Guild Wars 2

Seeing areas full of dead only NPCs makes me sad, and looks kind of silly. They should respawn after a while if not resurrected by a player, and I second the idea that they should get a chance to win an event, maybe scaling their power level according to the number of players involved starting with “none”, to avoid them being too powerful leading to the situation where even the least amount of help provided by a player would be enough to clear the event. As it is now, “friendly” factions NPCs look like the weakest being in all Tyria.

That being said, I think it’s unrealistic to expect an overhaul to dynamic event system to actually make possible for NPCs to win the fight, or to NPCs combat skills in general.

I hate every time a guardian strikes virtue of justice the Legendary Archdiviner gets covered in blue/yellow flames and lights up like a Christmas tree to the point you can’t even see his limbs, so I can’t dodge melee range and get one shot.

saalle.4623:

I like scarlet and i like LS so if u dont like it go and play another game.I dont see what is problem to not play something u dont like,not like any1 force you.LS is something new and fresh in MMO games and they have my support in this.

In a matter of fact I DON’T play LS. That doesn’t mean I shouldn’t play the game. And the fact that you love LS doesn’t mean I shouldn’t voice my disappointment about having such plots plaguing my favorite game.

Vayne.8563:

Lucky Shot.7650:

I can’t understand how anybody could say they enjoy LS plot. Its characters just pop out of nowhere and are completely random. Take Kasmeer. She pops out as a random Bikini Babe sunbathing with Lord Faren, then it turns out she is actually a major character in the LS. I think the fact that we have a Barbie that claims her dress is an illusion and she hangs around nude as a major character says a lot about LS quality.

I think the quick trailer resuming living story does a good job at underlining how bad the plot is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLACdViok5I

Dredge&Evil Charr Lava alliance attacks!
Electric Pirates attack!
Phyrexia attacks!
Oh wait, they were actually all led by a random Sylvari named Scarlet! (at this point you’re like WTF it makes no sense)
Krait&Evil Sylvari Poison alliance attacks! Also let by that random Sylvari!

Yeah, what’s next? Centaurs&Evil Asuras Grass Alliance? Skritts&Hyleks Dark Alliance? Grawls&Bandits Ice Alliance? Jotuns&Ghosts of Ascalon Earth Alliance?

The only LS part I liked was the first Karka attack, where an ancient and unspoken race awakes.

But the karka event had no backstory and came out of nowhere. What you’re really saying is you like big scary monsters that come out of nowhere and have no lore or backstory, but the second it’s a humanoid that’s normal sized, well, that’s just not good enough.

As usual, you like to read whatever you feel in other people posts or you’re straight unable to understand what they say, despite your self proclaimed genious-like intelligence. Did I complain about lack of backstory about events? No. I complained about random characters popping out of nowhere to lead the events. But maybe you enjoy being lead by the first random bikini girl you meet ingame. I am a Lovecraft fan so I enjoyed the “dread ancient race that comes from the deep of ocean to destroy the world” themed expansion. I could also do with smaller things, as long as they aren’t a silly mashup of two random races and a pokèmon type. But maybe you do like kindergarten enemies and colorful and random mismatches.

I can’t understand how anybody could say they enjoy LS plot. Its characters just pop out of nowhere and are completely random. Take Kasmeer. She pops out as a random Bikini Babe sunbathing with Lord Faren, then it turns out she is actually a major character in the LS. I think the fact that we have a Barbie that claims her dress is an illusion and she hangs around nude as a major character says a lot about LS quality.

I think the quick trailer resuming living story does a good job at underlining how bad the plot is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLACdViok5I

Dredge&Evil Charr Lava alliance attacks!
Electric Pirates attack!
Phyrexia attacks!
Oh wait, they were actually all led by a random Sylvari named Scarlet! (at this point you’re like WTF it makes no sense)
Krait&Evil Sylvari Poison alliance attacks! Also let by that random Sylvari!

