Guild Wars 2

They didn’t say armor type (light, medium, heavy)? Primeval is the heavy class armor skin, I think you’re stuck with what you have but you should be able to use on a different character

I just leave without saying anything when that happens.. Dealing with people is a waste of time.

Lifetime just means that the achievement is accumulated over the lifetime of your account. All of the achievements under the WvW category are lifetime, not the living world WvW Season ones.

You don’t like it, don’t do it..

Malediktus.9250:

It would ruin the value of exotic minis.

Mini Tequatl the Sunless in a week after exotic minis are flushable: 3 silver xD

Orpheal.8263:

God, just look at this …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6LN4ALJ3Q8

I’ve see today some new upcoming MMOs (Echo of Souls, EIN (Epicus Incognitus), BLESS and ArcheAge.. where I must really say, when I saw just their trailers or character creations, combat systems ect. where I ask myself, is GW2 already so exremely outlive within 1 year, that new games and their simple character creation modes can look alot better having more epic looking beginner charatcers, than what we have here with a max level character, where we even have to grind with our rangers for somethign as mandatory in character class design still, like quivers, or even have to pay reall money for them, if we want to have one, that lloks a bit bett,er, than just the generic boring 0815-quiver for that you have to grind, where you get in this game awesome different looking quivers asan archer just from the start on…

Is having no monthly subscription fee and making a game that tries to cater also players with low end pcs making really such an extreme influence on graphic quality and having more detailed good looking stuff, like quivers.

Heck, even the weapons show there just look in many cased alot better (cause of havign just more details) and this with these kind of korean games, which tend to end up quickly becomign also free to play games with a kind of shop system to make money..

I don’t know, maybe its just also part of my personal taste, that lets me think that characters from those games just look more detailed and epic, because I like animes, however, the shown character creation , even when beign from a korean upcomign game, doesn’t look extreme animish (there exist other games, that give you a much stronger impression of that like blades & soul)…

However, to come to the point xD, wh y I’m postign this, not only because i like the character style and would wish for GW2 have similar high detailed character designs that look with simple clothes already epic with a big amount of different hair styles, face styles, and other options (tatoos) I’m posting this thread to take it into consideration, if Anet will ever bring up a ranger redesign to think also about giving them please some kind of DEFAULT quiver.

Its really saddening me to see, how quickly new games make so many things alot better, than GW2 , when I think about it, that GW2 could theroretically have all of this too, if GW2 wouldn#t have been basically released too early in my opinion (due to NCSOFT – where we are back at korea again xD)

People who pay real money for their ascended quivers… I don’t even know why they play the game lol. I like to have fun while getting gold

mercury ranique.2170:

Did Dwayna today and actually watched Geekfox’s video (and turned the violent music off). This vid is very different then what I am experiencing. I agree it is harmfull but it is also a client-related issue. so it would be better to ask a mod to move this to the technical support section. Those people can help on identifying the issue, tell you how to solve it on your computer or help anet to make a decent solution on their side.

Lol. Violent music? Hatebreed vs EDM..

IndigoSundown.5419:

As with large raids in those other games, the number of players who want to organize something on this scale is small.

Other games? What other games. Large guilds can organize Teq raids pretty efficiently..

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/players/Daily-Tequatl-Kills

Dragonbrand US

Only endgame stuff I can think of is Arah dungeon and fractals of the mist (you are upscaled in this, but most groups are 80). You can do a good 70% or so of the games content from the start. Rest is just the different zones and dungeons.

Go Dragonbrand!!

viciouspike.8624:

My first time doing Arah P4 was something special. I don’t think we wiped and I definitely finished it in under an hours time I am sure it was around 30 minutes. Right after that got my Dungeon Master and been back in Arah only a handful of times since.

@Stinson

Yeah that is because of the LFG tool I still find rather good players in there and I only PUG.

Wow nice My first clocked in around 2 1/2 hours.

