Guild Wars 2

I had a little helper with me at lupi last night. Suffice to say, she helped me with lupi after the pugs bit the dust.

Bye Winter! I’m sorry that you’re going, but I understand!

I interpret exp as “I know how to stack in a corner and spam 1! That’s all I have to do to win, right? Maybe press 2 if I’m a warrior?” Just go in and be prepared to carry/solo everything. Especially in Arah. Then collect the QQ tears when the pugs complain with “It’s a MULTIPLAYER game! No heros needed!!”

Besides, reading is an exploit.

Hi all. Long time.

So, I might start up weekend Arah tours again, but not as crazy as they once were. Also, if you get in contact with me to run Arah, I will expect you to have one of two things:

1. A willingness to learn to solo
or
2. A party to go with

I won’t teach you and some random pugs. Sorry. My patience isn’t as large as it once was. I’m down with teaching you solo or full group strats, but the party has to be on the same page as you.

Once again, I can teach warrior very well, guardian well, ele decently, thief a bit, but with ranger, engi, mesmer, and necro I’m lost.

See you in game.

See you guys in-game. Gonna take some time off PvF. The stupid is starting to hurt. Wish you all nothing but the best.

Not going to be on the forums for a while, so pm me in-game and we can work on stuff if you want.

So, this Saturday will be the last organized tour of Arah for a while. I think that it’s wise for me to get off these forums for a while, as the stupid is starting to hurt my brain. That being said, this Saturday’s tour will still be on at 0900 PST. Bring whatever class you want. All 4 paths, 4-1.
Watch Brazil’s video.
May try to work out the Melandru melee spot depending on group comp, so watch Nike’s trio vid as well. Bring your melee weapons.
No ranging anything other than Melandru.
Bring potions.
Bring your teamspeak.
Bring your dps/lifesteal food.
Bring your best attitude.

PM me in-game and I’ll put you on the list. As I previously said, I’m not going be on the forums for a while, so if you only leave your name on here, I won’t get it.

See you Saturday.

Was I the only one that thought “welp, now they know what specifically to nerf” when I saw the red post on the PvXWiki? Love the website, but I’m wary of the devs.

Maybe I should take a few weeks off the forums.

Ok, that’s fair. I guess it’s just me that has trouble seeing it.

All the time. I pretty much only Pug, except for a few situations. It’s getting better actually. People melee Lupi 9 times out of 10. They make the runs. They seem to be receptive to feedback. They seem to genuinely want to learn.

That’s Arah though.

AC, not so much. The QQ about the SQ is still immense, but hey, they got what they wanted, right?

Mystic.5934:

were you just standing there getting hit by the boss during all of this? just wondering how you managed to stay in combat.

You stay in combat with brie when you’re outside her “dome” She doesn’t reset. She will send waves of mobs at you, but if you kill them, you can chill w/ her @ 1%.

Chris Cleary.8017:

If someone completes the dungeon while you are attempting to selling it, we are not going to take action against that person. If you invite them into your group or list the group via LFG, they are well within their right to finish the dungeon if you decide to leave the boss at 1%.

Even if they’re screwing over other players? If they’re trolling the seller? When are you going to do something about it? Is the only way that you’re going to take action is if someone is “exploiting” the run?

I’m all down for using projectile defense and it being risky. I just want a slightly bigger tell just in case I’m w/ effects happy pugs and can’t see anything through them.

Nice website!

/15 char

I would like for Magecrusher (path 3) to have more of a tell for his Auto Attack. In melee, it’s an insta-cast with a very small animation that hits in AoE like a truck. Every other boss that has an attack that hits like that has a relatively obvious animation (even lupi’s kick has a distinct animation, and he’s 60 ft tall). I would humbly request that either his character model be increased in size or his animation for his auto-attack be slowed down or given a more obvious tell to bring it into line with the other legendary bosses in arah.

Purple Miku.7032:

There’s only AT&T Uverse and TWC here. Both of them have f***ing people down to a science, so I’m out of luck unless Google Fiber makes its way over to my state.

Simple solution: Move. Move for better internet Verizon isn’t there? That’s surprising.

