Guild Wars 2

So I recently got Scarlet’s Journal. On first sight I noticed that some letters are in uppercase where they should have stayed in lowercase. In order, those letters are OMADD.

What does that mean?

Regarding the time to get it:
- the quest should be soulbound. One per character. The precursor should be account-bound as someone said above. This will minimize the impact on the TP.
- it shouldn’t take longer than getting the gold to buy the precursor by playing the game not the TP obviously.
- If you want 40 hours rather than 20, I’m all in, but careful to not make it too long or people will say “just buy it off TP”.
- The scaling shouldn’t make it so it takes less time by grouping. Groups should have more fun going in together, but it shouldn’t make it easier as well.

Keira Ferland.5619:

What happens when someone finally posts a guide to the precursor quest? That means it won’t be that hard anymore.

Well, may there be guides! That’s why I said : “use random wisely”.

If there is one riddle to solve, make it so there are actually 100 and one is taken randomly.

If there are paths in front of you, make it so only one is the correct one, randomly, but you know once you have progressed far.

You will never get rid of guides, but you can make it so these guides are helpful only to a point thanks to random numbers.

nightly.2761:

AND make the precursors ACCOUNT bound! not tradeable.
And please no quest of : kill 100 of A and 175 of B.
Make it more like e.g.: You go lornars pass, find a NPC that knows about some treasure but doesnt have money to buy a proper coat to go into the cold. You kill 100 enemies with fur skins. Get those skins (50% chance to drop) and get to a crafting station to make coat. bring coat to te NPC and instance start to escort the NPC so open world cant make it to easy. In the end the treasure is a weird recipe to make 1 piece of precursor, or magical token that turns an exotic weapon into a piece (1/4) of a precursor. Or just the part of the precursor. This can be 1 of the 10 different tasks you can complete or every quest gives specific part of one precursor?

Just a tought on a monday afternoon so its not that great but more fun as craft this, craft that..

What you suggest is another way of farming and crafting. But using new components. If you’re serious, then I’m afraid WoW did too much damages already.

No: we want something in the line of the personal story, minus Trahearne, plus difficulty.

Dolan.3071:

Also a Guardian has the easiest way of baiting it out by comboing dodge rolls, Shelter, Focus 5, and possibly even Renewed Focus until both attacks have been delivered in which you’re all clear for roughly 30-35 seconds which should be more than enough for a zerk team to melt him.

Except when the team that says they’re zerker is not. Or when the witty warrior is too afraid to get downed and aggro him far from the corner, or when… well you get it. When I pug this, I say that I aggro and everything goes fine for the pull itself. When I’m not on my guard, I ask the guardian to give me aegis and the pull goes fine as well. When I’m out of those options, I still pull it, but after Spire took the two hits, unless some bad player pulls it far from the corner.

Also, as a guardian zerker, I can take the earth hit, yet I’m at 5% life afterwards if I was full life. I would imagine that a thief and an ele would be insta-downed, but not the other professions.

Judge Banks.9018:

There are very few games that bothered to take this into consideration, ultimately it creates imbalance in pvp, as there is no feasible way to restrict ranged damage based on a characters height.

Your character is a big fat norn in your client only. On the server, it’s a box of the same size as your most tiny thinest asura. I know it ’cause I tested the distances with both my asura and my norn.

Naekuh.7925:

remove WvW from Gift of Exploration please…

Then it will be fine.

Adding the WvW requires players to PVP… and there is no way to AVOID not PVPing to get discovery in WvW unless ur server is overpowered and stomps everyone.

It’s unacceptable that I have to do PvE things to get my legendary! I demand that the PvE part be removed from the legendary quest!

Best upgrade ever? No, that would go to Fractured! Oh wait… Sorry, I forgot: Fractured is a downgrade, not an upgrade.

In the Marionette event, yes I use staff. It’s a zerg content and the staff makes sense. However right before entering the ring, I switch staff out and take sword/focus instead.

kitten , except for me, I have not seen a non-staff guardian in a dungeon in a week!

I thought the community was going better then all of a sudden since one month, it’s really bringing that bad staff up. This is kitten annoying! >_<

Aeonblade.8709:

Kolwin.4950:

I don’t think so. A Warrior with a staff… doesn’t make much sense

How does a warrior with a staff make any less sense than a Ranger with a greatsword, or a Guardian with a scepter, or an Elementalist with 2 daggers…

Did you ever played table RPG? Ever? Also, did you read The Lord of the Rings?

