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Rather than being sarcastic and pointless would someone care to explain to me what’s wrong with wanting to play a support ele rather than a boring kitten zerker warrior?

Play a zerk ele?

My issue with this berserker religion, is the idea that one is “better.” For some, sure, but for others, not. What’s important isn’t finding a single variable to any idea, but instead to identify what the goals of the build is, and how to bets meet that goal. So what would be judged as quality would be how effective a build is at the particular goal.

This means that beserker is not the best, only the best in getting as much damage as humanly possible, as fast as humanly possible. If the berserker build fits you, excellent! but I refuse to believe I am the only one who bases my strategy on the character, and wants to adapt and perfect each new style developed as a result of that character, each with their own goals and end results during a fight. I don’t want to play one build over and over, I want to enjoy the game over and over, each with a new strategy and technique. And I can’t be the only one who doesn’t just pick one style.

Source: Prophet Mike, the Video Gamer

I feel that way towards the Meta, but not zerker.

If there were a true support set I’d jump all over it. But we have Giver which is a small boon duration increase not even worth considering. And healing power is purposely kept as being pretty unimpactful. So that leaves me with either personal defensive or personal offensive stats for my gear. In which case, quality play will allow me to go without the defensive options leaving me with the best option being offensive.

That said I think traiting for a bit more support is fine. Hammer guards are awesome, I love absolute resolution, VoJ blind is great. Just lots of support in the way you trait, it may not be the highest damage but you can get some support power from concessions you make in your traiting. Ele you don’t even need to do that, just lay a water field and blast it and you’ve saved your group. Staff Ele has the tools without even really having to trait for things, though traiting gives them more tools. Mesmer I’m in love with untraited wardens, but on top of that Condition removal and stability are great.

I play my characters very much with support in mind, but that doesn’t change that I wear zerk (or some assassin) on them all.

So as far as I see it, Meta is the Fastest, but not the best as I’m a bad and I like things being a little easier so when I make a mistake it’s not a wipe. I just haven’t had the time to perfect my play yet, but I’m working on it, maybe I’ll be able to go full meta without that concern one day, but until then I like taking some of that pressure off with slightly different builds.

My dear Jerus,

Look at the source of said quote and lol

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I join arah pugs just to watch them die on Lupi and solo him on their corpses.

I’m a horrible person, but I really hope I stay in combat after he dies just so I can /dance on their corpses. Especially if they’ve said how awesome they are.

Hammer racism in pve

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Well, it really seems like you’re saying that in situations other than stacking, hammer (in your opinion) is the better weapon. I wvwvw, I agree. In PvE however, it’s not.

If I’m misinterpreting, I apologize, but I’m just responding to your original statement.

But w/e though. I feel that this is /thread anyway.

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You’re claiming everybody failed to read your posts. Perhaps if it’s everyone that’s telling you that you’re wrong, the problem might be that you did a poor job trying to convey what you actually meant to type?

“Oh but you obviously didn’t read what I typed. Try reading it again until you agree with me.”

You may be absolutely correct. I may have failed to properly convey some points or even all points. In that case, it would be nice to know where and how I failed to do so. I am always trying to improve myself:D

Sir, you’ve take 4 trait points from somewhere to make hammer more useful. If that’s from strength line, you’re losing 15% power from Berserker’s power + 200 power altogether. If it’s from arms, you’re losing 250 precision. If it’s a combo of arms and discipline, you’re losing 50 precision and 150 ferocity. If it’s a combo of arms and power, you’re losing at least the 15% power from Berserker’s power. I think that you said you used leg specialist as well. That’s an additional 2 trait points from a useful line put into tactics.

All for a hammer that does less dps than gs, doesn’t apply vuln, and loses out on forceful greatsword and slashing power, no extra dodge and utilities that can be best used by other weapons.

I’ve got a feeling that you may be specializing in WvW, where hammer warrior can rule. Otherwise, it’s just not as useful in PvE. Other weapons do what it does, and better at that, all the while not forsaking group and personal deeps.

If OP wants to run hammer for fun, all the power to him, and to you if you want to do the same. Please don’t think, however, that you’re being as useful as someone w/ a gs. You’re just not, no matter what you tell yourself.

Please prove me wrong though. I like being proved wrong. Do an Abom solo w/ your hammer and we’ll compare it to a pure gs solo. That’ll show the proof in your words, and give the final answer that the OP was looking for.

