Guild Wars 2

As far as I can tell that happens whenever the enemy gives no exp and any enemy that respawns infinitely will give no exp and no loot. The grubs in this cause would be one of those things. It also makes it impossible to rebuild your stacks if you are using a stacking sigil.

Did TA story the other day and one of the bosses’ infinite spiders also have the issue.

CriminalMind.4379:

Does anybody use the search option before they post? Just wondering.

Sometimes! Maybe more people would use it if the feature wasn’t so … <list of words that will get filtered>.

jportell.2197:

Reflection? My party loves me for my reflection… Other classes aside from mesmers and guardians have access to it but not for the group… warriors with shields… Engi’s with shields… And I think an aura that ele’s get reflects as well… So now at least half of the classes have some reflection… Mesmers get it on feedback which is a relatively short duration…. Not sure how long guardians wall of relfection lasts…The stacking and LOS issue is just smart play… As long as dungeons are impossible to complete as the devs intended people will use these tactics… Unless they are actually exploiting then its not really an issue… There are some dungeon bosses though where that tactic is not even close to necessary (HOTW P1) I would get pugs that are hell bent on hiding in the hole in the wall or standing on the rafter and they get killed faster than if they were to just fight the boss and focus on a specific totem that he gets power from…

Staff 3 on earth will reflect, that can be shared with the whole party with the right trait.
Focus 4 on air will destroy rather than reflect.

Axe 5 for ranger will also reflect although that might actually be a bug.

Thief’s dagger storm also reflects.
Smoke Screen will also block projectiles or should …

diamondgirl.6315:

Advice like ‘omg just roll a ______ class, lol’ misses the point. Some of us aren’t in dungeons because it is the fastest way to shinies. We are there because we enjoy the game and enjoy the character we leveled for 80 levels, and like teamwork (and shinies).
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I want this game to encourage teamwork and a varied party; I liked the posted idea of having some bosses vulnerable to healing spells, for example. Can you imagine what kind of cooldown management that would take? If we were all dodging and freaking out trying to time our heal cooldowns, instead of standing barely in range and ranging off the Nine Billion boss hitpoints, I think that would be way more fun.

Nothing against improvement to dungeons but that specific idea is terrible. We already have an indirect version of that in the new AC. With Grast being an idiot you basically have to heal him to keep him alive so you can actually fight the boss. More of that would not make dungeons better.

I’ll admit that particular point is a bit of a stretch but even if you ignore that, healing skills simply do not work that way for at least half of the classes. That is going directly back to “LF healer”. The dredge mining suit/ice elemental/jellyfish in fractals is a better implementation of a similar idea.

mosspit.8936:

So you edited your post to give 2 examples namely Dredge and Fyonna? Sure why not.

Dredge – The boss resets after a certain point. You are lumping LoS with that fact.
Fyonna – Killing her in the room is viable too. Just be more careful. A quick question: have you been in a Fyonna encounter where someone messed up and spawned 5+ recluse and stones?

When we did it for the first time.
I think that fight along with other similar ones are broken as designed. You have a game where movement and dodging are important to survival but then they put in encounters where doing either of those things will greating increased your chance of dying.

Regarding OP’s point 2 I wonder when GW2’ version of Duncan the Black will show up.

Talk to every scout NPC you run come across. They are the ones with a telescope icon over their head, the icon also shows up on the map if you haven’t talked to that particular scout. They uncover hearts you haven’t ‘discovered’ yet. This avoids that problem of ‘okay I am ALMOST done with map completion for this map except I can’t find that last heart …".

Salvage everything that is Fine or lower if you plan on crafting.

DON’T buy the Adept Training Manual from the NPC trainer. Buy it from the Trading Post instead unless for some reason the supply completely disappears by the time you read this. It cost 10 silvers from the NPCs but people have been selling it for less than that on the Trading Post for months.

As for movement, GW1 did have the usual WASD for movement from launch so I don’t know what you are remembering. Check page 101 of the manual if you don’t believe me. However the click to move option is gone. Click to move was useful when you were planning to move a far distance but not fight anything.

For jute the ideal area would be altar brook vale and bandithaunt caverns in queensdale. The bags from the bandits will give fine crafting materials and they drop shredded garments which salvages into jute. Centaurs also drop similar bags but I think they tend to drop the leather salvage material instead.

