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Thief or Guard

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Make guard, always needed…. thieves are needed in only very few situations and are hardly usefull for groups.

You must have never played with a good thief then.

i AM that “good” thief so i know limitations of one

I love how modest people can be.

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Thief or Guard

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Whichever. A good Thief and a good Guardian are always welcome in runs. In fact, a good anything other than Necro is always welcome.

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Looking for 4 people! Dunegons

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Sorry, when it comes to this forum I have to laugh to stop myself from crying.
In all seriousness your best bet is to apply to a more dungeon orientated guild and try to make yourself known so when people are forming runs, you’ll be on the list of players they ask. Sometimes this is easier said than done because most regular players don’t venture outside their regular groups unless absolutely necessary.
Off the top of my head you’ve got DnT and LoD in NA (I’m Australian myself) but to be honest I’m not too sure what the requirements are to get in anymore… I’m sure there’s other PvE guilds out there but these are the ones I recognise from NA around the forums.

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Looking for 4 people! Dunegons

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Oh I have to play with a mic!? And only heavy classes!? I play how I want, get out of here you filthy elitist scumbag.

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More AR needed than before

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hi, i am a ranger with full ptv at every gear, legendary and ascended trinket(trinkets are not full ptv, but have defensive setting), and 0 agony resistance.
maybe 11/26, i fought the final boss (one huge robot remains) in level 11 or 12.

in the very beginning of fight, i use nature spirit, protect me, signet of wild(in passive state), troll unguent immediately.

i always die maybe in 30 secs with no exception. maybe 5 to 6 experiments are tested.

so i’ll guess it’s really need ar now.

The problem is that you don’t have Healing Power (so no sustained regen). I have Cleric gear, and at lvl 12 fractal I have never been downed for lack of AR.

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Kicked at the end of a dungeon to sell it

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I’ve never actually heard of this happening. Just vicious rumours spread by bad players who got booted for being bad.

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Dungeons story be account bound

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Don’t hold your breath.

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so... how is it looking?

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The Life of a RP’er: Cannot move faster than ‘walk’ speed.

Edit: LOL I was joking but it’s pretty much in there
Paranoid The effects of combat are always active ~ For that glorious RP experience.

Reaper Death periodically strikes
Weak Link If one party member dies, all die
Looks pretty lulsy

Determination Enemies occasionally become invulnerable
I think this is already a thing in Uncategorised.

Broken Mirrors You cannot reflect missiles
Would make Grawl…. Impossible?

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Thief in Arah

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Honestly, don’t worry about your build. If you want to do well in Arah, learn the fights and know which utility skills are useful and where.

To this extent, smoke screen is a great skill to have for a lot of encounters there. There are a lot of projectiles and a lot of trash mobs that hit really hard. Smoke screen can save you and your group with the right use.

People love to get caught up on builds, especially on forums, but having a group of people that know the fight mechanics of the dungeon will always, always be more important than what build or classes you bring into a dungeon.

I agree with this. The utilities you bring are far more important than the exact build you run. That being said, I run a 10/30/0/15/15 and it seems to suit me just fine.

I run the 14/14/14/14/14 build, I think it’s really good and suits my playstyle.

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The sad truth about Rangers....

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Poor Oxxy getting ganged up on by casuals.
I honestly can’t think of any game that requires your team to be nice and evenly spaced out. It’s usually:
>One guy stand where you can get hit
>Other guys stand on the opposite side or some equally lame safe spot.
>Profit???
GW2 just got rid of that first guy and everyone just yolo’s.
Also, it’s infinitely harder to see bosses tells when you’re stacked up on him, especially if you have a Norn or Charr in your party, someone is wielding Sunrise or Twilight, and the kitten boss is buried in an eternal hellfire of almighty Guardian Justice.

I like how someone else on here put it, “You are your own trinity”. You control your own healing, your own tanking (damage mitigation), and most importantly, your own damage. Sure some specific classes can you help you out with a few of those, but the majority is on you.
So when people run support, they’re failing at their damage role. It is not someone else’s job to deal damage, I absolutely hate this mindset.

