Guild Wars 2

Bart Weird.9671:

Lilith are you scared i got a point?

I’m scared of nothing bookah. But you’re just wrong. So shut the meow up and stop trolling.

Allaraina.8614:

vladracul.6798:

I feel sorry for you, but on the other I am quite happy I don’t have too see anymore a festival of lack of good taste and tacky decisions to be flamboyant from players who have no sense of fashion or originality at all, like a cosplay of Virgin Mary would be any interesting.

Btw, people should try to coordinate the colours of their luxurious and exquisite legendaries with their armors. I see so many people with legendaries dressed like beggars or morons, is dreadful.

If we ask nicely do you think they will make more backpieces to match legendaries? I need something better than a zappy popsicle to go with Bolt. Zappy popsicles might have their place, but they don’t match.

No backpiece showing is now my meta people complained about having too many… but there really aren’t enough options..

Dawww. I’m loved. at least if I don’t have a guild I have fwiends.

XApocalypse.8739:

Don’t worry anet ruins everything that is fun to do that is completely harmless, look what they did to the infinite spin with greatsword, completely harmless yet they made it impossible to do now.

And the dance book glitch.

RIP

Xae Isareth.1364:

I do like my ele as well. Just not staff, it just seems everything apart from fire and water on there is useless, which kind of ruins the point of being an elementalist.

I do have a fascination with greatswords though (don’t judge :V)., and eles can’t fill that fascination.

Air is great for stacking swiftness and the push back and the bouncing projectile.

Earth has a blast (WHOA BLAST ON STAFF?!) and a knock back and a decent bleed.

But daggers and scepter are surely more fun.

I want pistol personally

If there isn’t a Joan Smith I’d be willing to step up to that task.

Anyway dusk… yeah that’s an insane sell order. But ain’t nobody got gold fo that.

Anierna.6918:

“Fairly hardcore PvF’er.” I didnt realize what that meant until I checked your post history. 75 pages – what??? I’m probably in no position to say this, Lilith, but I think you need something better to do. Try archery – I find it very enjoyable. You could even bring a teddybear with you to the range to RP.

Edit: My bow + some random teddybear pic. Lol

I know… I have a problem. But look at my high rated posts; 14 pages!

I like your bow if you know what i mean.

I just see no point to this argument when there have been several developer comments saying “We could not please everyone, this is what we decided on to move the town clothes and outfits forward, we’re sorry you don’t like it, here’s a refund for every piece of this if you want it, we won’t even make you delete these things.”

It’s just… I miss town clothes too. My Norn was kitten sexy in those khaki shorts and all that jazz. But the fight is over. And seriously I’m not kidding when I say my body has a vicious reaction to the phrase “mix and match”. It is over.

Allaraina.8614:

From the other lengthy threads on this topic it appeared that the reason the devs did not change the individual townclothes was because of needing to remake them. People complained and they changed the flamekissed light armor. Keep the rally cry going and it is always possible they will implement a better version of townclothes later.

That said it’s probably helpful to post in the townclothes thread instead of making a new one. It can be found here.

I’m not sure flame kissed is a good example. Because it only took them 24 hours to make the decision to pull the armor. It’s been over a month, almost 2 since it was announced.

Noha.3749:

Ah yeah, just found it in the Gem Store haha.
Well played Anet for the awsum then

It’s also very nice on female humanoids. But more badkitty on males for sure.

I think it’s magitech (gem store armor) with a gasmask (living story reward, might be available for festival tokens… not sure). And spinal blades (ascended back piece)

Meowwilson.5106:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Guys… due to the way armors are modeled they could not make the other town clothes armor and they did not feel like leaving them the way they were was progress. I think it’s time you all accept that there is literally nothing you can do at this point. Move on.

That is what the forums are for. If i actually take my time to come here to post this, my hope is that people see it and think “that would be nice to have.” This is something that I want in the game and I cannot just “Move on”.
I had it before, now that it is gone I want it back..

Problem is, dozens of people have already done that. They have been swiftly ignored and pushed away. It is apparent that no matter how much crying or whining or begging happens they aren’t going to do anything, at least not for a really long time.

And… well. If you can’t move on that sucks. Unfortunately what anet wanted and what you wanted are different things. One person there has zero power over the game decisions and one has all the power. They decided. It’s done.

