Guild Wars 2

Necros can avoid the grub spawning on them if they use plague when they get the debuff.

He will not do anything if perma los’ed.

Can’t block grub spawns but dodge or counter them with invulnerability.

His projectiles can be reflected, the amount of reflected projectiles scales with how many people are in his aim when he starts the attack.

He has a minimum distance for bubblr and rapidfire cast, standing in his circlr will cause him to not use rhose attacks.

If standing in his circle sometimes the single projectile he throws may hit.

Well, should be account based so i’d get one piece for AC Path 1, one for Path 3, one for Arah Path 2, one for Arah Path 3, one for Arah Path 4.
For other characters i’d have to stick to other dungeons.

Just to show up how brokens the aqusitions of ascended gear is one example. 35 dailies/10 fractal dailys for one ascended amulet or ring, 2 weeks for an earring. And in all that time earning pretty nuch no gold at all. Full set of exotic trinkets is 40 minutes. So its like two month more playing boring content for a 3% increase in stats.

Why not getting one ascended piece for each solo’ed path. That would much better fit to the name “ascended” anyway. At the moment it should be called “grinded”.

I just had to +1 that post, couldn’t resist.

Dolan.3071:

haviz.1340:

Dolan.3071:

It’s just another Full Zerker dungeon. LoS can clear almost all the trash. Suicide golems die when a Zerker looks at them, Destroyer is a DPS race, and alpha is just L2D. Honestly don’t know why it isn’t more popular…

Tell us which dungeon isn’t full zerk (fractals included).

Caudecus’s Manor. I hate that dungeon with a passion, I don’t even think I’ve finished an Exp path there…

Also CM is all about using berserker equipment or being slow. Using anything else is simply selfish and will always be selfish unless the whole combat system isnt changed drastically.

Not even using huge exploits. Either running path 2 solo, which takes around 25 min, and invite 4 people for some gold at the end or du/3men path 4 and sell 4 spots at bloodstone shard for a quite nice amount of gold
Additionally Arah Tokens are worth pretty much when you got one of the recipes.

@Nikaido: Do you consider skipping 4 silver mobs at the door as an exploit? I don’t.
Same with skipping lupicus in path 1/2. Arenanet made him skippable.
If you see those things as exploits, glitching dhuum in gw1 was aswell. 99,x% of gw1 players would have been exploiters then. Anyway even without exploiting we dont need longer for our Arah runs duo than DnT in their guides. You waste more time on running than you may believe, fighting is just a small piece.

Things that i consider as exploits are those who arenanet fixes immediately – sentinel rifle, bottle or bovine potion as example.
Anets (first) rezzscroll fix actually didn’t fix it, just made it a bit more complicated.

Nikaido.3457:

Arah is terrible.

Doing up to 60g/hour in Arah. Can’t be so terrible.

About 500 Lupicus kills with always same averages of 100b. Should be enough data.
We both are running the 100% exact same setup except his (non infused) 5 ascended trinkets.

Edit: Laurels or 250 Badges of Honor+Laurels. So like more than a month for one piece?
I seriously can’t imagine any reason to not make them available for dungeon tokens, for an average player 1500 Arah tokens must be harder to achieve than 10 level 10 fractal runs.

So, since i’m like always doing much less damage than a friend of me (my 100b usually hits Lupicus for 20-23k with both banners, his usually for 25-28k with the same build) i want to know how huge the difference between ascended and exotic trinkets actually can be.
From my calculation i would have to do about 96% of his damage – but the case is more like 82%.
Stats are 2281/2320 Power, 1978/1997 Precision (55% Critchance both), 89%/94% Critdamage. 916 Toughness and Vitality.
Damage multiplifiers are same, 10%, 10%, 12%, 10%, 10% (Traits, Potion, Sigil, Runes).

Edit: Make ascended gear available by running dungeons. I’d rather spend 2000 Arah Tokens on a ring than running fractals 10 times.

