Guild Wars 2

is he a proffesion that has access to Stability rather easily like the Guardian?

if not then i assume this is the same issue with the Guardians ring of Warding in that if you jump & Dodge you can escape the ring without fail.

nothing more to be added really.
until they stealth fix this method and Simin becomes night on impossible anyhow.
tho i will say the more warriors you bring the better, because their DPS is far greater than any other proffesion.
also mention that not only can you dodge the petrification but you can also use Stability in the same way and if you have Stability up as the Petrification is about to take effect it will just make you gray and you can continue to do whatever it is you do, be aware however that Simin likes to stick to targets and a new gaze will quickly turn you to stone if your stability wears off, Hallowed Ground is something you may wish to consider as it’s a very long duration Stability combo field from the Guardian.

you have to dodge at the time of the ring being laid down, that way your invincible from the roll and it lets you pass freely before the ring’s effect takes place.

if you miss the timing then Stability will let you walk out of the ring as if it wasnt even there.

i’ve never had issues with it other than the timing on my Sylvari or Norn.

if 1h’s costed less you would see more, which means their prestige value would decrease.

Account.9832:

It should be called “bag of lies”.

Actually, “bag of coins” would probably sound better and be more descriptive.

The real question, though, is why do they exist at all. Why don’t you simply get the coins straight from the blue boss satchel, or indeed directly from the boss, when you loot. As they exist, the “bags of gold” are just a useless intermediate step requiring two extra mouse clicks and one extra inventory slot.

if it dropped from the boss you would earn more money because it will be affected by food buffs like Omnomberry Bars.
the food has no effect on the bag.

no farming allowed remember.

one thing not alot of people notice is when Lupus begins his AoE in phase 2 he fires a shadow bolt directly aimed at you (everyone) & aoe’s the room, the one aimed at you is the one hitting you outside of the circles.

it’s easy to tell on a Guardian because Aegis will block it and lupus wont even fire one at you.

so in short, make sure your ready to evade the moment he begins his aoe.

be thankful, before the patch hit they used to give 2 or 3 copper, 4 if your lucky.
i used to wonder if there was just a 1% chance to get like 1g from them but i guess not.

being in a party with everyone in the same zone/area gives you at bonus to your magic find stat, atleast this is what the offical guide said anyhow, maybe they got rid of it, maybe not hard to test.

also Magic Find doesnt affect chests so using Omnom in TA for chest loot is pointless and a waste of money.

ragingpuma.4618:

Well idk what we did wrong but when we did it, every time she went to 50% health she would go invisible no matter what her current health was at the time. her health just did not go past 50%. so my guild group i did it with insisted it was bugged and so will not go into arah path 4 again till it is “fixed”

sounds like bad dps.

Simin first uses her heal at 50% however there after she uses it based on a cooldown it’s your job to kill her before she hides a second time, and yes it’s possible.
Bring warriors with greatswords, you want have any issues with dmg.

you cannot transmute racial gear as the method above implies, Anet fixed this awhile back because it bugged out and actually caused your character to become naked.

Kohler is an optional boss the stairway on the left side of the room allows you to bypass him completely without any kind of jumping.

Troll has 4 possible spawn locations that i know of and 1 is always blocked off to you regardless of the path you choose (which is a shame because i would love to fight him everytime for the reward)

Gift of Battle is named incorrectly, it is as people have mentioned the Gift of Jumping.

to increase the grind so you spend longer playing the content so it appears that people seem to actually enjoy this thing when in truth they dont and only do it because it’s the only way to obtain the best in slot gear.

im guessing it counts each dungeon rather than each dungeon path.
which means doing 1 path in 5 different dungeons should give it to you each time.
it’s a very odd achievement anyhow, i’ve never really bothered to work it out, despite having 100 points from it.

Ret is great for PvE and the hammer gives you all the Retaliation you need for you and your group.
for example next time you do AC, stand inside the Spider Queens poison field with retaliation up and watch the retaliation damage pile up.
also works extremely well in CoF on the flamethrower enemies.

didnt they fix the pull her out of the spawn “tactic”?
if so you have to use the other method of only pulling 1 spark during the Spark Phase.

to do it you need to
>Bring Simin to 50% hp, at which point she will heal, this is fine let her heal to full.
>have 1 person trap 4 of the 5 sparks, make sure you do this before she returns at around 95% hp.
>bring her back down to 50% again, when she hides this time continue to damage her.
>bring 1 spark to the statue and she will return from hiding
>kill her before she hides again.

make sure you position Simin in an area where your party can stand safely out of any spark aggro when you have someone round them up, it’s very important the sparks co-operate, whoever rounds up the sparks take special care of which traps you use, you need to bring the 1 spark you left over to the trap that you never used the first time.

doing this fight the way arenanet intended is near impossible and you will probably spend about 5 hours trying due to a number of issues with the fight.

do it quickly, arenanet’s latest “fix” to Bjarl in CoE 1 is a sure sign of bad things to come.

