Guild Wars 2

I nominate obal.3218 for all his guides about being a better guardian and explaining how to play it better in general and in every single dungeon.

I nominate Wethospu.6437 for gw2dungeons.net.

The OP is not telling you how to play, he’s telling you how you should play for a better community. You’re still free to agree or not. Learn the difference !

Stars.2179:

Astralporing.1957:

Stars.2179:

If they remove time gated, then these will increase even more which devalue their true worth.

What true worth? They are not worth anything more to me than exalted were before ascended gear got introduced. Yes, the cost is greater, but the worth is not. A BiS gear is a BiS gear.

10% more damage and defense, Armor alone: 14 major, +22 minor total 36 stat points. With 6 infusion slot each adds +5, total 30 more stat points with total 66 more stat points. With possible future infusion of masterwork +7, rare +8, exotic +9 and ascended infusion +10 per slot. Totaling up to possible: +6036 = 96 stat points more than exotic. On top of that they could release ascended runes / sigil which will fit only in ascended armors and weapons. Nope, it’s not worth anything. Don’t get it. You don’t have to. You’ll do fine with exotic.

If you want to do the maths, do them properly please. This is just biaised beyond possible.

Short answer: get the ascended armor only if you play fractals.

I got a second-hand Alienware Area-51 (2009). I first changed the PSU because that’s what caused it to get it sold away. The graphics card got destroyed recently as well so I took a GeForce GTX 770 and now… I need again a new PSU because the power consumption is too high and my computer crashes when my graphics card is too heavily used, so I play GW2 in low graphics settings… :/

AC p1 was solo’ed by Wethospu on his warrior before the revamp.

As far as I know, only the burrows could be problematic for a war. So, did it change as well?

Da Sonic.6521:

deSade.9437:

Bismuth.3165:

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

Also, at higher Fractal levels the weapon skins become more common, and also start dropping in a container that lets you pick the one you want.

Found in this thread

inb4 droprate of the container
/hysterical laughter

A little late, but given that it is my thread, I suppose I’ll toss this here too.

“This is not considered a bug.
The Fractal Skin Box is not dropping for the Fractal levels currently available (up to level 50).
It’s not accessible to anyone at this time.” -Regina Buenaobra

Yeah, but that quote comes from my thread, so this is a shameless link to it.

No? Ok, well, I tried.

Introduce guaranteed rare (or better) at the end of a dungeon path if you have met some or all criteria amongst a list like killing all champions, killing at least a specific percentage of mobs, never got downed/killed, etc.

Guaranteed rare doesn’t especially mean a weapon or an armor, but may also mean a trinket or a potion.

I currently level a warrior. All I do is AC p3 again and again. Sometimes a CM p1. Well, I have to say that the number without a clue in non-80 runs is far more lower than people I play with in 80-only runs. Those new guys, even if they don’t answer, they do what you say and it goes quick. I never ever expect a direct answer to a question I ask, because I know they won’t reply, but I also know they read and they do what you say… at least, if you’re friendly.

Hard and challenging content, and recognition for it. That’s what I want.

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

Can you tell what this boss is doing?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txiUl6_dhjg#t=4m15s

This is the sort of stuff we’re talking about.

Solo him and you’ll learn the differences.

Where do they cause issue? I can tank those hits while zerker and kill them in time. Never caused any issue.

Getting insta-down agony on the other hand…

Well, in that case, the tells as they are currently implemented are enough. I only have troubles with the tells of the Colossus fractal bosses, but except that, I’m fine.

Stars.2179:

For me I’ve stocked up enough of all tier2-5 mats enough to make 600 bolts of damask, (about 180,000 silk scrap) enough for 21 of my characters so I won’t be affected by the increase in price.

All will be crafted in… more than a year and half. Happy clicking

@Atreides: a better solution would be to remove the link between the opener and the instance, to make it party-wise.

Sorry, but… what’s a cast bar?

spoj.9672:

I would like an ingame speed clear leaderboard and timer. You could grant ap when a group clears a path in a bronze/silver/gold time. And the record times could be put into an official leaderboard on the website.

Wishful thinking.

Add this in the horizontal progression thread. Now! :o

I had 55 AR. With 45 AR from the trinkets and 10 from the weapon. With that, I couldn’t beat the level 40 underwater fractal.

I cracked two of my ascended chests to get ascended underwater weapons and get my 55 AR anyways.

“Oh, just roll swamp then”. Yes, but where’s the fun in playing swamp again and again. We don’t reroll anymore. We’re fine with the choices made by ArenaNet.