Mystic.5934:

I can’t recall ever getting 2 rares in a row from throwing masterworks
but I know I’ve had times where I got 1 rare, then 1 masterwork, then 1 rare.
it does seem somewhat evenly spaced, but not entirely.

Best I’ve gotten is 3 in a row but that was 2 on one character then 1 on another.

BioFringe.7945:

You can’t pick which one to use…they are Chain abilities. Meaning that once the first one is triggered it will be replaced with the second…trigger the second and the third will become available. If you kill the mob that you have targeted the process resets back to the first ability for the next target.

If you have a chain on your auto-attack you’ll probably hardly ever notice it going through the sequence.

It is NOT tied to the mob you have targeted but you DO have to hit something for the sequence to continue. However there is a timeout for any skill that is not first in the chain. If they are not used after a couple of seconds it will reset.

Just don’t go for Asura if you make an engineer. It’s not a very big deal but the lower camera can be a bit annoying when tossing grenades.

Race makes little difference in the game. It might be a good idea to get a taller race for long range AoE heavy professions but that is about it.

Alkron.1345:

Khisanth.2948:

Important note missing from Engineer. If you are going to use the Grenade Kit you should turn on the “Fast-Cast Ground Targetting”. Your hands will thank you for it.

Learning how to play with that on is a good idea even if you don’t play an engineer with a grenade kit. Combat is a lot smoother with that enabled.

I would disagree, I tried for a while, and it removes precision control over the grenades, or any aoe for that matter, that’s the give and take of fast casting. I like to see how exactly my grenades sill fall or if ny shot is bring clipped by something.

As an engineer main, I think I like your engi part OP. To say the least it can definitely be a complex class to learn and understand fully. Although, while we don’t have a skill to passive buff speed, I would say engineers are high mobility with the ability to perma swift (which is a higher movement speed than passive skills) as well as combat movement skills like Rifle Jump. And even perma vigor for increased dodge mobility. And skills such ad Elixir S for complete invul to reposition from a tight situation.

Elixir R is also a skill to mention possibly because of the ability to team/self rally in my opinion. While the utility itself isnt incredible, the tool belt skill is pretty wicked.

I guess it’ll be different for each person but I haven’t found any lost in precision. This includes skills like Meteor Shower and all the Necromancer marks with the Greater Marks trait.

On the other hand there are very few times when I don’t want to murder everything. I am obviously never going to attempt to pull enemies in a dungeon with AoEs or with grenades, that would be silly.

John Smith.4610:

Storing money in the bank is set for a specific purpose, it’s supposed to be stored money for transferring or saving. I would make the argument that if we were to change that, we should just make all gold account shared all the time.

Can we get the same thing for crafting as well?
I have some logs and ores set aside in the bank for making gift of metal/wood but every time I try to craft something it takes from the bank stacks instead of the collection stacks.

Each of the WvW maps has a portal that takes you back to LA. You can also go back to the character select screen instead which will leave you back at the same spot you were before you entered WvW.

You can preview from the vendors in LA as well.

Well there has been mention of “improving” the existing ones but I am not at all convinced about that. Hopefully none of the other ones are going to require babysitting a NPC.

The earliest you can make Masterwork items is actually at 0. Those would be all the craftable minor runes and sigils but the materials required would make those a very expensive option. The rare materials alone would cost at least 1g 20s for the monthly.

Short answer, don’t waste the influence unless you enjoy constant failure with a tiny chance of success.

Long answer, it’s not worth bothering with at this point. Not with everything requiring you to do the bounties first. On top of what Yramrag has mentioned it is apparently possible for two guilds to get the same bounty and it seems the second one to arrive won’t be able to finish.

I’ve actually tried it twice with just two people. The first time we ran out of time before we could find either. The second time we got very luckily, out of the 300 possible spawn locations for that bounty we found it at the 4th.

http://dulfy.net/2013/02/27/gw2-guild-bounty-guide/ has the paths taken by most of the bounties. As you can see many of the paths spans the entire map.

Important note missing from Engineer. If you are going to use the Grenade Kit you should turn on the “Fast-Cast Ground Targetting”. Your hands will thank you for it.

Learning how to play with that on is a good idea even if you don’t play an engineer with a grenade kit. Combat is a lot smoother with that enabled.

