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Another Daily Fractal chest.

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Did magic find boost % affect the daily bonus fractalis chest?
Thanks

Magic find never affects chests.

Frequent disconnects

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If you’re using wifi, get an ethernet cable and plug yourself in.

So you killed another good farm possibility

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Good move imo.We were promised a grinding free game.

And you’re not forced to grind. You can easily get BiS without any grind whatsoever (minus Ascended rings).

As for everyone else complaining about fixing exploits instead of bugs, if you’ve ever coded before, you’d understand that it’s easier to tweak something that works then it is to fix something that doesn’t.

Plus, I’m sure they have multiple teams working on different things. They allocate their teams accordingly, it’s not like they’re going to put everyone on bug fixing, what’s the art guy going to do? Draw a pretty landscape of a bug-free environment?

Issues with character art, weapons, or armor?

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hey Jason,

what happened to the other huge thread on clipping issues? it had 20+ pages i think. also, any updates on when we’ll start seeing some clipping fixes?

i would say the main issue right now is that weapons simply cannot be discerned while holstered, across most armor sets.

thanks

There are bigger problems then that. At least 1 in every tier of Asuran Cultural armors will cause clipping errors if wearing ANY piece of that set and showing a backpiece. The backpiece is go and think that your hip is your back and start clipping through your stomach.

The "Interact While Running" Bug [Merged]

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Don’t use Auto-run.

Fractals. Can we get an official response?

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I remember reading somewhere that the first time you do 10, you’ll be guaranteed a ring and if you want more rings you have to do the daily-grind. You’re also going to be guaranteed another ring at 20, and another reward at 30, 40, etc, etc.

Of course, that was a while ago, they might have changed their minds.

Thief invis spam bug?

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If it stacks bleeds it was P/D. It’s an Unload that bleeds and uses one pistol to shoot 5 shots rather than 2 pistols to shoot.

Thief invis spam bug?

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He might have been using Pistol/Dagger for D5 invis —> AlternatePistol1 which looks like Unload (Pistol3 with Dual pistol).

Traits allow thieves to stealth when taking more than 20% of their life in one hit, dropping below X amount of health, runes that allow them to do the second one stated. Weapon swap —> quick invis.

Pistol 5 —> Dagger 2 is a stealth gap-closer. There’s also a veil-ish wall that grants stealth. Shadows Refuge (the house)….

BUG: Lifetime Survivor (its still bugged!!!)

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Craft.
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Dredge Powersuit (Very unbalanced)

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While perhaps necromancers are not altogether “optimal” for dredge, they’re pretty kitten good at snowblind, volcanic, and cliffside. Enough to the point that i’d consider taking them over a few other classes given the options between the two.
As for the dredge suit. Make your necro pull the levers. Then he wont need to be hitting the boss anyway. And in the event that it screws up he will be the first to know, and will be more than prepared to give the boss a fear to cancel the heal should the issue arise.

While reflection is blatantly strong against this boss it’s just as strong against other bosses which I never see come up ever. Hell on lupicus phase 3 a guardian can chunk him for over 70k damage by reflection walling his AoE. Yet ive never seen anyone praise guardians in that fight for anything other than their tank prowess.

There’s also a myriad of bosses that have bomb or reflectable projectiles. And bosses that spew out conditions like crazy, which are basically hard countered by most tanky ele builds, or necro’s, but poop all over classes without good condition removals.

tl;dr
yes necro’s are perhaps not optimal because of how condition damage interacts with dredge. But there are plenty of other places where they shine, both in and out of fractals. That’s why team-composition is important (despite the manifesto of “you can play with any team and get it done!”)

Reflect versus Raving Asura to prevent Agony.

But I didn’t know you can reflect Lupicus AoE.

Gold/Gem exchange rate is making me sad

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Something else interesting.

I put in 1g to see how many gems I can get and it comes back with 71gems.

If I then put 71gems to trade for gold, it says I will get 70s99c.

Is there an exchange fee? This makes no sense.

