Cool to know. I missed those vids of them running an Engie. Thanks for the heads up.
I would think that the GW2 raid could be something more like a 10+ man dungeon that scales for guilds. Where all you get are guild commendations coin and karma.
Guild commendations and karma are essentially worthless to me at this point. Unless they ever add something new to buy with either.
I’m sure there are others that have already geared out with ascended items and are now just stockpiling useless guild commendations to go along with that pile of karma.
I wouldn’t say they are useless, just not optimal.
And I’d love for them to explore this side of the game a little more. Add some exotic breathers and add some underwater content.
I know a lot of people hate underwater combat, but it is a while aspect of the game that was added and I personally would like to see them add some more content that deals with underwater content.
I was hopeful during the last Southsun event because they added a swimming booster, but was quickly let down.
JPs are not everyone’s favorite thing but we get a new one of those every month or two. Give us a little more underwater excitement!
I agree with it feeling like accounts are flagged or have much better luck.
I play with a one guildie and he has the most incredible luck in the world. While doing the same content, for the same time, and maybe more MF I get a LOT worse loot. Exotics drop for him like they are candy. It really is just weird how different are drops are in comparison. And on a consistant basis.
No way RNG is always crappy for me and always good for him. RNG dictates that this would not be true. He would have a crappy run once in a while and I would have a good run once in a while if RNG was dictating everything.
Until I figure the secret out, I’ll just continue getting my crap loot!
I may not like it, but this is in no way exploiting. It is called playing the game.
Allowing your enemy easy access to siege weapons is not good strategy.
Spying? I’m not sure how that fits in. How is anyone spying?
It’s difficult, but I like it. Once you learn the tactics, it should become a lot easier.
My only complaint is the AoE circles on the final boss. I can hardly see them most of the time. I think it is mainly due to the color of the floor. But it is really hard to avoid something you can not see.
Worse than the Lupi circles and his attacks hitting outside of them.
Not color blind, but the AoE circles are extremely hard to see in the final battle.
I really don’t know if this was intentional or what. I can’t react to something I can’t see.
And I agree. The newer AoE circle animation IS a lot harder to see.
When’s the last time you saw one of these live casts from the Devs with one of them running an Engineer?
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/List_of_ascended_equipment
This will list the stats of each back piece that is craftable in the forge. Books have defensive infusion slots, and quivers have offensive infusion slots.
Both.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/List_of_ascended_equipment
Quivers have offensive infusion slots, books have defensive infusion slots. Other than that, those two have the same stats.
Agreed, old bug.
This cache should never have been placed near the end of a buggy JP. Should have placed it closer to the beginning, or fixed the JP. This is NOT a new bug.
I noticed this skill acting as the OP described also. This was in Fawcett’s Bounty JP and it just would not give me the vertical height like it used to . But I do have rifled barrels trait active, so it may be a bug related to that.
Come to think of it, it happened Tuesday night in the Malchor’s Leap JP for me also. I just didn’t make the connection.
Are you guys saying it works right without the rifled barrels trait? I may have to try that later tonight to see.
I guess we are waiting for them to determine whether this is NOW a bug, or was bugged previously.
Whether we are supposed to be able to change utilites while transformed or not.
I’m just happy, as an Engie, to get my utilities back! Heck of a fight without them.
This fight is insane right now.
My party eventually did it by having 1-2 kite the entire spider mob around the tree while the rest of us DPSed the tree down from range. It eventually worked. None of the reflect strategies were working for us. So we finally ended up doing this.
There were reports a little while back of DR kicking in hard for people running ALTs on world bosses. If these ALTs weren’t played much outside of the area they were ‘parked’ it seemed they were getting permanent DR from the world boss. Even just doing stuff around the world boss was not enough to cancel out the DR, supposedly.
Not sure if this might have something to do with what you are experiencing.
Maybe you guys have bigger zergs on your servers to bring him down, but Jormag has always been a long, boring battle here on FC. Even when we have plenty of people, this fight just takes too long.
