Guild Wars 2

Hawken.7932:

DKP.4196:

Hawken.7932:

DKP.4196:

Its not really 100percent gear. Many in Gw2 have forgotten the importance of consumables. Drinks and food really make a difference in the long run. The instance you use it, it may not feel any different.

Once you complete several dungeons with consumables, and if you look back at your previous dungeon runs, you will notice the difference. If you dont notice the difference, then you need to ramp up your playing style such as, changing traits so its more fitting for the dungeon in question etc.

Dude it’s like beating your head against a wall, trying to explain to people the many reasons why they’re finding it hard.

The wall will eventually break if enough heads bang on it.

I don’t know it’s a pretty THICK wall

Oh it’ll eventually fall. Don’t you worry about it;)

Smart use of game mechanics. Doesnt sound like a bug/exploit.

Its not everyday a mesmer might make portals for randoms to get a chest.

I do Jumping puzzles with my friend who offers to portal me up to the top when I die, etc. Its just smart use of game mechanics, and if you find a nice mesmer player. Why not use his services.

It would be bad behavior if this Mesmer was sitting at the reward chest 24/7 tping people up to the chest. However I think the case here is probably a 1 time event within a said amount of time?

Hawken.7932:

DKP.4196:

Its not really 100percent gear. Many in Gw2 have forgotten the importance of consumables. Drinks and food really make a difference in the long run. The instance you use it, it may not feel any different.

Once you complete several dungeons with consumables, and if you look back at your previous dungeon runs, you will notice the difference. If you dont notice the difference, then you need to ramp up your playing style such as, changing traits so its more fitting for the dungeon in question etc.

Dude it’s like beating your head against a wall, trying to explain to people the many reasons why they’re finding it hard.

The wall will eventually break if enough heads bang on it.

Melfice.2647:

Why not sharing your videos of your fighting in CoF?
And did your group has a Mesmer?
Path 1 is only available the group with Mesmer or Big Luck.

In Path 2, as Mr. Robert Hrouda said, kill them all in bomb room is his mind. Not kiting.

I have to disagree with Path 1. My first attempt was with 2 warrior, 1 thief, 2 ranger. We managed to DPS nuke the boss down. We just dished out poison, bleeds, raw DPS + spammed out any quickness we had. It still took a good 30min+ to beat the dungeon as we always had to regrouped while fighting the boss. We had a caller who would say “Now!” and we would spam out everything we had on the boss.

Path 1 can be done without mesmers or Guardians. Path 2 can be done either by kiting + death chains / kill everything in the room (or the majority to control the numbers).

Its not really 100percent gear. Many in Gw2 have forgotten the importance of consumables. Drinks and food really make a difference in the long run. The instance you use it, it may not feel any different.

Once you complete several dungeons with consumables, and if you look back at your previous dungeon runs, you will notice the difference. If you dont notice the difference, then you need to ramp up your playing style such as, changing traits so its more fitting for the dungeon in question etc.

So the 3rd path is no longer bugged? Must read a confirmation before attempting it again tomorrow

Only those that cant beat Lupicus, and the Arah dungeon rant on the forums. Only a hand full that want to spread the awareness that Arah dungeon isnt impossible defend the dungeon.

Heres a guide for you to prove it can be done. Got a nice close up picture of Lupicus on it too to boost moral;)

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Guide-to-Kill-Giganticus-Lupicus-in-the-Arah-Dungeon/first#post254954

TurtleDragon.3108:

Gab Superstar.4059:

You are not supposed to complete explorable mode in a PUG.

Which is bad for the game in general, locking people out of one of the few end-game activities to do.

From a purely PvE perspective, dungeon and legendary farming are the only endgame activities. People will get frustrated and leave the game, and this game will become another Diablo 3.

Having said that my only problems with dungeons right now are:
2. I think enemies have too much Health, and in certain fights, it gets extremely boring once you know what to do.
2. Not being able to do dungeons when my friends are offline. No point in spending hours wiping and repairing now that you don’t even get partial credit (Tokens only upon completion) and DR glitches everywhere.

You farm dungeons too much if you get so bored fighting “trash mobs” in a dungeon. I dont farm dungeons at all, I just do dungeons here and there. Random one here, random one there. To me, none of the mobs are trash, they are just part of the challenge, and part of the dungeon.