Gnat.9405:

This thread is still open but they close threads that bring attention to actually game flaws lol

Of course. They have their head in the sand. Hopefully they’ll actually take what we’re saying in our “suggestion” threads and implement it.

Purple Miku.7032:

I had on average 200 ping last I remember in NA.

Doesn’t seem worth it to leave so many of my friends just to do jumping puzzles with 100-200 less ping on average.

Besides… Archeage in 3 days anyways

Get DSL Miku. There’s gotta be some other provider. Cable internet’s screwin’ you over.

Is there any hope that some of the nerfs have been rethought, or are these changes set in stone?

hybrid.5027:

Purple Miku.7032:

To add to the latency discussion, anything under 300 ping is superb for me. Anything over 400 and it becomes very irritating and difficult to time things properly.

NA servers and low ping are only 1800 gems away.

Seriously Miku. Get over here.

Am I happy? Nope. Stupid nerfs to my favorite class, ferocity, total and complete lack of love for dungeons, fractal reset and complete muck up of rewards, no communication, etc.

Could go on, but why? I payed 40$ for the game. Put 2400 hours into it. Got my money’s worth and made some friends. It stinks, but once you’ve learned to accept it, the sting of disappointment goes away a little bit.

Very impressed sir. Great job.

Zaxares.5419:

Huh, really? I’ll have to take your word for it. I’m still only up to SE in terms of dungeons. (Finishing off the last path on my characters in the coming weeks, then it’s finally on to CoF!)

Yeah, you’ll just have to take my word for it if you’re only on SE. Arah story is, of course, a joke, but the later story modes you’ll find, are more difficult in some ways than the explorable ones.

Zaxares.5419:

Story Mode is actually much easier than Explorable. The trouble is, it’s usually done by newer players who have never tried dungeons before and therefore aren’t expecting the massive jump in difficulty. (This is one flaw that I feel should be addressed. ANet needs to ease the transition of players more into dungeons. Currently it feels a lot like the Factions GW1 campaign; it went from “Master Togo will hold your hand through everything!” to “Let’s watch you get pwned by level 20 mobs” on the mainland.)

The other problem is that newer players usually aren’t as stringent about keeping their gear up to date. You can generally get away with this in the open world, but that poses a problem when they enter dungeons. Downscaling + Elite mobs means that foes can typically one or two shot them, but there’s no prior warning or instruction that players need to do this. Players then complain that dungeons are OP and then either cry for them to be nerfed, or just stop trying dungeons altogether, neither of which are good for the game’s long-term health.

On the contrary, at least in some dungeons. In the last tournament, and in the most recent match-up, very good guilds failed on the story missions far more than the regular ones. Take Hotw story boss for example. He’s no joke.

Solo a dungeon. That’s a good next step goal. Bring your skill level up!

I was talking to my students yesterday, and they were saying how difficult dungeons were when the game first came out. Since then, we’ve run them thousands of times, and yes, they’ve become trivial. I wanted to see when wethospu solo’d lupi for the first time (sorry man, not trying to be a stalker), and the QQ before that was immense.

The dungeons DO require strategy. However, the strategy has be ingrained into our playing, it seems like they don’t.

This is what happens when they don’t release content.

Purple Miku.7032:

-.-

HELL no.

Warriors have been getting nerfed with just about every patch. There’s absolutely no reason for it to be nerfed even more. Warriors aren’t even capable of dealing the highest DPS than all other classes in optimal conditions. For soloing, they are top notch. Why is that a problem?

All classes should be capable of doing better than others in certain areas, so why is it so much of a problem for a warrior to be one of the best classes to solo with?

If you’re complaining about a warrior generating too much might with forceful greatsword, then I’m surprised why you aren’t complaining about an ele. Warrior doesn’t even come close to touching an ele’s might generating capacity. In optimal conditions in a solo setting, a warrior will not be able to sustain 25 might for longer than a second or two even if they use strength sigils, which is wasteful to say the least. It’s in fact better to not use strength sigils on warrior, resulting in their might averaging slightly lower than 20 stacks when dodging/blocks aren’t involved.