Whirling Defense has been main dps source.

Know how to crash servers? That way did duping work (and theoretically still does).

I think it was 256 btw. By changing areas and dc’ing over and ovdr again the current party size was “1/8” even if already 7 players have been in. Just at 256 something crashed.

Duping is still broken in gw1. After the 14 men we found a possibility to 259men if i remember right) btw. Not that we ever did such a run…

Ricks ranger looked like a banana.

We didn’t split in that run, it was still a casual and we just took our time for fun.
Could probably get to 10 min with splitting for alphard.

Zraw has never been experienced in uw. DS has never been experienced in DoA.
NAME has been formed out of DL before they completely fell appart.
I cant tell much about NAME casuals anyway because the only runs i did with them were some DS+NAME mixes.

We usually do not skip Lupicus, for our 12 minute duo we did, tho. He usually doesn’t take more than 5 minutes (including turrets and abominations).

Zenith.7301:

Dub.1273:

Yeah, uw was very long with 20 minute casuals and fow with 7-10 min too.

UW was not done in 20 min by casuals. Ever.

It may have been pugged by people who had EXPERIENCE running it and had practiced their builds, but that is not casual. Pugging does not mean casual.

But our guild casuals in the time we had no speedteam were all about 16-17 minutes.

@Bright: the word casual was related to 20 min uw runs. And 20 min IS a casual uw time. The slowest area had 14-16 minutes to finish and our usual time was 10 min as duo’s which often was slowest area (without using gaki). I didn’t do much fow tbh but t6way was easy 10 mins. Can’t be compared to pugs who were using t2-3way, though.

It’s the same like arah now, our duo runs usualy take 15-20 minutes for path 2 or 3. 5 men experienced pugs usualy need twice as long. Still 20 minute is a casual time for us.

If you want to bexome a good player, reroll warrior.

Kull.9801:

Sanderinoa.8065:

ArashiKai.2496:

wow. nice job! also, extremely lucky of you to not get trapped at all

This bugged me too, but I can confirm that during his tries he has been trapped plenty and was able to get out 80% of the time.(I was stuck hosting the dungeon for hours!)

I must admit that i used the “don’t move and lupi doesn’t use his bubble” trick (got that one from Dub), which makes this fight quite a bit easier.
Both of the Rangers stability skills have 1 second activation time, so you would have to take at least 1 hit each time and the cooldowns are quite long, so i pretty much had to use that trick (unlike warrior).

“quite a bit”
Great job indeed, especially because it has been the first try after me going offline.

@obal, thanks for your evidience in me but i only had 2 hours time on ranger in which i had delay ~1 hour and then tried another 40 minutes on greatsword which always killed me by canceling my dodges. My first try with axe mainhand only and two energy sigils ended up with beeing kicked out (acc owner logged in lol) at 5% of lupicus hp left ._. Did not have the chance to play a ranger from that on.

I stopped reading at “remove zerker gear”.
WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU?

Yeah, uw was very long with 20 minute casuals and fow with 7-10 min too.

Aneirin Cadwall.9126:

Dub.1273:

Mesmers single-skill damage (without reflect) is the second worst in this game.

ftfy.

We can perform some of the highest burst combos in the game.
Key word: combos.

We have to set it up after a higher number of steps than most professions using multiple skills and traits.

It’s also a very telegraphed burst combo. You’ll always see it coming.

It’s also very easy to avoid. A single dodge will get you out of it every time.

There’s also a large number of other ways to avoid it. I’ve had people avoid my burst just by backpedaling. Very irritating. ;p

I didn’t say anything about single-skill or burst damage but damage in general, especially sustained. And the only professions dealing (very slightly) less damage in this game is ranger.

Mesmers damage without reflections is the second worst in this game, so…

Alissah.9281:

Greatsword has the highest ranged damage in a power build.

Wrong.

