Guild Wars 2

The whole stacking thing is due to there is no tank or taunt abilties in GW2. The main job of a team is to group the enemys into a sweedish, 1 dot ball and kill them. since there is no way to group alot of enemy’s, the stack performs this for us without having to have any specific skillset or trait. stacking is the only easy fast way to get things to ball since you cant just run around and tank it into a ball or have any way of effective aggro control. most of us know in any MMO having some type of tank, aggro control, etc is pretty essential to any type of organized play. without trinity, the wall is our tank.

Burst/Spike attacks have always been the key to killing enemys over sustained dps, and stacking forces the team to DPS together rather than have 1 guy ressing, 1 guy casting, 1 guy dodging etc. In gw1 if you didnt have a proper high dps spike, monsters could heal back up (Margonite Ki/Dream Rider in Foundry) and you literally had to sync dps on 1 target or things wouldnt drop or be so deadly, you would die if you didnt burst on them quick enough. GW2 is very forgiving about having sustained dps/healing power be viable because you will be tanky enough to sustain forever. To most people, burst is still perfered.

I would suggest to OP play with newer players as they tend to kinda do whatever they want, and if this is the gameplay you want, they tend to adapt closer to this playstyle. key terms like “all welcome” and other things will indiciate a group less prone to skipping. words like “speedrun, 80s only, AP x+ points or kick, ZERKER PING, NO NOOB, EXP ONLY” will all more likely than not be a stacking/rushing group.

i dont like how Taimi has this tension with Zoija. Zoija is the topmost asuran and the pre-fix of zerker gear, anyone who has problems with Zoija, has problems with me.

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/76860-on-mordremoth-the-sixth-elder-dragon-and-its-corruption-methods/ i think this person wrote a nice article

i will be extremly upset if LA is destroyed or broken and becomes a unusable or unviable city. In GW1, Kamadan was an acceptable city replacement for LA and eventually surpassed LA’s popularity (by far) but if in GW2 they destroy LA, oh wow will i be mad and will have bad repercussions unless the replacement city is as good as Kama and even then it seems not the same

FlamingFoxx.1305:

I may be missing the point a little here – but I just want to make it absolutely clear that the fact that you are a Norn has no impact on your speed. All characters have the same base speed and your running speed can only be increased through skills or runes/sigils.

Wrong.

Elite Snow Leopard.
Hold 4 key down (Do not simply tap 4, hold it down)
Press 3
Repeat x1.

If Critical Damage is replaced by Ferocity, it is only fair that:
Condition Duration should be replaced because its obviously an OP PERCENTAGE and unfair stats across items/foods.

The reasoning on crit dps was that the 5%’s etc, are better scaled than say, a +Str item/food etc. So naturally by that reasoning, Condi Duration scales way to well and should be nerfed too.

Bad idea. Not even casuals support OHK’s from many readings of casual posts in the past.

also the endurance thing is nothing to any warrior, warhorn vigor, burst restores endurance, energy sigil, theres already a fractal thing less dodge and no zerk has a problem with that.

just another un-experienced player trying to fix something that he hasnt studied enough.

This is just a theory and I havent done #’s to confirm but want to know

- I use potion of Undead to give +10% DPS more
- I equip GS with superior sigil of undead for +10% DPS more
***These two 10 percent bonuses do NOT seem to stack????

I used a undead potion + force GS and was hitting higher numbers than the undead GS, even though the undead sigil + potion should of done more technically.

is this right or just variances

UPDATE FROM INFO TODAYS PATCH from an gw2 article:

in this release, Johanson did mention that Zojja has difficulty handling people who think they’re smarter than she is. And since Taimi, who is technically a student of the Asuran colleges, has decided to ditch school completely and take her education into her own hands, we suspect this might be a point of conflict in the future.

Zoija doesnt approve of Taimi, no way. After Taimi would call a non asuran a genious, not be under Zoijas wing learning new things or anything (Zoija has a complex about thinking SHE is the smartest ever), we now we learn she abandoned school. Zoija did have the power to make such a golem as Snaff’s golem research included the type Taimi has and Zoija’s ward (you in personal story), also makes this same golem.

So the question is: How far off the asuran culture did Taimi land as she is now school-less which is a huge deal and looks up to scarlet. Following scarlet everywhere. Will Taimi help us or leave us to die if she gets a chance to meet scarlet?

