Guild Wars 2

I enjoy coming to the forums to learn about people complaining that they are struggling and numbing their mind for their first Legendary, and I just sit here laughing doing what I find fun ingame.

colesy.8490:

10/30/0/20/10 is a pretty popular Arah build, Brazil has a video of it on youtube. 30/30/0/0/10 is the “this build sucks everywhere besides Lupi speedkills build”.

I’d go ruby orbs like you said because of the lack of scholar bonus on phantasms, and yes those two sigils stack. It might be worth using sigil of perception while killing trash mobs (like at the start with all those risen that just melt) to get your precision up, reflects are very important on Lupi.

I can’t access the intothemists site unfortunately, my laptop is ancient so I have no idea what build you linked.

10/30/0/20/10, Using Fury/Duellists in Dueling line, swapping out for clone dodge & mantras for lupi. S/F and /P offhand (pistol has perception)

My once beautiful Mesmer has been shelved for a good amount of time. I’m digging her corpse from the ground as Im expecting our group Mesmer to be Arah-ing less and less. Obviously, this role needs filling.

This is the build.

For Lupi, Phantasmal Fury will be swapped out for Deceptive Evasion, and Duellists Discipline for Empowering Mantras.

Few questions regarding Runes/Sigils.

1) Would Scholar Runes or Ruby Orbs be better, as Phantasms do not benefit from the 10% Scholar bonus, and I would be losing out on crit chance.

2) Sigil of Force & Undead. Do they stack?

I certainly want to do CM…

P2 and P3 Recipes are worth a hell of a lot.

Blix.8021:

You can’t exploit any more (to my knowledge)

You certainly can, there are so many it’s not even fair.

I love CM too.

No but really, it’s actually pretty fun, but something I would never PUG because there is no reliable condition removal.

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

whenever I bring it up I just get SHUT UP I PLAY HOW I WANT. Then they usually start going on about how amazing their greatsword DPS is, even when I can tell they’re doing nothing, but that’s a different issue altogether.

This is PUG Warriors in a nutshell. Don’t forget their COF armor dyed Abyss and some form of red waiting for the 100B cooldown by auto attacking, spamming Arcing Strike on cooldown, and using their ruby orbs instead of Scholars.

Dub.1273:

Don’t move.

Can I ask, if I stop moving and lupi “positions himself”, will that mean he will not attack me with his bubble?

Quick question for all those experienced in “longer” lupi solos/duos.

In phase 3 when Lupi becomes mobile, no matter where I’m standing (in his target circle to avoid bubble), he always seems to drift to one of the doors and instantly reset. Time after time it’s causing me to have to restart the entire fight.

What can I do to help prevent him doing this, is there a way I can stop him when he starts to move, or a way I can stop him moving there to begin with?

Thanks.

Honestly, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with FGs. Bear form yes, FGs no.

If anything, the damage is just too extreme. Lower it a bit, and it’s fine.

Definitely foresee some form of a nerf. Maybe not as major as most people expect, but maybe to Teq’s health.

No problem with them changing animations, but on a gem store purchase? That is low. Fortunately, I didn’t purchase my pickaxes for the animation, so it doesn’t hit me personally.

You can’t expect them to offer a refund to those who bought it based on the old animation, but that is the moral thing to do. Greedy money-grabbing.

I will certainly think twice about purchasing anything cosmetic from the gem store from now on, and I know a large group will boycott the gem store altogether.

AN and NCSoft missed a real money spinner here. They could have just released a new unlimited pickaxe with this animation. So many people who already had the Molten one would have purchased it anyway.

Yes, yes it does. FGs has a long cooldown.

Dude, could you imagine Kamohoali’i on land? Freakin’ sweet.

Coming here asking for suggestions on ranged combat is a huge mistake, don’t pick a profession because it’s ranged option is great, a good ranged option is just a bonus for the few encounters that warrant it.

How would a 30/0/0/10/30 build fare when compared to a 30/10/0/0/30 build? I guess Empowered would be lower DPS than Rending Strikes, but as a Warrior who often uses 2 shouts (FGJ and OMM), would taking Lung Capacity be more worthwhile than Rending Strikes, swapping to Empowered when using 2 Banners or Signet?