20/30/0/0/20
or drop 10 points into tactics for Empowered

Go to Temple of Lyssa when it’s contested, go to the Golem event, dont actually help the Golems or charge up the device, just farm the sparks.

if Lyssa is taken over, move over and capture Dwayna temple and then sparks will spawn around it.

these are your spark farm spots, the other spots are generally a pain to deal with.

another options is the Ascalon Fragment, im not sure if it’s just my group experience with this but i’ve noticed that almost always the Charged Cores/Lodestones come from the Ascalon Fragment.

to a lesser extent i always notice Molten come from the Underwater one.

i havent noticed any big changes to the way i carry people thru the Simin encounter, although she tends to become visible more often whilst healing than before so it wouldnt suprise me they changed something.

but i’ve still found attacks connecting whilst she’s invisible (if she was invulnerable, attacks wouldnt connect, easily tested)

Melee is riskier, thefore should offer higher reward, in this case damage.

the staff doesnt work half the time btw.

for the sake of your sanity, just skip him or make sure you have the Benny Hill theme playing when fighting him.

a Mini Quaggan wearing a Santa- err Wintersday Costume.

Path 1 is rough, especially if your new to it.
Path 2 takes forever
Path 3 is pretty darn easy and is ran often
The weapons arent popular in comparison to the Ghastly weapons from AC which is far easier to farm, however the Armour is but usually only to Warrior/Guardian and Engineers.

Dredge are among the top 5 worst enemies to fight in the game due to their
>Immunity to Blind
>Large amounts of Daze/Knockdown
>Bombs
this is essentially why very few people want to run SE other than getting the DM title in comparison to other dungeons.

you cannot sell them on the TP

but theres nothing stopping you from sending them via mail.
a trustworthy trade however, well that’s the problem.

for those of you who got the chest, what part of the world are you in?
for those of you who havent yet, same question.

perhaps this could solve the mystery as to why some people are getting it now and others arent.

first boss in CoF story has phases aswell

he’s memorable because of how severe his first Greatsword phase is, my word does he hurt.

The hero the Pact needs, but doesnt deserve.

would be too strong, and yes i play a AH Guardian, i heal enough as it is, this kind of buff would just let me ignore any telegraphed attacks from pretty much any boss ever because i could just heal myself and my party through it.

yes you can repeat Story Mode, but theres no point the reward is non-existant compared to the easier Explorable Mode.
the dungeon itself will not give you good gear, the good gear comes only from the token rewards and at level 80.

they will no doubt add more Legendaries down the line, especially with the possibility of new Weapon types being added.

still im happy with mine altough the guns and bows are a bit… yeah

you realise you can get free 20 slot bags from Fractal’s for 150 tokens each right?

they dont just hold armour and weapons, they hold everything.

i find this quite interesting, i was aware from the start how different in difficulty some of the legendaries are for others but i switched from Sunrise to Juggernaught because Quicksilver at the time was incredibly easy compared to 100 Charged Lodestones, both Molten Cores and Dubloons were a mere 4s or so and the 250 steel is a joke, honestly i thought the recipe was bugged and made it quickly after i found out just how cheap it was. this was only a few short weeks ago as i finished Juggernaut on the 30th of Nov.

plus it’s a bit late to change these recipes now, Arenanet just need to add in decent locations of farming all the materials for those odd things like Dubloons and ofc the Precursor Issue.

stick with it OP, it’s worth it in the end

u can avoid the white blast and the Agony along with it, as soon as the boss gets his Cultist Reflection Boon (Shares the exact same icon as Protection) you evade, and you can evade all the Agony he throws at you.

Sleepy.2647:

These ectos got to 30+ silver because everyone and their mom was gaining 3-5g per hour when doing arah farm for example, if people didn’t abuse such things prices would be lower

if you understood anything you would realise this stems from the bot bans and the new Ascended Backpieces

Ecto prices are tied to the T5/T6 fine material prices because you can use these to craft weapons and then salvage for ecto’s, as such when the price for one moves so does the other.

a bit like how Unid Dyes were apparently “fixed” yet are much rarer than ever before and so to has their price shot right up, oh and you guessed it so to did the rare dyes.

