Guild Wars 2

Zet.9130:

I too decided to max Magic Find using salvage items purchased at the TP. With some market/price research I ended up over 200g ahead. I continue to buy and salvage long after maxing MF. FYI greens give the most Luck.

200 × 2133 = 426,600

Enko what are you doing with your Luck? I’m at 94 stacks and counting. Perhaps a Forge recipe to turn them into Mystic Coins or ectos or ……. minor sigils?

My Essences of Luck get upgraded to the exotic ones then get put on a storage character in the hopes we’ll have an additional use for them someday. When Guild Halls came out, used some of them for that

Agent of Entropy repeated 41,618 times so 8,323,600 items salvaged.

The comments about having to fail being the only way to learn don’t make a whole lot of sense either as when groups advertise as training runs or on the forums as being available and willing to help people learn raids or their classes, there doesn’t seem to be a lot of interest.

ironfrodo.7625:

Enko.6123:

ATM, there is no restricted/unrestricted split.

Thats why the threadtitle is ‘RESTRICTED RECORD’

Go look at gw2dungeons.net where the records are being kept. There isn’t a restricted/unrestricted split anymore. Hasn’t been for a while despite people still calling it that. They’re just used to it.

ironfrodo.7625:

BlackDragon.3752:

Man you are crying on such a high level. Compare gw2 with other mmos the amount you need to grind for gear is really low. So if legendarys are the best gear then it is like that, doesn’t matter if they are bugged or not. Just get a legendary yourself if you want to have your so called 15% dps increase it’s not like it takes a long time to get a legendary.

Yeah if you wanna exploit go for unrestricted

ATM, there is no restricted/unrestricted split.

ironfrodo.7625:

“Legendary weapons are a set of high-end weapons that have unique appearances. They have the same stats as ascended weapons …”

Scaling on legendaries is messed up atm and aren’t scaling down as much as ascended are so they’re dealing more damage in downscaled content.

Tyler Bearce.3427:

Our primary motivation for avoiding running another tournament, is that at the end of every tournament we saw a permanent dip in the number of players playing WvW. Presumably this was due to players burning themselves out during the tournament.

However, we can still run a poll to see if the majority of the community wants another 4 week tournament, even if it might be bad for the long term WvW population numbers. Though even if ‘running another tournament’ won the poll, we’d probably hold off until we get the scoring updates in.

Are you not seeing a dip in PvP participation when the seasons aren’t running?

For those looking for help or wanting to learn raids on NA servers.

Trainee Minimum expectations:
Teamspeak and Microphone
1 character geared at a minimum of exotics.
Builds we use: Builds
Motivated to learn
No raid experience required
No repping requirement as a Trainee
No trial to sign up as a Trainee

How this will work:
I would prefer if people registered on www.lodgw2.com for invites.
I have a second guild to invite people to.

Since this just started, I’ll work with people on their classes first. We can go over raid mechanics as well.
Once we get enough people, we’ll start going through raids and going over raid mechanics in raids.
I may invite people from this group to go on our guild runs provided I’ve gone over their classes with them first.

This is mainly going to be around my schedule and my work schedule can be a little weird sometimes (shift work that changes every 8 days).

If you’re interested, either visit lodgw2.com/recruitment and fill out the form there, whisper me in-game (Enko.6123) or post here and I’ll get back to you. The order I listed here is my main order of preference for this.

If you’d eventually like to join the guild too, I’ll discuss that with people individually if people are interested. This post is not to join the guild but to help people get into raids.

Bump to the top.

Bump to the top.

Legion of Doom is a PvE guild on the NA servers. We have opened up training for players who want to learn raids or join the guild that do not yet meet our requirements but want to work towards it.

Primary timezones are for NA.
Our guild hall is lvl 64 with all upgrades built.
We are one of the first five guilds to complete the first raid wing, Spirit Vale.
We are one of the first guilds to complete the second raid wing, Salvation Pass.

Minimum expectations:
Teamspeak and Microphone
1 character geared at a minimum of exotics.
Builds we use: Builds
Motivated to learn
No raid experience required
Looking at eventually becoming a guild Member
No repping requirement as a Trainee
No trial to sign up as a Trainee

Have at least these masteries:
Mastery Requirements:
Gliding 3: Lean Techniques
Itzel Lore 1: Bouncing Mushrooms
Nuhoch Lore 4: Nuhoch Stealth Detection

If you don’t have the raid masteries yet, get these as soon as you can:
Forsaken Thicket: All masteries

How this will work:
Scheduled training days for raids and classes. Schedules will be created at a later time.