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The sad truth about Rangers....

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Rangers are good for frost spirit and spotter, the fact that the average ranger is bad is due to pugs just being terrible in general, there’s a scrub archetype for every single class in the game, examples being gs mesmers, mace/shield cleric guards, shout heal warriors and so forth, so it’s not just a ranger issue.

Shout Heal warriors and Mace Shield Gaurdians are utility builds that actually work…. u can hardly call them scrub builds.

rofl, they are trash builds that don’t work and are nothing more than a burden on the team. they are the epitome of scrub builds.

A burden? So a build that provides mobile buffs, heals and condition removal with runes of soldier is bad on warriors and it makes the team weaker? As opposed to a highly selifsh zerker build that nearly every man and his dog has?

Also a heavily supportive gaurdian with mace shield allows for teams to facecheck certain bosses… u can’t just kitten on any build that has any form of supportive tendencies just because damage is sacrificed.

I prefer balanced builds to be honest but I run dungeons with puggs and the extra heals and utility help things go smoothly.

Oh boy this argument again, please tell me more about how epic your tanking skills are. I bet you don’t even have to dodge at Lupi, so jelly.
If dealing damage isn’t your thing then please don’t play Ranger, those unique damage boosters are the only reason to take one. And we really, really, don’t need more bearbows out there.

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Elitists, I'll honestly miss you !

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R.I.P GW2
You casual catering piece of kitten.

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What is your good deed of the week

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It is without doubt humiliating to be laying on the floor while someone solos a boss, but once you’re dead you kinda give up the right to complain about it. While you may look at it as a waste of your time, a few more whipes could be an even larger waste of his time.

Not only because it’s humiliating and boring, but because you don’t learn anything from being on the floor spectating a guy soloing Lupi. That’s something you can do better on youtube.

(Not even counting that the few times I had people trying to do this, they failed 15 minutes later)

Actually I learned a lot from spending time dead watching exactly what other people are doing. Phase 2 AoE’s gave me so much grief because I couldn’t chain my evades correctly, I didn’t understand the mechanic of the attack, so naturally the first time he did it I took a dirt nap, but after that I could watch what other players were doing to avoid it. From a simple dodge, pause, dodge back in to teleporting to blocking, etc etc. Phase 3 learning the exact timing of evades for single target lifesteal, the list goes on. If you are regularly dying early on against Lupi then it’s reached the point where throwing yourself at him again and again isn’t working, you’ll have to go the extra effort to understand why it isn’t working. Which is most easily done by watching someone else succeed, so you can copy them.
Think I ended up watching SynSity’s Thief solo vid to figure out those kitten AoE’s, such grief, much annoy, very rage quit.

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PvE Support Bunker Build

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So…. Are these threads common here?

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What is your good deed of the week

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Sat in LA as a Costume Brawl punching bag so people could get their dailies.

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Gamebreaking bug: please listen!

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Mobs going invuln when people try to range should be a feature added to 90% of the game.

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Want Arah p4 for your Dungeon Master? Read on

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Pay me 40g and all you have to do is enter the instance.

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Luipcus Solo questions

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Pretty keen for Thief tips, after so many face plants it’s become my favourite class to fight him on.
That video isn’t available in my country…. Right….

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Is a sub 10 Lupicus kill possible?

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I’m guessing a Mesmer’s Mimic of Mossman’s Axe doesn’t survive the instance change?

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Arah Path 2 final trash run strategies

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Bracing for a “PuG griefing game” with a full on spreadsheet on point allocation, game ends at path completion or kick. The grief gives no points if you are caught doing it deliberately.
E.g Aggroing mobs in Arah without your team noticing, or getting them shot by Deadeyes xD
Or more detailed: 1 point for getting Lupi to dome, an additional 10 points for every player downed, +5 if they didn’t know it was you, +10 if they blame someone else. You see where I’m going with this

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"Fumble" dodges.

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100% a bug.