RedStar.4218:

spoj.9672:

Tazza only drops loot if you kill the champ next to her first. Which noone does because hes annoying.

Are you sure about that ? Because we killed Kaeyi quite a few times to check this urban legend and Tazza never dropped anything.

I have 300+ runs of AC p1, p2 and p3 each since the recipes were put in the game (roughly one year ago)! I ever got only once recipe drop from those (p3 I think). It’s rare. Maybe too rare.

Well, that’s exactly what I do: I complain, I suggest to kick and get kicked instead. Don’t you ever run in that situation where the group is too lazy to kick the bad but prompt to kick the complainer? It happens more than it should!

@Cheby
More and more I’m getting kicked because we’re in a speed run pug and I complain one or two members are not suited for speedrun (staff/mace/shield guard anyone?). So where I actually respect the LFG and other people don’t, but it’s not my LFG, then I should get some debuff as well? No!

A friend and I just started a dungeon instance. We created it because it’s our party and don’t want to be kicked ourselves.

Then we create the LFG: “all paths, zerker, 5k+ AP, 3 warrior, 1 ele, 1 guardian”.

A first guy joins. “What? Why are you in Cursed Shore? We’re doing Arah, not CM? Sorry, misread” – kicked
A second guy joins. “Hey, I’m in knight armor is that ok?” – kicked
A third guy joins. “I have only 300 AP but I’m zerker, can I join?”. – kicked
A fourth guy join. “Hey, I’m a necro” – kicked.

You get it. Why should we be punished for the mistakes of the fail joins?

So actually you are sad because you play only with bad players? And how a nerf to zerker will change that?

Hey Kyubi, how does that affect you actually? Have you ever been in a party that killed Lupi under one minute? Have you ever tried to make your LFG look like what you want?

The two things I’m saying is that you should play how you want with the people you want. And nobody forces you to go full zerker and play speedruns. So go on, “play how you want” and leave the actual speedruns problems to those that are interested in it.

People have the right to solo and sell (under the condition that they don’t exploit). What can I say more than deal with it? And deal with it by creating your own lfg!

Dardamaniac.1295:

For the last time, i dont want to make my own LFG…. […]

Am i clear now?

You are, but you never said so. So deal with it because ArenaNet’s completely fine with it as you should have known if you had read the FAQ, which you still haven’t done.

Dardamaniac.1295:

Dungeons should be all about 5 guys forming a party, communicate and having fun with the dungeon…Thats a “mature” approach..

Well, just create a LFG that goes that way. Also, read the FAQ, given your answers you still haven’t done that simple thing.

Dardamaniac.1295:

you silly dungeon noobs…

Says who? Oh yeah, our dungeon master that is so good that he pays for Arah instead of running it.

This is described in the Dungeons FAQ: if you want to play a dungeon but none of the LFGs appeal to you, create one.

Also, the thief was more than probably exploiting. Not that it’s impossible to do it legit (because it is) but because the ratio of people doing it legit and doing it with exploits is much higher on people using exploits.

The problem with Arah is that it’s a gigantic Jumping Puzzle. Nearly every mob can be bypassed one way or another. While ArenaNet doesn’t fix that, you’ll see those sells.

So what I suggest is that you take a look at the FAQ first (in the sticky of this subforum), most of the questions a newcomer asks himself are answered. If you find new questions that have no answers, make sure to write them down so we can expand the FAQ if it’s relevant enough.

Well, my answer is not that there hasn’t been buffed in a year, but that it’s been like that since the start.

You say that Sunrise holder stand out more in a zerg. I answer that I see much more proeminently the blade of Twilight when a zerg is fighting. Blue to orange colors stand less out than profound dark like Twilight’s blade.

Mortifer.2946:

prerequisite:
exotic/ascended berseker gear

Seriously? All guys on our server say to use PVT because the crit are not applied and the dmg we get is “huge”, comparing it to Tequatl.

Now I understand why we keep failing. -_-’

The glow was always there.

This picture was taken exactly one year ago when I forged Sunrise. The glow is as present as it is now.

http://i.imgur.com/1seVxJr.jpg

For info, the graphics buff to legendaries occurred on last september: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Game_updates/2013-09-03#Changes_to_Legendary_Weapons

I’m not asking for a build for thief: I’m asking for the meta build for dungeons. This means the most efficient build for running dungeons. So while I know nothing about thief, I’m pretty sure the venom one is not one of those.

So please stick to builds that are actually useful in dungeons and that a decent dps group would take.

Enough Scarlet-based fractals! Scarlet really messes everything she touches!

Remove the name of the (alledged) scammer or this topic will be closed.