If we have empty spots for guild raid runs, we will fill from Trainees first before going to the LFG.

If you are interested in joining as a full fledged member, you’ll need to meet the minimum requirements as detailed on our website.

If you are interested, please visit http://www.lodgw2.com/recruitment and fill out the form or whisper Enko.6123 if you have any questions.

icy.9250:

hi, I might be interested, but my classes are like this:
1) Thief, main, most comfortable in, fully geared. Killed VG with it; did fractal 100, etc.
2) Necro, has asc viper’s armor. Has asc trinkets; working on optimizing them.
3) Ele, full exotic, 5/6 asc trinkets, otherwise built as zerker
I also have a chrono but ungeared.

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HumanComplex.1648:

Hi there, looking for a raid group, been doing t4 frac for a while now, looking to change it up.
Mesmer full asc, very familiar with raid chrono skill rotation. very comfortable.
War full asc (minus the mace), also very comfortable with this one.
I know it wasn’t mentioned in the list but I have Thief asc trinkets, some asc armor. comforable.
Working on unlocking elite spec on my ele at the moment… no experience on ele

Please go to www.lodgw2.com to apply. Also make sure you’re meeting all of the listed requirements before submitting an application.

Guardian of Angels.9867:

Shylock.4653:

http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Dragonhunter_-_DPS/Support

Just wanted to share that I’ve been running that build ever since high lvl fractals, haven’t experienced any problems with it.

That build works fine. Just watch out for your Symbol of Wrath you drop when you get hit under 50%. If you’re on one of the boon steal instabilities and you have some fast hitting classes like Ele on your team, that retal will kill them.

RoseofGilead.8907:

It’s a bug. A full relog of the game will usually fix it. If that doesn’t fix it, then using the portal stone or logging into GW1 and back out can fix it, too.

Doing all 3 fixed it for me. Thanks.

I received the same in game mail and have also had all of my Hall of Monuments achievements removed.

Generally a couple of hours before reset to 4 or 5 hours after reset is considered NA hours.

I would suggest they add a Grandmaster tier from 81-100.
Also instead of picking one fractal in the bottom two tiers, give us three random fractal levels in each tier to do for the dailies. Still lets people do them one at a time so not much time required in one sitting and brings back a little of the old system. this would also prevent people from just doing swamps.

EphemeralWallaby.7643:

Because cele is stats for whatever build you’re running, thereby making the item more universally useful.

If your build truly gets messed up by one item having sub-optimal stats, then there’s something wrong with your build.

~EW

Edit: also I believe the effects are tied to the gem in the accessory, not the accessory itself… so you can take it out of the amulet/whatever and stick it somewhere else…. but I could be wrong about that ‘cause I don’t yet own any of those items.

It’s a gem which means you can only put it in exotic gear. You can’t put it in ascended.

When you run out of lives, you get taken to moto’s dungeon. Using the infinite continue coin there gives you 99 lives. You can use it as many times as you want.

Monday – TP, Raids, Fractals, PvP, More characters to 500 for each crafting
Tuesday – TP, Raids, Fractals, PvP
Wednesday – TP, Fractals, PvP, Open world stuff
Thursday – TP, Raids, Fractals, PvP
Friday – TP, Raids, Fractals, PvP
Saturday – TP, Raids, Fractals, PvP,
Sunday – TP, Raids, Fractals, PvP

Fused skins
Zodiac skins
Sclerite skins
Tribal Set
Marauder Set
Halloween 2012 skins

Trice.4598:

Yeps, your comp definitely worked very well, while my team had good dps in the beginning, it dropped drasticaly during the last 20%, they took almost as long as the first 80% haha. You were able to keep good DPS
During the whole fight. Very nice kills by the way!

We can probably take off another minute at least with a couple of changes. It’ll be interesting to see how fast we can eventually down this boss.

Which comp were you running?

Was it too easy? Too hard? Just right?

Difficulty level mechanics wise was a lot lower for Slothasar.
Bandit trio out of place as a boss. Crystal mentioned that the encounter was balanced around the no environmental achievement which may have been why.
Matthias seems fine. Difficulty could probably be increased a bit.

What did you think of the mechanics?

Punishing good gameplay mechanics like timing reflects for his attacks gives him buffs is kind of annoying though. Same as how the lose boons on dodge instability punishes good gameplay and one of the reasons why so many hates those tiers.

