Guild Wars 2

MithranArkanere.8957:

Exactly. Ive beaten all time challenges in games like Assassin’s Creed.

But in games like those, movement is fluent, and the camera is very responsive and smart.

I’m not playing the puzzle here. I don’t have problems knowing where to jump. The problems are jumping and the character not going there, because it collides with a minuscule corner and goes just up instead going up and forward.
And then there’s the camera, that I must keep within a small and precise angle at all times, or it’ll collide so I’ll end up seeing only the floor, and in some spot no angle will prevent that.
And then there’s everyone covering the view so you can’t see a thing unless you bring permanent passive speed boosts to skip ahead of everyone.

Frustration isn’t the same thing as difficulty. Frustration isn’t the same as challenge.
Frustration is the ANATHEMA of fun.

I had no problem with strange colliding doing this JP.
The other stuff you mention are things EVERYONE else are suffering from, and A LOT of people already completed this jumping puzzle. This is just a l2p issue you are having. If you are not responsive or if you can’t play well under pressure then this jumping puzzle is not for you, just like map completion is not for me (I find it extremely boring). Do you see people asking ArenaNet to reward 100% map completion achievement after doing half the map, just because they find it tedious and not enjoyable for them? No!

Arena Net please DO NOT nerf this jumping puzzle. I was delighted by the fact that I actually had to retry it several times, something that usually never happens with other JP’s. It’s called an achievement and it should live up to it’s name (something most JP’s unfortunately don’t), it should not be something you just hand out to any- and everyone.

szthesquid.9576:

And a lot of people didn’t like a lot of the GW1 holiday hats. Why does not liking them or not wanting to wear them suddenly mean they don’t count? If I didn’t like or wear the GW1 Halloween hats that wouldn’t let me get away with saying “there were no hats this year, WTF ANet”

I meant you can’t wear them in combat. I personally have equipped town clothes about 3 times since GW2 was released.

They reset daily afaik.

szthesquid.9576:

I don’t like the “souvenir” argument. You have the horns and the book. Why isn’t that enough? Why do you also need the uber-rare weapon skins? To the people referencing the GW1 event hats, it’s not like those were difficult to get, you only had to be logged in at the correct time. The book requires you to actually do something and participate in the event, and rewards you with a cool “backpack” skin for any character to use. And of course the horns fill the role of GW1’s hats.

But apparently that’s not good enough.

The horns do NOT fill the role of GW1’s hats, because you will never wear them. And believe it or not, a lot of people don’t like to wear a floating book on the back of their character which also clips horribly with most armors.

Nothing changed here, finished him post-update in under 10 minutes as usual.

Maybe you were just unlucky and had a ton of crystals spawn really close to him at the start :/

Sina.9208:

Gab Superstar.4059:

3) He will most likely pick one target and keep shadowstepping to that person. As far as I know it is related to toughness and what weapon you have equipped (melee / ranged). Let this player know he or she should focus solely on surviving. If you fail the encounter and have to restart, make this player equip survival skills.

It’s definitely not related to toughness. Yesterday we did it with 3 longbow rangers with almost identical max dmg gear and a warrior with the most amount of armor/toughness and it went for one of the rangers, apparently for the one that didn’t have the exotic guild backpack, all the other pieces were equal, with equal runes and equal sigils.
With all that said Lupi will pick a shadow walk target and stick to it, until it’s dead. So it’s very important to have that person kite the shadow walks well and of course to avoid dying. As a ranger I found signet of the hunt and lightning reflexes are very useful for managing that.

That’s strange, Lupicus has definately favored toughness specced characters for my groups in the past. Was the warrior using a ranged or a melee weapon?

Zoltar.2873:

Gab Superstar.4059:

Are you for real OP? “Youngsters which tend to skip…”? It seems like you are trying to tell other people how to play the game – please don’t.

Also, Guardians and Warriors are popular because there is nothing that can rival them in raw damage / support. It’s just how it is. You may not like it, and you can complain about the fact that it is the case as much as you want, but you can’t deny it.

Try to do any dungeon with a group of only guardians / warriors and then with a mixed group of 5 different professions. I promise you will notice a difference.

I totally agree with you about warrior and guardian; I’m just asking what will happen when more people come to conclusion that it’s best to reroll warrior or guardian!? Is this going to show AN that game in unbalanced?

And I totally agree with your statement about not telling people how to play the game; same thing works in both directions you know. I have every right to play it as I want, and I have every right to say I want to clear path to boss and not to skip mob packs.

“…and then you get a group which is not suitable for your playing style”

This makes it seem like the group you joined used tactics that you didnt like, in which case – leave the group or don’t complain.

