Guild Wars 2

Dub.1273:

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

Dub.1273:

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

The problem with necros being a vuln bot isn’t that vuln bots aren’t needed,

Funny thing: vuln bots aren’t needed.

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

it’s that engineers are better vuln bots and also have better DPS, better CC, can give stealth, etc. Necromancers are basically stuck in the same pigeonhole as Engineers except Engineers do everything better.

Same can be said to engineers and thieves/eles in dungeons.

Maybe learn to play the class properly then we can talk about who is better at what.

I’d absolutely love to set up a challenge between us two on who’s better playing engi. We could have the forum to decide and officially shame the losing one. Doesn’t that sound nice?

Awaiting answer.

Aphrodesiac.2913:

Or pay 4 people.

No problem with that.

I’m still all in for giganticus clowncaricus.
Releases one giganticus lupicus for each player in range, each of them not having a target limit.

It’s actually very easy.

Cryhards:
-Easy=poorly designed
-Medium=non existant
-Hard=badly designed

Dundun forum regulars:
-Easy=Badly designed
-Medium=Easy
-Hard=Nonexistant

Reddit:
-Easy=Upvote
-Medium=Fluffy? Upvote:Downvote;
-Hard=Downvote.

Guang:
-Easy=It’s easy but you suck.
-Medium=You suck
-Hard=Too hard for you, you suck.

Noone who wants to let me leech?

I’m really paying good prices! And thanks Iris, but Sander is still on vacation for about 3 weeks. :<

I need pristine relics badly, 4 at the moment. Anyone willing to let me leech his level 11+ fractal runs? Paying good money.

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

Dub.1273:

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

The problem with necros being a vuln bot isn’t that vuln bots aren’t needed,

Funny thing: vuln bots aren’t needed.

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

it’s that engineers are better vuln bots and also have better DPS, better CC, can give stealth, etc. Necromancers are basically stuck in the same pigeonhole as Engineers except Engineers do everything better.

Same can be said to engineers and thieves/eles in dungeons.

Maybe learn to play the class properly then we can talk about who is better at what.

I’d absolutely love to set up a challenge between us two on who’s better playing engi. We could have the forum to decide and officially shame the losing one. Doesn’t that sound nice?

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

The problem with necros being a vuln bot isn’t that vuln bots aren’t needed,

Funny thing: vuln bots aren’t needed.

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

it’s that engineers are better vuln bots and also have better DPS, better CC, can give stealth, etc. Necromancers are basically stuck in the same pigeonhole as Engineers except Engineers do everything better.

Same can be said to engineers and thieves/eles in dungeons.

DiamondMeteor.8345:

Every decent speedclear group uses at least one Ranger.

What did I miss?

This is nothing, compared to our 5 nemesis mm necro speedclear.

xXxOrcaxXx.9328:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

xXxOrcaxXx.9328:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

xXxOrcaxXx.9328:

Honestly, what Lilith is doing here is what I want the ArenaNet guys to do: Playing with the community, setting up small events, show actual presence.

So @Lilith: DON’T STAHP!
@ ArenaNet: Do what Lilith is doing all over the forums.

does it all over the forums.

Yeah anet ya shoulda hired me that one time brah!

Thinking about something like that:
ArenaNet guy: You say rangers suck? Give me the best build damagewise you can come up with, and we’ll see. The best 3 builds get an ascended piece.

Yeah but would they use spreadsheets or would they take it into the field? #TeamGuanglai #TeamDub u make da call.

Dunno, they should do both. Theorycraft and videos as proof.

But all devs are about are fluffy pink stuff in the gem store and €sports.
Their balance is quite impressive, though. By balancing with an aim to pvp, they don’t even only kitten up pve, but pvp too. Thinking about what builds evolve around nowadays, I must say the so called “meta” back then was a lot more entertaining.

Approved.

Bart Weird.9671:

Some Comparison between condi/burst

http://youtu.be/mLTj1VMGfKc

Condition takes time to build up its potential
while burst has the higher average from the start.
So the longer the boss fight takes on a solo the more conditions shine.

All I see in those videos are two poorly exectured, suboptimal rotations, showing exactly nothing.

maha.7902:

Iris Ng.9845:

FGS and a lot of reflex to dodge her attack timely. And some stacks o’ might as well.

Or, you can not use a scrub weapon and do it normally.

relevant plug:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U6GQ-RF4po

key things for me were condition cleansing the immobilise and dodging the weakness/bleed autoattack. not sure how many cleanses necro has but i’m sure if you’re not lazy like me you can probably just dodge the immobilising web attack.

Lol, with cleansing ire and as warrior the fight is even easier than on a cleric fgs ele.

Other way round, in practise, gs camping is even better than in theory.
For fights you should pretty much always main gs and change your secondary set depending on the encounter. Normal bosses where a knockback or additional blocks/evades are not needed? Just don’t change your secondary set (Sword/Warhorn for running). You need a knockback and no additional blocks? Axe/Mace is the way to go. You need blocks or are forced to ‘range’ sometimes (big aoes)? Axe/Sword.

Especially your part about X/Sword is wrong, Impale from range + rip while coming closer is arguably best dps you can get.

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Silvia.9130:

As other mentioned already, the only point for non-berserker’s gears is WvW. Unless people would really buy a separate set for wandering the maps which would be a huge waste of money imo.

Well… I have a sentinels set for when I map with my hubby because he gets upset if I kill everything without him. So there’s that

Why not clerics? Doesn’t he like being healed either?

Ohwell, got to pay at least 100g for an armor set for it to be good enough to wear, I guess.

Psychol.5783:

On what fractal lvl? if 49-50 then I guess it’s from 1,0 to 1,1%

Fixed that for you.