Happyfool.8951:

because people keep asking for raid-like content, and this update is anet’s answer.

People want raid-like content where they can actually manage who is contributing. With open world bosses, you’re stuck with random people who can be counter productive and you can’t do a sodding thing about.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

No. This is a Challenge. If it’s too hard, you can leave so someone else can take your slot. People actually care that Anet is providing something that doesn’t require standing in one place, and spamming “1”.

I agree.

However, this is the wrong place to incorporate difficulty. Even if I and a bunch of my friends go to the zone, fully coordinated and willing to do exactly what is required, the reality is we are unable to either a) control what the other players do, or b) control who is able to contribute (a la instancing).

Open world events are a horrible place to have difficulty. Temple of Grenth, even 1 year on, still remains contested on most servers for most of the time because people are just unwilling to cooperate. That isn’t even near the difficult of this, Grenth is simply keep mobs away from the NPC and even then people screw it up most the time.

I’m not for auto attack events being as rewarding as they are, but to rely on such a mass of random players who are unable to pick who they’re with cooperating is ridiculous.

Remember the Karka Queen, a somewhat tasking open world boss? Probably not, because it’s dead content. Unless something is done, Tequatl is Karka Queen 2.0.

Yep, “fix” Incin which has everything a Legendary should have rather than focus on those that need it like Howler, Kraitkin, FSP and Kudzu.

Half the CD on the block, and triggers Dual Wielding trait.

Yup.

Rock > Scissors > Paper > Rock… etc.

We know Necros are the current Meta – try building for counter meta, always makes PvP a laugh.

Lady Minuit.3186:

Thieves have already been nerfed the most

Someone hasn’t been looking at Mesmer since launch. Phantasms will just be weaker clones at this rate.

RagingDragon.9475:

You guys do realize there are 4 classes that use Greatsword, and it is the most used weapon in the game? That is the reason there are more GS skins.

As someone said earlier, Sword is used by 5.

Zeph.5927:

two of the most played professions (warrior and guardian) tend to have GS as their most used weapon.

Sword is highest DPS on Guardian, Ranger & Mesmer (who, quite often, actually dual wield swords), and highest trash-clearing DPS on Thief. It is the most viable second offhand option for Warriors who opt not to use GS (negligible DPS difference between AM/GS and AM/AS).

It’s impossible to deny that more Twilight/Sunrise are around than Bolt, but please stop trying to claim GS is the most used weapon. Please.

They are both the same, only get Legendary for a skin.

Changing stats is useless, it should always be in Berserker anyway.

\o/

/15 char.

If you have multiple Legendaries, it’s very difficult to complain about having to spend a few gold on extra splitters. The fact they are giving at least 1 for free is great, as they could easily bung them in the gem store knowing SO many people would need to buy one.

Let them make a few extra bucks off guys with multiple. As much as I hope to get the same number as the number of legendaries, it’s hardly a sore spot and I’m thankful there is a way to untransmute.

We have known that ANet have intended to change MF for a good while now.

Infact, I believe a thread I started 3 months ago was the first instance of an ANet dev (Colin) alerting us that they were not happy with how MF was implemented, and they intended to change it. Link to that thread HERE.

Now, in that 3 months, think of all the extra gold (and your teammates time you have wasted) that your MF gear has allowed you to get.

I’m sure it’s worth the trade-off, be thankful that they are allowing you to change it, and not just deleting it completely.

It’s hardly an item spiral if, one year on, they still haven’t released a full set of “next tier” items.

Put this into comparison with other MMOs, who release a next level of items every few months.

An MMO with no slow incline in gear will become very stale for those who have gaming as a passion, rather than a minor hobby. AN are doing it very well, taking it slow and making it obtainable to all (except those who hole themselves up in one part of the game, which is the players problem, not ANs).

I didn’t watch the livestream, but I can’t see it.

So far, all ascended items have been time gated currency, its just the currency this time is crafting materials.

lnguy.5127:

Flissy.4093:

Flameseeker is INCREDIBLE. Sure, footfalls are missing and every Leggie should have some, but what it lacks in footfalls it makes up with the most obvious effect of a Leggie out there.

God kitten I love that thing, why haven’t I got it yet?