Yeah, what’s next? Centaurs&Evil Asuras Grass Alliance? Skritts&Hyleks Dark Alliance? Grawls&Bandits Ice Alliance? Jotuns&Ghosts of Ascalon Earth Alliance?

The only LS part I liked was the first Karka attack, where an ancient and unspoken race awakes.

Sasajoe.1509:

I don’t know but seeing this OP & comparing thief’s traits with my ranger’s traits – the only condition removal from traits is empathic bond on 10 sec cd & requires to have your pet alive (which is not very possible in wvw) & also requires to invest 30 points in the trait line to get it.

so comparing empathic bond to this thief’s 10 point trait i think there must be something really really really wrong with the profession balance….

Yes there is: ranger is a trash profession, with trash traits, trash class mechanic, traits that should be included in the class itself (Opening Strike) and shouldn’t require you to spec for them and utility skills (Guard, Protect Me, Search and Rescue) that should be F skills, since they control your pet, instead of requiring you to use slot skills. Also you’re talking about the class with least condition removal so it’s not like it should be taken as an example to balance other classes. Ranger should get some serious buffs, not the other way around.

Originally by: Yoh.8469

What: Initiative regeneration under chill
Why: We know that Chill causes 66% movement and cooldown speed reduction, which is pretty powerful. However, Thieves don’t have cool downs on their weapons because of Initiative, so doesn’t this give their weapon skills immunity to that part of the condition?
Suggestion: They should get some sort of penalty instead, like a reduction on Initiative gain.
Thread: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/balance/PvX-Chill-vs-Initiative

Originally by: Hitman.5829

What: Shadow Embrace
Why: The thief can remove 2 conditions each time he goes in stealth, if and only if at least 10 points are spend in shadow arts. This means that a thief can remove 2 conditions every 3-4 seconds since they are constantly in stealth. Thieves have access to: (A.) Infiltrator strike on the sword #2 skill, which allows the thief to remove any condition any time he wants. (B.) Hide in shadows (the healing skill) that removes burning poison and bleeding (and 2 more condition because they have shadow embrace treated.) (C.) Shadow step which removes 3 condition and 3 more condition removed when shadow return is activated. (D.) Shadow refuge which can remove up to 6 condition (because they can last in stealth for 15 seconds which means that one condition is removed upon entering stealth + 5 conditions removed in the 15 seconds of stealth). By just spending 10 points in survival, the thief can have access to an incredible survival build. Keep in mind the following: (A.) Shadow step will also break stunts TWICE. (B.) Infiltrator strike will return to original place confusing the attacker, if you are immobilized, just use infiltrators return so your attacker cannot get to you. (C.) Shadow refuge 15 seconds of WTF where Is the thief. (the condition removal skills recharging, him gaining initiative/health). Now the thief can use the remaining 60 points to make a powerful damage build.
Suggestion: If the thief wants to have a survival build, then change the shadow embrace trait to grand master. That will force them to spend 30 points in survival.
Thread: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/balance/PvP-WvW-Thief-shadow-embrace-OP

Developers said that builds that heavily invest in critical damage will have their damage reduced by 10%. I supposed they were talking about overall damage unless they said the reduction was exclusive to critical damage and I missed it.

Now, what do they mean by heavily critical reliant builds? 50, 60% critical chance? I doubt they base their calculations on 100% citical chance since it’s unrealistic that casuals reach such a high rate.

Let’s say they base their calculations on a 50% critical chance build, like 25 Arms Warrior with full Berserker equip and no other buffs.

They nerf said build by a 10% overall damage reduction, with a change that only affects the critical hitting part of his damage output, so won’t a build that has a higher than 50% critical hit chance have it’s damage reduced even more?

My point is, in this case, that a build like thief D/P with Hidden Killer that only hits for critical backstabs will have it’s damage output reduced by far more than 10%. Won’t a 15%-20% damage reduction on said build outright kill it? And isn’t that the most popular build for thieves roaming WvW?