In a vacuum setting, a warrior in strength runes and no strength sigils will average roughly 16-18 stacks of might over time camping GS. Camping GS is almost always a mistake anyways, so in a practical setting where you have to take into consideration the fact that a person will realistically have to evade/block a boss’s attacks and will periodically swap to their second weapon set, their might actually drops unless they’re using sigils of battle.

An ele can PRESTACK higher than a warrior is able to sustain while in combat! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8aTckoIrxI

I don’t know why it is that there are people who are so hell bent on making warrior weak as a feather. GS is capable of dealing better damage than other weapons. So what? Why is that a problem? Hammer deals less damage but it offers weakness, cripple, a knockback, a stun. Axe deals similar damage and allows you to move while doing it. Longbow has a fire field, a blast finisher, a blind, and an immobilize. Sword has a leap, a very high damage coefficient thrust attack, a projectile that has high torment uptime and a block.

All of the weapons that a warrior has can and are used in certain situations. Just because the weapon that specializes in damage deals more damage than weapons that specialize in different things doesn’t mean it needs to be nerfed into oblivion.

-breathes-

/slow clap

Renn.8241:

Final Personal Story weapon should also be a level 80 exotic.
this would encourage people to play through for the reward
bring back a traditional gw1 feel to the game
its a small change with a large outcome

This is very true. You just slew an elder dragon. You should get a weapon that signifies your accomplishment, in looks at least.

Ant.3415:

People are always dying on bosses (they hit way too hard for this introduction to dungeons), no one resurrects in combat.

That might be a problem with your group. You might want to change your lfg to “first time”. You usually find people are more willing to rez when they know you’re new. As to the boss, it’s all about learning tells and punishing you when you fail.

I really should write an essay about how AC and every other story mode/dungeon prepares you for arah.

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

IvanTheGrey.2941:

Another one of my students solo’d lupi for the first time!! Yay!!

Your students get kitten done it seems. Send him my congrats. :P

Hell yes they do.

Ok. Come to Arah and show me how you do that. I really want to learn from you.

Another one of my students solo’d lupi for the first time!! Yay!!

Jerus.4350:

Can you just consider me a permanent option for these for the time being, of course alternate in case you don’t fill it with fresh meat… err I mean new players.

Btw, got to phase 3 on lupi solo yesterday!… still having trouble there though, and still not perfect on phase 1/2 but still I was happy when I saw him phase changing.

YAY!!!! As long as you don’t make him ‘splode, it’s all good! Proud of you!

Lilith and Sarafull are both fractal mentors in [noob]. Give them a whisper and you can work out a time to do them.

I’m going to be doing an Arah tour (all paths) Saturday morning, approx 0900 PST. I will take any and all comers (well, just 4 more I guess, as I can’t run 2 accounts at the same time). You can be whatever class you want provided you KNOW YOUR CLASS. I’m very well qualified to teach warriors, pretty decent with guardians, and have general knowledge of eles, mesmers, and thieves, but I don’t know much about engis, necros or rangers, so I will expect you to know how to adapt to a situation that is presented to you.
I expect you to have:
Melee weapons
Undead Slaying potions
Life-steal food (Candied dragon rolls are great)
One ranged weapon for Melandru (haven’t gotten that melee spot down yet)
A really good attitude
Teamspeak (a microphone isn’t necessary, but I don’t want to have to type out all my instructions)
Additionally, I request that all my trainees, warrior or not, watch this video. Brazil did an amazing job showing exactly how to melee Lupicus (apply what he said to your class)[Brazil, if you’re reading this, I want some kickbacks <(^.^)> ]. We will not be ranging Lupi at all, so be prepared for melee.
Leave the names here, and we’ll get started when we have a full party. We will start with p4 and work our way backwards. You don’t need to stay for the whole thing, so if you just need p4 for you DM title, I don’t mind if you leave after one dungeon. I’d hope I’ll have more people waiting for someone to drop.
Bring a good attitude and laugh at my lame jokes.

This isn’t good… If a pug is ticking me off in arah, I now equip balanced stance and endure pain and get lupi to bubble them.

/smh

Can’t wait for DA:I

Lilith…. why….. I’m just gonna take your word for it from now on.

Anyway Regina, I think that the next CDI that’s even remotely concerning anything to do with dungeons or fractals should be held in the dungeon sub-forum.