Do jumping puzzles, merch, join a Guild. Talk with fun people, not whiners:) Do WvW, join Guild Events, go hunt special recipes for special items etc etc etc.

The thing is, Lupicus can be beaten with a PUG. The problem is, most of the GW2 community have near 0 experience in the correct way to beat Lupicus. This only comes from practice, and actually beating Lupicus.

Just keep trying untill you get it;)

Thank you Vithaar and Gies. I will update the content once the forum allows me to edit my posts. Its a bit buggy right now:)

Edit.
Ive updated the content of this guide as best as the forum allows me to. I think Ive reached the cap of one posts in words/letters which makes it very hard to update everything.

Ive added the updates as extra notes at the bottom of the posts on another post.

Read the Guide. Ofc, this dungeon is not that hard once you get what to do:) Spreading the knowledge of how to beat this dungeon makes it more fun for everyone. Its probably the best dungeon out there;)

Plus it saves me 10-15min of typing and explaining before every lupicus attempt. Although after each 10-15min of explaining, we beat Lupicus after 2-3 wipes. Pugs usually get the feel of what to do right after their 2nd wipe, but sometimes it takes 3.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Guide-to-Kill-Giganticus-Lupicus-in-the-Arah-Dungeon/first#post252348

No. Why should players be able to finish the easier dungeons to gain access to harder dungeon content? Example, AC tokens for Arah?

Bananaheli.8501:

just tried to do the forgoten path and the last boss was so hard we wiped for an hour maybe and then people had to go.

There is a trick to beating the last boss:) You need to capture 2 of the 3 points:)

Here is a link to my guide for those that have problems with Arah.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Guide-to-Kill-Giganticus-Lupicus-in-the-Arah-Dungeon/first#post252348

Venon.9641:

DKP as this boss is encountered in all paths. do u think its good for this game to have a boss not “hard” like this but with too much prerequisites? I wasted 5 hours on pub its its clearly impossible without communication and some of ur prerequisites.At the first hour it was a challenge to me, giant hard kitten boss but i realize its not about skill.

I spend like the first 5-10min of each run with random pugs explaining each step. How to stand, what to do. Decide on the way point to walk back.

I hope in the near future, there will be enough players around who know what to do so I dont need to explain the tactic for 5-10min before each Lupicus attempt.

This boss can be killed by a random pug, ive done it a couple times, and even done it with random guildies with no voice com. Ofc a voice com helps, but it only helps in the explaining part and encouraging your team. “Keep it up” etc.

No, it doesnt need a nerf. Its a 10,000 years old boss that was destroyed by the coming of the Elder Dragons.

Here is a guide I wrote, for those that need help.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Guide-to-Kill-Giganticus-Lupicus-in-the-Arah-Dungeon/first#post247217

Use damage reduction traits, use consumables, use dodges. Its not that hard if you follow simple dungeon steps that most forget, haven’t tried or dont care about.

The reset might be a bug, but if you try to pull the boss out of the arena, or anywhere near the main entrance. Itll reset, as your not aloud to pull it out. Also, if your whole team goes invis, then itll reset the boss.

Another whiner..-.- Nothing to do here…

What Kana said is what I would say.

Bumping this back up for those that have problems with Lupicus. I have edited the content accordingly with new data.

From today, you need to finish the dungeon to get shards, so here is how you complete one of the most challenging part of Arah Dungeon. (For most players)

Ares.2136:

SMH. No rewards unless complete path finish? I heard the explorer mode is impossible. Who is playtesting this game?

Its not impossible. People dont know how to do it, or are just too scared to finish the dungeon.

I can assure you there are plenty of us who have finished the Arah Dungeon multiple times.

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And made money from it.

Seers is by far the easiest route for Arah lol. Now that the token system changed, youll see a lot more people going for Seers than anything else Xd

Or warden, but Seers is easier tbh.

Its your first time in the dungeon. It takes practice to understand what to expect, and how to avoid it.

After 10-20 runs of TA over some period of time you will look back at this post and just laugh at what a noob you were even to complain about dungeons.

But untill that day, just try the dungeons out, get better at dodging and the mechanics Anet put there for us players to use. Change traits, use consumables etc etc.

Edit:
Exotics do help, but its not necessary.