In real life markets there is something called a spread.
When you buy stock you pay a higher price then what the seller gets.
The difference is how the stock exchanges make their money for completing the transaction of matching a buyer and a seller.

Testing it right now…
selling 100 gems = 1g 4s 58 c
spending 1g 4s 58c to buy gems = 71 gems
It does appear to be a 30% difference.

They get the same money amount in the end as gold transfers give them no $ and make nothing on a spread that a real life exchange makes.
This is about supply and demand pressure.
Their hope (I’m guessing) is that you will get fed up with gold prices and just break down and buy with money.
This will lower demand as you have had your gem needs met and prices will drop.

15% Transaction cost going either way.

Buy gems now or wait a while?

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They will not get cheaper before the event. They might go down after the holidays, but if you are looking for them to be available for the event time frame, I would buy now. I’m actually having the same dilemma. I want some more bank slots, but I don;t want to pay what they are right now.

Invest in better bags for your alts. It’s about the same price for more slots.

One bank slot is ~6g which can buy you >45 bagslots.

Dredge Powersuit (Very unbalanced)

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The ground and pound is far worse than the bombs.

Then roll… and buy Orrian Truffle and Meat Stew.

Where's the fun...

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gw2lfg.com works perfectly
Also, it would help if you try to find a group during more busy hours rather than when all the yanks are asleep.
Also, start your own team (I hope you’re doing that already) don’t wait for others to do it for you.
I never had any problem finding/making a group for any of my levels. Maybe I just try harder?
Anyway.. what to do now: one person says it’s impossible to find a group and other person says it’s easy :o I would like to see more opinions on this one.
Devs be more communicative, give us your opinions, don’t be like boring devs from other MMO games!

Beeing albe to progress only doing peak hours isn’t optimal imo. Was looking actively with gw2lfg.com for more than an hour around 15:00 CEST. After an hour of not having fun I gave up..so maybe you just do try harder I don’t know. But for me that was enough.

I like the suggestion above about beeing able to progress other ways than doing just the exact lvl you have reached.

I’ve easily found groups at 15:00 CEST. The times I have the most trouble with are at around 10:00 CEST depending on who is up in the NA servers.

BLTP Bug?

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Run GW2 as Administrator (and your Browser).

So you killed another good farm possibility

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What do you do in this game? I am genuinely curious.

Certainly not “farm” the same place for hours everyday…are you selling gold or something? Otherwise i don’t know why people is so mad…

There is something called…enjoying the game and playing it normally, not everything has to be about “what gives more profit?…let’s do that!”.

I am certainly not mad, I am just curious as to what they do. They can’t be going for a legendary or progressing into fractals. Upgrading ascended items and obtaining a legendary is rather expensive for some people. Everyone enjoys playing the game differently but the fact that he stated they’re keeping their promise to no grind is flat out wrong.

Edit: If you also read my other comments, I personally don’t mind some grind. What I DO mind is that Anet are quick on their feet to fix farming/grind spots people like to use but there are still bugs known from launch that are still around.

Ill touch on this. The whole no grind was in reference to getting max stat gear. It was not aimed at the entire game.

Getting BiS/Max Stat Gear is ridiculously easy. If you put your resources into crafting, you can easily craft it, or you can do dungeons and then convert the tokens. If none of those sound appealing, you can use your (hopefully) saved up karma to buy it from vendors in Orr.

There are so many methods that it’s disgusting and they’re all cheap. I’ve crafted those 3-6g items for about 40s spent, and that’s just because I wanted to upgrade my last few items.

Yup which is why every time i see someone on a rant about the “grind” and how they said there would not be a grind i just facepalm. They actually delivered on the no grind promise.

Like, the only grind in GW2 is the grind you give yourself. You can easily be a minimalist and get Exotics and then just WvW or even not level up and do sPvP, or you can grind and get those shiny titles and that shiny weapon/armor. Nobody is forcing you to… GRIND it.

Ascended ring stats doesnt add

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That’s not up to the community, that’s up to the devs.