Zero Day.2594:

Not being sarcastic or bashing anything… but the positive changes are probably:
Arbitrary trap buffs.
And most definitely arbitrary venom buffs.
A possible buff to Hard to Catch, reducing it’s internal CD.

I agree, thieves can expect some MASSSIVE buffs like those you posted. Also, they will probably lower Last Refuge cooldown to make it a lot better.

Also get ready to have Pistol Whip split in two, the first one costing 2 initiative and the second one costing 3. Then have the second part of the skill cost 4. Then have the second part of the skill deal 10% less damage. Then have the first part of the skill cost 3 because a 2 ini stun is too much.

On a side note, how in the world will you land the second part if you choose to not use it immediately after the first part? And you’ll be locked out of the stun for about 5 seconds… that will prevent you to land an actual pistol whip.

Thank you very much for your help, much appreciated. Also, thanks for the tip about precision boosting reflect damage, I wasn’t aware of that!

Hi everybody! I’m finally about to reach 80 on my mesmer and I already decided to go for a phantasm build after reading Chaos Archangel’s mesmer guide since he says it’s recommended for mesmer beginners and dungeon running.

I have no idea what sigils should I put on weapons. I know that on critical sigils don’t work on phantasms attacks since I’ve been experimenting in pvp for a while. I also read permanent bonus sigils don’t work either. Nevertheless, I’m very tempted on Superior Sigil of Fire since I will have very little aoe.

Considering I’ll run with Sword+Focus/pistol and Scepter+Sword/Greatsword, I was thinking to put sigil of fire on sword due to it’s fast attack rate even if it doesn’t affect phantasms. I’d also like to have Superior Sigil of bloodlust and I think it would be better to put it on Focus/Pistol since most of the time I’ll be using the first set. I’m about as clueless as I can get about sigils for other weapons.

What do you suggest, considering I’ll run dungeons most of the time and occasionally WvW?

Hate: Living Story
Love: My characters, my only reason to keep playing.

Marcus Greythorne.6843:

When I first heard about stealth in GW2 (I think it was long before Beta) it sounded more like this:

When you’re hit in stealth, you will be revealed for a short amount of time. Dots will reveal the stealthed character as long as he takes damage from it.

Wouldn’t this be a more interesting stealth-mechanic and more fun to 90% of the playerbase? What do you think?

Of course, since I think something like 11% of the playerbase plays thief (think I read it somewhere in thief forum) the remaining 89% will have a lot more fun getting free kills! Flawless logic.

On a sidenote, since the thread derailed on the stealth OP argument, I mained thief for more than 800 hours and played mostly wvw and pvp. I used to play d/d signet burst and d/p 0/30/30/10/0. Then I started to level other classes because I was getting sick of having Last Refuge kill me and because I had to run from every spec that invested in a durability just a little more tough than thin paper. I now have 6 80’s, all classes but elementalist and mesmer (which I used to effortlessly farm glory in pvp when phantasm build was at its prime).

Stealth was so over powered that I quit the class when I realized how weak my thief was compared to my necro/guardian/engineer in wvw and mesmer in pvp. I feel thief is only good for disengaging and kill unexperienced/upleveled players and aside from that is a useless class along with ranger, that is a total mess of a class. Now the only use I have for my thief is standing next to a place of power loaded with quartz.

All of the above is of course just my opinion, and I personally hope they will nerf thief even further to the point it will be completely useless so they may start to think about a total makeover of the class, even though I suspect they won’t be bothered with serious class changes since, for instance, necromancers are asking for a Death Shroud overhaul since forever and DS just got one more skill that was totally unrelated to its issues… and Last Refuge still claims its victims. But hey, enjoy your two weekly checklists “push F in front of X item X times”: you can clear them with any class and any spec!

I wouldn’t want a class taken from FF in guild wars, or else we’re also going to have a medium armor sword/rifle/pistol/greatsword wielding class called emo fighter.