25 minute Arah p4 run is the most memorable, have yet to come close ever since.

Think I started WvW at 30 on my guardian, you can contribute in the Zerg but against a true 80 you probably won’t fare that well considering they have exotic gear/ascended trinkets. I gained around 20-30 levels there

Fractals for ascended rings/weapons, WvW if you like it, living world, sPvP, the reasons for running dungeons are the unique armor and weapon skins you can get with dungeon tokens, you can transmute -80 ones into 80 gear if you like the skins, the increased loot, and the gold rewards.

tim.1280:

yes they only drop gilded strong boxes sadly the wiki says they drop from risen and destroyers! any champ farms involving either of them??

Cursed Shore.

Unfortunately, that item is gone. The only way you could’ve saved it in that case would’ve been to buy it back from the merchant while still in the merchant window.

Can’t help you with the class related questions, but yes Arah Explorable gets you shards of Zhaitan, it’s a more challenging dungeon so be prepared. I believe there’s a 10% stat difference between exotics and ascended/legendary. It’s not a huge difference, so you won’t be hugely outmatched.

So I gambled the 40g I had on the mystic forge to try to get a precursor out of the mystic forge earlier. Close to my last exotics, I got The Chosen shield. Now, I didn’t have the 15g to list it for a 270g return on the trading post so I got the most idiotic idea: trade through mail. Someone offered to trade if I sent first (yea, I know right bonehead idea) so I sent the 300g or so worth precursor. Basically he went afk for a bit after I sent the mail, he didn’t get it so I was freaking out and thinking I’d sent to wrong person or I’ve been scammed. Eventually I suggested for him to check if his inbox was full, and the precursor was there. It turned out to be a misunderstanding, and he gave it back to me. Lesson learned folks: The listing fee isn’t worth your precursor!

Dragonbrand kills Tequatl several nights a week, sometimes twice a day. Check around reset time.

Surprisingly, I found AC story to be more difficult than most of the other story dungeons. Did at 30ish, difficulty was huge from personal story/open world.

Have there been any naked dungeon attempts? Something that’s peaked my interest recently. I realize the extreme difficulty of one, but it would be pretty amazing to succeed in one.

There’s Fractals Of The Mists for ascended stuff, new Twilight Arbor path was added in the last content update, Tequatl got updated so that it now takes an organized 100+ raid to take him down with pretty nice rewards. I’ve only been playing for 3-4 months myself, so I’m not familiar with past gameplay additions. Other than that, there’s the living world content.

People who skip him are boring.. I like fighting him, one of the actually challenging/fun boss fights there are in Arah. Endbosses are too easy. Besides, the fight isn’t that long.

Cat Has Ducks.1982:

^I was impersonating a common pug lol

Oh hell, I thought so haha! Wasn’t sure ;)

Cat Has Ducks.1982:

TA UP is the new path right?

TA Up is the original u/u path, new ones just referred to as aether path. Yea, AP doesn’t make much of a difference to me unless the person has say 500 AP and were in a Arah group, I’ll keep an eye out. Even then, there are folks who have 8k points and haven’t ran a certain dungeon path before so it all depends on what you go for when you cap.

Back to the OP: There are “elite” players who do help new players often. However, besides the good karma mentality, there is no real reason to not do an exp only run and spend less time on it. Sure, meeting new people and helping out is a blast, and I enjoy that personally however from an objective standpoint since Anet doesn’t have any current tangible rewards for helping new players most of the “experienced” players don’t feel like helping. If they added an extra gold reward or bonus chest maybe the scene could change. Not sure how they would do so, unless they coded the system based on the dungeon mastery path completion.

