Guild Wars 2

You dont even have to stack, its just an attack based on range so if everyone runs up to her in her room and stays in melee she doesn’t do it. But stacking makes this 100x easier and thats why people do it.

Isnt reddit the best? :p

mes top dps confirmed

Well this is fun. 10/10 would read page 2 again.

Silly me, i must be playing the game wrong

Dem pvt warriors messing up our agro and causing the mob to run all over the place, fun stuff!

Bright.9160:

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pretty much 100% this. I approve.

As far as I know scholar will always beat ruby if you can keep your health above 90% for the majority of the fight, if your are struggling hard to keep it above 90% then ruby is the way to go.

intersting

swiftpaw.6397:

So basically most of the people who are called ‘elitists and scumbags’ on a regular basis on these forums, are actually not the horrible evil kittenholes that the casuals make them out to be. Now if only they took off their care bear goggles and realized this.. Ah here’s to hoping.

You need a lot of hope for that to happen… the care bear goggles are hard to take off :/

Tom Gore.4035:

lchan.2169:

how is it that the GS can out dps a hammer? The hammer generally does about 15-20% more dps. (10% more per hit as each hit is 1/2 sec). Whirlwind attack is rubbish. However, the GS is a great weapon to initiate attack. Bladetrail than Rush followed by hundred blades before switching over the hammer for tight melee combat. Then swapping back to GS only for the hundred blades than back to hammer. To me…bows and rifles are a waste of time in PvE. Just get straight into action and obliterate the monsters.

I always bring a longbow as backup. Some of the encounters in dungeons absolutely hate melee users, to the point where you have so little uptime your DPS will be actually better with a Longbow.

Of all dungeons and fractals i can think of like maybe two instances where range is preferred over melee…

Yaki.9563:

guanlongwucaii.3162:

the only support that you’re missing is the condition removal/cleansing through warhorn skills. normally the guardian takes over the role of party-wide condition removal because the condition cleansing traits are located fairly conveniently in lines that are already attractive.

Warhorn is far better than guardian condition removal. I’m also slightly amused that you expect Guardian’s to sacrifice their DPS while you aren’t willing to sacrifice yours.

however, if you are hellbent on taking warhorn condition removal I would probably suggest a build like 30/20/0/20/0 (which lacks fast hands + loses out on a lot of damage bonuses) or 30/0/0/20/20 (which has terrible crit chance). I’m not sure which is less detrimental to your personal DPS.

15% less crit is terrible? You’re not into exaggerating at all are you?

15% less crit is huge in PvE losing that much is a big drop in warrior damage and is therefore quite terrible.

Wukunlin.8461:

okay I just tried pugging with the new lfg tool

Never

Again

So uh… how did that CM run go?

Poor TA… i like the theme so much i hope they dont kitten it up with so many atherblades and bs like that, if they do i would be so sad.

The entertainment is endless!

Since one day i had every single skill on my GS with perfectly round numbers (down to nearest 100 or 10 i forget) and took kitten and stuff… so idk if that would be useful :/

Zelyhn.8069:

There is a lot of information I cannot find:

-100b’s coefficient (the wiki state 1.78, but it also says 1642 damage which is a 4.48 coeff)
Edit: I didn’t include the last blow in what I just said. Anyway I really have no reliable figure for the coefficient.
-100b’s exact animation duration

I can assume WW’s animation is 1 second (0.25 cast + 0.75 evade, if no aftercast)

-Animation duration of GS’s AA (each of the three stages)

-Axe 2 animation duration

-Mace 4 animation duration

If anyone can give me this data, or estimates, I would appreciate it thanks

How would coefficients be found/calculated? Just curios :s

Bright.9160:

As Ather said, there are maybe 3-4 people in LOD who know enough about records to give a kitten . Of those 3-4, one isn’t able to do records, but did them in GW1. Of the remaining 2-3 players, only I probably care enough to give my opinion.

I think similar numbers apply to other guilds. Getting people to care isn’t as easy as you’d think.

sad face

I know that feel

</3 why u do dis

Dand.8231:

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Dand.8231:

2 Vulnerable and low DPS… waste of a button and time on a non-auto swing

If your in a party of 5, giving vuln to your allies and boosting their damage for a slight personal DPS loss is completely worth it and never a waste…

I agree. Giving vulnerable is never a waste of time. And thats why GS is better. It brings vulnerable on its auto instead of a button, and has more personal DPS.