I think its the lack of coordination that causes uneven numbers and slow loads also. If you rush to the energy gate first, alot of people are at the bottom of the hill and can take up to 30 seconds to realize and run through the energy gate. This staggered loading for people just means you need to enter as a group, as many people at a time as possible in the lane. Dont let them champ farm when timer is up, herd them to gate

I did a 20 and 17 and only got a bonus chest for 20. I thought it was changed

Please someone draw up a key for all races/symbols on map

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ZGpWWN61Ix0#t=327
Watch from 5:20 onward.

this what Taimi rides it looks close, almost a better version, the final copy. zoija would know how to build this golem due to it being presented.

note: he says “Hop in, and think” similar to what Taimi might do when she rides the golem. He implies by hop in, youd be in a control pit similar to Taimi’s.

So as have had extensive asura GW1 knowledge, leveled a level 80 asura with infinity ball and completed p-story on her, made a 2nd asura dynamics, I cant seem to make sense of Taimi, although everyones instrinct is to love her because how cute she is.

This is why Taimi smells like a rat:

1. She claims to be the WARD of Zoija. Taken from website “It should be interesting, seeing how much trouble Zojja’s ward can get herself into, and what Zojja ends up doing about it”
Ok first of all this is a HUGE disrespect, diss, shame on Zoija if her WARD is unhealthly obsessed with scarlet and looking up to scarlet as a mentor, wanting to learn things. If shes with Zoija, she should not be looking to learn from scarlet and think of scarlet as a genious. This goes against all asura principles. Zoija would not be cool with that. Zoija was either duped into teaching her or this is a lie.

2. Shes too nice to EVERYONE:
ALL asuras have an attitude towards non asuras. aka “Bookah” term. Zoija, Oola all are control freaks and the way Taimi interacts, although cute, has no ties to the asuran norm’s. She is too polite, and she has no ill words or snappy remarks.

3. Her Name:
Asura’s socially accepted norm is to have two of the same letter in your name in a row. Taimi. She only follows the almost mandatory female rule of having her name end in -i sound.(1 of 2 possible sounds). There are seldom, but some asuras have no two same letter in a row, however there are almost no females who disobey the last letter sound

TLDR:
She isnt a purebred innocent asura because if she was a ward of zoija she would not look up to scarlet to learn unless she abandoned zoija aka tricked her somehow and does not adhere to strict asuran norms such as non common name, politeness.

Ive done scarelet 5 times now, 4/5 times were on an overflow after failing to get into JQ Main Lornars Pass. 4/5 Overflows 2/5 chains were severed leading me to bevlieve alot of work had to be done before we would be ablt to sucees. However I guested over to Yaks Bend 10 minuites before, they had no overflow but had organized commanders. We made it to 4/5 chains severeed, the fartehest i hadd ever come without needed an overflow. So It not in yout best effort to guest to BG/TC/JQ BUT THINK outside the box and goto a small organied server and you migjht see your chances raisel

do NOT touch my lions arch. Dont you dare…

ive been in a few parties that the LFG said “LFG Experienced path x SPEEDRUN”

Now if a ranger or a necro joins, I dont see how they can even qualify for a speedrun unless they do some wierd slow form if it themselves but they join the warrior/guard groups and its annoying if they dont get kicked.

Theres a rare chance a ranger could be running spotter/frost but its 90% pug usually and not worth it most of the time.

How can you word lfgs without making the text uber long too where no one reads it. no engi/nec/ranger at the end of a path, level , etc gets lost in translation and is way too wordy

Ya, +1 for Taimi

Darksun, I understand what your saying but there are different Elements to making encounters hard.

I belive the Organization is the element which makes encounters Hard and Good. Having them just be difficult isnt fun as your point proves, but when the difficulty is because of a lack of organization, this is what makes it good.

So all the jokes about that being an exploit came true. Mind = Blown.

Loot comes if you succeed, do the meta properly. Loot isnt rewarded for staff guardians spamming 1, not contributing to the event. Loot would make people farm it over do the objectives. Keep the event loot free please.

No Staff Guards. No engi spamming nades doing 50 damage to tag. No mindless bots running over event doing nothing but tagging. I like it this way.

This is an MMO. If you dont like working with random people, than play the original Skyrim which is designed to be single player and not have to work with others.

VoIP isnt necceessary. Keep believe that lie because it was said about Teq “WE NEED TS NO FAIR” but ive been in JQ Main Sparkfly several times, a few times with no commander even, and we beat Teq. Just requires training, patience, not making fun of people who ask questions, and the most important – Time. Sure VoiP increases the chances of success vastly, but its not required. However, GW1 was always a social game and imo GW2 could and should be also.

