Guild Wars 2

Beta is over tomorrow. I’ll go through the videos and get this taken care of tomorrow afternoon. There’s no current listed one atm.

Beta is over tomorrow. I’ll go through the videos and get this taken care of tomorrow afternoon.

Beta is over tomorrow. I’ll go through the videos and get this taken care of tomorrow afternoon.

Group comp:
Ted – Celestial Guardian
Dazed – Berserker Druid
Lumi – Berserker Warrior
Meg – Berserker Revenant
Arrow – Berserker Revenant
Josh – Berserker Revenant
Eva – Berserker Chronomancer
Enko – Sinister Engineer – https://youtu.be/-poOgTxwxfY
Ambro – Sinister Engineer
Ather – Berserker Reaper – https://youtu.be/AP859mpHF7o

Fun fight. Looking forward to the next bosses.
http://i.imgur.com/ZIbZQXi.jpg

Dommmmmmmmmm.6984:

dlonie.6547:

Sweet, thanks

Can you say anything more about the aggro system? It’s rare to hear that a boss in GW2 has manageable aggro. Was it a tank sort of thing, or an environmental thing?

Not trying to spoil the fight, btw, just interested in hearing how PvE Encounters 2.0 are going to be

I’m sure the team is thrilled at hearing how much you guys liked this fight. You guys are definitely the target audience, it made my day that you found it satisfactory.

From what I noticed I believe the commander tag is who will have aggro.

I had the commander tag as an engi in our first attempts and it was staying on someone else. Looks to be similar to the previous system of highest toughness.

Gratz on killing it.

Roul.3205:

yeah we watched, only uploaded cause we didnt know if timers get reset after ib nerf (rest in piece).

no one’s proposed a record reset and I doubt a reset will occur with HoT right around the corner which will definitely necessitate one.

my work schedule has drastically increased due to real world events so i haven’t had time to look at this. not sure why none of the other approvers are doing anything.

I’ll see if I can get through it this weekend but the beta will be going on and there’s 5 13 minute videos to go through so no promises. definitely by next week if someone else doesn’t approve it first..

what, no Keeper stats or Delicious Rice Balls?

No one’s proposed a record reset so the patch timing won’t matter. I doubt anyone’s going to bother proposing a record reset with HoT so close which would necessitate a record reset anyways.

Approved and added to site.

Final time: 6m 17s.
Corrected time to 6m 17.40s rounded down to 6m 17s.

Just a heads up for next time. Your guardian video wouldn’t be usable for records since when it starts, you guys are already moving. Other two were fine.

After hearing the music team on the stream, I really wish Anet would sell a physical Collector’s Edition with the sound track or just let us buy the soundtrack.

Yeah it is annoying. For this, I usually position the buy window so the Buy button is at the same spot as the confirm button and just click away.

While they’re at it, please remove the limit on storage expanders since the 1500 limit isn’t enough and there’s no real reason to have a cap. I’d probably buy up to at least 3000 most likely 5000.

If they removed the limited on crafting licenses, I’d buy another 4 to have all 8 crafting professions on each.

If they increase the character slot limit to at least 90, I would also be buying another 45 character slots and 3 bag slots per.

I’d like bag slots to at least go to 10 since 160 is kind of a weird number to leave it at. 200 looks a lot better.

Approved and added to site.

Final Time using Breke’s video: 10m 27.60s rounds to 10m 28s
This concurs with Breke’s own timer on his video.
http://i.imgur.com/I1S5lwy.png
http://i.imgur.com/ca3edJD.png

Final Time using Sesshi’s video: 10m 27.47s rounds down to 10m 27s.
Using Sesshi’s since his video is in 60 FPS instead of 30 FPS.
http://i.imgur.com/yebOPTA.png

gin.7158:

How do you get infinite infused stone? just drop before throwing?

You pop a consumable or a skill that changes your skill bar while you’re in the throwing animation. It drops a stone on the ground as well as continues to throw it.

Also useful for the rubble repair events in Silverwaste to duplicate rubble.

