Guild Wars 2

We simply need a) rampager gear with condition damage as main stat and b) condition duration and condition damage on another. Then we need condition traits (the guardian is the only profession who has some, but yet it’s the worst profession to use conditions – it has only burn), a condition stack cap increase and equal access to important conditions on any profession. Right now, a condition damage player must do more than 200% of the dps of a berserker player, simply to become not a leech. If they do that, though, wvw will get into condition builds even more, while pve carries at most 0-1, rest being berserker.

http://youtu.be/M3MIDg5TQmA

First attempt without coordination. Could cut that time by half if we just used out ice storms simultaneously.

Bingo!

Quaggan confirmed to be OP.

In a guild group the boss dies within 5 seconds anyway.

Warlord.9074:

bull

To make it easy for you, get your critchance to 100% and kill a normal mob in cursed shore with just axe autoattacks. Once without, once with the trait. Assuming you always crit and deal the same amount per hit, now check both in frame for frame format. If you can’t figure the kill speed difference then, a) just don’t ever come back to the forum or, if you can, b) apologize for giving false information, followed by a).

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

I think the best part is he linked my post and didn’t even notice.

I somewhat get it now.

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

A 20% attack speed bonus would be ridiculous, there’s no trait that gives that much of a DPS boost other than Grenadier, which is incidentally THE epitome of a broken trait.

But basically the only one making engineer dps somewhat okay’ish.

I can kill the last boss solo without stacking in a corner, so how is stacking not bad when it basically just takes the time to lure the boss there and forces you to either dodge or take hits as you can’t step behind him or out of his range.

Blood Red Arachnid.2493:

I think what people hate are illegitimate sellers. Those guys who, near the end of a dungeon, kick everyone but themselves from the party and then sell the dungeon.

I’ve more often been griefed out of dungeons when I added “legit” to the lfg than when I did not. Then it’s not only the usual whiteknights who kick, but also the exploiting sellers because they don’t like the fact it’s doable without exploiting. On the other side, there’s a ton of sellers that add “legit” to the lfg while still having exploited the run, their explanation for that is “legit i dont scam u”, that kind of thing upsets me aswell.

I would consider doing that, but I don’t have a second computer.

I basically only play with both hands when I need to move and use skills at the same time. If I stand still, I usually take one hand back, usually it being inactive.

As for rubiks cubes, not as much now as I used to. My limits were around the 9-10 second mark, without putting extensive amounts of time into practise. Around that, motivation began dropping, but I still solve them once in a while. Back to ~20 seconds, though.

Like that, just faster, without that broad audience and the cubes actually being solved in the end.

Solving 2 rubiks cubes at the same time.

Woah, I guess that explains why pugs like to stack warriors.

I remember not having my hands on my keyboard, when suddenly three maw tentacles spawned. Ping, pong, ping… dead.

You might all have different points of views about what is stupid. Imo, taking a guardian or more than one warrior already is. But even more so, using that stupid spot west of kholer, or even not getting into the right position for the gravelings. Or waiting in some corner in the right before engaging a fight, which once again obviously happens in a kittened position. Stacking for p1/p3 AC bosses is honestly one of the most supid things one can do in this game. Yet, all pugs do it.

All aboard the sander-trainoa!

Kicking leechers right before the boss is perfectly fine, if they were willingly not matching the requirements. It’s nothing I personally do, but I don’t see an issue with it either.

Nicely said. Sadly, lately I see a steady decrease of said cells in the average pug. Have not been getting ‘good’ ones for quite a while now, been kicking more than rewarding.

Anyway, I almost had a full minute of lagless play around 6 pm, after that, my delay went so bad that I couldn’t even join guild missions, though.

Apparently I need to l2p, after solo’ing kholer and three of four burrows.

Wow.

“Paths 1-3, only native english speakers who are willing to communicate”
“p3 at boss, free reward for full ascended berserkers (scholar runes), gear ping”
“p1, lf 4 berserker eles only”

I don’t see rangers being used in speedruns at all, until they fix sword autos, make frost spirit invulnerable, completely disable the pet and increase personal dps by quite a bit.

As for Nikaido, I too used to not understand why people get booted from runs, until I tried playing efficient in pugs. LoS’ing a boss more than once to get another fiery rush in? Kick. Usi.g a different (better) LoS spot pugs are not aware of? Kick. Soloing half the dungeon because pugs can’t catch up? Kick. Hell, I was seriously booted for ‘playing too good’. Or just watch my AC Wars 2 video, I got booted for solo’ing 80% of the ghost eater while others died about instantly.

That being said, pugs don’t run efficient tactics, they use something totally kittened that has about never been efficient and can’t explain why they do. Well, except for the usual ‘all stack here cuz always stack’.

As for lfg’s, ANet should really do something about that. Probably implementing a quiz the party creator can set up, which anyone who wants to join must answer correct. Basically whenever I was setting up a lfg, I don’t get more than 1 guy (if lucky) who fits my requirements.

If people who kick someone at the last boss because he was willingly not fitting the requirement deserves a ban, the guy joining without fitting the description deserves that too.