Well, it’s a Story mode. People should know better, in Story mode, everyone can be a first-timer. I had the case yesterday where I was the opener of a story mode. One guy watched all the cutscenes. All. Me and the three other guys were bored of this, but by respect for the newcomer, we didn’t kick him or even told him to stop watching. I however said that he should not expect people to be as normal as we were: there are jerks out there that take their reward and end the instance in a heartbeat.

But well… while he watched his video, we spammed /dance, /laugh, /cry and other emotes. We even opened a box of fun. Sometimes people lose the sense of fun.

lordkrall.7241:

ArenaNet announced leaderboards for Fractals
Players: “Buhuh, we don’t want any stupid leaderboards!”
ArenaNet puts leaderboards on hold in order to figure out a better way for them to work
Players: “Buhuh, where are our leaderboard!?”

Interestingly enough there seem to be much of the same people in this thread complaining about the lack of leaderboard that were complaining about them adding a leaderboard in the first place..

I didn’t and still don’t want the leaderboards, but since they’re going to be there, I’ve become curious about it, indeed. I didn’t change my mind, I adapted to the current situation.

The example of leaderboards and fractal skin box are two examples of things that were highly advertised on which ArenaNet did not deliver. That’s nearly all that has to be said about it.

Regarding the comment of Colin, I don’t see the leaderboards coming before the patch of January 21st. So let’s not hope too much!

Robert has been fired from no longer works for ArenaNet.

Can I still use the transmutation stone on legendary + white item to pass an item to my alt then use the de-transmuter ?

LittleLepton.8915:

It does stink. I do enjoy the CoE opening events though. Fun to solo/duo

I never could solo the Infinity Coil Commander: he resets way too fast. :-/ Has anyone ever soloed him?

Tybalt because he’s the best.

Honorable mention for Poobadoo because we get him at every single guild bounty we do and we started stories about him.

Brother Grimm.5176:

What were the overall percent increases to ALL stats (I’m betting they were more than 6.25%)?

Overall, if you have ascended trinkets and weapons already, you have, for zerk, and without any boost or any trait, 2154 Power, 1650 Precision (=39% crit chance), 78% crit dmg. That’s a base damage value of 2815.768.

If you change the exotic armor to ascended armor, you have 2168 Power, 1661 Precision (=39% crit chance, same as exotic), 79% crit dmg. That’s a base damage value of 2842.501.

2842.501 / 2815.768 = 1.0095 meaning an increase of the base damage value of 0.95%, or in other terms: not even one percent.

That’s without buffs, food and traits. Depending on those, you will possibly get an extra percent in crit chance (compared exotic/ascended). If you get that increase, you will get more base damage value (roughly around 1.3%), while if you don’t get that extra percent in crit chance, you will actually get a smaller increase than above (around 0.78%).

Edit: some computations are incorrect because I used attack as base, but attack is not used. I’ll try to take the time to redo the computations with the correct formula.

Edit 2: now corrected with accurate values

I’m yelling at it ‘cause my server is inactive during the day and super active at night (daily reset time, which happens when I’m in bed). I just cannot get enough of it to finish the last 3 pieces of my ascended armor.

To be complete, other numbers will make it unlinkable: 512 and 768. All multiples of 256 actually (by the way, 0 is a multiple, so you can’t link too). Probably that’s the root cause of the “unlinkable”-part of the issue.

How I read it: “hey, I did something that everybody does. Plus, I did it to be more lazy than before. Can I get something special for having done it?”

Svetli.4276:

don’t go to that “damask req silk 100 bolts” you know silk cost 10c it is cheap as hell and very easy to get

74c offer price, 79c buy price. No, it’s not cheap anymore. Not yet expensive, but not cheap.

Chris,

From our point of view, creating a full ascended armor takes hundreds of gold, thousands of mats. I’m happy since I have to build the heavy armor, I can farm the ori/mithril needed. But the light-armored have much trouble finding the right mats.

Why did you decide that it would require that much components to get the ascended armor for, regarding stats, 60 armor, 14 major, 11 minor (or 1% if crit dmg). Ok, we get the infusion slots, but that’s only really useful for the fractals.

Also, at the moment, on my main I have 4 sets of armor (1 for pve, 1 for wvw, 2 I use based on situation in both wvw and pve). Do you really want me to upgrade those to ascended given the time investment it represents? Also, because of ascended, I need to decide now which alt I want to play in which environment.

Maybe you should just make ascended “unlocks” and require only a few, more common, components to build a piece of the unlocked category. Now I feel like when I had only 1 gold and decided who would get it first, making me look more than one year back.

