Guild Wars 2

This is the main problem I have with logging in, if my game is going to be chocked full of RNG grinding, it better have kitten good combat! At least I get to have fun grinding the same dungeon over and over again in Vindictus.

Jump over the walls. If a thief without stability can do it, I’m sure anyone can do it.

doomie.3928:

Will we get mailed the fractal tokens we were supposed to get???

It would have to be a rough compensation to all players, because currently there is no system in place to record personal player data. At least after being cleaned out after getting hacked I was reassured that there will be one in the future. . . for whatever that’s worth.

Currently at 135 tokens, with other person at 205 tokens. I <3 RNG.

Why is it even possible for one person to get 30 tokens, and another person to get 85 tokens? If it’s not meant to be equal rewards, at least give more tokens to the Guardians that carry the group. . . ha ha, jokes!

Seriously though RNG is awful, please stop! Three silver does not equal twenty-five fractal tokens.

What must one do to get some error checking for her scripting, this is the third time that this is happened, and I highly doubt anyone actually enjoys this path to begin with.

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This happened because she killed herself on the ring of fire as she immediately bolted towards the door when the boss was killed.

Actually, Earz wanted to call it Guild Wars 2 Kormir Simulator 2013.

BabelFish.7234:

I find thieves are highly underrated for dungeons. Yes, if they’re bad and build for a BS build they’re not good but a tank-y SP thief survives just as long as a guardian and deals out insane amounts of damage consistently. That 26k isn’t consistent. 10k from a S/P thief is (20k if they pop haste).

I prefer D/D condition thieves over s/p. 25 stacks of bleed with 25 stacks of might is above 1900 condition damage.

Fun fact: “Line” spike does not hit with in subject alpha’s character model. You can essentially auto attack and afk if you can push him into a corner. Assuming that you’re not dealing with Icespikes.

Just killed Warminister pre-patch, feels good!
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Keeping dps at max range, protection/vigor on your tank and weakness on Mk2. If anyone was wondering, yes they still have to be killed at the same time.

You can also apply this “technique” as a thief who uses uncatchable, but it is much much harder to do without the guidance of a castbar.

While this “technique” almost makes combat fun or rather interesting, those who understand why and how this “technique” works already know that it’s going to get fixed for the greater issue that it causes.

I’d say have fun with it while you can(that goes for sword wave spamming as well), and hope that some semblance of combat complexity finds its way into the future game updates.

Yep, it’s been fixed, shows how much I use Great Sword.

I still vote that this was the best content that Arena Net has ever released. I would love to see this kind of challenge in future dungeons.

A good GREATsword Guardian will Leap Cancel to cover massive amounts of ground. Of course, good Guardians have less representation than Charr Mesmers. Though is all you need to do to counter the little rabbit is to tag him into combat, rather than attempting to out run him.

My question is why isn’t sanctuary on a 60s cooldown like Shadow Refuge? I just don’t understand why anyone would take Sanctuary when it gets countered so easily by much shorter cooldowns.

Took a couple tries for it to register, simply rezoning 2 or 3 times fixed this >.<

Rumble was supposed to be the 3/4 I needed, but I never discovered anything when entering, neither side allowed me to discover an area required for this achievement.

Anyone else suffering from this bug?

Maybe testing changes before applying them to the live game would help reduce the constant problems that keep arising?

That change to sorrow’s embrace is simply embarrassing, nothing that a little testing could have prevented. Moreover Simin, Arah, and the over all quality of the game could be higher with just a bit of controlled testing.

Pure of Voice + Runes of Soldier easily outweigh Renewed Justice and Virtues.

Best healing

Remember when people thought Terrans sucked in Star Craft? Not everything in this game is taking damage or dealing damage.

It depends on the stress of the situation that you’ll be in, if you know you can manage the damage obviously use signet of resolve for the healing per second advantage. If you know you’re going to be in a situation in which you’re likely to go down often, buying that extra few seconds can help a great deal, such as taking point on 2nd capture point during the capture Arah event, you can throw up a ring of warding, , dodge twice, shelter, slam all virtues, renewed focus, and dodge twice again. Hopefully by the time you expend all your resources the zerg provides back up.

Shelter can also help greatly against teams that use double thief. To remove you from your point.

Our core group has Arah paths down to under an hour except for the Seer path, that path has some really garbage boss fights, as if that path in particular was added last minute with minimal or no testing done at all.

It just takes a bit of practice, and some optimally geared and traited players.

For Alphard make sure you bring some reflect and heavy melee train, so long as your melee players know to not get hit by the bomb. If you can get past Alphard you can easily beat the last boss, she is probably solo’able even.