Its not designed for you to sit home listening to music eating cupcakes spamming 1 never making any connections. Most servers have their TS open to the public and itll take time before their are commanders and guilds willing to lead because they are unsure of tactics right now.

Once they gain confidence to sucessfully lead a team, there will be an increase in succeeds, leadership abilities, TS etc.

BG opened its TS to public for Teq kills and this worked great. TTS is a pro guild with Teq who when I played with them never had a problem with me pugging alongside of them , not being in their teamspeak.

Right now just no one has the “perfect” strategy and doesnt want to lead people into TS etc if its just gonna fail. Once people can plan accordingly, they will be more agressive in organizing and pushing people to do the right things.

People are trying their best, if you can do better, lead like several individuals and guilds have done. If you think you know more than the current commander/leaders doing the event, im sure they would be open to suggestions or pinning down if you took over.

In the meantime, no one is really out to sabotage the event, people do what they can to the best of their abilities without making it a chore, while having fun. Its an eye opener for sure to how bad of a build or weapon choice certain players make but i wont go too far on this point cept : Run zerk/scholer warriors pls

Its probaly happened to most of us at one point but keep at it and it wont happen the majority of the time. Everything has its outages/quirks. If its a known issue and very widespread they will adress it. If anyone did the old karka event, DC’s were everywhere and guess what? Anyone who DC’d got a chest, some people even got mailed 2 chests on accidenet. If its a small number of people affected just deal with it and suck it up and do it again. I dont believe the event was meant to be done once and then move on. You are meant to do this event more than once and if one DC discourages you, you might have bigger motivation issues in life you should take care of because thats no way to think. It does stink but you still had the fun in interacting and hopefully you learned about the encounter. Also just because you were in that event doesnt mean it would be completed anyway. So yea, you did get cut short of some rewards, but there is another chance. Give it another try before you complain its totally broken. Its not. I did it.

Protip: Get a FRIEND <gasp> party, and if you d/c just join on him. If its full, spam harder. I Do this for Teq/This event and it worked. If you have no friends, im sorry but its time to get a guild or even write down names of some people in that overflow you could PM in case of a d/c. Or <Shock Horror> TYPE in map chat when you start “LFG Party for farming” etc, then if you d/c you will be in that party and can just join on them.

Theres only a few classes with limited swiftness and TA skips dont take a minute long where you need lots of it or anything. Id never wait tbh, especially if you have confidence in yourself you can complete the skip yourself. If they are a newbie then they wouldnt know to stand in it anyway, therefore its up to you to TYPE to your team and say “Dropping swiftness, stand for 5 secs” and itll be up to them to decide. If you randomly drop a effect on floor, most people wont notice, etc…

Its a nice notion just communicate with team for maximum effectiveness of its use

Sword Block/Impale isnt used as the warriors source of DPS, its the survival skill. So comparing your sword which you use as DPS to his support wep skills isnt really a valid comparison. Whatever class you use sword on, its not more damage than a axe/sword-gs warrior at lupi.

Probaly Banner of Discipline nerf since they have an excuse now that crit damage is ferocity

its really hard to skip on a NECRO

Sure Shot Seamus in p3 CM start. No reason to have him not drop a champ bag, but leave a chest. This is saying to players: Chests are worthless, and champ bags which have been nerfed are too valuable to drop so you only get a chest. This old nerf was to fix champ farming him over but since the 10s per nerf, why not just have him drop a bag and/or silver too?

Tazza in p1 SE End. She used to drop 10s, then ofc because p1 was too profitable, she was one day magically nerfed to not drop gold or a bag. Again, since the 10s days are over and now champ bags are nerfed, theres no reason Tazza shouldnt drop a champ bag or chest or gold at the minimum.

Hunter/Crusher p3 arah – Now most people kill the adds leading up to them, while in the old farm days you would skip2 them. Also the old farm used to stand on coral to afk kill them, now most people just melee it which is legitimite. Since champ bags arent even that great why not make both drop bags??? It would encourage people to be in arah rather than just gold sellers.

Why do certain end bosses drop more gold than others? The destroyer at p3 SE gave me 10s which seemed like alot, other end bosses give like 5.8s and seemingly random amounts. Does anyone have a table or a chart on which bosses give what in different dungeons?