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Arah Path 2 final trash run strategies

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I’d take OH Dagger for Ele over Focus. RTL to get you the hell out of Technician range as well as Updraft for the mad swiftness/sitting a few Deadeyes on their kitten for a while. This is of course if you’re not worried about your team dealing with back aggro xD

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Being kicked for being a thief

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Thief suffers from a weaker case of Rangeritis. The plague of casuals have tainted its name so much that only more experienced players will actually appreciate what a Thief can bring to the table.
If you’re getting kicked on the premise of being a Thief (not a SB spamming, full Cleric Thief justified by Signet of Malice ~ yes I’ve met one) then you were better off without those fools.

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Arah boat jumping puzzle no longer possible.

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It’s because of underwater skills!? How long has this been common knowledge!? My god >.< that bug drives me nuts.
Another reason why underwater combat should be axed.

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Rampaging FGS

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Cool TY ^-^

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The design of ranged weapons and dungeons

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So er… am i the only one to have been in a spider queen pug fail attempt at stacking? It’s like most of my runs. I’m starting to think that i’m the problem…

Yes, it happens more often when EVERYONE is on a pure dps set and build and the party don’t know each other… switch to “support” utilities (what ever it has condi removal or group heals) and its cake again.

What awful advice, like every encounter ever it’s better to have a full team of Berserkers. Someone lowering the team’s DPS by say , wearing PVT is how you get your team killed. At most you want one or two people to cleanse Weakness as it’s applied because it absolutely wrecks your damage.
Semi-related story, was Pugging AC p3, one of the Guardian’s knew the entire order of the burrows so I entrusted him with my Ice Bow, much to my surprise he quickly picked it up and used #4 on the next burrow, only for it to survive with a 3rd of its health left….
#PuGlyf \m/

logic dictates that hitting harder reduces the mob damge right?

get the bucket out of your head man… read what he is wondering… no matter how harder he hits, how faster the mobs dies, if the spider kills the group seconds after the initial pull its not a matter of killing it faster but surviving the initial aoe damage the party suffers.

Think before reply please. Of course we all know (and are sick of) your optimal builds, but it doesnt work for every party set up. Specially for 5 random guys placed together in a dungeon.

Your “related” story has absolutly no comparisson with his story. Its not the same scenario, its not the same reason why they are dying. Its not the same and does not apply.

A PVT player can solo the spider; its cake with heals and cleans; stop telling lies.

It will always be faster with a zerk build, but people won’t die because of low dps. If you can’t endure (and die) the spider fight (or any other boss) because its “too long” then you are doing something wrong.

Re-read the original post. He said the stack failed, not that his team insta-died within the first second. The two most common reasons for the stack to fail is someone breaking the stack causing her to drop poison, or low DPS.

My Semi-related story was more a comical side note, something that probably should’ve gone in Funniest Player Fails.

A Berserker can solo the Spider Queen, faster too, what’s your point?

Honestly this ‘Bunker and win’ mentality is beyond outdated, I made the same mistake when I first started playing ~Full PVT Mace/Shield + Banner Heal Warrior~
Yes you can get through almost all content without even needing to dodge, I could out endure everything the boss would unload while my pathetic squishy teammates face planted everywhere. Only now do I understand that it was likely because of me that they were dying in the first place, I was essentially making them 4 man content.

In response to a few of your other posts, PuG’s fail when they try to copy speedclear tactics because they’re in a team full of selfish Meskets who then whine at him for dying despite dealing 90% of the party’s damage before going down, unfortunately succumbing to not enough endurance and skill CD’s which never would have happened if his party had bothered to contribute to damage.
Also you don’t need an organised party to understand that DPS>all, even the lousy CoF farmers understood that killing the Slave Driver quickly was better than trying to “endure” him.

Stop encouraging people to be bad, it’s why the PuG community is so god awful.

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Arah boat jumping puzzle no longer possible.

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Looks like I’m going Thief in Arah p2 as well now
Don’t pretend like you don’t approve, using Stability = a wasted utility slot @ Brie. That and RIP in peace Mesmer.

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Stealth Changes to Jade Maw

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No more Sigil of Leeching?