Stooperdale.3560:

Whenever someone asks for the thief meta there are usually six different answers, even six different long detailed answers. You can make most sensible builds work.

Six metas? You have my curiosity as even for guardian, there are two builds with only slight variants of them depending on the team situation, to a total of six. Here I read already three different, including a training wheel and all have the weapons in common. So what makes them different? Where are those 3-4 other builds?

Thanks you very much for this detailed guide

Hey, what’s the current meta build for a thief?

I’ll take the week to level my thief up, but I will prolly already go in AC story quite early so I’d like some advice if possible.

Thanks!

Rising Dusk.2408:

- For pulling to LOS mobs around a corner, the 2 skill on the staff is great.
- AOE swiftness with 100% uptime without any boon duration. It is wonderful having this and setting it up before a skip.

No and no!

You pull mob so you go in combat and you lose the efficiency of your switch-weapon. Staff is NOT a proper weapon neither as main or alt-weapon in most of the dungeons.

You give 100% uptime swiftness? So that means I have to wait 4 seconds to get it? In a speedrun? Sorry but I prefer to equip “Retreat” which a good skill that I often use when I switch to Unscathed. Give that I have 20-25% boon duration given my dps build, I already gain lot of time with this. Plus the nice aegis which is useful when you skip through mob. Also, to actually give 100% uptime, I have to wait 4 seconds on it every X amount of time. If I aggroed a mob, even while being out of combat, I will get in combat, slowing my actual speed. So NO again!

No, staff is NOT a good weapon to have in a fight, except some fringe cases. If you actually give might then swap it I don’t mind, even though the ele/warrior should give that might. But if you get in combat with it, I do mind a lot because it’s bad dps.

I keep seeing those in dungeons. They ping their gear, it’s zerker. They ping their GS, it’s zerker. Then out of nowhere, their staff appears and while they don’t camp staff, they switch to it whenever possible. Granted they give 12 stacks of might for 10-12 seconds but with 3 warriors and a (good) ele, the 12 stacks of might are too much alread. But still I don’t see why the hell you’d bring a staff.

All of them without exception do the small golem event with their staff, no matter the path. With this I could see how much dmg they did: they needed between 5 and 6 hits to kill a golem where both gs and sword auto-attack kills in 1-2 hits.

CoE is faceroll enough to use the GS//sword+focus build even with pugs, but I keep seeing those staff-lover guardians when I play my warrior. When I play guard, I’m usually the only one and I don’t take the staff ever.

If the player is full actual dps according to the meta, I don’t see why you cannot let them in. Zerker engi, necro or ranger are interesting to have. They may not actually do as much dmg as a zerker war, but I’m quite sure that they’re better than 90% of GS-camping warriors.

obal.3218:

Hammer Build
[…]

• DPS Rotation (Hammer + Greatsword) = GS2 -> GS4 -> GS3 -> GS5 if no pull is needed -> GS auto until GS2 is up -> GS2 -> Swap to Hammer and do 3 AA chains (If need to dodge or use Mighty Blow then complete current chain while swap becomes available and swap) -> repeat GS and Hammer rotation.
  […]

Why GS2 → GS4 → GS3 and not GS4 → GS3 → GS2 to inflit several stacks of vulnerability before our bursty GS2?

Iris Ng.9845:

For your assurance, always get a party with a mesmer and a thief => easy dredge skip.

Always, always… No: always make sure people can switch to those classes (except the instance owner, ofc).

The question is “why do you want a precursor”, not “Dusk” or “Spark” or…

I think that what people actually say is “why can’t I have a free 600-700g bump?”.

I dropped several precursors over the course of the game. I farmed for them too by dropping hundreds of exotics in the forge. I got some real drops too. But so far, my farm were 2 The Colossus (by throwing only hammers in the forge), 1 The Energizer (by dropping only mace in the forge). My actual drops were 2 Venoms and 1 Carcharias.

So my actual question is: “would you stop complaining if you got a precursor but that precursor was Venom or Carcharias?”. No, you wouldn’t stop, because it doesn’t sell as high as Dusk, Spark, Zap or The Legend. Instead we’d have topics like “2000 hours and only one precursor… The spear one!”

So I actually stopped caring about those topics. Yes I got several precursors, yet I got some nice money of it, but it’s not even a third of all the money I’ve acquired by playing the game (excluding the TP). So go out of LA and play the game, you’ll get your desired weapon one way (drop) or another (TP).

I said I don’t mind anything except the clown car only because the clown car is way too long. I don’t see the point of it being so long.

