Guild Wars 2

I don’t think we’re even disagreeing with anything. I will often show newbies dungeon paths. If I want to play for realsies in a stress-free manner, I clear several dungeons with people in ascended berserker gear.

Semi on topic funny story, when I was trying to learn to solo Arah, I added all of the Arah mentors to my friends list and named them “Arah Mentor number 1” and etc. Now sometimes when I make a LFG, someone will turn up named “Arah mentor number 1” instead of “Billy Tom” or whatever their real name is.

zerohunter.3196:

So its almost sure now, that trees are created by dragons sleeping beneath them, so there is good dragon under Pale Tree, and another tree above Mordemorth, and Sylvari are not corrupted and thats dragons failure, or they are gonna trigger, like Cylon’s FF.

It’s not almost sure. We haven’t gotten any additional info about slyvari this season yet, and nothing at all to suggest there is a dragon under a tree anywhere.

Oh ha, the thought of someone using rares never even crossed my mind. I’ve never seen that. It would be really weird since a single day or two of dungeon running would net you enough money to buy an exotic set, and you wouldn’t put scholar runes on rares. I just meant berserker gear in general; no one runs 20+ dungeons a day not in berserker gear (or assassins for some, and whatever the heck meta engis are supposed to use, you get the point.)

Hence why I usually post LFGs that say “meta zerker ping gear 3.5k AP” or something. It basically reduces the number of people I don’t want to play with down to zero, and I have stress free runs. You would be pretty hard pressed to find someone who runs 20+ dungeons a day and isn’t in ascended or at least exotic berserker gear; I find it a better “metric” than AP.

Lady Celtaine.3760:

Uhg… all Zerk party is fine if you want to do it that way but acting like it’s the only way to go is just ignorant.

I’m not acting like it’s the only way. I, and all the other “elitist” have absolutely zero problem with people running whatever build they want. I just don’t want to play with them, much in the same way I am not friends IRL with, let’s say, radical environmentalists. I have nothing against them and respect them, I just don’t have much in common with them. That’s what the AP reqs basically come down to. Like the OP and I’ve said many times, it’s just shorthand for wanting to play with like minded people.

I’ve never, ever been a fan of full spirits. So your point about condi removal and stun breakers can be worked in to a spirit build if you decide to go that route. SoR is just such an amazing, and possibly even underrated skill for all 3 game modes, with personal condi removal, stun breaker, and emergency group condi removal all rolled in to one. Or any number of other options!

I think mystic forging karma gear provides more gold than jewelry boxes, but don’t quote me on that.

Aidan Savage.2078:

The fact you’re making that assumption makes you one of the players I’d not want in my parties at all.

Which goes back to my original point that I would never join one of these “everyone welcome” dungeon runs. I don’t want to play with that type of player, and I expect you not to join my “meta zerker builds only” LFGs. Neither one of us is wrong, we just don’t want to play together, and I don’t understand why anyone tries to force themselves in to a group they’re not welcome in.

Victory.2879:

They are complaining about something they themselves helped create. If you are forming pug groups, be willing to take longer and have to train up new people- occassionally you will find a real gem who in a few runs becomes better than you could ever hope to be.

Fast dungeon runs don’t require skill, they require people running meta builds in berserker gear and doing cohesive meta tactics. It doesn’t matter how good the player is, if they aren’t already in berserker gear, they are not going to wear it no matter how much you try to ‘teach them the dungeon path’.

The one exception might be if you had 4 people in berserker gear taking a guy who ran dungeons a whole lot in PVT or condi gear. When he sees the overwhelming speed and ease difference, it might open his eyes. But your typical PUG will see a group doing well and assume him and his tanky PVT is the reason why, and not the 4 berserker eles.

There is nothing you can say to someone to convince them to abandon tanky gear; they need to come to the conclusion on their own, much like creationists have to dig themselves out of that without the help of others. You can’t logic a “creationist” to start wearing berserker gear. So teaching PUGs is not usually worth anyone’s time.

Variations of this build have been popping up almost daily since the SotF patch. I use something pretty similar in WvW for solo play. In PvP, I just don’t understand why people are using it. It offers effectively zero team support.

What’s I find weirder is your build is 95% similar to a typical spirit build, only you’ve removed all team support and replaced it basically with self condi removal. I think you actually have too much condi removal some how. :P

Am I missing something or are you at 95% bleed duration? I’m pretty tired.