Nepocrates.3642:

Take Ascelon Catacombs a level 35 dungeon.

I know higher levels do level down but….

Do the mobs change if you have 5 level 35 as compared to 2 level 35, 1 level 50 and 2 level 80?

I ask this because I am using skill and talents I have because I am level 80 to get through the catacombs and I wonder can a group of just level 35 have an easier time then a group with me in it.?

side note: I am loving the dungeons as you have to work at them to get through

No dungeons don’t scale based on the actual level of the players, instead the players are simply leveled down to the level of the dungeon that they are running, with full access to their gear and traits, this creates an easier experience at over-leveled players, something that we were promised wouldn’t happen if you over leveled content.

Rather than simple stat increases, the enemies definitely need more attacks to make them interesting, most enemies in the game have less than three attacks not including environment effects.

It’s pretty disappointing to see trash pose more of a challenge than the bosses of the dungeon.

The current dungeon difficulty is no more difficult than vanilla WoW. Unfortunately that’s the problem, too much catering to the casuals. Makes for an extremely boring PvE experience.

When players cry that difficult content is too hard and the content difficulty gets reduced, you find that the players themselves will become better or more skilled, because they don’t have to.

I’m just hoping that the future content will ask that players maybe wipe for few nights in order to figure out a boss or encounter.

Look at the ratios of healing on the wiki, and then compare them to the ratios of Toughness and damage mitigation. Healing power is far too weak of stat to even consider stacking.

I don’t understand why people use Great Sword for anything other than the pull, You can maintain 12 stacks of might for five people including yourself if you’re blasting in fire fields consistently. How do people convince themselves that the minor dps increase from Great Sword outweighs the 420 power to everyone in the party, not to mention the increased control from hammer, as well as a higher symbol up time for your altruism?
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Also using retaliation correctly can make you the highest dps in a fight, Risen Illusionists, Flame thrower wielding mobs, and even the Serpent of Tides boss from the Mursaat path in Arah can easily make you number 1 dps.

However, I’ve rarely seen anyone use symbol of wrath for the retaliation itself. At what point as a Guardian have noticed all the eles and necros run into melee range to pick up a couple seconds of retaliation? Not even once!

The biggest culprits of retaliation are “Stand Your Ground” and “Save Yourselves”, both being instant cast shouts with a higher than 20% uptime of retaliation for both of them.

Honestly as THE tank, having both sets of aggro on phase 3 is the best feeling ever!

Why do people even let grubs spawn?

Ah, I see my mistake, for some reason I read that as ratio of skill vs reward/success.

More over, with hammer you have a 4s blast cool down, that’s an easy 12 stacks of might without the empowering might trait. Consider that for a moment.

Consecration builds are superior for Group WvW, the problem with this build is that you are not rewarded for shutting down the enemy zerg’s ranged projectile damage, this is something that needs to be addressed.

JP knows Necros are far from the strongest, if anything he just listed the opposite of the truth in perfect order.

Ryth.6518:

In regards to End Game.

I think a lot of people rushed too quickittenhrough GW2. That’s just my opinion but most have been programmed by WoW to rush to the end.

Go look up WoW patch notes and see where the end game was…it was a hamster wheel of grinding reputations and a few dungeons. After launch, look at the list of what they had and how long it took…

-Maraudon was introduced a month after launch which was a mid level dungeon.
-Dire Maul was introduced 4 months after launch as an end game dungeon.
-Battlegrounds were introduced 7 months after launch
-Blackwing Lair was introduced 8 months after launch. The first raiding content.
-Zul Gurb was introduced 10 months after launch. The first 20 man raiding content.

And so on…

So basically, for the 6 months of the game after launch, you had only Stratholme, Scholomance, UBRS as end game content and 1 raid with Onyxia.

Lets give ArenaNet some time to get some things out folks. We’re getting a Halloween event shortly and I’m sure the live teams are going to be adding lots of new content.

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Pretty sure WoW had 10 unique dungeons before you reached level 40, not to mention the dungeons available at 60. We currently have 8 unique dungeons tuned to the difficulty of WoW’s vanilla dungeons. Surely you can see why some players may find PvE extremely boring and easy.

PvE/PvP split was easily the best feature of GW1, we just had our only Mesmer quit because of this patch. Had there have been splits in balance or any form of representation for PvE balance in the first place, this might have never happened.

Just did the same thing, definitely not happening without a zerk group.

I would rather fight 10 Giganticus Lupicus then this awful boss.