Same. Fav: Arah Least fav: CM

Now I’m really curious as to what it said…. I wasn’t into fractals when that came around.

One Note Chord.5031:

My hope is that rewards adjustments could get more people playing more paths with very little developer time required.

I’ll try to keep this updated with a consensus from the thread if people have other numbers to suggest. To start, here are some not entirely random ideas:

• AC: No change
• CM: No change
• TA: Aetherpath 3.5g, nightmare court paths no change
• SE: P2 1.5g
• CoF: P3 1.5g
• HotW: All paths 1.5g
• CoE: No change
• Arah: p3 2g, p4 5g

Fractals:

• Increase coin reward to 10s per reward level.
• 31+: Stop dropping uninfused rings.
• 41-50: Increase fractal weapon drop rate so it’s the same as in 31-40. Do not decrease ascended weapon and armor drop rates.

I would also like to see Fractal Levals 20+ stop dropping Empyreal Fragments, or at least a guaranteed ascended drop.

Maybe:
1-10: Emp fragments and PFR
11-19: Emp fragments and RNG ascended ring and PFR
20-29: Ascended ring (guaranteed), rng infused ring, PFR, rng skin, rng armor, rng weapon
30-39: Infused ring (guaranteed), rng armor (higer chance), rng skin (higher chance), rng weapon (higher chance)
40-50: Infused ring (guaranteed), rng armor, skin, ring (much higher chance)

Or, like others have suggested, give us a way to purchase weapon skins w/ PFR and mystic forge our useless rings.

J Eberle.9312:

I extend an invitation to any GM to join me on a dungeon tour. It will be most enlightening and there will be an angry australian on the voice coms for entertainment.

Gonna do that tonight, but just for a Lupi duo. (need to get my kicks somehow)

It will be interesting however, if ALL the bosses in Arah were meant to be able to move. Melandru would be quite interesting if that was the case.

frifox.5283:

Chris Cleary.8017:

“Safe Spot” – Standing in a location to hold aggro or attack a monster/boss while it is unable to damage you and does not leash back to it’s original starting position.

Much better definition, however that would mean walled/melee lupi is an exploit…

Walled is debatable, but melee is not an exploit, as referenced by St. Hrouda when Weth did his first Lupi solo “It’s not an exploit, it’s just good gameplay”. (forgive me if the wording isn’t exactly right)

Just a reminder to everyone: This is a non-rep guild. If you want to learn, you (the student) need to contact the teacher, either here or in game (I prefer here, but w/e). We will work out a time to practice. I (personally) will advertise an Arah tour on the weekends, but don’t expect other mentors to do the same.

It is up to the student to begin the line of communication.

See you in game!

Purple Miku.7032:

Nash.2681:

I know about the issue when pulling him too far away, that’s why I tried to give estimated numbers of how far at max we pulled him. Considering the area with the gorilla corpses looks like _| bent 90° counter-clockwise we fought him on the long bar may be 15% away from the corner. Hope this is somewhat understandable. And his rushing was always in a “from wall to wall” fashion, never along the way, so the distance from his original spot didnt really change. So I don’t think we pulled him too far away.
May be it was just Korga’s way to say “omg, you brought a Nec and a Ranger with you, are you kittening kidding me?!” :P

Interesting. That’s not happened to me then I don’t think, but I fight him in this area. I’d like it if you could record it again if you recall exactly how it happened and if you think it’d be repeatable.

Also on the topic of bugged bosses, I’m still trying to get a recording of Lupi bubbling me while standing literally right underneath him— it’s only happened to me twice when I wasn’t recording and it’s so frustrating. Lately he’s been running away from me, turning around and bubbling… so there’s definitely some weird sh** going on in Arah.

spoj.9672:

Bug which is also relevant in TA and probably other places.

Spider spawns are already hostile and on the floor. At release they dropped down from the roof as you approached. One of the patches broke every single drop down spawn mob in the game and it was never addressed (spider packs in arah and TA, archers in first room of TA forward route and Malrona). All mobs are already spawned without you even being nearby.

Not only that, but the trash mobs that spawn in Arah right between the pact encamptment and the gate to wraithlord crusher+hunter in P3 often times spawn on top of the trees and below the ground. It’s weird as hell.