Free trial and HoM question

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Additionally, you will need to login on GW1 if you have not done so in the past 6 months. (Just to be safe.)

The NPC is named Scornheart, it will be in the second tab of her shop. It costs 0c.

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Dredge Powersuit (Very unbalanced)

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There is only one trait that has reflect.
Missile Deflection Reflect missiles whenever you are blocking.

(which requires you to use a shield which means that eliminates one ranged weapon)

It reflects everything for the duration because the first one doesn’t deal damage so it doesn’t “block” it just reflects it, and all the others near it. If you have a coordinated team, you can tell your team to group on you while he waves his arms (you should be close anyways for the kiting) and then start blocking. It’s not like most people actually weapon swap between 2 ranged weapons at that part.

Broken events in Arah Explorable Dungeon

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1) Arah gate events are bugged, can’t open it. It’s been that way for…a month ?

2) When Lupicus does his big AoE in phase 2, it hits all over the place (even if not in the red circles) and sometimes without the animation

2nd one is not a bug. His “auto-attack” in phase 2 is a ranged projectile that looks identical to his big AoE and he usually uses it after casting the big AoE. To dodge it, you simply walk back and forth sideways.

Ascended ring stats doesnt add

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It gives you 18 toughness and vitality instead. Look at your stats, you’re not “missing” it’s just a typo.

How to tell if daily fractal reset

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If you set your ingame clock to the same time as Arenanets time (PST) you can just wait until it’s 4:00 PM (12:00 AM GMT). If you’re in another timezone, just apply GMT to the 12:00 AM to figure out what time it resets.

Where's the fun...

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gw2lfg.com works perfectly
Also, it would help if you try to find a group during more busy hours rather than when all the yanks are asleep.
Also, start your own team (I hope you’re doing that already) don’t wait for others to do it for you.
I never had any problem finding/making a group for any of my levels. Maybe I just try harder?
Anyway.. what to do now: one person says it’s impossible to find a group and other person says it’s easy :o I would like to see more opinions on this one.
Devs be more communicative, give us your opinions, don’t be like boring devs from other MMO games!

Going to have to agree with this.

If you look at gw2lfg, even in off-hours you shouldn’t look past the 20 minute post mark. A lot of people just put their names up and go into game and just sit there being like NOBODY JOINS ME.

It’s not instantaneous unless YOU make it instant. How do you do that? Look for possible levels you want to do. If you want to progress, look for that specific level. There will most likely be one in your:
Guild.
Lion’s Arch (Overflow or not).
Gw2lfg.

Then, whisper and either type /join name or /invite name.

Be proactive and you won’t worry about being left behind.

add Giganticus Lupicus to fractals

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I wouldn’t mind lupicus, but if we add him into fractals it’s going to get horrid at 20+.

I mean, if you all want Fractals to be an elitist thing, then sure.

So you killed another good farm possibility

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Hate to burn down your strawman about legendary base weapons not getting money into circulation… where do you think people got so much money? There were people who had hundreds of gold during the first 1-2 weeks of the game, and there are people who have over 5000k gold sitting around in their inventory right now. They didn’t get this money by farming, they got it from exploiting and bot-farming. Nothing was done to prevent this money from getting into the economy. So selling a base weapon for 300 gold doesn’t make that money more “legitimate” than running arah for 200 hours, that 300 gold for the base weapon was probably generated in a couple of hours by RMT companies.

But that still does not address the actual issue caused by the stupid decisions ANet is making and you keep dancing around. But I’m tired of repeating those issues since I’ve tried rephrasing them in every way I know how and I believe you are smart enough to know exactly what I mean but just don’t want to acknowledge the problem. But if you still think the issue has to do with “taking too long to get something” then you need to reread my previous posts more carefully.

And even then, the only money going into circulation is by people buying from RMT companies, not from people hoarding money. So the situation isn’t just precursors causing an influx in money, it’s simply the people hoarding the money, aka the RMT companies.