This way, I also don’t feel like I’m progressing, but regressing. I have the BiS, then you release something new and suddenly I don’t have the BiS anymore. So from my point of view, I’m losing. I now have 3 pieces of ascended armor in addition of everything else ascended, meaning that I can beat level 50 of fractals right now. You’ll open levels up to 60? When that happens I’ll already have the rest of ascended armor. Then when you’ll open levels until 70? I’ll already have the 3 +10 infusions. So for the next 2 releases of new fractal levels, I’ll be ready.

The vertical progression in this game just doesn’t make any sense.

You know what, just get rid of the levels and stats all together. And of the vertical progression while we’re at it. I’m very happing collecting skills, skins, utilities, etc.

This way you can reassign the people on it to make fights more challenging, because so far, all fights are really easy. The hardcore community doesn’t ask for better gear: only better fights.

You want this game to be accessible to casuals again? Well, the current vertical progression is not an option. Also, don’t make the rewards for skills-based fights vertical-progression-items: make them nice cosmetics items. In that regards, your pvp section is perfect.

As horizontal progression, I’d love to be able yo switch the stats of my armor just like the legendary weapons. Also the same mechanism for the sigils and runes, where you can switch them again and again instead of those inventory slots used for alternate weapons with only a different sigil, or those piles of sub par rare sigils.

They wanted to make the fractals an evolution based on gear check from scratch.

Therefore, why would they hard limit to 80 in the first place? Why would they then actually try to stop people from getting rewarded if they beat the Maw after 50?

The fractals are a gear-check dungeon from the scratch. It was poorly implemented in the past, but now it’s clear.

Define both “good MMORPG” and “good community”.

The most tragic is that you dropped it at level 13… Y_Y

Unless people are crying over 0.01%-0.09% more dps, I’m sticking to full zerk.

Hayas.1648:

so a good *range*r must not use range weapons… what’s the point of the profession name? it should be better named something like pet masters or something

Ranger has several definitions but only one in the fantasy settings:

• “A keeper, guardian, or soldier who ranges over a region (generally of wilderness) to protect the area or enforce the law.”

The analogy with “range” is fortuitous.

Waldir.2571:

This has been requested many times. As a side note, wrtiting in caps will not get you the attention you intend to receive as you can tell from the lack of responces to this forum.

FTFY.

Ranger is more of a dps utility (do more damage), while guardian is more of a dps insurance (make sure you can do those damages).

All I can advise you is to check some of the dungeon builds for each class. And by that I don’t mean the support ones: the dps ones. If you’re a PvP player who can afford enough tomes of knowledge to level from 2 to 80, you’re probably experienced enough to see tells in your opponents. Use the same for the bosses and all will be fine.

The gameplay is easier on dps guardian than on ranger, mostly because the dps ranger is “rooted” while using sword. Also, rangers have a quite hard time at the moment in dungeons because of the too frequent and subpar bowbear build.

So my suggestion is take guardian. Once you have enough gold, buy a new slot and get a ranger.

You know what 4 more releases from 21 January means? The feature release will be on 18 March. That is… 3 months from now! 3 months! >_<

The fractals are nice, I love them, but they are poorly placed. In times like now, it takes ages to load LA screen when, you switch chars to join a group already in the fractals, when you’re dc and want to join or other stuff like that.

Wiki’s your friend: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Harpy_Feather

Yesterday I bought and opened a total of 1000 Giant Wintersday Gifts.

You can get dragonite from it, and for the first 500, the rate was quite slow as I got 9 dragonite. Then early in my 500 next tries I got in one box 50 dragonite (when I saw it on the side of the screen I didn’t believe it and checked my inventory, yes, that was correct), then again only 6 more dragonite from the rest of the box. Total 65.

Anyone else experienced the 50 dragonite? Other friends having opened 2k boxes haven’t seen that drop at all. So did anyone else see such a drop as well?

Brazil, you should play like he wants because that’s how he wants to play: with you playing as he wants!

Well, when they released ascended weapons, people complained that a lot of stats were not available. Also, a lot of people who gathered quartz got their exotic armor and then stopped at it. Now they release ascended armors. Do you prefer to have 1 time gate (bolt of damask) or 2 (bolt of damask + charged) ? I think that in this case, they particularly thought about us.

What I keep in mind is “4 more releases with Scarlet”…

Regarding the hiatus, finally some breathe!

