrops will get a good long-lasting cripple on the dog, it means I can usually beat him to most of the meat. I killed the norn first though, and then worked on the dog. The key part though is making sure you’re getting the meat instead of the dog.

I honestly have no idea how this will be done. She’s already hard enough to hitting her with 3 orbs when only 1/4 of the arena is covered in AOE. How is anyone going to manage to hit her with 8 orbs, and still manage to kill her before the time limit is up?

The one shots are pretty annoying. Especially when they aren’t telegraphed well. The first boss is fine, because the wind up is really obvious. The Tier 1 boss though does not telegraph her one shot nearly as well.

By the time you start doing Tier 3, nearly every attack by the bosses deals a high amount of damage. Liadri is basically a fight of not being hit by anything, because even her normal attacks pack a huge punch.

NightShadow.1429:

For the Thieves that have beaten it… What was your set up for Tornado Lady? I cannot for the life of me get by her… Any help would be appreciated

Personally, I just used shortbow. 30 in Critical Strikes, and 20 in Acrobatics. Then you just kite her around, using bleeds and poisons to keep ticking damage while dodging. Trying to go for melee simply didn’t work that well, since then you have to avoid her knockbacks in addition to all the tornadoes.

Pinch.4273:

I killed everything on my first attempt, including Liadri.

Screenshot or it didn’t happen.

I’m having a pretty hard time of this has a thief. I can usually dodge the circles enough, though it gets a lot more difficult once I have to dodge the incoming visions too.

The thing that’s making me make more mistakes though is the constant damage from the Necrotic Grasps. I just don’t have any good way to heal that damage. No healing over time, and the heals tend to be a bit more detrimental to beating her. (Evading backwards. Stealth stops the visions from following, but Liadri can keep tagging with her projectiles.

This is a really unforgiving fight. I think I’ll have to really change things up to a more bunker style or something to just live through the first phase.

Scoobaniec.9561:

silvermember.8941:

Exhibit A: Proving once again how gamers are not known for their intelligence.

I suggest to take a look in mirror.

BF3 – up to 64 players, working in dx11.

Still an FPS, still a very different breed of game when it comes to graphics performance.

I have no idea why you guys want DX 11? Is there something you’re really missing from GW2 that DX 11 would add?

DX 10 may bring some better shadows, but from what I can tell, GW2 already has some great shadows at max settings.

Suicide should count. It doesn’t help that killing a crystal carrier can be very difficult with the high escape abilities each aspect can have.

I just took to trading some crystal kills after a while. Even if you only trade one crystal kill per match, it makes it go a lot faster.

PMilkos.9103:

This is an election.
When your country elects its government, do you have a vote counter running while the voting is still going on? Hell, even in things like the Eurovision, the vote count appears after the voting has ended.

That is for a reason that should be beyond obvious: if the count was visible, people would be inclined to vote for what they’d believe would win, rather than what they’d want to win, thus greatly alterling the result of the vote. So you will have to trust on Anet to be fair, just like you have to trust the election comitee in your country to be fair.

Well, in real elections, there’s exit polling and other metrics that can be used to gauge how well people are doing. Elections do not usually last longer than week for voting either.

Though, it is probably better that we don’t know who’s winning.

Actually, I’m pretty sure Survival will be returning regularly along with Sanctum Sprint and Crab Toss. Maybe with Aspect Arena too.

Funny. I thought sun was pretty powerful for crystal carrying…

I have to say….that sword is about the most suggestive sword I’ve ever seen.

I’m really bummed that the rapier isn’t one of the skins, but I guess that means I don’t need to waste money buying keys/chests.

jetjordan.9403:

there is another place in the game that is just as advantageous (bamboo pipe trail) which has speed buffs all along it…. pretty sure that is intended as well and catches you up just as much.

That one is clearly intended, as it’s a bamboo pipe and has things set on it. So clearly they wanted people to walk on it and use it. It’s riskier to do that as well, since it’s easier to fall off and lose time.

The little jump at the end rarely ever results in lost time unless you simply don’t make the jump multiple times in a row, and there’s no skill involved besides knowing about it. I still maintain that this was simply an oversight, simply for the fact that the one crosses the finish line the wrong way.

Yeah. I’ve opened at least a few dozen kite fortunes now altogether, and all of them only had 1-5 fortune scraps, usually 2-3. I’m glad I got lucky and got my windcatcher skins from the race and that I have no interest in the helm.

Donari.5237:

What exactly is “Top Checkpoint?” I have gotten it a few times but I’ve only once placed top 3 (got 2nd place this morning) and never first, so it’s not tied to that.