As far as it breaking the shield legitimately, this is even allowed on 3 man records and up as long as you’re not using consumables to do it.

Approved and added to site:

Final time: 11 min 12.6 seconds rounded up to 11 min 13 seconds

BlackDragon.3752:

Enko, it’s not banned since if you would swap back to Elemental it’s on cooldown so you don’t reset a cooldown.

I said it wasn’t banned already. Why are you guys asking like I said it was?

IXIDOR.6278:

I had some connection issues that night, but we wanted to get this out before the weekend, hope it’s okay.
I wasn’t entirely sure if it is allowed to swap out a “living” Rocky for FGS, but as I don’t use the FGS before the glyph would be off cooldown anyways it should be okay I guess? (I would appreciate a jury statement on this for future runs.)

Greetings and have a nice weekend!

That should fall under the same intent of “Trait swapping to reset skill cooldowns is banned” though I guess technically its not banned since its a skill swap not a trait swap. If someone really cares about that enough, someone could post a rule modication proposal.

If you didn’t use your FGS until after the cooldown anyways, it shouldn’t even matter.

TheBlackLeech.9360:

Enko.6123:

TheBlackLeech.9360:

Why not just give the mossman some nice scary skills for underwater combat?

he has underwater skills already.

I never said that he didn’t have any under water skills, and I have definitely never seen the mossman use anything under water that I could categorize as scary.

I’m sure if you close your eyes and try really hard you can imagine several hundred ways players could be kept out of the water, with varying degrees of success.

Obviously Anet has some aversion to implementing the teleport in/lockout feature used in so many other areas of the game (mai trinn, clockheart, old tom, molten duo, etc.) for this particular encounter…. unless they are just being lazy with their game fixes.

So if they are avoiding the obvious fix for some reason… why would it be out of the question to just have the Mossman destroy players in seconds once he enters the water?

Hell… he doesn’t even need to hit with an attack… he could apply something like THIS in an area of 5000 around him which only affects players who are under water.

Again…. like i said.
I’m sure you can use your imagination to find hundreds if not thousands of ways to keep players out of the water…

Maybe Anet will put a little more effort into it this time, instead of half-implementing it like the skelk “fix”.

And they don’t have to do anything imaginative or give him some stupid one shot kill aura. Heck just give him a similar skillset to Wollam or Sorge underwater and it would be fine.

Fix his AI so when he teleports into the water, he’ll start using his normal underwater attacks. When people start getting thrashed and can’t just stand next to him and spam their skills, they’ll either learn how to fight him underwater or they’ll learn to fight him on land.

They could also just remove the underwater section and make that a tunnel you walk through.

TheBlackLeech.9360:

Why not just give the mossman some nice scary skills for underwater combat?

he has underwater skills already.

Embrace The Bold.7619:

Enko.6123:

if you don’t want to kill mossman in the water, then don’t do it?

Though yeah, i don’t understand why anet just doesn’t have mossman use his spear underwater. he has attacks and everything. he just doesn’t use them.

Actually he does use his spear. The exploit is cause by Mossman teleporting to the player underwater when he is on land. This bypasses Mossman’s AI for pulling out his spear and causes him to stick with his axe. Anet likely will fix it with HoT and its not like people can’t put in their LFGs saying “mossman on land”

you could also just CC him to get him to pull his spear out

Looks like a lot of people aren’t getting rewards at all.

if you don’t want to kill mossman in the water, then don’t do it?

Though yeah, i don’t understand why anet just doesn’t have mossman use his spear underwater. he has attacks and everything. he just doesn’t use them.

Was the door open when you tried to blink up? If the other person got off the panel, the door would have closed.

Approved and added to site.

Final time: 2m 21s

try making your own group on lfg and be clear about what’s going on in the run

Taku.6352:

And then be stuck on a crappy trait line because you can’t use that warhorn without it.

If you use it before a fight, you can always just swap back to your normal build. Will require retraiting though so more clicks than just weapon swapping.

Approved and added to site.

Final time: 2m 35.17s rounded down to 2m 35s.