1) Don’t pull him back to the waypoint like most pugs do. You will learn nothing of the fight and when Arena Net fixes this, well you are gonna have a problem.

2) Don’t dodge out of the red circles in phase 2. I realise it might seem hard to avoid them without dodging, but if you turn away from him and run forward you will run fast enough to avoid the circles that spawn below you. This lets you save the dodge for the projectiles that are not ground-targeted.

3) He will most likely pick one target and keep shadowstepping to that person. As far as I know it is related to toughness and what weapon you have equipped (melee / ranged). Let this player know he or she should focus solely on surviving. If you fail the encounter and have to restart, make this player equip survival skills.

4) If you get low on health, try to move far away from Lupicus. You will usually go out of combat and heal up through natural regeneration.

Hope this helped a bit, and remember that there are many guides out there on how to beat Lupicus so if you still have problems check those out!

Are you for real OP? “Youngsters which tend to skip…”? It seems like you are trying to tell other people how to play the game – please don’t.

Also, Guardians and Warriors are popular because there is nothing that can rival them in raw damage / support. It’s just how it is. You may not like it, and you can complain about the fact that it is the case as much as you want, but you can’t deny it.

Try to do any dungeon with a group of only guardians / warriors and then with a mixed group of 5 different professions. I promise you will notice a difference.

Crafting each piece of trinket / armor / weapon costs about 2g. That’s a total of 13-15 items you need to craft. Not a lot of people have 30g when they hit level 80.

Hence my point.

It was advertised as though this would be possible before release, but this bug has existed since and there has been no communication from Arena Net on the matter, which leads me to believe it’s not something we will see in the game in the near future. Very unfortunate as a lot of players made their server choice based on this.

I think you are targeting the wrong people. You criticism should be directed at Arena Net who lied about max-stat gear being easily attainable. If GW2 would have been like GW1 where you could easily craft a set of max-stat gear from the money you made leveling up, we wouldn’t see people like you complaining about this.

Did multiple paths multiple times on multiple characters this week. Always received the full reward.

Whatever system they put in is clearly not working. Not that anything they put in after release is working but that’s another story >.<.

phaeris.7604:

Zietlogik.6208:

The fast you think they are lifted from LoL is pretty funny really, they are pretty basic…none of these abilities are LoL exclusives or anything :p

Really? The fact that Caitlyns ultimate involves her kneeling down, taking aim for a few seconds then firing off a high powered shot at a target with a rifle.

The warrior killshot involves kneeling down, taking aim and firing a high powered shot at a target with a rifle.

Greatsword 3 invovles spinning a short distance with a 2h sword in a directional arrow.

Tryndameres move involves spinning a short distance with a 2h sword in a directional arrow.

I could go on, they’re pretty much carbon copy moves and animations from LoL. I’m not saying this is a bad thing, it’s just very evident that the warrior designer is a fan.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/dota

- Bring a thief.
- Avoid the first wave you see.
- Start mashing down turrets until you hit the first boss.
- Stealth the entire team as soon as the next wave passes.
- Kill boss.
- Continue with the turrets.
- Whenever a new wave comes stealth the entire team.
- When you reach the last boss go behind him and stealth the entire team.
- Kill him from the gate, no new waves will aggro you.

Total ~5-10min depending on DPS of course.

The Mexican Cookie.3690:

Bring back the GW1 Elite area system.

You wipe, you’re out.

This. I cannot for the life of me understand why you are allowed to continue a dungeon after your entire party wipes.

Best boss fight in the game so far (only did 21/25 explorable paths).

Hellkaiser.6025:

Blame this rubbish mentality of “We needz all 80’z to complete the dungeon ahyuk :B”
Instead of actually playing on the alt, which would have netted him a ton of exp and insight into another class potentially, he’s just trying to game the system. A practice that has led to a lot of seemingly negative patchwork changes to plug holes.

blacklist the player and give him hell for it til he learns his lesson

Did TA a few times with my level 8 necro today. Now I agree, of course I could do the dungeon with my level 8 Necromancer. But I don’t think it would save any time at all.

If you need more power, I would go with a Sigil of Strength.

At that crit rate it will boost your might stacks immensly.

Dogblaster.6713:

Lupicus is easy boss after you learn him and find out what utility skills use.

Ive done him about 15 times now and usually I never die to him anymore.

No tweak needed .. people just dont know what to do, or they are bad at dodging, or they are full glass canon build with no defence..

Learn how to overcome your foe. Not ask for tweaks. Areanet wont neft someting that is doable… Arah is, or supposed to be the hardest dungeon and you should not expect to do it without any skill.

^+1 don’t nerf please.

Last time I managed to kill him with only 3 wipes, even though I was the only one in the party who had even attempted him before.

