Guild Wars 2

Agreed they need to fix this ASAP. It’s really annoying and they need to put tokens for each boss downed.

I had someone be extremely rude to someone in an AC pug earlier tonight so we kicked him and it made us lose progress but it was worth it.
Having someone race thru and aggro all the trash and then troll one person who had never run AC before because he couldn’t skip things.
They need to fix the loss of progress for kicking the first person in but if you are gonna be nasty to the people in the group you deserve to be kicked.

Use magic find gear when you are doing these runs :-)

Weird! I think this happened to a Mesmer in a group I was in AC with and it was freaky lol.

I really like running dungeons with an engineer in the group. They always seem to help me get out of a bind lol

Staff is best for situations with multiple targets or if you need to stay ranged and scepter focus is best for single boss fights IMO. You can hit 5 In air with scepter focus and then hit 1 to fry their face and then switch to fire drop dragons tooth and wall of fire and Phoenix.

I think precision is our most important stat so maybe you should go with crafted magic find gear. I wouldn’t recommend it though.
I use ormnoberry bars on my ele for better drops.
If you want a toon to farm with roll a warrior or gaurdian.
Always switch attunements when your most important spells in that auttunement is on cool down.
I like the sigil of battle for my weapons to stack might.
I had 12 might in AC tonight.
I use a glass cannon build with knights gear so I’m not as squishy.

Draco Aurum.7520:

Solution to all the Elementalists problems.

I love this video. I think everyone should watch it before rolling an ele lol.

I have a level 80 ele and I have all knights and valk exotic gear with divinity runes and I use staff and scepter and focus.
I like how both classes play so differently and I also know that the ele is a lot more complex but taking them both into Orr you can tell that the ele class is underpowered and extremely squishy.
I wish I could solo Orr and farm with my ele like I do with my gaurdian.
Maybe gaurdians need to be nerfed?

After leveling a gaurdian to 80 I’ve realized Elementalists are under powered and do need a buff and a rework. The class is pretty broken and Anet needs to fix it.

I’m horrible at jumping but I loved this part of the dungeon.

Subject alpha scares me lol. I’ve run Coe one time and will not run it again until I learn more about him lol.

Class really isn’t something I think about when forming a dungeon party run. I think about who is a good player, who is kind to other players, who can follow instructions and work as a team.
If you can’t do some or all of those things your going to fail at the dungeons in this game.

I actually love the dungeons in this game. There are so many factors than can create a successful run and so many mistakes that can be made to make it very difficult.
Strategy and working as a team are key.

I think forum bands are ridiculous. Just put people who are nasty on ignore.

I get irritated when other players want the game difficulty decreased to the level they want but I don’t think calling someone names is appropriate. We should be able to disagree but still show respect for others.

I think we need a thread of shame with pics of players doing this in wvw. It’s bad behavior and shows a real lack of respect to your server and the game’s community.
I’m on Yak’s Bend and got on to some players this week for doing this.
It would be nice if guild gm’s would kick and or demote members that get caught doing this.

Not sure but I farm them for gold most days just pugging with players that I meet that are really good pug farmers.
I recommend running pugs as you level an alt or on an 80 and adding the players that you think are the best to your friends list.
I get invites to run dungeons all the time this way.
Important note do not be rude to people or kick them from these groups because when that has happened I never run a dungeon with them again.
Rude and or ridiculous party kicks = ignore.

I hope so because they are so much fun to run and also a lot of fun taking people who are new to them thru.

The flowers are easy to use to rally and are specifically there to harm you if your group doesn’t understand the concept of watching for them and using aoe to kill them as they spawn and if you or your party members are standing in a cloud of green they are going to die.
Many classes have a heal that also removes conditions that make the flowers easier to deal with.
If you die in a downed state you and or your party is doing something wrong. This has nothing to do with the game and EVERYTHING to do with player communication and skill.
The dungeons in this game are strategy and team work based. They are intended to be end level and game content and not something that is easily learned and completed.
If players aren’t able to complete the dungeons they can always level a craft and make their own gear with the EXACT same stats as the armor in this games dungeons or you can buy gems and exchange them for gold and buy the same gear on the TP.