Path 1’s last door will still bug if the NPC dies, dont reccomend trying this route unless you have a proffesion/player who’s good at getting through invisible walls so you can claim your reward at the end.

it is possible to keep the NPC alive however, but it’s a risk non the less.
Path 4’s Simin is still as annoying as ever, beatable but annoying, if you havent looked up a tactic for her or know one you could easily spend 8 hours on her and get nowhere fast.

i also hear the last boss in path 4 sometimes doesnt start, but i havent experienced this.

it makes sense it was nerfed, it’s actually 1 boss just 2 enemies so it stands to reason it should only be 1 drop of silver and a bag of goods.

that said however, other than AC and grinding your life away in Orr/Southsun theres still no other alternative farming methods being added to game whilst 1 is being taken away from us.

just yesterday were people not discussing the fact that theres no incentive to do the harder dungeons because the reward is crap compared to easy AC? well now’s your chance to fix that.

ye it’s known as a Hotfix
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotfix

all Legendaries use the Pow/Tough/Vit stat.

i dont know why, they just do.

Grav.4790:

Milennin.4825:

Grav.4790:

Denim Samurai.2379:

you can get another shot by using an alt..

I don’t think you can do multiple dailies using alts on same factor.

You can, I have 2 characters at difficulty 20’s. I can go do daily on one of them, then do it again on the other (both in the same factor).

I would need some confirmation on this from others, because it’s hard to believe. This seems like some kinda of bug or you are just wrong.

it’s true
Fractal level is Character bound not Account which means any new character you use in the dungeon starts at level 1 but has a completely different daily bonus chest so it gives you more chances at rings.

the legendaries are being worked on, most likely in spare time but Awareness of the issue does help.

i know Bolt got it’s sound-issue stealth fixed over Halloween for example (no mention of it in the patch notes).

i got 3 on my first run from 1>3 difficulty.
havent had any since.
Edit: 10MF from Guild Buff only.

just run CM with Guardians, tell them to bring Shield of the Avenger, enjoy never taking any ranged damage ever in the whole instance.

as for finding people to run the dungeon, yes it is hard but your best bet is to find a guild that enjoys running older dungeons, im lucky in this regard as i have one.

5 dungeons a month is incredibly easy.

everyone is running CoF 1/2, AC 1/2/3 almost every day because they are very easy dungeons.

i dont understand how even casual players struggle to do 5 dungeons a month, i can understand if your put off by the difficulty of storymode, but the vast majority of Explorables are actually easier than Story.

so i recently realised that sometimes you get the unique item from the boss rather than the bag of wonderous goods (an example is the Spineguard or Foefire Amulet from AC Bosses), i dont want the crap item i want the bag can you make them seperate on the loot table because the new rewards really dont compare to the bag.

Mossman’s Axe Throw applies Agony, but it has no telegraphed attack, you either have to watch him very carefully if for example he turns towards you, or get really lucky because generally i can never see that attack coming when the boss has 15 spell effects on him most annoyingly Burn.

i have no idea where it comes from the ArchDiviner, 3 of our melee got it but he never hit me with it despite being in melee all the time.

i dont mind dodging a telegraphed attack (when a mob has that Orange-ish Glow) but this is just silly.

and now you see why people wanted the Bots back.

Shelve your class Arenanet obviously dont playtest anything with Rangers to see the problems such as this one.

Mesmer’s have a similar issue with Illusions and Clones however thankfully they have Shatters giving them some element of control over how & when to remove them from the fight and with regards to the jellyfish once he eats the illusion it dies instantly meaning he quickly goes back to his non eating habits.

i still dont understand why Stow Pet doesnt work in combat.

GreenSage.3256:

What do you need agony resistance for?

FotM.

What do you not need agony resistance for; everything else.

No one has to “facegrind” everything. If you are a grinder, you will grind everywhere you can, including FotM and you will be happy. You will want your ring and backpiece ASAP and will grind for them and be happy.

If you are not a grinder, then literally just keep playing as you have been and I guarantee everything will work out just fine. If you are truly this kind of player, then you are just playing for the challenge and shouldn’t really care whether you get your ring this week or the next.

If you’re a troll and you want this game to be Skyrim, LoL, and WoW 2.0 all in one then you are just going to be disappointed.

Game is not perfect, but an instanced grind/challenge hybrid that offers something for everyone and keeps the hardcore grind out of the main world is a pretty decent idea.

Whatever, I’m just pumped that I got my 2nd 80 today and 2g from dungeons. Should I be obsessed instead with grinding ascended rings?

they already said you need Infusions to protect you against future content they will add down the line.

so you either grind now, or get left behind later, just like every other mmo.

Magic Find only works on kills and increases your odd’s at higher-tier gear.
the example given was if you had 200% MF and a rare had a 1/10 chance in dropping your odds would be 3/10.

as for the event chest it’s your typical RNG experience, i have over 1200 hours on this game, which is crazy yes, looted the chest twice, got like 4g worth of items, meanwhile trial accounts get a Dusk.

such is life i suppose.

they are in the process of making that very thing

it was supposed to be added with the Lost Shores patch, but was delayed.
dont expect it in the next patch either.