Anierna.6918:

I’m sad, Lilith. You shouldn’t be guildless

I’d suggest DD, but I know you’d appreciate a /guild chat channel that people actually use, and that isn’t us atm, since ppl only rep when they’re in dungeons. 2 weeks from now, when we unlock puzzles, I’ll institute increased rep requirements, and guild chat might actually become useful then. Just something to keep in mind, if you dont find another guild before then.

And ofc, there are strict meta build requirements. Plz dont tell me your guard still uses a hammer in dungeons >.<

Bahaha. No she found a matching sword and focus so that’s her thing now. No hamma.

I don’t think I would be able to trial for DD. I’m just not all that good ya know? But I do try hard. Lol

Azrael.4960:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

vladracul.6798:

I feel sorry for you, but on the other I am quite happy I don’t have too see anymore a festival of lack of good taste and tacky decisions to be flamboyant from players who have no sense of fashion or originality at all, like a cosplay of Virgin Mary would be any interesting.

Real fashion happens in dungeons anyway: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Fashion-Contest-Open-for-Submissions/

I’m only sad that I never got to try this aura stack. Just never got around to it.

When one is demurely attired in a sea of peakittens, one draws attention

Lol. Peakittens.

vladracul.6798:

I feel sorry for you, but on the other I am quite happy I don’t have too see anymore a festival of lack of good taste and tacky decisions to be flamboyant from players who have no sense of fashion or originality at all, like a cosplay of Virgin Mary would be any interesting.

Real fashion happens in dungeons anyway: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Fashion-Contest-Open-for-Submissions/

I’m only sad that I never got to try this aura stack. Just never got around to it.

Apparently I’m not capable of being nice. No OP. I believe you are wrong. Good luck in your future endeavors.

I have the same problem with elementalist.

I usually use “kitty”. So people know I wanted to call then something but don’t want to get in trouble for using an expletive lol

maxinion.8396:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Enaretos.8079:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

I prefer “Lady Lilith” unless I’m beating you with a whip.

Haaaaaaa.

Master Lilith all the way :>

Let’s go to Ebonhawke and procure the whip environmental weapon. As a Tarnished Coast native I know where All these goodies are.

is it just me or did it get hot in here

(ps yay i’ve been on this forum long enough to get flood control)

The heck did you get in trouble for?

And yes it’s very hot. Haha

Enaretos.8079:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

I prefer “Lady Lilith” unless I’m beating you with a whip.

Haaaaaaa.

Master Lilith all the way :>

Let’s go to Ebonhawke and procure the whip environmental weapon. As a Tarnished Coast native I know where All these goodies are.

I prefer “Lady Lilith” unless I’m beating you with a whip.

Haaaaaaa.

Of course there will be an infinite amount of contests in the near future. There will be different requirements though.

I just adore the Asura. I have one of each class. They’re the best. Everything about them is winning.

Btw thanks everyone for your continued interest! I’m blown away with all the entries and I have NO idea what to do when I go to pick winners tomorrow. There are about triple the amount of entries I normally get for my contests so deliberation may take a little longer than normal.

cheshirefox.7026:

^this
being able to craft a dirt cheap exotic backpiece of any kind or a relatively cheap ascended backpiece is worth having bladeshards around.. especially considering there is no worthwhile source of farming them in game anymore.. unlike everyone else i have a few stacks of heirlooms that will never be usable and not enough bladeshards to craft anything..
i really don’t get what everyone was expecting from a bladeshard merchant, but yes.. the shards for ‘green item’ is a bladeshard sink

I was hoping for a blade shard to dragonite merchant. Or other ascended mats (I know some people would prefer empyreal).

But yeah I’m saving my blade shards for back pieces

ASURA dies

Great job

Guys… due to the way armors are modeled they could not make the other town clothes armor and they did not feel like leaving them the way they were was progress. I think it’s time you all accept that there is literally nothing you can do at this point. Move on.

hendo.1940:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

My existence in this game is blatantly a bug.

Can we have more of these lovely bugs, please?

^^ one of a kind.

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

Thaddeus.4891:

yayuuu.9420:

Thaddeus.4891:

yayuuu.9420:

Actually tanking is working in GW2. If you want to know how, read this article: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Aggro

It’s not like in most of the games that tank can stand still and be healed, but he can take some hits and hold mobs in place for long enought to nuke them by the rest of your team. For most of the mobs / bosses it’s enought to just stay melee and have enought armor to become their only target for the whole fight. I’m not sure if this approach is faster or not, but it is for sure easier.