I agree with both sides, ha. I found all 60 coins without a guide, however the first 59 were joyful exploration. The last one — and this was my own fault due to the completionist in me — was literally 6 hours of gruelingly scrubbing every single inch of the map over the course of a few days. I even did result to dulfy, however I wound up finding it on my own because it was in a location I swore I had already gotten.

Map completion in GW1 was similarly painful (nothing like GW2), but there was a small amount of leeway. You could have 100% map completion even while missing a small town, just because the experience was so painful to get. So I lean towards there being like 2 extra coins. Not removing the final tier, just adding 2 leeway coins.

This would be a horrifically disappointing season if it’s only 8 episodes, since the first season was something like 25 episodes. I seriously doubt it’s anything other than a SAB break for 2 weeks, or something of that nature.

About among other things the amulet:

Waller said that while players may not see potential story hooks like these picked up immediately, they’re certainly “interesting” and ripe for speculation. He also cautioned that plot threads which appear to lead to obvious conclusions might actually head off in an entirely different direction. Hopefully that’s good news for those of us who are fans of Kryta’s young queen.

It sounds like they aren’t ready to use the amulet, if it’s even going to be used as a storyline at all. The way it’s phrased sort of scares me, like they didn’t expect the fan base to pay attention to it and it was just a random piece of magic a dragon wanted.

The story has been so interesting lately, I hope it doesn’t fall flat and just be a generic “rally the forces and kill the mindless dragon who wants to eat magic”, and all our speculation is us coming up with interesting stories that will never happen.

It’s been ages since I’ve done it, but isn’t Scarlet still alive in the aether blade path of TA? Or is she just holograms?

Fuiltech.6438:

The PC could just be completely bullkittenting the group to try and sound smart and threw a bunch of words together. It might not actually be its name and we will forever just refer to it as Mordremoth.

Eventually we’ll find a lieutenant who orders us to ‘submit to the power of Willard’ and everyone is like “who the hell is Willard?”

Are you planning on putting an updated version of this thread in the profession balance forum? I’m pretty sure no devs read this forum. Honestly I would prefer you didn’t even put any input from other ranger forum members in to it and simply moved your thread to that forum. You have a far better (edit: and realistic) understanding of the class in those couple posts than the terrible suggestions I foresee coming in future responses.

Geez, just because you have a personal problem with the charr doesn’t mean they’re breaking any lore. It wouldn’t be lore breaking if after the dragons are dead the charr slaughter all the adorable little quaggan and asura, even if people didn’t like that happening.

Also we have no idea what’s going on yet!

Gorgaan Peaudesang.8324:

Well, more terse and distant thkittenual.

The kitten filter is just completely ridiculous.

That’s basically the only possible way anyone could know its name, so we all guessed that. They just blew it in-game.

I exclusively PUG dungeons (NA) and my experience is 100% opposite yours. I expect 25 stacks of might, FGSs, melee rangers (of which I am one) and no staff guardians or signet warriors.

The difference may be in the LFGs you choose. Never join the “level 80s” or “please know path” groups, join the “ping berserker gear and be meta” LFGs. They’re almost as common and fill almost as quickly.

Prysin no, what have you done? :-O

The combo solution is the best. There is a bare minimum amount of AP almost anyone would be willing to accept without assuming it’s going to be a student/teacher type run. Let’s arbitrarily say it’s 2k. I also list gear pings and meta build requirements in my LFGs. I don’t only want someone who is hardcore in to the game with 25k AP, I also want someone is knows the meta and understands why berserker’s is being requested of them.

It’s really just shorthand for “I want to play with people like me”. I don’t want to play with you, staff cleric’s guardian, we would not be friends. Why people insist on forcing themselves in to not like-minded groups is beyond me.

The great thing about it being confusing is the target just disappears. Thieves have massive tells on their stealths; rangers just aren’t there anymore. Even being a ranger main I sometimes stop thinking and assume a LB ranger has alt-F4ed on me.

Almost purely for the confusion/repositioning in WvW, although if I’m about to finish someone off I might use it to cover up an important skill. Or of course literally use it to finish them off (stomp.)

darkace.8925:

Since you’re only interested in features that do stuff, I’m guessing it you’ve never used a dye or transmutation charge to change your character’s appearance.