Rhinala this is GW2 not GW1 and they are not the same game.

This game has no subs so why should they feel required to provide a service like teamspeak or vent for free?

I like milkshakes but I don’t think I should get those free if I decide to buy a meal somewhere just because another place has them included with a meal.

Grats!!! I hope you get the gear you deserve for your hard work.

I love Maag lol. Make sure you guys use that freeze gun he gives you because it helps a lot and does nice dps.

Ebs you are more than welcome to run AC with me. I run it on my gaurdian and I would be glad to help you learn the dungeon.

Pugging on Yak’s bend server is actually not that bad and if someone is a jerk they don’t get invites to run another pug.

If you are not in rare gear and have some toughness and vitality as stats of that gear and stand in red circles on the ground or don’t kill the flowers as well as remove conditions in TA you’re going to have a really hard time.

You should do a gear check before taking anyone into any dungeon.

All the guildies in my guild have rare gear crafted or purchased by me before I take them in a dungeon.

Darling can you list the gear you’re trying to run dungeons in and having such a horrible experience?

Frankly Anet has decided they were competent enough to hire their own devs and you are entitled to your opinion that the dungeons are bad and not fun and only you can correct the design of them but that doesn’t make your opinion any more valid than mine.

Anet is the developer of this game and anyone that doesn’t enjoy the game can always play something else.

Frankly they have already nerfed the dungeons so I don’t see the need for further qq’ing.

You pull kholer with ranged weapons to the troll and sit back with some popcorn. The troll will kill kholer and then you just kill the troll.

Can we please have this so the players who actually want to enjoy the content as it was developed can?
The nerfs to the dungeons in response to bad players continuously qq’ing about them instead of getting the required gear and skill shouldn’t determine the difficulty for all.
Some people actually like earning things and don’t want it handed to them.
I agree there needs to be a level for casuals and another for baddies but can we also have original mode?

No the dungeons for the most part are wonderful. The people who think they are bad are bad and should stop trying to run them with bad gear and bad groups.
Would love to be nice but saying the dungeons are bad is insulting the work of people who worked really hard on this game.

If you are dying you are doing something wrong.
1. Have bad gear.
2. Stand in red circles on the ground.
3. Are in a group with players in bad gear who like to stand in red circles on the ground.
4. Aren’t trying to learn the dungeon.

Yes there are a few ridiculous bosses but 99% of the qq’ing in this game is caused by bad players playing badly that want the content difficulty lowered because they are bad.

Not trying to be mean but it’s the truth.

I’m having a blast with the Halloween event. I love the costumes in the shop. I even made some great gold selling candy corn :-)

Thanks for your hard work creating the best mmo out and love this event!

Agree totally OP. Some of the story modes are just ridiculous. I love the explorer modes unless it’s subject alpha ugh.

voidwater.2064:

When we went in to the Lovers stage, entire squad was annihilated. We try various strategies, separating them, switching kiting and attacks but to no avail. Final conclusion is, still we had to have a tanker good enough to absorb damage and healers to AOE heal and cannons to AOE damage.

I’ve done AC, CM, TA, SE, and Arah story mode with a group of friends, and I feel like the Lovers fight was the hardest boss in all of those dungeons. I think we did AC when we had ~lv60 gear, the rest with 80 exotics. We did eventually get past them though, I think the trick was to have one person use boulders to knocklock one of the bosses.

To offer a contrasting experience, we actually completed all of those story modes except TA with 4 people (that was the only story mode dungeon we were able to find a 5th person for…), so they seem doable to me. I would agree that they might be harder than advertised, though.

The lovers are easy if you keep chucking the boulders at them. It knocks them down and makes it so easy to burn them.

Churchland.7524:

Just finished AC story mode and died many, many times.

I am a level 31 elementalist with a glass cannon type build. I was thinking of switching to all toughness and vitality gear for better survival or would it be better to use all healing gear and switch to water?
Usually 1 or 2 hits and I’m dead. Most of the time there isn’t time to dodge out of the fire.