NOOOOOOO don’t spread LIES. We already have enough tanky people that think that they bring something to the group even if they don’t. Don’t give them another reason to hold back groups. Surviability is for you little kitten only and bring nothing to the group except if in full DPS you die each 2sec. Having enough survivability to match you level of skill is the only reason to use defensive stats or healing in PvE.

What is a lie? Wiki article? The stuff that I said is basically the confirmation of wiki article and from my experience having a lot of toughness keeps most of the mobs on you. It’s not like tanking is neccessary in PVE, you can do everything just fine without it. I have tried it once and went to lvl 9 fractal on my elementalist with 3.5k armor and build based around magnetic shield (couldn’t try it at higher level because I don’t have agony in the set that I bought just to do this test) and somehow it worked.

The lie is not about toughness = more likely to have aggro. Its about the old ’’Anchor’’ theory of more than a year ago. The principle is have 4 full DPS character, with 1 tanky anchor guardian (because it work better on a guardian for some reason). That way, the anchor take the aggro while the 4 other DPS more easily. That was an interesting idea back in the days and I was an advocate of that. But that was a bad technic as we found out. Why? For it to work properly you do need 4 full DPS character with you. If you have some hybrid and other stuff like that, you won’t have aggro most of the time. Ya in a particular run you could have aggro on you for most of the time, and there is ways of playing to get yourself more aggro, but with hybrid in your party that can change in a second, leaving the system without any purpose (except that you are not a DPS without much damage but a good survivability that serve nothing since you no longer have the aggro for some period of time). But even when you have 4 full DPS party member, sometime the mobs change target for no apparent reason. Why? Because some mobs don’t seem to respond to toughness more than damage they receive. Toughness work well in fractal (Legendary shaman and Ettin are the best example), but others like the flame legion shaman (the one with the Ettin and rabbit in Harpy Fractal) most of the time attack the guys that hit the hardest and switch target a lot. On top of that, you add the current global strategy of stacking. The game encourage to melee, to share boons and support and to stick together. That mean that all the party member will likely be hit by the mobs, not only the ’’anchor’’ guy. That leave not strategical purpose to a tanky character other than you self survivability.

I not saying that tanky build can’t influence greatly the aggro. I’m just saying that its unreliable and don’t help the party that much if you use the best strategies.

There was also the fact that a bunch of people tested and couldn’t find any clear correlation between toughness and aggro, so the whole “tank” thing was pretty much based on “this one time I was in Rabid gear and got attacked a lot”.

I certainly do believe there are ways to “steal” aggro if the boss is targeting someone else, and ways to break it (or not break it) if he’s after you, but they typically involve a lot of running away and stealthing and kitten. It’s far from reliable, much less efficient, to rely on one guy actually holding a boss’s aggro without dying.

One time I participated in a lvl 1 fractal with 5 level 2 players. We had no special gear or weapons. We got harpy. I popped an armor booster. The Ettin let me kite him. He literally would pay attention to NO ONE but me. However the other champions gave zero kittens what I was doing. Ps. I was on an ele, we had a ranger, a thief, a guardian, and a mesmer.if that’s relevant to you.

I think this elusive aggro mechanic is placed on SPECIFIC bosses and not every. So I think to cite this aggro mechanic is dumb because it is something rare, misunderstood, and not knowable.

You can use the forge recipe. It’s a bunch of Sprockets + t1 dust + t2 dust + 1 blade shard.

Alternatively you can mine the sprocket node in a home instance, do aetherblade fractal, do TA aether path, or the JP for an unspecified amount of blade shards

Yeah you might need to get people to work for you on all servers so they can chase people down in wvw to break legs.

Joking. But that would be pretty funny.

Man. Who would have thought that the dungeon forum regulars would be outnumbered by outsiders? Thanks all you new folks! They needed some competition. Some of your posts are spectacular.

Thanks Midgie! I would definitely be interested but I’m really looking for a guild to do high level fractals with (and other dungeons) and it sounds like that isn’t where your guilds at quite yet. (It does take time to get there too). It sounds wonderful though

Interesting endeavor! I have no idea honestly but I do find this fascinating.