Working as intended

My backpiece isnt zerker so I didnt join the 2ranger/1nec “zerk only” party. Im sure there better off without me.

I would guess that the people using them never change their utility bar and its not that they specifically spec for Run Speed during boss fights, its that they just leave the signet up 24/7

I guess if your a complete <Adjective> and have trouble on this part and constantly die and fall through the tiles the bear can carry you sure. I just play my zerk warrior and um, whats the mechanic I use…dodge that’s it.

This isn’t a PSA nor is it reddit.

rozcinana.7249:

Would this be more suitable for the suggestions subforum?

I’d actually love more permanent dungeon content and even more additions to fractals.

Wouldnt that be a moderator decision and not a player? I didnt suggest anything so I would lean towards no. I stated the wants of what I feel is a majority of players who do dungeons by the responses I have read over the past week or so. I didnt suggest they add it, I just said this is what people want.

Glad to hear your response though, I respect some people do want more dungeons but I have a feeling it would be a big dissapointment as the other revamps/additions have been met with negative feedback, so this is a new chance for Anet rather than just have people be happy for 1 day and then hate the new content/additions.

Make an alt. Gear it

I loved the cast bar in gw1 but it was easy mode. Having to watch animations is harder. Im in the middle on this one, I think its very nice to be able to see the skills, but then again the difficulty scaled higher is nice too. Not sure what id want, there would have to be very careful implementation. Also for pvp it was easy before to rupt peoples best skill, now you have to watch animations etc. So it would be going to EZ Mode if this was added

I would think most people who enjoyed FoW, UW, DoA would

We dont want a new dungeon or new dungeon paths.

We want a semi hardcore to hardcore AREA that functions like a dungeon path does, but is zoneable into. Such as Exit from Frostgorge into a area called “X Area” that functions as a private team instance once you enter it. Make this area hard with monsters but have great rewards and only clearable by the most organized groups. There should be punishment if you fail but not enough to discourage people. There cannot be this endless cycle of, lets complete 1/4, half the team leaves, post LFG, complete 1/4 more, post LFG for 3 more, until the end.

Have a meaningful area, with adequate rewards and no one will care about dungeon balance.

Maybe they got tired of people watching the cutscene. Next time skip it, and you will be rewarded. If someone watches all cutscenes people think your lagged out or bugged and kick you. Could of been an accident.

Its from when people bought like 1,00000000000000 salvageable leather straps and farmed Agent of Entropy for free achivement points, they also felt Dungeon Title should be nerfed too even though the two titles are completly unrelated. Go figure.

In other news, giant red text of PvP developer livestream soon. Joy. Im sure the 1% will love it.

To the team I was with, no offense intended. You were all great casuals. Used Toxic Sharpening Stones/Potent Sharp Stones with funny builds, at least we tried.

make a filter on lfg

class not allowed: x x x
achivement points higher than: x x

So ever wonder how those Warriors in ascalon fractal crit you for like 6-8k Auto Attacks, or 15k Rush’es etc… I think they are using the Pre-Nerf traits/stats of warrior etc. This has always been a theory but not proveable…well now I can prove it.

Earth Ele’s in molten fractal do a ton of damage on high levels, however, I was wondering what actually did the damage…and …its a skill that DOES NO DAMAGE if your a player. So basically monsters are using the OLD PRE – NERF versions of skills, while players use a nerfed version. Proof? Here you go:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Unsteady_Ground
As you can see, this skill does 0 damage.

I always get soldiers orichalum imbued inscription, not the gossamers.

I fully lost it at death threats

Robert Hrouda.1327:

Hey folks,

Just thought I’d pop in and drop a comment on this since I designed it.

Said like a true boss.

Lol good post +1

haters gon hate

All you do in wvw is stack also. Even small teams. You seem like you dont wvw, you are just new to the game in general.

Examples of WvW Stacking:

1. Fire Field (Even teams of 5 should have firefield) Blast blast blast, you must be in fire field to recieve the might, hence a stack.

2. Water Field on me, blast blast blast, must be in water, sometimes in a small geyser to recieve heals

3. Hammer train(Weather its 2 people or 20 people) must stay as tight as possible (stacked)

4. Lets say your team is defending a tower. Enemy has gate at 5 percent. Stack to the left hand side of the gate with your team and when they come in, bomb them in choke. You dont want people on top of the tower to give away that your inside..

Not sure how you play WvW but you probaly arent successful if you dont employ some of these tactics in WvW. So why is it ok there but not in pve?