Guild Wars 2

Cat Has Ducks.1982:

Has anyone group tried a speed run in all PVT gear just to see the difference in time for any given dungeon. Say CoF P1?

I volunteer as tribute! I mean…. mesmer.

If you wanna give it a go I have a full set of PTV gear sitting in my bank (with a couple of trinkets to boot)

It would be cool to have back-to-back runs. One with full PTV and one with full zerk. Maybe if we get bored after arah?

What’s your favorite pets to run?

Lbow with brown bear and polar bear? or do you go with murellow and black bear?

Tyrannus Blade.3408:

I wouldn’t mind spike damage provided it was always made absolutely clear to the player that the attack is coming their way and is going to hurt. The problem is that in far too many instances the attack is so badly telegraphed/ not telegraphed at all meaning you either don’t get enough time to react or you didn’t even see it coming.
Possibly one of the worst offenders would be the AoE cast by Captain Ashym in the Urban Battlegrounds fractal. It’s a meteor storm that can drop a player from full hp to downed to dead in seconds yet is only telegraphed via subtle boss animations; animations which are frequently hidden behind particle effects and charr npcs. There isn’t even a red circle as far as I have ever seen which breaks the games own rules about AoE’s.

Meteor shower never has red AOE. It’s pretty easy to dodge though. If you start to see it raining meteors just dodge out. One hit shouldn’t take your health down. I’m a full zerker mesmer and it takes 2/3 before it downs me.

It’s just part of the game. I understand you don’t like this aspect, but it’s what anet did in order to remove the trinity. You can regen/facetank small attacks, but you need to be ready to dodge the heavy ones.

I don’t know how long you’ve been playing, but if it’s going to bug you that much, you might want to search for a different game, because it only gets worse.

However, I do have an issue with all the effects that prevent you from seeing tells.

Anet/John Smith most likely don’t want any items to sell at or under vendor price. The issue is that vendoring these items creates money. If you post on the TP, it actually destroys money because of the 15% total fees.

This is most likely in combination with ascended to reduce the overall amount of scrap and leather on the trading post, as I think they are both in the millions of supply.

HELLruler.4820:

I have to admit that what really makes me impressed is how fast lupicus goes down during the second stage. Not only in this video, but every time I watch a “speed kill”

Nice music btw

It’s reflections for P2. He pretty much kills himself. But you have to stand under him. Most parties use mesmer for feedback, but I believe they used the #5 axe which reflects projectiles. I only watched Brazil’s version so I’m not really sure.

Hax. Exploit.

It’s obvious. At 5mins he leaves, then enters fotm again. Then dies again leaving. Obvious exploit.

Everybody knows the way to get the lover is get the skin axe, leave fotm, go back in, come back out, then forge 3 rares + a stone.

/s

Nice RNG for ya =)

I would love to comment on this, but I’m not even really sure what the point is or where you are trying to go.

Casuals need not take heart, as they are surrounded by casuals. We are the minority, the true, the brave….. the elitists.

/s

If I didn’t have a human mesmer, I would run this heal for skipping.

I’m not a fan of ether feast anyway. It sucks during running/skipping and usually seems like my phantasms are dead when I need to heal.

Kingteranas.1376:

Just have the whole group turn into baby Quaggans. It’s his one weakness – he can’t resist the cuddly Quaggans. Does 10 million DPS

I wish the 4 mesmers would have used quggan tonics before using descent into madness pre-bug fix.

Mirsa.1628:

Warrior or Guardian.

^. Mesmer is nice to have, fun to play, and I love it. But 4 guards and a mesmer or 4 wars and a mesmer is fine (for most content). Anything more than 1 mesmer is a loss in DPS.

I have all professions. I think they are all viable.

I would most likely start on my mesmer>thief>ele>ranger etc

The skin combines with the armor, and will stay on that armor.

You can change looks of armor/weapons by getting the piece you want, using a transmutation stone, and combining it with the stats/sigil you want. The stone is used for items lvl 79 or less. These are regular rewards from storyline and dailies.

Transmutation crystals are used for lvl 80 items. These are more expensive and gem store only.

For Medium, I would recommend Engineer for roaming. It is an extremely fun class to play. If you’re good you can really excel, if you’re bad you really get punished. However they aren’t wanted in dungeon parties (although they can stack might & invuln well).