Tree.3916:

Nike is a lot smarter than you, though.

Gotta love it.

That would almost force everyone to actively play.

Well, you don’t really need Forceful Greatsword to stack up might on allies. And even though I didn’t do math about that, I don’t think a 6/0/0/2/6 ele would deal more damage than a 10/30/0/30/0 warrior for example.

And a lot worse dps than a warrior using PS plus providing banners and EA.

Enemies should regen 20k health per second.

Sanderinoa.8065:

Dub.1273:

He has three phases, the first one has reflectable projectiles, the second one unreflectable projectiles that do kittenloads of confusion and some mesmer gs 1 like skill that does moderate damage. Third phase is full melee where he teleports and kinda oneshots you and all allies close to you with his giant whirl. He did probably bug out then.

He doesnt hit too hard though, the unreflectable projectiles are only in one direction, and dont do confusion from what I recall, the mesmer GS1 attack is the reflectable projectile I talked about, and thats the one that does like 5 stacks of confusion per second. The teleport thing is pretty easy to avoid because once he charges it he wont adjust where he’ll jump so if you just move a bit he’ll miss entirely. the giant whirl is just lame xD it doesnt do a lot of damage and is super easy to avoid as he just whirls all over the place at a slow pace.

Really? I just remember the last time doing it, started with 5 broken pieces and ended with 6. :<

Sanderinoa.8065:

quote=3959546;Dub.1273:

Âww yiss.

Sanderinoa.8065:

Iris Ng.9845:

The stupid HotW boss that Sandy just solo’d recently?

His attacks are fast but single target, so a 5 man group has it easy with him

Dub.1273:

My vote probably goes to the legendary priest with eternity in front of arah.

lol, his gs aa is a reflectable projectile, haviz and I duoed it before very casually

He has three phases, the first one has reflectable projectiles, the second one unreflectable projectiles that do kittenloads of confusion and some mesmer gs 1 like skill that does moderate damage. Third phase is full melee where he teleports and kinda oneshots you and all allies close to you with his giant whirl. He did probably bug out then.

As for balthasar, aside of the video sandy posted where noone had an idea (as we never did that fight before, or at least, I did not) he’s generally pretty easy.

Honour to Wethospu!

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Ooooh. So… save me almighty staff/scepter/shield guards!

On my way!

The only hard thing about grawl shaman is the bugged aoe attack that tends to hit you in dodges. As for a 5 man group, I’m not really sure if there is a ‘hard’ boss in this game. My vote probably goes to the legendary priest with eternity in front of arah.

I don’t see anything bad about the kick. I do the same, although I usually check people’s brains before entering the dungeon.
And when I’m doing like AC p3, advertising ‘4 free spots, at boss, berserker only (preferably ascended) with meta runes’ and getting some guys that are telling me where to stack , although they might be using kitten gear (often refusing to ping), I would rather leave and destroy the dungeon than getting those kitteneds a free reward.

Put down a warbanner and that alone is 12-16 stacks. Add FGJ and you’re at 15-22.
It’s not as strong might stacking as an elementalist (which I never said) but its still a pretty stong might stack boost that gets Forceful GS warriors to stay at about 25 perma might.

As for guang, I do not disagree with him simply because he says something. I don’t disagree that rangers have their use in speedkills of bosses. I don’t disagree with pure axe being a tiny amount stronger than gs rotation on spreadsheet.
But I disagree with him that any of these things are practical and will show the same results he gets on spreadsheet in real runs. The mesmer thing is just one of them, probably being the most obvious. I don’t have a problem that he theorycrafts and such, what I have a problem with is that he comes to a forum, makes an impractical point and stays on it being practical.
The fact that I never saw him playing surely contributes to that, but I have not heard good things yet. As for me playing more, that surely used to be true. I don’t really think one needs to play to play a lot to become good at the game, though. Luckily I know some prime examples to back up that point. Noone would disagree with me that wethospu doesn’t exactly play much and I can’t recall him ever doing so.

That aside, for the engi thing he repeatedly claims, I’m getting tired of it. His numbers are so far off reality that I highly doubt he ever tested that ingame. But I shouldn’t complain, claims like warriors having the worst survivability or mesmers dealing the most dps or sword rangers being more practical than greatsword warriors or… you get the point, surely make up for the effort of reading through his posts.

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

Melfice.5091:

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a video where Guanlai proves his claims, while I’ve seen plenty from dub etc

Yeah, that’s what the “anchor guardian” proponents said too, and that’s why today no one runs anything but 3 DPS warriors, 1 anchor guard, and 1 mesmer (purely for the Timewarp).

I have no idea why this is brought up repeatedly, the only people I know ever running an anchor guardian were the DnT team in Strifes videos, in a time where one barely had a part of today’s encounter knowledge.

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

Kara dodge allows you to interrupt sword chain without DPS loss. Not to mention the damage isn’t nearly as backloaded to begin with so you generally interrupt it more freely without having to worry about taking the huge DPS hit at all. It does suck for stacking and certain other fights where you want to be at a very specific distance but other than that I haven’t had any real problems with it.