Brewbeer.8239:

Didn’t anyone in this thread read the patch notes? You get 60 tokes for the first run of a path of the day, and 20 if you run the same path again. So if you keep running magg over and over, you get less tokens.

Dont think talking reason with token farmer works. They call exploits “hard jumping puzzles”.

Plus they think they are supposed to Kite the room, when the dungeon designer for CoF Specifically said, they werent meant to be kited, but killed. He even added an extra silver range mob to stop the kiting.

Of course they were tested. Not even going to bother reading the post tbh. Just answering the question.

Who uploads a dungeon content and not even test it? If I was the developer of a dungeon. I would secretly play it before the launch date. Just because I want to, and because I just created a massive content on my computer that I’ve spent ages coding with a team. Someone tested it at some point and Im sure multiple times.

Stop spamming
Lol jks, yes a Lfg system has already been mentioned all over the dungeon forums. Also, if everyone used the LFG system on your Contact lists, then it could help. Only problem here is, I dont think everyone knows it exists.

No the mages dont…? If your team knew how to single target, res team players fast, spread out, know how to dodge, then the mages wont be a problem.

Run dungeons with other people, not only friends. A true friend will run a dungeon with you. A normal friend, would run it if they want.

Meet new people by running dungeons with random people, or a guildy.

Dungeon lover do dungeons for the challenge, not for the loot

Loot can be better but imagine 1 dungeon run giving 2-5g. Imagine what will happen if someone farms the dungeon like they are on CoF and Arah? Just imagine for 1 second, the amount of wealth that would create.

Wouldnt that create a sudden massive influx in Gold in game? That would be terrible for the GW2 Economy. Not to mention the gold farmers who sell gold to players. It would ruin the game. Theres nothing worse than easy gold in MMO, where the currency loses its value.

The first time is always hard. Gets better after the 3rd 4th round. You dont die as much, and tbh. It doesnt matter if you die. If you finish the dungeons, you get your money back and get some more.

Try bringing only 1g or 20s with you per dungeon run. Youll see how much you make per dungeon run.

Alzrius.5926:

Unless you’re stacking magic find like mad, you’re more than likely going to walk away with blues generally worth around 55-75 copper. You’ll maybe earn about 4 – 6 silver from vendoring blues, but that’s pretty much it.

I have….like 0 magic find and I gain 20-60s each run…? How is it that nobody else can manage this?

Oh, the exploration mode of Arah will not fail to impress:) Its quite amazing and interesting what Anet did. It truely feels like a dungeon;)

Poison the boss constantly, quickness buffs left and right, AOE boss and crystals same time. Dodge the crystals, stability is great. Range the boss, try not to melee, although 4 pugs all melee with me range worked great.

Most important, dodge when you see the purple attacks coming from the boss, dont get doted by the burn. If you do, use a heal or ability to remove the dot.

Follow these simple steps and you will win.

Ty:)

Its an exploit where you keep jumping over things to pass all the mobs, or it could just be a very hard shortcut.

Although a very hard shortcut is doubtful. The method you get through the shortcut just looks like your cheating the system. If we players needed to activate the shortcut by placing rubble or something on the secret button, then sure its a hard shortcut. However right now it looks like an exploit.

Agreed, a matching system for dungeons are needed. However in the meantime, joining a dungeon oriented Guild might help.

You get your loot value by selling all your junks you get in the dungeon. They usually pile up at the end of 1 run.

After 1 dungeon, you’ll probably get around 40-70s including the 26s from completing the dungeon. (At lvl 80)

Its not that you arent getting your loot value every run, its that most people dont notice how much they are getting from each dungeon:) I usualy walk out of a dungeon with 20-50s in my pocket. Quite decent tbh.

The only thing that lacks from dungeons is the feel of the chance of getting an epic loot. Something dungeon specific other than what you can buy with Tokens via vendors. Sure the myth that you could get the legendary exotic item piece from dungeon kills is there but something other than that could help boost the community moral in dungeons. Loot wise that is.

The hammer of Justice from Anet please.

There is no need to use this bug. The room can be cleared/kited if players use their head. Some CoF Farmers have crossed the line tbh, they repeatedly try to gain advantage over the hard work that Anet put into creating these dungeons. At the same time they undermine the work in which many dungeon loving GW2 players put in to figuring out how to over come these various obstacles.