Think about it. I know for a fact that half the people I know that have Legendaries bought the precursors, globs, and other materials that are needed did so with RMT companies. While I myself don’t agree with that, I can’t stop them from spending their money.

So you killed another good farm possibility

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What do you do in this game? I am genuinely curious.

Certainly not “farm” the same place for hours everyday…are you selling gold or something? Otherwise i don’t know why people is so mad…

There is something called…enjoying the game and playing it normally, not everything has to be about “what gives more profit?…let’s do that!”.

I am certainly not mad, I am just curious as to what they do. They can’t be going for a legendary or progressing into fractals. Upgrading ascended items and obtaining a legendary is rather expensive for some people. Everyone enjoys playing the game differently but the fact that he stated they’re keeping their promise to no grind is flat out wrong.

Edit: If you also read my other comments, I personally don’t mind some grind. What I DO mind is that Anet are quick on their feet to fix farming/grind spots people like to use but there are still bugs known from launch that are still around.

Ill touch on this. The whole no grind was in reference to getting max stat gear. It was not aimed at the entire game.

Getting BiS/Max Stat Gear is ridiculously easy. If you put your resources into crafting, you can easily craft it, or you can do dungeons and then convert the tokens. If none of those sound appealing, you can use your (hopefully) saved up karma to buy it from vendors in Orr.

There are so many methods that it’s disgusting and they’re all cheap. I’ve crafted those 3-6g items for about 40s spent, and that’s just because I wanted to upgrade my last few items.

Broken events in Arah Explorable Dungeon

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Bug: Lupicus

While it is not directly a bug, it should be seen as one, Lupicus will spawn grubs on Ranger pets, Necro minions and just about any other entity. This should, and never should be the case.

You have asked for Arah bugs, this one does cover many instances right now and needs to be resolved and removed from your design for any future instances, you lately made the same mistake with the Jade Maw.

Effect of Bug:
We do not take Necros with 5 points in the death tree to Arah. Because of the terrible jagged horror. They result in Lupi gaining more stacks because they are in melee range, for lupi to spawn grubs on.

It also forces Mesmers to run GS, although the fact that he has all the AoE means all other weapons are pretty much useless against him. I don’t mind being forced to use GS, but I really feel like Mesmers need another range-AA weapon. Kind of off-topic.

So you killed another good farm possibility

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hotfixes don’t require a patch, and the solution was very simple. The hatchery was a complex problem to my understanding (I didn’t fix it personally), and Bjarl will be fixed in the next patch. If you had to fight Bjarl every time in every path, that might get elevated to a bigger issue worthy of an emergency patch since it blocked an entire dungeon.

There are farms available in the game, but when a farm comes up that spikes charts and can upset the economy, we try to act quickly.

Name 3 worth while areas to farm or gtfo.

If ur the arah dungeon smith i have no respect for u. Im sorry.

Ur prolly that dude that ground stomped plinx ane cursed shore into oblivion

You’re NOT supposed to be able to farm money easily.

If by worthwhile farm you mean spoonfeed me gold so I can buy all my shinies, then I have to disappoint you.

This game isn’t going to spoonfeed you. If you played GW1, you’d understand that after you’re max level if you want to get BiS, it’s not that much effort. If you want to get shiny BiS, it’s as much effort as you want it to be. Shiny titles for effort. Etc, etc.

It’s pretty much the same in GW2, you’re not supposed to get Legendaries in 1 week. You’re not supposed to get 1/10th the price of a BiS shiny in 1 casual day.

If you want farms, go try the Lodestone conversion. It’s simple, and it gives a FAIR profit.

If you want to be risky, do the Rares/Exotics —> Mystic Forge.

If you want to be safe, find a server with Balthazar unbugged and form a group. Then get Bloodstone Shards and do the Mystic Clover recipe.

If you want to progress, progress and then salvage/sell your rares. To be cost-efficient, save your rare level 80 amulets and stick them in the Mystic Forge with Donation Packaging and use that to get Salvage Kits. You can either get 4,500 use Crudes or 3,000 use Basics.