Purple Miku.7032:

Dub.1273:

Miku, l2youtube please. My mobile phone won’t let me watch twitch videos. :/

I can’t, youtube won’t let me verify my youtube account because it says my phone number was used too many times this year

You don’t even need to verify your account, only if you want to become a youtube partner and earn money with your videos.

Male bifrost asura ele challenge please.

Diversity indeed comes by your actual build, berserker is nothing but the optimal equipment choice. Optimal builds usually change from situation to situation, with at least small differences in efficiency. One thing that doesn’t change, though, is sacrificing as much passive defense, as you can make up for actively, in order to improve your possible damage output. This is just natural, though. If you were a succeeding Formula 1 driver you possibly wouldn’t want to go back to Formula 3.

Miku, l2youtube please. My mobile phone won’t let me watch twitch videos. :/

Seems quite accurate.

I’m not sure how great we can value tests being done in pvp, but one thing makes me curious nevertheless. How did you get lower dps on gs than on axe? That goes contrary to all my tests. And less than 4k dps seems weird anyway, considering I get about 8-10k in solo pve (depending on encounters armor and behaviour). We are getting about 6k dps against lupicus, a boss with 33% (?) damage reduction by armor.

Lilith Ajit.6173:

To be totally honest I don’t think there is a single one of us who hasn’t name shamed on this forum.

Doing this on a regular basis. After having had hundrets of discussions with people like guang, warlord, azreell, silentstorm, etc. (just to name some of the more recent ones) I just got to the point that I realized having a discussion with arguments will not return any result.

Rikimo.2650:

When u attack
dulfy more

Why would you attack dulfy? Don’t be so mean to her.

Warlord ain’t DnT.
…
I hope.

Not at all, I think, as turrets are smaller than characters.

I’m in for a 5 engi run tho, just hit me up ingame.

inc

twitch.tv/sylarscreed

mikeew.8607:

just curious is any of this viable for pve exploration?

Anything is viable for PvE exploration, but not everything is effective.

And no, this is not effective at all.

Where?!?

no

Agony.3542:

Things I would sum up as “wannabe elitism” (e.g. speedrun but no ranger/ele allowed), aswell as people who don’t understand limits, like 25 might/vuln stacks. I could rage so much at builds that claim “I can keep 25 vuln, so I’m super useful” or players demanding others to take suboptimal weapons.

But guang says other people can drop their vuln on crit trait then to deal more deeps!

As a warrior? Shouldn’t be too much trouble for you then. Just equip double stability and fgj or frenzy and burst those berserkers down, might even knock them down before they arrive at terminal (mace 5) so they stop moving and you can kill them in safety.

Why do so many people fail at using the slightest bit of logic available?

If I was a mod, all those would catchbans instantly. Playing how you want is fine, being stupid and griefing other people, while complaining other people shouldn’t be able to kick you when you grief them, that is just ridiculous. Deserves forum and ingame ban for sure.

DEKeyzToChaos.7381:

Guang, Spoj, and Dub who all contributed theorycraft to the build.

Plsno.

One does not simply guang.

Syn Sity.5826:

It’s only lucky because i spend like 10+ hours with kittenty phase 3’s until I get this one :P

May I lend you my sarcasmeter?

maha.7902:

Stop farming infractions.

But thats all this game is about.

Yesterday I had like a 10 mins disconnect from game server while I was chatting just fine.

If you were onedhotted by the pull, you must have been like level 20 with no armor.

If this is “fixed”, I’m sad. Should have made the pull unreflectable, instead of giving the bomb it’s delay back. Seriously, we need harder content. Facerolled all queens gauntlet with 2-5 fps yesterday in one go, except for liadri, where I was constantly killed to freeze screens at start. Changed graphics to best performsnce, did it second try.

How is that a pretty big dps boost when another composition can stack about as much vuln with little to no costs, while dealing quite twice your’s compositions dps?
Anyway, video is uploading now. Took almost 7 hours to render and I got home around 7pm.

I click how I want.

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

I’m willing to wait until engies eventually become meta on their own and haviz and hendo and whoever else from rT (Dub?) all start pretending they were running engies from the start.

Man, you really have a slow catch.

Guang, just read some posts of this and last site.

Apparently I’m too nooby to find my nooby early posts on this forum. :-(

Edit: Even in the german forum my earliest posts somehow disappeared. Nevertheless, I found something sweet.

I argued about elementalists dealing the most damage in AC. Nothing wrong about that, huh? Thing is, I was talking about condition-toughness spec, which I found to deal equal damage to berserker. How could that happen? I guess, I didn’t use any % modifiers in the berserker one. We all ran 0/10/0/30/30 back then.

Dubsweeper goes crazy.

You need to put in p, n, m – seperated by commas. I actually handled that exception to simply restart the user input but I forgot editing the second instance of the py, which I used to create the .exe.

Edit: I also forgot changing back m, n to n, m – so it’s actually probability, width, height.

Mike, just for you:

http://www.file-upload.net/download-8906992/dubsweeper.rar.html

If you want the ultimate faceroll, enter 0 as p, field size (n, m) do not matter in that case. Aside of that, you can always use 666,999 as input to automatically solve it.

deSade.9437:

Matrix? And… and check. And secret.

I’ll try to implement cats next time.

Anyway, xero told me to try it with recursion and oh wonder, it works. No idea why I didn’t try that propely.

And after messing a little with variables, it seems if I choose the propability of mines underr 10%, the likelyhood of doing a 1-choice-solve is rather high. I was pretty confused at first, but I checked it through. Good old games.

Mike, try out my game. It might be somewhat more enjoyable than guild wars 2. Just for you, I’ll set maximum mines to 1!

Best feeling you can get in gw2.