Farming Flats.5370:

Nike Porphyrogenita.8137:

Farming Flats.5370:

Broadicea.8294:

Dub.1273:

DnT, 3 Warrior 2 Mesmer 5:50. Fastest run i’ve seen so far without taking advantage of stupid event acitavation design.

http://youtu.be/GSvX9JXGKBk

They’re at 5:43 with 4W1M.

nice zoom-out hack i see there

There was no zoom out hack or any other hack or exploit in that video at all.

oh certainly , no way i can zoom out that much like in this video ..its evident when they kill the acolytes .. the toon is so tiny .. 100% zoom out hack

I can zoom out more than twice as much without using any hacks.

If you want to play solo, learn to solo dungeons. It’s that easy.

I’m just doing 8 AC Runs on my own today because i need those 500 tokens for gift of twilight, i’d prefer to run in a group tho.

The Mexican Cookie.3690:

Dub.1273:

obal.3218:

The best tests as skychef hinted on.

Lupi melee – 3 at a time (you plus 2 then the other 2) then doing it as a group
Shaman at 40+ – 2 at a time to see if they can get to the transition part then as a group
You can see how they do in general throughout the dungeon as well on top of these 2.

This will let you see if they are great, mediocre, or bad (like me!).

Can duo Lupicus without dodging, so there should probably be the rule to use berserker gear.

Only if you’re german

Germans can even solo him without dodging

Bright.9160:

Dub.1273:

Fight? I only remember a 10 minute long grand display of fireworks.

I don’t know if ‘grand’ is the word you’re looking for there….

Oh it was. It has been amazing, wonderful and extremely enjoyable!

DnT, 3 Warrior 2 Mesmer 5:50. Fastest run i’ve seen so far without taking advantage of stupid event acitavation design.

Fail, since their setup isn’t the very best for speedruns.

GW1 required tanks/“terras” to efficiently go through content.
GW2 requires damage to efficiently go through content.
Any build that is not focusing on damage is bad, only defense you need is endurance.
Warrior are not only the flavor of the month, they are the flavor of the game. Necros are bad, necros who don’t pull out their maximum damage are worse.

Fight? I only remember a 10 minute long grand display of fireworks.

Seriously can’t understand theese problems, never experienced them.

obal.3218:

The best tests as skychef hinted on.

Lupi melee – 3 at a time (you plus 2 then the other 2) then doing it as a group
Shaman at 40+ – 2 at a time to see if they can get to the transition part then as a group
You can see how they do in general throughout the dungeon as well on top of these 2.

This will let you see if they are great, mediocre, or bad (like me!).

Can duo Lupicus without dodging, so there should probably be the rule to use berserker gear.

Pretty much need the greatsword for getting rid of locusts quick enough.

I won’t be able to do something with the pet anyway so i just leave it dead (no selfheal for lupicus, no locustos eating me, etc).
I’ll try your traits next time though, thanks for advice. Any majors i should pick?

Nikaido.3457:

Dub.1273:

I wonder what would have happened to me if i had chosen a ranger as my first toon.

I know someone who left the game because he started with ranger. He found his character sucked major *, didn’t expect the fact that the pet was so much of the ranger damage and that it would never be able to be perma stowed (he hates pet mechanics) and he couldn’t bring himself to grind enough dungeons for gold for craftlvling an alt by using a char he hated, much less having to redo the whole heart questing again. Since he felt stuck with a hateful character he just chose to leave the game rather than make a new one and go through the extremely boring good old heart stuff.

I would never have found interest in trying to duo AC (→ other dungeons), would not have created a warrior, mesmer and guardian, never been able to solo stuff and therefore… probably been one of those wrongbow spammers in cleric gear who think they’re useful as last man standing.

One from our gw1 speedrunning team started with ranger, he wasnt able to speedrun/duo things because of his profession and lost interest quick. Pretty much what you said

I’d rather say: beeing able to quickly recognise boss skills/mechanics and learn to counter them. Doesn’t have to do much with elitism, though.