Another option is map completion of 1(if you are lucky) or 2(if you are not) of the Orr maps. Not necessarily the fastest but just selling the rewards from that would be enough for the 2g. If you are really lucky you might even get a Superior Rune of Divinity out of it.

There are cases where it won’t show even if you are on the same map but you can just go back to character select or zone in and out. One of those cases is what you mentioned. If you are already on the same map and you join the party after the instance is created.

It is just cosmetic. The only way to change/get another one is to create another character or recreate the one you have. If you create another one it will require a couple of transmuting steps to transfer it over.

It is normal until you get used to the combat. Besides avoid certain “big” attacks, dodging is also useful for putting distance between you and the enemy while you wait for the healing skill to recharge.

Ticee.2451:

But yeah I think the way to look at it is that necromancer has a lot of expendable pets that you can in theory resummon during the fight if the CD allows, and I’m sure you can make some use of them if you want to,

That sounds like a mesmer.

Also Guardian
For me the order of preference would be Guardian, Ranger, Engineer, Necromancer.

Easier with some groups. Harder with others.

P3 – never been a fan of relying on idiotic useless NPCs, this did not manage to change my opinion
never been a fan of ‘cover everything in red circles’ either, didn’t like it in TA, adding falling rocks does not make it better!

This ranger trait seems to be broken when you are downscaled. I had the Pet Management window opened while I was killing in Fireheart Rise(downscaled to 67) the Black Bear’s vitality remained at a constant 1,880 as I was killing things. I only went up to 10 stacks. All the other stats were increasing as expected.

Then I tried it in one of the opposing team’s borderland in WvW(for lv80 and a raptor to kill). The vitality increased correctly there after the first kill.

They are no longer charmable? That is where I got mine. It was also white at that time.

Were you using the test golems in the mist or the dummies in LA(or similar)?

There is one thing to be aware of though. This used to be the case but I am not sure if it still is.

The issue is/was that the name reported in the history is tied to the character used rather than the account. If someone used a character to withdraw and then delete that character the history will report something like ‘Unknown’.

According to the stylesheet. CronosPro and EasonPro assuming you have a recent enough browser that support embedded fonts and assuming you don’t have any setting overriding these settings.

You don’t need to buy any recipes just to level until you are at around 375.

Silver.8791:

70 points is like nothing for the title. as kelly said, u need 100.000 points to max it. and the best drink would be the alcohol in the queensdale monastery (28 karma – 4 points). that means 25000 drinks that u have to buy and then use.
i’m currently halfway through and only got so far becuase i spend an evening klicking while watching tv.

The best drink gives 16 per drink http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Alcohol

I think SE has the ugliest looking armor sets. All 3 of them.

Hilko.1760:

The idea of mindlessly blowing through junk to get to a boss seems blah and over done. The idea that certain mobs in a dungeon pose a threat is awesome in itself. Some mobs are tough but I am having tough time thinking of one that cannot be handled in at least 2 tries.

That group in TA Up path comes to mind…the 4 Nightmare Court people close to the final fight. O look its just some nightmare court. Then you get smashed in the face by the knight and his nasty KD.

However most people don’t know because they just run by all the fun. Yes if you tend to skip content it will come back around and smack you in the face later O-o

Pretty sure those got nerfed in the January patch but it doesn’t really matter anyway. That trick isn’t very effective on repeat visits. The biggest surprise in that fight is that the silver is more dangerous than the champion.

You do get more chances for it to activate but it doesn’t become 60%. I would not do this for a ranger with a MH axe since that already has 3 chances per “swing”, assuming you have 3 targets close enough together.

It looks like the actual CD on it is 5s rather than the 2s listed. If you really want something like this just use a Pie which only has a 1s CD.

NeoPhoenix.9403:

I was specifically talking about the open world dragons/events that give chests like the Shatterer and Frozen Maw, not the regular group events you find around the world.

Maw is definitely soloable. Did that on my lv 50/60ish elementalist a while back.
Shatterer would be more difficult due to the crystals but that is dodgeable. The biggest challenge on the dragons is just whittling down their huge health pool. I’ve yet to encounter Tequatl with less than 5 people around and with the recent changes that is not likely to happen any time soon.