No Pulse.2967:

Oh and someone just told that Magi gear is decent for cliffside fractal… Because of healing symbols…

What a good reason.

Because reasons.

I’m fine with the QD train being derailed. I’m usually one to fight for the destruction of loot faucets, but given the amount if noobies I help and how many of them were terrified of setting foot in queensdale…. I just didn’t like what it was making the game look like.

Now if it was in a mid level zone I’d give zero kitties.

I’m a fan of the pit fighter shoulders gloves and boots or even the rare quality…banded I think it’s called.

Hey you all know that SOMEONE will get a precursor from one of these boxes. We have no idea who or when or why… but it’ll happen.

maha.7902:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

maha.7902:

No Pulse.2967:

Lol, some [IX] fella just kicked and blocked me because I told him he could use something other than D/D against the 100 wolves that were chasing us at Mossman while we were 3manning it…

Edit: And they wanted to bug him underwater first :S

If I see a group bugging Mossman I just leave.

That was so absurd in that fractal run that must not be named. I’ve never seen it happen. Made me cringe.

It honestly amazes me that we can stack in the middle of the fire fields, get the seal down to like 5% then wipe, everyone wants to stack in the other corner instead, we wipe three times in a row and nobody even thinks for one second that you know what, maybe going in the middle isn’t that bad.

Inexperience doesn’t make me angry, but by god, unwillingness to learn does. And then Sir Pugsalot calling us both elitists, that was just gg.

Haha He did shut up for the rest of the run once I blew up on him and Romo I guess talked to him. (Excuse was lack of sleep but I mean… I had a root canal and I wasn’t being a kitty.)

It was just too casual a run. Now… I expect runs like that while pugging. But this was a group of… well “friends” and it shouldn’t have taken the 4 hours it did. I was glad to get the fractal scepter because I told my bf while he waited for me to eat dinner that if I didn’t get anything I was completely done with fractals forever.

maha.7902:

No Pulse.2967:

Lol, some [IX] fella just kicked and blocked me because I told him he could use something other than D/D against the 100 wolves that were chasing us at Mossman while we were 3manning it…

Edit: And they wanted to bug him underwater first :S

If I see a group bugging Mossman I just leave.

That was so absurd in that fractal run that must not be named. I’ve never seen it happen. Made me cringe.

No Pulse.2967:

Yep. And I’m pretty sure you died because you had no AR, haha.

You didn’t see my trinkets lol

No Pulse.2967:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

No Pulse.2967:

Lol, some [IX] fella just kicked and blocked me because I told him he could use something other than D/D against the 100 wolves that were chasing us at Mossman while we were 3manning it…

Edit: And they wanted to bug him underwater first :S

Was this in that 50 I trolled?

No, Lilith, that was in a 36…

My RP set counts as zerk right

Haha

No Pulse.2967:

Lol, some [IX] fella just kicked and blocked me because I told him he could use something other than D/D against the 100 wolves that were chasing us at Mossman while we were 3manning it…

Edit: And they wanted to bug him underwater first :S

Was this in that 50 I trolled?

Actually I feel like this patch is a taste of what Fractured should have been

Fractured 2.0 Check out Fractals of the Mist now because we might have learned something!

I am an RPer. I really love what you’ve done with your stories and characters… but I hated townclothes. I very much preferred armor combinations as I felt they had many more options.

But good job none the less

maha.7902:

RIP Alphard requiring any sort of skill

/cheer

Yayyy I can do Alphard!

:D

Hahaha probably still can’t xD

Li1337tist. Yes!

Second to last.

Someone better screen that when it happens I swear to Balthazar I’ll Fite u all irl

No tequatl wings right? That’s my moan. QQ.

Zerger gives me cancer.

Vox Hollow.2736:

Well, in their defense, it’s not all that intuitive?

Sure, people posting on this forum might have some idea that Personal Defense options are just sort of these unspoken deadzones in PvE character building. But it’s not the game itself does anything to make it clear those options are PvP only.

Imagine how confusing that is for somebody new?

And before anybody pulls the Meta card on me. This would also be true even in the ideal scenario where the Support/Control/DPS trinity existed. Because personal defense doesn’t seemingly have anymore relevancy on those two lost roles than it does DPS.

I do agree with you. I guess the idea is that people with 10k+ AP who are obviously not new are still arguing that tank spec is the way to go. I think THAT is more confusing to new players.