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The design of ranged weapons and dungeons

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So er… am i the only one to have been in a spider queen pug fail attempt at stacking? It’s like most of my runs. I’m starting to think that i’m the problem…

Yes, it happens more often when EVERYONE is on a pure dps set and build and the party don’t know each other… switch to “support” utilities (what ever it has condi removal or group heals) and its cake again.

What awful advice, like every encounter ever it’s better to have a full team of Berserkers. Someone lowering the team’s DPS by say , wearing PVT is how you get your team killed. At most you want one or two people to cleanse Weakness as it’s applied because it absolutely wrecks your damage.
Semi-related story, was Pugging AC p3, one of the Guardian’s knew the entire order of the burrows so I entrusted him with my Ice Bow, much to my surprise he quickly picked it up and used #4 on the next burrow, only for it to survive with a 3rd of its health left….
#PuGlyf \m/

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The design of ranged weapons and dungeons

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Except that the Warrior still contributed more in that singular Hundred Blades than the Ranger will throughout the entire fight.

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I Need To l2p Guardian

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Yeah I’ve noticed Sword #2 is painfully slow as far as cast time and after cast but just presumed the Vuln stacking was worthwhile for the party :|
(We rarely cap Vuln in casual runs anyway, unless using Fiery Rush.)

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Rampaging FGS

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Would you keep the damage boosts from your weapons in that form? Like sigils and the flat stat boosts?

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Arah P4

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Really makes me value our 25-30 min Arah P4 runs xD
99% of that being Grenth, eugh a time gated boss YIPEE.

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Easiest dungeons to solo and for 2?

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I like how you openly acknowledge that your builds are trash and instead of changing so you can contribute to a team, you would rather exclude yourself so you can continue being trash. If only the rest of the PuG community had this mentality.
There are paths that are definitely solo able, but without an intimate knowledge of the path and your own profession you are going to find any attempt in this manner nigh impossible. Run with a team, contribute to the team, when you’re comfortable with all the mechanics, then you can step it up to solo/duo, and even then you’ll find that you’ll have to change things up a lot to allow for the lack of support and damage, something which you just can’t do without that certain level of path and class understanding.
Edit: Wow that came off really strong, I’m such a grumpy kitten first thing in the morning.
Moral of the story is this game is all prior knowledge, a team of 5 appropriately geared players can take longer than someone playing solo if they don’t know what they’re doing (just look at any Arah stream and compare how PuG’s fight Lupi to the solo records.)

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I Need To l2p Guardian

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I’m curious as I’ve just started playing Guardian myself. What is the ideal DPS rotation?
At the moment I’m just fitting in Sword #2 and Focus #4 between auto attack chains, then changing to Greatsword and going #2, #4, #5 (not pulling), #3, then auto attack until I can Whirling Wrath again before switching back to S/F. Generally just spamming blinds off CD to stack Vuln.

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Share your most bullnyerk Lupicus deaths

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What the hell is bullnyerk?

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Losing the will

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^ I thought PVT D/D boon spamming was still pretty decent even after the nerfs? Granted this was like…. Last year’s flavour of the month.

YOU CANT STOP ME GUAN, I pugged CoE on Guardian today. All I can say is, mashing F1 needs to become a habit, oh and I Aegis carried my team through Three attempts at Destroyer.
Also the lack of self producing Fury is god awful, I felt like a PVT carebear without a Banner of Disc or Fury, I hate PuGs, why must people be so bad. It was the first time I had ever played Guardian outside personal story and it still felt like I contributed more than anyone else.
/sorryforthederail

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Losing the will

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Find a group/guild of like minded people (they’re out there), I would have quit the game long ago if I hadn’t found the sense of community I’ve found in LoD.
I think I’ve said this somewhere before but one day TS went down for a few hours, and I actually logged off because I couldn’t keep myself entertained. How people PuG day in and day without a regular group of friends to run with and talk kitten with for hours at a time is absolutely beyond me.
Playing the same profession since launch doesn’t seem too healthy either to be honest. I think you’re stuck in the “this isn’t like my Ele therefore I don’t like it” rut. All professions are different albeit a little overwhelming at first when you’ve spent all your time on one profession.
But you already know the encounters, so you’re halfway there to being good at other professions by incorporating them into what you know.
I wouldn’t recommend Warrior if you like the fast pace of (Fresh Air) Elementalist. Of the three professions I play regularly (Warrior, Ele, Thief ~ learning Guard soon and Ranger after that) I would have to say Thief is the most fun and versatile thus far. But of course this is just me and others may disagree, but there’s my two cents.