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To everyone saying the game is all about DPS, it isn’t. It just isn’t. If you think it is then you are preventing yourself from having an amazingly large amount of fun and limiting your personal playing experience. In a large amount of MMO’s it is. You need a certain amount of DPS in those game to even complete fights or everyone loses to energy loss or cooldowns.. Also in those games you are limited to cookiecutter builds. InGW2, you most definitely are not limited and least of all on a Warrior. Why would you choose to limit yourself?

Because you want to contribute to the party. Yes, you could play a hammer build in your knight’s gear, and you just wouldn’t be contributing as much as someone who’s playing meta build. I’ll quote again what I said earlier:

you have to look at the skills of the hammer, and the traits needed to put them to most effective use:
Earthshaker: Good skill, but I’ll elaborate on this in a bit.
AA: Hammer Swing, Bash, and Smash. From what shoddy testing I did when I got Twilight last year, it’s the strongest AA available to warriors (2 handed weapons), but like I said, it was very shoddy testing, so if Guang’s here, I’m sure he’ll be able to tell you more concrete numbers than I.
Fierce Blow: 8 second weakness that cleaves. While weakness is indeed useful in high-end fractals, it can better be performed by warhorn 5, which also doubles as a blast finisher
Hammer Shock: Cone AoE and cripple. As previously stated, cripple isn’t exactly… the best skill desired in PvE. Worthless in Arah and most other dungeons as well.
Staggering Blow: This is the skill that makes hammer completely unwanted in higher end dungeons and fractals. Most of the players who are very good at PvE content want enemies close so melee attacks can have their highest value and boons can be upkept and yadda yadda yadda. (Look at one of Colsey, aka maha, explanations of stacking strategy. He explains it better than I) This knockback completely disrupts the flow of a good group. If you’re an anti-stacker, that’s a conversation to be had for another day.
Backbreaker: Knockdown. 30 sec cooldown. Mace 5 better by far. Sorry.
The kicker here is that you’d have to sacrifice 4 trait points to make a hammer build even remotely feasible. If you’re taking them out of the power line, you’re loosing 15% damage period. If you’re taking them out of arms, you’re loosing a great deal of crit chance and 15% damage every time you activate your very useful Earthshaker ability. Not worth it.
Those 4 points in defense aren’t needed at all once you learn the encounters better, so survivability isn’t something that you should be concerned about if you know what you’re doing. All in all, other weapons do what hammer does, just better

You just aren’t doing as much as a hammer warrior as you would a meta one. Now, I’ve got a feeling you’re going to come back and say what you said in the other forum where

I have personally carried a lot of zerker groups with my Knights set in just about every dungeon in the game.
If it weren’t so common that I am the last person standing soloing bosses while bringing the group back up from a near wipe in Fotm 50….

I understand how you would see that, but the fact of the matter is that I (and my friends who are much better warriors than I) have done the same thing(especially in arah), in berserker gear, with my greatsword.

We’ve just done it faster.

Also, there’s a case to be stated that it wouldnt’ve been necessary if you had contributed more to group dps, or had played with more skilled players. I realize that that post was about pugging, but the fact of the matter stands.

I’m not trying to be rude, and I hope that you don’t see it as that. I can just prove that you’re mistaken about hammer being just as useful as gs or pure axe builds for damage and team support.

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So, I essentially hear that people want the condi cap to be raised, and the implementation of said conditions to be re-organized. Would this stop the complaining (couldn’t think of a more tactful word, I’m sorry) about beserker gear?

Yessss…..

Raise the condi cap. this would be wonderfull. So that when I am in WvW, I can now epidemic 100 bleed stacks to 5 unsuspecting souls. Instantly melting them and having them come crying to the forums that Conditions are over powered!!!

I like this plan.

So, this would, of course, be over-powered. What do you think that it should be raised by? 5? 10? 25? What would be reasonable? How would you deal with people who have less condi damage than you applying bleeds/burns/torment/poison/etc over yours?

Want to actually explore the exp dungeons.

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seriously. how in the hell did he get up there??

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I honestly couldn’t tell you much about WvW. Look around the forums for that one. Totally different than PvE.

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So, I essentially hear that people want the condi cap to be raised, and the implementation of said conditions to be re-organized. Would this stop the complaining (couldn’t think of a more tactful word, I’m sorry) about beserker gear?