I personally refused to exploit this bug in several cases. The quick response from my party was auto kicking me, or disbanding the group. They dont even try to finish the room.

Enough is enough. Same with the Arah Dungeon. Stop exploiting the maps to get easy access to Tokens.

How is content broken, if it can be done..? :/ “Scratch’s head”

I doubt its against the rules. You could do this tactic with any 2 boss’s in any dungeon. It just so happens to be the Arah dungeon thats being farmed by killing 2 bosses.

Although I do agree, its quite annoying that its hard to find a team willing to complete the Arah Dungeon.

You forgot to add a Potato at the end How dare you forget! Long post and no Potato!

But yes, you cant expect to be the best in GW2 within 24hours.

The amount of money people made from Running easy CoF Dungeon Farm Runs was absurd. It was fixed.

Problem? There are many other ways to make money, not the same amount in the same amount of time as that function was never supposed to exist. You could actually make more outside dungeons too if you tried.

A couple points I want to add.

1. Make all tokens the same? Lol. Why? Might aswell do the easiest dungeon next to grind out the Arah/CoF set. Gridning AC dungeons for Arah set, haha good one.

2.CoF was extremely easy prior the buffs. Was it hard for you then? Then please try to get better with the dungeons. Is it hard now? Are you using potions? Food? No? Well theres your answer. Fail gear? Ok, another answer right there.

3.CoF is supposed to be the 2nd hardest dungeon out in Tyria at the moment. Arah being the hardest, CoF probably the 2nd hardest due to being a lvl 75+ Dungeon. The fact that it was being farmed for cheap gold, tokens + xp is absurd. I can really see why the Dev team changed some things.

4.Who said you have to grind? If you dont grind then you wont get the gear fast. True. But since when has MMOs been a thing to play for 1 week and finish all the end game content etc? Become one of the wealthiest players in Tyria? Think before you comment please.

5.How can you get gear without grinding? Just do 3-4 CoF Dungeon runs a day. Itll get you around 100 tokens or more, and about 1g in profit. Each run for me at the moment in any dungeon gives an average of about 15-25s each. Do I die? No, because I complete dungeons and I am used to the mechanics. I do die from time to time, but I dont spam die like most PUGs who are only used to the “Hard farm runs on CoF”.

6.All the other gear looks bad? Only want one? The one and only a third of Tyria has? Ok, well I personally dont like the flame gear. Its something that I see everywhere. I wouldnt mind getting something else that interests me. Those that cant get something else, and just want the CoF gear, well you can grind it if you want, but dont blame Anet. Its YOU who CHOSE to GRIND over the other methods of acquiring the item you want.

Finally, I wanted to ask some simple questions. Do people really want to finish the MMO they just bought within 1 week? Become the richest, accomplished and best looking all within 1 week? Let me tell you a mind blowing statement. MMOS ARENT MEANT TO BE FINISHED WITHIN 1 WEEK! THEY ARE MEANT TO BE PLAYED FOR OVER 1 MONTH MINIMUM TO SEVERAL YEARS TO COME. ADDING CHALLENGES TO THE GAME KEEPS THE WORLD OF TYRIA INTERESTING, AND ALSO GIVES PLAYERS PRIDE IN WHAT THEY ACHIEVED AFTER ACCOMPLISHING SOMETHING LIKE A FULL CoF SET AFTER THE DUNGEON BUFFS WERE ADDED.

Would you be proud of yourself for grinding for 60h+ for a CoF set prior the buff or 60h+ of CoF Dungeon runs after the Buff. I think ill choose the 2nd option.

Jasher.6580:

-1/10

I don’t mind that the dungeons are hard but they really need to increase the rewards a thousand fold. The cost of the armour sets are ridiculous. It’s just a massive grind fest.
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Suggestions:

- INCREASE the token drops by 200% and DECREASE the cost of the armour sets.
- INCREASE the amount of gold bosses drop to offset repair cost by 500%… yes 500%.
- Let bosses drop good loot… even if it has crappy skins (loin cloths) to offset the fact that it will take you weeks to farm the token gear.

Let me ask you a couple simple questions. Do you want to have all the dungeon sets within 24hours? Do you want to finish end game content and become filthy rich in GW2 within 24 hours? Did you buy the MMO to finish the game within 24hours or perhaps…longer? A couple months? Perhaps years to come like any other MMO out there? Im a bit puzzled.

