Guild Wars 2

Auesis.7301:

My Thief feels like a babysitter.

You must be playing it in a very wierd mannuer

This sounds like a scam. Pay before you even join party?! I know people who sell Simin spots @ actual Simin, without fighting trash for 15G. Also, theres no guarantee, to party with other randoms who pay 20G for a spot and you think you will beat this? Lol. Enjoy wasting your money. Better off paying people who are already @ Simin, or past her

Except that even in 26, if a random noob joins your team at fractal 10, you dont know, then all the loot gets scaled to level 10, in essence making you run a harder fractal, for no reason. So only run 26 if you know your teammates are 26+ too

Tying in to this, Spire from CoE. The champ wolf is skipped>>res spire and she runs into the room. Just make it so we can skip the wolf without having to res her please cuz sometimes she fights and gets stuck.

Yaki.9563:

Illiander.8049:

If I ever heard that I’d tell them that the best party-healers in GW2 are Warriors and Elementalists.

You’d be wrong. Warriors aren’t even close to better healers than Guardians.

I have a guildie who runs a “Support” Elementalist. Respectable DPS for a non-zerker build, and he maintains something like 25 stacks of Might,

No.

close to permenant Protection

Not on the entire party.

/Agree.

Which class/race has the best shouts (OMM, FGJ, Shake)? Which has the worst?

Best is so hard to say. Charr sound so epic. Norn sound so authoritative. Humans sound cool and normal/regular but firm. Since my war is human, maybe im biased so I go with then.

Worst Id have to say is Sylvari which sound a bit middleeastern or something

My old shadow form assassin from gw1. DoA Cave with 100 monsters, team fails spike. O Noes. Let me just shadowstep them all, glitch aggro to the right, res scroll, and catch aggro again and re-tank. Thats what carrying is

SynfulChaot.3169:

Aegis.9724:

as a ranger, i’d love to use more team utilities….. if i had them

Rangers have two great ones. Healing Spring is heal, regen, condition heal, and combo field. They also have Signet of Renewal, which can pull all conditions from all allies to your pet. I always run these in dungeons.

Healing spring is bad because it requires people to sit in a field that heals for barley any HP. If your fighting
A. Dungeon Trash
B. Dungeon Bosses

YOU WILL NEED TO KITE OR DIE. Its like telling a Water Ele to heal you through Kholer Spin attack, or heal through a graveling scavanger Aoe Knockdown. Just wont happen. So you sit in a field, take massive dps and die, or walk through the field for 1 second, getting like 300hp, and walk out to avoid dying. On paper it sounds great, in reality, its not great.

The past two days I have joined two teams, one on level 20 Grawl Shaman, one level 24 Shaman. They had both had multiple fails in a row and almost gave up.

I came in as the only guardian, used Shield Absorb, Reflect Wall, and either Sanctuary or Signet of Judgement.

I got downed a few times but insta rally and both times were a sucess. Just shows it only takes 1 player with proper AR, skills, and gear to beat this fractal.

Razor.6392:

No one else mentions ele?

I can buff 20+ stacks of might to my party on my own, I can heal and control the trash mobs like the best, and the damage I do is not bad at all!

they die in 2 seconds and if they are bunkers its bad dps. nonono

funny thread wish i did a run with you

I dont even know what coefficient means. Kill shot is pretty cool though, I seem to do a good amount of damage for rifle

Your meant to melee stuff, not to cripple it and kite

What I dont understand is why someone at level 0-10 would do a level 20+ fotm, because they will only get a level 10 reward. Why make something way harder for themselves, to recieve a lesser reward….Ignorance or ?

Whenever there are other warriors in my team it seems like they ALWAYS run FGJ. This is fun to chain in a team, each one shouts after another. Whenever there is other warriors I always run this just so I fit in. I never want to be that one warrior without it. Is there some unwritten rule? I notice in banks too, warriors will randomly chain FGJ who dont even know each other. It does sound nice but whats with this

mace is terribad. people who defend it clearly do not realize they can support the team in more effective ways such as , actually killing stuff faster by DPSing better and using pro utilitys which are superior to any weapon skill on mace

Precision. Empowering Might/Omnomberry Pie

If your armor and build isnt tanky enough for more damage like GS/Staff, then you could use hammer/staff as a alternative for more “support” over dps. Its one of the better weapon combos though definately.

I had a major sigil of fire triggering for over 1000 damage so i hope your superior at least does 1000. Sad part is, the fire sigil probaly does more damage than your arrow attacks.

Warrior is king of all dungeons. They are your playground. Just stay away from Arah

Support (Healing Turret) Engi Or Flamethrower Engi

and what do you do after the teammate attacks after refuge, revealing himself. leave him or?

the non farming way would be to craft a quiver or a book. this would require 1 of mist essence vial only, and 0 tokens. just the infusion 75 token cost.

PVT should be OK, I run Knights which is slightly more toughness.

It really depends on the path for a guardian.

Path1, is stack on top of him and melee, this is going to be the easiest path for you.
Path2/3 requires constant dodging, and AOE will 1 hit any class. Guardian, War, Bunker Ele, doesnt matter. You get hit AoE Circle, your a goner.

Once in a while even in Knights, Alpha will hit me in melee for more damage than I can outheal but mostly you will be perfectly fine. Its kinda like one of those things, even if you had a full 0 dps, full heal/tank build, hes gonna melee hurt you once in a rare bit for too much. Start on Path 1 and you be good.

I dont particulary love the armor/runes you have, but having done CoE, those are definatly good enough to survive. You dont need to tweak it specifically for here

Kirbyprime.2645:

I’m really only posting to say,

Bloom is actually easier at melee range, this coming from an ele.

How? My guardian (Suppsoedly the most survivable class) dies to it at like 15+. In 10, I have a 50/50 chance of melee not killing me.

