Started out as a discussion about the game.
Ended in a statistics lesson
Time to practice some sick jump to place your turrets in the air!
Hmm, I wonder. For Archie if I can get the turret on the edge of the brazier if I can avoid the floor condis and the fire condi in the brazier. If not maybe just jump off as I cast it and have it floating?
True and True. Ugh the condi thing… yay PVP for ruining things! Cause splitting mechanics couldn’t possibly make sense.
It’s not like I call you out
I still like playing with you because you’re pleasant and actively want to improve
:D
I think min-max is a bit wrong term here. It’s more like understanding the basics.
Understanding and execution are sometimes a bit far apart from some people
o/ that’s me, really though, I understand more than I can actually regularly execute, Iris knows this as does anyone who plays with me. I’m just a well informed baddy
Don’t go exotic initially unless you know what you want. While it may save you money IF you know what you’re looking for, rares do the job quite nicely and allow you to seek your best option on a much smaller budget.
You don’t mention what content you’re after, if it’s PVE, zerker is the stat set to go for (power/precision/ferocity) if you want to optimize your efforts, though doing so has the price of being squishy and requiring a bit more effort to stay alive, but it’s very doable. So you’re on the right track there.
GW2 is about actively defending yourself. Support comes through the use of skills not through your gear, so you can gear offensively and use your skills wisely to still support your team. Guardian is the king of support. Learn the tricks of the trade and you’ll be fine. I’d add a little tip here, on projectile heavy encounters you can maintain a defense for quite some time by traiting Master of Consecrations and doing Wall of Reflection at 22/23 seconds on the recharge you pop your Shield of the Avenger, then when Wall o Reflection is off cooldown hit it, doing so you’ll have about 36 seconds of defense. Very nice rotation.
100% map completion is not necessary, but, it gives you the gift of exploration which is used in crafting legendaries as well as the bonus rewards for completing different maps. You can take it or leave it, depends on what your goals are. Nothing to stress about but if you find it fun, do it, if you want a legendary, you either do it, or save up money to just buy one. Though with Heart of Thorns, the new legendaries will not be purchasable so you will need to do your own exploration most likely.
Hope that helps. I highly suggest taking a look at Obal’s guides if you’re into PVE content. He is the Senpai when it comes to Guardians in PVE
Anything coming soon? I guess it’s a silly question that won’t be answered, but I’d love if Crown Pavillion, SAB, or something came back to keep me entertained
Just a little burned out on what’s out there. Outside of fractals with some friends I keep finding myself just afking instead of playing lately.
I think it’s wrong to post your style unless you’re insisting on it.
Do you feel there’s anything wrong with insisting?
Personally I was banned from posting LFGs in my old group for a reason, I never posted “right” I’ve always played under the pretense that if you can’t carry someone who isn’t good, then you’re no good, but I have no qualms about those who do insist upon whatever requirements they see fit, I just don’t take part in the quelling.
I actually like when dungeons take a bit longer to kill things, which is why I don’t do dungeons much anymore and prefer fractals. Though there is that satisfaction of things just going smoothly. As my grandpa used to say “I love when it just cinches” when things just go right, ahh, such a refreshing feeling. Did an Arah p2 the other day with someone who frequents this forum in a PUG, other than one little hiccup on my part (my weapon swap didn’t trigger and I didn’t get the shortbow blast in my black powder) it was awesome. It does get boring when you run with that efficiency all the time though, at least IMO.
anyone knows what causes alphard to do a double dagger storm like what happened in this video here? (this was recorded by a person when we were doing a daily run of arah p2)
You interrupted the spin. Don’t interrupt the spin…
You’ll also see her do funny things when you interrupt her before she teleports back, she’ll spin right on top of you.
So again, don’t interrupt the spin.
2 kinds of props:
“I hope people look cool! or I hope people are impressed by my playing!”
vs.
“I’m better than all the casuals and bads for doing this.”
And on one hand there’s no reason to believe that dungeon people are part 2, but then again DnT exists.
Edit: It’s back to the same old thing. More from other MMOs than from GW2 per se, people (probably unfairly) connote a very negative experience and POV with the dungeon/progress crowd. It’s not uncalledfor, especially in vertical progression games.
And yet these glory hounds do everything they can to help people learn to do what they can do to the point that even a Lupi Solo really isn’t all that impressive anymore.
What’s funny is that GW2 has done nothing to help the roleplayers either
I’ll add I have nothing against people who play any way they want. I just wish people could be happy to play with others who think like them, GW2 makes this hard with the way they do megaservers (which is what really hurt roleplaying as I understand it too).
Your talk of D&D makes me miss original EQ (not just original game, but like oldschool version of that game before it conformed to more modern MMO styles), the immersion was great, and while we still optimized it was simply to get through content. God I miss that style of gaming. I actually miss spending over an hour just to travel to my next destination through fields of undead that would slaughter you if you were caught. Nostalgia ftw
I have no idea why you play. I never suggested why you play. I’m not talking about if they would have more players or not. I’m not talking about the reasons more content doesn’t exist. Frankly, I don’t know what you’re going on about. You’re making alot of assumptions about what I’ve said, when I’ve not said any of those things. So I’m just going to go back to why I think there are so many players in this game that don’t care about min-maxing, etc…
I don’t think it’s a stretch of the imagination to understand that the success of this game is due to appealing to underserved markets and people that want to play, be successful and do it without being told HOW it should be done are one type of those players. That’s also why I think when these players are told how to play by other players or treated badly because of it, there is hostility. This is a pretty simple logical connection being made here. I get you don’t feel this game is any ‘special’ to PHIW or casual or whatever label we want to give them, but who do you attribute GW2’s success to if it’s not some kind of player like that? Certainly not people looking for challenging team content. I don’t hear raving reviews about the PVP … Not alot of people left once you take those types out of the equation. Logical conclusion … it’s the people this game appeals to. That’s the kind of player the OP is describing in this thread. Why are you so unwilling to acknowledge this?