For those people who have all of their characters at 80 or past the level of the scrolls, can something be provided so we actually have a use for these? Either be able to combine them into higher level scrolls or convert them to Spirit Shards or such.

What do you consider late night? We have some people that are on for 4-6 hours after reset

dlonie.6547:

Need I point out that this was well after they’d stopped working on dungeons? Lies, lies, lies.

Sigh. Anyway, can you post the link to the CJ interview? I hadn’t seen that one yet.

Well since they consider fractals to be a type of dungeon, they technically haven’t stopped working on dungeons. Any new dungeons will be implemented using the FotM system now.

Approved and added to site.

Final time 13m 26.43s rounded down to 13m 26.

Time Comparison Video
(New record on left)

Start to Destroying Ice Totems:
Sesshi: 40.47s (-1.5s)
Goku: 41.97s

Destroying Ice Totems to Corrupted Troll Agro
Sesshi: 14.13s (-4.74s)
Goku: 18.87s

Corrupted Troll Kill
Sesshi: 1m 19.33s (+3.93s)
Goku: 1m 15.40s

Run to Aldus and Kill
Sesshi: 5m 8.47s (-16.96s)
Goku: 5m 25.43s

Run to Icebrood Hunter and Kill
Sesshi: 44.27s (-1.93s)
Goku: 46.20s

Opening the Door
Sesshi: 1.27s (-6.26s)
Goku: 7.53s

Opening Door to Ginva Cutscene
Sesshi: 38.23s (+4.1s)
Goku: 34.13s

Ginva Kill
Sesshi: 4m 39.37s (+7.17s)
Goku: 4m 32.20s

Overall Time:
Sesshi: 13m 26.43s (-15.6s)
Goku: 13m 42.03s

Time Comparison Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss8JO3ALfc4

Start to Destroying Ice Totems:
Goku: 41.97s (-0.06s)
Sesshi: 42s.03s

Destroying Ice Totems to Corrupted Troll Agro:
Goku: 18.87s (+3.37s)
Sesshi: 15.50s

Corrupted Troll Kill
Goku: 1m 15.40s (-8.23s)
Sesshi: 1m 23.63s

Run to Aldus and Kill:
Goku: 5m 25.43s (+4.5s)
Sesshi: 5m 20.93s

Run to Icebrood Hunter and Kill:
Goku: 46.20s (+4.07)
Sesshi: 42.13s

Opening the Door:
Goku: 7.53s (+6.16s)
Sesshi: 1.37s

Opening Door to Ginva Cutscene:
Goku: 34.13s (-4.97s)
Sesshi: 39.10s

Ginva Kill:
Goku: 4m 32.20 (-6.9s)
Sesshi: 4m 39.10

Overall Time:
Goku: 13m 42.03s (-2.14s)
Sesshi: 13m 44.17s

Wow sucks on the door chain that wouldn’t activate. Could have probably gotten 3-5 seconds off if that thing opened like its supposed to.

I’ll have the Goku vs Sesshi comparison up here later. Probably tomorrow at the latest.

Approved and added to site.

Final time: 13m42.03s rounds down to 13m42s.

Goku, you and Sesshi want a side by side comparison video for this?

HaxTester.9816:

Ah, the Blackgate dream. It’s like illegal immigrants trying to get across the border.

Well it would be like that if illegal immigrants couldn’t actually cross the border.

doubt it. most likely they’re just raising the cap to 100. previous reset made sense since they added instabilities to 30-50 and reworked how much agony you needed.

Legion of Doom [LOD]

North America servers

Dungeon/Fractal Focused Guild

Joining LOD: http://www.lodgw2.com/recruitment
For any questions, please message me ingame at Enko.6123

Legion of Doom is a dungeon/Fractal centric guild on the NA servers. Unlike many other guilds, we do not have a trial for entry into the guild. All players are welcome to join LOD and we are looking for active members that want to do fast, efficient Dungeons/Fractals or have a desire to learn.

We offer daily fast dungeon and fractal runs. At reset, typical activity is 2-4 concurrent dungeon or fractal groups. A typical casual FotM 50 run should take approximately 20-30 minutes. Typical casual full dungeon tour of all dungeon paths minus CoF p2, HotW p2, and Aetherpath is 3-3.5 hours.