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I disagree with certain people therefore they are elitists

You can be sarcastic all you want, but if you don’t want to acknowledge, that one playstyle is preferred over the others, then i can’t help your ignorance. If you don’t think, that kicking people, and requiring people to link their berserker gear, is not elitist, then you really shouldn’t comment on things that you have no clue on.

It also has nothing to do with disagreeing. It’s about discussing how to diversify playstyles in GW2, to make the game better for everyone, and not for a certain playstyle only.

GW2 is actually worse than a trinity MMO. You cannot play anything else, lest you be scorned and kicked. At least in trinity MMOs, you can have 3 choices. In GW2, it’s berserker, or gtfo.

I was watching the new WP vid the other day and he said something to the extent that there’s a “Zerk problem”. I see that people are saying the same thing often on this subforum and it truly begs the question:

What is the problem with berserker gear?

I’m truly curious as to why players think that there is a problem with this gear. The content can be completed with any other gear set in the game, and some of it even faster with condition spec gear/weapons/traits/runes/sigils (solo at least). Will it be as fast as it could be done with berserker’s gear? Most likely not, but who cares? You’re not going for a record run when you open up the lfg, so really, why does it matter? Now, I realize that some people will state that the “toxic community has stated that it’s berserker or gtfo”, and that may be so, but those are truly the kind of people that you don’t want to play with if you want a relaxing experience.

As far as group dungeon running content is concerned, it comes down to a very simple thing: Reading the lfg. If you join a group that requests you to “ping zerk or gtfo” with condition damage based gear, or an AH guardian, or a shout/rifle warrior, it’s completely understandable why they would kick you, and vice versa.

I’m not trying to be a troll here, but I’m genuinely curious as to what people think is the true issue with berserker gear.

Is it that other players will kick you if you don’t wear it?
Is it that the damage can be less than berserker gear?
Is it that there’s a cap on conditions?
Is it that other players’ conditions will overwrite yours?

What is truly the problem? Please don’t say that “content was designed for berserker gear in mind”, because it truly wasn’t.

Want to actually explore the exp dungeons.

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There’s nothing to explore in the dungeons just so you know.

I don’t know Guang… We had a guild phiw CoF (drunken) fun run and jumped out of the map to fight the completely optional ooze king and queen from p3. I’d never seen them before and it was pretty cool imo. Mind you, I was drunk at the time, but it was pretty cool for a bit Something I don’t see every day.

A good ascended trinket setup?

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That’s a very good idea. Armor (other than ascended of course) is very cheap and/or free, and can be switched around easily. Good for you!

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Honestly, you can get trinkets pretty easy. All you need to do is Fractals. Each full fractal run will grant you 1 pristine fractal relic, and after 10, you can get a full ascended trinket. For the accessories, do guild missions. A full guild mission will give you 6 guild commendations, and an ascended accessory costs 12. The amulets can be obtained by doing your dailies (like a month’s worth or something like that) and the backpiece can also be obtained with fractals.

Invest in Berserker trinkets, accessories, amulets and backpieces. You’ll eventually get to the skill level where defensive traits aren’t needed, and that stuff will allow you to maximize your damage. (if you’re doing PvE. If WvWvW, I would suggest soldier’s, but I’m not a WvWvW player)

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Hello OP. So, Nike’s (Leader of DnT) video can be found here. I would also definitely suggest reading Purple Miku’s Guide to Warrior Awesomeness.

Those are the two best guides for PvE. These guys know what they’re talking about.

The state of PuGging

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Have to agree with Fror and some of the others. Building your own group to your specifications helps. only if you take into consideration the builds you are willing to run with though. As a warrior i run with 3 different sets of armor and every single weapon a warrior can weild in my bags at all times because they all have their place or fight where they perform better than other sets or other weapons. Same goes for traits. i am constantly retraiting depending on which fight i am going into.

Do you have to run with all these items or retrait often? No. However, you aren’t fully utilizing your class to its fullest potential and you aren’t putting forth any effort in learning your class more intricately if you are not changing things up.

This is an interesting statement. As a warrior, you truthfully need only one (maybe 2) set(s) of armor in any dungeon or fractal (knights for training wheels). With your very high health pool, dodges, invulnerable traits, defiant stance, shield/sword block, you’re almost immortal. As for using “every weapon” in the warrior’s kitten nal; hammer is completely useless in PvE. Rifle is almost completely unnecessary as well.