I’m fine with the fractal, except for the clown car. That’s the only thing that should be nerfed.

If your server is active in PvE, you will hit the overflow, no matter what. I estimate that the max value for some maps is somewhere between 80 and 120 people. Are you really sure that from the dozens of thousands people linked to your server (3.5 millions / 51 servers) there are less than 150 from your server wanting to participate in an event?

On Gunnar’s Hold, we have world tours with often overflow happening. We thought that other servers were coming over, but after careful examination of all people present at the event, we dared to say 5 to 10 people were guesting to us and we had 20-30 GH people in overflow. You probably have the same on Desolation, but more important given your high pve reputation.

People are guesting yes, but a server can send itself to overflow as well.

CntrlAltDefeat.1465:

Fror.2163:

CntrlAltDefeat.1465:

Every hammer guardian that has ever played spvp

Remove me from that list please: I don’t sign this.

Sure..but I se no argument that you think it is fast. The greater point here is that the meta is increasing in speed. Boons such as protection can be valuable in the right situations, but when that situation has already moved well away from where you are and you find yourself standing in symbol of swiftness for 4 seconds just so you can get the maximum speed increase duration..that’s when that situation it would have been useful in has completely past you by. This is the primary reason Guardians hold either home if required, or mostly center. They play a untactical game of where if the opposition wants to make a hard push for a side node and your lord the good old guardian just stays on center or home because they will never be able to react to side node defense, or get to a lord in time, so may as well hold home and take the points and pressure them to do whatever they want to fast, otherwise other teams mates will snatch a node while 2 mobile members will seek to defend. There is a painfully obvious reason why nothing ever changes to guardian in each patch apart from skill description updates and recently a small amount of fury that is perfectly designed for..you guessed it..a stationary guardian holding a node that no one expects to be able to react quickly. The guardian has potential to a roamer of a different nature in spvp. They could have the potential to be mobile defenders, but in stead they are a stationary one because they move slow and have weapon sets that attack slow and/or highly telegraphed. slow-slow-slow They shine in spvp by standing on one node with heavy defense. They incapable of having good reaction to spike damage apart from shouts. You can try to place your hammer ward down if you wish, but any thief and or mesmer/engi is going to interrupt you painfull..because you’re just too slow and painfully obvious in what you’re trying to do.

I don’t sign this because your assumption is that hammer is too slow where I think it’s perfect for what it does. If it were quicker, it’d be OP given the control it gives. I can’t see any better control weapon in the game for any class. Hammer made me win 1v1 fights than it made me lose, wether protecting a point or not. Hammer has good dps, but is not a dps weapon per se. So it’s actually a L2P issue on your side.

If you’re on an overflow while not guesting, you’re normally able to join your own server’s map by being in a party with people there and right-click them then select “join on <your-server-name>”.

Duanheim.9527:

Fix Arah with invisible walls, fix servers with consumables nerf, fix condi in pve with zerk nerf, fix TAFU with lolscarlet, fix FotM with nerf of FotM, you sure do know how to make stuff right.

If I ever have a car to fix I go straight to u guys.

You forgot the brand new “Fix COF 1” with a wall.

BillFreist.1527:

The decision to throw cooldowns on them were for server performance/stability as the patch notes said, not for balance. Period.

Get better servers? Improve your algorithms?

BillFreist.1527:

Think of it this way: Between the embers and whistle, those items were effectively doubling/tripling the amount of players active in a map.

Yet ranger and minion master exists. Maybe we finally have a reason why they are so bad: having too much of them would impact the performance ? On the other side, you have no problem throwing 200 more mobs and their AoE on us for the new events.

TL;DR: performance is not the real/only reason.

Orpheal, again, why do you care?

laharl.8435:

If one is not using exploits, why do you care that one person can solo a dungeon?

Probably because he cannot find a group for AC because there are like 8 sellers for 1 running path. So he probably prefers to blame the sellers that appear on his screen instead of the groups he expects. But finally he probably doesn’t create a group himself.

Probably also, he cannot bear the fact that people can solo a path that he cannot do with 5 people.

CntrlAltDefeat.1465:

Every hammer guardian that has ever played spvp

Remove me from that list please: I don’t sign this.

Why did it never occurred to anyone that there might be a “major” attribute on celestial as well and that major attribute is critical damage?

Celestial isn’t +X to all stats: it’s +X to a specific subset of stats and +Y% crit dmg.

Yeah, and dodging his tooth also follows the rule 1… 2… dodge that happens in p2 and p3.