Uriel Asther ~ Warrior | Kaya Lereau ~ Elementalist | Natalie Fox ~ Thief
Skye Eterna ~ Mesmer | Arya Slade ~ Charrdian | Kiera Thine ~ Ranger
Oceanic ~ [LOD] [Noob]

I Need To l2p Guardian

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Dolan.3071


Also, if you’re bringing a guard without traiting into support just to deal loldps, your group would be better off with an ele or thief.

You really don’t know what you are talking about. Since the day I’ve run w/ very good players, I dropped everything calling “support” guardian w/ loldps. And you haven’t seen Obal hit 40K damage w/ his loldps.

Don’t fight flawed logic with even more flawed logic. Quoting a really high number from one attack is as bad as the “CHECK MY 100BLADEZZZ” Warriors.

Uriel Asther ~ Warrior | Kaya Lereau ~ Elementalist | Natalie Fox ~ Thief
Skye Eterna ~ Mesmer | Arya Slade ~ Charrdian | Kiera Thine ~ Ranger
Oceanic ~ [LOD] [Noob]

Stop using 5 signets, Warriors.

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Dolan.3071

Wow. Someone doesn’t like Dub.

Uriel Asther ~ Warrior | Kaya Lereau ~ Elementalist | Natalie Fox ~ Thief
Skye Eterna ~ Mesmer | Arya Slade ~ Charrdian | Kiera Thine ~ Ranger
Oceanic ~ [LOD] [Noob]

I Need To l2p Guardian

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Dolan.3071

Apparently Sword has terrible cleave, so idunno how useful it would be trying get as many tags as you can at say, the hoards of spiders in Arah. Then in TA you’re expected be a lawn mower the whole time which means no stacks from pups. I suppose it’s personal preference as I’ve seen people with both.

Uriel Asther ~ Warrior | Kaya Lereau ~ Elementalist | Natalie Fox ~ Thief
Skye Eterna ~ Mesmer | Arya Slade ~ Charrdian | Kiera Thine ~ Ranger
Oceanic ~ [LOD] [Noob]

Stop using 5 signets, Warriors.

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What’s with all the casuals posting here? :/

Its only the full signet warriors that get hate? What about the full signet guardians rangers thieves etc, is it ok for a thief to go full signet but not for a warrior?

A 3x Signet Thief is pretty optimal as far as DPS goes. And it’s not like Thief can slot in anything of noticeable value as a 3rd utility. Probably Haste is as good as it gets.

Uriel Asther ~ Warrior | Kaya Lereau ~ Elementalist | Natalie Fox ~ Thief
Skye Eterna ~ Mesmer | Arya Slade ~ Charrdian | Kiera Thine ~ Ranger
Oceanic ~ [LOD] [Noob]

Lupicus-no energy sigil possible?

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Dolan.3071

Really puts a singular Energy Sigil into perspective doesn’t it

Uriel Asther ~ Warrior | Kaya Lereau ~ Elementalist | Natalie Fox ~ Thief
Skye Eterna ~ Mesmer | Arya Slade ~ Charrdian | Kiera Thine ~ Ranger
Oceanic ~ [LOD] [Noob]

Lupicus-no energy sigil possible?

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Dolan.3071

You should ask SynSity how much gold he spent on weapons and sigils (and repairs) just for soloing Lupi.

Uriel Asther ~ Warrior | Kaya Lereau ~ Elementalist | Natalie Fox ~ Thief
Skye Eterna ~ Mesmer | Arya Slade ~ Charrdian | Kiera Thine ~ Ranger
Oceanic ~ [LOD] [Noob]

"Fumble" dodges.