Learning your class more intricately (especially with warrior) is about using your skills to effectively keep the damage up on the boss while minimizing the damage to yourself. This can be done w/ Berserker’s gear and 65003, 66002 quite well. If your party needs support, you’ve got banners, empower allies and phalanx strength if they don’t know what stacking might is about.

casuals take heart

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Gratz to you and your family OP!!! If you ever wanna Arah again, feel free to hit me up I teach it and would be happy to bring you through it again if you ever wanted

If you kick me from a group I started

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I think it’s really messed up if the LFG said “everyone welcome” or didn’t have any restrictions put upon it. I’m sorry that happened to you OP. If you ever want to come into arah, look me up. I’ll gladly take an engi

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This needs to be a documentary series narrated by David Attenborough or Morgan Freeman.

March of the PHIW

Through the LFG

PUGlife on One

The Casual Planet

Edit: Nature’s Great Events: The Kicking of the Bearbows

David Attenborough’s PUG Stories

So many more titles to think of.

There needs to be a Dawkins series as well.

The casual delusion
The blind conditionmancer
The selfish Pug
The root of all bowbears?
The greatest healer on earth: The evidence for Nomad’s gear
A PHIW’s chaplain
Ignoring Mount Improbable

After Yvonne Strahovski, you’ve just become my favorite Aussie.

What's your daily routine?

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TP @ lunch
Arah 1-3(or 4 if someone’s down)
Fractals
Craft deldrimor, damask, asc. wood.

Dungeon Guild/s

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You have to go through the various ceremonies and tribal dances first.
http://www.dtguilds.com/applygw2

Be prepared to rap with Obal and Dekeyz. They drop mad beats.

Dungeon Guild/s

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gw2coldsnap.com as well. same trial stuff.

Dungeon Guild/s

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go to dtguilds.com to fill out an app for DnT. The trial process is quite strict. renegatus.net is our site (fill out an app). I’ll trial you if I’ve got time this week. It’ll be a duo arah p2, lupi off wall.

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This video demonstrate why condition damage is terrible in 90% of the PvE encounter.

If you are leveling in the open world(especially in the early level), monster die in a few second, so burst damage > sustain damage. Berserker > Condition.

If you are farming mobs in open world events, monster die in a few seconds, condition damage just take too long to be effective. You really want as much burst damage to fight for loot, if you dont’ do enough dps in those 1 to 2 second the monster are up, you won’t get loot. Berserker> Condition.

If you are doing world boss, condition damage is cap at 25. Having 100 people constantly applying bleeding, your bleed damage will just get overlapped and do no damage at all.

If you are doing dungeon etc. You still have the problem of condition damage cap at 25. If you have another condition damage players, you’ll do half amount of damage. Even without it, most class will still do some condition damage which will cancel out your condition damage. Notice how the character in the video can cap the condition damage at 25 by himself. If there are other players, he’ll actually do “less damage”. Berserker> condition.

So basically it dont’ matter if condition actually do damage, because it isn’t useful “most of the time”.

ps did I forget to mention it is “so” annoying to hit structure with condition build. eg. wearing rabid gear in snowbind fractal is “very annoying”.

The video that I posted was in response to the overarching statement that berserker gear isn’t the only damaging armor set available. I’m well aware of the limitations of condi builds in both PuG dungeon running and open world content. In certain specific situations however, condi build can be superior. Those situations are purely limited to solo instances, as you’ve stated the problems with applying conditions in a group setting, but it is nice to see some bosses get completely wrecked by condis, even more than with berserker gear, as the video shows.

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I gave up after they just continued to spout ridiculous nonsense. Colsey, I honestly don’t see how you keep posting in threads like those. You must be a masochist. (You too swifty. btw, your art is AMAZEBALLS)

Dungeon Guild/s

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Yeah, Ren’s always recruiting, as are DnT and Coldsnap (IX).

Friday evening Arah Tour

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Ok! If I’m doing it again this weekend, I’ll post again, and hopefully you’re free.

Want to actually explore the exp dungeons.

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I think that there’s a guild called PASSS (Players Against Stacking Skipping Stuff). I think if you find them, that’d probably be your best bet. Otherwise, channel the mountain goat and come to arah. You’ll get better really quickly and get to see the best designed dungeon in the game.

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Heard they nerfed Mai Trin. Can anyone confirm it?