Any new scaling or changes to this fight really are not warranted. They have nerfed all the adds so it is not even worth killing them. Why make an already long, boring battle even longer?
Bugged on Fergusen’s Crossing last night too.
This JP was very buggy a few months back when I did it also, but not to this extreme.
Happened last night after successful completion of the Giant Wurm event in Caldeon.
I have my opinion of the cut scene, and it is not the same as most of the views in this thread. But, it is just my opinion so I will keep it to myself.
But PLEASE, for the love of all that is holy, allow me to ’ESC’acpe out of it or Skip to the End. Don’t FORCE me to have to watch the entire thing.
Those who appreciate it can watch it, and those who want to skip it should be allowed!
Thanks!
About the same time a Dev said MF doesn’t affect it, a Dev was denying there was a general loot bug.
I’ll believe that MF shouldn’t affect it, that is the way it was supposed to be designed. But I won’t swear that it does not work any other way just because a Dev said so. They may not even be aware of what MF’s behavior currently is. It might be buggy.
I’m not asking for this dungeon to change, but I understand part of everyone’s frustration.
Not every class has easy access to stability. As an Engie, I don’t have very easy or lots of access to stability.
And with so much going on, it is hard to watch the golems for the pull mechanism. Besides, the bright light of the wall usually obscures the golems so you can’t see much anyways. It ends up being a blind pull that you can not dodge. If you could actually see the golem, then maybe you would have a chance.
It’s a tough fight. I find it tougher than the last boss fight. The only thing tough there is the cannon fire because you can’t see the AoE circles.
Tough fight, but I’m sure it will become real easy after some more practice.
If this is true, it is about time and thank the Gods!
This is true. Confirmed by a Dev in the Bugs subforum.
Binding a new key will work every time.
You can equip multiple of the same type of fractal boxes.
Been doing this for a while.
Different issue Treehugga that was supposedly fixed in the last patch. I haven’t tested yet myself.
He is referring to ‘changing’ his utility skills after transformed. Not losing them.
Wow, this feature doesn’t work even if the ‘Search’ interact popup is near? Well that is really…. weird. I have to get AWAY from the loot in order to loot it?
I’ll have to test this out further myself.
Sorry guys. Guess I should of warned everyone that I was infracted for asking the same question about Twitter.
My post along with a bunch others were deleted. Hopefully this won’t get you infracted too.
But on topic again, anyone heard of a release date?
Anyone else having a heck of a time seeing the AoE circles in this dungeon? Especially on the last fight? Seems I can only see them about 30% of the time. Nearly a deal breaker for me.
“When replying to a thread, please make sure that your posts are on-topic and constructive. Off-topic posts tend to derail threads and cause disruptions.”
I guess replying to a thread about a topic that a dev has brought into the conversation is off limits. I never would have known this before. Thanks for enlightening me.
Anyone know if a date was given on Twitter for the release of the ax? I can’t find anything on the official forums.
Not fair to those of us with OCD and 100%.. er.. 99% map completion.
Honestly, fixing them is not that hard. The community has compiled a list for ANet and all they need to do is have one person go change them. Even an intern could do that. Before lunch.
Hardly anyone seems to know here that there is comeing another way to get lodestones this summer, maybe something like with the crystalin dust.
I’m aware of this.
But why introduce new ways of getting lodestones and T6 when there was old ways of acquiring them that were nerfed? Just undo the nerfs, reinstate the original methods of getting these materials, and problem solved. No need to reinvent the wheel and come up with a new source that will eventually be nerfed also.
Really, why kill the source of T6 materials then worry and spend time on creating a new source of it? Makes zero sense to me.
There is no longer any dungeon team. They folded up shop and rolled those guys into the living story team.
No excuse for bugs like this really.
Farm Corrupted Lodestones in Frostgorge. It’s the only Gold farm i did while i made my Sunrise. 4-7g an hour depending on luck.
This is now NOT a viable option. Frostgorge has been nerfed BAD and you can’t even get many drops off of the Icebrood any more. T6 barely drop and T5 is pretty scarce also. Corrupted lodestones are almost non-existant.