Thieves are also good for both uses. It’s a pretty easy class to get a hang of. To be good you have to be patient. They are more wanted in dungeons because of their high DPS on single targets and ability to stealth the party, making skipping trash mobs easy. There are a lot of cheesy thief builds out, like perma stealth ones that are annoying and take no skill to use.

Rangers can excel in PvP and roaming. Dungeon wise they are the lowest of the low, but are decently viable if you run with a sword/spotter/frost spirit.

Prestige to me is completing something considered hard that takes skill, not time.

Legendaries are not prestigious. I could spend $2000 on gems and get a legendary, and be absolutely horrible at the game.

Dungeon armor to me is not prestigious. I could get carried by 4 decent people and get the dungeon armor I want.

Ascended weapons are not prestigious. It just takes time to farm or money to buy the items you need.

The mini Liadri is prestigious in my eyes. Some people thought it was hard and couldn’t complete it. You could not rely on somebody else to carry you. You had to do it yourself, knowing your class and the fight.

In CoF everybody is in a hurry, especially PUGging. He could have just left the dungeon. But my guess is the instance leader just got in a rush and most likely forgot. Either leaving the dungeon then leaving party quickly, or just outright leaving the party as soon as the rewards popped.

95% you missed out on two blues and a green.

I was very saddened by this whole patch. I enjoyed nothing in it. I feel like grumpy cat.

Old habits?

Edit (since I’m being punished): I don’t know, just a guess, that’s why I did it last night. Maybe some people don’t think it’s worth it.

OMNIBUS.2913:

Hot Boy.7138:

I play melee 100% of the time, but I force anyone else to melee. Every fight in arah can be done as melee or ranged. Everyone has their preference and has to deal with the risks of each. If someone who prefers to range, died while ranged, they would have probably played worse as melee cause it’s not their preference. Let people play the way they want.

I honestly hate when someone who doesn’t melee ever, follow me into melee range just because they see me doing it, and die repeatedly cause of it. And I hate when someone tells me to range cause they don’t think melee is possible, cause they can’t do it. Just let people play the way they want and deal with the risks of their decision. Then again, I’m also someone who doesn’t get mad if someone dies or if the group wipes, and I don’t see it as any more of a waste of time, than actually playing the game is.

+1 i agree with you!

Sometimes one person in range can wipe the party. AC spider queen, CoE Alpha, Etc.

But I get what you are saying.

It did not

I missed feedback on Lupi 2 times in a row. 80% positive I had some lag, I just apologized to the group and took the blame.

Sorry Chuck!

Romo.3709:

Lurock Turoth.9085:

where did this idea that only level 80s can do dungeon content come from????

Since they revamped p2 making AC harder then most of the dungeons out there for no reason.

AC is still extremely easy. There were a couple of bugs that made it seem harder, but mostly they just changed it up and people were butt/hurt they had to relearn it.

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

IndigoSundown.5419:

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

Wallace MacBix.2089:

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

a t s e.9614:

this cleric troll build crap has to be nerfed somehow.

No it shouldn’t, this ‘troll crap’ is strategy. Just because it’s a strategy you can’t counter on your own doesn’t make it overpowered.

I don’t find a 10-20 sec skirmish that fun.

20 whole seconds people!!

Yeah, the OP admitted back on Page 1 that this thread was about being unable to kill a bunker in an amount of time (measured in single digit seconds) he thought was acceptable for a player of his skill.

a t s e.9614:

The problem is not about killng people with crazy regen .
It’s about PvP being a borefest when you fight bunkers
Only . I don’t wanna waste 2 minutes on 1 person if i know
Im better than him and only his regen prevents me
To stomp him in 5 secs .

There is a big difference between 20 seconds and 2 minutes. Also he claims to know when he is better than other players and should be able to beat them in 5 seconds if they didn’t have regen, based on what exactly?

Atse said 2 minutes is
unacceptable. His superior skill , should
allow him to kill in 5 secs.

Nokaru.7831:

Lurock Turoth.9085:

Swapping toons is a needless pain in the kitten and in AC at least, the ele simply by virtue of having conjure weapons makes runs smoother.

Public Service Announcement:

The experience is awarded after the cutscene, so if the leader of the dungeon doesn’t skip it, the other 4 members can swap after the fight is over.

Follow-up PSA.