Regardless it is literally just personal preference, maybe I think ranger is easier and you think warrior is easier. I think pure axe is more practical and you think GS whirl is more practical. At any rate I think you should probably try actually rolling an engie and see how strong it is for yourself before you start knocking it. Otherwise it just turns into the DPS guardian/ranger debate all over again and at this point I think we know who turned out to be right in the end.

Ignoring anything but the “interrupting 100b = big dps loss”, what if I told you that dodging outside of 100b actually results in a relative dps increase?
And once again, 100b damage is not backloaded at all. The longer you channel 100b, the higher your overall dps gets, yet 100b itself deals qual damage per second at any time. Aside of the last hit, though, as that not only has twice the casttime of the previous hits but also contains the (small) aftercast window.

Anyhow, we’ve seen enough posts of you to know that you love engis. But sadly, contrary to your conclusions, they have about no spot in actually efficient runs, as basically all aspects of them are worse than you think.

deSade.9437:

/falls flat on the face and starts crying hysterically

6u4n6m47h will save you, it’ll soon come up with berserker pearl weapons being for casuals, rampager engis for max. deepz and filthy elitists.

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

I’m pretty sure we already went over this but GS having one extra dodge isn’t really worth putting up with the long enforced root, especially not when other weapons offer plenty of ways to avoid damage just fine.

Wait, are you trying to argue with me what is practical and actually useful in this game?

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

For that matter, no one plays ranger even though their sword chain is arguably Mich easier to deal with than hb root.

Do you even…?

Arah path 1 and 4 are the most lucrative ones, along with AC path 1 and Arah path 2.

However, each dungeon path in this game, probably except SE path 2, is doable within 15 minutes.

45 minutes is about the time I need to solo all three paths
You can’t blame that on berserker gear anyway, as that has nothing to do with zerg gear.

mtpelion.4562:

Some people enjoy learning things on their own shrug

You can’t fault them for that.
You can fault them if they later wind up in your group and haven’t learned anything and won’t listen though.

I learned most content in the game on my own, I must suck at it.

Why the kitten are people proud of not playing berserker builds, just because they are desired and actually useful? And even more so, why are ssome people proud of joining berserker only parties without using berserker gear?

Being a leech and basically griefing other people must be fun as hell.

Tree.3916:

That thread started as GS+Axe vs Pure Axe.

It ended with neither concept being the best.

That aside, I still don’t really see any use of axe aside of swapping for ocassionally while gs skills are on cooldown. GS simply offers more than axe in real dungeon play, even with about 10% less damage output, I woundn’t see any point in using axe. Unless one can get out of combat instantly after each fight, having no mobility skills on cooldown and instantly switching traits and weapons for higher mobility. In arah, gs + sw/wh would probably still be superior to pure axe if it dealt 20% less damage. Split over a party, it’s about 4% less party damage output, assuming others deal at most as much damage as you theoretically would. A 4% damage loss on all bosses probably slows fights down for 2 seconds in total, you save that time by many times just by doing one skip and starting a fight earlier.

Neko.9021:

I remember when people thought Guang was crazy for promoting the idea of a “DPS Guardian” over an “Anchor Guardian” in dungeons. Good times.

I have to admit, I still have a knight trinket set on my guardian. Since about one and a half year, although I never used it. That aside, I have no idea what guang had to do with dps guardians over anchor guardians, but I never understood why people used those, so what do I know.

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

But hey, Dub’s the one who figured out how to make Forceful Greatsword might stacking work with an Axe, clearly I’m just the dumb one here.

I didn’t know it was forceful greatsword that transfered might stacks you get to the party, good to know.

Edit: Nevermind, I’ll stop bothering. You’ve proven often enough there’s no point discussing with you. Guess I’ll just wait for your amazing engi + axe warrior speedruns.

Pug Wars 2 – AC Path 2

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

Dub.1273:

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

This thead really makes me wonder by engineer gets sold short so hard, they can might blast without interference from light fields, stack loads of vuln, and now deal extremely competitive DPS (around thief tier). Much better than anything a Phalanx warrior can put out, pug or not.

I guess it’s just cause no one wants to press all those buttons, I almost never see engies in any PvE format, period, and the ones I see are running something stupid.

We just all missed the amazing new trait that converted guangmath into actual game facts, namely ‘increasing engineers direct damage by 75%’.

Sounds like someone’s still salty about getting blown up in the DWA vs. GS thread.

In all seriousness, I don’t think I’ve ever not said Engie is super high DPS. The patch DOES in fact increase Engie DPS by a kittenton, since rifle burst + ascended weapon damage + double sigil + everyone else being nerfed adds up pretty significantly.

Yeah, I remember your calculations about solo engis dealing same level of direct dps as warriors. Which is why their actual direct damage output is about half a warriors ingame. And yeah, I totally “lost” in that DWA thread, I’m so freakin’ kitten that gs is better dps than axe.

The only thing that bothers me is that you actually continue making claims that are so far off reality that one could think you’re playing a completely other game. Oh well, you actually are. Because paperwars2 has almost nothing to do with guild wars 2, as being proven several times.