I agree with almost everything. Ranged is easier on most bosses/dungeons. As effective/fast? No, but defiantly easier. On high level fractals its hard to consistently melee things, I can melee some but I always have ranged to fall back on.

They added pristine because people complained about the RNG system of rings never dropping, they were level 20 and never got a ring etc… Now the same people complain they have nothing to do with the pristines. Kinda unfair to Anet to have to constantly work to fix things that players ask for.

Theres alot of good information in this thread but each person is contributing one piece. Who can put it all together. From the damage, the pattern, the frequency, the reflectability, the circle length, etc..

I just base it off, 100b hits a bunch of times and the last hit is like 18-30k damage. On my thief, unload hits less times and end burst is 6k damage. I know unload is spammable, while 100b isnt as much, but still. I dont see how thiefs can outdamage.

The AoE is useful but i guess not “needed” as you described.

Just because someones done something doesnt mean everyone else can too

In a way yes, but in a way no. FotM skins are some of the best in the game (Aside from legendary ofc). To me, it should be “Hard” to get and very limited.

Do I want one? OFC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Do I deserve one? Apparently Not.

It needs to be harder than just pristines, but easier than do 5,000 level 20 dailys.

If someone could write a summary of the lore for each dungeon, story mode, path, exp mode etc… or Arah in general

it would be so cool! I cant tell you how many times people get mad if i dont skip the cutscenes, also I forget sometimes what it was about, also I dont want to re-run each dungeon path every month to remember the stories.

If anyone could summarize at least maybe the main ones it would be so cool!

Im no expert in CM. I do know that glass cannon thiefs in other dungeons are “good” without needing smokescreen. Yes, I have heard CM is hard and you almost need reflects. I think though if your team was really trying to be efficient, as in , proper composition/skills you would have recruited a guardian for his wall of reflect. To hastily form a team without talking about strategy, then get a class who has a utility thats pretty usefull but not as good (as it doesnt damage them back) and expect him to kinda be the scapegoat or rely on his smokescreen only to suceed, kind of seems… eh, not more of a personal thing, but a team issue as a whole. As in, this wasnt your only problem. Agreed though, people should read their utilitys instead of the classic

4 signet warrior, signet thief, signet ele, signet ranger etc… the list goes on.

Wartna.8671:

You can interupt him when he goes with his sword in the air, that way he won’t get the buff

More info on this plox.

so you cant hurt him with his own bombs? even if it doesnt show damage, do you watch his HP bar and does it hurt him at all?

viespeadivina.7961:

This has become a game breaker. Same thing happen to me last night, after i finished CoE, one person was watching cinematic and after 5 sec leader left, before i could get may reward ( tokens and money ), so i was kicked out with zero reward. The system is flawed, i wonder if Robert knows how frustrating this can be. I’m kitten even now…

Rofl that leader is dumb because the tokens/end gold dont get awarded uintil everyone is out of the cutscene. While unfortunate, at least you werent the only one who didnt get reward. I mean, whats the rush wow why do people literally leaves 5 seconds after. At least say bye to the people you just spent 30min-1 1/2 Hours of your life with

You guys should just do story mode. Problem solved.

Thats why Hogdkins calls them Wretched Graveling Scavangers!

Id suggest you buff your magic find at least 100 percent higher if you wish to reap the benefits of MF gear. Anything under 100 is negligbile in the amount of better drops you will get.

Stop forcing people to play how you want. Let them play how they like. Its one thing to mention it, suggest and if they want to, they can. But insisting as you did and trying to “convince” the thief to use smokescreen is not right

I am not in position to argue there is not a bug but I am in a position to say when i got my 1 character from 0-33 I never had a bug, nor when I leveled my other alt from 0-10 did I have a bug. No party members in all of my groups for tons of dailies, nor progression have ever complained of a bug.

Thiefs arent good for speedruns. Theres no way a thief can outdamage my warrior, to say otherwise is a complete joke. Also, thiefs are single target, not AoE.

Parking characters and doing nothing else besides 1 event isn’t “playing the game” on that character. The game is a multitude of things, not 1 dragon.

I have parked my alts in CoF fireheart rise and did 3 runs of the same path, each on alts, 60 tokens each time. It does DR you eventually though (Maybe 4-6+ Runs I dont know exactly) and you get 30 tokens/13s

There are certain causes and effects which make this occur and if you know them, he will always do the same thing. Yes its strange, but you can control it or stop it as long as you do the right things in the instance.

Not really. If you do the exact method, it works every time. If he is “messing up” its actually a personal player problem. Ask for tips on how to do it if you dont know as there is more than 1 way. There are wrong ways too however.

Annoying, ofc hes Magg thats how he gets down.

You have to have a massive amount of MF to notice the effects. Ofc you dont notice 50 MF, it would be OP. The more MF you stack, the better. Even when your missing just 1 ring that doesnt have MF, try to get MF on it and you will start to see better drops

It was meant to be a DPS event when it began pre – patch, players figured out the kiting exploit, so it was re-designed as a DPS event with the mobs. If your team dies, you dont have enough DPS.

Why do you think CoF comes in glass cannon gear, and its all about fire?

I dont care if they get banned. I want my tokens

MF Gear stats are actually not that bad. Better than some peoples builds who actually have real armor. At the least, its a Knights set of armor that doesnt have toughness, however if the person can survive, they technically did not even need that toughness. So yea, its not as good as zerker, but most people seem to frown upon zerker anyway.

Im not trying to say MF gear is “Good” but its not as bad as people think, if the player is able to live with the gear. (Most cant)

Well when you guys say “AC Exp MoneyRuns” Doesnt that mean your going for farming AC for the maximum obtainable loot, regardless of difficulty or time? Hence, MF gear would fit into this run imo.