EDIT: You got it based on how it was, which means you clearly enjoyed it, so how can you complain it’s not updated? It’s a pretty idiotic thing to do to purchase an item and hope it gets updated.

An example to illustrate my point, you working at a job that you really enjoy. You work as hard as your coworkers and yet they have got a raise except for you. How would you feel?

You’re comparing cosmetics in a game to something that controls your entire life and well-being.

FSPs effect is arguably the most obvious. As I said, footfalls are missing, but apart from that it REALLY does not need anything changing.

KrAzZyJmAn.5928:

I’m working toward my legendary now, which is why I need money.
I have 62G right now, and that’s the richest I have ever been.
Thanks for the tips

For a cosmetic upgrade, just focus on having fun.

You will be much happier spending 4 months getting your Legendary by having fun, than crying tears of boredom for 1 month.

Mystic.5934:

power is not way better than precision. for pure damage, it is likely better. I haven’t confirmed the math myself, but let’s say it is for now.
precision increases your chance to crit.
I don’t know about you, but when I crit, I tend to apply bleeding, gain vigor, gain endurance, and hit them with a aoe fire ball, which effectively doubles my damage.

You’re likely already hitting your on-crit effects as soon as their ICD is up wearing full Berserker anyway.

KrAzZyJmAn.5928:

Thank you! Yeah, I have no idea how to make money in an MMO, this is my first one so I’m kind of lost.

Almost no “essential” items cost much at all. Your full exotic set & runes/sigils will cost you, at most, about 50g tops. Everything that costs money will be cosmetic.

Make money the fun way, by playing how you want. Don’t kitten around doing boring, menial tasks just ‘cause it gives an extra buck, that’s a fools errand.

Vitality is bad.

/thread.

Flameseeker is INCREDIBLE. Sure, footfalls are missing and every Leggie should have some, but what it lacks in footfalls it makes up with the most obvious effect of a Leggie out there.

God kitten I love that thing, why haven’t I got it yet?

EDIT: You got it based on how it was, which means you clearly enjoyed it, so how can you complain it’s not updated? It’s a pretty idiotic thing to do to purchase an item and hope it gets updated.

Emanuel.9781:

On another note: I recorded a CoF 1 run with a few buddies and convinced them to buy a full set of full Wayfarer’s armor, weapons + trinkets(MF/Vit/Toughness) + 6 pirate runes for it, as a last commemoration for Magic Find gear. We also all used “tanky”(super bad) builds and such. We didn’t wipe, but the run took us about 45 minutes. 20 minutes of which was on the effigy.

It’s somewhat invalidated when all your Wayfarer were Masterwork stats. It would be interesting to see what the difference would be in Exotic (with Ascended if they even exist …)

Lampshade.7569:

Nobody gives you s**t about your build when you carry a legendary x)

The kitten you on about? I’d much rather take someone in the ugliest gear imaginable who is traited correctly and skilled, than some kittenbag whos running around auto attacking with his Twilight in a 30 Tactics & Defense build.

Viking Jorun.5413:

We need to know.

Why do you need to know? It’s not like you can impact it in anyway.

We’ll find out, and there is nothing we can do about it.

I do imagine they will, though, it will be too much kitten for AN to want to deal with.

But is it possible? And what would happens to Legendaries on low level alts?

If they are possible, I imagine there will be a way to “revert” transmuted Legendaries.

projectcedric.6951:

Once the TP comes into discussion, a lot of other factors come in.

You have just totally blown my mind, the overlooking issue was that Silver doubloons cost so much more than their counterparts from other Legendary.

projectcedric.6951:

So with this, I end my participation in this ridiculous … discussion.

Bye o/

I overlooked trinkets, your point is now valid but it certainly would have to be account bound.

It would be nice to be able to move my Ascended trinkets from my Mesmer to my Thief.

Ken DeBoer.9268:

Now I know the bosses will have defiant and hammer is good to strip defiant, but I still think the vulnerability and stuns it offers is nice.

Why would anybody even consider a Hammer warrior to do this. An X/P Thief would do this and practically everything much better than a Warrior.

There’s a reason Hammers are not, and should not, be used in a PvE situation.

I’m still scratching my head to why people think dailies are a chore. I can’t remember the last time I actively tried to get 5 of the dailies completed, and I haven’t missed a daily for months.