If you want to get spoonfed, please don’t play this game.

Dredge Powersuit (Very unbalanced)

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“Either way, if I’m going against dredge suit, I run as many reflects as I can (minus Asuran Defensive Golem).”

Again people don’t understand the class balance is terrible for this dungeon.

Mesmer = easy mode.

Annnnnd… Guardians, Elementalists, Thief, Warriors, and Rangers can also reflect. WHO DUN THOUGHT O’ DAT ONE?!

Also, pretty much all of them are better than Temporal Curtain reflect as it doesn’t hit anything.

Distortion reflect lasts 4 seconds at most and only affects bombs aimed at you, Mimic would be really awkward, Mirror is the same as Distortion, and so you’re left with Feedback and Phantasmal Warden (which can’t move).

Dredge Powersuit (Very unbalanced)

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that boss is also bugged as hell >.>

REAL problem expecially at lvl10 for people without agony resistance:
-If you miss once or twice he heals back to full health (few classes can stop this).
Heal is not THAT big, and all classes have some interrupts, so if you chain them and don’t just waste the Defiant-CC, you’ll be fine. Poison also helps.

-SOmetimes he decide to switch aggro for no reason to the guy on the switch …..
If that happens the route change means a free heal for him.
If he faces the ramp, quickly have the lever-guy jump down and then have someone else run up. If you’re on VOIP or coordinating in some form or way, this is a simple swap.

-He kills the guy on the switch with invisible attacks
They aren’t invisible. Sometimes the bombs are on the upper area, but are somewhat hidden from their visibility, and the groundpounds hit everyone, everywhere. Make use of your camera and scroll it to always face the boss to make sure you don’t get hit by these things.

-evading his agony attack into BOMBS without energy left for rolling is quite annoying, mostly because if anyone dies its not much worse that wiping, considerinh he will heal himself.
Buy an Orrian Truffle and Meat Stew or run quick-mobility skills. A lot of classes have methods of having extra mobility/rolls.

-if you get downed once you’ll die from bombs/agony attack -.-
Again, not true, most classes have some way of moving, and the team should be paying attention for the res. If the team isn’t paying attention… you shouldn’t be doing this past D9.

This and swamp with lag are the worst fractal -.- that can wipe a decentgroup unless they luckily have the bappropriate classes in the party (and considering the fractal lvls issue it doesn t happen so often).

A lot of these problems are, again, lack of understanding.

As for Swamp, coordination… people can jump over traps, vines, walls, and simply knowing what problems occur where means allocating resources to the correct area.

Spider is not always the simplest even though it is one of the closest, having one of the 2 extra’s “help” and either pull them off or boost the person across helps.

*The north middle one seems easy, but it spawns knockdown wasps which chain, so have someone with stability there or give them swiftness and have them jump over the wall (if it appears).

North right requires a lot of condition removal to get rid of cripples.

*North left requires jumps or someone to help clear the mobs in some cases, otherwise you should be fine just rushing it.

Drake one can be rambo’ed.

Left one is relatively easy, but should have someone who is capable of jumping over the walls if they appear, because they do appear often.

*: These people should coordinate the countdown unless a Mesmer is in the group.

I’ve gotten to 18 with 0 AR even though I have 3 rings and am working to getting my Gift of Ascension for my Capacitor. AR is, until 20+, just a bonus. In fact, getting AR would kitten you if you rushed it early because you wouldn’t dodge properly when you should be dodging regardless. Once you figure out the dodging patterns, you’ll be fine.

Final note:
For the Dredge Suit, stomp —→ bombs, there’s plenty of time to move out as he doesn’t throw the bombs while stomping. Unless you get unlucky in the RNG and walk into more bombs, you should be fine, but again, that means you have no swiftness and are not a class that gets movement speed boosts, which is very limited. Also, reflects help out, which is something you should coordinate before the boss (reflects and immobilizes).

When I do levers, I run an immobilize so I’ll pull lever, jump down and immobilize.
When I do dps, I run an immobilize so when I hear the lever, I’ll jump forward and immobilize.