Did they add new boss fight mechanics compared to Wing 1 that pleased you? This might be things like mandating projectile management.

Different mechanics is always nice.
There’s probably some mechanic inspiration that they could draw from dungeons and fractals as well and then be able to mix them up together.

What things would you like to see mechanics-wise in Wing 3 now that you’ve seen the other 2?
Which wing did you like more and why?

Fix the spawn points. We had the same problem initially with Sabetha where if you leave the instance, you respawn really far back. This was eventually fixed. Somehow, they have the same problem with Matthias.

Move spawn points to before the boss.
Look at Gorseval’s spawn point for what’s good about that.

There’s no reason for Slothazaur’s respawn to be so far back beyond just making people take an extra 30 seconds to get back to the fight.

During the look in to Sabetha design, they mentioned that they took out the cannon running part because it ended up that some people almost didn’t get to fight. Mechanics like that could be fine if rekeyed.

More punishing enrage timers. The timers as they are are pretty loose for all of the raid bosses so far.
Bandit Trio timers were excessive since the champs respawn at set times. You end up waiting for almost a minute doing nothing between each.

Different or more creative enrage timers than just double damage. Either more mechanics or just speed up the mechanics.
Instead of a corruption every 30 seconds, make it every 25 seconds, then 20 seconds, then 15, etc if the fight keeps going.
Have damage continue to increase over time. Enrage timer hits, 10% damage buff, every 15 more seconds the fight goes on, an additional 10% damage buff, etc.
Have the mechanics change or the boss goes on a rampage or something.

Could the challenge mote coding from fractals be used for achievements here? For the bandit trio no environmental achievement, you could activate a challenge mote which would just disable them. This could also mean that the timer can be modified to fit the individual challenge.

Circular arenas are getting a bid old. Something where during phases we have to chase the boss down to another room or have to use some kind of stealth mechanic/running quickly (ie see old dungeon records).

Hard mode.

ATM, the different categories that I could see are individual boss kills and go by how much time is left. Also stipulate that the boss can’t be moved from the starting point prior to starting like you can on Gorseval.

For full raid speedclears, I would look at pretty much the same rules we had for dungeons and fractals. Clock starts when anyone moves or uses a skill at the beginning, no character swapping, clock stops when final boss dies.

You could then also have different categories for the same with different numbers of party members.

Trice.4598:

Matthias would be the perfect fight if it had an aggro mechanic it was kind of annoying having him move around everyone, mostly after the person who needs to cleanse corruptio or drop the fire AoE away from the zerg.

Also i’m curious, have you guy tried condi chrono? With people scattered most of the time, they don’t get much alacrity, which is the only benefit of the regular chrono build, torment, confusion would be good against him plus the 40-50 stacks of bleeding.

Overall the fights had more mechanics to them but were much more forgiving, and the timers were REALLY generous, specially on Matthias.

We did have a lot of time left for our runs. The other guilds that have posted videos are all sub 60 seconds though.

We’ll probably try other builds as things become more refined. The condi mesmer build would probably work pretty well here since there’s no breaks in phases like there are for the Wing 1 bosses.
As far as the issue with being spread out, it’ll probably eventually get to the point where you don’t need to be scattered that much except for the pbaoe bombs on the later phases.

Other guilds have posted their videos so updated first post with our’s.

Slothasar was a fun boss though easier than the wing bosses when first attempted. There’s a lot less mechanic wise going on.

I didn’t even realize the Bandit Trio was the second boss for the first few attempts. Thought it was a pre-event. The achievement for that boss seems like it will be a bit more difficult. It was a nice change of pace with something different than just going after the boss. It did seem a little out of place though.

Matthias was the hardest for us though for the first 3 hours, we didn’t realize we were basically fighting him with an Enrage that we were causing. Once we figured that out, it went a lot better. Still a lot of things going on good fight.

TexZero.7910:

I can rough guess based on timers, assuming little to no wasted time

One of our players apparently recorded all the runs today and the total actual play time minus waiting for people came out to only 57 minutes out of 2.5 hours so we had a lot of waiting apparently.

Total time working on raid:
Slothasaur: 2.5 hours
Bandit Trio: 2 hours
Matthias: 5 hours
Total time: 9.5 hours

Not sure how many attempts that breaks down to.