I’d rather have sword/rifle/pistol mounted light infantry.

Actually, THIS is a Dragoon:

http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/scale_small/1/14440/1307127-french_dragoon_l.jpg

Druss.6917:

The weakness reduction was the biggest hit to it imo. Now it runs out before they can even walk a few steps to land the hit, so it might as well not even be there. I’m not saying the loss of the bleeds isnt detrimental to it, but bleeds can be reapplied easy enough. You only get one 2 second shot at trying to negate that burst on you now though with the non-existant weakness.

I agree and the loss of weakness is the reason why I don’t trait it anymore. Even if they let 2 bleed stacks 10 secs, what would be the point to enter DS, since you could stack those bleeds without losing Life Force with AAs? Meanwhile, before the nerf you could stack bleeds, absorb damage through Life Force and still have damage mitigation once you left DS.

I won’t build a power necro. I have 6 80 and geared classes, and I already have 3 power specced characters. I raised a necromancer specifically because I wanted a condition aoe class, I have no interest for another power spec…

Since they nerfed Weakening Shroud I find myself rarely entering DS. A condition build loses a lot of bleed stacks when entering DS, Weakening Shroud made up for it by inflicting 2 (4) bleed stacks, so I used to stack 2 (4) + 3 (5) when entering DS, casting Dark Path and some extra stack when my life force wasn’t full with Life Transfer crits.

So DS was sort of included in my rotation, it was like stack some conditions, enter DS, stack some more while mitigating damage, exit and stack more and so on. It was a fun play style, to the point I used to assign 20 points to Soul Reaping.

Now I actually feel discouraged to use it since I don’t trait Weakening Shroud anymore so by entering DS I would lose a lot of my damage. DS became just a “oh crap” button for me, I use it only when I’m low heath in the hope my cooldowns will be over before my life force is or when I need to interrupt, but for the whole time I’m in DS I’m doing close to 0 damage and I’m just waiting there since I don’t have anything to do while in DS.

Consequently, playing Necromancer became less and less fun for me and I find myself rarely logging the character that had basically become my main. Anyone else?

reikken.4961:

as someone who didn’t use any initiative traits beyond the 15 in trickery, this is a pretty huge buff. dunno how you don’t notice the increased base regen

I do, but I just barely notice it. It doesn’t seem to help at all, I’d rather have initiative on demand with Signet Use when I actually need it. Also, initiative on demand is a lot more useful than passive regen for short fights.

I thought they where supposed to just increase the cooldown on Curses IV, which I agreed since it had lower cooldown than Enfeebling Blood itself… what is this Enfeeble bullkitten? Enfeebling Blood on DS is how I used to respond to thief d/d burst, now I’m sooo dead!

Logged my thief today. Played for a while.

MASSSSSSSSSIVE buff to initiative passive gain is barely noticeable. However, the reduction of instant on demand initiative on Signet Use is not.

Log off, back to necro. Life Force drain reduction in Death Shroud is very noticeable.

Who cares… the armor looks absolutely horrible. All 3 of them.

I wouldn’t wear something that looks like the result of a couple of hours of work of an amateur modder, I don’t understand why somebody would get angry if a norn wants to make a fool of himself looking like he came from the most pathetic of Skyrim mods.

Awww! The girl’s cheerful voice was so adorable! How cute!

This clearly show how thief is op not only in wvw but also in pve.

One thing I realized lately: I used to read on these forums that the game is not balanced around 1vs1. But in a group situation thieves are bad because they melt under aoe damage. So why are thieves getting nerfed… again?

frans.8092:

Nema Tode.5637:

Forgive me if I read that wrong, but isn’t a reduced cooldown a buff?

Not with Last Refuge. Remember it’s that minor trait that automagically puts you in stealth a split second before your c&d hits. Would be a buff if they increased the cooldown to, say, 30 minutes.

Does it put you in stealth? Really?