Either way, if I’m going against dredge suit, I run as many reflects as I can (minus Asuran Defensive Golem).

RNG FotM Progression Brickwall

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I got to 18 without any Agony Resist although I have a non-Ascended Capacitor and 2 Ascended rings, and I still progress. In fact, I’m usually the person who runs to the boss to res right under him. As a Mesmer, I can dodge with 2 rolls (3 or 4 if I eat a Orrian Truffle and Meat Stew) and use F3 and F4 to prevent Agony and Blurred Frenzy (although I can’t res with BF).

Ascended ring YaY 5 more silver!

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Half a bag? Either you have an 8 slot bag or you are about to be spammed with RNG Hate.

Why can't jewelers craft ascended rings?

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Storywise, it would not make sense as none of the players themselves have been ascended.

GW1 Ascension /=/ GW2 Ascension.

For example:
Storyline wise does it make sense that ascalonian captain/dredge/random cultist/Swamp bosses (tree/mossman)/Son of Svanir/A harpy shaman/forgot etc

And most of all: A jellyfish

They apply agony a spell in which only the most powerful casters (mursaat) had. Now Jellyfish seem to know about it. Weird how those story line things get mixed up

Except the Fractals are located in the mists, which means it can be the past, present, or future.

Dungeon skipping thread [Merged]

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If the fights were interesting maybe more people would fight.

Take the colossus in the FoTM. That whole “boss” is incredibly interesting. He’s chained up. Why? Who is he? Who are these cultists? Add to that the hammer mechanic, which requires everyone to share the load. This is both interesting and rewarding as the final treat is the Colossus walking off into the mists.

Its not a matter of loot. Theyre addressing that. Its not a matter of time (the fights dont really take all that long in reality).

It’s a matter of YAWN.

Kohler?

He’s just a pissed off ghost who spins. Neat.

Anet needs to make these fights more interesting. That will be a reward in and of itself.

Why?

Because when Kholer falls dead, i want to remember the fight for what it was. Right now bosses arent much different from the mobs thst precede them.

Hopefully these dungeon revamps add some new tricks.

I agree with this, make more mobs like Lupicus. Sure, it’s a pain to beat the first few times, but after that, it’s really easy and somewhat refreshing realizing you have a group of competent people who can understand simple mechanics put together to form a large-scale boss fight.

However, AC should stay as it is in difficulty as the FIRST dungeon should not be as hard as the FINAL dungeon. (As it stands, AC Story is harder than Arah Story, so… please make Zaitan more interesting… please…)

Dredge Powersuit (Very unbalanced)

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Bombs can be reflected for huge damage, everything else can be dodged or simply out ranged. Having a staff ele running the buckets is amazing, because he loses no DPS potential from up top. Everyone else NEEDS a ranged weapon and should only close distance when under some invulnerability. If someone goes down they generally loose aggro, the new aggro target should keep kiting while someone else resses.

Needs?
Mesmer with Greatsword (or Staff)/ Sword+Focus or Sword+Sword or Sword+Pistol works just fine.

I can sit in front of him as long as I’m not the “chase-target” and beat him up, I also get more reflects for bombs and can “avoid” almost all damage.

But, I do agree that everyone should have a ranged weapon available.

My daily Fractal 10 ring run.

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10+ fractals have a CHANCE to drop the ring in dailies, it’s not guaranteed. Bag of gold is a loot you can find in all dungeons, and it invariably drops silver. It’s not meant to be taken literally, unfortunately xD

I thought the first time you did 10 you were “supposed” to be guaranteed one, and the whole chanceyness is a bug. After that, however, it is supposed to drop at a chance from the daily chests.

Regardless, I have 2 rings from 6 dailies, so… just keep trying.

Another Fractal Daily

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^ But if he’s using the 10 recipe, it’s (0.66)^8*100 which is 3%.

And your math is wrong, it’s not .66^80*100% because that’s just .66^80*1, you have to multiply it by 100 to get it from % —> numbers.