I want to contribute to the party as much as possible, either with dps or healing.

If you are on Yak’s Bend whisper my toon and I will help you. My main is an ele.
If you are on a different server I would recommend you get ALL knights gear to run dungeons with and for can trips you want to use armor of earth, mist form and arcane shield.
I use my staff for mob areas in the dungeon and then if it’s a really tough area I use a scepter focus. My weapons are rampage exotics.
You can use a glass build but you want to have those can trips and the highest quality gear you can get.

If they want to transfer fine then when they reach the new destination server they are locked out of wvw until the next reset.

1. Yes 40$
2.Likely of course :-)
3.The server transfers need to stop ASAP. This is the best mmo out and I hope the devs listen to the community.

They are way to hard for people trying to learn but once you have the right gear and group they are a lot of fun.
I totally agree that story mode should be easier but I hope if they nerf them they will keep the explorable modes at the original difficulty.

Bad idea because then people would just exploit one dungeon by doing it over and over to get gear for each set.

All the qq’ing about the dungeons needs to stop because the devs have designed a brilliant game and should be shown a little respect IMO.

I recently ran TA ex mode with a player who farms the dungeons and he invites me all the time. I had a friend who just hit 80 on his guardian and asked if he could join. I do the dungeons for fun and not to farm.

Well my friend was in masterwork gear and died some so they kicked him from the group. I left the group and went to LA and bought my friend all rare gear and told the guy I would never run a dungeon with him again when he asked me why I left.

Please treat other players on your servers with kindness because you only hurt yourselves and your own ability to run the content when you are rude or cruel.

I do them over and over again because they’re fun and you get coins for awesome gear and make gold. It’s a win win for me.

Group members in the best gear that follow directions from whomever knows the most about the dungeon and who do not insult other people in the group.

I could care less about the profession make up of a group and I don’t mind running with bad players as long as they are nice to each other.

elchulo.3148:

Just because we have access to 20 skills doesn’t make them all good. Many are worthless.

Would you people please learn how to read. We were saying in DUNGEONS it can be more efficient aka more dps to stay in fire for STAFF. If we had parsers I would show you. We switch AS NEEDED not “just because”.

Regular mobs are completely different than dungeon mobs (way less HPs) so your proposed test is pointless. I don’t use staff for regular pve either unless it’s aoe.

Problem with your argument is being successful in a dungeon isn’t determined by huge dps. If a mob can catch you and your toon is dead you’re not doing any damage.

Any ele that stays in one atunement is bad and needs to L2P or just roll a warrior or guardian.

Elementalists aren’t underpowered but instead are a class for players that like a challenge.

You can always wear knights exotic gear and have a glass build. With the right cantrips you have plenty of ways to stay alive and pwn.

You have a scepter and focus and you melt it’s face off and push it over with 5 in lightning aura. Scepter and focus and you can chase people or at least I do :-)

Nethelli.4023:

Lumines.3916:

The only somewhat difficult boss would be Colossus Rumblus, his howl is worse than the “Howling King” ironic isn’t it? The cone is not just a cone, it comes out of his side too, just standing behind his belly won’t always save you, the best bet is to just stay the fuuck away. Also the scream can go through walls..

Incidentally, I found a baby Colossus Rumblus

That is not a gecko that’s a very upset azura!

The dungeons are supposed to be end game content in my opinion and really aren’t designed for casual players. World pvp and pve is more for casual players.

The best way to run TA ex mode is to take a ranged party in my experience. I’ve noticed melee has a really hard time in this dungeon.

Also it helps A LOT if ALL of your party is in rare to exotic gear. The dungeons in this game are extremely gear dependent and also require a party with patience and good communication.

Once you hit 80 and have all exotic gear you will love the dungeons or at least I do.

Don’t stand in red circles on the ground and wait until you are level 80 and have all exotic gear and weapons. If you and the rest of your party are in bad gear then don’t run dungeons :-)

I haven’t had this bug happen to me but I love this dungeon and I hope they fix it ASAP.