It’s the same reasons that dungeons are stagnant, that the NPE was made stupid, why the game is based on gold farming vs. loot drops from raids, why LS is a ‘thing’, why content isn’t balanced around BiS gear, why BiS gear doesn’t have significant stats increases, why you can buy a Legendary instead of farming it …. I could go on but to me, it’s very obvious how all this comes together to one common point: Anet makes a game that appeals to PHIW, casuals, whatevers on purpose because it makes them more money than any other gamer type they could target.
You can laugh all you want. The joke is really on everyone denying how all these game design choices aren’t targeting THEM as the core playerbase.
There’s a big difference between wanting to be the target playerbase and hoping that they continue to put some content out in all areas of the game. One Lupi level encounter a year would satisfy me quite well.
And the topic of this thread as I understand it is not to bash PHIW people, but questioning why GW2 has so many opposed to playing well compared to other games. It’s one thing to not want to be part of the meta, it’s another to hate the meta with a passion, which seems to be much more common in GW2 than any game I’ve played before. Likely a leading cause is that we are all forced to play together, so those who maximize themselves are frustrated by those who don’t and visa versa for a multitude of reasons.
And again, the NPE was a failure not because doing something with that idea in mind is a bad thing, every MMO I’ve played has made some attempt, it was a failure because it was executed horribly. They tried to build a system to lead players through the content that was there, instead of building a system to help guide players into understanding the game. Basically they just put roadblocks in and said “ok learn this” without any effort put into actually teaching them, they just assumed if you forced them to be stuck with only so many things that they’d learn to use them better, which is simply not how it works.
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Thank you for looking into this. Also during the fire tornado trap there is a savespot next the end gate if you could look into that too please
Sarah
I believe the current issue was caused by an attempted fix to that (pushed the gate out to prevent the safespot, but in doing so blocked where the final boss spawned >.<)
And thanks Gaile, glad ya’ll could do something so fractal were still playable without ending in a “screw you ANet” moment
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I agree, cause I can go to general discussion and find the exact same thing going the other way
Thing is when I go in game, I find it to be much more pleasant than the forums where people seem to become a bit more of extremists in an attempt to “shout louder to win the argument”.
Unrelated but not worth making it’s own thread. Heard anything about Object hitboxes Dusk? Would love to be able to hit that swirl on snowblind again as well as other issues with other object bosses.
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Done with the incessant lecturing? Yes, I am familiar with the fact that there is no trinity in this game (and yes, I even run a somewhat glassy ranger), and I am familiar with the fact that support involves condi cleanse, and boons (I run a shouts warrior ffs). Support also includes things like keeping poison up on mobs to limit their heals—supply blinds and knockdowns where appropriate and, you know, generally helping the party with non-dps.
In my experience, pug dungeon runs (things are much more fun with my guild, btw) amount to basically “Stand in the corner and dps-race the mobs before we all go into down state.” That’s not a fun, rewarding gameplay experience.
You have perfectly demonstrated the issue I have with some of the less savory parts of the community of this game. If you don’t bow to the shrine of the Meta and play exactly how everyone “should” play, you get berated, called a noob and kicked from a group even if you’re the one reviving all of the glass that doesn’t know how to dodge.
I play well, and I’ll play the builds that I enjoy playing and actually, you know, be creative with how I do it.
My problem is not that you don’t ‘bow tot he shrine of the Meta", it’s that you complain about this:
Running a world boss? Go Zerker. Running with Pugs in a Dungeon? Go Zerker.
Zerker/assassin/sinister is going to be the best gear because defensive stats are not needed in PVE unless you are unable to properly defend yourself (and your team), and healing power is intentionally crippled in power. It’s how things work.
The reason I like the proposed changes so much is actually because I think non meta builds will see a rise in use, the loss for taking non meta traits will be far less. If I want to grab fortified turrets on my Engi to help with reflects, I can at the loss of recharge on my toolbets/static discharge basically, not a huge deal. Currently it means dropping like 20%+ in modifiers, toolbelt recharge, and static discharge. Making it basically not worth it to do.
So no, I’m not asking you to bow to any meta, I just ask that people stop complaining that the glass stats perform the best, and ask that they understand that support in this game is not a gear thing, but a trait/utiity skill/weapon thing.
It just really bugs me when people claim that there are no support builds, because personally I’m all about supportive play styles, and I do it in zerker. I run D/F usually on my Ele to help where I can, and not afraid to swap water for condi cleanse or heal when I run staff. I run D/P a lot on thief for the defiance/blind stuff, I will swap in Elixir U/Net Turret and other stuff on my Engi if I think it’ll make things easier. I love support, being zerker does not mean you don’t play support. Playing meta doesn’t mean you don’t play support either, just means you drop anything you find superfluous, personally I like having some safety nets sometimes So I’m not always meta.
I hear ya, but those extra 4 trait points are also free
You won’t be able to play with your other 12 though the way you used to be able to. No more 46202 build, no more 35042, but there will be quite a few variations within the combinations of 6 we have IMO. Could even potentially see going Medi build when I solo some dungeon stuff now that I don’t have to sacrifice as much to get it.