Guild Wars 2

bitterjo.1695:

If someone is new to a dungeon, I fully expect them to confess BEFORE the start and not midway when everyone is fighting for their lives. Silence = we’ll assume you know what to do. I’ve had a 12k ach pt (no kidding) Guard in Arah on full Staff mode and died over 10 times in P3. You gotta be kidding me.

The highest achievement points at the moment is only 10319.. so he couldn’t have 12k.

Linguistically Inept.6583:

technically… alpha only properly targets one person with teeth of jormag (which is really the only dangerous thing about him), all the other rings are psuedo aoes; you can stand in the middle of them in safety

Pretty sure his ice AOE hits the center only so you still have to dodge/pay attention to which AOE he uses

Ratty.5176:

Fror, I think the real question was which would take more skill from individual players a run with the 2 War/2 Guard/1 Mes composition. Or other mixes. I run an Ele and will go with anyone because it is SO much more fun, and a lot of that fun comes from the fact that the content isn’t made trivial by group comp. You actually have to react to what’s going on rather than doing the same thing every time.

If your running the 2 war 2 guard 1 mes group ( or any similar group composition) and you are in full zerker it takes a lot of skill to not actualy die. You still need to dodge most of the attacks since alot of bosses/trash in this game will either 1 shot you or basically 3 shot you. Sure some content is made trivial by this compoition (like slave driver at CoF p1) but in other places like CoE you still need to dodge all of alphas AOE you still need to either dodge or time aegis at the destoryer troll in p3. It still requires skill, it just gets done faster

Jackums.3496:

I ran TA 60 times in the span of two weeks not that long ago and did F/U about a third of those times, and the spiders always came in waves and then stopped spawning after a certain point. Today I ran F/U with a perfectly good group and when we got to the tree, we initially tried to range it, of course. The problem was that silvers kept spawning on top of us endlessly, which never used to happen. This kept up for about ten minutes, then someone in the group checked online if the path had been changed and found a video (probably the one posted in this thread) where people just rushed the tree and kept reflects up. I had Feedback and a reflect-traited focus, and there were two Guardians with reflect skills on my team, also. Then there were the zerker Warriors.

The moment we even got within melee range of the tree, there were what looked like about ten silvers right on top of us. It was ridiculous. I have no idea how people pulled off what they did in that video, but it’s hardly an accurate depiction of the fight. The few times I’ve attempted F/U since the changes, the tree has been surrounded by silvers which respawn almost immediately after death, and in the video, there were seemingly none and there certainly weren’t ten of them swarming from all angles.

Maybe it’s random, but the ego stroking and elitist circle-jerking going on in this topic is hardly warranted considering that video isn’t an accurate depiction.

We did this path at least 5 times using this very method and never had a problem with us dying. The spiders do spawn but we dont get hit due to the reflects and even when the ele/warrior run of of the reflects due to the GS they still dodge enough to not die. This is a very realistic way on how the fight works since this is how we do it..

from the other thread

Fror.2163:

Also, you link wrong times. For instance, CoF never takes 6 minutes for anybody: all

I know this is not possible for all the people speed running, but it is very possible to get a sub 6min zone in and out time. 5:30 is very achivable.

Broadicea.8294:

Bright.9160:

Broadicea.8294:

I’d say you need to revise all of your numbers up by 1500 or so. Especially with all of the easy cheesy living story garbage out lately, achievements have been flying around.

You really don’t see rock-solid players until over 5000.

Because all competent players have high Achievement points?

I know I don’t give a crap about achievement points… I’ve got like 4.2k points.

Judging people by achievements is a terrible standard.

Why does everyone take such offense to the idea that it gives you a rough idea of how well a player might do? It correlates roughly with hours played, and people use that as a yardstick all the time…

i have around 2k hours played and 900 on my warrior. Im only at 4.8k points. I wouldn’t say im the best player NA but im pretty competent in speed clearing and recently started learning to melee lupi, achievement points dont really mean anything.

InTraining.4712:

Delay.6908:

Full DPS spec over here. no outer buffs or food buffs or whatever..

Is that Midnight Ice?

abyss and gold

Since the May 17th patch ive been having a disconnection problem, the game will kick me out exactly every 20 minutes to the character selection screen. My internet does not drop for both guildwars and all my other programs. I can re login to my character immediately im not actually disconnecting from the internet. Any way to fix this?

this is the DPS test strife did, the axe only does more dps if the GS doesnt land the full 100b combo.. which in CoF should be no problem to land. also with WW against a wall you get even more burst dps from the GS before switching to axe for the sustain.

conflict.6539:

Delay.6908:

conflict.6539:

GS every 6 seconds can over a 3 second channel deliver much much more (last hit that someone got was 47k so the rest of the hits had to equal total about 100k maybe more).

Im not sure i understand you completely here. The final number you see in the 100b channel is the total damage done by the channel, not just the final strike. So 100b will never hit 100k+ unless there are special buffs involved (the overheated buff in the ice fractal final boss for example_

Oh, that makes more sense, still what in axe can equal 47k damage?

Well my warrior is full zerker with all ascended trinkets and the max 100b I’ve hit is 48k~ on a boss. My axe hits for about 4k~ on auto attacks which is still about half the DPS (3.6 sec chain, 6 hits= 24k (just using wiki)) of 100b BUT has no cd. If you stay on GS the whole time then i still think axes is better since 100b will drop off due to its 6.5 sec cooldown and the fact that the GS auto attack has really low DPS. So axe is more sustain and GS is more burst from what I’ve seen. Both viable for DPS.

conflict.6539:

GS every 6 seconds can over a 3 second channel deliver much much more (last hit that someone got was 47k so the rest of the hits had to equal total about 100k maybe more).

Im not sure i understand you completely here. The final number you see in the 100b channel is the total damage done by the channel, not just the final strike. So 100b will never hit 100k+ unless there are special buffs involved (the overheated buff in the ice fractal final boss for example_

Full DPS spec over here. no outer buffs or food buffs or whatever..

any temple open at the moment? really need the shards :<