Weird, I thought Last Refuge was “Grants revealed once your health reaches 25%”.

You also forgot about this nerf, date 25th June 2013:

Last Refuge: Reduced the cooldown of this trait from 90 seconds to 60 seconds.

Hi again, I did a little research and I found out the song I’m looking for is this one:

I couldn’t find out the title, however. Can anyone help me on this one?

Penguin.7906:

Just staying alive doesn’t make a good build, doing the most damage as possible and staying alive on the other hand…

Guardians may not agree.

It’s ok, I guess I’ll try to go full zerker and see how things turn out. Besides, if I buy the armor after the release of ascended armor it will be very cheap.

I’ll try that traitline with my current equipment and see how things turn out. Can you please explain me what traits to pick?

I know is not much, since people can solo even Lupicus, but I think my greatest accomplishment is soloing the Howling King from about 75% health after the other party members died, popping stunbreaks every time a graveling knocked me down.

I’d better clarify why I put on this post. I’m not here to complain about current pve meta, I’m here to understand what’s wrong with this build, if it is really bad and if so I want to find out if and how I can improve it.

I thought about going zerker, but I’m afraid I won’t be able to survive. I’m not 100% accurate with dodges and even if I would there are things I can’t avoid, like aoe damage, bouncing projectiles, damage I didn’t see coming… Also I’m worried that full zerker requires cooperation from your party, that isn’t always easy to find.

Plus, I like to be the guy that inspires (buffs) the team. Am I really hindering it?

Hi everybody!

I’ve been playing warrior since January 13. When I do dungeons I pick warrior, although I prefer necromancer for caduceus manor, so I played it a lot.

I’ve always been using a build a guildie suggested me and I always liked it. Not only that, nobody ever complaint about my performance in any instance, except a kick from a 3rd fractal for unknown reasons. This is the build I’ve been using:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fIEQNAnZTnkO0+YUQKPwEZABpQDzCjihIISPQjwYNA-jAyAYLioRCiQGJAiIAmALiGbltIas6aMlLRUNA-e

I recently read somewhere that shout warrior is basically the worst build you could use.

So I have to ask: why is such build considered bad?

I’m also super-excited for this update. I liked The Nightmare Within because it offered a fair level of challenge, but I think Fractured will be 100% better… and with permanent content!

Also, since this will set the fractal selection to be less random and we’ll have fixed “length tiers” people will hopefully stop wasting 10 minutes trying to get the fractal they want at the start!

I’m looking forward to it!

Hi everybody!

I was wondering, does anybody know the title of the song that plays when you fight the hybrid in the new living story instance? I think it’s the same music that plays when you face the Ice Elemental boss in dredge fracltal. Anybody?

I am shocked too. Never really cared about living story, used to clear the achievements to earn the reward then moved to ignoring it altogether. But man, I’m loving this update. The tower is amazing to play with a friend (untill the zerg arrives and spoils your fun), the bosses are challenging enough to provide fun, but not enough difficult to cause frustration. For the first time I’m doing LS because I find it fun and not because I want the rewards.

Also, previous chapter was quite cool, but not as good as this one.

Why would you buy silk? As far as I know, T5 weren’t used for ascended weapon crafting.

Wait a second, did you really mean “stacks”? As “1360 STACKS”?! O_o

I think I will stick with my Lidless Eye, then. Thanks for the reply, you saved me a lot of gold!

You know we could really use a crosshair, couldn’t we?

The thing I disliked the most about initiative are situational skills. With any class but thief, a skill you would use only in a particular situation, that you never use in your standard rotation, is always ready and its use won’t prevent you from using other skills. The skill is there, waiting to be cast should the need arise, meanwhile with thief you need initiative left from your rotations.

For example, let’s say I absolutely need to interrupt an enemy.

I have a D/P thief that is using his initiative to stealth and backstab. You need to interrupt an an enemy so you have two outcomes:
- You have enough initiative, so you successfully interrupt your target. You still get penalized in your offensive, or other defensive maneuvers.
- You don’t have enough initiative, you can’t interrupt.