I don’t think Top Checkpoint means anything really.

Xephiare.4793:

That’s nice, but it kill the competition and the thrill to win.

Couldn’t just leave it as “that’s nice”?

Thrill to win is still there with the right perspective, and competition is alive and well without the need for the game to tell you came in first.

Confusion on daze really doesn’t make any sense to me, because they wouldn’t be able to use skills on a daze.

Maybe confusion tied to weakness? Or just more weakness in general.

Northlander.4619:

I doubt heavy (orrian) bags drop kite fortunes. I opened all my bags to get materials which should amount around 1000 (maybe a bit less or a bit more) and didn’t get a single kite fortune.

Either I had really bad luck or they don’t drop…

Wrong type of bags.

It’s the bags that drop in WvW that have the kite fortunes.

I am really glad that I decided to do this on day one. Though it seems like this was less of a problem than the Aetherblade Cache.

Kiel is an intense person, but she had to be if she wanted to be taken seriously as an inspector. Doesn’t mean she’s evil. Just tough. I imagine being on a pirate council requires a bit of toughness.

(Not like that Evon. I bet he’ll cave at the slightest threat to his life.)

marnick.4305:

Doggie.3184:

Pretty nice chest. I didn’t even realize it gave me gems till later. Got a Total Make Over Kit, exp scroll that takes alt to 20 and a pvp molten sword, among other goodies. Also too many badges of honor filling an entire horizontal bank row at this point, lol…

Decked out a fresh lvl 80 alt in full exotics with those badges. What else to do with them :p

Pretty much my plan at this point. Once my second character gets to 80, I’ll be able to cheaply deck him out in Exotics.

Sorin.4310:

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

TriggerSad.2597:

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

hmmmm i’m still stuck at 1k achievement points chest because i dunno what zenith skin to choose.

waiting for a better skins unlock system.

Isn’t there a limit to how many chests you can have waiting to be opened before they get deleted??

what? nuuuuuuuuu.

deng, i better open those boxes now! T_T

I highly doubt it. Otherwise anyone who took a bit of a break during this time would be SOL.

I think you can only “claim” any achievement chest once per day. Which means you’re only awarded one chest. Which means that if you don’t ever take your chest for the day, you don’t get awarded your next one.

Critical Strikes GrandMaster

Serrated Edges
Critical Strikes with Sword apply one stack of Torment (1 second cooldown)

Heh. I feel a bit silly for working on leveling up some alts right now. Got my Mesmer to 20, my Guardian to 11, and my Elementalist to 7. So I guess I’ll have to decide which of them to really level up. (Once I get 500 more points to get that chest…)

Uden Reavstone.3426:

E is not Evon. Look at my Who is E? topic, and you’ll know how I know this.

You know, if you’re going to tell people to look at your thread, it would help if you provided a link to that thread.

Rifle please.

Heh. It is kind of funny. Give us a way to toss all these ingredients away for chests, and then announce a potential use for those ingredients.

Considering this probably won’t be coming for months to come though, I think we’ll live. And getting rid of all those excess ingredients was still a good thing mostly. Having a bunch of worthless materials in the Trading Post really doesn’t help anyone.

Maybe we’ll get to make rings and earrings that have utility slots?

Seras.5702:

Also, open the bags in a low-population zone. This worked for me with the jade tickets. Opened in Citadel and got 2 tix. Made me mad I didn’t get this tip until I’d already opened 2000 coffers with 0 tix.

Pretty sure that’s just RNG at work. I got two of my Jade Tickets from opening coffers in the heavy populated Lion’s Arch.

I think there’s way too much speculation that “Mr. E” is in fact Evon, when the name “Mr. E” is clearly just a big pun.

I think it’s just as likely that whoever Mr. E is, their name does not begin with E at all.

Saelune.5316:

Lion Chests give out good stuff. Waypoints are not expensive, even at level 80. Youd be far more likely to save money with the keys than the waypoints.

Lion Chests CAN give out stuff. RARELY. (Like never).

However waypoint cost reduction is something you will use every time you travel around. That can really add up in some savings.

It’s actually kind of funny if you purposefully start out the race slow. Just pick up a bunch of powerups. Then after the first checkpoint, pick up more till you get a light speed. Then you wait till the 3rd checkpoint, and boom, you’re miles ahead of everyone.

Of course, that only works if the pack was all pretty close together. I’ve seen some races where there’s 5 people all way in the back, seemingly not knowing that they can use their dashes to keep up with everyone else.