Trevorsboob.1254:

In the upcoming patches legendary items are able to swap out stats whenever you’re out of combat. I don’t want to miss out on that because I transmuted it.

You’re guessing there. My guess is transmuted won’t miss out – it would be too much kitten for AN to deal with. This should only be really considered if you are indeed correct – but we don’t know for sure yet. 2 Stones instead of this item would change nothing on exotics, as they have been promised no such upgrades.

Your issue lies with the Transmuted word overriding the Legendary. A much simpler change would be to just remove that, and either just not say it’s transmuted, or have it as an additional line in addition to that.

projectcedric.6951:

Oh my goodness…

This is gonna be hard to explain… But I will try my best to make it as easy for you as possible, okie?

Lets say that there are 100 exotics in the game. Chance of Colossus dropping = 1/100. Chance of Zap dropping = 1/100. With regards to acquisition from the game itself, the RATE OF ACQUIRING PRECURSORS ARE THE SAME.

What is not the same is the demand of each precursor. And this demand affects the availability and price of the item in the TP. This is not due to the game itself at all, but due to the behavior of players. It has got nothing to do with the game being unfair.

How in F’s name can you intentionally forge a specific precursor???? While the system is possibly being anticipated in the future, its not available yet. You can try and forge a RANDOM EXOTIC. Which means that once again all precursors has the same chance of coming out from this activity.

Oh. My. Goodness. Either you’re just a really smart troll, or… I hope you are.

My point is we have no proof that the rate is the same. AN have yet to prove anything such.

In regards to forging them, you can throw in 4 Greatswords and you WILL get a Greatsword back, that means you can limit the pool of precursors you can get. If you want to craft a Dawn or Dusk, you can throw in 4 Greatswords and you CANNOT get any other precursors.

So yes, you can craft a specific precursor.

MAGpie.7962:

Ok, yes, “you don’t have to”. I know… but I do want the points.

Then the problem lies with you – not the dailies.

A transmuted Legendary is still a Legendary.

I transmuted my Howler before I even equipped it – and I still completed the achievement for it.

That aside, if you are able to get a Legendary you should know how horrible PVT is, so why would you even consider keeping it as such?

Regarding the first suggestion, if you didn’t like the fact they are Soulbound, why did you buy all 3? You should have learned your lesson after the first.

There are people who WILL buy them for multiple characters – both my Warrior and Mesmer have a set. There are people who will buy for all 8 professions, and some who will buy even more than that.

It would be a huge monetary loss for NCSoft to order AN to make them account bound.

EDIT: Another thought. If these tools were account bound, it would be incredibly inconvenient to have to constantly transfer them from character to character. If you bought them for convenience rather than a long term investment, you kinda can’t complain that they aren’t account bound because of the above point.

You’d pay 1000+ gems to do the same job as 2 transmutation crystals.

Wow.

projectcedric.6951:

What other parts exactly? All the rest are the same except for one gift and precursor. You cannot compare precursors at all because game-wise, all the precursors have the same rate of dropping. Their difference in prices is due to the difference in demand, which is playerbase’s fault rather than the game.

Legend is currently 1333g on the TP, with only 1 available. This is more than Dusk, but Twilight is the most sought after Legendary.

Tell me again that the rate of precursors is the same.

Oh, don’t forget you can forge precursors too, so supply/demand has nothing to do with it – more people will forge as supply increases. How many people do you know that throw in Tridents to get Venom?

projectcedric.6951:

Molten Lode: 150 × 70s = 105g

Charged Lode: 100 × 2g = 200g

Difference = 100g

Gossamer Bolt: 250 × 2s = 3g

Silver Doubloon: 250 × 82s =200g

Difference = 197g

I made my Bolt when Charged were 3.2g each, and Molten were 50s each. Meaning Gift of Lightning was more expensive than Vial of Quicksilver.

I dare you to try and find a post of me complaining about this. I dare you.

projectcedric.6951:

Flissy.4093:

Don’t like what you need, don’t craft it. Simple as.

HAHAHAHAHA. HAhaha. Ha ha. Ha. ha. ha.

Omg. So funny. My insides are hurting so much.

I like how you couldn’t respond with anything constructive.