Training is available if needed.

List of current and previous records by [LOD]!

Entry requirements:
-Teamspeak
-At a minimum, players must have a lvl 80 Elementalist and a Warrior.
-Warrior: Must be geared at a minimum of Exotic Berserker or above with Strength runes and GS with Force+Night sigils and Axe+Mace for combat. Sword, Warhorn, Longbow for utility.
-Elementalist: Must be geared at a minimum of Exotic Berserker or above with Scholar runes and Staff with Force+Night sigils. Scepter, Focus, Daggers for utility.

Guild Repping Policy:
If you’re in a dungeon or a fractal, you’re expected to be repping us. Elsewhere, up to you.

Gear Check: Gear checks will be done in game.
Alternatively, gw2efficiency.com may be used for the gear check if equipment and inventory is shared and link for your warrior and elementalist is provided in your application.

Guild missions are 30 minutes after reset on Saturday.

Zui.9245:

Very impressive duo!

@Enko: They used stealth consumables, etc. This is not a valid trio record under the Dungeons & Fractals rule set, as trios follow the same rule set kitten man and 4 man. Removing this from being a trio record.

Ah that’s right. For some reason, I had it in my mind that solo/duo/trio ruleset. My mistake. Thanks for catching that.

Goku also used the Guild Banner Tonic as a stunbreak.

Better way to deal with the skipping mobs issues: Increase the drop rate of items from them to actually make it worth killing them.

They took your recommendation with TA Aetherpath and even gave it a nice RNG end reward with the Aether skins and how often do you see people running that?

Approved and added to the site. Also added it as the Trio record.

Final time: 6m 51.33s rounds down to 6m51s.

Unfortunately, you can only buy 1 Bag Slot Expansion at the discounted price to get the consumable item. You can buy multiple if you click the Expand Inventory button but it unlocks it immediately for that character. I was planning on buying 15 bag slots for my Revenants . ..

BlackDragon.3752:

Just a question isnt 10(seconds).11(milliseconds)? Or did i miss sth, because then rounding to 15:12 seems weird. Don’t know for what else the 10 stands.

Was a typo. supposed to be 10.80s rounded to 11s. Fixing it on dungeons.net.

I’m also checking them again since I downloaded the videos when they were first posted and youtube hadn’t finished processing them yet (were still in 360p).

Approved and added to site.

Final time: 15m 10.80 rounds to 15m11s

spoj.9672:

You can mail the gold if you are mutual friends. :P

You sure about that? Should have just been able to whisper and send mail (not items/gold) if you’re mutual friends.

cthaeh.2168:

What are going to report them for? You posted to LFG, they joined, and you all finished the dungeon. Is that not exactly what the group finder is for?

LFG abuse for stealing an instance of someone’s who’s selling. While it hasn’t happened often, Anet does ban for it.

Yeah our timers are starting at the same time but by the end of the dungeon, there’s 1.5 second discrepancy.
I’ve checked it with multiple timers now as well.

bladex.9502:

Enko.6123:

bladex.9502:

Because just posting something to show your accomplishments isn’t possible, right?
Everything has to be a record!!!!

well it seemed like he was posting as a record. our mistake for assuming so. guess I’ll check with the poster next time to make sure since hP’s Swampland wasn’t listed as one either yet Might For U was pretty adamant about the guild name showing up right on gw2dungeons.net

Maybe next time actually watch the video before assuming things, and pretending someone was trying to fool you(???).

whatever. as I said, my mistake for assuming he was posting a record.

Approved and added to site.

Final time 13m 44.04s rounded down to 13m44s.

Not sure what’s going on with your time overlay since when you compare it to other external timers its showing up as 13:44 not 13:42. I verified that cooldowns on the video are matching up with my own timer. Almost seems like your timer is dropping frames or something.

bladex.9502:

Because just posting something to show your accomplishments isn’t possible, right?
Everything has to be a record!!!!

Just to make sure, you want this as a record right?