Guild Wars 2

if you go nuts for bleeding tickets to bugs as if you stayed in a caltrops, then use the sprockets to buy tickets for gauntlet arnea

If you have a cool head and good connection, you can avoid the necro grasp hands she throws at you.

[thief] You can also ignore the aoe by using Sword/Dagger #3 (1/4s evade).

[thief] You can safely approach the Dark visions and Cloak n Dagger off them or even off boss (she’s invuln but still will proc you stealth), aoe blind on stealth trait also covers you.

2.19M ain’t the cap :P

Already done all the grouped pavilion, all the balloons, well done all the new stuff, only 2 liadri and 2 gambits left. Had about 120 tickets on necro (main), ran out so farmed 30 tickets on thief.
With all the bugs and my personal fails I ran out of tickets (about 5 d/c, 2x double boss, 1x two players+2boss, 4 times queue bug, 5 tremor bugs). This is getting aggravating. Make it so can buy kitten tickets if you can’t fix the bugs.

Out of tickets. ok ok so I go farm below in grouped event to get tickets.
I pick 5 gambits + dead eye, eager to headshot daze him to stop Kill shots => oozes filled room + dead eye. 6 tickets lost, about 30min wasted to get them.

I know there’s a delay from L1 support to L2 to L3/Devs (SLAs etc…), be that as it may, I suggest you give us a workaround fix by either refunding us tickets or holding the ticket payment per gambit/competitor until such a time you can fix this.

1. Bug: Queued up to fight but it will never trigger.
   wait 1dxxhours (haha) as you watch others do multiple fights or relog and lose your tickets.

1. Bug “Unsolicited Free of Charge Tremor Gambit”
   Happens vs any competitor chosen and in any gambit or lack of gambit situation. Special mention you can’t even circumvent this via stability boon

1. Bug “Unsolicited free boss”
   Awe in terror as you see another boss in same cage as the one you picked (even if you didn’t pick Crowd Favorite gambit)

1. Bug “There’s room for us two in here”
   Two players queue pop same time, both load up inside arena together with their own bosses. Fun fun fun.

Bug #1 + #2 happen too often to be ignored. You lose out tickets too fast. (I don’t even mention it as a bug that you lose your tickets when you disconnect while waiting outside in queue.

Get 5 gambit + tier 3 boss (6tickets), Ringmaster queue, they wait forever as it’s bugged out (even if you’re alone in your dome or with other players).
Or get tremor in one dome, relog to new pavilion, tremor again, then on 3rd dome/pavilion overflow watch a player get tremored. Fubar kittens

Any other bugs I should add to list?

PS: Here’s perfect workaround fix: Make tickets tradeable on TP. money sink on TP fees help vs inflation and we can get our tickets for those of us that suck/unlucky.

be sure it’s the FUBAR Tremor gambit that pop ups even if not wanted.

Tremor bug: Tremor gambit is activated and hidden from start to fight; vs any competitor and regardless of having other gambits or not.
kittened up since you can’t even stability vs tremor.

Submitted 2 reports. Happened again right after again.

I don’t care about the difficulty of gambits/bosses/Liadri, but what enrages me is losing so many tickets because of this + queued but no pop bugs. These 2 bugs happen too much.

Just kept repeatedly knocked down for whole fight even while downed vs Subject 7 as if I had Tremor gambit active but I had no active gambit. Couldn’t even have them since I had just logged on after a d/c. This is not fun when it’s bugged. I was the only player around my dome too.

found Axe champ npc, green now, Desolation Server, Queensdale, Crossing Waypoint. Bunch of us waiting until it’s her turn to trigger.

ps: got her

VitalSuit.1980:

Hammer, Axe, Pistols, Shield, Sword.

Those are the 5 champs.

Axe’s the one I’m missing. I asume every balloon tower will randomly do all variants of events and I can’t hunt one where Axe spawns more.

I killed Lightning 5 times, yet to find axe

same boat as you, except I know exactly which ones I got already 5/6 but I just can’t find the last champ, already got my balloon kite

maybe the ticket usage each try/gambit makes it to keep the number of players doing gauntlet from getting too big since there’s only 6 domes per pavillion (wait time). If the Group arena + gauntlet is stressing the servers already, I understand why it takes so long to warp/run back/repair/gambit/repick opponent =>add time to reduce queues.

I do feel like there’s a bug though when you die you get warped back outside next to repair kodan, as if npc were either meant to revive players/nearby downed npcs OR warp back alive but damaged (and thus use his kodan repair).