Except that GS auto is trash dps, so you should be switching in and out of GS and Axe, while you ar eon your axe you apply the vuln and then do your auto, then you go back to GS for the 100b+WW combo and try to do as little auto attacking as possible since it is terribad on GS.

Wukunlin.8461:

LH ele is still better than warriors for might, fury, and dps. Even without FGS my guild group would still run 1G1M1W2E or 1G1W3E (basically fill out the slots with ele when other buffs are covered, generally don’t run ranger because we can get almost 100% crit chance without spotter)

Problem is without FGS, eles simply don’t have any strong elites. My ele is a norn so I can use bear form, but that is still meh.

TBH if the ele stops with FGS we might add a theif in there just for the DPS increase since all the buffs would be covered. No math or any real life tests to confirm this but pretty sure a theif could speed up runs with some trash runs and just nice dps increase IDK tho.

Im on reddit quite a lot, and that thread has been pretty bad in terms of ignorance. Even by reddit standards. I dont even know what to think anymore.. :/

Dand.8231:

2 Vulnerable and low DPS… waste of a button and time on a non-auto swing

If your in a party of 5, giving vuln to your allies and boosting their damage for a slight personal DPS loss is completely worth it and never a waste…

Very nice again james! One day i might be able to do that… when i learn to dodge a kick. >.<

I didnt drop a wall, but we survived long enough to complete the fiery rush and everything was fine. >.< By the time i realized i forgot the wall he was dead anyways.

Uh.. i didnt ask you for anything… you just joined my party, told me i couldn’t sell slots since you would stop me and then you blocked me… what ._.

Nice job james!

All i wanted to do was sell slots in peace.. and now this Q_Q

Well isnt this interesting..

Dolan.3071:

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I was selling runs today, someone made a post (in my name for extra fun) saying i had scammed them and kicked them and their friends to sell slots… when in fact i just duoed it with a friend.. sigh

Wow I gave you a slot today, you run it again just to sell more? What a scumbag
Are you sure you were selling slots and not say… Trying to find one more for FotM 48 @ Maw? :P

Still cant believe you trolled me for a good 10min!

Harrahou.4518:

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I was selling runs today, someone made a post (in my name for extra fun) saying i had scammed them and kicked them and their friends to sell slots… when in fact i just duoed it with a friend.. sigh

I knew this was coming. I saw that post aswell. I also made an LFG post with the name stating this future xD! I get thakittens annoying, has happened to most spot sellers whom have posted here. What can you do?

Yup.. that was me.. ive even been followed for the past 2 weeks with people randomly using my name so i get spammed, even when im just chilling in LA or doing a random dungeon like TA… Whoever got offended at me selling slots, got REALLY offended.

I was selling runs today, someone made a post (in my name for extra fun) saying i had scammed them and kicked them and their friends to sell slots… when in fact i just duoed it with a friend.. sigh

Nikaido.3457:

Dolan.3071:

Zelyhn.8069:

But warrior will still deal insane damage, that’s perfectly working as intended, they won’t nerf that.

That ‘Advanced’ Elementalist guide made me giggle. GJ on your team carrying your lousy DPS through dungeons. Maybe ‘New Player’ guide would be more fitting cause you practically run bunker traits.

I really didn’t lose anything of worth when I left your lot.

Shots fired! :O

Dolan.3071:

Oh god who am I kidding, we went through like 10 PuGs in TA once till we found two that were adequate, but in my defence, that was the smoothest PuG TA ever.

Sword/sword warrior? Cleric shout heal warrior? Staff camping guard? In TA F/U thank god we kicked them asap ._. would not have been fun smooth sailing >.<

Nikaido.3457:

http://i.imgur.com/pZMSdql.png

An excerpt from map chat that reminded me of why all these people faceplant so bad on things like these. Does anet really want to cater to the crowd of "it’s a wvwvw build, it “pwn” in wvwvw it’s good enough for pve"?

wow.. that map chat ._. dem bunker guards new PvE meta! pwning all the dungeons!

Dolan.3071:

Bright.9160:

Stop running with Rogers and Demona and run with me more often… I almost never do CoE. Arah > TA > CM > AC > CoE > SE >>> CoF >>>> … >>>> HotW is my personal order of favorite dungeons.

But yeah, it was getting pretty annoying when they farmed CoE all day. But still, I would like the 40 – 20 distribution over the 20 – 40 so I can do Arah on multiple characters and not feel like I wasted my time…

I haven’t done CoE for a while now that I think about it. I try to do TA and AC daily (DEM RECIPES), then whatever other people are doing, maybe a bit of totally legit and non exploiting Arah runs…. I’ll learn how to do it properly when you can’t bug everything xD

Also be on during Oceanic ‘master race’ hours then!