That’s not a similar comparison; you’re being silly. You have to have a character color. You can’t not be a color. You don’t have to have a house. Every one has no choice but to see your character colors. No one would ever see a player’s house. Random person: “Hey Fluffball, want to see my house?” Fluff: “Absolutely not, I’m playing the game.”

I never understood the obsession with player housing. What the hell are you supposed to do in it? Just afk?

Harper.4173:

AP is not about player skill.

Astral Projections.7320:

I’ve gotten numerous achievement points from slaying ambients, visiting the laurel vendor, harvesting, and daily 50 kills (autoattack says Hi!). I’m pretty sure none of these have increased my skill level or show mastery of the game.

You’ve never noticed? Go out in to a random map and autoattack a champ (so it doesn’t die too quickly) with the sword. You’ll slowly, slowly push the thing across the map.

It’s actually really handy in some cases to shove bosses in to walls for the eles to go all FGS on them.

TrOtskY.5927:

Everything PvE in this game is just a case of doing something over and over til you know the patterns and can play blindfolded.

That’s exactly the kind of player I want in my dungeon run, someone who can do the run blindfolded.

Ree showed up not long ago on the Chinese GW2 website in the bios. She’s still working on GW2 stuff, she just didn’t elaborate on what.

I don’t have the patience to deal with staff guardians and full signet longbow warriors. Putting AP, meta build, and ping gear reqs on my LFG is way less painful for me, even knowing it will take longer to fill. If the run will definitely go smoothly, that’s more worth it to me than completing the run earlier with a stressful group.

I don’t want to play with you, OP. AP reqs are my way of telling you that.

Keep in mind regen and water field combos are based on the healing power of the person using them, not the person who provides them, which is one of many reasons healing power is borderline useless in PvE. Because your wife will be playing a warrior, she really does not need you for another other than boosting her damage (warriors are extremely durable.) If you go full support you will be fairly useless to her and will only be doing a tiny fraction of her damage, which probably won’t be fun in the long run.

I like Lugh’s builds as open-world support concepts, but I would try to get as much damage as possible out of your gear. Are you planning on buying a matching set of exotic armor? If so you’d probably want berserker or rampagers (and berserker will double as the only acceptable armor if you ever decided to do dungeons with other PUGs.)

Another thing, I would probably try to get both spotter* and piercing arrows out of the marksmanship line, which means 6 points in to it. Bows really need piercing arrows to be even mildly effective in PvE.

Finally you can do better than a pet bear. Red Moa has a little AoE healing and provides AoE fury; that’s one of the best support-y type pets. Ice drake for AoE damage plus chilling things so your wife can catch them more easily. And the ever popular jungle stalker for the best single target damage and AoE might.

*That’s presuming you wind up using mostly a shortbow at close range and the greatsword. One of the problems with longbow is you are so far away from your allies they can’t receive any of your boons. Which sounds totally incompatible with how you want to support your wife!

Are you talking about looking over your shoulder? There is a command called “Look behind” that is super important for PvP and WvW.

The thing that annoys me about WvW videos and people’s responses to them is that defeating enemies “proves” the person being defeated wasn’t any good. Apparently the only way to show you’re fighting a skilled opponent is to have both people running condi bunkers and be unable to kill each other after a horrifically boring 10 minute fight.

I know there are some clues as to your opponent’s skill, but it’s just a general comment. If you completely annihilate a skilled opponent, people will still comment he was clearly a noob based purely on the fact he lost the fight.

Gotta use those keybinds for PvP and WvW. Don’t use the mouse for anything other than turning the camera.

They’ve definitely achieved suspense, I don’t think I’ve ever seen as much lore speculation across every forum as this. However I think most people bringing up GoTs are doing so because it’s a gritty show where the heroes aren’t safe. Who cares if Taimi gets in to a dangerous situation? You know she’s going to be fine. That takes 100% of the danger out of a dangerous event.

sazberryftw.3809:

I also don’t see how every character in the game see the middle as the Pale Tree. I look at it and that’s FAR from what I would have thought first. I just found it really weird to have my character/the NPCs interpret something a way that seemed odd to me.

There is clearly a tree midway through the video, not talking about the globes. As far as the middle globe, no one knows for sure what it is, but it seems to morph from the vision of the tree.