[LOD] Clear Screenshots:
Slothasaur (1:52 left on clock)
Bandit Trio (1:49 left on clock)
Matthias (3:01 left on clock)

We’ll post our videos once a couple more guilds clear Matthias.

Edit:
Since people are starting to post their videos, I’ll post LOD’s.

Slothasar
Slothasaur (Ranger)

Bandit Trio (1:49 left on clock)
Bandit Trio (Ranger)
Bandit Trio (Mesmer)

Matthias (3:01 left on clock)
Matthias (Necro)
Matthias (Mesmer)

Sorry for the choppiness on my videos. Need to figure out what’s causing that.

Akrib.4297:

Is there any way to get Viper trinkets through vendors or do they have to be crafted? It seems viper is better and easier to get than sinister trinkets , which you only get from LS2 achievements.

You’d have to get the exotic recipe from Auric Basin to make the Exotic ones or buy the Black Diamond Jewelry recipes off the TP.

You cannot craft ascended Viper’s. Those are only obtainable through raids or personal story for Mordrem Loop.

Ven Zehn.6573:

I wonder, if the legendary armor can swap weights, then might there just be one skin for all 3?

Also just thought of an idea: For runes, what if, by applying a rune, it unlocks that rune for that armor piece, and you can select between all unlocked runes.

That’s been suggested for a while now for legendary weapons with sigils as well.

As it is, you might as well make ascended weapons for each stat type since they use different sigils.

BloodyNine.7504:

harold.3526:

I would kick people who use the insights link thing in the last 1% health of the boss.

While I agree lying about it is a crappy thing to do. If you got the boss to 1%, then who cares? You win.

Also, I was in a Sabetha pug the other day and we had someone that was DCing a bunch. Finally we decided to kick them after they didn’t come back online. So we kicked mid fight. Sabetha de-spawned on us. Not sure if it would be a repeatable bug. But as a general rule now I won’t kick someone except between pulls.

We’ve had that happen on other bosses. If someone leaves the squad/gets kicked from squad mid fight, then the boss resets. If they just DC, then they haven’t left so it doesn’t do anything.

We finished maxing our guild hall last night as well. We’re currently sitting at 33 members (after we cleared out some inactives and people who didn’t want to do raid).

I’m wondering if guild favors and aetherium are going to go the same way that merits did. Heck, at this point they would be even more worthless than merits since merits were still needed to make some things.

For Staff Ele, I run full Berserker’s with Scholar runes and all power infusions.

With Signet of Fire and a Superior Sigil of Accuracy, you’re getting 65.28% crit chance before buffs. With Fury, Spotter, and Banner of Discipline, you cap out so don’t even need precise infusions.

Accuracy scales better when you have quickness/alacrity vs Air since that 3 second cooldown isn’t affected by alacrity.

You can run more power vs assassin’s and put in an accuracy sigil instead for Staff Ele. For Fresh Air, you’re already getting extra precision from a trait so no need for it there.

Staff Ele and Guardian are the only places that I use accuracy.

You’re losing out on a lot of alacrity for your team if you don’t take a shield as well.

Just some runs we’ve been working on with low manning raids to test out builds and different tactics.
We can definitely improve it a bit more if we make less mistakes especially on the 6 man on the last phase.

5 Man Vale Guardian – 0:29 left on clock
Warrior POV
Mesmer POV

6 Man Vale Guardian – 2:05 left on clock
Warrior POV
Revenant POV
Mesmer POV
Elementalist POV

Nah its fine. It would be nice if things like this were a bit more consistent. Just like how some of the collection pieces are labeled as having no value except as part of a collection while others don’t and some have merchant values while others don’t and so forth.

Thanks. I’ll just grab some more Amber Dipoles then.

Weapon and Armor skins unlock when you forge them.
The Minis from Old Tom collection do not which means you need an extra one of each to add to your Wardrobe to actually unlock it since unlocking consumes it.
Is this intended? It seems inconsistent from forging weapons and armors.

https://youtu.be/n_q-me_k4HI

Farming the mobs at the beginning of a lvl 6 or a lvl 19 might actually be worth it to try to get these. You can farm Vials at the same time while trying to get the Amber Dipoles.

The other issue with this collection is that you actually need an extra of each to actually add it to your Wardrobe as throwing them into the Mystic Forge does not unlock it in your Wardrobe like when you forge weapon or armor skins you don’t have. Adding it to your Wardrobe consumes the Mini which you then no longer have to throw in the Forge.