The funniest thing I’ve gotten is that I posted “Arah p4 speed run exp only need zerk warriors/DPS” under Arah on Ingame LFG, some guy shows up asks what the path is, we say 4 and he was like “holy **** 4 hahaha!” Turns out he didn’t even know we were running Arah, he thought we were doing fractals lmao

Lol “I know how to play well”. Yea people need to realize that people who join experienced runs don’t want to carry someone who has no clue what they’re doing. Just makes for an unnecessarily long run, and most likely a kick for that guy. Pretty easy to tell who’s new from the start. I don’t mind helping new people every so often, but in those cases I won’t put experienced only.

Melandru goes down fast with 5 zerkers, add in time warp and watch it burn. The bosses themselves should average around 5 or less minutes, just the running portions take up some more.

a t s e.9614:

30min wow, my arah p4 was 7 hours so far… It was not even a pug group it was my guild group . ( ex guild lol)

That sounds horrible.. I would’ve quit long before the 4th hour mark lol

I bet. Would just be awesome to see like a 15 minute run lol.

Wondering if anyone could link a vid/post of the fastest p4 run. Fastest I’ve done is around 30ish minutes, with a PUG. Guild groups have probably done faster.

This is my guide to Arahs’ Explorable paths. It will be updated regularly, so feel free to post any tips/pointers that might be useful to readers. This guide is generally directed towards those new to Arah, or those who find themselves having trouble with certain concepts or encounters within the dungeon.

Forward
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If you are new to Arah path(s), be ready to listen to tips/strategies that the more experienced players in your group may have. This guide should serve as a general guideline, and as individual players may have different ways to approach encounters it would be wise to have an open ear. Arah, (effectively the “endgame” dungeon of the game) is generally considered the most difficult and longest path-wise dungeon in GW2. This does not have to be so, but the most important factor is how well your team coordinates. In LFG, looking or making a listing simply called “path 1/2/3/4” will probably get you a mix of experienced and new players. There is no need to make a “new player” or “newbie” listing, in fact that will result in a longer and worse run. Having at least one player who’s done the path will greatly speed up the run with greater efficiency.

General
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Most Arah groups will be running past mobs in parts of the paths. This is just so you don’t have to kill dozens of mobs blocking your way, saving time. You’ll want to bring skills that provide Stability, along with invulnerability and general survivability skills. Thiefs’ Shadow Refuge and stealth, Mesmers’ Veil and Mass Invisibility are great skills that can get you past dangerous areas. Giganticus Lupicus, the gatekeeper of the temple of Arah, is a challenging boss who is present on every path. There will be a seperate section for him. Path 4 is roughly a combination of areas from the other 3 paths, with some differences and new areas. All bosses except Lupi is new, it is a longer path that as a new player you should expect to spend a couple hours on at least. It could take a shorter amount of time, all depends on your team. Path 3 is considered the shortest of the 4 paths, and it’s easiest to run first in order to learn the Lupi fight (The final boss comes directly after him in path 3, all other paths involve at least 1-2 bosses after him). Paths 1 and 2 are about the same length in my experience, path 1s initial run is difficult for new players.

Work in Progress —- More will be added soon

Main: Kingteranas (Berserker Guardian)
Gear: Full exotic zerker Arah with all Ascended trinkets and backpiece
Loadout: 10/30/30/0/0 Traits, Greatsword and situational weapon switch (Scepter/Focus for lupi range, staff for support/movement. Also have sword/shield.
Time Zone: US Central, am on during NA primetime (Around daily reset) along with parts of the daytime.
Experience: Dozens of runs in p1/p2/p3, running p4 regularly at least once a week (about 8 p4 runs) Have experience in most of the other dungeons so feel free to hit me up with anything also
Server: Dragonbrand (NA)
Bio: Relaxed experienced runner who’s willing to teach new players Arah, along with doing speed runs. My philosophy on Arah (especially path 4) is that it can be done with any player who is willing to take a few minutes to learn the encounters, p4 should never take more than 2-3 hours, and can be done In a solid 30-40 minutes with an experienced dps-heavy team. Even “pro” players learn something new each run. For those who don’t want to listen, im sorry but you’re going to have a very difficult time running dungeons in GW2.