I’m still trying on my necro before I switch to my thief, but I got one question for you. Did you have to use the dodge food ? I guess you still will need to if you plan on getting her dead with 8 tosses of light crystals

neon.4863:

I did it on warrior by using rifle and health regen and running around in circles at a range. Have you tried scepter on a zerker build? Guardian has very good regen so it’s a long while before the oozes’ attacks become a problem.

yea i feel like scepter + shield #5 or torch #4-4 would help you. shield of avenger to focus safely on boss

kite around for shield spirit cooldown if needed though then I doubt you’d kill it within the 2min

Drakkon.4782:

Kajin.5301:

oh dont complain, I got 5 queen jub arena ticket on each char x-D and they account bound yupiee

Maybe you can put them in your wallet?

no no, I meant it I’m super happy, every character I got has 5 tickets. So I got lots of tickets to do arena now They don’t go in wallet but I stored em all in bank

This as to be the most kitten twisted sense of entitlement you guys are expressing. Ashamed of calling you fellow gamers. Wth is wrong with u ppl.

oh dont complain, I got 5 queen jub arena ticket on each char x-D and they account bound yupiee

If they can’t fix the dungeon content at least they can add this workaround fix: add a trait or merge into an existing one: “Avenging Ranger” Deal +xx% more damage. You lost your pet.

The White Lion class in Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning (rip) had that.

It sucks for ppl that still want to duo with their pets but at least it would compensate a bit.

Rennoko.5731:

Bhawb.7408:

HiSaZuL.2843:

This isn’t for debate topic. Just fun little topic where people can take a jab at upcoming patch and possible trendy necro nerfs. There’s a lot of topics for suggestion/discussion/etc.

Anyway back to topic.
Lets keep em coming!

Watch them nerf Golem’s Charge so it can only hit a target once, because we’re too good at taking down structures.

I was thinking they would make it so he instead bounces off targets, stunning himself for 3 seconds.

hah reminds me of that poor risen that would throw his anchor and get himself immobilized x-D

nicely said man.

DS#1 Life blast no longer heat-seeks but acts like Lich Form #1

Spectral Walk return has 3sec cooldown before use

Increase DS#5 Tainted Shackles cast time to 1/2 or 3/4

Basic but a lifesaver: Initiate stomp animation and pop Plague elite to ensure stomp.

RNG gods have a twisted sense of humor.

Slave Driver in CoF p1 just spat a Zap.

ps: already got 2 Bolts. u bit late almighty fellas.

This’ been itching me in the back of my mind lately:

with latest patch they want us to play more around Death Shroud’s Life Force management, with increased % regen from Spectrals (Grasp/Armor/Walk); and seeing how our DS lifepool and LF regens are all % based and not fixed amounts -> wouldn’t we benefit a lot from getting some Sentinel gear/Azurite orbs ?

We already get big crit chance with 50% chc in DS trait. Kinda very curious about mixing in Sentinel in a a following build:
30 VI VIII XII
10 V
0
0
30 II ?(adapting to situation) XII

Play Charr, recruit Soure into your warband, he’s a necro (yet uses mesmer skills) who dual wields Infinite Lights, he’s so kitten he likes to drink whiskey too

hope you find some solace into knowing that killing carriers even after game ends still counts towards the achievement

solo it so won’t scale to party

Saturn.6591:

TheStarflyer.9641:

Saturn.6591:

Necros can’t suicide-jump off cliffs anymore. That’s about the only real DS-nerf here.

On the other hand, they fixed a bug that apparently was letting Necros take more damage from direct attacks while in DS. So I’d say the survivability is now INCREASED. Not even talking about the faster generation of life force through spectral skills and axe 2.

Spoken like someone who has never played a necro… go back to ele or guard, leave the skilled players alone…

Actually, Necro is one of the classes I play quite frequently. I didn’t touch my lvl 30 Ele or my lvl uhm… 14 (I think) Guardian for at least two months.

Edit: Talking about skilled; it appears to me that you’re not one of the “skilled players” if you don’t see the facts. Even if you should have to face-tank a big attack of a boss for some weird reason, it will actually do less damage as before, because they fixed the bug that did make you take more direct damage while you are in DS.

Going into DS before a big incomming hit (backstab/mighty blow/evisc/boss’ OHKO) would make you effectively ‘dodge’ it, even if you had only 5% pool. Now you will eat all the dmg as it overflows out of DS. That’s why he called on you being not-skilled. This is not only a jump-off-cliffs nerf, it’s a definately survivability nerf since we didn’t get any evade/invul/escape tool replacement. Check wiki for Evade/Invul/Block/, guess who’s missing at the party.

would most definately transfer my two Bolts from Mesmer to Guardian if this happened! _

I think they need Crea’s life force to control the effigy, you freed Crea before that happened, so when you enter the Effigy room you see all the acolytes get annihilated by the Effigy.