Kudos to ArenaNet for an interesting fight.

Banner is useful for a couple of encounters like Lupicus, but the short durations on the boons, especially stability, makes it extremely situational in my opinion. I only use this when I know people will die on boss encounters.

Juggernaut… What can I say? Would be half-decent in TA on a few encounters if it only gave you the stability, not the kitten custom skills (which are completely terrible).

It’s funny seeing all the people hating on signets + GS

I deal about 50% of the damage in most of my groups. I always have 15-25 stacks of might up. Hundred blades hit for 25-30k with a 6½sec recharge (almost always hitting 3 enemies of course, so triple that amount). Using some lame shout build that heals for pitiful amounts is good for learning dungeons I guess, but once you get used to the tempo you can start favor damage over defense.

Not in full exotics yet btw, and certainly not in full berserkers

How could anyone not consider trash mobs a waste of time in this game?

Lol

Because doing explorable mode is boring even after the first run (the promised random elements etc are nowhere to be found).

Of course ArenaNet also had to go back on their promise about max stat gear being easily attainable.

This, coupled with the fact that max stat gear is most easily attained through doing dungeons, makes people want to finish these as quickly and painlessly as possible.

Take heart. Finding and utilizing dungeon exploits was a sport in GW1, and it continues to be so in GW2. It’s not like you are ever going to get banned for it anyway.

And so the P2W begins…

I guess it’s time to jump ship, too bad. I really enjoyed GW2 while it lasted.

Will you also fix tokens not transferring correctly between characters?

Is my warrior ever going to be able to use the tokens I earned on my ranger before the 25/9 update or is this a final kitten you message from aNet to everyone who “exploited” their system? The tokens I earned yesterday transfer between characters just fine. I don’t want to spend more time than neccesary in this dungeon which is why I want to know.

Thanks.

Dogblaster.6713:

Either its DR or 24 hours lock. What will you cry next time about? … Come on …

Try harder next time

wat

You are not supposed to complete explorable mode in a PUG.

As someone mentioned earlier; Giganticus is to Arah what Shiro was to GW1.

A relatively easy encounter that sorts out the baddies from the coordinated by utilizing mechanics that require groups to think.

inb4 drivel about one-shot blah blah: I did the encounter, and nope!

A lot of dungeon paths in this game are horribly boring and rewards no skill or intelligence at all, but Arah is probably the exception here.

From reading your description it’s clear you don’t understand the mechanics of the boss completely, in which case wiping will come naturally to your group.

I do kind of feel that his HP could be reduced by quite a lot, especially during the 1st and 3rd phase, which are complete cakewalks compared to phase 2, but that’s about my only problem with Arah. Otherwise a very well designed dungeon with boss mechanics that are easy to counter once you are aware of them.

Dogblaster.6713:

All i just saw for past 2 days was .. Arah 2 bosses speed farming tokens.
- This is not why i am playing guild wars .. armor from explorer dungeons are ment to be prestigue, when someone has it, Everyone should know hes skilled and did spend a lot of time doing hard dungeon. Not someone who just repeated 2 first bosses, reset … etc

This patch was the best patch for past few weeks, stop complaining already. Those who are good and skilled already cleared arah and other dungeons on explorable mode and those who cry becuase they cant complete it, they dont deserve to. Learn your class, build proper builds and stop whining.

You guys just want all served on silver plato for free. Not going to happen in guild wars.

bye

No… People cry because ArenaNet punishes them for being “good and skilled” by implementing DR on dungeon tokens.

It’s GW1 all over again. ArenaNets futile war on a playerbase that has again and again and again outsmarted them in terms of farming. If they are gonna play it like they did in GW1, ArenaNet won’t listen to the community when taking decisions about farming. Anyone who spent more than 10 hours speedclearing the Underworld in GW1 could list 5 potential nerfs that would completely eliminate it, without harming regular players. Despite this, they handled the issue behind closed doors, resulting in 7 or so nerfs to speedclearing which didn’t serve any purpose at all, but to make the dungeons near impossible to casual players. The aftermath? Skilled players farm all the same while casuals get punished into quitting the game.

For years we sucked it up ArenaNet, because the only people still playing dungeons in GW1 actually enjoyed your little nerfs, as it forced a new meta game and these were always fun to develop and learn. However, now you got millions of casual players who only want to enjoy the game, something you are currently preventing them from doing. I’m no management consultant but alienating a massive portion of your playerbase just doesn’t sound good to me.

If you actually want to be successful, START LISTENING TO YOUR PLAYERS. Is it fun™ (?) not being able to do what you like in GW2 because the developers don’t feel you are enjoying the game the way you should? Let me tell you one thing: What I do in a game I do because I enjoy it. In this case I am your customer. You should cater to what I enjoy! Not what your idea of the ideal game is.