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followed by bugged run speed while blocking with offhand sword.

I’m not the only one who gets that!? Drives me mental, I get it all the time, feels slower than RP walking, I have to stop moving then start again so it corrects itself. I get it everywhere, some stupid overlap of activating skills and changing direction? I almost always get it when picking up a banner and trying move when using #3 (ironic that it’s meant to speed me up <_< ) But yeah I feel it the most during AoE lifesteal where I’m actually trying to get somewhere. Happens in phase two AoE’s with Riposte as well, but it’s not like you’re trying sprint anywhere.

Uriel Asther ~ Warrior | Kaya Lereau ~ Elementalist | Natalie Fox ~ Thief
Skye Eterna ~ Mesmer | Arya Slade ~ Charrdian | Kiera Thine ~ Ranger
Oceanic ~ [LOD] [Noob]

Sick of people switching out at the end

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Dolan.3071

In a game where leveling is so mind numbingly boring it increases the risk for brain cancer by 80%, I don’t see why this is a bad thing.

How is leveling mind numbingly boring, when the end game exists of exactly the same content?

End game is not mapping. It may be spamming the same dungeons over and over, hell it might be Living Story updates or the crafting panel for some. But it will never ever be mapping. Cue crazy lady I know with 17 map completions :P

Uriel Asther ~ Warrior | Kaya Lereau ~ Elementalist | Natalie Fox ~ Thief
Skye Eterna ~ Mesmer | Arya Slade ~ Charrdian | Kiera Thine ~ Ranger
Oceanic ~ [LOD] [Noob]

"Fumble" dodges.

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Dolan.3071

Was testing out my recently geared Guardian to get a feel for how bad the fumbles were. Did Leap of Faith and for 2 seconds was unable to evade, then when the game finally let me I fumbled on the spot. This is going to be fun.

Uriel Asther ~ Warrior | Kaya Lereau ~ Elementalist | Natalie Fox ~ Thief
Skye Eterna ~ Mesmer | Arya Slade ~ Charrdian | Kiera Thine ~ Ranger
Oceanic ~ [LOD] [Noob]

Sick of people switching out at the end

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Therefore everyone who does living story should be perma banned.

How else am I meant to farm AP
What, go into WvW!? That’s where I draw the line pal.

Uriel Asther ~ Warrior | Kaya Lereau ~ Elementalist | Natalie Fox ~ Thief
Skye Eterna ~ Mesmer | Arya Slade ~ Charrdian | Kiera Thine ~ Ranger
Oceanic ~ [LOD] [Noob]

Sick of people switching out at the end

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Dolan.3071

AC (not p2) and CoE have adequately long cutscenes in which you can receive the gold reward chest on your main, and swap to your lowbie in time to receive the +75% lvl exp chest. Provided someone is holding the cutscene, so either a friend or a nice enough PuG. The time ‘lost’ is approximately 10 seconds, granted they would have to watch the whole thing if you weren’t able to let them know when you’re loaded in via TS/Mumble/whatever, so however long those cutscenes go for.
Now people bringing their lowbie to the final boss or expecting you to 4 man (or 3 man cough cough lame kitten guildies) is a big no no and I’ve kicked people right before the final boss for it.

Uriel Asther ~ Warrior | Kaya Lereau ~ Elementalist | Natalie Fox ~ Thief
Skye Eterna ~ Mesmer | Arya Slade ~ Charrdian | Kiera Thine ~ Ranger
Oceanic ~ [LOD] [Noob]

Giganticus Lupicus needs a buff.

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Dolan.3071

Or… You could just melee Lupi.
Complaining that a boss is too easy because you choose to go AFK range makes no sense.

Uriel Asther ~ Warrior | Kaya Lereau ~ Elementalist | Natalie Fox ~ Thief
Skye Eterna ~ Mesmer | Arya Slade ~ Charrdian | Kiera Thine ~ Ranger
Oceanic ~ [LOD] [Noob]