These group event do not differ much from other group events in terms of difficulty. When I say group event I mean the ones that are specifically labeled as group events with the “[Group event]” tag in their description. Not all events are group events.

Anat.1765:

Flamehawk.9421:

I was working on map completion in Black Citadel when i entered the stockade to get the point of interest it wouldnt let me leave i had to teleport and cost me silver. It has done it in every instance except Ash legion headquarters.

I had the same bug, every instance was a trap and required a waypoint. Really frustrating and bizarre.

You could also go to character select.

Dungeons could use some better tuning.
Fractals … I don’t really see much problem with it. For higher scales you either do them because you want the challenge or you don’t and do them at a lower scale.

For Guild Missions they really shouldn’t have gated every other mission type on the bounty missions. Tier 1 of each type should have been unlockable with just Influence.

NeoPhoenix.9403:

As a new player, I actually welcome loot on dragons. Not because of the loot itself, but because there will actually be people around when I’m high enough level to do these events. As a veteran mmo player, nothing sucks worse than being “late to the party” when you join an mmo that has been around for a while and you can’t do half the content available because nobody is running it anymore. There is incentive for older GW2 players to do these events now which opens up more open world content for us newer players to take part in. They may be running it for the “wrong reasons”, but I think you’ll find there are a lot of new players that are grateful for these people keeping these events doable that don’t really care what people’s reasons for doing them are.

For the <80 level zones. You can pretty much do everything with 2 people. Most are soloable on any profession although the effort might not be worth it depending on what you are after. This includes Group Events. So “Can’t do because of lack of people around.” is not a very big concern here.

Whether or not they drop loot is mostly irrelevant. The fights as they are now are boring regardless. Changing the loot has nothing to do with the gameplay. There is no chance for failure, no risk. There isn’t even a big chance of death unless you have less than 5 people. Even THEN it is still a low chance due to scaling.

Neimad.1625:

Qnopsik El Qox.1269:

If you made one jumping puzzle, than one of them unlocked.
There are 3 versions of this JP, on 3 different borderlands. Each of them has its own achievement.

So visit other borderlands to do other “Sanctums”

Then i will have 3 loot ???
Doesn’t these 3 JP will gave you 1 chest loot ?

They are 3 separate chests. You can loot all 3 each day. However the keys are not tied to a particular puzzle. You can use the keys from the red map to open the door in the blue map and all the other combinations. That can be used to speed up your runs through the puzzles if you want to do it every day.

There is apparently a bug where certain profession traits can cause this if you are attacked while harvesting.

You should be able to bring up the Contact window without joining a server on the character select screen.

cargan.5689:

Ok who wants to make an alt “The 397 guy”

Ptiy more people dont use the default price it would make my day if i could buy Dusk for 3s 97c

I don’t think that matters. I tested that with a cheap item a while back. I am pretty sure the game won’t let you sell for less than the highest buy offer so even if someone DID try to sell Dusk for 3s 97c it won’t go to you for that amount unless nobody wants Dusk anymore.

Same thing here. Just get some grilled portobello mushrooms … 1c each. Just finished it. :P

Can’t check now but maybe it doesn’t work with food with no level requirement?

Vayne.8563:

This isn’t WoW and there’s no way to check gear score. The people who come here with that mentality, you’re better off not teaming with anyway.

Along with people who only think about ’ooooh all those big numbers~".

1 – tossed, if it is needed again next year you’ll be able to get another from the NPC
2,3,4 also tossed, pretty sure turning in the quests was supposed to remove these from your inventory but due to bugs and workarounds for them they ended up staying in your inventory.

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

I have to agree that the dungeons are not fun in the slightest. Fractals are the only exception, but I believe there was a lot more time invested into creating those.

Due to the monthly a friend mentioned that 2 fractal runs would complete the requirement for the monthly veteran slayer. The fact that fractals have veterans instead of the silvers could be a big part of that.

Safari.3021:

That area is not on my map and I have been there done that.

I would try the “sea of Elon” in the very south east of straits, I know several people that missed that one completely

A quaggan helped me find that one.

Overflow is a mix of different servers. For all intents and purposes it acts like a separate server. It’s exactly the same as if everyone decided to guest on some random unnamed server.

As for people being mad, that was probably because they were using the timer site to chase after the Shadow Behemoth spawn. It will have a different spawn time since it’s a separate server.