Then I have a warrior with Axe/Shield that deals damage with axe AA and 2. He will always have Shield Bash ready to interrupt if needed. Or rifle, dealing damage with volley and kill shot, will always have 5 ready. Or necro with staff, dealing damage with 2-3 marks and s/d, will always have staff 5 ready. Or a guardian wielding hammer that attacks with AA and 2.

Sure, you can’t interrupt twice in a row with other classes… but can you with thief? Or use twice any other situational skill? Assuming you’re full initiative, which is totally unrealistic but still, you can cast headshot twice (or even trice) but then you are basically an AA bot (you know opportunist could help in this situation…).

Also, due to the spammable nature of our skills (or better your skills now), I feel the skills themselves are inherently weaker. You really can’t have a resource based class going around spamming hundred blades, volley, mighty blow and so on, so we’re left with generally weaker skills that are weakened further with any nerf we (you) get.

I played 6 classes and I feel thief is the most stiff. With other classes you are actually encouraged to use all your weapon skills, with thief you are penalized for it. Other classes are smoother and I rarely felt the need to repeat a skill twice in a row without being able to do so like “gee, I’d really like to have this skill off cooldown now” except the heals maybe.

TL, DR: Thieves don’t always have situatonal skills ready and even if they do their ability to keep going with their normal rotation/defensive maneuvers will be compromised after the cast.

Actually, the ingame voice for males is much more appropriate for an old powerful mage-like character than it is for some existing faces, that look like 10 years old.

I am interested in crafting the Eye of Rodgort for myself, but I’m still not sure about it. Does the particle effect (the pink aura) turn off when the weapon is stowed, like for example AC weapons (night version)? Or it stays on all the time? I’d really like this item, but I’d hate having that effect always on!

Again thanks everybody for sharing your elementalist knowledge.

Right now my concern shifted from “what will I do once I reach 80” to “how the hell do I reach 80”. S/D seems a very weak set for leveling, sure I can blast trash mobs with fire and earth might stacking combo, but as soon as I meet a veteran I’m in trouble, I usually resort to water and earth to kite and heal. I still find S/D air useless, damage is too low to be useful: keep in mind I’m used to main thief so I find air pretty weak for dealing single target damage compared to backstabs.

I’m thinking about switching to D/D right now, at least for leveling.

Thanks everyone for helping me having a better understanding of scepter. I think having condition based autos won’t turn out bad: since I’m aiming at a hybrid build, I’ll deal power damage with the burst then resort to conditions like burning until my burst is back online.

About dagger offhand I feel is much better than focus since it has a wider flame field, fire grab that deals tons of damage, a heal+remove conditions and ride the lightning. Focus looks better for kiting though. I think I’ll try both once I reach 80.

I remember some months ago I was hanging around in Gendarran Fields and I saw that particular old lady that inspired me to create my necromancer. I wanted to create an old hag, like a witch, but it was impossible since you can’t choose that face model, all models are kind of young for females.

Then I created an elementalist. I wanted to go for an old wizard stereotype, Merlin style, but instead it turned out to be a young man with a long white beard.

As anyone ever succeeded in creating an old looking character? I mean a very old one, like Gandalf or Merlin? It’s even possible to create something like this: http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/merlin_1265.jpg?

If the answer is yes, please help me do so!

Pyrite.9641:

Yes you are missing something.
The scepter/dagger combo is quite powerful with some condition damage gear.
My leveling build is s/d with water,air,fire,earth signets and FG.
An example PvE encounter without preparation would go something like this:
Open with DT
Ring of fire,
Switch to earth
Auto attack as long as the fire field is up,
Earth 2, for the extra armor and a later dps burst
Auto attack till burning is about to expire.
Pop fire signet to maintain burning.
Use earth three and air signet for blinds to reduce damage
Rinse repeat.