@OP: You still didn’t say if you are on EU or NA servers.

Report him for… running with slow party members?
Who gives a kitten about theese few blues anyway?

Wow, that was one nice update to mesmers. Seems anet did some good things in gw1.

Morrigan.2809:

marnick.4305:

Ezpz.7612:

My first argument is that gw2 is ultimately a game focused on self-progression, like most MMOs. Part of this progression is being able to identify your dps going up, either from getting better gear or becoming better at your rotation / choosing a more optimal trait setup and such.

I do not agree with this, because fundamentally GW2 is NOT focused on gear progression, which makes it unlike most MMOs.

With that, your entire argument falls apart.

Furthermore, I can’t see this being optional. It’s either DPS on or kick. When on it’s minimal this dps or kick. This minimum is always based on the most optimal cookie cutter, so fundamentally it’ll remove all builds, skills and traits from the game except the #1. What good is that?
Nothing good can come from this. I don’t want this game to have cookie cutter builds and rotations. It makes the game less fun.

This.

Also the game needs to move away from the DPS or get out mindset, this is purely player created and makes the game much less fun.

We have the ability to create different builds, experiment with different playstyles and gear combo’s- the moment you have a DPS meter all that goes out the window.

There are other ways of contributing to a fight you know.

Yeah. Play like you want. But truth is: berserker, maximum dps or suck and are useless.
Therefore +2 for a dps-meter, even if you can choose if it’s visible for other players or not.

I’d rather call fractals longer than harder.

Well i started playing gw1 about 1 year before gw2 release so i can’t tell anything about previous balance. When i started playing warriors only had little use in FoWSC where they were the weaker alternative to VoS in slow pugways. And Mesmers had Ineptitude/Lyssas Aura, Wastrel’s Worry, Wastrels Demise, Empathy and few more. Also Energysurge for DoA and not to mention Cry of Pain before it’s nerf.

And yeah, rangers had only whirling defense – one skill to rule them all.

Mesmer was the strongest damage dealer by far in gw1 and rangers have been extremely strong in solo’ing areas. Warriors have been absolutely useless in gw1.

Hard to compare gw1 and gw2 since the combat system is different. The only thing that never changed are huge differences between what would be balanced and how anet “balances”.

Nuka Cola.8520:

Esorono.1039:

Mesmers are terrible relative to other professions in the first half of the game, then they become fairly powerful endgame. But when it comes to DPS output, they aren’t going to be even comparable to the monster truck that is a warrior. Mesmer’s strength in PvE is due to their utility, and that if well played can dodge attacks very well. And mesmers still get a role in dungeon rush teams thanks to time warp, which makes farming gold easier than 6 other professions.

that is soooo untrue. This is where i wish we could see our dps at the end of a dungeon run because i believe a shatter mez with useful utilities such as feedback outdamages most everyone including 100swag spammers. If you’re doing low level fractals or easy dungeons where you can faceroll on melee without ever worrying then a warrior may be better but do 40+ fotm and mez will outdamage any warrior builds.

Mesmers can’t outdamage warriors guardians thieves or elementalists. Never.

Yeah, skipping as warrior, guardian, thief or ranger is pretty much a joke, eles don’t have it too hard while skipping as mesmer can be tough. Still, all professions can skip on their own.

Reason why rangers suck in dungeons:

- low DPS
- no support
- stupid pet
- good players who are aware of this reroll to other professions

Still looking for a solo video of a ranger using his pet.
First of all i should probably bother trying it once more. Ugh.

EU/NA

Many people also think that party should stay together while skipping. Still trying to figure out why, even if i mostly get the answer when they can’t do it on their own for the next 10 minutes.

I wonder what would have happened to me if i had chosen a ranger as my first toon.

Just as if fractals were hard… lol

100% world completion gave a friend 6 precursors.