I used to average 1 lodestone about every 20-30 minutes. Now I’ll be lucky to see one in 1.5 hours. And I used to get lots of T5 and a pretty decent amount of T6. I’m lucky to get 2 T6 in an hour now.
This did in fact used to be a good farming spot. Not any more.
It’ll be fixed in a future update…….
Annoying and still waiting.
18 Charged Lodestones? Start farming COE. It is incredibly easy once you learn Subject Alpha (count to 2, dodge) and you will get those Lodestones pretty quickly. You will gain Charged cores and the occasional lodestones while gathering gold to purchase the rest!
I can also confirm they still drop. As does the exotic settler trinkets.
The footprints on Quip are indeed very tiny. They are hard to notice.
And I can’t comment on the grenade animation as I haven’t tried those yet on land. I’m not sure that the Quip actually affects the animation on grenades. I do hear that the Predator does.
They don’t WANT you to grind. That is why the nerf every good farm area. :P
They never said you didn’t NEED to grind. lol
This place is worse off now than before the recent update. The new events here have further killed this once desolate place. I used to like to come to Southsun for a peaceful retreat, now all the crazed creatures everywhere make this place a joke.
ANet should take a look at this, and reflect on where they went wrong. Analyze this and use that information moving forward.
Not only have they made this map worse off (arguable), but they have nearly broken the guild missions there. Try doing a guild rush through a settlement full of crazed karka! And there is no clearing in advance, it seems to reset in about 5 minutes.
You can NOT equip 2 rings with different infusions. They are the same ‘unique’ ring, just a different upgrade applied to each of them.
You CAN equip an uninfused ring and an infused ring. These are both unique items and different from each other.
Infused rings are quite different from placing an infusion in the infusion slot. They have an inherent +5 AR on top of whatever is in the infusion slot.
This is a silly issue that ANet assumes everyone knows what ‘unique’ really means. Unless you have played other MMOs, there is nothing to lead one to believe you can not equip more than one of these things.
Everytime there is a patch, it reminds me of this video:
And moved to the Engie forum to die.
Unless Simin bugs out. Then that fight can become unbearably long.
When you run the sparks fast enough, but still only have 4-5 seconds to DPS her. It becomes almost intolerable.
And lets face it, there hasn’t even been a new temporary dungeon added lately.
The Molten Facility was the closest thing and it really was probably too short to be considered an entire dungeon. But it will make a great fractal addition when that finally happens.
The Southsun ‘dungeon’. Please. To call this a dungeon is a disgrace.
I only hope that this new ‘dungeon’ is indeed a dungeon or at least more along the lines of the Molten Facility. At least then they could add it to Fractals.
Really, that would make more sense for them, that way they are designing new content and also designing a new future fractal at the same time. Kill two birds with one stone.
What is this new game these guys are playing? Please let me know so I can try it out.
It surely isn’t the same one I have been playing. If it was they would not be making some of the described changes.
I just get a deep, dreadful feeling in my gut for the Engineer class after reading those notes. I just don’t have a good feeling for us.
How if new skins for every other class every month more important than fixing or reskinning the hobo sack?
To continuously pump out new skins month after month and claim your talent is too busy with higher priority stuff is ridiculous.
One month of no new skins for everyone else in order to fix the problems with the hobo sack is not asking too much. If that is what it would take.
I’m being asked to stand by and watch new skin after new skin get released that I and just about every other engineer can’t use and appreciate like every other class can.
Why is bringing new joy to everyone else a higher priority than bringing that little initial joy to the Engineers of the world? Bringing new skins to everyone is more important than granting engineers the reasonable means to enjoy the existing skins.
I’m on Ferguson’s Crossing, and feel free to contact me in game if you are still looking for a guild.
Our guild, [AoE] Ascension of Elements is a casual, friendly guild that does all aspects of the game. We have weekly events like guild missions, dungeon night, and WvW nights.