Wallace MacBix.2089:

Fror.2163:

XacTactX.6709:

In the past two weeks I’ve done 7 full fractal runs and brought my personal reward level from 30 -> 36. In that time I got Jade Maw twice and Mai Trin 5 times. I never got the Molten Firestorm fractal so that I could get the 5 achievement points for it. As an achievement hunter this is troubling for me, and now with the Wintersday update, the Fractured! achievements are no longer available.

It’s not realistic to expect players to complete achievements by luck, or forcing them to beat the first 3 fractals over and over again in the hope of getting the last level they need. I’d like to see the time for Fractured! get extended to one month instead of two weeks.

By playing 7 times the fractals, you had 5.4% chance to not get a specific fractal. That means that for every 18 players who played 7 fractals total, 1 was bound to not get it, statistically speaking.

You should have identified that pattern earlier and tried a bit more. I would feel you if you had played one run a day (meaning 14 runs, meaning 0.03% chance), but in this case, I don’t think you tried hard enough.

Not exactly sure how you’re getting that specific number (it’s still early and my brain is still booting up). But I don’t think you’re factoring in how different fractals are set now. (or if you are, then the OP isn’t when thinking that 7 fractals is enough).

You’re not sure where I get those from, but you do the exact same computation? Nice

The difference in results is that I rounded 2/3 to 0.66, but the computation is the same and both the result and interpretation are similar to mine.

Treeline.3865:

Fror.2163:

Okay, my mistake on the intention. But hey, I had the exact same case with getting Frostgorge Sound in the Scarlet invasions. I got over it. Don’t make it like this is the first time RNG is involved in an achievement.

While I’m not a fan of RNG at all, the Scarlet invasions were not bad. They were guaranteed to be there twice a day on every map. In other words, if you put in the effort to be around for 24 hours, you were guaranteed that you would have the achievements. That’s not the case with Fractured! And 2 weeks is just not enough in my opinion, if that’s the RNG they want to put us through.

Some history wants to disagree with your interpretation of “guaranteed”, but whatever. Plus, I have a life, despite me staying connected in the same 4 hours of the day.

I understand it’s bad luck, but if someone, like the other guy, played seven fractal runs and expected all of the shards to pop up in those seven run, then I disagree. Playing a run a day isn’t difficult (just like staying connected 24 hours straight to GW2 to get all invasions, right?) and would yield far greater chances to get it done.

On the other hand, if you played 15 runs or more, then well, yeah, it’s bad luck. It shouldn’t happen and mechanisms should be set up to avoid them.

But as I said, I didn’t get both “Invasion Canceler” and “Friend of Fire and Frost” for the exact same reason (not being able to get FGS), I got over it.

Onis.2418:

I take it you haven’t seen the stat difference.

the difference in full berserker set is around +15power, 60 def, 10 prec. For the whole set. The invidual difference is around +1pow, +10def and 1 prec. It’s hardly even a 1% increase compared to exotics for a set of 6 pieces. If you die in wvw, it has nothing to do with ascended armor.

If you were speaking about my post. You actually just said what I said in my post, telling me that I said the opposite of you. Check the numbers I provided again. If you were not speaking about my post, just forget this one.

Okay, my mistake on the intention. But hey, I had the exact same case with getting Frostgorge Sound in the Scarlet invasions. I got over it. Don’t make it like this is the first time RNG is involved in an achievement.

XacTactX.6709:

In the past two weeks I’ve done 7 full fractal runs and brought my personal reward level from 30 -> 36. In that time I got Jade Maw twice and Mai Trin 5 times. I never got the Molten Firestorm fractal so that I could get the 5 achievement points for it. As an achievement hunter this is troubling for me, and now with the Wintersday update, the Fractured! achievements are no longer available.

It’s not realistic to expect players to complete achievements by luck, or forcing them to beat the first 3 fractals over and over again in the hope of getting the last level they need. I’d like to see the time for Fractured! get extended to one month instead of two weeks.

By playing 7 times the fractals, you had 5.4% chance to not get a specific fractal. That means that for every 18 players who played 7 fractals total, 1 was bound to not get it, statistically speaking.

You should have identified that pattern earlier and tried a bit more. I would feel you if you had played one run a day (meaning 14 runs, meaning 0.03% chance), but in this case, I don’t think you tried hard enough.

Leo Paul.1659:

Unfortunately it’s still bugged and I can’t buy the recipe on the TP.

You seem to have a lot of gold and and a lot of patience to farm like you did. Why don’t you buy 1000 giant wintersday gifts and open them? This way well… you’ll get the recipe. I opened 500 of those and got 3 Light of Dwayna recipe + 1 thingy of Grenth recipe. Several friends of mine reported to get between 1 and 3 with 500 gifts. So they are actually not hard to get.