A plea for those in Fractals to stop:

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All of this could be solved if people went on VOIP.

fix scavangers in AC

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The real problem is even after you break stun they will still “eat” you. Believe it or not this is one of the lesser bugs in dungeons right now and probably won’t be fixed for a long time…

This is very true.

Stealing hatchlings is a larger problem in AC, and also to combat the knockdowns you can either run Stability or Stun Breakers, of which ALL classes have both. (Yes, all classes have Stability granting skills and Stun Breakers.)

Or, you know, press that V key to Roll.

Another Fractal Daily

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It is worth it to keep pushing forward. I didn’t get my first ring until I was @ 105 fractals completed. I look forward to getting more rings. It’s all luck (and I guess mine wasn’t that great, haha).

105? That’s 35 more than me, but I have 2 ascended rings now and my Capacitor (non-Ascended).

Just work hard and keep moving forward, you can get to 20 without having any AR, but you’ll have to get babysat, and please, PLEASE, PLEASE do not run squishymode if you have no AR.

Why can't jewelers craft ascended rings?

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Storywise, it would not make sense as none of the players themselves have been ascended.

If you played GW1, you’d understand. To ascend yourself was to put yourself through a set of trials and ultimately face yourself in battle.

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Ascension

A plea for those in Fractals to stop:

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I pug, and more often then not, the group sucks.

A few runs ago, it took us 40 minutes to break the arm seals in difficulty 16. 40 minutes for ONE PART of ONE FRACTAL at difficulty 16.

We also wiped about 10 times because the group wanted to “take it slow”.

Yes, killing the Veteran Novices at the side of the Chest seal with NO HAMMER is very efficient.

Difficulty increased?

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Loot is always RNG even with high Magic Find. I don’t know how many times I have to say this, but 100% magic find doesn’t mean you’re guaranteed anything, it simply means you have a +100% chance of finding something.

Example:
Let’s say a blue item has a 1% chance of dropping.
You have 140% magic find.
Blue item now has 2.4% chance of dropping.

How?
1% is 100% (normal) drop rate.
+ 140% = 240% drop rate.
240% of 1% = 2.4%

Cheapest Offensive Infusion

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You’re better off just buying the one from the token vendor at this time.

Wait until you get the Infused version of that same ring (which you can get at level 20 and higher), then you can go ahead and blow off all those mats on it.

Even then, it’s better to just hold the ring and then work towards making a Capacitor with either 60g or 1850 relics (1925 with AR), but the infusion slots aren’t 20g to make, are they?

My fractals ranking

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Almost all of these problems are solved with Mesmers.

Cheapest Offensive Infusion

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No. post too short

Another dungeon - another bugged fiasco

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But some of the stuff is simply a matter of practice, do it a few more times and you will breeze through it.

No, dungeons are not impossible, *they are simply unfun. *

So because your personal opinion means you dislike something, it is true in all regards for everyone else? If you read what people are writing in this thread, the majority of responses say that it is not bugged and ENJOYABLE, especially if done right.

I know a lot of people that enjoy learning, the hard way, how to do things properly. Try it sometime, you might actually like it.

If you want spoonfeeding, however, GW2 is not for you.

[MUF] tPvP guild

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You’re not online, but I’m interested. 80 Mesmer willing to play bunker, but I’m not very comfortable in sPvP so you’ll have to bear with me and give me tips and whatnot, if you will let me. Otherwise, I’ll be out of your hair.

Dessa and the Uncategorized Fractal

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So, at first when I did the Uncategorized fractal, I thought Dessa was afraid of heights. I mean, she can’t abide water, she hates bugs, and she’s kinda all around phobic…

But then I thought again, she doesn’t leave you in the Solid Ocean fractal which is also in the air.

The only conclusion I can come up with is that she had a thing with the Raving Asura, but then left him because he was too crazy… or perhaps he left her?

Lore Book or RPG?

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If they had the GW2 Bible for a reasonable price, I would get it and read it. Just my 2 cents.