AC has to be the easiest dungeon for swapping toons (at least p1 & p3). There’s a WP right before the run, and all you have left is the boss. Just notify your group before the run, asking if it’s okay that you swap before boss.

GOSU.9574:

Uh I already pointed out I found it. It’s called Healing Seed….

Wiki link with table: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Steal/Creature

Uh, people usually don’t read every single post. Read OP then answer.

Lurock Turoth.9085:

“Play Guild Wars 2 the way you want to play”…….as long as the way you want to play is max level only for level 35 content!

“play how you want” …. as long as how you want to play is to let some low level come into your party and demand to play according to his rules.

This is fine.

Warriors are slightly OP but it’s Anet, so it is what it is.

Wow…

Since when do so many people feel entitled to tell other people how to spend their money?

Yup, as everybody is saying it’s from using steal/mug (f1) on a ranger.

You steal a healing tree. f1 is then replace with this tree until you use it.

Player Character.9467:

viciouspike.8624:

You know I think if Anet ended up deciding to implement a dungeon kill all/no stacking policy the same people would start complaining that all the mobs are too strong.

No because they would just LoS the mobs and burn them down rather quickly. The complaints would be about some dungeons being incredibly stupid as killing everything in them would make them take way too long to even consider going to them. You really wanna run around killing all those things in arah that you don’t even have to come close to aggroing? Or those giants at the wraith boss? lawl

Relax killer.

I believe viciouspike was saying that if Anet granted the wish of all the people screaming that skipping and stacking are bad, those same people would then complain that it takes too long and the mobs’ health pools are too high.

I believe you guys are on the same side of the fence.

Trixie.7614:

I run with new guys from my guild all the time. They have less than 1k achievements and no exotics. I explain to them what to do and we clear the dungeon pretty fast.

It is your fault for not explaining what to do. If you don’t want to explain, there is a party function that allows you to kick people from the party, allowing you to find a more suited for your needs member.

Usually if you think that 1 member is failing, then your party is not good. You can’t blame 1 person for doing bad in a dungeon that you can solo. If you are so much better than them you can probably do it 4 man.

Sometimes yes, other times no. That one person could be pulling extra mobs (like the spot around Lupi), could be staying in range p3 of lupi as to start the bubbles, or even in other dungeons, say AC spider queen, where that person might dodge backwards and start the spider queen range attack, wiping the party.

Yes you can kick them. But times it’s easier to give them another chance…. or two.

Warcry.1596:

Reward system should be something like…

For every enemy you kill, your end reward goes up by one Silver or something…

SAB has a kill count that is supposed to increase your drops at the end. I don’t think it worked very well.

If they could do this in dungeons, and say add 1%MF for every mob killed (if his dungeon MF applied to chests) I think it would help kill trash. Obviously there would be work toning some paths down or some paths up.

It depends what you want to do.

Necros are the kings of PvP/WvW, but are usually scoffed at in PvE. However, rangers receive worse scoffing.

Both of your uses are horrible though. bearbow rangers are the joke of tyria. Tanky MM will just slow your group down, contributing very little.

If you just want to open field wvw (champ trians, events, etc) it doesn’t matter at all. If you want to do dungeons, then choose neither. Go guard, war, ele, thief, mesmer.

Right click. Destory.

No gold involved. You’re welcome.

Name: Greggerz

Account Name: <—- That way

Class: Mesmer (main) Full Zerk. I can also bring zerk/knights warrior.

Experience: I have done all of them before (awhile ago). I recently just ran with Lord Chuck and he helped show me p2 and p3 again. I would love to get back into it and make it a regular run. I’m pretty solid on melee Lupi p1 and p2, but I’m still trying to get a hang of part3.

Server: BG

Playtime: 3-8 server time on weekdays. Anytime on weekends.

Raven.3248:

Have you guys heard of LFG?

Have you heard of PUGs?

TKiller.6829:

Ethics.4519:

Player Character.9467:

They didn’t just DC. The instance only closes if the owner leaves party or if they log in on another character.

Truth

Since when? (I’m not arguing, I don’t know.)

For as long as I remember. Maybe it was after the changes with fotm (4/5 months ago?)

The instance owner can log off and the 4 can still finish the dungeon. The instance owner can log out. Log back in. Go to lions arch, buy something form the TP, then come back in, while the 4 stay in.