My build is fire, earth, arcane.

Got it, elementalist’s scepter is a condition weapon much like necromancer’s scepter. That being said, I’m amazed about the might stacking of S/D and the sheer damage of Phoenix and Dragon’s Tooth so I was hoping for it to be a weapon effective in both power and conditions.

Thanks to the fact that burning requires little investment into condition damage to hurt a lot, I was thinking about going for a “Jack of all Trades” kind of build since this weapon set has almost everything: conditions (burning and bleeding), damage mitigation (blinds, control, protection, extra armor) and heals. I have every class but Mesmer min/maxed so I was hoping to be able to build something different, even if not powerful as other specs. Would S/D be an effective choice for a build like that, designed to do a little of everything albeit with less kick?

This is the build I was thinking to get once I reach 80: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEEQJArYhImkbxR4gjFAEFm4SowBjCdIKURRxM6A-jACBoeBEbEhoGgEJhJfFRjtqpIasqaER1qkYA-e

Of course it won’t be as powerful as more specialized builds but as I already said, I don’t have any interest in another min/max build. As long as I can pve and dungeon with it I’m happy!

I’m still leveling up my Elementalist so I may be wrong, but I’m under the impression that all scepter autoattacks are pretty bad power-wise, except maybe water.

I mean, what if I want to use fire as my primary power damage dealing attunement? As soon as I cast Dragon’s Tooth, Ring of Fire, Phoenix and Fire Grab I’m stuck with Flame Strike which is pretty bad from a power damage point of view, so it’s not really an advantage to invest in Ember’s Might since I’d be switching to something else.

Arc Lightning seems equally bad, I’ve seen Skales regenerating more health than I could take away with this attack. Fortunately, Lightning strike makes up for it since you can cast it during the channel of the autoattack.

Ice Shards seems the only autoattack to actually deal some damage.

Am I missing something?

It’s been a long time since I ran fractals and yesterday, since I need a back item for my engineer and since the monthly has fractals, I decided to go back to fractals.

Being my personal level 26 I didn’t care much about going further since I don’t like fractal weapons and I’m just interested in relics and pristine relics, so I decided to join a lvl 20 daily.

There were 3 guys from a french guild, a mesmer and me. The guild wanted to stack, so we stacked and the mesmer was pulling. At the third fractal, the underwater one, the mesmer got kicked without ANY warning and for reasons I couldn’t understand, I assume he took too long to pull a group of kraits just at the beginning of the dungeon. Then a engineer joined, and one of the guildies said in party chat “be careful, easy kick for you too”.

Today I pick a lfg for level 20 daily. No guilds this time. We run flawlessly until the third fractal, we get the one with the hammer and Mr. Manhattan. At the last two seals, 3 guys stack in a corner and don’t do anything to progress. So the fourth guy takes the hammer and starts killing in a room. I decide to follow him and help him. We hit the seals 3 times, killing mobs from only one room. Then he gets downed and dies while I try to rally him. We got both kicked in a blink of an eye and without any warning.

I find unacceptable how easily you could get kicked, and in fractals getting kicked is even worse since you could be losing a lot of time. I also find unacceptable threatening other people with the kick hammer.

And I couldn’t even report them: when you get kick, you can’t read party chat anymore to find their names and besides there isn’t an option for “abusive kicking”.

Is that common nowdays to get a kick in fractals for no reason at all?

I played thief for about 800 hours then quit it for Engineer but I can’t remember how much damage I was able to deal. I never thought it was op anyway or else I wouldn’t have quit thief. ;-)

I’m just asking.

Is it even possible to crit backstab for 11000+ against a 3000+ armor target, with 15 stacks of might, maybe 25 bloodlust and Assassin’s Signet?

It’s been a lifetime since I played 25/30/0/0/15 thief, and I clearly remember having to run against every bunker spec. That’s why I switched to 0/30/30/10/0. And then to Engineer.