You always have to go when we do our arah runs or our SE. Oceanic master race tho, i agree with that.

Well i saw the first thread and was not interested, but the second thread caught my attention! good work OP! Bonus points for slightly different topics!

Did a dev just respond to a thread in the dungeon forum? and it was a TAFU thread! O.O mind blown

swiftpaw.6397:

ShadowPuppet.3746:

Hathil.1267:

I only know that I will not play more guildwars 2 until TW FW / UP will not be accessible to all.

Why should a explorable dungeon path be made accessible to all? Explorable dungeons were meant to be the challenging content in the game for organized groups to replace the content that was traditionally in the realm of raids in other mmorpgs. You do a disservice to yourself and the community at large by expecting the standard to be lowered. Especially since it has been proven that it is not impossible to complete.

Because I play how I want!

bowbear rangers and staff camping guards OP!

Emanuel.9781:

tafu is impossible guys

get it

got it

It is accessible to all… just run a DPS build OR learn how to dodge his spider spawning attack, 2 choices. The first is easier but you need to run DPS builds (shocking! :O) the 2nd is harder and longer but just requires “skills” by dodging, only part that i think is broken with that boss is the spiders not reseting after a wipe. Apart from that it is a very easy/nice boss fight.

I think we have enough TAFU threads though >_>

Anet? Pay attention to the dungeon forums? HA!

At this point i dont even know if these threads are trolling or if they are serious and cant read the front page…

Blood Red Arachnid.2493:

Do you dodge just before the tree shakes or in the middle of the tree shaking or the end of the tree shaking? Because none of those worked.

After he starts shaking this green “goo” will fall from the sky, these are actually the spider eggs iirc, you have to dodge those. So to be safe double dodge after he starts shaking and you should get some evades pop up, and if the NPC is dead and your whole party dodges well no spiders will spawn.

Neko.9021:

This is actually a pretty reasonable request. There should be more WPs in some dungeons, I feel. Some have them way too far back and it just gets tedious running again, should you fail.

didnt they already add some waypoints to some dungeons like TA? I seem to recall having less waypoints there then we have now.. but that might just be my bad memory acting up :s

Bright.9160:

spoj.9672:

Ryorco Marm.9580:

spoj.9672:

cof p1, coe, arah p1 and arah p4. CoE you can do with 4 (laser room).

CoE laser room can be done with 3 man.

Do tell. Theres 5 consoles and only 2 of them are close enough to both be pressed at the same time.

Well, I’m not sure if the advanced golem is sequence checked to the laser room, but if he isn’t, I guess you could all skip the lasers and just run to the golem.

If that doesn’t work, my guess would be it has something to do with waypointing.

Im like 99% sure that if you dont activate all the consoles the golem room has a door which stays closed, so you cant actually enter the room, and i dont know of anyway to skip that door :S

kokiman.2364:

For what reason do you use the combatlog?

(this video is my POV) i was actually just looking back at some numbers since they seemed a bit low considering the build i was running, never switched back to my normal log… also saves me the time from wiping the chat so kinda worked out

Dolan.3071:

Mesmer chaos strikes again. When are they getting dropped from the meta?

Edit: I’ll answer my own question, when Feedback gets nerfed.

More like when the pull on focus #4 gets replaced, thats pretty important aswel! :O

Dolan.3071:

To be fair, every class (not so much Mesmer) can deal heavy damage. What makes a class valuable is what else it can bring.
Though I’m no Engineer expert, there doesn’t seem to be a whole lot it can do that an Ele can’t do better.
Ele stacks Vuln/might/blinds whilst maintaining the highest damage in the party (those hammer swings bring shame to anything my axe hits could do, even with the speed difference.)
I’d take an extra Ele over an extra Warrior any day of the week, but an Engi over either? I’m not so sure….
I mean even an extra Warrior can bring constant Vigor and Swiftness, share the banner load and generally be easy to play thanks to high health and now what feels like OP self healing. What can an Engi bring that an Ele and Warrior can’t?

Btw dolan in that video, the eles were running pure DPS traits and not the vuln stacking, so all our vuln was from the engi that replaced the mesmer.. and in this case engi>mesmer in DPS. And it allowed the ele to go for more % modifiers for more personal damage.