I really hoped you wouldn’t go down this route with GW2, but it seems you did. Your talk about skill being a determinant for success in GW2 seems like a big fat lie at this point. You actually get punished for it now (first game I have ever seen that does this).

Allso.5093:

I did not play GW1 so I have no idea how long Obsidian Armor took you to get. However in the case of these Legendary weapons and the 2 million karma grind it will take you minimum 50-60 days to get a legendary weapon if you play 12+ hours a day (obviously would require you to have no job, studies etc). Those numbers only apply if you do nothing but grind for the legendary when you are logged in. I cant honestly believe that the Obsidian Armor was anywhere near as hard to get.

If you didn’t play GW1 why do you assume Obsidian Armor was nowhere near as hard to get?

You have to get (following values are before all the patches / expansions and farms / speedclearing)

120 Globs of Ectoplasm (2-3% droprate from certain enemies in the Underworld, get 1 from last chest 1-2h completion time depending on team)
120 Obsidian Shards (2-3% droprate from certain enemies in the Fissure of Woe, get 1 from last chest, 2-3h completion time depending on team)

Keep in mind that these dungeons are actually hard compared to GW2 dungeons, and if your party wipe you get kicked out and have to restart.

You also have to get;
75,000 gold. I remember finishing the storyline a few months after release gave me ~10,000 gold.

Rare / common crafting materials worth anything between 15,000 and 50,000 gold.

Of course you could also buy the ectos / shards. I think they were about 20,000g / 10,000g -ish each respectively at the start of the game.

Grand total: ~3,700,000 gold.
Cost today (just before GW2 release): ~1,600,000 gold.

While it is hard to judge the time required to spend to get these amounts of money, I can assure you that the average GW1 player never accumulated enough wealth to even make a dent in this sum, and this is after playing maybe 1-2 years.

For example, before I was introduced to speedclearing by a good friend, I thought 30k was a huge amount of money, and I had played for a good 300h by then.

tl;dr: Be happy, ArenaNet let you off easy to cater to the casual MMO crowd who want everything now, now, now!

There needs to be massive gold sinks in this game to encourage people to buy gems and trade it for gold. GW2 is a great game, but unfortunately it will always be crippled because of this fact.

If you bought the game this is what you should have expected, if you complain about this then you didn’t research the game enough before you purchased, in which case – deal with it.

Hello, I just wanted to know if you aware of the exploit in the Zealot path of this dungeon. It eliminates (imo) the only hard part about the dungeon and makes the total experience trivial.

Thanks.

I don’t understand why people are complaining about token cost being too high. The underlying problem is that max-stat armor is WAY too expensive to acquire (perhaps to fit ******* * idea of a good cash store).

If max armor was attainable like it was in GW1 I’m sure NO ONE would have a problem with a token cost of about 8000-1000 tokens for an armor set, and perhaps 3000 for a weapon (1800 for 1h). This token cost is a lot more reasonable seeing as how we have a multum of people already running around in full dungeon armor -.-

Are you aware of the HotW path 3 exploit?

I would like to know if you are working on a solution to this problem, or if it is working as intended. Today I was in an enemy borderlands, defending the center keep which we had taken from them. They consistently besieged the base from multiple sides, and in total I think we fended them off about 10 times during a timespan of ~2 hours. During this time I got a grand total of 6,000 XP, which is about the equal of completing one renowned heart at my level. Every time they attacked we got the “Repel the enemy invaders” event, and not a single time, despite REPELLING them, did I receive any XP, apart from some minor XP the times we actually rushed out of our keep to push them back (from killing players). I know for a fact I was contributing to these events since I spammed AoE on them as well as having an Arrow Cart up at one time.

tl;dr : Defended keep for 2 hours, got XP equal to 5min of PvE. Intended?

Underwater skills are bugged. They deal 1/3 of the damage they should deal.

The problem is that nothing feels believable. For example the mission where you are supposed to ambush the two Krait caravans carrying the orb (and the fake one).

Do you really expect me to believe that splitting up and attacking both caravans at once is something the Norn (can’t remember her name) never thought about? Because when my character mentioned that, it sounded like an outright revelation to the Norn.

I’ve been trying to find a word that describes it but the best I can think of is cheesy as hell. Constantly trying to portray my character as a hero is NOT more important than making the dialogue believable.

In some weird way this whole waypoint fiasco makes me long for the days of actually having to restart UW, FoW etc whenever you completely failed. Allowing people to do this promotes bad play, since no one needs to bother with having proper builds and such.

In some cases you can even “exploit” waypoints to make the dungeon run much, much faster. CoF with Magg’s route would be my best example.