As I said, you take it personally. They are targeting who they want. It doesnt matter, there isnt really an agro system in GW2. If you get into combat range, hope for the best, prepare for the worst tbh.

Plus you could have easily dodged the snipers, they are quiet obvious when they aim.

10/10. Forces people who cant finish dungeons properly to try, and encourages new players who have just joined GW2 to try out other dungeon paths other than the usual farm.

Ive met countless players who wanted to complete the Arah dungeon exploration mode. At least attempt to finish it, but cant find players to join them in their quest. Everyone is just farming, Now, its starting to change, and the change is subtle but there. People are venturing out to other dungeons.

Another good addition caused by these patchs is the cap Anet put on the sudden influx is wealthy players in GW2. It felt a bit unfair for those who didnt want to bother farming dungeons as there were much more fun things to do than grind 24/7 on the same dungeon route. Dungeon farming was and still is a cheap way to gain gold.

You still gain silver for every run even if you die 10x over or more. Most people dont see the profits they make, but you do make something.

Although the overall loots may increase a bit from dungeons, or add something that we players can look for. Hope to get in the near future if we complete a dungeon multiple times:) A nice incentive to dungeon more.

When someone wins the lottery, you think everyone else has more luck than you.

Same concept. Think it over, I’m sure it’ll eventually hit you.

Love the title. “Near impossible”

Its still possible:) The supposedly 2nd highest lvl dungeon in GW2 is now worth something! yay!

Now, all the farming can stop, and players can get better at completing dungeons:)

This is in the wrong forum section, and the point in posting this…idk.

Me replying…is probably even worse.

Have you finished all the dungeons? Exploration mode? No? Then go do them. Cant bother? Your not a PvE player, you are a PvP player and shouldn’t be talking in the PvE section complaining how boring it is.

The Dungeons are fun to figure out and solve. They are puzzles PvE oriented players enjoy cracking. We naturally want more dungeons, and harder ones to crack as we have cracked most or all of them.

Your a heart Surgeon? Go save lives 0.o stop wasting your time with us! gogogo!

xd

You finished the Arah story mode. The lvl 37 item is a bug that Anet is fixing. Read the forums and youll see that they are fixing it. They were not aware of the bug untill recently so give them a break. There are millions of things that can go wrong in GW2 due to millions of lines of coding that are run every day.

The drop rates of blue is more common than green, or yellow or orange. So youll obviously get more blues than any other item. I cant say anything about your “never got rare or exotic”. Im just assuming you got bad luck, or you haven’t done any full dungeon runs. I generally get 1 rare item per 2-3 full dungeon runs? Exotics do drop from time to time, but very rare. Ive gotten 3 so far, but at the same time someone who usualy runs a dungeon with me, got 2 in the same run then another right after.

Drops are random, you can cry all day, grind all day. Its not going to change, its random. Also, just because you have 100percent magic find or more doesnt mean your supposed to get 100percent exotics. Its just a figure within a larger set of numbers that determine your drop. Also, if you read up on what magic find does, it just increases the chance of a better drop tire. So if you get blues all the time, then without your magic find it would be white items. So stop complaining about your blues, because the rest of us get whites.

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Also, are you seriously going to cry over a lvl 47 item from a story mode? I just looked at it and went “Meh” and salvaged it with the rest of the junk I had in my inventory.

The reason its so boring is cause your farming the dungeon. Your actually physically and mentally forcing yourself. To grind all day long on a dungeon. The same boring dungeon path all day long. Can you imagine how boring that is.

Why not do what most other sensible GW2 player would do. Finish dungeon paths, dont farm them. Do 2-3 dungeon paths a day, then do something else. Maybe another dungeon or WvW or what ever. 2-3 full dungeon runs would give you around 80-100 Tokens per day. Your hardly going to get what you need for your legendary in 1 day? Am I right? Perhaps I was wrong, I dont know. I probably am since so many people are just sitting and grinding away at a dungeon farm run every single day, and minute of the day.

Just the idea makes me sick..-.-……how do you manage rofl.

It just simply means, some people are too lazy to even try to learn. I think its the goal that differs in a 9 year olds head and a 20+ year old random.

Also, let Ruien choose how he wants to parent his child…-.-…im sure hes doing his best and doing what he thinks is right.