Now I wished that when you fail the freeing up Crea before the acolyte rituals finished (lol yea it did happen), the Effigy fight would be a lot harder, or maybe all the acolytes around him when you enter wouldn’t die but would join the fight against the players.

http://argos-soft.net/GW2ArmorGallery/ Use and Abuse of it I never make a character without knowing its endgame looks haha.

My necro’s a female human (wanted T3 leggings+shoes) but I’d have made a Norn one just for the racial Snow Leopard Form. WWW Roaming lich form is too easy to juke against so they dont get hit by it. Necro being a fight to the death profession since we lack mobility /escape (unless you park your flesh wurm) => Snow Leopard form Stealth + Dash is the best escape tool in the game.

My view on asura+necro: I don’t like death/necro looks personally, so Arah’s out of the question, which left only Acolyte (which does look awesome on asura in a midnight ice+gold mix). I felt really restricted with asura for looks.

I spent a good 40min vs him with Rejuv booster. there’s no skill involved, it’s just luck that he changes his rotation and you happen to click the right stuff at right time. You can try to mitigate the risk, but if tt’s all down to luck.

My guildie beat him on her 2nd try. She didn’t have any hp regen buff. She doesn’t even know enough english to understand the tooltips and thus the game. She said to me: “you know the 1,2,3 skills? I just clicked on them like crazy and I think it made him [Anulf] confused”

IRL I like to wait 1day before I open my gifts (even those I buy myself), savor it, watch it, turn it around in my hands without taking off the wraps n stuff.
I’m gonna wait before I choose which one I pick. 6 alts / no main / so many choices ^^

This is like birthday gift day after Christmas

Seeing HOM I thought we’d have to wait GW3 to get rewards for our GW2 Achievement Points, but this, this is overwhelming I feel showered with good stuff.

All the zephyr weapons are beautiful! I’ve no shame or regret of having made 2 Bolts. To me it’s a great gift, they all look just as good or even better than Legendaries.

-one happy 29yo kid

So I got it yesterday. Bummer how we did it but kinda expected it.
Hopped on my guardian, filled team with guardians. Had 25 perma might so that went rather quickly. We all stacked up on Mai start to finish. Outheal/cleansed it all.
Feels like playing chess where instead of finding a nice strategy, you just bring an M1A1 Abrahams onto the board.

bolt/bolt mesm, stopped playing it. Currently rolling a fotm necro as 6th slot.

use the ingame bug report function, and add your feedback to the already created post in the Game bug section of this forum

Talked to Kiel, loaded up the instance “A Future into Politics”. Magnus and Kiel inside but they don’t respond or trigger a conversation on their own.

I had to change the answer sadly Esplen because if you were right they ninja fixed this.
Just did it with same setup, and this time our regroup spot was where Horrik comes back so that naturally we’d hit him instantly since our 2 aoe blaster thieves constantly spammed cluster bomb on that spot, yet Mai Trin was still reset to 100%.

This leaves out the 4 ppl stealth combo in corner while 5th runs around.

Thanks a lot for the answers fellas, will ajust for this Hopefully tomorrow

Zaxares.5419:

Kajin.5301:

Dive Jump foolproof tactic: get down on the pipe where goggles lie (off the blue pad). Pan camera until you see the closest/nearest Y shaped pipe intersection, face it. Jump forward so you fall down through that Y pipe intersection. Then strafe midfall so you go between the 2 toothpick metal spikes that are above the water well. Compare this with Dulfy’s vid and you’ll see what I mean.

Except that if you don’t jump from the blue platform itself, you run the risk of it bugging so the dive didn’t count. If you just spent half an hour getting up there, you obviously don’t want to have to do it all over again. :P

Anyway, I’ve worked out the best spot to jump from to get that Dive spot. You want to jump off just to the right of the right-most blue light pillar. (The diving goggles will be on your right.) Take just a little hop forward, and that should roughly put you in the correct spot. You may still need to correct your “flight” on the way down to make sure you don’t hit any obstacles in the way.

I got my +1 achievement doing the method I posted. Dulfy’s method is a lot riskier because you have to pan your camera FoV to match hers, and be in same position on pad as her (lots of ppl stackin on her to pin point her spot) and move + jump with same intensity. That’s way too many factors, whereas my method (which is basically same falling path as hers, allows you to see where you are supposed to jump towards.

So I handpicked a pug around this following strategy just to complete Unfriendly Skies perfectly or so I thought.