Friday evening Arah Tour

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I sang. Is that what I have to do to get people to do this? :’(

Oh well. Next weekend possibly.

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no one? /15chars

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Ha. Ha. Ha. A drop in the bucket compared to the oceans of times that I scraped you off the floor w/ my warrior (j/k of course) ;P

Anyone coming?

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So, bumping this, as it’s gonna happen. I’ve got 1 other warrior for the tour. Hope that cool peeps come

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OOOOOOOooooo….. Drunken Arah sounds AWESOME. Def thinkin’ about doin’ that tonight

Your top 5 hardest bosses?

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I too have seen that illusionist. It was a WTF moment.

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Are these correct? I haven’t done P2 for a while.

I was under the impression belka could no longer be 1200 exploited. Also, the golem suit refers to a WP immediately after the spider room which no longer spawns, until after Abom fight.

Yep. Belka can still be exploited using bone wall, and there’s a hole along side the spider room that you can jump up, but they removed the WP. Well, it won’t spawn until after the Abom.

Arah selling - kick others, then sell?

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I don’t even know what guild TS is. Nevermind!

Sorry that you had a bad experience. I only kick people if they either skip Lupicus, don’t read my LFG posts, or actively go out of my way to **** with me.

You know, it gives me strange reassurance to know that maybe I just had some bad luck (I should have known it’s not my day when everyone in the map dced 10min before Teq) ran into this one particular person that bothers a lot of people. So maybe it’s not as common as I thought it was and lfg can still be trusted (to some degree)

Of course I’m still going to try to play Arah and perhaps learn things from this forum. Again I would like to apologize to the real hard working people who put in effort in soloing Arah. I was being too sour and shouldn’t make topics/comments like that when my head wasn’t clear. It’s sad when you deserve your just reward, some cheat to get it and ruin your reputation.

Bro, if your on NA im taking friends to get their Lupi solos, so if your interested in practicing and dont mind spending a fair amount of time in arah ill hit you up. Just download TS3 and ill give you the details you need in game. Then you can solo lupi and kick that moron next time you see him!

Likewise. I’m always down for a bit of Lupi/Arah mentoring.

Want your opinion on my build please

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You’re going to have a different set of armor and traits for WvW unfortunately, as it’s definitely different than PvE. Element, Nike, and Purple Miku’s guides are all top notch.

Welcome to Warrior!

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We never found it :/ We got… distracted.

Offhand weapon?

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If this is for PvE:

Sword-Good for Solo’s or fights you really want your own block. Skill 4 has great damage if you rip the sword
Warhorn-I run this on EA build(6 4 0 4 0)when there is enough vurn to blast stuff. Only in groups that know wtf they are doing.
Mace-Optimal for most groups for the vurn and high damage control skill
Axe- You should have enough Fury from FGJ and SoR, so skill 4 is not needed and skill 5 has lower DPS then Auto Attacks on Axe. I’ve seen people use it in solo’s so they could go Disc banner Signet of Fury Signet of Might and maintain Fury with Axe 4, but don’t think it’s optimal.
Look into the 6 5 0 0 3 build
Try to move to full zerk. Step by step if you have too, Warrior has highest base vit and toughness and extra dodge on GS
Here are some guides:
Element[rT]:
http://dulfy.net/2014/06/28/gw2-comprehensive-warrior-pve-guide-by-element/
Nike[DnT]:
http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/83915-axemace-dps-build-for-dungeons-and-fractals-041514/
Miku[rT]:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/warrior/DPS-guide-for-PvE-Dungeons-Soloing-More/first

Definitely check these links out.

Friday evening Arah Tour

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Other titles include: “Let’s try this again”, “Once more with feeling”, and “Please no drama”

Hi all!
So, if all goes well (and it should) I’m going to be doing an Arah tour (all paths) Friday evening, approx 1800 PST. Now, I know DnT does their Friday evening mini Tourney, and some guilds have make-up missions, but I’m just putting this out there for [noob] students or anyone that wants a good arah experience. 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)(Or whatever food you’re comfortable with)
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). We will not be ranging Lupi at all, so be prepared for melee.
Contact me in game that evening (I’ll be on a little earlier), 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
See you Friday!!!