The instance owner can NOT switch characters. The instance owner can NOT leave the party. Either of these two will cause the instance to be destroyed.

deSade.9437:

RIP in peaches Ethics.

I could eat a peach…. for hours.

I’ve had my best PUG luck in CoE. Somebody earlier said it’s 50/50, and I’d say that’s about right.

My worst luck is AC (for obvious reasons). Out of the numerous times I’ve done that, I’ve had probably 1 really good PUG run.

Player Character.9467:

They didn’t just DC. The instance only closes if the owner leaves party or if they log in on another character.

Truth

Cat Has Ducks.1982:

1.)Random Mob spawn placement.
2.)Give Lupicus Dual Swords
3.)Add Gambits

This^

I like number 1 because right now everything is set. Even a new mechanic takes a couple of days (at most) to learn then it’s just memorization.

More RNG in the dungeons, less RNG for drops.

Bright.9160:

Mesket.5728:

Casmurro.9046:

Rieselle.5079:

I miss bodyblocking from GW1. Stacking looks stupid. ANet should at least put some mechanics to punish it.

With bodyblocking the zerg events would be impossible to do. Imagine a crowded Lions Arch, you won’t be able to walk around because you will be bumping on everyone.

body blocking turns off in many games while out of combat. It only turns on when you are in combat.

Not to mention, body blocking only worked against enemy players/foes in GW1, so this would be a non-issue in GW2.

I mean, even if it didn’t, what developer in their right mind would implement a body-block system in cities?…

A realistic one!

/wave @ bright
Ethics waves at bright. Atse body blocks bright. Wave absorbed.

Confusion is still strong in PvP and WvW.

AFAIK perplexity runes haven’t been nerfed, and are still OP

Necromancer is pretty solid in all aspects of the game except for maybe PvE dungeons.

Conditions/boon (both application and removal) are all the meta right now in wvw/pvp.

haviz.1340:

Ethics.4519:

Wait… what are we doing?

Why do you rip Robert in peace? Hasn’t he got enough?

does not compute

deSade.9437:

RIP in pieces Robert.

Ugh it’s sooooo difficult to find a non warr/mes party

Wait… what are we doing?

OMNIBUS.2913:

Crysys.1297:

. i do agree that having a ticket drop would ruin the prestige factor of these skins

i think by having the fractal skins sell for something like 50 pristine relics for 2hand and 40 for 1h would be fair, though. in this case, the only people that would be able to afford the skin they want are those people who have done kittenloads of dailies for them. i think everyone wins in this case.

I disagree with having a ticket drop would ruin the “prestige”(not that i care about the prestige). You still have to go into fractals to get the weaps and chances are still low on lower lvls. It would just save people loads of time where they can be doing other things in this game. Instead of making money in dungeons i spend about 45mins in fractal 48 everyday hoping to get the weapon i want. I get no other reward out of doing fractals and about 95% of the time i get nothing or a weapon i can’t use. It’s just ridiculously time consuming! I’m really hoping they make some good changes to fractals next month.

I’m all for having them tradeable through pristine relics though!

For prestige value, I think they need to take a tip from korean MMOs.

Lvl 20-29 should drop just the plain skin. 30-39 could drop the skin with a slight glow/effect. 40-49 would be a more intense glow/effect. etc

Eventually you could start to change colors as well.

Nerien.5412:

Minigrump.4961:

Zelyhn.8069:

But Guanglai says ele staff is good ?? I do not compute

sorry, forgot to add the part where he was using constant fire attunement, not swapping between all 4

That was a mistake…he should have camped water instead!

It is common/accepted knowledge in the BHB community that green numbers = support. Somebody has to be the backbone of the group and heal all you horrible zerkers that die so easily. Dead dps = no dps…. duh.

On a side note…. very misleading title =(

Cat Has Ducks.1982:

People always whisper me to bring sexy back.

I’ve seen it. Some people are lost beyond recovery.

Solid Gold.9310:

Joins the “Never got a good drop in 1500 hours of game play” club.

Just rotten luck, some people get it all, some get nothing.

Sign me up.

I’m 1500+ and have had some okay drops. Never a precrusor (even trying through the mystic forge often).

I helped a new person in the game level up and showed him the ropes. He played the TP for money and got dusk. A week later he got dawn. Later that day he got storm.

He’s probably under 100 hours of gameplay.

RNG is RNG =(