Group Makeup:
===

Thief: 3
Mesmer: 1
Guardian: 1

Thieves were:
Pistol/Pistol + Shortbow
0 / 15 VI / 20 I V / 20 VI IX / 15 I
Scorpion Wire + Shadowstep + Shadow Refuge + Basilisk Venom

Mai Trin tactics:
===

Before 75% 50% 25% HP:
—————————————————-

Pistol #4 to take off all Defiant stacks. (or Mesmer F3 daze). Once all
defiants were gone => Scorp Wire pull her into Electric Field and Basilisk Venom to lock her into it longer. Shadowstep’s used to get in that perfect spot to pull her faster if needed.

This went super smooth and we got to dps burst phases super quickly.

75% 50% 25% Barrage phases:
————————————————————
When hearing Mai Trin yelling, our Mesmer used Mass Invisibility to give us 5sec of Stealth to allow scattered team to regroup safely, then we used our Shadow Refuges to give us breathing room to start the permanent stealth combos (1 Thief just spamming Pistol #5 Blackpowder while other 2 Thieves were spamming Shortbow #2 Cluster Bombs into smoke field to Aoe Stealth blast finish indefinately thanks to your traits).

Problem was when barrage ended, Horrik came back and 2seconds after Mai Trin appeared but she was at full 100%…

Q1: Did we go off Horrik/Mai’s radar too longer under our team stealth so they went out of combat full regen?

Q2: Did we have to Shortbow #4 Horrik or Mai before barrage so they would have 1m Poison condition on them to keep em in combat?

Q3: Did we have to go back into combat by attacking Horrik instantly as he came back onto groundfloor so that when Mai Trin reappears she doesn’t get healed back to 100% ?

Q4: Did the perma stealth team get fixed and we have to like have 4 players go stealth into a corner while our Guardian kites around the whole room with only him targeted (safer to kite)?

Greatly appreciate any advice

Fake ceiling is brilliant. The whole Aetherblade base is cloaked under an holographic mountain. Brilliant Inquest idea!

Dive Jump foolproof tactic: get down on the pipe where goggles lie (off the blue pad). Pan camera until you see the closest/nearest Y shaped pipe intersection, face it. Jump forward so you fall down through that Y pipe intersection. Then strafe midfall so you go between the 2 toothpick metal spikes that are above the water well. Compare this with Dulfy’s vid and you’ll see what I mean.

I will NOT be in your next vid.

NapoleonMP.7964:

Off topic real quick can you PM people on game if your on a different server?

Yup, you can even party up and chat with players from other regions, they just won’t get instance pop-ups

checked wiki, can’t find necromancer quotes

I love asura lines a elem or thief, really dig the asura, but I fear only good lookin set on them is acolyte or arah whereas on human/norn/sylvari you have a wide range of looks.

Anet stated that IF they add ascended weapons, legendaries would keep their status and get a stat upgrade to match ascended weapons. But they said they didn’t have any plans of adding them, it was just a discussion.

I had a Bolt on my thief for a loooong time. After while I started making my 2nd Bolt with the hopes that by time I’d finish it, thieves would be able to off-hand wield swords (you know add new weapons for each classes to spice things up / add build variants to the game). Now I passed on my thief’s Bolt to my new mesmer who dual wields them.
Both Bolts are transmuted (berzerker). When you transmute your legendary to a white lvl 0 sword, it retains its purple name and all the sound and effects and looks and aura, BUT it loses its legendary status. You don’t see Legendary or Exotic, just transmuted.

If they do add ascended weapons, and Legendaries get a mystic forge recipe to upgrade stats to match ascended (like x fractal relic + gift of ascension + etc), transmuted ones won’t be recognized; you’ll have to grind drop one and transmute upgrade to get its stats.

Laserbolt.6731:

TheMightyAltRoll,

What is your in game name to contact you? (“TheMightyAltRoll” not found in game)

Thanks

Adding the account name [xxxxx.yyyy] is the same as adding a character name So add “TheMightyAltroll.3485”

kittennit.7648:

Geiir.7603:

That sounds like a horrible bug that got fixed. Weird it isn’t in the patch note though.

It was only really useful to travel or to hunt someone in WvW. It was a bit strong tho i agree because you were able to travel really really fast (Shortbow 5 or Dagger 2 dont even come close), but had it’s limits because you needed a target and you were required to be out of combat otherwise 9 sec CD. It was really nice on double S/D because you were able to decide between “do i want that shadow return or not?”.

Didn’t they talk about “we want to push thief mobility” a month ago or so?

Gotta give you kudos for this Shiz, I totally missed this one out and I been s/d since almost start I played this game. I rerolled Mesmer just to wield 2 Bolts, had I known of this double S/D goodie … ^^ Glad you got to enjoy while it lasted.

Still waiting for my thief to be able to offhand sword. Until then, my new mesmer with dual Bolt looks kittening awesome!