Been waiting for 500 jewelcrafting for a long time. Hopefully, we’ll hear about it this year.

There’s no restricted vs unrestricted records now so not really any place to list this since it doesn’t beat the current duo record from last May.

I’ve had a similar issue where it feels like my center channel is missing. I can hear NPCs if I turn away from them so if they’re to the side or behind me but not if they’re directly in front of me.. Always thought it was just an issue with my sound card settings and I never bothered to really troubleshoot it since it didn’t bother me that much.

Necro is perfectly fine for high level fractals if you bring stuff to deal with whatever instability or fractal you’re on.

molewall.7943:

Quite frankly, hardly anyone from my guild is ever in the guild hall. It is just so much more convenient to chill in LA or PvP lobby, where the bank is next to the mystic forge or TP.

And what’s up with different instances of the guild hall? It is just so irritating that we can end up in different instances of the same guild hall. I mean, come on, why is there more than one instance?!

I think we will be much happier if we are given just a very small hall where everything useful is actually conveniently placed near each other and we can stand around and chill.

Would be nice to be able to customize where the NPCs are like if we can place them just like decorations.

Another issue that may arise is what do we do once we finish leveling our halls. Can we expect more upgrades in the future? More uses for Aetherium and Favor or are those two going to go the same way merits did? Even merits had some use for them as a cost for some of the consumables. Aetherium and Favor don’t have a use at all once you get to lvl 64. We’ll be there on Feb 28.

Thank you for your interest in joining Legion of Doom [LOD] on Guild Wars 2.
Joining LOD: http://www.lodgw2.com/recruitment
For any questions, please message me in game at Enko.6123

Legion of Doom is a PvE guild on the NA servers. We are looking for active members that want to go for raids but also enjoy a friendly, social and casually hardcore gaming environment. Primary timezones are for NA.

Our guild hall is lvl 64 with all upgrades built.
We are one of the first five guilds to complete the first raid wing, Spirit Vale.
We are one of the first guilds to complete the second raid wing, Salvation Pass.

Entry requirements:
-Teamspeak and microphone

-Applicants must have a minimum of 2 of the 7 classes we mainly use fully geared and ready to play.
The 7 classes to pick from are Elementalist, Guardian, Mesmer, Necromancer, Ranger, Revenant, Warrior.
Builds we use: Builds

Minimum gear requirements
-Exotic Armor
-Exotic Trinkets
-Ascended weapons (Non Power based weapons can be exotic)
-Elite specializations fully unlocked
-Know how to play your class
-Have completed Raid Wing 1 – Vale Guardian, Gorseval, Sabetha
-Have completed Raid Wing 2 – Slothasaur, Bandit Trio

Trial for entry:
-DPS check on Golem
-Raids

Guild Repping Policy:
If you’re in a dungeon, fractal, raid, or doing activities with guild mates, you’re expected to be repping us. Elsewhere, up to you however we expect you to rep us as if we were your primary PvE guild. If you are planning on joining, we expect LOD to be your primary raid guild.

Voice Communications:
TS3 is our primary tool for communication and socializing as a guild; all guild activities are organized through Teamspeak. As such, TeamSpeak 3 is a requirement and an integral part of becoming an active member of the guild.
People participating in guild runs are expected to be on Teamspeak with their team.

For those looking for help, wanting to learn raids, or currently don’t meet the member requirements:

Trainee Minimum expectations:
Teamspeak and Microphone
1 character geared at a minimum of exotics.
Builds we use: Builds
Motivated to learn
No raid experience required
Looking at eventually becoming a guild Member
No repping requirement as a Trainee
No trial to sign up as a Trainee

How this will work:
Scheduled training days for raids and classes. Schedules will be created at a later time.
If we have empty spots for guild raid runs, we will fill from Trainees first before going to the LFG.
We will go over classes in between training runs.
On training runs, be willing to accept comments if you are making mistakes. We are doing this to help you watch out for things to avoid.

If you are interested in joining as a full fledged member, you’ll need to meet the minimum requirements for member.

This really should have been a toggle or a slider. There was a lot of animation clutter when you have a bunch of groups fight on mobs that needed to be toned down and a slider so we could select our own levels of acceptable clutter would be nice.

Fireball was also not one of the things that needed to be reduced.

Why would you even need to safespot Mossman now? Even on an light armor class like an Ele in full DPS gear, you should be able to just facetank him and just go through your rotations.