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Had a really great experience yesterday that I wanted to share with you guys:

Saw that there was a Path 4 on Arah LFG. I, being the masochist that I am, joined up. I asked the usual question: “Has anyone done this before?” 4 noes. 1 1.5k ele states: I’m totally new to this dungeon. I shrug and proceed to carry them. After Balthazar, the ele has a hard time making the skips, but he doesn’t give up. I look at his life bar and it drops to nothing almost instantly whenever he gets hit. Now, I’m no ele master, but I’m a little curious. I run with him and we make it. We make it through Melandru and Lyssa and they wipe at Lupi.

No one QQs. NO ONE. I’m very impressed.

We do Grenth, and it takes them only one rotation to understand exactly what to do. We fight Dwayna, and although it takes quite a bit longer than it should, we get it done. I run them through the trash mobs on the skip (I can’t jump worth crap) and we get to Bloodstone. I ask, out of curiosity, “Ele, what gear do you have on?”

He pings greens.

Greens.

I’m so impressed by his attitude that I buy him a satchel of exotic assassin’s armor. We finish the dungeon w/o any problems and everyone is happy. The next day, I see that same ele back in Arah. I was so proud!!

I really think we are making a difference, one person at a time!!

The dungeons are still terrible

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I doubt the current dungeons will change. I don’t like them, because they have never the right difficulty:
- for a new player, they are ridiculously difficult
- for an experienced player, they are not challenging (I don’t want additional difficulty, an experienced player simply misses something interesting in the fights)

Most of them are too short. They seem long because of long static (and boring) boss fights, but the dungeon area is in fact very small. Not much to see. I remember 5 level deep dungeons in GW1 – that was fun! You killed huge quantities of trash mobs on your way instead of single legendary bosses that consumes half of your dungeon time. Take the boss away, and your dungeon time is only 5 minutes.

I agree that the current dungeons will not change. They’re a solid difficulty level, as they can be done by level appropriate players, i.e. AC @ 30, exp 35. It’s quite a bit more difficult, yes, but they can be done. As for the “experienced player”, I would really suggest coming to Arah. I can’t count how many times I’ve seen 9k AP players dead on the floor during a skip or Lupi, or trash mobs (Hell, I even have trouble w/ those things sometimes.) I would suggest stepping outside of your comfort zone in these dungeons. If a certain dungeon isn’t challenging anymore w/ 5 players, do it w/ 4. Then 3. Then duo it. Then solo. This will keep the dungeon fresh and make you a better player.

As for the second part of your comment, it sounds like you should put up a “no skipping” LFG, or join PASS. Please correct me if I’m wrong, but it sounds like you want to kill a bunch of trash mobs. I never played GW1, but it seems to me that the rewards in this game just aren’t good enough to do that. If that’s what you want to do however, all the power to you.

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Have you tried soloing dungeons? That adds to the spice of things.

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I still enjoy the crap out of running arah every day, multiple times a day.

Feedback on my Lupi solo?

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I think you did a very good job. Nitpicking here, but you can actually stand just outside his hit box in phase 1 to strafe the locusts and still hit him. Ogre Whistle/Ember the transition. Phase 3: I would suggest for his PBAoE to WWA into him, then dodge back and switch to axe/sword for sword 5.

Once again, nitpicking, but rip (sword 4) before you switch weapons, use rush more often, keep an eye on your gs cooldowns to make sure you’re always using 100b, rush and WWA to their fullest potential.

Good job though!!

Kick question

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Join [Noob]. We’ll bring you through all the dungeons so you’re no longer a noob

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Oo where is danicia’s twitter? I must look at it

Seriously! I really wanna know what happened to her. Did she give us too much attention??

The state of PuGging

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the best pugs are the ones that recognise me off the forums and give a little hero worship. second best are the ones I quietly carry and then either at the end or after lupicus express their gratitude for my effort helping the group – they make it all worth it to me. on the bottom end are organised groups I can afk faceroll the bosses with, they completely bore me to tears.

This is pretty much the only reason I pug nowadays. That and to meet more cool kids.

Additionally, I find that it refines my skill set. If I can survive in a really bad pug, I know my shiznit.

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That’s cookie. I’m in Brazil’s hotw video though.

My bad

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I should start making build videos with my beautiful British accent

Even though I never heard you, I’d watch them.

You’ve heard of him.

Colsey, you and Swifty should do duo build vids. Aussie/English accents would make peoples’ minds explode.

I meant that I never heard his voice.

He’s the Brit talking in this spectacular fail