Rainmaker.7594:

Give the Ancient Ooze a small AOE ranged attack. I’m tired of all the afk safespots.

Lol I don’t even know of any AFK safespots. I typically am the person to pull ooze in all of the pugs I’m in and fight him out in the open with GS + A/S, so I guess I never gave any pugs the opportunity to try it… or perhaps what you speak of isn’t very well-known yet?

No, it’s known. If you’re looking at the old coral spot from the Ancient Ooze’s position, it’s to the right, on the other side of the group of coral.

DaveGan.8065:

pzyonix.1645:

To me, it is, with all respect, the unforgiving mass of players that don’t want to assist new players into the game, so that one day they have the same skill as the one kicking them from party. The elitists in diva behaviour, AP-checkers, the verbally abusive towncriers and commanders obey-me-or-uninstall folk, that are pretty much making every map or event, unwelcoming for the new and uninteresting for the veterans.

No. Just no.

Look at DnT’s website and youtube channels. Full of guides and videos. Look at [rT]. Comprehensive class guides on dulfy. [KING]. Videos. Wethospu. GW2Dungeons.net. Dungeon Mentors [Noob] guild. This community is all about helping others improve. They just won’t take it. Then the excuses responses we get when offering help in game too:

“Man it’s just a game stop taking it so seriously”
“Kitten off with your stupid advice”
“I didn’t ask for help you kittening kittenkitten”
“You think you’re better than me, giving me advice?”
“I play how I want”

This game caters to a casual crowd. It’s okay, we get that. They may not enjoy playing with us, and some of them have yet to realize a lot of the more dedicated players won’t enjoy playing with them.

We say, okay, we’ll establish our group as not casual, and they’re free to have/start their more casual groups too.
They say, OMG DISCRIMINATION CALL 911 CALL YOUR LAWYER CALL OBAMA

Can’t +1 this enough.

Ryan Diederich.8179:

Harny.6012:

Hello Ryan,
thanks for this information.

Any tips on how to get name of those trolls that kick you from your own instance quickly?
There usually isn’t time to write anything down or to make any screenshots.

Thanks in advance!

There appears to be some nice debug messages for party join/leave that I’m going to see if I can turn into “LFG Messages” in the chat log which should make this easier…

Perfect!! That would be awesome, and a very good method to (hopefully) prevent trolling.

Chris Whiteside.6102:

IvanTheGrey.2941:

Mr. Whiteside, sorry to bring it up again, but can you clarify the changes in instance ownership? I believe that there’s a genuine concern for griefing, and I was hoping that you could put our legitimate worries at ease.

Thanks again for replying!

We have been discussing this for a very long time. Can you PM me so i remember to get back to this point when it is appropriate to do so please?

Chris

Will do sir, as soon as you empty your inbox :-)

Ryan Diederich.8179:

Asmodeus.5782:

As I mentioned in my thread on the topic, it would be great to have the number of needed kick votes increased to 3, to minimize griefing resulting from this change. Personally I always started my own dungeon parties to avoid kick-happy couples. Now there’s nothing to kep me safe. 2 votes have always been a bad idea, anyway. Not even a majority.

I actually agree with you. I would have liked to increase the vote count a majority with this change, but unfortunately not all the pieces of code around party votes are set up in a way to make this a quick and easy change.

We were aware of this issue, but felt that holding back an improvement to the base experience on account of trolls was unfair to users that are playing nice.

Stealing instances using the LFG tool, or booting people for no reason (or to give your buddy the rewards for no work) at the end of a run are bannable offenses and should be reported.

This is true sir, but unfortunately, our reports have gone on deaf ears. There was a “heited” player that was kicking legitimate Arah sellers/runners for months, and was reported a significant amount of times, but nothing happened. It’s happened to me, it’s happened to all my dungeon friends, but literally nothing has come of it that we’ve seen. People have been screen-capped bragging about it, but still nothing.

Mr. Whiteside, sorry to bring it up again, but can you clarify the changes in instance ownership? I believe that there’s a genuine concern for griefing, and I was hoping that you could put our legitimate worries at ease.

Thanks again for replying!