One of the Priory asura has a device that turns you in to an Avatar of Balthazar. It’s to defend the fishing village in Kessex Hills. You slaughter all sorts of risen with skills similar to the FGS.

RedStar.4218:

If you look at GW2 and talk to people in game and on the forums (your experience may differ), but no one gives a kitten about nearly any NPC.
The only NPC players remotely care about are Quaggans, Skirtts and Tybalt (because he’s a goofy char).

The only NPCs we spend a bit of time with are :
-Treahearne, which a lot of players dislike because he’s the Pact leader
-Rox, Braham, Marjory, Kass and more recently Taimi.

Of those, the only death that would shock and move players would be Taimi’s. Which they won’t kill.

Ya, I agree. I think they’re trying to get us to care more about the characters lately so when someone does die, we care. I don’t know if I’d label is as “caring”, but it would be shocking to me if Braham died. I like Marjory enough I don’t want anything bad to happen to her. I really like her. I feel the same way about Caithe.

They might kill Taimi out of combat, through her disease. That could be really moving.

Maximus.8376:

Do they really need to draw a dragon and put a nameplate above their head to make you understand what it is? The blobs represented dragons and the one in the middle was the pale tree.

No one knows for sure what the middle one is, and we only think the orbs are dragons because the journal specifically states they are. There are lots of theories floating around as to what else the 6 orbs could represent, as well as what exactly the middle orb is (Tyria? Magic? The Pale Tree? The Universe itself?)

Have to agree with every, I’m not a fan of the race against the clock while using a third-party chart to see where I need to be while organizing an entire map for rewards most people don’t even want.

I agree with the OP about learning new stuff, that’s fun. But I don’t see the giant or the tiers ever being completed once the LS moves on. Honestly I don’t see the tiers being completed now when everyone knows how to do them, and the giant is rarely completed.

You’re just listing character development or suggesting mental trauma for the LotR characters, other than Frodo’s finger, and it was a complete cheeseball move that he lost his finger instead of sacrificing his life like all the foreshadowing lead us to believe he would.

Don’t get me wrong, LotRs is a great series that I loved as a child and I own all the movies, but literature has moved beyond that bubble gum cheese. If you’ve heard JRR talk about GoT, he says basically the same thing. He too loves LotR, but it should not be copied. LotR is black and white, GoTs is interesting.

We can’t go anywhere close to the extreme of GoTs for this game, but we can learn something from it. Anet is definitely not afraid to kill people, they do it constantly with brutal regularity. They just have to make sure it has impact for us. And I will be a happy camper.

Someone is having a bad day. I don’t regret a single second spent on my ranger. I’m not even sure I would still play GW if I wasn’t on ranger. Also why were you spending that insane amount of time on something you weren’t having fun doing??

Ya ya ya, lol. You know what I mean. It’s incredibly frustrating that out of the 100 most prominent characters going to war where they’re outnumbered and fighting in brutal hand to hand combat against inhuman beasts wielding two handed axes who ride on wolves the size of rhinos, while be peppered with countless thousands of arrows and thrown weapons, 99 of them return home without so much as a broken fingernail.

I love the simple iron greatsword. It’s pretty much the only weapon in the game that looks real. All of the Krytan weapons are decent as well.

It doesn’t help that what I presume is medium armor looks like heavy armor.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/File:Vigil_Marksman.jpg
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/File:Vigil_Siegemaster.jpg

Anet probably didn’t care too much about professions and just made the shocktroops of the vigil wear cool looking battle armor.

GoTs isn’t at all representative of what GW2 is, but I think the reference is brought up because LotR is very bubble gum. NO ONE dies in LotR and it takes all the suspense out of conflict. If we’re genuinely worried about our group every time they take on 800 inquest or whatever it was we slaughtered in episode 2, it gets a lot more interesting.

Well maybe some of them have different levels of armor, but many of the magic users are wearing full plate. For example these guys are elementalists: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/File:Vigil_Warmaster.jpg

Ogre and commander?? Do you mean your group leader was fighting the cave troll? That thing will wreck anyone; PUGs usually just run past it.

At any rate, the jewelry won’t ruin your build, but that sounds like an awful lot of effort just for something you’re not going to want once you learn the paths. Laurels translate in to a lot of T6 materials if you ever want a/nother legendary.

Edit: You did mention WvW in your original post, so maybe defensive and offensive sets of jewelry isn’t a waste.